"Hey! What are you guys doing, let go of my parents!" Astrum shouted.
Hearing the shouts, the troops who were mining stopped their activities.
Staring at Astrum with a blank stare.
"HaHaHa.. Apparently, there is more fish, Catch him!" The squad leader's orders.
Then they gathered and were ready to capture Astrum.
Astrum was wary of this group of troops, his eyes glaring at them and his hands clenched into fists; he is on full alert.
The troops began to charge towards Astrum, the sound of the footsteps of the 18 troops was very loud.
Astrum wanted to activate his glyph, but Lilo was already coming forward with shining eyes.
With her bulging body, he turned into a ball and rolled towards the invading troops.
The squad drew their machetes, ready to smack the fat balls that were about to come their way.
Lilo rolled really fast and hit them like bowling pins, some of the squad personnel bounced off.
Lilo is still in the form of a chubby ball, at this time he is surrounded by troops who are still standing, they attack Lilo with their machetes.
"Thump thump thump" The sound of their weapons didn't sound like they were hitting metal, it was more like hitting a sack of meat.
But strangely, all of their attacks didn't have any effect on Lilo, not even a scratch.
They stared at this fatty round creature strangely.
Lilo turned his body quickly and hit all of them who were still standing, all of them fell instantly without a fight.
"What kind of strange creature is this?" The troop leader muttered in surprise.
When the troops fell, Lilo came over to one of them and fell on him. A troop that was hit by Lilo felt a tremendous pressure, like being hit by a pregnant bear.
Lilo opened his mouth wide and started to swallows the person's head, sucking something from inside the person.
The army sucked in by Lilo felt a terrible tug, felt as if his soul was being sucked in by a strange bloated creature. Gradually the soldier lost consciousness, his previously glowing purple eyes began to fade and return to normal.
The other troops saw this frowning, scared and disgusted by what happened. They slowly woke up and wanted to attack Lilo again, but they were still confused about how to hurt Lilo.
Lilo finished sucking the soldier, he looked at the other soldiers who were already standing and stared intently. Lilo immediately turned into a ball again and charged at the other soldiers, he caught one soldier after another and sucked something out of them.
Sidius was also surprised by Lilo's behavior, and asked: "Astrum, what is Lilo doing?"
"I also don't really understand, it seems he sensed something strange about the army and wanted to eat it" Astrum replied while analyzing Lilo's actions.
The troop leader saw one by one his troops were "eaten" by strange creatures and felt fear.
"You two don't stand still, Beat them all!" He ordered the two creatures that were always with him.
The two creatures jumped down from the ship's deck and rushed to attack Lilo.
Astrum realized this he rushed towards Lilo, while Sidius rushed towards the enemy spaceship.
Astrum with his speed managed to block the two creatures before reaching Lilo.
The two creatures stopped and stared at Astrum with ferocious gazes, their eyes also shining a dark purple light.
Without warning they attacked Astrum, their speed was incredible. They can jump 10 meters in less than a second.
Astrum sensed the danger he immediately jumped back to avoid them, but they didn't stop; they continued to attack Astrum like ferocious beast.
Astrum has now activated his gauntlet and boots, with this glyph active; he can easily dodge every attack of the creature.
Realizing that their attack failed to hit Astrum, they shouted loudly "ROARRR!!!!". Their screams were huge and gave off a shockwave.
Their bodies began to emit light with a yellowish green color.
Astrum saw this realizing that it was stellar energy, he wondered why there was Isginias on this planet.
When they activated star energy, their speed and strength increased greatly. They started charging towards Astrum again.
Using his agility, Astrum was still able to dodge their attacks. He nimbly moves like an elusive butterfly.
He increases his perception to know the level of this being, when perception reaches the being; he realized that the being was on the same level as him; levels 22.
But he realized something strange when he read the creature, there was something in their energy center that was shaped like a leech.
On the deck of the ship, Sidius had arrived and faced the leader. He saw that John and Ave were unconscious locked up in a cage.
Staring intently at the troop leader, he wanted to completely beat this bastard down.
The leader looked at Sidius fearfully, sweat already dripping from his forehead to his back. He realized that Sidius was at a level far above him, because he cannot read Sidius's level.
"Hey, let's calm down first. I'm not trying to hurt them, I only have business with the girl." The squad leader realized that Sidius had come for the two men he had just arrested.
"You can speak the Starian Language?" Sidus asked with a deep voice and a cruel look.
"Why not, I am a Starian race too" He smile so akward.
Before the troop leader could say any more, he already felt a big smack in his stomach. His eyes quickly turned white and he fell unconscious.
Ignoring the fallen squad leader, he turned to the cage where John and Ave were confined.
Opened the cage with both hands; like splitting a cake, it does not require excessive effort to open the cage.
He saw that there were 3 figures in the cage, there was a girl with a pale green color.
"Green Starian? Why are you here?" He thought to himself.
He realized that the little girl was of the Starian race as well.
...
In another place, where Astrum is fighting with the two creatures.
The creature that had previously attacked fiercely suddenly stopped their attacks, they fell to the ground on one knee and grabbed their chest.
Feeling an excruciating pain coming from within their chests, their grip tightened.
Astrum saw this incident immediately using his perception to see into their energy core. Apparently the leeches in their energy center were squirming fiercely and wanting to tear the creature's energy walls apart.
Astrum was confused by this, because he didn't know what to do. Without realizing it, Lilo was already beside him and stared at the two creatures with glowing eyes.
Lilo quickly pounced on one of the creatures, Astrum didn't stop Lilo.
Somehow, he seemed to have realized that Lilo found the leech in their energy core.
It hit the creature and opened its mouth wide, then sucked the leech out of its chest. Astrum saw clearly that the leech could be pulled out by Lilo's suction without damaging the creature's energy core wall.
An instant after the leech came out, the creature fell to the ground and was unconscious. Lilo pounced on the other creature and did the same.
In just a few moments the battle was over, and the troops were still unconscious.
Astrum rushed towards the enemy ship wanting to find its master's men.
When he reached the deck of the ship, he saw the body of the army leader drooping on the floor and his eyes white as pearls without any awareness at all.
He approached Sidius who was recovering his parents' condition.
"Uncle, how are my parents?" He asked very worriedly.
"They are running out of star energy, my strength is not enough to recover them. We have to go back, Stella must be able to heal them."
"Will they survive?"
"My strength and some materials can withstand their state for a while. We can't delay any longer, we have to go back soon."
"Okay!" Astrum wanted to hurry back to his cruiser, but he realized something.
"Uncle, how are they? Shall we leave them here?"
Sidius looked around him, he realized that there was something still a mystery about this incident and he wanted to interrogate them all.
"We catch and take them all! I want to know what's really going on here."
"But we can't take them all on the explorer ship"
"Let's just use this spaceship"
Then Astrum and Lilo began to gather the troops and tie them up.
He returned to his explorer ship and entered the enemy plane.
This enemy spaceship has a very large cargo space, capable of accommodating several explorer ship. He saw a lot of cargo containing the materials they had excavated earlier.
Rushing to the plane's control room, he found that this plane's control room was very different from his plane. He did not understand the slightest about the technology of this aircraft.
Sidius approached him. "This plane is a plane that is often used by branch organizations under Starian's control."