Perfectly knowing Lilia’s expressions, Aster of course noticed that little cunning smile on the corner of her lips.
‘Mom, do you know this woman?’, he asked through the mental connection, so that only the star maidens could hear him.
Lilia noticed her mistake but it was too late to keep it for herself.
‘Well, I don’t know her, but I probable saw her when she was a little kid, which would explain why she doesn’t recognize me’.
‘Fey is the surname of one of your two godmothers, and also the surname of the rulers of the “Sun Sprite” Heavenly Quadrant, also only the main branch of the Fey family has blond hair, in other words she has a Heavenly Conqueror ancestor’.
‘That would explain why she wasn’t afraid of you despite your higher cultivation’, thought Aster, still it didn’t explain the sudden change in her attitude.
‘All the members of the Fey family are energy/ soul cultivators, the fact that this woman is just a peak Genesis Manifestation while being a member of the Fey family main branch, means she has been focusing in the soul path too’.
‘As for her change of attitude well… some women of the Fey family have the ability to “see” some aspects of other people’s souls, they also only feel comfortable with very specific people’.
‘She probably caught a peak when of yours when you used your spirit pressure, and found it “eye catching” in a positive way, the same probably applies for Erick’s sister, although she may not know about her constitution, her soul should look pretty, which combined with her talent explains why she didn’t want to give up on taking her as her disciple”.
‘That being said, she is actually quite relaxed compared to your godmother, because the first time she met me, she clung to me for a whole day while declaring that she will marry me, you see they chose their partner based in the aspects of their souls not appearance or even cultivation, and since they can only see the souls of those outside of their family, their couples are always formed with outsiders’.
Although Aster thought it was a bit weird, some races had different senses of “beauty”, still considering his soul avatar is practically him using an ash-red armor, he doubted that was what she saw, especially because a soul opening cultivator doesn’t have a soul avatar yet.
Agnes’s enthusiastic gaze, made Aster came out of his daze, she smiled at him as she extended her hand to offer a handshake.
Which he accepted, as he presented himself, but only using his name.
“You can call me Aster, I’m 12 years old and I’m an energy/ soul dual path cultivator”.
Agnes was slightly surprised to hear about Aster’s age, but she didn’t say anything and instead hold his hand as she said.
“How about you and Tiana enter the sect as my disciples, I don’t mind if you want to take the admission trial”.
Unfortunately for her Aster immediately shook his head.
“I’ll enter as an honorary disciple and my family will be guest elders only, so I would have to decline your invitation”.
Agnes couldn’t help but feel a bit let down, but Aster’s next words changed that.
“If Tiana wants to be your disciple I won’t get in her way, also if you want you can travel with us to Galatia”.
Without a second of delay Agnes repeatedly nodded.
“Of course, if you don’t mind, we can leave right now, with my identity token we’ll be able to skip the waiting line at the border stations”.
Needless to say, but Tanner and Ritz were freaked out, when have they seen that crazy woman being so friendly with anyone.
‘I guess that’s a genius for you’, concluded Ritz not finding any other possible answer to the scene that developed in front of him.
Originally Aster didn’t want her to come with them, but Lilia told him that there was no problem, besides Agnes and his godmother there weren’t any other members of the Fey family in the Heavenly Quadrant.
The Fey family are incredibly reserved with most of the people, but they are incredibly loyal with those they accept to hang out with, which are really reduced in number.
Since everyone had their fill, they left the palace and with a wave of Lilia’s hand her spaceship appeared floating on the sky, of course it was disguised with the exception of the lateral door, so that they could aboard it.
Erick’s family had already sorted out what they needed, so Felicia, Tiana, Sofia and Erick were the first ones to enter, Agnes said goodbye to Tanner and she also entered.
Tanner, Ritz and Baron looked at Aster with mixed expressions, in only day the black-haired youth in front of them caused quite a commotion in the Barbarian Heart sect.
“I’ll organize someone to send some resources from Galatia, I hope patriarch Garland can take care of the distribution channel from here to Rodia”, said Aster as he prepared to enter the spaceship.
Tanner nodded with a friendly smile.
p “Of course, I will be in contact with Arthur and Ritz will take care of escorting the materials… leaving that aside, please lend a hand to that brat, don’t let him get into that much trouble”.
For Tanner Erick was like his son, as problematic as he might be, he was his disciple and the pride of his sect, while he couldn’t bring himself to limit him to the Barbarian Heart sect, he still was worried about him.
His status and power were nothing at a peak middle ranked stellar system like Galatia after all.
“He is my friend, if he needs my help, I won’t hesitate to lend him a hand, you can be sure of that”.
After saying that Aster entered the spaceship followed by the girls, the gate closed and every sign of a spaceship being there completely disappeared.
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Inside of the spaceship, Tiana curiously looked at the huge floors feeling a bit lost, with her constitution even the spaceship of Tanner couldn’t escape her senses, but until the gate of Lilia’s opened, she had no clue that such a large spaceship was there.
She couldn’t help but steal a gaze at Aster as she wondered.
‘Just who in the world are you’.
“Darling, why don’t you show our newest guests their rooms while I set the coordinates to Galatia~”, said Lilia as she used the transportation formation to the captain’s cabin.
Aster nodded and guided Erick and the others to the living floor, of course on the way he told them about the other floors, which would be open if they wanted to.
Tiana was especially interested in the training floor, as she had a pending fight with Alice, Agnes and Felicia were more interested in the rune mastering floor and alchemy floors, because that meant there was at least one of each among them.
Once they arrived at the living floor, Aster handed each of them a token which functioned as the key of a room and also allowed them to use the transport formation.
“The other floors are free to use, so just make yourselves comfortable, we’ll arrive at Galatia in a few days”.
Now that everyone was free, they each took their own ways, Felicia followed Sarina to the kitchen, apparently those two had formed a certain level of friendship since they both cooked for their families.
Aria, Alice, Tiana and Sofia went straight to the training floor, Eris, Camila and Mylene went to their rooms, Erick choose the cultivation floor, Kana clung to Aster, now that she was a star formation realm cultivator, she wanted to start training in to develop her intention.
Aster and Kana joined Alice and the others on the training floor, but they went to a separate area, where there wasn’t any ruckus ongoing, Agnes asked Aster if she could go with them, and since he didn’t mind as he will be using his sword intention at the sect, he allowed her to come.
In the meantime, the spaceship came to life and shot itself towards the space, when Lilia returned from the training room, she was welcomed by the scene of Kana and also Agnes sitting while Aster was standing in front of them, which somehow made her feel a bit nostalgic.
‘I wonder, how are those two doing right now’, she thought before putting the subject at the back of his mind for the time being as she also sat near Kana.
Aster didn’t pay attention to that and just focused on how could he explain what an intent is, he got his due to the situations that he has lived, but it’s not like he could simply say “I reincarnated and all the bad stuff that happened to me, gave birth to my sword intent”.
He took out a staff from one of the many stands with training weapons, and wielded it as a sword.
“Listen Kana, an intention is born out of the experiences and personal traits of a cultivator, mine is sword intent, so that’s the only one I can show you, the first level is called “Ghost Sword”, which is basically an invisible sword projected around your weapon”.
Under Kana’s curious filled eyes, Aster shoved the staff on the ground and it floated, because the ghost sword was coating it.
“Big brother, can you use anything as a sword?”, asked Kana.
Aster nodded.
“That is the second level of sword intent, “Sharpening”, although some people say that after learning this, one could use a piece of grass as if it was a legendary sword, that is actually a lie”.
“The material used does affect the sharpening effect, but… I can bypass that small limitation”, said Aster as he extended one of his fingers and slashed the staff, cleanly cutting it in half.
Let alone Kana, even Agnes was in awe, she didn’t feel any spirit energy coming from Aster, so that slash was done using just sword intention, but that wasn’t what surprised her, but the fact that such a young cultivator, was able to learn the second level of sword intent.
‘The whole Heavenly Quadrant will be turned upside down… I can’t wait for big sister to see such an incredible gem like him~’, she thought.