Although Aster didn’t show it, he was actually tired after that weird introspection he went through, the armor prevented him from being harm, but he still felt as if a truck had run over him, it was surprisingly similar to how he felt that time when Alessia attacked him.
The golden armor saved his ass, but he still received some kind pain because of the probably high difference between him and the attacker.
Originally, he was going to continue with his training, but he decided to change his plans, these last days in the Azure sky planet he wanted to rest and relax, according to his mother, the travel to their destination will take at least five days in the spaceship, without taking into account the small stop they will do at the barbarian heart sect.
Aster walked to the bed and let his body fall on the mattress before he dragged Sarina into his embrace, Kana by herself took the initiative to crawl until she was laying down next to him.
“I feel a bit sleepy; you girls are free to do what you want, Camila, I want you to test the limit of the distance at which you can be from me, without you losing your control let’s start with about twenty meters for two hours, try it without cultivating and if there is no problem, then try it while cultivating”.
“Mm”, Camila nodded and she hurried to leave the room, she was still feeling a bit shy since she saw Lilia kissing him, so in her mind Aster was just being nice while asking her to leave for… intimacy reasons.
Aster noticed there was some kind of misunderstanding, he wasn’t in the mood to do anything with the girls right now, in fact his eyes were closing by themselves just by cuddling with Sarina, but he didn’t bother to explain and just closed his eyes before entering the land of dreams.
Lilia frowned for a moment but after inspecting her son’s body again she didn’t find anything bad, so she just shrugged and with a wave of her hand Aster, Sarina and even Kana floated, she laid down on the bed before letting them fall on the bed again.
While being asleep Aster unconsciously noticed the familiar softness of Lilia and he accommodated his body to use Lilia’s bosom as a pillow.
Needless to say, but that earned Lilia a slightly aggravated gaze from Sarina but she simply giggled before caressing Aster’s hair.
“What could be more comforting for my darling than my body”.
Sarina was speechless, she wanted to complain, but given the current relaxed sleeping expression Aster had, she inwardly sighed before hugging his right arm and closing her eyes.
Eris and Mylene exchanged gazes before leaving the room, the same happened for Alice and Aria, although they also wanted to cuddle with Aster, they were still excited to fight with each other using the new applications of their abilities as star maidens.
In their way to the training room, they saw the fun scene of Camila sitting in the hallway reading a book to pass the time, but besides softly giggling at her, they didn’t say anything.
Surprisingly instead of feeling uncomfortable or even angry by that small interaction, Camila felt a bit amused.
“I always wanted to have little sisters, perhaps this is also a way to fulfill that wish”, she thought.
Today she got to know and see a lot of shocking things, she was given the chance to not get involved, but she willingly decided to follow this path on was things which others consider impossible happen on a regular basis.
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The rest of they went on without anything special happening, at some point Sarina and Kana got up the bed, but Aster kept sleeping so Lilia didn’t move one centimeter and simply kept company to her son.
She even asked Rya if Aster was in the mind space but the answer was no, he was truly asleep, at first, they both were worried because he wasn’t waking up, but after nearly one day and one night of sleep, Aster’s eyelids trembled.
He then rubbed his eyes and stretched his arms before fully waking up, the first thing he saw was his mother’s beautiful smiling face.
Their gazes met for a couple of seconds before Lilia kissed him.
“Good morning sleepyhead ♥”.
Aster saw the clock and since it was earlier than when he went to sleep, he could tell that at least a day went on, which made him sigh.
Although his mother didn’t show it on her face, it was obvious she has been watching over him all this time, a few months without eating or sleeping would not affect her due to her cultivation, but being worried by him did seem to take a toll on her.
Which was understandable, the last time he entered into a similar state it took him a year to wake up, which was when he formed his soul idol, that time she even lost some weight due to being worried thinking that her son might not wake up.
Aster suddenly changed his position to be laying down face up on the bed, he placed his hands on Lilia’s waist, he lifted her up and placed her on top of him, with her head resting on his chest.
He then started to gently caress her long silky hair while he comforted her.
“I’m sorry I exceeded a bit which made me sleep to recover, but I’m fine”.
“Mm”, Lilia softly nodded while enjoying the sound of her son’s heartbeat, her worries disappeared into thin air, but she then slightly frowned before saying.
“The rhythm is the same… but the sound is louder, did something happen to your body while you were sleeping, darling?”.
Aster smiled at his mother’s words, the damage he suffered wasn’t physical nor spiritual, the split of a second previous to the activation of the golden armor, the pain he felt was in a whole new level, it was as if his existence itself was being attacked.
But then his body responded in kind, there was no external manifestation like other times, instead of that his blood seemed to boil, as if his body was shouting, “I’m here, what can you do about it?”.
Under the surprised gaze of Lilia, Aster bit the tip of his finger and let a drop of his blood fall in his hand, there was a noticeable difference, previously there were only faint traces of golden color mixed with the normal red.
,m But now nearly one quarter of its composition was golden.
“This experience seemed to have accelerated my evolution, or maybe this happened because I broke through”.
Lilia saw the little cut in her son’s finger healing as soon as the drop of blood was expelled and she nodded, the vitality of Aster was incredibly high, to the point that his fluids were practically a treasure.
Aster then patted Lilia’s ass, he saw from the corner of his eyes that it was nearly midday, since his mother has been watching over him all this time, then he of course had to reward her.
“Let’s go on a date, just the two of us”, he whispered at her.
A bright smile flourished in Lilia’s face; she nodded while rubbing her face against his chest.
She then stood up and took out a series of different outfits before she started inspecting each one of them while ignoring Aster, she was obviously looking for her best clothes for the occasion.
Aster chuckled at her sudden change in attitude, he knew this was going to take a while so he left his mother alone to get ready as he went to the bathroom to take a quick shower.
On the way he listened to the clear sounds of battle coming from the training room.
“Move your ass ice princess!”.
“Humph, get out of the way if you can’t control your footwork”.
Surprisingly unlike the usual, this time Alice and Aria seemed to be in a team fighting against somebody else.
The curiosity got him, so he peeked through the door and saw Alice and Aria “fighting” as a team, against Sarina.
Aster nearly choked at the scene which seemed to be taken out of a comedy, while Sarina was obviously holding back, Alice and Aria tried to coordinate but they simply kept getting in the way of the other.
Aria created a spear using Rigel’s flames and threw it at Sarina, but Alice tried to fight with Sarina head on, she didn’t stop her body in time probably because she hasn’t gotten used to the increase in agility granted by the new part of the golden armor, so the spear hit her instead.
All of this while Kana and Mylene were sitting in the corner of the room munching some cookies and other candies.
“I have a lot of training to do with them”, he thought.
Anyway, right now all his attention was focused in his date with Lilia, so he left without interrupting them, after a quick shower, he returned to the bedroom just to see his mother putting on her underwear.
Of course, he sat on the edge of the bed and enjoyed the show, every movement she did accentuated her deliciously curvy body, so just seeing her dressing was a delight.
Once Lilia finished dressing, Aster observed her from head to toe, she was wearing a long one-piece white dress, which seemed to be a modified version of that sundress he bought her at the clothe shop many years ago.
This long version wasn’t as daring as the other one, it showed a bit of her cleavage but it didn’t look as if her breasts were about to burst out of it, as for the skirt it was decorated with some ruffles here and there, while leaving one of her legs in plain view from the height of her knee to her foot.
As for the accessories, she pridefully wore the black ring which perfectly combined with her long black hair.
For a second Aster was marveled at her beauty, he could see her all the time and without getting tired of it, but it didn’t take it him too long to recover from that, he has seen her most charming side already after all.
“You look breathtaking”, he said as he extended his right arm at his mother.
Lilia giggled before throwing herself at her son.
“Of course, I’m my darling’s first wife after all”.
Aster chuckled, while Rya snorted from the mind space.
“Just wait, once I’m out of here I will make him drool for me”, she thought.