It wasn’t just Aster, Ley and Rox, for a moment all the fights near the spatial distortion stopped, be it Mortal Transcending, Sea of Knowledge, Genesis Manifestation, young master or protector, everyone couldn’t help but look at the sky.

The originally unstable sky where spatial distortions were appearing, was momentarily replaced by clean blue sky.

Aster who was barely holding back the urges of laughing out loud, waved his hand and the golden dome which was formerly protecting Kana disappeared, as he didn’t want to interfere in such an important moment for her.

Ixas who was floating in the sky did the same, with a snap of his fingers the roof of the bulwark opened, and Kana who was slowly raising from the ground came out of it.

She had a slightly confused expression in her pretty face, but seeing Aster smiling at her was enough to assure her everything will be fine.

Why was Aster so sure you ask, the answer is very simple and it is because he has already gone through something similar, back when he first started cultivating… the sky became golden as he went through the baptism of the heavens.

And now the same was happening to Kana, Lilia once explained to him, that this phenomenon can manifest when one starts cultivating like in Aster’s case, when one reaches a certain realm like what happened to Sarina, Camila or Felicia, and lastly be granted by the heavens to those whose hearts are pure and do good deeds.

“Once she’s baptized by the heavens, her lineage will start to manifest and nurture the Emerald Whirlwind, stop her young master!!!”, Ley’s strongest subordinate shouted from afar, waking Ley from his daze.

Ley didn’t need to listen to it twice, both he and Rox became flashes of green and black light who shot towards Kana.

“You are mine!”.

“Go to hell!”.

Once they were both a few meters away from Kana, they both aimed their weapons at her, but then they were blocked by a huge golden wall… no for them it looked like a wall, but it was just an armored giant palm.

“Get lost”, Ley and Rox’s faces twisted as they heard Aster’s cold voice, and before they could react, they were both grabbed by the giant golden hands and smacked against the ground.

“Booooom!”, the impact was so strong that the ground cracked and they both disappeared into countless of pieces of broken rocks and sand.

Kana who was floating behind of Aster, saw him gallantly standing in front of her, his proud wide back and his posture straight as a sword, while his body was clad in an although incomplete, very well-designed golden armor and she giggled

‘See, big brother is the best~’, she said and was met with the slightly exasperated voice of the Emerald Whirlwind in her mind.

‘Yeah, yeah, I understand he is awesome, now complete your baptism… so that we can help your beloved big brother’.

Kana’s eyes sparkled for a split of a second, before she raised into the sky, many of the other enemies, including the elders from Ley and Rox families as well as the orcrary tried to attack her, but they were all blocked by Aster and the others, specially Mylene, she literally punched a hole through an orcrary who tried to hit Kana with a bone spear.

… Just when Ley and Rox, managed to escape from the tons of debris that were burying them, the world seemed to stop for a split of a second.

Then under the surprised eyes of all the people present, wind from the four cardinal points gathered around Kana and then the skies changed, from the artificial blue sky of the secret realm, to a pretty soft light green color.

As if the spectacle wasn’t already incredible enough, the wind condensed around Kana in a spherical form, before it started rotating and changing its color to the same green that was illuminating the sky.

Then everyone, friend or foe heard the melodious chirping of a bird, before all the wind surrounding Kana exploded, as the image of a giant bird completely formed by green wind raised into the sky.𝒐𝑣𝐞𝗅xt.𝒸𝐎𝑚

Aster extended his hand and enjoyed the warm comfortable sensation of the green light radiated by the bird.

Wherever that light touched, green vegetation grew, and soon a small oasis had bloomed in the desertic landscape of the secret realm.

‘So, this is hers, pretty much Kana-like’, thought Aster as he looked inside the mind space just to see, another star had started to show signs of awakening, dazzling in a pretty vibrant green light for a couple of seconds, before returning to its slumber.

Different stars had different requirements, once one of the girls had gained its recognition, she would start walking in the path of a star maiden, physical contact wasn’t always the trick, though it was what most of the girl preferred, Kana already loved Aster with all her heart, what has been blocking her was that sensation of not being able to walk by his side since she was the weakest, but now, she has approached him even if it was just a bit.

That being said, she still had a long way before she got the power of her star, but she has already entered the path into becoming a proper star maiden, thus her star will be showing some reactions from time to time, until the name of the star reveals itself and the process completes.

Unfortunately, the bird didn’t stay too much in the sky and after doing a quick turn, it descended and entered Kana whose eyes were closed during the whole process, of course Aster approached her and they both descended from the sky to the ground.

Kana’s eyes slowly opened and the first thing she saw was Aster standing a couple of centimeters from her, she immediately jumped into his embrace with a bright smile on her face.

“Look big brother, I broke though~”, she said with her usual innocent soft voice.

She let out of cultivation and to everyone’s surprise, she had jumped a whole minor realm, reaching the peak of the Star Formation realm, which made sense considering the huge amount of wind spirit energy she absorbed a moment ago, at this point she just needed to put some effort into linking another of the stars in her inner universe to her Star Core, and she’ll advance to the Stellar Constellation realm.

Aster patted Kana’s head, but she pouted and pointed at her cheeks.

“Big brother already kissed sister Natasha and sister Charlotte, that’s not fair~”.

Aster chuckled; this wasn’t exactly a good moment to spoil her.

“Let’s leave that for later, right now we had some trash to take out, okay?”.

“Mm, I’ll listen to big brother, now I can fight alongside big brother after all~”.

Aster’s eyes widened a bit, as Kana suddenly shone in green light, her originally shorter figure grew up about twenty centimeters, most of her clothes thorned apart due to the sudden growth, but the white sundress which was the base of her get up, remained.

When the green light disappeared, the originally 12 years old Kana had grown to look like a girl in her 16’s, her blond hair which was already long, grew larger too and its color changed to a pretty green which became lighter at the ends, being the daughter of a beauty like Sarina, she of course became grittier with the “pass of the years”.

Aster looked at the “Kana” in front of him and he was pretty much surprised, as she hadn’t gotten the power of her star yet, so this wasn’t that, and the only other option left was… the Emerald Whirlwind.

“Little girl I told you to wait for a minute, we almost ended up naked you know”, the voice that came from Kana’s pretty lips was a slightly different, the base was the same, but it sounded a bit older because there was a second tone added to it, one Aster had heard before at the green castle.

Kana noticed Aster’s surprised expression and she bitterly smiled.

“Don’t look at me like that, this is just an illusion created by me, Kana is essentially using my wind as an “armor” … I wonder where the idea came from”, she said as she looked at Aster’s golden armor.

“But this is indeed an approximation of how she will look when she reached this age, when using my powers at least, speaking of that…”, added the Emerald Whirlwind.

Kana’s cultivation which had already experienced an increase, skyrocketed once again, though temporarily, she jumped all the way to the early Stellar Axys realm.

She then snapped her fingers and the anguish voices of the members of the Storm Roc family could be heard coming from all the directions.

“Aghhhh young master!”, most of them immediately fell from the skies and retorted on the ground, the only exceptions being those who were at Genesis Manifestation realm and Ley who was both a direct descendant from the royal poisonous branch and a Sea of Knowledge cultivator.

Aster reached that conclusion, because Ley’s sister who is also from the royal poisonous branch, but a Mortal Transcending realm, fell on her knees too.

“Impossible, this is bloodline suppression!”, spat Ley’s sister with a hatred filled voice.

Espi followed Aster, because he has a good heart, but at the beginning, it felt attracted to him because of his superior dragon lineage, that’s also in part why it was so tame in front of him, of course now that the little wyrm became Kana’s playmate and learned it was good to hang around them, it’s more of a mutual agreement, but that’s how things were at the beginning.

The difference is that Kana, or in this case the Emerald Whirlwind is directly using her superior bloodline to suppress those whose lineages weren’t pure or strong enough, to stand hers.

In other words, with a single snap of her fingers, about six enemies were brough to their knees.

‘Big brother, can I fight the bad guy for the last minutes that we have here?’, Aster heard Kana’s voice directly in his mind, as a proof that she has started to become a star maiden.

‘Don’t worry though I’m pretty sure we can win, I assure you she won’t suffer any wound’, added the Emerald Whirlwind who send a message to his ears.

“Fine, be careful you two”, said Aster, he was here in any case and he had already casted the protection of the paragon body on Kana, so there was nothing wrong in letting her play a bit, especially because the number of enemies reduced enough for a couple of his allies to be free, after they killed Ley’s subordinates of course.

“Mm~”, with a little nod, Kana waved her hand and a green horizontal twister engulfed Ley, throwing him into the air, before Kana became a gust of wind which shot itself towards him.

Aster laughed out loud, before he turned to see Rox whose face was now black, he was shaking due to anger.

“Let’s see which is sharper, my sword or your saber”.

As if it was a signal, all the fights were retaken as the sky returned to the its unstable version, while the spatial distortions kept forming preparing to open the portals.

Everyone became fiercer knowing that in a few minutes everything will be over, no one knew that this fight will mark the beginning of a wave which will create a tsunami that was bound to devastate the Divine Firmaments.