Without realizing it time passed very quickly, he meditated for 2 hours.
When it's done, it's up and ready to spar again. Sidius just smiled and said: "Today is enough, it's already night. Let's go back first and continue tomorrow".
Astrum just realized that he meditated long enough until the night.
The next day, he was ready to spar again. This time he had prepared the energy in his body, he used his rest time to form the energy in his body.
Now that his body had already formed two thick branches, he felt that he was ready for the next battle.
During 3 months of practicing sparring with star beasts, he was able to defeat three level 4 star beasts in one fight. He also managed to form constant branches to his hands and feet, he also felt the control over this energy made the use of this energy more efficient than before.
There was no sparring training today, today was Stella's tailor-made control training.
"Astrum, you realize what I mean by star energy control"
"Yes aunty, with this kind of control I feel that I use energy more efficiently and don't use up stamina"
"You just made 4 branches, right?" Stella can detect Astrum's energy branch easily.
Stella asked the Astrum to form a branch to her head, to be more precise to her brain.
The purpose of this branch is a bridge between each part with the energy core, branching to the brain will improve his perception and concentration of energy.
Astrum tried to form the branch slowly.
After a while, a thin but solid branch formed between his brain and his energy center.
"With this bridge, you can increase your speed at printing glyphs"
"Currently, it will take you 10 minutes to make one glyph. Now you try again with energy concentration"
Astrum tried to create his glyph, using the concentration of energy he could feel the energy flow from the center rushing into his brain.
His hands moved faster and the glyph was formed within 5 minutes.
He was amazed by this speed, smiling widely at the glyph in front of him.
"In addition to being faster, you can also make glyphs stronger. This time you are trying to strengthen the energy bridge to your brain."
Astrum tried to bridge the energy after two hours had passed; the branch is well-formed and thick.
He tried once again to create his glyph, the focus and concentration of energy were improved.
He managed to make the glyph in just 1 minute.
"Good, in these few days try to practice making two glyphs at once. Some talented insignia can make 2 or 3 glyphs at once"
Within a few days of closed-door training, Astrum practiced making two glyphs in person. The difficulty is very difficult, he has to break the concentration of energy on the two glyphs at the same time.
During the few days he practiced, he realized that the energy branches in his brain formed other small branches like tree roots. He tried to understand what had happened.
For a moment he opened his eyes after sinking into a meditative state. In his consciousness already formed his glyph, he tried to access the glyph and suddenly a glyph appeared instantly.
The glyph only lasted a few minutes then faded again, he realized that not enough energy was being channeled. He decided to use some materials to increase his internal energy.
Currently, he has no materials in his hands, he must get permission from his parents or his uncle and aunt. Finally, he decided to meet Stella and show her newly acquired abilities.
"Instant casting!" Stella was very surprised by the glyph that appeared instantly without any effort from Astrum.
"It's very rare for low rankers to do instant casting, usually this can be done by medium ranks" Stella explained to Astrum.
Instant casting ability is usually possessed by medium rank insignias. Medium ranks can do this because control over star energy is much higher than low rank.
Stella gave two low-grade materials to Astrum to gather his energy.
"Although at this stage you can increase your level quickly, it is better if you build a strong foundation on star energy."
Stella advised Astrum not to rush to level up but to focus on forming the foundation of his star power.
Astrum took Stella's direction well, after all, there was no other teacher as good as them.
After a while he absorbed the two materials, he felt his energy center also get a new energy intake. It takes a while to stabilize the new energy so that it aligns with its energy center.
When he finished stabilizing his energy, he tried to summon his glyph.
"Swish- Swish - Swish" The sound of the wind passed in front of him.
Currently, it appears there are not only two glyphs but there are three glyphs.
"Triple Casting? You are a genius!"
Gradually the glyph faded, Astrum was disappointed because the glyph did not last long.
"Don't feel low like that, making several glyphs at the same time is a feat in itself" Stella encouraged him.
"Controlling multiple glyphs at the same time will drain your energy and concentration, you should practice controlling two glyphs first"
Astrum then practiced doing a double cast as suggested by Stella.
He realized Stella's intention, when these two glyphs were present their energies were not the same. One of the glyphs has lower energy than the other. Meaning he must share the energy equally in each glyph.
In addition, he found another difficulty is breaking energy concentration, by summoning two glyphs he can not only concentrate on one glyph but must simultaneously do both.
He continued to practice for several days to break up the energy concentration.
After several days of closed-door training, he was finally able to distribute the energy equally between the two glyphs. Although the energy is not great he feels quite satisfied with the even distribution.
Now the two glyphs are more stable than before.
Then he trains to increase the amount of energy in each glyph, each time he tries to increase his energy one of the glyphs will weaken.
He realized that his concentration was still not enough, he wanted to get a hint from Stella.
Seeing that Stella was busy training her mother, she finally gave up.
Back in his room, he looked for ways to increase his concentration. He then tries to see the form of energy in his consciousness.
He found that the core branches of his energy center were quite stable, then he turned to the smaller branches on his head.
He found these branches to be so thin and fragile, then he wondered if it was possible to increase these small branches.
He meditated to channel energy into the branches in his head, it seemed the branches were growing slowly.
Every day he meditates for 6 to 8 hours to strengthen the small branches in his head. After a week, he realized that the branches were well-formed and stable.
After he realized that his efforts were quite good, he tried to do a double casting.
The result is extraordinary, both glyphs are stable and enduring. Then he tried to summon a third glyph. When the third glyph is formed, the other two glyphs become unstable.
He realized that his concentration was not enough to use three glyphs at once.
He was quite satisfied with his current achievements.
Looking at his glyph, he realized that this glyph could increase strength and defense. Then he got the idea to create a new glyph with more combinations.
The idea is to use one glyph that represents two or more glyphs, that's means if he succeeds he can double-cast that equals four glyphs. His idea makes him excited to do some experiments.
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After a year of training, Astrum is now 9 years old. His mastery and control over stellar energy had also surpassed Insignias at his level.
In these few months, he trained to make new glyphs from his glyphs, he managed to make a glyph that was quite complex compared to his previous glyphs.
On this day, Sidius plans to take Astrum and John to go hunting for cosmic fiends. He felt now was the right time for Astrum to practice in real combat.
He also took Stella as a backup to prevent bad things from happening.
Somewhere on the planet, a vast vacant land without any vegetation. Like an empty desert, only the wind swishes from time to time. Many craters are visible in the desert.
This place is devoted to catching cosmic fiends on asteroids.
"John this time you will hunt with your son, this time I will attract some cosmic fiends. You can deal with cosmic fiends' level 7 to 8, the rest go to Astrum"
John and Astrum nodded and stared at the 3 asteroids approaching them.
Astrum casts his two new glyphs, the glyphs float in the air.
"This is the new glyph?" Sidius was curious about this glyph.