Astrum began to study the new glyph, his consciousness shifting into a vast empty space; there was only the glyph hovering in front of him. After he touched the glyph, there was a change in the space.
Previously it was just an empty space, now it was rapidly turning into a prairie. Plants began to grow rapidly. Astrum can see how living things are formed from one cell and then divide, the cells turn into life forms.
These life forms evolved into animals and continued to grow until they were large. He learned how living beings grow from infant to adult by watching this event.
After a while, Astrum opened his eyes and felt amazement to see the phenomenon in his consciousness. Then he handed back Thea's glyph, but this time a white light shone.
Thea picked up the glyph and felt the purity of its energy, her consciousness sinking into the purity of the glyph.
The green light that enveloped him shone even brighter, her eyes closed with a face that was as calm as a calm lake.
She gains enlightenment and feels his level increase by 1 level to 11. In fact, Thea's previous level was only 10, the material limitations on planet Nexor made her only able to reach level 10 for 13 years.
But this increase did not stop, the level continued to increase gradually.
Level 12.. Level 13.. and keep going.
Thea enjoyed the enlightenment without being aware of the changes taking place outside.
The planet changed drastically, green plants began to grow vines to all corners of the planet.
The trees grew rapidly, the mature trees bearing brilliant green fruit.
All the animal on the planet was shocked by this changing event.
After 30 minutes, Thea opened her eyes. Feel calm and serene in the heart.
She realized that she had leveled up to level 15 in only one hour.
Sidius and Stella just smiled at this phenomenon, because this wasn't the first time they had experienced such a thing. They could feel the calm and serenity experienced by Thea.
But what really makes Sidius and Stella envious is Thea got 5 levels up, this is a rare occasion.
"At this time, I realized that the fruit of growth was ready. If the beasts on this planet eat the fruit, they will grow quickly."
Astrum was surprised to hear this, he just knew there was such a fruit.
All over the planet, the fruits are ripe and fall to the ground. The animals began to eat the fruit. As soon as metamorphosis occurs in these animals, their bodies develop rapidly into adult animals in just 1 hour.
"If these beasts have grown up, wouldn't they have been able to integrate into Star beasts?" Sidius awakened from this phenomenon, he had a goal so that all Star sources they collected could become Star beasts.
"Yes, I will immediately take the star source" Astrum happily wanted to go to the star source warehouse.
"Wait! Do you mean you guys have a star source? and you can guide the Star Source to become a Star Beast?" Thea was confused once again.
Then they told how they collected the star sources and led them to become Star Beasts.
Thea felt she had found a very strange and magical party.
"If you want to integrate all these beasts into Star Beasts, we need a large number of materials."
The more Star beasts, the more materials are needed, because Star Beasts consume material crystals for the growth of their power.
Realizing that currently, the stock of material crystals has decreased considerably due to Thea's recovery, they try to find a solution to get the material stock.
Thea feels sorry for the inconvenient causes, their materials are used to heal her.
"Uncle, can we hunt for materials?"
"No, there are very few Cosmic Fiends in this location."
"Didn't the previous planet have a lot of material left?" Thea suggested.
"Ah… Of course, we can go back there and harvest it." Astrum was excited.
"Okay, we'll go back there after finishing what's on here." Sidius decided to interrogate Bolx first before they harvested the materials.
Moments later, the Astrum Group left the cave leaving only Thea. Thea's body was unable to come out of its star form as it was recovering.
When Astrum's group arrived at the location, currently the troops and the two beasts were still on standby guarding the bound Blox.
Seeing John and Ave, the two creatures immediately knelt and bowed.
"Forgive our mistakes, although we are aware of what we did we can't control ourselves" One of the creatures spoke very respectfully to John and Ave.
"Forget it, you guys were being controlled. How do we call you?"
"I am Bidarra and that is my brother Hirudarra".
Bidarra is a creature with two large horns like a mountain goat, while Hirudarra is a creature with four horns.
"Is Bolx awake?" Sidius asked them.
"He is still unconscious my lord" Bidarra answered with a respectful call to Sidius.
"Stop calling me that, just call Sidius" Sidius didn't seem to like honorary titles.
"Uncle, is Bolx also Starian?" Astrum was very curious to see Bolx's appearance.
Bolx has pale gray skin and looks to have star stripes on his body like the Starian race.
"No, they are not the Starian race."
"They are a common race living in the borders of the Inner Ring, they get such a mark for eating star fruit."
There were several common races residing at the boundary of the Inner Ring, some of them had the opportunity to eat the star fruit and thus had a bit of power from the Starian race.
Generally, this race will not be accepted by the Starian race, because the Starian race is a race with a very high ego, they do not accept any other race besides them.
In some cases, Starian uses them to perform some tasks and rewards them with star marks in order to become Insignia.
Stella is currently recovering Blox with her glyphs, she wants to get answers from Bolx.
After a few minutes, Blox had regained consciousness. There was still pain from the pressure of his previous consciousness, his face was still very pale.
"I won't ask twice, now tell me where did you get soul leeches from?" Stella asked loudly.
"I.. I. I don't know, this was all given by commander Zax" Finally Blox opened his mouth and answered trembling.
"What is Zax's goal in the Outer ring?"
"Eh… that… that"
"Fast!"
"Eh… We were traveling in the Outer Ring and stumbled across the planet"
The planet mentioned is Nexor.
"Lie! You won't be wandering aimlessly in the Outer ring! Hurry up and tell the truth!"
"No… No. I'm not lying"
Stella wanted to use her perception once more to break through Bolx's consciousness, but at this moment Astrum stopped her.
"Auntie, wait a moment. Lilo seems to have realized that there is something evil inside of him." Astrum felt Lilo's feeling wary of seeing Bolx.
Stella stopped her actions and took a few steps back, observing Bolx as a whole looking for something on his body.
"Evidently! You have leeches too" Stella realized after using her perception to read the energy on Bolx.
"We can't get the leech out without killing it," said Sidius.
"Uncle, leave it to Lilo"
Lilo started to move according to Astrum's command, he opened his arms and jumped on Bolx's body.
Lilo started sucking the leech out of Bolx's energy center on the chest.
Bolx felt as if his soul was being pulled out.
After a while, the leech was in Lilo's mouth. Lilo bit the leech so tightly that it couldn't move.
"Soul leech is dangerous, it will enter the energy center once touched" Stella saw this and kept her distance.
Then Lilo started chewing and swallowing the leech without hesitation.
"Astrum, is Lilo okay with eating those leeches?"
"That seems to be the case, I feel that the leech bears a resemblance to the dark matter Lilo usually consumes."
Stella was still cautious, waiting for what effect would appear after Lilo ate the leech.
After Lilo burped, there was no longer any trace of dark matter around him, dark matter residue disappeared like steam.
Currently, Blox is unconscious because of the leech suction process.
"This leech is different from the previous leech, this one looks big and has a small horn on its head." Astrum noticed the difference between the leeches from Bolx and the previous ones.
"Soul leeches can be controlled by higher leeches, who just now was Chief Soul Leech."
"With Bolx having Chief-type leeches, the leeches beneath him won't be able to fight him."
"Looks like this Zax has a Leech Queen"
The Soul Leech has a hierarchy of control, the Leech Queen has control over the Chief and the Chief has control over his subordinates.
Realizing the existence of this Leech, Stella began to suspect something.
It seems that this invasion is not as simple as it appears on the surface.