Now that the tribulation ended, Lilia, Eris, Mylene and Aster stopped using their spirit energy to contain the area which surrounded Sarina.
Lilia noticed the changes the Azure sky planet seemed to be ongoing and she smiled.
“Now that a mortal transcending cultivator has appeared, with this planet as the center, the whole star cluster will undergo a fundamental change, there should be a lot of star tribulation cultivators appearing in the next years”.
“With a few mortal transcending cultivators more, there should be possible for a void manipulation cultivator to be born, it’s a good start for the force you created here darling”.
Aster nodded at his mother, although Sarina won’t stay, among the many star tribulation cultivators that should appear in the coming years, there was bound to be some mortal transcending ones.
Among them of course he counted Arthur and Nadia who drank his blood and will be cultivating using the high ranked manuals he gifted them.
“This world is really interesting, cultivating is the same as going against the heavens and yet, those places where mortal transcending or heavenly transformation cultivators are born, will have the spirit energy in the atmosphere become denser and purer”, thought Aster.
Although the phenomenon which this planet was undergoing had all the cultivators on the stellar constellation realm and above entranced, Aster had other priorities right now.
Sarina was still floating about twenty meters above the ground, her eyes were closed as an ash-red light circulated around her body, it was similar to the color of the pillar which descended from the sky when she broke through, but at the same time it was different.
As Aster got closer to her, he could feel the pressure exuded by Sarina which made him frown.
“It feels like the aura of a body cultivator… but there is something else mixed in there, some kind of feeling”, he thought.
Of course, Aster felt surprised by this “new” Sarina, just like him, she hasn’t started forging her body since she only got to know about other cultivation paths not too long ago, and she has been focusing in adapting to the manual left behind by Aurelian, so it wasn’t that.
While he waited for Sarina to finish whatever she was doing, Aster entered the mind space, it wasn’t hard for him to notice the changes, there was a new star illuminating the starry sky.
But what truly caught his attention was the new “outfit” his soul avatar had, originally it was a simply figure with an approximately similar form to him and nothing else, like an accumulation of golden light with his form, but now it was “wearing” clothes, more accurately an ash-grey full body armor, similar to the one of a general.
Rya descended from the highest point of Hyperion where their “bedroom” is positioned and landed next to Aster, she gave him a weird gaze before saying.
“You really like to give me problems… for a split of a second I doubted about sealing that star too, but since you broke through and your soul is tougher now thanks to the paragon body and Rigel’s flames, I think you’ll be able to handle this one for the time being”.
Aster had a bitter smile on his face, unlike Pollux or Rigel which have been gradually advancing with him, this new star had a higher starting point, similar to Orionis, but in a lesser grade.
Every star had its own properties and worked different than the others, if anything Aster noticed all of them gave him troubles one way or the other.
Aldebaran for example on the surface didn’t cause him any problems… but due to the integration and evolution of his bloodline, not only him but his mother and sister too have had those episodes of violence and excitation.
After a moment of contemplation Aster simply shrugged, before saying in a playful voice.
“Beauties are problematic, isn’t my cute Rya a good example of that”.
“Who told you to be such a skirt chaser”, said Rya as she chuckled.
Aster laughed before focusing his attention on the new star, just like the others this one had its own form and color, this one had a white colored core which was surrounded by what seemed to be ash-grey colored flames giving it an eccentric and yet colorful appearance.
Jut like before as soon as he tried to investigate a new star appearing he listened to that monotone genderless voice as soon as he tried to inspect it, something he originally thought it was Rya’s doing, but she kept silent about it.
“Antares the star of Asura”.
“In recognition to the maiden’s indomitable will, Antares has granted you its blessing, the “Ruler’s Soul Constitution”, depending on your emotional state, there will be different effects obtained”.
,m “Currently only the effects “Determination” and “Love” are available”.
“Determination: when in a trouble, your battle prowess will multiply, depending on the harshness of the situation”.
“Love: depending on the strength of the feelings you have for your lover, you will become temporally able to wield his/her most outstanding trait”.
Unlike him, Rya already identified the power of the star since the armor appeared on Aster’s soul idol and she didn’t know what to say.
“A Primordial Divine body constitution and a Primordial Divine soul constitution, and those flame of his in the same being… and there is “that” still waiting for him, I can’t wait to see the result of his evolution”, she thought while stealing some glances at Aster.
Aster also looked at her, although he supposed she wasn’t going to tell him anything, he still decided to give it a try
“Rya… this star is weird, it seems to affect the body, but its focus makes it look like some kind of soul-oriented power, can you explain me what is happening?”.
Rya doubted for a moment before answering.
“Normally I wouldn’t explain you this, but since you more or less understood how it works then, I guess it’s not against the rules to elaborate a bit”.
“You know stars are similar to their maidens some way or another right?”.
“Mm”, Aster nodded in recognition, so far, all the stars had shown some similarity to their respective maiden.
“Well think about it for a second, didn’t that woman go through a situation where the only thing “healthy” she had was her mind?”.
Before Aster could say anything, Rya continued.
“In the situation she was, what kept her alive weren’t those mediocre pills or elixirs, but her will to live, that was also her inflection point, since she met you in that state, you can imagine the rest”.
Aster smirked as he mumbled.
“A soul-oriented ability that can affect the body, I guess it’s not that weird considering how humans work”.
After seeing his soul avatar didn’t seem to be affected besides the armor it was wearing now, Aster shook his head and left the mind space because he felt some moves on the outside world.
…
Sarina slowly opened her eyes, the light green color they had wasn’t affected unlike her daughter, but they seemed to be clearer than before, it was obvious something changed
From a certain distance Lilia frowned after seeing Sarina’s eyes.
“Griffon’s Magistral Wings”, the manual she practiced focused on the wind attribute and refining the blood of a wind spirit beast to reinforce the body, making it an energy/body manual.
But the aura which was surrounding her right now was more similar to a soul cultivator instead, but she didn’t have any soul energy, which was weird so the only answer she could think of was that it had something to do with the ability of the star she got.
Feeling Sarina’s gaze on him, Aster left the mind space, their eyes met for a moment as they both noticed the strange link which connected them now, the moment seemed to last forever before she smiled.
Then a crossed arm golden silhouette appeared behind her making everyone’s eyes widen in surprise.
“That is my darling”, mumbled Lilia.
The silhouette which appeared behind Sarina was Aster, unlike his soul avatar this “Aster” was a perfect copy of the real one.
But that wasn’t the most surprising about what was happening but the fact that the characteristic golden light colored of annihilation shone in Sarina’s hands.
She waved her hands and the light was shot towards the sky creating a hole in the clouds above, there was no shockwave at all, the clouds simply disappeared leaving nothing behind.
Sarina let out a sigh of relief and the silhouette of Aster disappeared before she jumped into Aster’s arms, finally making him wake up from his daze.
“Now that was unexpected”, he thought as he hugged her back.
He originally thought she would at most get his naturally monstrous body while using the “love” effect, but she actually managed to use annihilation although it was obvious it took a toll on her, she still used his attribute!
Even Rya couldn’t help but sigh at the impossibility of the situation which was unfolding in front of her.
“To be able to control annihilation… I can’t understimate any girl on these days”, she thought.