Chapter 581 Alice’s tail (part 3)


    "Booom!", a loud explosion echoed through the vast scalding sky of Breren, the where Aster had taken Alice, since there she could go as wild as she liked, without any real consequence.


    Or that was supposed to be the case, until the fight started, what do you think will happen when two forces of extreme opposites but equal strength sh, the answer is quite easy they will cancel yes, but that doesn''t mean that the surroundings won''t be affected through the process.


    As a proof of it, Aster''s Paragon body which focuses on defense, against Alice''s paragon body which focuses on offense, have not received any damage after they have been shing for around twenty minutes.


    But the nearby area has be a disaster zone, with fire filling the sky, huge irregr craters on the ground, strong fiery gusts of wind whistling everywhere and even magma seeping out of the cracks on the ground.


    ''Luckily this was inhabited when it was found, so the only people thate here are from the sect, even the city stablished by the Red Sword faction is just a small settlement'', thought Aster as he dodged Alice''s punch, just to see that she actually produced a wind current from her fist, which impacted on the ground a secondter.


    "You were never too attached to the sword, though mom made you train andprehend the first level of intent, right sis?", asked Aster as he stopped Alice''s right leg from kicking his waist by raising his own leg to take the hit.


    "ng!", the sound of metals colliding as well as sparks and zes exploded due to the impact, the wild smile on Alice''s face widened, she was really enjoying this, though she hadn''t gone out of control, it was a strange state between what would be her usual self and being overtaken by her dragon instincts.


    Alice graciously flew back to take a bit of distance from Aster, her tail was waving as a proof of how much fun she was having, she stretched her sexy body to then say.


    "Well, it''s not like I don''t appreciate the sword as a weapon, mom did her best to prepare me for what she thought was going to happen when we grew due to the Drage family… but then you changed everything~", she yfully said.


    Alice''s training started ever since she hadplete use of reason and could walk, talk and wield a sword without any problem, which was when she was around two years old, it might sound like she was too young, but again they aren''t exactly humans, but dragonkin.


    And during their childhood, their bodies would develop at a faster ratio than that of humans, well, not all of them, only those with a rtively high blood concentration, so that trait is seen as a proof of one''s lineage, and in fact it is rted to dragon''s nature, most dragon races are warlike so they can''t be defenseless for too long if they want to survive, quite an interesting evolutionary trait.


    With Aster, Lilia waited until he was five before starting his training, in part because she believed that his body needed more time to fully stabilize, though Aster never showed any weakness, he not onlycked both the ck hair and red eyes, but his growth was like that of a normal human at first.


    That being said, Aster changed after he went through his awakening ceremony, he did not obtain the traits of the Drage, but after that period of meditation in which he formed his soul idol, he grew taller and started looking older than his age.


    And after that he became an exception even among the Drage, since not too long after his tenth birthday, his body changed to that of someone in his seventeen, and nothing changed for him until not too long ago when he obtained his dragon eyes, which made him grow a couple of centimeters taller, not to mention that his gold blood increased and the brightness of the red one did so too.


    Alice on the other hand did follow the regr pattern at the beginning, which meant she appeared to be around three years older than her current age, ording to Lilia that trait will stop once she reached her eighteenth birthday, but she experienced the same as Aster, and her appearance hadn''t changed at all after she turned thirteen, in other words, the same year when Aster grew.


    Which is why Alice says that she grew to fit his likings, as a joke since their growth seems to be linked, just like their lineages are, as a proof of it, though she won''t be "bigger" like Lilia when she manifested her tail, she did grow taller after obtaining it.


    Aster chuckled at Alice''s words, he was conscious ever since he came to this world, so he does remember seeing the three-year-old Alice being trained by Lilia, and he does remember that sister of hisining with him whenever their mother wasn''t looking.


    Back then Lilia''s spirit sense was too weak to even cover the Wolfstein castle, so she actually didn''t know of their little interactions, it was only during the period of meditation Aster took, where she recovered to a rtively good level, which is why she allowed him to venture outside, though she did lie about her range, as she was able to cover the whole at that point.


    That''s why Alice said that everything changed thanks to Aster, it did, not only figuratively since Lilia became much warmer, but also literally, how could those two not notice the changes they underwent and the fact that they started after Aster''s awakening ceremony.


    "Yeah, thanks to you, the "wall" that was pressing down on mom and me became nothing but a pebble on the way, you gave us the freedom to do whatever we wanted~", cutely said Alice.


    "It took me quite a bit to realize it but… I won''t chase after mom again, I''ll catch up to her following my own path", mumbled Alice, which made Aster smile.


    Having a role model isn''t a bad thing, as long as it is used only toy down the basics, whates next shouldn''t be copied from others, otherwise one bes a degraded imitation.


    Of course, that was never Lilia''s intention, mother and daughter had many simrities and yet they were also quite different from each other, Lilia is elegant and bewitching normally, then she bes terrifying when she needs to which usually is rted to Aster, she incarnates the violence of the dragons quite well.


    Alice on the other hand is aggressive and rebellious on a daily basis, then when ites to Aster, she bes tamer and lovely, so for hersciviousness it is, of course it''s not only because of her dragon lineage, she likes to be dominated by Aster and only by him.


    That doesn''t mean they can''t be the other, in fact they both are pretty muchscivious and violent, so it''s not easy to notice the difference, but Aster knows them better than anyone, so he can tell.


    "I guess I finally realized why the manifestation of my star turned out to be an armor, don''t people say that the best defense is a good offense~", she said, her armor shone in a dazzling golden light which Aster easily recognized.


    "That is…", Aster''s sentence had to be stopped, as he saw Alice''s armor changing once again, small red scale-like pieces appeared all over it giving it a sharp and threatening appearance.


    It was slightly simr to what happened when Aster changed the focus of the golden armor when it was in its giant state, by adding annihtion to it, but in Aster''s case he lost the capacity to defend in exchange, unless he used annihtion to erase the iing attacks of course.


    But for Alice, she never had the capacity to protect others, the armor protected her but she couldn''t efficiently use the golden light to extend the protection to others like Aster did, at most she could cover one or two people while Aster could basically use the same extension as he could expand the armor, since for him the armor was originally big, before he learnedpression which was Alice''s natural state.


    "You know, when I said that I grew thanks to your love I wasn''t joking, this idea came to me after I became aware of your soul energy which was sealed in my tail, I wondered why swords aren''t my thing, and the answer I came up to, is that… they aren''t destructive enough to my liking~".


    Aster''s eyes widened a bit as he saw the golden light radiated by Alice''s armor, return to her body, the red sharp scales where then covered by curve short des which were created with her first used his own punch to intercept hers, but the result was different this time.


    level sword intent, in other words she distributed her ghost sword in many des that were part of her armor.


    Alice''s image shed the next second, which made Aster abruptly turn around just to see Alice''s fist approaching him, he once again used his own punch to intercept hers, but the result was different this time.


    "Booom!", the result was that a shockwave was produced by the impact, the usual, but the problem is that this time Aster was forced backwards, until he basically crashed against the ground.


    Aster whose body had sank into the hard rock ground, looked upwards and contemted what Alice just did, he wasn''t wounded at all, but she still managed to overpower him and make him fly downwards.


    Alice let her body fall from the sky,nding on top of Aster, she was now sitting on his stomach with an amused expression on her pretty face.


    "Why did you add your sword intent to not use it?", he asked at Alice who giggled in response.


    "I prefer how the armor looks when I do it, besides I need to save something to impress you in the next mission, otherwise Sarina will monopolize you~".


    Aster inwardly sighed, at the end of the day no matter how much she changes, that wild sister of his will always be the Alice he knows and loves.


    "To think the golden light of your armor changed from protection to attack, I blocked the impact but the strength still sent me flying, I can sh head on against a Genesis Manifestation with the armor without being moved at all, you know", said Aster.


    That''s right, Alice''s armor has changed the property of the light it can radiate, from being a protective mean to be an attacking mean, it was that same light what made Aster be blown away by the impact.


    Naturally, that light has a limit of usage and it consumes stamina as it is an extension ability of the Paragon body, which is a body constitution, but the result is amazing, and that''s not the end of it.


    ''I obtained things in a different order, the invincibility, light protection,pression, the armor boosting effects andstly expansion, if I look at it, they are all rted to defense one way or another, while Alice followed an order that fitted offensive the best, then what will happen when she obtains the offensive version of… invincibility'', thought Aster.


    The Paragon body allowed him to block attacks regardless of realm for ten seconds, back then Alessia managed to pressure him through the invincibility, but that was before the golden body became the Paragon body, now Aster could estimate that Alessia''s attack that time, was on par with a Heavenly realm, because he has experienced an attack of simr strength from Lilia, the difference is that the invincibility this time fully protected him.


    In fact, he hadn''t found the limit of damage that can be nullified, on the other hand Lilia hasn''t gone all out against him, not only because she hasn''t fully recovered but because she is afraid of actually hurting Aster, though he is thinking on a solution for that.


    Anyway, what will happen for Alice, will she be able to wound enemies ignoring everything else… it''s something worth looking up for, because even annihtion is reduced by erasing matter or spirit energy until it disappears.


    "Well, I needed to obtain a good offense of I wanted to be the one that betterplements you~", she yfully said as she leaned down to kiss Aster just to pout when her lips were separated from Aster''s by a thinyer of golden light, not allowing her to get a taste of her beloved brother.


    "Hey that''s not fair!", she eximed.


    Her tail angrily waved before it was smashed against the ground, making a huge crater appear while countless pieces of debris were sent flying all over the ce, followed by the crater filling withva.


    Aster chuckled at Alice''s childishin, there was no ground below them anymore, he was floating on top of the moltenva, but showed no problem with that, as he raised his arm to caress Alice''s pretty face by rubbing her cheek with his thumb.


    "Mm~", Alice enjoyed Aster''s caresses but unfortunately it didn''tst long before Aster said.


    "Okay, enough reward for now, you can keep whatever intent you might be working on a secret, but I want to see how much strength can my Alice you produce with her armored tail", jokingly said Aster as he flew out of theva with Alice who wrapped her tail around him, following.


    "Grrrrr~", Alice softly growled at Aster, trying to imitate her dragon instincts self, in a try to trick Aster so he would "suppress" her, but Aster only smirked in response.


    "Dragon eyes, remember, maybe it would have worked before though, you certainly gained more control over your dragon lineage", he said.


    "Humph, fine… but you better give me lots and lots of love after that", mumbled Alice after she realized her n was seen through.


    Aster softlyughed as he took some distance from Alice, this was going to be thest sh, not only because Alice "needs" have to be taken care off, but because they had actually caused quite a bit of destruction.


    And while Aster didn''t really care about the Red Sword faction causing a fuss over it, this was used by Iris for training, so he didn''t want to cause permanent damage to it either.


    "My tail hits different now so don''t take it lightly, mom will kill me if I were to harm my little brother~", yfully said Alice as her body exploded in golden light which was then injected into the armor that covered her tail.


    Aster grinned, he followed Alice''s example and released the protective golden light of his armor, preparing to take the attack head on, technically the Star Maidens couldn''t harm Aster, nor he could harm them, but it was a flexible rule.


    If both parties allowed it, they could harm the other, but never kill each other, it was made like that for these kinds of scenarios, after all a fight without any emotion won''t be beneficial for a cultivator and it''s not like they would fatally wound each other, at most some scratches and cuts will be the result.


    However, the pain caused will be there, though nothing has happened in the spars, this was different, they were really going tounch a serious attack against the other, limiting to use only their physical bodies.


    The next second Alice shed, just her movement caused an explosion as a proof of the momentum she carried for her next attack, she reappeared above Aster, her body rolled on the air as she descended as if she was going to use an axe kick, but her legs weren''t involved, instead her tail shed down shing against Aster''s chest, which was the most protected area.


    "Booooom!", the ground below of them exploded just by the shockwave, but that wasn''t all, the golden light released by Alice''s tail, made a clean cut that dived into the ground for who knows how many meters, before magma flooded the newly created crater.


    That being said, the magma couldn''t erupt out of the crater, because of the pressure caused by the sh of those two, sparkles flew all over the ce and even electricity crackled at the ce where Alice''s tail and Aster''s armor were colliding.


    Aster could feel his body being slightly pushed downwards as the sh continued, the magma which was trying toe up to the surface was actually forced to return due to the impact, it was as if a pair of giants were shing.


    This continued until the light emitted by both of their armors diminished, which was around two minutes after the sh started, they both de-activated their armors in unison and Aster who had a perverted smile grabbed Alice by her tail to drag her into his embrace.


    "Uhhh~", Alice seemed to have lost all her strength as she entered her beloved brother''s embrace while giving him puppy eyes.


    "Well, it seems that even if you managed to pushed me backwards, the real winner is me", jokingly said Aster as he pressed his lips against Alice''s.


    ''I can never really go "against" you after all~'', thought Alice as she wrapped both her legs and tail around Aster, who allowed their bodies to fall into theva.


    Their figures were engulfed by the bright molten rock leaving no traces of them behind, which was for the good as theirst sh caught the attention of the few people who were not exactly near, but they felt the rumble caused by their fight.


    But by the time they arrived they could only see the destruction and the river ofva, they tried to use their spirit sense but due to theva they couldn''t bypass even the first two hundred meters, so they ultimately left, they didn''t feel any increase in the nearby spirit energy so it''s not like a treasure had appeared or anything, it was probably something caused by a tremor.


    Unaware to them, there was a pair of dragon siblings lewdly entangling at the depths of the river ofva, causing the constant waves that seemed to be produced by the boiling molten rock.