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nOnce he finished drinking his mother’s milk, Aster took a quick bath and put on the set of clothes that Lilia prepared for him, which consisted of blue pants, a black short-sleeved shirt with gold engravings on the shoulders, a light leather armor to wear on top and finally a white coat with red lines adorning it.

nHe didn’t even bother to use the Wolfstein family emblem instead, on the coat his mother gave him had a symbol that looked like a fang at the height of his right shoulder, when he saw it, he asked his mother what it meant and she told him that it represented her.

nLilia took Aster by the hand and in a second, they disappeared from the room, when Aster reacted, they were at the entrance of the bloody forest, giving one last worried and loving look to her son Lilia said.

n“Here we are darling, remember to be careful and if you have any problem just contact me and mommy will be there in a second, if someone dares to intimidate you just tell me and I will make him wish he had not been born, and also remember what I told you about approaching unknown women”.

nLilia knew that her son was extraordinary but he had no experience with women other than her and Alice and she did not want some whore to try to take advantage of him, although Aster did not know, all the equipment he was using was of the highest quality that there was on this planet.

nEven his light leather armor was better than the protective treasure that Isaac wore, and although it looked normal, the dignified and noble aura that Aster had on him could not be hidden, anyone who saw him would think that he was the young heir of some important family.

nAster thought his mother was a bit possessive but that only made her prettier in his eyes, he gave her a kiss on her cheek and ran away into the woods.

nAfter moving for half an hour Aster had entered the outer area of the bloody forest and it really was a new landscape to behold, the reason why it was called bloody forest was not because of the large number of spiritual beasts that lived in it, it was due to the peculiar color of the trees that predominated in the forest, they were called bloody iron trees.

nThat name was because its wood was quite hard and its leaves were bright red, Aster kept moving while looking for his first prey.

n“It’s going to be an animal… but I need to get used to kill”, he thought.

nOne of the obstacles that he has been considering to surpass as a person who had lived in a world governed by laws and human rights, was the fact that in this world death was something common, if you messed with someone you could be killed, if you had something that others wanted you could be robbed and killed and the list went on without end.

nSome might think that similar situations happen on earth all the time, but the difference is that in this world this happened in broad daylight and if it did not affect public order or bothered the local forces, nobody cared.

nEven in big cities if someone wanted to kill another person all they had to do was do it where no one would not see it and if the city guards were not ordered to investigate there would be no consequence, unlike a modern era where social media was to the day and everyone had the power to express and stir up controversy, which would lead to authorities to manage the situation, on this planet none of that existed.

nSome privileged people could kill whoever they wanted and no one would say anything for fear of offending the force behind them, basically the strong took advantage of the weak although there was public order, unlike on earth there was nothing like human rights.

nAlthough his mother hasn’t told him anything about her past, he knew she was ready to kill anyone who might be athreat to her children, but how could he just stand behind her and be protected, his goal was to be strong enough so his mother and Alice could rely on him.

nFinally, Aster found his prey an iron-backed boar.

n“I’ve practiced with mother for quite some time and my body is used to combat so I shouldn’t have any problems”, he thought as he pulled out a normal iron sword from his storage ring.

nThe boar charged at it, but it was easy for Aster to avoid it, after looking for the weak point of the boar he moved towards it and with a single slash of his sword he cut its neck.

n*Splash*, the blood sprayed the ground and the boar made a sound between a screech and a roar and fell to the ground as his breath stopped.

nSeeing the blood on his sword and the corpse of the boar, Aster took a moment to assimilate his first battle of life and death, he did not feel bad after all he did not kill the boar for pleasure and he would not waste his meat or any material that he could use like its magic core or its tusks that he could sell in some town near the forest.

n“Sigh… it was not as bad as I thought, I just have to remember in this world if you want to live in peace, you must be prepared to kill those who try to hurt you or those you appreciate, I who didn’t hunt or something like that back on earth… maybe I changed when I came to this world”.

nAfter convincing himself Aster began to clean the boar to prepare his dinner and at the same time, he raised a tent and collected wood to light a fire, Lilia had given him a small defensive formation that covered about 20 meters, by placing it the air could pass through while other objects and living beings could not.

nAfter setting up the defensive formation he began to season the boar meat with spices and cut it into cubes which he placed on sticks to create skewers, he had all the water he could need in his ring and he just needed to find his own food, he took off his coat and light leather armor and sat while waiting for the meat to cook.

nAfter dinner, he went into the tent and thinking about his mother and sister alone in that cold castle, made him steel his resolution to become stronger, and also for some reason he had a sudden wish to strangle Isaac.

n“I know that mom is far stronger than Isaac, but I don’t understand why does she tolerate him after how he has seen her, maybe she is just used to receiving that kind of gaze so she does not care anymore could it be that I’m being too sensitive on that?”, he thought.

nAster had problems imagining other guys seeing his beloved mother with lustful eyes on the future when they are on public and not doing anything about it, to be fair Lilia was not only beautiful beyond any woman a mortal can imagine but she also only had eyes for him so how could he not treasure a person like that.

n“I never had a girl I liked back on earth; turns out I’m quite the jealous type”.

n“I will have to find the opportunity to speak with her about Isaac, it is not like I will be destroying everyone that looks at her but at least that guy and probably that idiot son of him are already on my list”, he thought.

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