While Aster was on the air due to the monstrous capacity of the armor to jump a large distant, he saw a pink haired girl returning with a bored expression on her face.

It was Mylene who finished her opponents pretty easily, heck she could easily destroy the elders from a renowned family from a Divine Firmament in the Genesis Manifestation realm, just like her, even if there were three of the red masked guys, in terms of quality and techniques they were way worse.

Aster saw the devastation caused by those delicate fists of hers, which resulted in craters even bigger than the ones caused by his armor, and he couldn’t help but bitterly smile.

‘Luckily she didn’t have her physical body back then’, he thought.

Mylene changed a lot after she wore the necklace, in a good way and he didn’t even have to order her to do anything, that’s also one of the reasons as to why she didn’t want to take it off, even if Aster has offered to do it.

She never again wanted to be like her old self, Eris spoke on her behalf too, so Aster knew there was more than what met the eye in there, but he respected them enough to not push them.

When they felt it was the time, they will talk about it with him, it was the same as him keeping a secret the fact that he came from another world, which is the only secret he has kept from the girls.

“That was disappointing, can I join you, at least I can play with Kana in the meantime?”, asked Mylene.

She was also pretty interested in this new application Aster had for his armor, both she and Eris had always been marveled by the impossibilities Aster tend to pull off somehow, every now and then.

With a wave of his hand, Aster opened a space in the armor so that Mylene could enter and soon she was standing in the “core” of the armor, with them.

And they soon landed near Iris’s maids, who were having a harder time against their opponents, due to the difference in the quality of their weapons, luckily they were holding their ground because their fire attributes were burning the eerie spirit energy produced by the red masked guys, creating an unpleasant singe smell.

“Let’s finish things up here first, then we’ll se what can we do about that coffin, it keeps giving me the creeps whenever I look at it”, said Aster to Mylene and Kana.

“Mm”, the girls nodded.

…

The two maids Mina and Tina were using their red scorching Genesis Cores to defend themselves from the Acid Corroding Genesis Cores of their opponents.

Every time they clashed a hissing sound was created as both cores wore the other down, the acid was evaporated but at the same time the strength of the flames was attenuated.

The only problem is that their weapons who had already taken some damage from their fights against the orcrarys had started to be chipped away.

“Sis, what should we do?”, asked Mina.

“We need to stall these guys at least, young miss is also fighting and we can’t increase her burden”, answered Tina

“Oh, you two are so loyal, how cute, I would love to see what else can you team up to kekeke”, the red masked guy on the left laughed as his eyes wandered through the body of the younger maid Mina.

The three of them were born with a year or two of difference and looked pretty similar to each other, with some differences in their appearance due to age.

“Why are evil cultivators are all the same, a bunch of disgusting bastards”, Tina who was the middle sister, softly snorted.

As the battle was about to continue, they suddenly felt a suppressive force coming from above, and before the red masked guys could react, the giant armor landed behind them.

“No one’s attribute is exactly the same, let’s see what happens when two acids mix together”, said Aster with a smirk.

The Genesis Cores of the two red masked guys, were grabbed by the giant armored hands and then pressed against each other.

“Aghhh, idiot dispel you core!”, shouted the guy on the left.

“Why should I, you do it and get crushed by this monster”, answered the guy on the right.

The two Genesis Cores attacked each other, corroding their walls at the same time.

“Now!”, both Mina and Tina saw their chances and gathered all the spirit energy they had left in their weapons, knowing this will be their last usage.

“Red Burning Cross!”, both of them shouted at the same time as they released a slash from their swords, they both had reached the second level of sword intent, but they weren’t as good as Iris in that aspect, it was more of a way to honor their young miss than they having a thing for the sword like her.

“Boooom!”, the burning cross formed by the slashes of the two maids hit the part where the Genesis Cores of the red masked guys were clashing, and the walls exploded due to the impact.

“Aghhh!”, this time it was the red masked guys the ones that screamed at unison, because they both vomited blood as their cores were destroyed, killing them on the spot.

Once the maids confirmed their enemies were dealt with, they actually fainted on the air, they have been through a lot lately and were fatigated, the only thing keeping them awake was their adrenaline and strong will to help Iris, so now that they have fulfilled their task their bodies gave in.

Aster beckoned and the giant hands of the armor gently caught the two maids preventing them from falling to the ground.

‘We all need a rest’, he thought remembering Rya who was peacefully sleeping inside the mind space, he wasn’t aware of the result of Rya helping him with that last attack, but when he finds out later in the future his reaction will be worth seeing.

“Camila should have already finished that guy off and Vivian should be ending it anytime soon too”, said Aster as he made the armor run towards where Vivian was fighting.

On the way he picked up Camila and Iris, the latter nodded at Aster and thanked him for lending a hand to her maids, they surpassed their limits in the previous fights, so the three of them needed to rest to recover, instead of just drinking elixirs.

Speaking of Vivian, her fight had become fiercer with every minute, at this point Joseph’s Warhammer was unrecognizable, a lot of the head of the hammer had been tore apart by Vivian’s left hand, and Joseph body had a lot of holes from which black smoke kept oozing out, due to Vivian’s right hand.

Aster and the others arrived just on time to see Vivian using one of her best attacks to bring down Joseph.

“Spirit Venom, Black Demon Prison”, as soon as Vivian’s soft mellow voice left her lips, with her as the center the black smoke which came out of her right arm took over her whole body and engulfed Joseph in a sphere made out of it.

“Aghhh!”, some screams could be heard as Joseph tried to escape from the black smoke sphere, which had grown and taken the shape of a skull, but he couldn’t break free from it, his techniques used vitality and while with a great quantity of it he was able to stretch the walls of the prison, he was short at the moment of truth… again, and the prison regenerated feeding on his vitality.

The cycle continued until there were no more screams, only then Vivian released her technique and just as she had previously stated, Joseph was now a sack of bones, he was still alive but his death was imminent.

Vivian just let him at the brink of death, out of consideration to Julian, because he might have some last words he wanted to tell his son, that was the best she could do for Julian as she wouldn’t forgive Joseph no matter what.

“Woah, sister Vivian is fiercer than what she looks like~”, Kana’s playful voice made Vivian blush a bit, she did a lot of “flashy” moves earlier, because it was the first time she could fight to her heart’s content, so without realizing it she got pretty into it.

Aster chuckled, but then he looked above and saw two figures who were descending from the sky, both were heavily wounded and were still exchanging attacks between each other, it was one of the two Law Integration cultivators, as well as the old Egil.

Judging by their wounds their battle was pretty intense, which was understandable, in fact Aster was surprised Julian and the others were doing it so good against cultivators who could be considered to come from a high ranked Stellar System.

Aster was about to take Vivian to give the two cultivators space to continue their fight, when the world seemed to sow down for him.

Aster’s pupils narrowed, his mind moved as fast as he could, the golden armor changed its shape to its normal vibrant and majestic one, meaning he eliminated every trace of annihilation from it.

Why did he do that you ask, because in the previous form he couldn’t use the better property of the paragon body, the ten seconds of invincibility.

Under Vivian’s surprised eyes, both the Law Integration cultivator from the Demon Tomb sect, and the old Egil attacked her and Aster at the same time, it wasn’t an attack which bounced or accidentally changed its direction, no it was aimed at them.

“Booooom!”.

A wave of spirit energy raised from the ground reaching about twenty kilometers upwards into the sky, as a dazzling light was created due to their attacks.

“Ah, damn it was really hard to keep feigning”, complained Egil.

“Your attacks didn’t seem feigned though”, said the evil cultivator as he looked at the wounds on his body.

“Well it had to look real so that Julian didn’t notice something was off, I used a really expensive elixir to trick that little girl’s eyes after all, so there is no way I would allow for the treasure in that secret realm to be taken by some random pieces of trash”, Egil snorted as he waved his hand and brought Joseph towards him.

His eyes showed some actual worriedness ad he saw his current state, but then he looked at the ongoing explosion and smiled with sufficiency.

“Whatever, a treasure whose secret realm can easily bounce mine, Julian and Oscar’s attacks back to us, won’t get destroyed by that, but I bet it’s energy will be depleted, we just have to take it from those guy’s corpses… that is if there is anything left hahaha!”.

But then a voice coming from within the explosion made Egil’s laugh to stuck on his throat.

“You see Kana, always make sure your enemy is actually dead, so that you won’t look like a clown”.

Mylene’s pink Genesis Core manifested itself, and the explosion was cancelled in less than a second, revealing the golden giant armor whose side had reduced as well as its bright, but besides that it was perfectly fine and so were Aster and the girls.

Vivian had a frowned expression, not because of Egil’s betray, which was indeed a surprise as she didn’t see it coming, while she could see Joseph’s twisted intentions from the very beginning.

But because her body didn’t go crazy in what was a life and death moment, she turned to see Aster and her eyes glowed with a mix of different emotions, as she placed her hand on her chest, at the place where her heart is positioned.

‘So, you knew he wouldn’t have let me die’, she thought.

“Impossible, those were two attacks from Law Integration cultivators, and that brat doesn’t have the protection of the Twin Sword Valley here!”, shouted Egil, with a twisted face.

Aster snorted, it’s really hard for him to reach the point where he has to use the invincibility of the golden armor, and he has had to use it twice in a matter of days.

‘I wonder if you bring misfortune, Esmeralda’, said Aster to the Emerald Whirlwind who turned out to be called Esmeralda.𝒐𝑣𝐞𝗅xt.𝒸𝐎𝑚

‘Humph, says the one who got himself hit by a tribulation lightning in a spirit formation’, the Emerald Whirlwind had gone from zero to one hundred a few seconds ago, she nearly used her all to protect Kana, just to notice she wasn’t worried in the minimum.