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n617 Felicia’s intangible gauntlets & Alexandra’s reflection armor (part 5)

n‘A girl with a strong personality but a cute shy side, lucky you darling~’, said Lilia from within the mind space as she saw Alexandra isolating herself from the outside world.

nAster limited to chuckle, despite Lilia’s positive words, the jealousy behind her voice was palpable, Camila just joined them officially not too long ago and that possessive mother of his still hasn’t gotten over it, though Camila has yet to stay with them.

nFelicia also found the previous scene rather amusing, she giggled and then jumped out of the rock where she was sitting, landing a couple of meters away from Aster.

n“How about we take our “date” some distance away from here, since a certain someone forgot to add a layer of spirit energy to her barrier, to prevent us soul path cultivators from basically see through it”, jokingly said Felicia.

n“Ahhhh!”, a startled shout came from within the black spherical barrier, where Alexandra was hiding her red face from earlier, before a thick layer of dark gray spirit energy covered the thing, blocking Felicia’s spirit sense from seeing through it, of course that only happened because she wasn’t really trying to spy on her.

nIt’s worth mentioning that Aster didn’t see Alexandra’s embarrassed face, as he had already focused on Felicia.

n“Sure, your time your choice”, said Aster, the two of them then floated towards the east, leaving the previous area for Alexandra.

nWhile they were flying, Aster couldn’t help but notice the curiosity shinning on Felicia’s eyes.

n“You are going to burn a hole through my back if you keep looking at me like that, you know”, he said.

nFelicia chuckled, she skillfully made a few turns on the air, courtesy of the telekinesis she learned thanks to her soul cultivation, positioning herself in front of Aster, sitting cross-legged while facing him, of course she didn’t stop advancing.

n“It’s just a silly question of mine, perhaps because the situation is different than when Tia tagged along in our previous date, but I noticed that besides that teasing bad habit of yours, you purposely try to anger some of us, the ones that aren’t your lovers if I must say, why?”, she asked.

n‘For being a rather carefree person, she surely pays attention to the small details’, thought Aster.

n‘Humph, more like she pays attention to you, darling’, mumbled Lilia, Aster scratched the back of his head, as he said.

n“Dragonkin can develop many different special traits, most are of course battle oriented, but among them there is one that only male dragonkin who are highly talented in the energy path and dual cultivation, can awaken, “Mystery”, basically it makes the ones who obtain it, more attractive for women by adding a certain aura around them, normally this is tied to one’s cultivation meaning that for it to work the target must not be too strong or it could not only be resisted but also noticed and taken as an offense by the other party…”, Aster stopped there for a second before continuing.

n“However, in my case this isn’t tied to my cultivation but to my yang energy, and as you probably have already noticed, just being radiated by my yang is beneficial for you, so this “Draconic Charm” isn’t perceived as an attack unlike “Mystery” so it can’t be resisted passively, unless the other party has an equally strong yin energy”.

nYin and yang energies are a whole separated thing from spirit energy, besides using some rare resources like yin and yang accumulation crystals or similar stuff, the only way to increase them is either having been born with a body constitution oriented to it, or being a dual cultivator and for the latter there is a limit as to how much it can be increased.

n“This is actually something that I share with my mother, since she has a similar problem, however while yin by nature is stealthy, yang is the complete opposite so while my mother has the incredible ability to keep her real “self” hidden for others, I have no choice but to show off whether I like it or not”.

n“To prevent annoying situations, I completely ignore girls with whom I’m not planning to relate at all to reduce the impact I have on them, for my lovers there is no problem as this only affects those who don’t have strong feelings for me already, but for allies and friends with whom I’m bound to interact often… well, I have to make them experience some small doses of negative feelings from time to time to not accidentally influence their mindsets”, he said.

nLet alone Alexandra who was spying on their conversation, while believing that those two didn’t notice it, even Felicia was surprised to the point that she forgot to keep flying and she nearly bumped into Aster, luckily the latter reacted in time to stop a few centimeters away from her.

nAs if a movie was rewound, the gray-haired mother remembered all the interactions that Aster has had with her daughter and the others who aren’t his lovers, he had to take such measures into account and yet they didn’t seem planned at all.

n“This is in part why I took a couple of years to train back at the planet where I was born, until I learned how to keep this under control, luckily Aria is not only resistant to it since she has a yin type body constitution but she could tell if my yang was being naughty”, he jokingly added.

nIt took Felicia a moment to process everything, she couldn’t help but admire the playful façade that the dragon youth put in front of everyone, not letting the others realize the effort he put in order to obtain real friends.

n‘Someone who despite being able to obtain everything he wished handed to him the easy way, decided otherwise, no wonder you even got that unruly girl to be interested in you’, she thought but then another doubt surged.

n“Mm, now I just wonder why didn’t you tell them about it, I’m pretty sure they would understand it, you even got that stubborn daughter of mine to get along with you after all?”, she said to which Aster bitterly smiled.

n“It’s not like I am especially hiding it, more like you are the first to ask about it, that being said, I wouldn’t stoop as low as to want them to feel moved by something that should have been like that from the very beginning, and just like a certain someone who is spying on us while hiding inside that black spherical barrier, I despise those who mistreat their close ones over benefits”.

nFelicia nodded satisfied by Aster’s answer, she then flew away at high speed while inviting him to follow her, not without thinking.

n‘I guess that if someone had to have those dangerous eyes, you would be the best choice’.

nOblivious to that, Aster followed behind only for him to be obstructed by an invisible barrier put by Felicia’s telekinesis out of nowhere, forcing Aster to maneuver midair to avoid it, it was that or being forcefully dragged into an air bag created by the attraction property of her soul energy.

nAster heard Felicia giggle at him from far ahead, she took the chance to put some distance between them.

n“I heard from Tia that you used a “peculiar” telekinesis with her, so I wanted to see it for myself, also a bit of payback for playing with a young maiden’s heart~”, she said.

nAster chuckled in response, his pupils turned into vertical ones and he was now able to see the mined field that Felicia has created all over the air, Felicia was one hard tricky opponent to take by surprise, anything affected by her soul energy would drag anything that has spirit energy towards it, and spirit sense does include spirit energy, so trying to detect her with it, would only alert her of your presence and also would be a waste of spirit energy, since your spirit sense would be distorted.

nLuckily Aster’s eyes could achieve a similar but more detailed result as spreading spirit sense, with the difference that his range was more reduced, unless he combined both, but for this little obstacle game with Felicia there was no need for that.

nAster focused his sight on Felicia’s figure, then an invisible hand made out of telekinesis extended out of his body, aiming at her right foot, at the same time he accelerated towards her while zig zagging to avoid all the traps she left behind.

nOf course, the now black-haired Felicia as she had used her innate ability, heard Aster increasing his flight speed, so she did the same or more accurately she tried to, before she suddenly felt a firm hand grabbing her right ankle before she was pulled backwards.

n“Ahhh!”, a startled exaggerated shout echoed through the air, making Aster who was about to reach her, stop in cold wondering if he maybe pulled on her feet with too much strength, only to see Felicia mockingly smile at him, her hand which was cladded in her soul condensed black clawed gauntlet, flashed towards her ankle and actually severed his soul energy which was holding onto her.

n“You won’t have it as easy as with Tia~”, she playfully said as she dived downwards, landing on the ground, leaving a slightly baffled Aster behind, she actually feigned that scream to interrupt his chase and also finished the race earlier thus claiming the “victory” in this little game, sure it was cheating but a win was a win.

n‘Well, just like her attribute and innate ability she is certainly as opposite compared to Tiana as one can be’, thought Aster as he descended, landing in front of the victoriously smiling Felicia.

n“Was that shout necessary, you would have won anyway?”, asked Aster to which Felicia shrugged in response.

n“Well, you seemed rather amused by my startled self when I tried my body cultivation method with the water that had your refined blood on it back then, soo~ a little revenge was in place”, she confidently said.

nAster cleared his throat, back then he chose not to be too specific about the secondary effect of using his refined blood for body cultivation, he did tell them that there would some “discomfort” but not where or what kind of discomfort it would be.

nUltimately, he raised his hands in defeat.

n“Fine, you win…”, Aster changed his apologetic voice and expression to a playful one midway to then add.

n“But you know that while Alexandra stopped actively spying on us, she has sharp enough ears to listen to that strange voice of earlier, I wonder what did she think about it”.

n“Gah!”, Felicia who as laughing at Aster a second ago, nearly choked on the spot, she put all her attention on besting Aster for a change, that she actually forgot that they weren’t alone in this planetoid.

nA faint reddish tone flashed on her cheeks as she realized that a girl not that older than Tiana, had listened to her make such an embarrassing voice, she knew that Aster would absolutely not tell a soul about it, just like he kept hers and Tiana’s reaction to cultivating their bodies with his blood, but Alexandra was a whole separate matter.

n‘I’ll have to have a chat with that girl before we leave…’, she thought, after taking a deep breath she regained her cool to then say.

n“Humph, bad losers aren’t popular with women you know!”.

nAster shrugged in response.

n“Well, “a little revenge was in place” was it?”, he said.

nFelicia softly snorted at her words being used against her, she decided to leave this grudge for later and instead crossed her arms below her chest before saying.

n“Anyway, what did that dangerous mind of yours ideated for my “first” date?”.

nAster inwardly chuckled at Felicia changing the subject after being cornered by him, but he decided to leave it at that, since there were much more urgent matters to tend to.

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n“I did plan something for you; however, you seemed rather interested in my telekinesis earlier, so are you sure you want to start without asking what’s in your mind?”.

nFelicia mumbled a few things but ultimately, curiosity won her.

n“Tia told me about how you obtained that strange soul energy capable of things that should only be possible for Soul Kings, I want you to teach me that just like you did for her”, she said.

nAster raised an eyebrow, synchronizing one’s mind and body wasn’t enough to obtain the advanced version of telekinesis he achieved, otherwise it would have been discovered by anyone some time ago, he was sure that it was related to the soul constitution he obtained thanks to Sarina becoming a Star Maiden.

nBut Felicia should know that already, if Tiana told her what happened during their date, she should be aware that it was something unique to him.

n“If that’s what you want for your date sure, but unlike Tia you don’t need to learn how to control your impulses, in fact you already know about mind and body synchronization, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to keep up with my parallel thinking, so besides practice and inspiration there isn’t much I can do for you in that aspect”, he said.

nJust like Alexandra, Felicia is currently flawless, meaning that she is as strong as possible in her current realm

/understanding, so she would have to learn

/discover something new

/different for that to change, Aster was prepared for that, just like how he did for Alexandra but Felicia instead asked him to help her learning something she already knows, which he found strange.

n“Mm I guess given how many outrageous things you have told us earlier, some small boring secrets from an old woman like me wouldn’t pick your curiosity”, she said with an exaggeratedly dramatic voice.

nAster limited to nod as if completely agreed with her declaration, which of course earned him a soft snort from Felicia.

n“Tsk, where is the playful Aster when you need it”, she mumbled, to then change her expression to a serious one.

n“As you already know, despite not being energy path cultivators, me and Tia require spirit energy with a high purity by innate, to be able to improve realm-wise due to our constitutions, until the Earthly realms it was still possible to somewhat trick this restriction by continuously refining what we absorbed into our dantians, through multiple rounds of meditation, but that trick only works until the peak of the Star Tribulation”.

n“I searched through many Star Clusters and a couple of nearby Stellar Systems in person and even consulted informants whose networks reached faraway Stellar Systems even in other Heavenly Quadrants, and while I heard about some really rare places where spirit energy purer than what normally circulates on the atmosphere, could be found, they of course were all claimed by strong families or forces, the point is that there were confirmed places, rumors and a lot of stories about them”.

n“But not even once did I hear about a treasure, inheritance, resource or even evil art that could let alone eliminate, loosen up this damn restriction up and then… you appeared in front of us, Tia still can’t read spirit energy, she just learned how to truly control herself with your help after all, but even when I could do it, I mistakenly thought that you would be able to help us because spirit energy acted different around you, maybe because you could refine it and still made it pass as “natural” with those blue flames”.

n“Turns out that wasn’t the case, mere proximity with you brings positive changes to me and Tia, for example that “Dragon Slayer” technique she learned with your help, I have fulfilled the same requirements as her since a long time ago and yet, I am unable to take the last step or more accurately there isn’t a next step without your intervention”, she said.

nAster’s eyes shone for a second, the very moment Felicia finished that explanation, her flawless state shattered, which came accompanied by her smiling to then add.

n“And now there it is, the same sensation I had when we first met”.

nAster was lost in his thoughts for a moment, back then he didn’t have his dragon eyes so it is impossible for him to know what was Felicia’s state that time, however based on what he witnessed, it should have been the case.

n‘Why the strange restrictions, is it similar to Kana being put in dangerous situations by the damn Heavenly Law, as punishment due to proximity with spirit energy?’, he wondered.

nIt’s worth mentioning that said problem with the little girl, stopped after she met him, Robert was the last idiot that Kana had to face alone.

n“And here I was going to investigate that strange inner universe of yours to create an advance flaw for you, but you made one yourself so I guess this time you don’t need my help…”, Aster’s words were interrupted by Felicia

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