Contrary to the harmonious vibe during dinner, once it was over things got a bit wilder as Aster was dragged away by Alice and surprisingly Sarina as well, towards their room, not without Aster looking at the purple lightning princess and Mikaela.

"Miss Valentina and miss Mikaela, there is something I want to discuss with you two tomorrow, so please join me for Agnes’s early exercise routine", he said which made the sportsy sun diamond princess’s eyes glow for a second before a smile flourished on her pretty face.

"I haven’t been able to bring sister Valentina to my morning routine but now she can’t refuse, thanks Aster", jokingly said Agnes which earned her a sigh from the purple lightning princess, knowing this was just Aster playing a little prank on her.

"Okay, we’ll be there early in the morning", said Valentina as she nodded at Aster.

"Goodnight, see you at breakfast tomorrow", said Aria in representation of Sarina, Alice and herself, only for Alice to smirk as she added in a loud voice.

"That is, if you can stand properly so early in the morning after what’s coming to you~", which made the ice princess nearly trip and fall.

"Aghh, can’t you have some shame for a change!", exclaimed Aria whose face was red as an apple as she hurried to follow them and escape the especially intense gazes of a few girls and the curious ones of the vast majority.

"And here I thought you were going to make use of the limelight brought by your triggered mission to join them", jokingly said Mylene to Camila who shook her head in a hurry.

"W-We are still far from reaching that point... I do plan on asking for a little something from Aster as a reward, but it can wait to tomorrow", cutely mumbled the treasure girl.

Leaving the slightly strange but still bright atmosphere that Aster’s departure left behind, aside and while everyone went their own ways to enjoy their free time, at Aster’s room a "fight" broke out once the door was closed and the clothes were tossed aside, because Sarina’s wings in their cute compact form were revealed for Aria and Alice’s eyes, mostly for Alice’s ones.

"Didn’t we agree to keep easy to notice traits unmanifested in this place and what is up with those wings, why do they feel different than before?", asked the wild dragon princess to which Sarina answered with a calm smile.

"Unlike dragon related lineages which are most if not all, connected to the Drage family, feather winged ones are not exclusive to any family or group in particular so little Kana and myself weren’t keeping our wings unmanifested to not draw attention, but because in their normal state they would get on the way of our daily life here, however that no longer is a problem for me since I reached the late infant stage finally~", said the motherly blond roc girl.

"Huh, are you kidding me!", exclaimed Alice, her reaction was exactly what Aster expected, which means that he already had a way to tame that wild dragon sister of his, prepared.

"Just like with Espi’s existence, this place will be the perfect way to cover up the truth from others until the right time comes, after all if "someone" was able to obtain a power with which cutting whatever one wishes within a huge area is possible, why could obtaining a dragon lineage unrelated to the Drage wouldn’t be, so starting from tomorrow you may manifest that cute tail of yours as well even if you can’t make it less flashy...", Aster hadn’t even finished speaking when a black "flash" pushed him onto the bed.

"I guess we can push it ahead to tonight instead of tomorrow, just don’t come out of the room until breakfast, since I need to have a little "talk" with Valentina and Mikaela", said Aster as he saw that large black scaled tail of Alice’s pressing him against the bed.

"Thanks, tonight’s schedule just got even better~", said the wild dragon princess whose eyes were filled with love, the strong grip of her tail crumbled apart when Aster caressed it though, making Alice melt in his embrace.

"Ahh, I missed this so much...", mumbled the wild dragon princess as she enjoyed the sensation of Aster touching her tail, just like he planned, this way she would not have the attention to spare to the fact that Sarina went ahead of her in terms of lineage maturity for today at least.

’What a needy dragon princess, well, I have a needy ice princess and a needy roc girl in my hands as well’, jokingly thought Aster as he saw those two pouting while seeing Alice getting all the cuddles.

"Hey, that’s not fair!", exclaimed both Sarina and Aria as they jumped onto the bed, and that led to the next hours being filled with sweet sounds and giggles, which would continue in the mind space, interpreted with the pretty voices of Lilia and Rya this time though.

After a few hours in the outside world which amounted to more than a day in the mind space, which Aster mostly spent contenting the charming dragon mother and the sword empress after being "deprived" of him for such a "long time" in Lilia’s words, Aster opened his eyes.

He was laying on the bed on top of Hyperion, a pretty girl with mostly silver hair was occupying the left side of his body, while one with black hair was hugging the right side of his body.

"You do know that even if you hold me in place like this, I can leave at will, right?", said Aster as he felt his body not budging in the slightest due to the tight hug in which those two had him, which included Lilia using her wings to secure him in place while Rya was using her spirit energy which had turned mostly silver colored as well to somehow keep him stuck to his current position.

"Ahh, why don’t you stay for another day or two in here darling, you can do whatever you want to the sword girl if you stay~", said Lilia as she opened her eyes, which made Rya’s right eyebrow twitch a bit.

"Hey, why are you offering me as some kind of bribe!", said the sword empress as she opened her eyes as well.

The difference in the time flow between the outside world and the mind space is 1:10, so an hour on the outside is ten hours in the mind space, Aster had stayed for around three normal hours which is more than a day on the outside.

"Nope, sure I said that it’s not really cheating since I’m not doing anything but resting and playing with you two, but a whole day at the time is more than enough, so be good and wait until tonight’s session", said Aster as he tapped Lilia’s pretty nose to then kiss her pale rosy lips.

"Mmm, fine but you better come at least an hour a day even after you start participating in that place’s trials or whatever~", said the dragon mother as she ultimately retrieved her wings.

"I can’t believe what I’m saying but I agree with Lilia, I don’t want to be apart from you for such long periods of time", mumbled Rya as she also dispelled her silver spirit energy.

’Agh, she looks so cute!’, thought Aster as he saw the "pleading" gaze in Rya’s mostly golden colored eyes, this younger and much more emotional sword empress had a different charm than her mature and aloof former self with her noble and unstainable aura.

"Fine, I can’t win against you two", said Aster as he shrugged to then softly peck Rya’s lips.

"Mm~", the sword empress let out a cute sound, to then wave her hand as she saw Aster disappear from the mind space, from this moment onwards he was going to sleep normally in the outside world.

"Good job helping convince Aster, I knew your cute soft "edge" will be helpful for something~", jokingly said Lilia to Rya who softly snorted, that being said she was smiling and jumping in her heart when she saw Aster "succumb" to her charm.

...

And now we come to the outside world around three hours after Aster left the mind space, he honestly didn’t need more rest since he slept in the mind space, but still remained on the bed cuddling with Sarina and the others until the sun started to slowly come out, which signaled the start of activity in the camp.

’Seriously, like mother, like daughter’, thought Aster as he saw Alice’s tail holding onto his waist as if to keep him in place, while Alice hugged his right side, the only difference is that Lilia used her wings for that instead.

"What to do, the others are just softly hugging me but this cute thing is holding onto me so tightly that I won’t be able to get up, but the later I get up, the later a certain someone will be allowed to go out for breakfast", jokingly said Aster, which made Alice’s tail tremble for a second before it slightly loosened its hug on Aster’s body.

It’s worth mentioning that similar to the little wyrm, while the spirit energy related properties of the scales on Alice’s tail were inaccessible at mortal level, they still had special functions.

And their function made it so she didn’t need the compensation from the blue flaming board due to the incapacity to use weapons unlike in Espi’s case, well, it might also be because in Alice’s case it was limited to her tail only, unlike the little wyrm who now had full body armor so long as there was enough shock absorbing steel of course.

In other words, Alice could control the state of her tail’s scales, they could be soft and cuddly which is the state in which they were as of current, or they could become tough as steel with sharp as blade edges, even the weight or more accurately the density of the tail changed making it amazingly heavy, it was a natural function that clearly existed for battle.

’Well, at least I can leave the worry of she casually ripping the camp apart with her tail by accident, aside... for now’, thought Aster as he stroked Alice’s tail to then kiss her.

"Fine, I’ll be good, but don’t think I didn’t notice your little "escapade" with mom into the mind space, I know you can’t spend a whole day with me for now, but I want you to caress my tail as much as possible instead, I feel like it will be beneficial in many ways~", said the wild dragon princess as she jumped out of the bed.

"Good morning big brother, can you play with me today?", asked the little girl as Aster pecked her forehead.

"Hisss!", the little wyrm whose pretty scales were softly scratched by Aster, directly corrected Kana.

"Sorry, sorry, can you play with us today~", she said to which Aster nodded.

"Sure, you’ll be training with Alice right, I’ll pay you three a little visit later", he said which earned him bright smiles from the two little girls who cutely rolled out of the bed.

"Of course, I haven’t forgotten about my cute lucky charm’s efforts, since you triggered your unique mission, a little reward is in place", said Aster as he kissed Camila.

"Wuuh~", the treasure girl happily smiled in response, to be honest not having to be the one to bring out the subject already saved her a lot of embarrassment, at least until Aster jokingly added.

"We can’t do any of the really "fun" stuff in this forest unlike the one at the valley though, so it will be a different kind of reward than the one I wanted to give you".

Poor Camila’s face reddened on the spot as she ran away like a scared rabbit, of course she knew Aster was joking, but she couldn’t help but have her imagination wander in a "dangerous" direction.

’How cute’, thought Aster as he changed targets to the blond motherly roc girl, since Alice used her tail for night activities, so did her with her wings, thus this time Aster’s "pillow" not only covered a larger area but felt fluffier than usual, since she used her feathered wings to cover her upper body, essentially making an even softer bed for Aster.

"And now, the "evil" lady who unleashed two hungry and violent dragons to cause me trouble", said Aster as he turned around to then kiss Sarina, before he rolled to land on his back and then softly caress Sarina’s pretty wings.

"Mm~, a comfortable sound escaped Sarina’s pink lips as Aster carefully passed his fingers through the feathers of her wings.

"Female rocs can be as scary as female dragons, next time don’t "neglect" me for too long, otherwise I might eat you~", said Sarina as she pecked Aster to then leave towards the bathroom while showing off her generous backside.

Though unlike with the cultivator version, manifesting her wings didn’t increase her height and body proportions which helps her surpass Lilia in the chest area, her angel-like wings when not spread to the side, create a "division" which accentuates her plump butt by covering her upper back and most of the middle area, of course this is noticeable when she is wearing light clothes, which she would only do for Aster, therefore this feast is for his eyes only.

Having enjoyed his usual morning routine, Aster put on some proper clothes since he slept in boxers and a short-sleeved shirt, and then left the room, today he was going to do some light exercise early so instead of the usual pants, he went with shorts and a tank top, which was a new kind of outfit for him.

Aster’s perfectly chiseled body which was much more noticeable with the tank top that slightly stuck to his upper body, not to mention the shorts that revealed his strong legs, immediately drew the attention of a few girls that were starting their day early.

"Waaah, I thought senior brother had quite the physical strength despite not being like those bulky guys but he has quite the build...", mumbled a girl from the black sword.

"Normally the ones to drool over skin revealing outfits are the guys you know", jokingly said Aster to those curious girls whose eyes were all over his arms and legs, their interest was innocent, he really had a rather unique build, thanks to Lilia’s training methods he didn’t bulk up like most male body cultivators and instead had a compact and athletic musculature with strength that rivaled theirs, but way more agility and flexibility than them.

"Good morning Aster, nice outfit~", said the sportsy sun diamond princess who was also wearing a different outfit than usual, she had black sports leggings instead of shorts and a white crop top, her hair was tied in a short ponytail as well, truly worthy of being a nicknamed "sportsy sun diamond princess" by Aster.

"I get that you wanted to wear something "special" for the occasion but... why do we have to use these clothes as well?", said Valentina who had a slightly shy expression on her pretty face as she came out of her room wearing a similar get up to Agnes, with the difference than the color of her leggings and top were inversed when compared to Agnes, that being said, given that they were now basically the same age, were cousins and even had the same hair color, made them look like twins, with only eye color being different, since they were going to move their bodies, then Valentina also tied her hair in a ponytail.

"It feels especially strange since we look younger than usual, I’m really going to fill a complain against lady Fey for this", mumbled Mikaela who was dragged into wearing this same outfit by Valentina not wanting to be the only one to "suffer".

"Now, don’t worry, we’ll be going to a secluded area anyway, so it’s not like you’ll be seen by a lot of people", said Aster.

’We’ll still be seen by the one that worries us the most, you!’, exclaimed both Valentina and Mikaela in their minds, but still, it did help to ease their minds that the girls of the sect won’t giggle while gossiping about them for this.

The group of four went into the three agglomeration where Aster’s private smithy was placed, Agnes was all smiles as she guided her cousin and Mikaela through a simple morning stretching and light exercise session, she especially liked that Aster knew the routine she has been using in this place till the last detail, which means that he has paid close attention to her through all the bits of it which he saw early when she came to greet him during the past six days.

And in case you wonder why did the sportsy sun diamond princess didn’t mind sharing what could have been a private moment with Aster, with Valentina and Mikaela, that’s because she has been waiting for the subject which a private conversation needing those two to attend alongside her, to come afloat.

"Phew, Agnes you are a bit too intense with all this physical training thing", said Valentina as she sat on the ground to recover her breath while she took a sip of water from a bottle.

"It does help the body activate quite nicely though", added Mikaela who also was sitting on the ground drinking some water.

"Now that you two are sitting, let me start with the important conversation I mentioned before", said Aster as he sat in front of those two, while Agnes sat next to him and even offered him water from her bottle, which Aster accepted by the way.

"Why all the mystery, you even revealed that you had knowledge about Divine Firmaments and after how you have been toying with Wade and those guys from the Mountain Amber family, not to mention that supervisor which was cut down by you, it will take a lot from you to surprise us anymore", said Mikaela to which Aster softly laughed as he said.

"You were interested in my origin right, well, my surname is Drage, what’s more, I’m Lilia Drage’s son, which in other words mean I’m one of the people that has the right to inherit everything the Drage family owns".

"...", it took those two a few seconds to process what Aster had just said and as expected, they both stood up due to the surprise.

"You what!", they exclaimed in unison.

"No wait, are you telling me that miss Lilia, the one who among countless other monstrous feats, gouged the eyes of guys that dared to even look her way, actually has children?", asked Mikaela which made Aster bitterly smile, Lilia has always been quite fierce, but she might have been a bit immature back then.

"Ahem, neither my older sister nor myself were born through the usual "method", it was with the help of an array, miss Valentina might know about that, but yeah, we are that Lilia’s children", said Aster which made the purple lightning princess who had remained silent nod.

"I did hear cousin mention that her sister received the first functioning prototype of the highest ranked array that should exist in the four heavenly quadrants, a project in which the ancestor from the Disaster Onyx and the ancestor from William’s family were working, before the relation between the ruler families became strained again", mumbled Valentina to then say.

"W-Wait, what older sister, you have black hair so if we are talking about miss Lilia who was the first Drage ever to be born with both black hair and red eyes then... age-wise and appearance wise, that girl Alice is the only one that would come to mind".

"Yeah, Alice is my older sister and she is also one of the reasons as to why we are having this conversation earlier than what I had planned", said Aster, which made Valentina sigh.

"You know, after getting to know you are a Drage, if I haven’t gotten to know you better as a person during this mission, I would have been disgusted to let alone wear this outfit and be this close in an isolated place with you, but to know that you are so close to basically all the girls of the sect, however I do understand that you aren’t like those lust crazed pieces of trash, though... you still seem to share some of their "preferences" but it doesn’t seem to be because of the same reasons", she said which made Aster bitterly smile to his insides.

’Is she praising me or insulting me’, he thought.