Aster’s pupils contracted a bit as he observed the inside of the castle, from the outside it looked no taller than 100 meters, but inside… he looked upwards and in a rough calculation he thought that the roof was about 4 or 5 kilometers from the ground.
In fact, after using his spirit sense he noticed this place had a similar design to Lilia’s spaceship, there were many floors which could be used for difference purposes, of course they weren’t customized yet and were empty.
There were only a couple of exceptions, the training room which was built at ground level and the living area on the second floor which had about ten bedrooms fully prepared.
And that was not all, since he had the master key, he could bypass the formations set to maintain the privacy, and see inside of the rooms, the bedrooms were quite spacious but nothing too crazy, the training room on the other hand… it was more like a city than a room.
“Isn’t this a bit too much… how many resources were used to built this place?”, mumbled Aster.
Lilia hugged her son from behind and poked his right cheek with her index finger as she giggled.
“For the people of the Dragon Legacy Heavenly Quadrant maybe, but your other godmother comes from the Mystic Talisman Heavenly Quadrant, and they have a virtually infinite source of law-space imbued materials, like the ones used for spatial rings”.
“This style is popular there, since the materials aren’t as expensive but that is limited to their own territory, they are the ones who provide our Heavenly Quadrant with those materials, and their royal family are the only ones who know how to create space treasures which can contain living beings to a certain extent”.
Aster frowned, as far a he knew there were no space treasures capable of containing living beings, the mind space allowed him to store things inside and he hoped for it to evolve so that he could take the girls there at some point.
‘Perhaps I can learn a thing or two from this place’, thought Aster, which made Lilia inwardly laugh.
“It seems blood really do call, you already met close relatives of those two, darling, Agnes from the Fey family, and that William guy from the Talis family, they are from the same maternal branches to be more accurate”.
Aster chuckled at his mother.
“Mom… are my godmothers as weird as those two?”.
Lilia didn’t know whether she should laugh or cry, on the other hand now that she made memory the ways in how she became friends with them weren’t exactly usual, one clung to her until she accepted befriended her, while the other instead showed at the Drage family ancestral looking for a fight and after beating practically all the young generation members black and blue, Lilia’s father swallowed his pride and asked Lilia to fight with her.
One thing led to another and after fighting for a whole day they instead got friendly with each other and stopped the fight without reaching a conclusion, to Lilia’s father displease.
“Let’s chose a bedroom and then we can all go grab something to eat at the nearby city”, said Aster as he went upstairs to the second floor.
The girls stared at each other and then followed him not too long after.
The bedrooms were pretty much the same so Aster just choose one, Eris and Mylene chose the ones at the right and lastly Camila took the one at the left, now that she had her natal treasure technically, she didn’t need to be close to Aster for long periods of time… but she got used to it already.
Aster sat on the bed while the girls changed their clothes, because they got a bit dusty due to the fights on the third trial.
Lilia finished first and she sat next to her son, who was enjoying the view.
“Darling, I thought you didn’t want to go looking for troubles, so why the sudden change?”, she said as she leaned her head against Aster’s chest.
Aster caressed Lilia’s silky black long hair while a golden glint flashed through his eyes.
“I don’t want to keep any of you limited to a place just because there are idiots outside, we are all bound to have to deal with them at some point, so I thought that this is a good practice for when we wander around at higher planes”.
‘Besides there are more female disciples than male disciples to begin with, so I doubt there will be too many troubles’, said Aster to himself.
The girls soon finished dressing and then everyone went downstairs, Aster invited Erick and his family to join them, but apparently, they had other things to do.
“Let’s go”, said Aster as he flew towards the city, Kana was about to hug Aster so that he could carry her, but Alice was faster this time and grabbed her by her shoulders as she followed her brother.
“Now, now, you shouldn’t bother Aster that much “little Kana”, let your big sister Alice give you a ride this time”.
Kana pouted but since she couldn’t break free from Alice’s grip, she sighed and didn’t say anything, making the others laugh at her cute sulky expression.
While they flew towards the city, Aster paid close attention to the territory that came with the castles, the valley was huge and there was also a river which crossed through it as well as that strange thing the law enforcer called “sword law line”, besides that he could feel the presence of small animals, nothing that could pose a threat to Earth Origin realm cultivators.
Another noticeable thing was that the trees were brimming with life and the air was fresh and clean, probably due to the quality and purity of the spirit energy that lingeried in the atmosphere of the valley.
Once they crossed the “limit” of the property Aster immediately noticed a huge drop in the quantity and quality of the spirit energy, as well as a pretty high increase in the gravity, of course it wasn’t enough to force any of them to come down.
But it was still quite harsh, the gravity of this planet was about fifty times the one of the Azure Sky planet, and judging by the fact that there weren’t spirit formations engraved on the ground, this was the natural gravity of the planet.
“I guess that’s to be expected of the battle-oriented planet, of the highest ranked middle grade stellar system”, mumbled Aster.
The gravity of a planet had a limit as to how much it could be increased or decreased without affecting the planet, this area was supposed to be exclusive for core and inner disciples, so that explained why it wasn’t being artificially reduced, it functioned as training too.
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Inside of the city, while the disciples got notice of someone finally destroying the believe that it was impossible for a man to become a core disciple from the very beginning, no one knew where Salazar took Aster.
Until now when some people saw them coming out of the private air space of the valley.
“Look at that, there are people coming from inside the barrier of the twin sword valley!”.
“No way, no one in the whole sect has contributed enough to get one of the four valleys, unless… is there a black-haired guy among them?”.
“Yeah, look in the middle of those cuties, there is a single guy”.
“Damn, that is the rumored male core disciple, I think he was called Aster, maybe senior Salazar gave him the twin sword valley as his residence”.
As is someone started a fire and dropped a bottle of fuel on it, a commotion raised on the city, even before Aster and the girls arrived.
Of course, Aster could hear them even from afar, not to mention Lilia and the others, but they didn’t care, since Aster told them to let loose, then they had nothing to worry about, the one more excited about this was none other than Alice.
Although her dragon lineage seemed to be more inclined towards lewdness that was only with her beloved brother, for anything else she was quite prideful, so hiding or restraining herself was a big no.
Not too long after Aster and the girls landed at the entrance of the city where there were a couple of deacons, the equivalent of elders for those who entered as assistants, acting as the gatekeepers.
After being stationed here for so much years, they practically knew the faces of all the important disciples, either core ones or those who had a strong backer behind them, but they weren’t stupid, since Aster and the girls weren’t wearing uniforms, they supposed they recently joined the sect.
“Good evening, this is a three-star grade city, which means only those with inner disciple statuses or higher can enter, unless you going to work at one of the locals, please show us your identity token”.
Aster nodded as he showed the deacons the winged sword ring in his left index finger.
The deacons frowned, they have seen this ring once before, it was the proof that someone became a core disciple from the very beginning, the problem here is that a male disciple shouldn’t have one.
Their eyes then narrowed as they remembered the rumors of someone finally meeting the impossible requirements, still they took out a small sphere and asked Aster to place his hand on it.
Which he did, the sphere illuminated and after reading what appeared on it, the deacons immediately stood up from their seats and bowed.
“We greet the Holy Son of the twin sword valley, please enjoy of the city!”.
Aster raised an eyebrow, at the words “Holy Son” but he decided to leave the subject at the back of his mind and instead entered the city with the girls.
Only after they left the deacons returned to their seats with slightly pale expressions, the treasure they used to verify if Aster was a core disciple or not, was connected to the official records of the sect.
Which meant Aster wasn’t not only a core disciple but the owner of one of the four valleys of the sect, the four spots with the better conditions to cultivate, the first one to be more accurate.
And that status put him at the same level as a core elder.
‘What in the world is happening here!’, they screamed in their hearts.