Erick and the middle-aged man accepted Aster’s offer and took a seat, the girls didn’t really pay attention to them and simply kept eating their breakfast, while Erick was used to the fact that the women that surrounded Aster literally seemed to only have eyes for him, the man found the situation rather amusing, he a middle stage Sea of Knowledge cultivator was being treated like air.
On the other hand, although Eris and Mylene were hiding their cultivations, Erick explained to him beforehand, that they were also Sea of Knowledge cultivators and that wasn’t all, even while using a veil, Lilia outstood in the group, her perfectly curvy body was like black hole attracting the eyes of whoever had her in its field of vision.
But it was that same veiled goddess, the one that according to his disciple destroyed a planet in a matter of minutes, making him realize that in the worse-case scenario Lilia was a genesis manifestation cultivator and in a more realistic evaluation, she was probably a Void Manipulation realm expert, so he didn’t dare to look at her in any disrespectful way and instead focused his attention on the black-haired youth which was talking with Erick.
Aster took out the mask which only covered the upper part of his face, Erick then took the initiative to present him.
“Master, he is the one I mentioned before, brother Aster he is Tanner Garland, the patriarch of the Barbarian Heart sect and my master”.
“It’s a pleasure”, said Aster as he nodded at the man which seemed to be doubting about something.
Tanner finally couldn’t hold back his curiosity as he asked.
“This brat has told me you were a Star Formation realm while being about twelve years old… is that true?”.
Aster raised an eyebrow at Erick, who simply bitterly smiled, although Ritz also knew about Aster’s cultivation, he kept his mouth shut after seeing Lilia’s power display back at Riga, it was Erick whose tongue slipped the cause that Tanner also knew it.
On the other hand, since they were about to leave to a higher ranked stellar system, what use did hiding his cultivation had, besides the Barbarian Heart sect was the other ally he was aiming for, besides the Sand Mountain sect whose ancestor “voluntarily” became the protector of his Terranova sect.
Tanner was a bit disappointed seeing the black-haired youth shaking his head, but his next words nearly made him choke.
“I’m now an early-stage Stellar Constellation realm cultivator and also a Spirit Opening realm soul cultivator”.
Aster purposely directed about half of his spirit pressure at Erick and Tanner, without any killing intent of course, Erick who was about to munch on a piece of meat to stop in cold, as for Tanner his pupils contracted as he yelled in his heart.
‘What the hell, this pressure doesn’t lose with the one of a mortal transcended… Erick was right, this kid is a monster beyond any sense of logic!’.
Erick felt all the hairs of his body standing on end, his body constitution granted him better instincts and he could now tell that Aster’s aura became even more terrifying than what it already was.
“Ahem, brother if you keep that pressure up, I’m going to lose my appetite”, said Erick, eating while feeling death approaching you wasn’t a pleasant situation.
Of course, he knew Aster didn’t have any malicious intent, but even if it’s not spotting you, if you see a lion a few meters away from you, it would still make you feel intimidated.
Aster dispelled his pressure and only then Erick dug in, as if he was used to this kind of situation, Tanner on the other hand was inwardly sweating cold, now that Aster stopped hiding his cultivation, the others with the exception of Lilia did the same.
‘T-Two peak Sea of Knowledge… no half-step Genesis Manifestation, one Mortal Transcending and one soon to be, that is more than enough to obliterate all the low ranked star clusters in our stellar system’.
Oblivious to what his master was feeling right now, Erick finished what was on his plate and grabbed one of the cups before pouring in some kind of drink he took out of his spatial ring.
“Brother, do you have time to pay a visit to our sect, Sofia wanted to see little sister Kana again, my brother Ebbe wanted to have a spar with you, but I will decline in his stead… also there is another person who wanted to meet you”, Erick voice’s volume became lower at the end of his sentence, which made Aster chuckle.
“I was planning to visit your sect before leaving too, also when you say someone wants to “meet” me, does that mean it will end up in a fight?”.
Erick sighed, normally he is the one giving problems to his family and not the other way around, but after losing, not only his older brother took his training more seriously, managing to reach the Stellar Constellation realm at the age of twenty, which is considered outstanding, his older sister which is the oldest of the three also seemed to have gotten interested in the one that fully convinced Ebbe of giving up in the crush of his life in other words Aria.
“Sorry about that brother, but my sister is in another level compared to Ebbe, I think you won’t be disappointed to spar with her, she was invited to participate in the admission of this year in a big sect at another stellar system too”.
Aster shrugged, a little spar wouldn’t hurt, besides, the main reason as to why he accepted to visit the Barbarian Heart sect was that he wanted to invite Erick to come with them to the Myriad Profession sect, because according to Lilia his constitution was quite rare even in the bigger picture of a Heavenly Quadrant, and a straightforward friend was quite hard to find nowadays too.
“Ok, I won’t go easy on her though”.
Erick nodded, if he was sure of anything about Aster, was that he will never tolerate anyone that raised its sword against him with malicious purposes, but besides that, it wasn’t hard to get along with him, as long as you didn’t covet the women that orbited him, there was no problem.
Of course, while for Erick it was easy as he wasn’t too interested in romance to begin with, but training and fighting, a trait amplified by his body constitution, about most guys would find hard to not feel attracted to the “parade of beauties” that gathered around Aster.
Not too long after the girls finished their breakfast and left, once they were outside, Tanner waved his hand and a spaceship shaped in the form of a flying beast appeared floating above the restaurant, unlike other people who would be questioned, since he is the patriarch of the Barbarian Heart sect, there was no problem.
Besides Kana who was helped to board by Sarina, the others could fly so they went up the spaceship.
“I will pilot the spaceship, Erick you can be the guide for your friends while we reach the sect”.
After saying that Tanner left to the captain’s cabin while Erick took Aster and the girls to the common area, the travel would not take long anyway.
Something that caught Aster’s interest was that this spaceship unlike Ritz’s, was mostly made out of a mix of bones and metal, although it was smaller compared to the “Beast Skull” which Ritz owned, this one was of a higher rank, reaching the Sea of Knowledge realm in defense and offense, or at least that’s what Aster concluded after spying on the spirit formations that were engraved on the walls.
Erick noticed Aster’s expression as he had the same when he first came to the Veluri star cluster, so after sitting in a couch in front of him, he explained.
“Unlike the Rodia star cluster where humans have always been dominant, this star cluster used to be ruled by wild spirit beasts, it was Richard Veluri the one who turned the tables, and helped humans repel the spirit beasts to the east side of the star cluster, or at least that’s what my master has told me”.
“In fact, this star cluster has less history records than the Rodia star cluster, brother already visited the border station so I guess you already guesses there is something fishy going on there… unfortunately unless you have the backing of a Void Manipulation expert, no one in this stellar system would dare to mess with the envoys from the Atria family”.
Aster inwardly sighed, this star cluster flourished because humans had an enemy in common, in this case the spirit beasts, while the progress at Rodia star cluster was slowed down due to someone’s dispute.
“I already solved that inconvenient, that is also something I wanted to discuss with you and your master, but we can leave it for later when we have arrived at your sect”, said Aster as if he wasn’t talking about offending a large-scale power like the Atria family.
Erick was speechless for a split of a second, at this point he knew Aster’s origin wasn’t normal, but whenever he thought to have more or less grasped something about it, he was proven wrong.
‘Just who in the world are you brother’, he thought before putting the subject at the back of his mind, why should he be worried if he didn’t have any bad intentions towards Aster, in fact he considered himself to be his friend.
“After I show you the cool places inside the sect, we can go meet my older sister, in the meantime my master will call the other elders… I believe whatever brother has to say is quite important right?”.
Aster nodded, an alliance between two-star clusters isn’t a joke, the Rodia star cluster was in dire need for materials, pills, weapons and experts above the star tribulation realm, which were decently abundant here, the problem is that without a connection what could the Rodia star cluster offer in exchange for those things.
And that is where Aster played his part, thanks to Lilia he had the connections to send merchants here from higher ranked places, it was basically a brand-new gold mine to exploit.
Also, the alliance would be between the Terranova sect, the Barbarian Heart sect and the Sand Mountain sect, like that the disciple of the three-star clusters would go to train in the places that were under the surveillance of the three sects, it was a win-win situation.
Erick suddenly smiled, without getting up of the couch he pointed at one of the windows of the spaceship.
“There it is brother, the Barbarian Heart sect”.
Aster and the girls turned to see the window and were surprised by the external landscape of the planet that could be seen from afar.
‘Quite fitted to the name Barbarian Heart sect, thought Aster.