The attack hit the shield but several attacks went through and injured Astrum's arm and body.
Stella who was watching from a distance was already getting worried about the development of this situation.
Unknowingly Lilo was already attached to the beast's back, he absorbed the beast's energy into his body, his body swelled up like a blobfish.
And the cosmic fire attack got weaker and then stopped.
Astrum turned his defensive glyphs into attack glyphs that were shaped like daggers of light in both hands. He charged swiftly at the beast, cutting right through the beast's chest.
After a few slashes, the beast roared miserably. When the layers of his body were exposed revealing the star core of the beast, without hesitation he lunged and pulled the core out of the beast's body.
When the core separated from its body, the beast fell limply. Then it was Lilo who spat back the energy that had been absorbed into the air.
All that energy returned to the corpse bodies of the previously killed beasts.
It appears that energy is star core energy that was previously absorbed by the last beast.
After all the beast is killed, Astrum dismantles the materials from the level 22 monster body. It's proved that the beast absorbs all energy from the defeated beast dan transforms it into materials.
The amount of the materials it's enormous, much more than Astrum ever got from hunting and a few of the materials are middle ranks materials.
"Auntie, it's okay to absorb the middle ranks materials at my level?"
"It's okay, it will help you level up faster."
And then he grabs 1 middle ranks material and tries to absorb it.
Currently, Astrum sat still and his body glowed, showing a level increase. The light became more and more brilliant and shot out a circle of light with a radius of 100 meters.
By now Stella had realized the situation and was approaching the Astrum at a distance of 20 meters.
The light lasted for a while, the body of the Astrum was covered in light and all of his wounds recovered perfectly.
His level increased to 22, a 3-level increase in a row.
Stella also got an amazing benefit; she got a 2-level increase to level 37.
After a moment of calm again, Astrum stood up with satisfaction.
It turns out that middle-level materials contain energy 3 times bigger than low materials.
Then he collected the star cores and the already refined beast body.
Then with this harvest, they returned home.
John, Ave, and Sidius who were waiting in front of the plane greeted them.
"How is the result?" John asked first.
"24 cosmic fiends with level 16 and 1 cosmic fiend with level 22" Astrum replied with a smile.
"Hey. Hey… What is this? Your level has increased to 22 and Stella…" Sidius looked at Stella with jealousy.
"Argh… Why didn't we go together earlier?" Sidus was annoyed because he missed the chance to level up.
Stella just smiled and ignored him.
Then they get ready to leave for a new planet. Before they left the Astrum released 25-star cores from their shells, and the star cores fused with some of the planet's beasts.
And then, they prepare; Ave preparing specimen tube, John preparing material analyzer, and Astrum suit up with new explore suit.
And then they go to planet location. John is a very talented pilot, he able to drive the ship like his own body; move swiftly evading asteroids.
At last, they can see the planet.
The planet size is quite small, size like a dwarf star with teal color, and the planet it's quiet warmth and good gravity.
They landed on the new planet smoothly.
The spaceship door is open and they are already prepared to step into a new planet.
John starts to set up the analyzer to the ground.
The analyzer drill into the ground 100 meters deep and keep drilling.
"It will take some time, let's explore while this analyzer finish setting up"
"I can sense this planet has many raw materials, I will go with Astrum and collect the materials" Sidius ready to go with Astrum.
"I will get some specimen, please be careful. We meet up again about six hours again, okay?"
"You can take the explorer; we just need this container to put the specimen," John asks Astrum to take the ship.
Everyone agrees and split up, John with Ave and Sidus with Astrum and Lilo.
The explorer was flying fast and had already surpassed 500 km.
"Uncle Sidius, you can sense the existence of material on this planet?" Curious Astrum
"Well, of course, we Starion race has quite a high perception. The planet is still in its infancy, maybe 1 billion years old, so there will be a lot of raw material."
"Heh… even uncle can guess the age of this planet?"
"I already said that we Starion race is different, our knowledge and perception surpass the abilities of other living beings".
"Then why not tell this to mom and dad? They don't need to bother analyzing the planet."
"Ah… why didn't you think of that? Eh… but they seem to enjoy analyzing the planet, after all their goal is to collect specimens. Just leave it"
"Okay..."
"Uncle, how much material is there on this planet?"
"Judging from the age of the planet, at least the material is very abundant"
"How did it happen?"
"Planets are formed from the collision of cosmic energy which later becomes planetary bodies. At the beginning of its development, the cosmic energy will be materialized into raw material."
"Is it alright if we take these materials?"
"Of course, this can be considered an advantage for the planet. As long as we don't rob all the materials it'll be fine."
"How come?"
"The material formed from the cosmic residue will emit different radiation. If the radiation is excessive then the planet's core will evaporate quickly. So cosmic beings help the new planets by consuming this material and consequently the planet will not explode because of the radiation."
"But if we robbed all of the material, the planet's core would cool down and it would slowly die."
"Oh…" Astrum nodded listening to Sidius' explanation
"Uncle, is the core of the planet the same as the core of the star?"
"Of course, it's different, planetary cores don't live like stars. The energy of the star is too great for living things to occupy."
"Then why are we able to live in Stella's body?"
"That's because of the special method I used to help Stella heal her wounds."
"Uncle, what happened earlier? Why did Aunt Stella get hurt?"
"Hmm… that's for later, right now it's not important to know this. Just focus on collecting these materials."
Astrum could only nod and accept Sidius' orders.
"Uncle, you said earlier that this planet might be stranded from its system into the outer ring. What's its fate?"
"Honestly, its luck will not be good when the planet exits the system. Because by leaving the system the planet will lose the energy intake of the original stars."
"Then how to save this planet?"
"Until now, no one has been able to save it. Supposedly the Starian race can help the stranded planets in the outer ring to return to their system. However, there is no Starian race who is willing to be in the outer ring."
"Doesn't uncle is a Starian?"
"Eh.. this…., to move this planet to the system is not enough just one or two Starian, at least it takes 5 Starian with middle-rank level to move it"
"Oh, what a shame"
"At least on this planet there are no properly evolved life forms"
"Uncle, why the Starian isn't willing to patrol the outer ring?"
"Enough questions, for now, we have arrived at the excavation site." Sidius stopped Astrum's question because he realized that he was already at a location with an abundant amount of material.
They landed perfectly and then the explorer changed to digger mode and dug to a depth of 1000 meters.
The raw material stuck to the soil layer walls and was as easily removed as pulling a carrot from the ground.
After a while the raw material collected was abundant, Sidius suggested that Lilo refine it to reduce the burden on the ship.
Meanwhile, at the location, John and Ave were collecting specimens.
"There aren't many specimens on this planet, although the planet is warm and the atmosphere is good but it doesn't appear that life form has evolved yet," Ave said after briefly analyzing the planet's conditions.
"It seems that this planet is only 2 billion years old, so there is no life yet."
Suddenly a comet fell from the sky not far from where the two of them were. With the perception of Isginias, they realized that there was the presence of star energy.
They looked at each other warily and decided to check the situation.
After rushing, 100 km from their position found there was a Starian race lying in the middle of the crater. This starian race is light green with the appearance of a little girl.
They approached the Starian girl who had fainted.