Chapter 240 Natal Treasure
Lilia was naturally interested not only in Camila's ability but her manual, one must know that peak immortal grade things, be it manuals, elixirs, pills or treasures, were impossible to buy with money.
As the princess of the Drage family Lilia has seen how an action was made just for the sake of a pill which barely reached the standard of a peak immortal treasure, and the winning offer was a whole planet of a higher level than the Azure sky planet.
Why would someone be willing to exchange a whole planet for a pill considering that within a planet, other natural treasures might be hidden you ask, the answer is easy, even the publicly recognized as the best alchemist has only a 5% succession rate of concocting a peak immortal grade product.
And the same applies for all the other professions, rune masters, spirit blacksmiths and the like, sure you might say that with enough tries there was bound to be a success, but those fails will cost high ranked materials which are hard to find.
That's why Lilia supported the idea of Camila entering their family, so that her beloved son would have a "lucky charm", if Lilia herself wasn't in this kind of relationship with Aster, then she admitted Camila would have been a decent "first wife".
Everyone's attention was suddenly drawn by a whistling sound, similar to the one a blade does when cuts through the air, but it was softer and sharper which indicated it came from a littler object.
Lilia saw a tip of a spear floating above the palm of her son, the thing rotated as if it was trying to get away, clearly targeting Camila, unfortunately it was contained by Aster using the protection light of the golden armor.
"For being so worn out, this thing is actually quite sharp", thought Aster seeing how sparks were produced each time the tip of the spear scrapped the golden armor.
Seeing Camila lost in her thoughts Aster cleared his throat, the tip of the spear was slowly chipping away on his resistance, and in this state, he wasn't going to keep it in his spatial ring, nor in the
"What does that say about this about this thing?".
"Mm?", Camila came out of her daze, with a wave of her hand her manual manifested in the real world for everyone to see it.
She then opened it but this time the image of Gabriel Wolfstein didn't appear, also Camila noticed she couldn't pass through the second page, so instead of that she read what was available right now.
Unlike a normal book the pages were actually in blank, all the contents were sent directly to her head, after a moment she assimilated the knowledge of the second page.
Camila couldn't resist the urge to immediately try what she learned and under the surprised eyes of Aster and the other girls, she took one of the weapons, a knife of the mysterious grade to be exact.
Then that copperish spirit energy of hers covered the weapon and after a couple of seconds the knife rusted, until it became practically a piece of junk, in comparison the brightness of her spirit energy increased.
Mylene couldn't help but frown, what Camila did was similar to the effect of the decay attribute of her family.
"Is that decay attribute", she mumbled, only for Aster to deny it.
"No… she absorbed the properties of the materials which were used to forge the knife, even her cultivation advanced a bit".
"What!", both Eris and Mylene couldn't help but exclaim, specially Mylene, as an alchemist she knew more than anyone of the presents, that living beings had several limitants at the moment of assimilating things.
That's why almost all the spirit herbs had to be processed to become either pills or elixirs, heck, even spirit energy had to be processed in the dantian if one didn't want its meridians to be blocked with impurities.
But now if what Aster said was true, then considering the minerals and spirit herbs in the table also reacted to her previously then Camila could ignore all that.
Camila was smiling from ear to ear, she looked at Lilia as if she was asking for her permission, Lilia of course nodded since she didn't care about any of the things on the table.
This time with having gained some confidence in her ability, Camila used more of her spirit energy, besides the weapons which were of sky grade all the other things floated around her for a moment before losing all their luster.
The spirit herbs withered, the minerals turned grey like normal stones, all of that made her spirit energy become brighter, then the things that came from Camila's room which weren't treasures were also deprived form their properties.
But unlike the previous effect, instead of increasing the bright of the copperish spirit energy, silver mist came out of then which was immediately absorbed by the area below Camila's navel where the dantian is positioned.
"Hoh?", of course that different process didn't escape the eyes of Aster and the girls, but no one interrupted Camila, to avoid any accident since she just got her manual.
Once she finished what she was doing, the now useless materials landed on the table and broke into many little black shards similar to coal.
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Camila had now a relaxed expression in her face, she took a moment before explaining what happened to them.
"This manual was created to complement the ability of the exquisite resonating body, basically I need to absorb the properties of treasures, then combine it with my spirit energy to form something called a "Natal Treasure", which will contain my ability so that I can control it".
Camila doubted for a second before continuing.
"The book also says that before the natal treasure is formed… my ability will be erratic and it will only worsen as time goes by reaching the point where my meridians will break, unless I'm near a member of the "Alpha Booster" branch of the Wolfstein family".
Aster looked at tip of the spear which was still trying to break free from him and a strange light flashed through his eyes.
"The spear I used and reformed all my life", he mumbled remembering the words in the back of the map.
Both Eris and Mylene nodded as if they finally solved a doubt that has been haunting them
Lilia glared at them before saying.
"Is there anything you two want to share with us?".
Eris nodded.
"Yes, even if none of us is a spirit blacksmith we are both the young heirs of our families, so there are few materials we don't know about it, specially if they are valuable, but no matter how we scanned that remain of a spear we didn't manage to identify the material which was used to forge it".
"It would be more accurate to say that the spear is made out of something we have never seen nor heard off, but it's not something from a higher plane since it has traces of spirit energy from a mortal plane", Mylene added.
Aster inwardly sighed before saying.
"This is the natal treasure of the Wolfstein ancestor… he had both properties of the two branches, unlike his descendants, to whom that manual was created for".
"Speaking of that, how come you can practice this manual when you already have one, I don't think the manuals of the Wolfstein family can be simplified versions of this one?".
Camila's eyes widened, she let herself be carried away by the moment and actually didn't realize she was now using another manual while she already formed her inner universe according to another one.
She closed her eyes and focused her attention in her dantian, when she saw her current inner universe, she nearly fainted.
"Impossible!!!".
Camila suddenly yelled surprising everyone, she did a double check just to be sure but the result was the same, the stars which she formed in her nearly 60 years of life were now all gone, and instead they were replaced with a silver star core which was surrounded by copper-colored lights.
What surprised her the most was that her cultivation realm wasn't affected, it was commonly known that changing manuals required one to dispel its own cultivation and start over again.
"My previous constellation and the axys that was formed after that is now gone… I have a new one which I don't recognize, earlier today it wasn't like this so it probably happened when I got this book", she said in a still shocked voice.
Mylene rubbed her chin trying to remember something.
"That tattoo probably contains more things besides that manual, back at our clan there is a pill which can help anyone in the mortal realms to change its manual without having to waste their previous cultivation… but there hasn't been anyone capable of refining it, including my grandmother".
Aster contemplated all what has been happening since he opened the chest.
The branch of the patriarch had the ability to amplify, while the branch of the supreme elder had the ability to attract treasures, but after so many years everything was latent hidden in their bloodline.
It was probable that even if Aster met and gained the respect of Camila earlier, he might have failed to open the chest, since he lost the benefits of the Drage bloodline and only regained them after taking Lilia's primordial yin, not only that even Aldebaran's evolution had something to do with it.
In other words, if one of the previous things didn't happen, he wouldn't have fulfilled the requirements to open the chest, and none of this would have happened.
Aster then grabbed the tip of the spear and looked at the troubled expression in Camila's face, before saying.
"Camila, do you want to come with us?".