Venturing

Walking the hallways King admired his surrounding compared to how things were in his past life the home had a more of an imperial middle ages feel, with lavished embroidery among carvings and paintings of either members of the family or divine beasts and such.

The estate was on the larger side similar to mansions in his previous life but once again more so along the imperial aspect considering the hierarchical society butlers, maids, guards and standing armies were much more common so those amongst the upper echelon in society on Asteria were much like Kings and Nobles in his previous life among the period in which monarchy reigned supreme a period often referred to as the middle ages, it became less apparent as time passed but never truly faded away.

On his way to his parent's room he once again ran into the maid staff who were quite surprised to see him venturing out of his room.

"The Young master has been quite outgoing and jubilant as of late normally he is pretty much a bookworm reading and studying as if there's no tomorrow"

"I wonder what happened that has changed to make that happen I wonder if it's an age thing the Young Master did turn 13 this year, I know I'm not the only one waiting for his coming to age ceremony in a few years"

"Even though the Young Master is quite approachable don't misconstrue our standing at best we'd be able to be his concubines at worse we would just warm his bed at night"

"That would be okay with me I see absolutely no detriments to that the Young Master is so nice and caring beat being thrown to some old disgusting man I'll take either of those" The maids said once again treating King as if he was invisible or they simply wanted him to hear it.

"Hmm Hmm sorry to bother you guys while you're working but have you seen my parents, don't want to take an unnecessary trip only to find out they're elsewhere" King said while clearing his throat

"The Master and Mistress told us they were heading to their room shortly after dinner and we haven't seen them since so you'd be likely to see them there Young Master" The eldest maid said

"Thank you for confirming that for me, I deeply apologize for disturbing all of you while you're working and want you all to know we appreciate you greatly for all that you do for us" King said while giving a slight bow

"Please raise your head Young master there's absolutely no reason for you ever to lower your head for us we are simply doing our job, nothing more nothing less" the eldest maid urged

"Very well however I felt it was necessary to exemplify my level of sincerity I truly meant it" he said while walking away

Shortly after heading in the direction to his parent's room on the west side of the home the maids continued there conversation

"See I told you look at the Young Master so prim and proper, exceptionally polite, humble I could go on for days talking about him lock me in I'm going to set my place now for concubine#27 or bed warmer #27"

"Okay Okay we get it you provide a valid point but the Young Master is still young only time will tell if he stays like that or becomes like those other vile young masters walking around with their noses turned up at the world as if they own the place"

"As if our Young Master would never become like that I can guarantee it"

"What is your obsession with 27 such a peculiar emphasization here althought I can't be too surprised you've always been pretty weird" the maids said whilst daydreaming and ignoring their duties as if they'd been charmed by King

Meanwhile on the westward wing of the home King was making his way to his parents room, the design of the home was pretty uniform so everything looked relatively the same until arriving near the door which was purple itself and most of the near decorations were either purple or outline with purple seemingly realizing his Mother both had a deep obsession with purple and his Father truly did not care about how his home was decorated.

Once he had reached the door he was about to knock when he heard a loud noise and instinctively activated his soul sense to inspect what it was only to immediately regret it after doing it, seeing his Mother and Father closely intertwined while making put he need not even leave it to his imagination to realize what they were doing.

' I only have myself to blame I truly didn't expect that to be what the noise was it was simply so loud I could only assume the worst and what's even worse is with the strength of my soul I'll be hard pressed to forget that anytime soon at least I cut it short immediately'

'Honestly I think my best bet is to pretend like I noticed nothing when they come out and hope they do the same, they're young after all and another kid isn't unexpected but geez it's only been a few hours after dinner' He inwardly thought

Shortly after King spread his soul sense the door was abruptly opened with his Mother appearing with disheveled robes and her purple hair incredibly unkempt, while his father was both shirtless and heavily covered in sweat.

"I thought you were in your room" Both his Dante and Vanessa said in unison

"I was I just needed to ask you guys a few things and rushed over here quickly out of excitement and trepidation" King replied while trying to look as deadpan as possible

"Okay but why did you spread your soul sense as soon as you arrived not only is that impolite it's an invasion of privacy" His mother said while blushing

'Honey don't worry even though there aren't any formation in the house like on the exterior to block soul sense and alert you when someone is trying to inspect it, the material the home/ rooms walls are made of block out soul sense so I doubt he saw much' His father said to his mother in a soul transmission

"What could be so urgent that you sprinted over to our room in the middle of the night right after we'd had dinner together not too long ago don't tell me you're hungry again" His father said

'Thank goodness Dad chose to quickly brush over what they were doing and instead chose to focus on why I'm here bonus points for him on that one saves us all for an even more awkward experience' King inwardly thought

"I hope not we all ate enough to put local magical beast hunters out of business in one dinner haha" His mother said while laughing

"No, I assure you I am not here to eat more although if more food was offered I of course would not decline, actually I was wanting to go on a brief excursion to Dierose Forest to train only to realize I simply don't have any cultivation techniques or martial arts that really suit me other than those I got that I can use only with bodily cultivation" King said

'Although I do have a substantial amount of techniques it's not the time to present a lot of them to the public simply do to how I acquired most of them there would be no way to justify my possession of them and without the necessary power or prestige to do so it would lead to unnecessary slaughter, better to simply just receive some to use as cover and get some valuable techniques and martial arts along the way' King inwardly thought

"You're wanting to go back to Dierose Forest so quickly even after I warned you about being so reckless, I know very well with your current cultivation you're not going to settle with simply exploring around the outskirts anymore" His mother said

"That's great a real man should seek adventure that's how I met your mother anyway so I'm a large advocate for adventuring, plus no need need to limit yourself to the outskirt anymore in my opinion you've already seen all of it and done well on your own now you're even more powerful time to truly start on your own journey" His father said proudly

"But he's still so young there's no rush for him to go out he can stick to his daily routine or going there and coming back staying for extended periods is something only experts should do" His mother insisted

"Mom you already said you'd send Andrew's son to go with me and observe in the shadows isn't that enough although I don't know how powerful he is, I also promised not to do anything too reckless, at the very least if Dad wouldn't do it I wont either" King said

"He's right honey he did promise you and Andrew's son Ryan is a 4th rank essence gathering and body cultivator while being mid 3rd rank in soul cultivation he's not the strongest but their combined efforts should be enough to deal with anything outside of the core region and even their with a bit of luck, you always get a bit hypocritical when it comes to King you and I went to far more dangerous places at our age" His father said

"Firstly you saying that if Dad wouldn't do it neither would you provides me absolutely less peace of mind then I already had I'm struggling to come up with something he dared not to do in now let alone in his youth, and I'm not being a hypocrite I'm just being a caring mother he hasn't truly stepped into the cultivation world yet so I don't want to heartlessly throw him out there" His mother admonished

"Ouch honey that truly cut deep" His Father said whilst grasping his chest as if it truly hurt him to hear.

"That's fair mother that's another reason I came to Father and you to get both a few techniques and martial arts that fit my style more now that I have access to two more schools of cultivation and for advice before leaving on my escapade" King said