Aster looked at the clock and he frowned.
“For me it was like minutes but it’s already afternoon in the real world… wait then what if I use the mind space to train instead?”.
The mind space had its own rules, time flowed differently inside he has used it for normal cultivation, since his physical body can’t enter, so now that he was a soul cultivator it was worth the try.
While Lilia cleaned his forehead with a cloth, Aster closed his eyes for a little experiment.
Once he was inside of the mind space, he saw his soul avatar recovering while Rigel’s flame surrounded him, since he reached the spirit opening realm, the flames have been purifying his soul avatar actively.
“What did you have some kind of inspiration?”.
While Aster was lost in his thoughts, Rya descended from their “nuptial room” on top of Hyperion, she thought he came to pay her a visit, but apparently that wasn’t the case.
Aster came out of his daze when he felt Rya’s softness enveloping his body.
“It’s weird, although I can meditate to increase the strength of my soul… it seems I’m not able to reach the proper state to practice the soul technique you gave me”.
Rya softly laughed.
“That’s because you are already in spiritual form inside here, separated from your body you need a special training to enter in the proper state”.
“You probably noticed the place created by the spirit slip is somewhat similar to the mind space, but at the same time it looks fake and you don’t “leave” your body, right?”.
“Mm”, Aster nodded, unlike the mind space, when he was using the spirit slip, he could easily tell he was looking at something like a video inside his head, it was a one-way transmission of information.
On the other hand, in the mind space, he could interact with what was inside, Rya, Hyperion, the ground, he could touch everything.
Rya let go of Aster and with a wave of her hand, a blank genderless human figure appeared floating in the air, then the outer area of the figure changed color from white to green.
“In the real world training your soul is not that hard, you just need to meditate and your soul will naturally expand, you could say it uses the outer layer of your soul… in your case even as we speak your soul is millimeterly growing thanks to Rigel’s flames”.
While the outer layer of the figure was green, Rya changed almost all the insides of the figure with the exception of the center of the head to an orange color.
“The difference is that when you are inside the mind space you are already in the outer layer of your soul… so if you want to train a soul technique here, then you will have to dive deeper, to a state similar to what you experience when you directly saw the galaxy before we returned here”.
Aster frowned, introspection is dangerous, if a cultivator is not careful then it can end up trapped in a coma similar to death, but then he looked at the golden-haired beauty in front of him and he smiled.
“We will try it later tonight; I have my cute Rya to wake me up in case something happens right?”.
Rya snorted.
“Flattering me won’t take you anywhere… but I will of course help you train if that’s what you want”.
Aster kissed her once before leaving the mind space, leaving behind a smiling Rya.
“Looks like I will be busy tonight”, she thought before flying back to the highest part of Hyperion.
Although inside the mind space the previous conversation occupied a few minutes, outside it was just a couple of seconds, by the time Lilia finished cleaning the sweat out of Aster’s forehead, he opened his eyes.
Lilia saw her son’s characteristic relaxed smile and she knew he was happy about something.
“Hmph, Rya is trying to get ahead of me”, she thought
“Let’s go eat with those two darling, you can flirt with Rya later”.
Aster heard his mother’s jealous voice and he chuckled, finding it rather cute he then wrapped his arms around Alice and Lilia’s waists before leaving the room.
This time when they arrived at the dining room, Eris and Mylene were already there, Kana immediately approached Aster as soon as she saw him.
“Big brother, try this caramel roasted meat I prepared!”.
Aster smiled, he occupied his seat and the girls did the same, Kana of course sat on his lap with an eager expression.
The dish mentioned by Kana was meat which had a layer of a sweet sauce applied on it and was cooked until the outer layer was a bit burned giving it a delicious taste.
Everyone then dug in, this time Camila didn’t dine with them, but it was understandable, after all, Aster just stablished a ruling force for the whole star cluster, so she was probably discussing some things with the elders.
While Aster was munching the meat, he looked at Kana and asked.
“So how was it, did you have fun playing with Mylene?”.
Kana happily nodded.
“Mm, sister Mylene gave me a ride through the whole forest near the castle using her vines, we even got some seeds to create a garden in the spaceship”.
Aster laughed as he got a good idea to take advantage of Kana’s enthusiasm with flowers and herbs.
“That sounds good, Mylene is an alchemist so you and her will be in charge of the spirit garden of the ship, what do you think Mylene?”.
Mylene nearly choked with her food, although she is in fact an alchemist, taking care of the spirit herbs and things like that are tasks usually assigned to her assistants, so she lacked a bit in that aspect.
Unfortunately for her Aster already knew she had a weakness for Kana, so when she saw Kana’s big eyes hopefully looking at her, she had no choice but to bite the bullet.
“Sounds good… speaking of that, when will we start our lessons?”.
Aster chuckled, at this point he didn’t care to give both she and Eris the “elixir” for free, but they were quite stubborn so they wouldn’t accept it unless he takes their lessons in rune mastering and alchemy.
“We will alternate, this week I will be focusing in Eris’s lessons and the next one I will be learning alchemy from you, okay?”.
Mylene nodded, after that little conversation everyone focused in their respective meals.
Just like before Aster ate until a lot of empty plates were piled next to him, making both Sarina and Kana happy they prepared quite a bit of extra food just in case.
After that, they all went to their rooms, Eris and Mylene already bathed earlier so the bathroom was free for Aster and the other girls.
Lilia dragged her son towards the bathroom followed by others, once they closed the door, laughs and moans came from it.
A couple of minutes after Aster and girls left the dining room, Camila and the two elders occupied it.
The old woman sighed looking at Camila.
“Little Camila, why didn’t you join them and instead made us wait until they weren’t here?”.
Camila shook her head, while the maids brought food for them.
“I didn’t want to meddle in their business; besides they will be leaving soon and I don’t want to get used to it”.
The old woman exchanged some gazes with the elder before sighing, they knew that if Camila has decided something, unless something extreme happens then she won’t change her mind.
What they didn’t notice was that the eyes of the wolf tattoo in Camila’s back glowed for an instant while they ate their food.
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After nearly one hour inside the bath, Aster left bathroom, the girls followed him with happy satisfied smiles as they walked towards the bedroom.
Since today Aria broke through, she was given the main spot to rest on top of Aster, the girls dried off and they all cuddled together on the bed.
It was a day full of training, discoveries and emotions for all of them, so it didn’t take long for them to close theirs and enter the land of dreams, with the exception of Aster that went straight to the mind space.
Aster was welcomed by the eternal starry sky of the mind space; he flew towards the highest point of Hyperion where Rya was waiting for him on their bed.
With a pervy smile he landed on the bed and hugged Rya from behind as close as possible, his hands moved downwards as he fondled that big round ass of hers, only to be stopped by Rya a moment later.
“First the training, we can have fun later”.
Aster was now regretting mentioning the word “training” in front of Rya, her serious expression made clear she would not let him do what he wanted, until he at least tried to practice the soul crushing parade inside of the mind space.
Aster sighed, but he didn’t let go of her, the black pommel flew from where his soul avatar was recovering and made circles above them.
“Wake me up if something happens”, he said before closing his eyes.