The rise of the pervert primordial

Seeing Blair holding onto the dagger as if it was her baby, Aster knew what the answer to the “deal” he offered to her was, and that signaled the mark of the end of the lesson, still, while he was taking off the safety equipment, he didn’t forget to say.

“There are still a couple of hours before sleeping time, so before bathing, crush the ore to make piles of four kilograms each and lit up the furnaces that I’ll bring, you can leave your iron in them and let it be processed through the night, the ones on watch duty will help you remove them from the bloomery”.

“The rest of the process will continue tomorrow, because it will be too late into the night for hammer noises, also go to sleep early, because we’ll begin our day early as well”.

This was a good idea to gain time, though the cleaning process will have to wait until tomorrow, the bloom can be left to cool down some hours before being heated up when needed, without any problem.

Aster decided to ask them to prepare their blooms beforehand, because while he basically finished a dagger in less than two hours and he purposedly slowed down his pace since it was a demonstration, not to mention that half an hour was used for the heat treatment since the steel had to cool down, that’s because he has a lot of experience in mortal blacksmithing.

The expected time he has for those girls is of around four hours to complete a batch of their works, before the ones in the main role change with the ones assisting for a second batch, meaning that their total forging time will be of eight hours.

The idea was for the senior disciples to work in a third batch after taking a break for lunch, to make use of all the day properly, while the younger ones who will of course be spent by that point to just assist and work in the finishing details like sharpening, polishing and wrapping the leather to the handle for a better grip.

Also, since all the girls watched his lesson, just removing the bloom from the furnace won’t pose any problem for the ones on duty even if they aren’t members of the blacksmith peak.

“Okay and thanks for the lesson, senior brother~”, they said in unison, to which Aster nodded before turning to see Erick, Cayden and the other guys from the Wanderer sect.

“Lend me a hand to bring the furnaces faster”, he said to which those guys nodded, that was going to be their last task of the day.

And while they walked towards the exchange monolith and before Alice’s stare burned a hole through his back, Aster said.

“You can go ahead, once I finish here, I’ll catch up with you”, all this while he stole a gaze at Camila who coughed a couple of times as she approached Kana.

“Ahem, today there will be a slumber party so how about we bath with sister Mylene and the others”, said the treasure girl who agreed to be Aster’s accomplice earlier, since she wasn’t brave enough to remain in the room to “watch and learn”, about night life, yet.

“Mm~”, Kana cutely nodded, for her this was the best outcome, she got to play with her big sisters and after that she can cuddle with her big brother to sleep.

“Hisss~”, the little wyrm which was making company to the lynx alongside Kana, also signed up for the fun and speaking of Guardian, she who was enjoying the aftertaste of the delicious human food which she ate for the first time in her life, was stopped from leaving towards the lake to wash herself by the little girl.

“Come with us sister Guardian, Espi and me will help you wash~”, said Kana as she invited the lynx to tag along, though Guardian was a bit weirded out by the idea, since she enjoyed human food, she thought of giving it a try to a human bath, so she didn’t resist and allowed the little girl to drag her towards the log cabin.

“Bathing with a snake and a lynx, that has to be a first even for Heavenly Quadrant level”, said Lieze to which, Nerissa and Iris nodded agreeing with her.

“It’s still not the weirdest thing that has happened around here though”, added Tiana, making Vivian giggle.

While those girls went to the room at the left side of the log cabin and Alice, Aria and Sarina went to the room at the right side, Aster alongside Erick, Cayden and the others started moving around the furnaces that Aster bought from the exchange monolith to the area where the temporary smithy was.

The total hematite which was the iron ore that the girls from the sect will be making their first works in order to train for the higher quality magnetite, is of 80 kilograms, those girls had processed 3 kilograms beforehand and Aster used another 3 for the lesson, so 74 kilograms are left, and he told those girls to make piles of four kilograms, which means 18 piles of four kilograms and a single pile of two kilograms will be the result, so Aster bought 18 furnaces, since the one used by those girls was free now.

In other words, a total of 19 furnaces were now in the process of being filled with charcoal, while one was processing ore as of current, after saying his goodbyes to Erck and the others, Aster made one last stop to see how James did with the materials from the boar, in other words the leather and the tendons.

“The tendon is ready to be used, but the leather will have to wait until tomorrow evening, for it to be properly dried”, said James at Aster, it’s worth mentioning that he was already working with the ones obtained from today’s boars as well.

“Good work”, with that he was free and considering the gazes he could feel coming from the log cabin, Aster grabbed a bucket which contained a little surprise he had prepared for tonight and decided to head there without any delay, but before we get to that, let’s take a peek to Wade’s side, by returning in time for around five minutes before this point in time.

At the other side of the wall the scenery had surprisingly changed as well, as in more latrines had appeared on the borders of their camp, and that wasn’t all, there were now a more decent tents built for people to have proper rest, but while that sounded like something positive, that wasn’t the case as half the members of Wade’s side, which were laying down with pale faces, suggested.

The reason is simple and it’s also why now there were a decent number of baths and resting places, they got sick due to what they ate yesterday.

“Are you bastards trying to kill us or what!”, exclaimed one of the two relatives of Iris’s cousin as he put a wet cloth on the forehead of his brother who was laying down with a weakened expression.

In case it’s needed to be explained, the latrines were built because all those whose stomachs couldn’t handle the meat from the boars, both had to both vomit and evacuate many times during the day.

Which resulted in half of the camp not being able to let alone accomplish any mission, but even move around without the need to rush to the bathroom, on the bright side they had no desire to eat and simply limited to drink a lot of water though.

As to whom the one of the two brothers that didn’t get sick, was yelling at, it was one of the mercenaries that took on the mission of cooking yesterday.

“What, we did nothing wrong, if that wasn’t the case everyone would be sick, those guys probably have weaker stomachs and since it’s their first time eating wild meat, they got sick, the rest of us only had some small discomfort the past night and that was it”, said the mercenary.

The real reason of why some people got sick and others didn’t was cross-contamination, some of the people committed the mistake of washing the raw meat and bacteria from it, spread in their vicinity, ending up in some of the plates.

“Enough, the meat was fine, the problem is that the water in this damn place doesn’t have spirit energy in it, so it didn’t help to cleanse the meat at all, probably some of it fell on the utensils we used to eat and that’s why people got sick”, said Wade.

“You better be thankful that it ended in just stomach problems for a day, if it wasn’t for the stomach-cleansing poison we elaborated, the symptoms would have lasted for three days at least”, added the representative from the Marsh Domain sect.

Even among mortals there is the misconception that washing raw meat is a good idea, so cultivators like those guys of course knew nothing about it, cross-contamination won’t happen for cultivators because washing up raw meat with water that contains spirit energy, does eliminate bacteria.

“And in any case, we needed more bathrooms and better tents anyway, let’s have only fish and fruit for today’s dinner to help our stomachs calm down and tomorrow we’ll deepen into the forest”, added Wade’s brother, the glasses guy, Albert as he gazed at Fawn who was in the middle of eating a fish grilled on a stick.

The bearded uncle-looking Otto was really good at fishing and he knew how to dry or smoke meat, so while Fawn accompanied by half of her subordinates collected fruit at the border of the forest, while using wood spears as weapons, Otto and company spent the day fishing.

The result was a harvest big enough for them to have two large servings for three meals of fish and fruit for the next two days, for ten people, or much moderate servings for two meals a day for around thirty people, as Albert calculated.

It might sound like a lot but that’s because Fawn and her group dedicated almost the whole day for it, they had the time to do so because they had a proper place to rest and a bathroom ready the first day.

“Ahem, little Fawn please share some of the food your group obtained, in exchange I’ll ask that mercenary contracted by the Marius family to make you a knife and a spear with the bones of the animals”, said Wade, trying to sound “magnanimous”, while thinking.

‘Damn it, I thought we would progress more when “nails” were added to the exchange monolith and we were given free boxes of them as the reward of the first day, but besides places to sleep, latrines and a couple of rafts as well as hunting down one of the animals that escaped and stayed at the border of the forest, we achieved nothing, if it wasn’t for that guy asking for the bones from me, we would have ended up using wood spears tomorrow’.

Apart from the guy the Marius family brought which obtained a good grade back at the road, there was an older mercenary who apparently was native of an an isolated town and learned how to carve tools from the bones of spirit beasts, from an elder of his town.

It was a primitive subdivision of the craftmanship profession, that nowadays is included in spirit blacksmithing, since the bones of spirit beasts can be used to make spirit treasures, but it requires a much more complex process than just carving them for the sake of formations and the usage of other materials needed to produce much more stable results, still, it ended up being valuable knowledge in here.

They had obtained a bunch of bones from the animals they slaughtered, so there was material to work with and luckily the tools needed for it, were also very basic and affordable from the exchange monolith.

Wade managed to extort a few bone weapons from the Marius family in exchange for the bones, which no one was originally paying attention to, because the representative from the Iron Hall was the one in charge of disposing of them.

“I don’t mind parting with the excess of food I have, but I wasn’t the only one that worked for it, so I would like to ask for a spear for each of my subordinates, as a bonus if you lend me one person to assist me tomorrow when we explore the forest, I’ll ask one of my subordinates to stay behind and teach a couple of people how to fish, besides uncle Otto who has to watch over me of course”, said the light brown haired potential princess.

The first part made Wade’s smile stiff a bit, but the second part eased him down, what Fawn was asking for was reasonable, she even offered to have one of her subordinates share the knowledge he had received from Otto, who outright refused their orders and requests.

‘Tsk, I wanted her to lend that bearded bastard to us, but I guess this is good enough, even one of those guys caught more than two times the number of fish four of us got, she only needs someone to carry stuff anyway’, thought Wade as he nodded.

“Deal, Albert and Bradley help the elders to distribute the dinner, let’s sleep early to get up early since we have to make up for the time we lost today”.

Amidst the conversation, a disgusted voice coming from one of the new tents, drew everyone’s attention.

“Agh, what the hell did you not take a bath since we were at that damn road or what!”, said a female elder from the Pleasure Palace as she stormed out of the tent with an angered face and slightly disheveled clothes, while a male elder with an ashamed expression followed after her.

“I cleaned myself properly earlier, besides you are not that much better, you just don’t notice it!”, said the male elder with an incensed voice as he felt the stares of all the other people in the camp, which as one would expect, earned him a slap from the female elder, who then left to the tent where she stayed with other female elders, with a displeased expression.

The previous made Wade nearly lose it, here he was squeezing his brains to make the camp improve and the male elders of the Pleasure Palace, were trying to convince the female elders of sleeping with them.

“Representatives from the Pleasure Palace, you’ll get a share of the food provided by us to help the sick members of your sect, but tomorrow you’ll be helping carry the backpacks, also tell your subordinates to keep some distance between each other, the rest of us have to sleep”, he said.

The male and female representatives had no choice but accept, though most of the female members of their sect didn’t get sick because they got to eat fish and fruit, thanks to the male elders that were trying to court them, they miserably failed at collecting food, because they didn’t dare to deepen enough into the border of the forest.

As for the male elders, the vast majority got sick due to a combination of both getting upset stomachs and the cross-contamination on the plates, so they were useless and the few that were lucky, wasted most of their time picking up flowers or trying to fish to impress the female elders, though one apparently succeeded, he failed at the last second.

Well, he would have failed even if he got past the undressing part, but for the explanation behind that we have to go back to the side from the Myriad Occupation sect.

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Back to the present, under that intense gaze coming from behind the wood wall, Aster entered the cabin log and walked into the room at the right side, “sealing” the entrance behind of him with the door.

Not even a second later he was tackled by a honey-brown flashing figure that then rubbed itself against Aster’s chest.

“Dear heavens, calm down a bit you, lewd dragon princess”, said Aria who accompanied by Sarina helped Aster get up from the ground, all this while Alice clung to Aster.

“Humph you say that, but I saw you rubbing your thighs earlier when you felt Aster coming our way~”, mockingly said the dragon princess, which made Aria’s face redden on the spot.

“I’ll make sure to spoil you to your heart’s content, so no fighting, okay?”, said Aster as he dragged Aria into his embrace as well to then peck the two of them.

“Mm~”, if there was something in which Alice and Aria will always agree, is that they love to be spoiled by Aster, so with a lovely voice they both nodded in response, Sarina didn’t want to be left aside so she boldly hugged Aster from behind, a position that is normally taken by Lilia in these kinds of situations by the way.

“Let’s clean ourselves first, since you three have been such good girls, I have a reward in storage for you”, said Aster as he grabbed the wood bucket which he had brought with him, and managed to place on the ground safely before Alice tackled him, the thing contained… stones and a tong.

Alongside those three Aster entered the bathroom and directly stopped them from undressing themselves.

“No, no, leave it to me, here your arms”, playfully said Aster as he stood behind Alice to then remove her blouse, since they couldn’t use clothes with formations in them, and given the current environment, of course no one wore dresses, all the girls in the group bought blouses and skirts with shorts under them, very much Tiana’s style, well without the armor pieces of course.

In a second, once Aster skillfully undid the hooks on the different sized and colored bras that those three were wearing and three beautiful naked backs that were half covered by their long hair which cascaded down their backs, stood in front of Aster.

Still as tempting as they looked, Aster focused in removing their remaining clothes one after another, before doing the same, to then hug Alice from behind.

“Mm~”, simple skin-to-skin contact was enough to make the dragon princess let out a comfortable sound, to which Aria and Sarina pouted, they knew that Alice had won the first turn, but that didn’t prevent them from being jealous of her.

“Look at what I got for you”, said Aster as he showed those three a small bottle which was hidden in the pocket of his pants which he had taken off.

“Is that, shampoo?”, asked the blond motherly woman, to which Aster nodded in response.

“Yeah, I asked Mylene to make some, using a bit of the rosemary and lavender we gathered, it’s not as good as I would like it to be, but it will work for the time being”, he said, soap was available but just like toothpaste, shampoo wasn’t.

While those three were curiously looking at the small bottle, Aster grabbed the wood bucket he brought with him and using the tongs he tossed some of the smooth and clean stones into the bathtub.

“Hssss!”, a bit steam was produced as the heat that was stored in the stones that Aster had put into the campfire earlier, was transferred into the water, yesterday there was no need to heat the water because the night wasn’t cold, but today the temperature showed signs of dropping a bit, also nothing better than a warm bath to relax, which was the idea Aster had for those three.

“Now ladies sit here”, said Aster as he pointed at the small bath benches in front of him, to which those three immediately obeyed, knowing what Aster’s intention was.

“Wuu~”, to Alice’s surprise, this time the first one to be tended to was Sarina, as Aster poured a bucket of lukewarm water on her, letting it flow down from her hair to the rest of her body, but before she could complain, Aster poured water on her too before following with Aria as well, he was planning to spoil the three of them at the same time!

Speaking of which, seeing Alice who was about to complain earlier, Aster smirked as he poured a bit of the shampoo on his hands to then tenderly apply it on Sarina’s blond hair.

“Looks like a certain someone has forgotten that parallel thinking is one of my strong points, so even without any energy, doing something like this while applying shampoo is nothing much”, he said as he extended his left hand towards Alice who was sitting in the middle of Sarina and Aria and strongly pressed his thumb up and down against the base of her nape.

“Nnngh!”, a cute sound escaped Alice’s lips “against” her will, as an easing sensation flowed down her back, all this while Aster gently applied the shampoo to Sarina’s hair with his right hand.

Ah right, in case you wonder, the previous was a purely “mortal” technique of massage, Aster perfectly knew all the sweet spots of his girls and he didn’t need spirit energy to stimulate them, if anything he did cheat because it was thanks to his eyes that he found which ones were the most effective on each girl, but that was it, all the rest was learned by him empirically.

The least naughty of them in Alice’s case, besides that cute scale at the end of her lower back which is the base of her tail, is at the base of her nape, which curiously is around the same area where the scale that signals the base of Lilia’s upper pair of wings is placed.

And since it’s the most innocent of Alice’s sensible spots, she didn’t expect him to go for it, which was the idea, after all what fun would it be in going for what that lewd sister of his, expected.

Seeing Alice slightly trembling due to the previous, Aria’s face reddened she knew it was her turn next, and she was right to feel like that, once Aster finished applying the shampoo to Sarina who was satisfied with the gentle treatment she got, Aster moved to do the same for Alice, apparently the pattern was that no teasing for the one getting the shampoo, but the others were in for a surprise.

“Don’t open your eyes until I say so, let the shampoo do its job”, said Aster to both Sarina and Alice whose treatment was about to start, then to Aria’s surprise as she was preparing to contain her voice the moment Aster got to her, the sound instead came from the “other side” of the room, as in from Sarina.

“Mm~”, it was less extreme when compared to Alice, but it also sounded much more relaxed, the reason was simple, Aster was gently massaging Sarina’s collarbone, not without giving an amused gaze to the ice princess who pouted in response.

‘This pervert is teasing me!’, she exclaimed to her insides, that was exactly the case, Aria is normally the shy and less lewd one among Aster’s lovers, because while Sarina is normally calmer, once her switch is flipped, she is quite passionate, in part because her rival is Lilia.

Aria on the other hand, despite having been Aster’s lover for practically the same time as Alice and Lilia, not to mention having a body constitution perfectly suited for dual cultivation, still acts all shy about intimacy, at least until she completely drowns in pleasure because at that point, she forgets about everything, though shame comes back to bite her the next morning, something Aster finds infinitely cute, he sometimes jokes about it saying that the cause is that her heart also returns to its pristine maiden state from time to time.

It also didn’t help that Alice was making low comfortable sounds every time Aster grabbed another strand of her hair to make the shampoo deepen into it properly, which made the poor ice princess look as if she was about to cry, and it was then when a soft caress on the inner part of her forearm all the way to her armpit, took her by surprise.

“Nn…!”, before a moan could escape her lips, Aria covered her mouth with her hands, making Aster chuckle.

“How cute”, he jokingly said while Alice whose hair treatment had finished didn’t forget to add.

“Heh, and I was the one that had to calm down”, this time Aria remained silent, her face was red as an apple, and now it was time to tend to that pretty and unique platinum blue hair, which Aster loved so much.

Just like how Aster still has an abnormal abundance of yang, even without the capacity to use it as a cultivator would as of current, Aria’s body is still saturated of yin, as a result her pale skin had a healthy and smooth appearance while her hair looked glossy as if she just had returned after getting beauty treatment, but it was even better because that was her natural state.

While Aria looked away feigning to ignore Aster who apologetically smiled at her, he started to appeal to the ice princess by grabbing a lock of her hair to then softly smell it, this was before he applied the shampoo, and yet Aria’s platinum blue hair still had a flowery sweet scent.

“As expected, my Aria is the sweetest”, he said as he proceeded with the shampoo this time, which made the ice princess’s face redden on the spot, but the “service” was over, Aster used a bucket to pour water over those three to rinse the shampoo.

“Phew”, with their hair free from the shampoo, they opened their eyes and let out a relaxed sigh, the warm water had made its magic and their bodies were feeling relaxed and that’s good for what was about to come.

“Now ladies, please stand up un front of the wall, so that I can “thoroughly” lather you”, he said with a playful voice.

Those three exchanged gazes, knowing the real fun was about to start and did as they were told which brought a smile to Aster’s face, as promised he was going to start with Alice, because that wild dragon sister of his gave him a though obviously feigned, pitiful gaze as if she was bullied earlier.

“Come here you, needy dragon princess”, said Aster as he extended his arms towards Alice who chuckled as she leaned backwards against Aster body, so that she was embraced by him.

Unfortunately for Alice, the hard thing that she expected to press against her lower back, remained soft.

“We’ll get to that at its given time, for the tome being, make do with this”, said Aster as he started rubbing the wet soap against Alice’s chest, making enough foam to cover that large pair of breasts of hers, not without gently touching her cute pink nipples from time to time.

“Mnngh~”, even such slight caresses were enough for Alice to feel good, in part because she was that horny, but even if the target wasn’t Alice the result would have been the same, because Aster is that skilled.

One of the two reasons as to why dual cultivators were in for a huge disappointment, well, at least the female ones, while they remained in this place, is that without spirit energy to use the techniques of their respective manuals, the male cultivators had no idea of how to please their partners.

But before even getting to that, there was another problem which had stopped that guy earlier from getting it on with that female elder, something much more basic, smell.

Now, don’t get confused, neither the male nor the female elders were dirty, they had bathed separately before going to their tent, out of habit, however what they are used to perceive when in close contact is the scent of other people’s bodies which contain spirit energy in it, a combination that creates that fruity or flowery scent that lingers around a female cultivator “naturally”.

For a cultivator, the intimate scent of a mortal is around how a cultivator would smell if they didn’t bath for a week or so, now you understand the reaction of that female elder, as for the male elder, her was too horny, so despite him being in the same situation, he actually was going to ignore it for the sake of sex, it could also be up to his liking, who knows.

Anyway, for Aster and his girls this didn’t pose a problem, because usually no powers are allowed on the bed, he doesn’t use any technique that needs spirit energy, nor does he ask his girls to circulate spirit energy through their lovemaking.

Not to mention that his nose perceives the real scent of his lovers, without the spirit energy part, so for him the result of their natural scent combined with spirit energy is more like an embellished version, but not the normal one.

What would be the fun in taking the easy route, no, Aster likes to take such matters on his hands, literally.

“Mm~”, as the hand that was now massaging Alice’s belly with a soap, as of current, suggested.