"Yeah, it's a combination of strength, defense, speed, and agility" Astrum explained proudly.
Astrum makes the glyph stick to him and John. The glyph shone around John and Astrum's bodies, quickly forming a kind of gauntlets and boots.
"I call this star gauntlets and star boots" Astrum smiled broadly and were proud of his achievements.
John could feel that his power is increasing.
He tried this glyph by running somewhere dan turning back.
He was amazed by the increase in speed, his speed was doubled thanks to this glyph shaped like boots.
He was amazed by Astrum and gave a big thumbs up to his son.
Astrum just smiled proudly.
"Four stats in one glyph?" Sidius was amazed by what he saw, previously he thought each glyph increased two stats like the bracelet Astrum used before.
Not long after, the asteroids fell to the ground and gave a powerful shockwave.
From the falling asteroids, several cosmic fiends with a size of 3 meters came out, all the cosmic fiends roared giving a shockwave that was more powerful than the shockwave from the falling asteroid.
There were 3 cosmic fiends with level 5, and 2 cosmic fiends with level 7 that emerged from the asteroid.
John and Astrum were ready with glyphs shining on their hands and feet, they rushed towards the cosmic fiend.
John lures two level 7 cosmic fiends away and creates his battle circle.
Astrum faces three cosmic fiend level 5, in the short time he was surrounded by the beasts.
One of the Cosmic Fiend glared at him fiercely, and without a word immediately attacked the Astrum. A heavy blow was aimed at Astrum, and the other two beasts surrounded Astrum from behind.
Astrum easily dodged the attack, he jumped and landed on the beast's arm.
There was a strong feeling of pressure from behind him, one of the beasts behind it wanted to grab Astrum with its large open claws.
Astrum flipped backward and landed on the head of the beast that attacked him, he tried to hit the beast's head. But before the punch could land, he hastily change his stance into a defensive stance with crossing his arms in front of his chest.
The hit makes Astrum bounce from the beast's head.
Astrum managed to land with his two feet.
Now, Astrum was not surrounded, he stood facing the three beasts. He wanted to quickly finish this fight, he swiftly moved towards one of the creatures.
His speed increased greatly with the help of star boots, moving like a rabbit jumping left and right. Only his shadow looks like a flash of light.
He managed to get close to one of the beasts and find an opening. He focused his energy on his gauntlet and landed a direct hit on the beast's body.
The beast is aware that Astrum is close enough to land a punch, but the beast ignores it.
When the punch landed at the beast's body, the beast feels tremendous power from the punch.
Instantly the beast fell and Astrum continued to jump as fast as lightning at the other beasts. His kick that was reinforced with his star boots landed on the face of the second beast. Its face distorted violently and finally, the beast was blown away for 10 meters.
The remaining beast was shocked to see this but he did not find Astrum anywhere.
Suddenly there was a hard hit from the back of his head and he immediately lost consciousness. Astrum was behind him unnoticed by the beast.
Looking around that the three beasts had fallen, he stared at his father's position as he was battling two level 7 cosmic fiends.
John can agilely dodge any of the creature's attacks thanks to the glyphs given by Astrum.
Astrum saw that his parents did not need help, he turns his awareness to his fight.
The fight is not over, the beasts gradually wake up. They are now aware of Astrum power, they become more cautious.
"Hey Astrum, to kill cosmic fiend you must find the weakest spot and pull out the star source from the body" Sidius advises from distance.
Astrum has never fought with a cosmic fiend in real combat before, so he doesn't know that defeating the cosmic fiend is meant to kill.
"Uncle, it's there no other way to defeat this beast without killing it?"
"Don't worry too much, they are fraud-formed cosmic beings. After you take the star core, you can transfer it into better form"
Astrum is still concerned that he needs to kill the beast.
The beasts start attacking with a powered cosmic punch. Aware that punch it's dangerous, Astrum evades the attack.
The beasts continued to attack fiercely, Astrum nimbly dodged every attack.
Several times Astrum threw his punches at the beast, putting distance between him and the beasts.
He was still worried about killing the beasts.
"Astrum, don't worry too much. What you want to kill it's the bad intention of the beasts." Suddenly Stella's voices are heard in Astrum's consciousness.
"The cosmic fiend is fraud formed star beast, they fraud formed because consume dark matters or other star beasts. Killing them doesn't mean killing the star beast."
Realizing Stella's advice, Astrum finally decided to attack.
This time he didn't attack directly, he used his perception to pay attention to the bodies of the beasts.
When his perceptual range reached the beasts, he saw that the energy flow in the beasts' bodies was different from the star beasts he had been sparring with.
The energy flow in their bodies propagated randomly and there were many pitch-black dots in the energy flow. He realized that this pitch-black dot had a corrosive power to light energy.
The black dot on the energy flow of the beasts' bodies was like a microscopic creature eating light energy.
The more he looked, the more he discovered that there was a black dot centered on the chests of the beasts. He realized that it was the control center of the black dot.
He rushed to increase the energy concentration in his gauntlet and boots. Moving faster than before toward one of the beasts.
When it got very close and was about to punch the point, the Beast opened its mouth and shot out energy.
At such close range, Astrum had no chance to dodge. He crossed his arms in a defensive stance.
The explosion of the shot was very large creating a very large crater.
John noticed this becoming anxious, looked at Astrum.
Right now, there was only an enormous fog of dust from the beast's energy explosion.
Gradually the fog faded, showing Astrum still standing on his stance.
In front of him was a shining white luminous shield. The shield was a form of defense of the star gauntlet that Astrum was using.
Seeing this, John was relieved.
Astrum opened his crossed arms, clenched his fists and the gauntlet light shone even more brilliantly. The eyes became more focused, showing ferocity. He quickly threw a punch at the beast's chest.
The punch contained a great deal of energy, causing the beast's body to distort and separate from its star core. The beast fell to the ground and was lifeless, the star core was still floating in the air.
Astrum approached the star core and picked it up, realizing that there was nothing he could do but kill these beasts; his eyes stared ferociously at the two remaining beasts.
Moving as fast as lightning, he had already approached one of the beasts and without hesitation punched hard into the beast's chest. Before the beast fell to the ground, Astrum had already disappeared from its place.
He was already in front of the last beast and his punch had already landed on the beast's chest.
After all, the beast is killed, he collects the star cores.
Lilo rolled like a ball towards Astrum and jumped onto the beast's body. It opened its mouth and sucked in the pitch-black color that was on the beast. Lilo's body glowed white as it absorbed the beast's body, and slowly the beast's body lost its black color to plain grey.
Lilo approached all the animal bodies and purified them.
"Excellent, it seems that our training was not a waste." Sidius smiled proudly at Astrum.
John gave a thumbs up in agreement.
Then after the fight was over, Sidius dismantle the material from the beast's body.
They all go back to the main ship with some harvest from the battle.
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7 years passed in a blink. Now, Astrum is 14 years teenager with black hair and a muscled body. Accompanied by Lilo who is now the size of an adult dog, staring at several floating asteroids in an explorer ship.
Yes, Astrum was able to drive a spaceship at 14 years old.
"Hey kiddo, do you want to do this? The fight at space is different, there is no gravity in the space" Sidius was beside Astrum.
"Don't worry uncle, it's better this way so our home doesn't damage by falling asteroid" Astrum speaks with easily.
Then he turns on the helmet and opens the spaceship door. He starts casting gauntlet and boots glyphs and flying toward the asteroids.