Aster saw the black pommel floating now around him and he was a bit confused about the behavior of the thing.
Supposedly it was the first step in the construction of a soul weapon according to the soul technique Rya handed him, but in the spirit slip it never mentioned the thing will move by itself.
Seeing the pommel “curiously” orbiting him, it showed some faint traces of having its own will.
“It’s like a pet instead of a weapon”, mumbled Aster.
Lilia also inspected the thing, her eyes widened a bit and then she hugged her son with an excited expression.
“Weapon spirit… it reminds me a bit of a weapon spirit darling!”.
One of the things Aster learned after reincarnating was that in this world of cultivation everything is possible, although it’s not a common situation, with time and a high quantity of spirit energy even inanimate objects could become “living beings”.
The heavens give all the things of the creation a chance to shine, such is the case of the twins which supposedly were born out of some kind of spirit treasure in this case a flower.
Such a miraculous thing of course caught the attention of cultivators, and that curiosity resulted in the creation of weapon spirits.
Explained from the point of view of a person that lives at the earth, a weapon spirit is like a program with a set of instructions, although it’s called weapon spirit it’s not really alive as it just follows a pattern without the capacity of acting on its own, that’s why Lilia why Lilia asked Aster if he was the one moving the pommel.
Aster stopped the pommel from moving and turned to see his mother.
“Is that good or bad?”.
Lilia frowned, as the princess of a heavenly quadrant, she knows a bit of the forces at the same level, there are stellar systems with heavenly conquerors which are dominated by others, because a sentient weapon is an absolute advantage over others.
So, to rule over a heavenly quadrant, you needed both strength and a decent family behind you, her grandfather for example who is a heavenly conqueror is the sole proud owner of an immortal rank sentient weapon.
It is still fresh in her memory, that halberd which was displayed in the throne room of the Drage family, one of the very few things she enjoyed in her childhood, was to see her grandfather giving demonstrations for the young generation from time to time.
“It depends, back at the Dragon Legacy stellar system as long as one has the resources, getting a sentient weapon is possible, but that is limited to the mysterious and sky grades”.
“To create a sentient weapon, you need both a weapon spirit and a spirit weapon of the same grade, the problem is that the publicly known as the best duo of rune master and spirit blacksmith can at most create a peak sky grade weapon spirit”.
Lilia waved her hand and a black sword with some runes which left the core of the sword to be visible on the blade appeared in her hand.
“In the whole Drage family, there are two stellar grade sentient weapons and only one of the immortal grade which is the legacy of the family… but they weren’t created in that grade, instead they are treasures which after being nurtured by the family for hundreds of thousands of years became what they are now”.
“Your grandfather’s halberd is the weapon of the first ancestor, according to the family’s record, it was only a sky grade sentient weapon at the moment of its creation, but with the pass of the generations the weapon spirit became better and the metal was replaced”.
“Until one day when it was passed down to your great grandfather, it finally reached the immortal grade, that was the moment the Dragon Legacy heavenly quadrant was born”.
The runes engraved on the blade illuminated and a thick black mist was leaked from it, after a couple of seconds the mist condensed in the form of a black winged serpent with the size of an arm.
“This is a weapon spirit, don’t pay attention to the form it was created like this by request, but the size and form doesn’t affect the strength of the spirit”.
“This spirit has four functions, block, defend, attack and sacrifice, which means that without the need of me ordering it, if I get attacked it will block to the best of its capacities”.
“Defend means it will fight against other weapons by itself, attack will target any person I feel hostility for and lastly sacrifice means it will self-detonate if to give me a chance to escape in front of an enemy a certain number or realms above me”.
“The spirit of that halberd is a black wyvern no one besides my grandfather knows the number of functions it has, but it’s not like this puppet I’m pretty sure it has a slight amount of conscience”.
“And that’s the terror of fighting a heavenly conqueror with a sentient weapon of the immortal grade, besides the propertied the weapon gives its owner, it will be a 1v2 fight”.
Daimon curiously inspected the serpent, it was realist but at the same time it was easy to discern it wasn’t a living being, since its eyes were lifeless.
“So, it’s basically a weapon imbued with an AI, then let’s see how you will fare in the future”, thought Aster as he saw the black pommel.
Although it was just a condensation of soul energy, it had a huge potential so Aster decided to focus in developing it, thanks to Aria’s breakthrough he was also going to advance to the stellar constellation realm later anyway, so for now he decided to improve his soul cultivation.
With his eyes closed Aster focused his attention on the black pommel, inside the mind space, his soul avatar started shining as his soul energy was channeled inside the soul weapon.
But as the time passed Aster’s bros frowned more and more, after a couple of hours the only change was a small construction of about one centimeter which would be the beginning of a handle.
Aster stopped what he was doing, his forehead was a bit sweated.
“Three quarters of my soul energy reserved and it only grew one centimeter, what the hell… yesterday with just a bit more I condensed the whole pommel”.
Inside the mind space Rya laughed at Aster’s frustration.
“The soul crushing parade has an unmeasurable potential, and yet no one has created more than six soul weapons, with each part you condense the amount of soul energy needed will multiply”.
“You are already getting a ten times better result compared to others who practiced in this technique”.
Aster could only sigh, a strong technique will of course have high requirements, and the soul crushing parade didn’t lose its purpose as he got stronger, which means the strength of the attack will be based in his realm as a soul cultivator.
A growing type technique so to speak, he was just a spirit opening realm now, but in the future when he becomes a soul king or more, his soul attacks will still be amplified.
“I guess it’s fair considering it’s a technique which can help you jump realms to fight”.
Aster sent the pommel inside the mind space, he stood up and stretched his body, after spending so much soul energy he needed to leave his soul avatar rest and recover.
He then focused on the current state of the room, Alice was leisurely laying on the bed reading a book, Sarina and Kana were nowhere to be seen, but considering how much time passed, they were probably in their cooking lesson with the owner of the restaurant.
,m As for Lilia, she was setting cross legged next to him, although she couldn’t advance anymore in this star cluster, because the amount of spirit energy needed for a void manipulation cultivator was not something the Rodia star cluster could produce right now.
She could still improve her control over her attribute meditating.
Her pretty eyelashes moved as she opened her eyes, a smile flourished in her beautiful face as she looked at her son.
“I hope you don’t mind me joining in the training darling, doing it alone is really boring”.
Aster chuckled.
“It’s not like we can talk with each other while we train though?”.
Lilia also stood up and hugged him before replying.
“It doesn’t matter, I know you are close to me and that helps me relax”.
Alice’s slightly jealous voice interrupted their moment.
“Stop flirting you two, the ice princess should be finishing her advance soon”.
Lilia shrugged, without letting go of her son she walked towards Aria, Rigel’s flames disappeared and she was now covered by a thick amount of ice, as if she was sealed inside of it.
But her comfortable expression and the stable beating of her heart assured Aster that she was completely fine.
Lilia tapped the ice a couple of times, being careful enough to not shatter it.
“This ice is a protection created by the Pristine Jade Yin body every time she breaks through, it will grow the more she advances, at the heavenly realm it will be the size of a small planet”.
Aria’s eyes opened; the ice started cracking until it exploded transforming into a thin brilliant dust.
Her long platinum blue hair made a pretty contrast with her pale skin which combined with the blizzard made Aria look like a snow fairy, pure and immaculate.
The blizzard was absorbed by her body and then her aura changed, a strong pressure fell on the room, especially on the area of the bed where Alice was laying.
Alice snorted ignoring the pressure.
“Early stage of the star axys realm, you really took your sweet time ice princess… congratulations”.
Aster approached Aria, although the space surrounding her was still a bit cold it didn’t bother him, his body was too strong to be affected by it.
He caressed her face with his hand a couple of times, which made Aria blush a bit, but instead of getting away she rubbed her face against his hand.
She didn’t say “thanks”, nor Aster wanted her to do so, such things words weren’t needed between them.