it didn''t take aster and the others too much to reach the next battlefield, in which camila and felicia were fighting, or more accurately the battlefield in which those two were beating a void manipulation spirit beast to a pulp.

seeing the place filled with golden metal spikes coming from below the ground and also perfectly defined pieces of missing land, aster chuckled.

the beast those two chose was the one from the mammal army, in this case it was a bear of around one hundred meters of size, with each step it made the ground tremble and in terms of sheer physical strength it was the best among the four void manipulation spirit beasts.

unlike the snake aster and the others fought, the bear had more mass, its body was massive and it was incredibly imposing, but that was before, right now it was collapsing on the ground, there were tons of huge golden spears piercing its body, including a one hundred meter one which pierced its chest.

but that wasn''t all, besides the part of its body that made it look like a porcupine, the other side of its body seemed to have been gnawed at by some kind of fierce beast, there were a lot of missing parts of its fur, skin and meat.

aster who was carrying aria like a princess, descended from the sky next to the now corpse of the bear, where camila and felicia were casually chatting.

"didn''t you tell me that your spears had a hard time piercing a defense type genesis core, so how come you could easily bypass the hide of the bear and made holes in its internal organs?", suspiciously said felicia.

"i could ask the same, wasn''t your innate ability lacking a bit to be able to fend off the attacks of the bear, then how come you made it retire each time it touched that black hole you created using your soul energy?", mumbled camilla.

their conversation was interrupted when they both noticed aster arriving, after exchanging a knowing gaze, camilla said.

"it''s a tie this time, but i will win next time".

"my daughter also uses a spear, i won''t be defeated by a spear user easily", answered felicia, then the two of them giggled and approached aster.

as if they weren''t in the middle of a heated discussion a second ago, they looked at aria who was resting in aster''s arms, with suspicion filled eyes.

"was the snake so easy to defeat that you even took your time to flirt with little aria?", jokingly said felicia, thanks to her energy constitution she could see the yang energy of aster aggressively moving inside of aria''s body as if it was saying "she is mine", while aria''s calm yin energy was enveloping aster, gently soothing him.

aster chuckled in response feeling bad for eric, a mother that can always tell when her son has been in contact with a girl, is a living nightmare, not like he was any better, since lilia was always keeping an eye on him and alice, so she knew what they were doing all the time.

"aria is just a bit tired; she stalled the snake by herself for a total of ten seconds, we were only able to kill it so easily thanks to her", said aster as he gently caressed aria''s pretty face, making her giggle.

being in contact with aster was helping her recover from the oversensitive status caused by using her ice fairy form, so the more he was touched by him the faster she recovered, that''s in part why aster carried her like this.

camilla couldn''t help but look at aster and the others with surprise written all over her pretty face, she expected aster to have used his giant golden armor, but she couldn''t see traces of aura treasure on anything but his hands, meaning he just cladded his hands with the armor.

"you killed the snake without using your golden armor?", she asked with a curious voice, that question also made felicia curiously looked at him.

as aster was about to tell those two how the fight went, a seventy-meter sparrow with very few feathers left in its body was brought down from the sky by and landed next to the corpse of the bear.

at the same time, agnes who was lifting a pair of giant black green sickles with her left hand and a ten-meter beast core with her right hand, arrived next to them.

"they say that out of the three formation points, two are being besieged by the spirit beasts which cut the connection creating the eclipse by controlling the moons thanks to yin chain links which were absorbed by them".

"and since they have seen we possess a yang chain link, and can use it, they want to invite us to the remaining central point to discuss the possibility of working together, whether we go with them or not, they promise to not attack us as long as we don''t attack them, but they won''t help us too".

aster raised an eyebrow, apparently this time he did meet a plant who has gained wisdom, which isn''t that uncommon in the divine firmaments from which this secret realm descends.

''an enemy of an enemy is an ally huh'', he thought, there is only one problem here, will the trees sit still when they realize he is planning to take the glacial liger and collapse this place.

there is a high chance that both the trees and the spirit beasts end up being his enemies, but for that same reason this chance to go to one of the main points of the formation, which also a base of some kind for the trees, without having to fight a way to it, is quite tempting.

if he deems the trees to be an obstacle, he can kill the conscience with annihilation and then take over the control with eris''s help.

"how can i trust what they say?", asked aster to eris, to which the root answered in runes, which eris then read.

"soul oath, it says it will make a soul oath to not attack us unless it is provoked, anything past that will depend on whether we want to help or not".

aster nodded, the tree isn''t stupid, it probably deemed aster to be dangerous to have as an enemy, so it''s trying to woo him in to its side, at the very least it is willing to ignore his presence and let him do as he please as long as he doesn''t attack the trees.

"fine, tell it i accept to visit the main point of the formation", said aster.

eris nodded and then the tree root lit up, the strange scene of a plant doing a soul oath took the girls by surprise, aster''s eyes changed into those of a dragon as he made sure that they weren''t being tricked.

since the oath was true, then aster gave the greenlight and eris dispelled the yang barrier, he kept the chain link in the mind space just in case the trees tried to play come tricks, also the girls remained together, at the first sign of hostility they will retaliate with lethal force.

the tree root then guided aster and the girls through the path that the trees opened, the trees on the edge were numerous but they were relatively weak compared to the magic beasts.

but as they deepened into the path that opened for them, the number of trees diminished but the aura they were exuding increased, they were all radiating small quantities of yang energy to keep the yin spirit beasts aways.

though it seemed like there were still numerous trees, there were just a few whose branches and secondary bodies, filled the area, but they were a sole entity.

the scenery remained the same for around half an hour, until they finally reached an open space, well open in every direction but above, he finally understood why the treetop was a dome-like structure, what lied ahead of them was a castle surrounding a huge tree that reached the sky, its top was connected to the rest of the crystal trees, forming the dome.

camila''s eyes glowed, she pointed at the highest part of the tree as she said.

"aster, i can feel a similar but stronger treasure to that chain link there!".

aster nodded, he could see the insane amount of yang gathered in that area, that huge tree was supplying yang to the rest of the forest now that the two of the suns were blocked by the moons.

''oh, so each central point is linked to one of the suns'', he thought.