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Chapter 5 - Nothing Matches

"Extraordinary! How does this stick contain a lot of energy? How did you transfer this much energy?" Sidius was very curious.

"I don't know" Astrum only answered with open arms.

Sidus tried to study the glyph on the stick, he also experienced the same thing as Stella. His consciousness sank into the glyph and gained new enlightenment.

He enjoyed this sensation of enlightenment and Stella just smiled at him.

After waking up, he said excitedly: "Wonderful! This is a truly extraordinary aptitude!"

Jumping around for joy while swinging the stick like a child who got a new toy.

"Hey, stop it! That's embarrassing" Stella stopped the excited Sidius.

Sidius' attitude immediately changed from joy to seriousness.

"Okay, you can use glyphs well. Please, learn some of these basic glyphs." He handed over some stones with different glyphs.

"These are glyphs for making defensive gear and glyphs for agility gear."

After Astrum got the glyph, he learned slowly. Every glyph he studied provided many benefits for Astrum and Sidius.

After he studied all the glyphs and succeeded in making them, then he was asked to take some rest.

Sidius enjoyed the moment of enlightenment from the glyph created by Astrum, even though it was only a basic glyph but provided tremendous benefits. He also got a 1 level increase from this training process.

Then he wanted to decide that the training would stop for today and Astrum could rest, but Astrum refused.

"Uncle, I am not too Tired. Let's learn something else."

Sidius was unable to refuse Astrum's request, but this time he did not give Astrum a new glyph.

He took a small pebble and then gave it a glyph, after which the stone shone and changed shape like marble with wings. The marble floated above Sidius palms nimbly.

"Although the use of glyphs is fine, as an Insignia; Your body control must also be good. Practice with this, catch these marbles as fast as you can."

Then the marble seemed to understand Sidius's command, it immediately flew around Astrum.

Astrum started chasing the flying marbles but his speed was so great that no matter what he did he couldn't catch the marble.

Astrum panted and started to get tired of chasing the marbles.

"Hey, it's only been 5 minutes. Don't stop, carry on!"

Astrum thought that the speed of the marbles was impossible to catch, he decided to use the speed-enhancing glyphs that Stella had taught him yesterday.

For a moment a silver-blue light appeared on his feet, and he could feel his body lighten up. Without hesitation, he chased the marble.

After a few minutes, he finally caught the marble, approached Sidius with a grin on his face, a sign of satisfaction that he had succeeded.

But Sidius looked at him fiercely, and said: "Cheating! This training is to train your physique, not the use of glyphs. Run one more time without the glyphs!"

He took the glyph and threw it 10 meters.

Astrum could only scratch his head and continued to catch the marble without the help of the glyph.

"Sidius, don't train too hard" Stella advised Sidius.

"As Insignia, Astrum must train his body. With a strong body, he can control the power of the star the better." Sidius explained his meaning.

Astrum is still chasing the marble without the help of the glyph, every 5 minutes he will stop to catch his breath.

At the end of the day, Astrum did not catch the marble. He returned to the main ship in a tired condition.

The next day they were back practicing the same thing, Sidius had made some training plans for Astrum to increase his physical capabilities to control the energy of the stars properly.

Stella has also created a training plan so Astrum can learn advanced basic glyphs.

They argue over whose plan is the most correct, Astrum doesn't realize this; he was busy catching the flying marble.

In the end, they agreed to make a training schedule for Astrum, with 3 days of lessons from Sidius and 3 days of lessons from Stella every week.

After a month had passed, Astrum finally managed to catch the marble without the help of any glyphs. He felt his body getting lighter and his movements faster thanks to the training.

He didn't get any new glyphs from Stella for a month, he was only asked to study the glyph fragments that emerged from the basic glyphs he had previously studied.

Even though he only managed 30% of all existing glyph shards, he was able to make glyphs more refined and his energy purer.

After 6 months of training, Astrum had mastered 100% of every glyph shard that Stella and Sidius had given him.

In these 6 months, he received intensive physical training, the marbles he caught were not one but three.

When he reached 100% mastery of the glyph, Stella and Sidius gave Astrum a chance to rest for 3 days without training.

On vacation from training, Astrum is not idle; He experimented with combining the glyphs of Stella and Sidius. After 10 attempts he failed to combine the glyphs, although it looks simple there is a kind of strong resistance between the two glyphs.

He was curious and kept on trying, without realizing it; 3 days passed quickly. He was tired, lack sleep because he was busy experimenting.

He decided to stop and wanted to sleep, suddenly Sidius approached him to invite him to practice again.

"Hey kid, why is your face like that? Is it 3 days less?"

"hehehe. Sorry uncle, let me sleep first today, I'm tired" As soon as he said this, he immediately fell limp onto his bed.

Sidius is shocked, he thinks Astrum might be injured or ill. He rushed to call John and Ave. John and Ave take Astrum to the medical bay on the Main Ship.

After a while, the results of the examination came out stating that Astrum had no serious problems, just fatigue.

"Fatigue? What has he been doing for the past 3 days?" Sidius was very curious.

Finally, he let Astrum rest and sleep for 1 full day.

The next day Astrum woke up refreshed, he cleaned himself up and was ready to go to Sidius for further training.

When he met them, Sidius' face was very serious and Stella's face was full of worry.

"Hey kid, what have you been doing these 3 days? Why are you so exhausted?"

"Ah… It's because I'm experimenting." Astrum answered shyly while scratching his head.

"Experiment? What experiment?"

"I tried to combine the two glyphs that Uncle and Aunt gave me?"

"Ha? Do you want to combine our two glyphs? Did it work?" Sidius was very surprised.

Stella who was standing beside him was also hopeful.

"Hehehe sorry, it's failed"

"Of course, it will fail, right now you don't represent any star energy. So you don't have basic energy light" Sidius commented.

"Do you want to try integrating with Star Source?" Stella asked

"You mean like mom and dad?"

"Yeah, maybe if you've connected to the Star source and got the insignia; you can recognize your basic light color"

Astrum thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement, he decided to try to get star marks.

"Now you try to summon some previously purified star beasts. After all, they seem to understand your orders very well." Sidius suggested.

Astrum also told Lilo to collect the Star beasts on the planet.

10 Star beasts appeared in front of Astrum and Lilo.

"Uncle, how to connect with the star beast?"

"You just keep calm, the star beast that will try to connect with your consciousness, if it matches it will get a star mark"

The Star beasts took turns trying to connect with Astrum, but after all the Star Beasts had tried no trace of the star marks could stick to Astrum. All the asterisks that appeared slowly returned to the body of the star beast.

"Strange, Is the star beast variants here not enough? Even though they have different colors" Stella mumbled and was confused.

Astrum just sighed because the experiment this time also failed.

Suddenly Lilo approached Astrum, pressed her body against Astrum's feet like a cat begging to be petted.

Astrum squatted down and stroked it, Lilo took out a low-rank material from her mouth.

Astrum took the material and asked "What do you mean you want me to use this?"

"Using materials for not Insignias is dangerous because they can erode your body" Sidius explained.

Lilo just stared at Astrum with pleading eyes.

Stella added: "There's no harm in trying, especially now that you are physically stronger than before".

Then Astrum gripped the material crystal and a mist of energy from the crystal gushed out. The mist was all inhaled by Astrum, he felt a surge of energy coursing through his body, coursing through his every vein.

He felt his body getting stronger and he open his eyes with energized glare.