The slash cut through empty air, Astrum disappearing from Solux's scope of vision. The slash didn't hit Astrum, as he reacted quickly relying on his intuition. He crouched to avoid the slash, seeing that there was an open gap from the enemy without hesitation he attacked with his right punch.
Taking a hit from Astrum, Solax didn't budge. The blow just felt like being bitten by an ant, she again attacked Astrum with several slashes. Astrum was able to dodge these attacks nimbly while moving backward away from Solax.
Solux cursed inwardly "Damn! This kid is quite agile!"
John and Ave realized that Astrum was in danger, they immediately retreated from their fight and rushed towards Astrum. They stood in front of Astrum blocking Solax from attacking him.
"Oh, looks like a guard dog has arrived." Solax underestimated John and Ave's presence.
Solax started attacking John and Ave, John stepped forward and blocked Solux's attack with his sword. He tried to keep Ave and Astrum behind him. Solux's attack is so fast, John can only defend from it.
Ave starts to fire her phaser but every shot can be parried easily by Solux's knife. Solux's speed of attack and parry was incredible.
Sidius and Stella noticed this situation from a distance, they wanted to rush towards John and Ave.
In the middle of his attack Solux suddenly felt her legs unable to move, as if something was holding her legs. She looked down and noticed that there were vines at her feet. By now the vines had covered her entire leg, preventing her to make a move.
Seeing this John and Ave realized this was an opportunity to attack. They unhesitatingly attacked Solux ferociously. John splits up with Ave, he takes the right side and Ave takes the left.
John slashed his sword from the right and Ave fired his phaser from the left. Solux was immobile and attacked from both sides choosing to focus on John's attack. Blocked each of John's slashes with his knife and blocked Ave's phaser fire with her bare hand.
Ave's shot didn't do any serious damage to Solux, so she could endure the pain. Astrum started to move to attack with his parents, he advanced to attack from the front.
Solux realized Astrum was attacking but he underestimated it, considering he had received Astrum's blow earlier and didn't feel anything. But this time was different, without realizing it when Astrum's punch went into his stomach. She felt the blow was so strong that she lost her focus. With Solux off guard, John managed to land a slash on Solux's arm.
The slash only gave a scratch but after one slash there was an opening for another slash. Solux had already received several slashes from Jhon and shots from Ave. She entered a defensive state with her arms crossed over her chest.
Solax in her defensive state without being able to attack became very annoyed and shouted "Now!"
From the void emerged the figure of a humanoid creature with a head like a chameleon, right behind Astrum and ready to grab him. His claws were ready to catch Astrum, suddenly Astrum disappeared from his sight. He was surprised by the disappearance of Astrum, glanced around looking for him but found none.
Suddenly there was a hard hit from the back of his head, it was Astrum hitting him with his gauntlet glyph. The blow was so hard that it knocked his head to the ground. At this time Astrum beat the creature until it sank into the ground.
Blow after blow was launched by Astrum. The creature's body visually disappeared for a moment and then there was again, the creature could not withstand the attack from behind by Astrum.
After a few vicious blows, seeing that the creature was immobile Astrum stopped his attack and looked at Lilo. Lilo from a distance sensed the telepathy from Astrum and rolled towards Astrum very quickly. Hitting the creature's back and the surrounding ground became a small crater. Lilo made herself so heavy that the creature couldn't move at all.
Sidius and Stella saw John's situation felt a little relieved, then they continued attacking the nearest enemy troops.
Lilo fell on the creature's body and sucked it from the creature's back. The creature feels its soul being sucked out and then gradually lost its strength. After the leech left the creature's body, Lilo chewed it like eating a caterpillar. The creature had lost consciousness by falling to the ground.
"Luckily I tried to learn the Glyph Array, even if I can't use it yet at least my concentration has improved a lot"
Apparently, Astrum was able to use three glyphs at once thanks to his increased concentration. He hides his abilities because during the battle he uses his perception. He sensed that something was hiding. Sure enough, when the creature attacks then its hideout is also revealed and gives Astrum a chance to attack.
Solux was on the defensive, seeing that Astrum was able to defeat the creature surprised her. Due to the surprising event, her defense became careless and made John and Ave's attacks go in easily. Wounded and unable to move, she was angry and wanted to unleash her power. She was ready to blow out of her power and scream, but suddenly she felt a huge creature fall on him from above.
She wanted to scream to release her power but no sound escaped his lips. Realizing Lilo was hitting Solux from above, John and Ave took a few steps back to stop their attack.
With Lilo making his body even heavier, Solux couldn't hold on to her feet. She fell with both knees on the ground, her hands trying to catch Lilo who was on his head.
But the outer layer of Lilo's body was as slippery as an eel, making it completely impossible to grip. Lilo started to open his mouth and suck Solux's head. Feeling her soul being pulled violently, her strength quickly dissipated. The soul leech came out of Solux's crown and was instantly eaten by Lilo. Solux had already lost consciousness, eyes as pale as pearl, and fell to the ground with very limp.
Lilo has been assigned by Astrum to capture Solux, he has realized that Solux has Chief Soul Leech. By capturing Solux then all enemies will fall. Just as Chief Soul Leech was pulled out of Solux's body, her entire army fell to their knees to the ground. Feeling excruciating pain from their chests as if something was tearing from within. Soul leech loses command of trying to get out of its host, if the leech comes out by tearing the body, the host will die instantly.
Astrum's group stopped their attack after realizing that their enemy had fallen and suffered. The troops from the Astrum group felt worried because the enemy troops were also their own people. They did not intend to kill their own people.
Astrum realized this event, then gave telepathy to Lilo. Currently, there are still 40 enemy troops whose soul leeches have not been pulled by Lilo, relying on the speed of sucking the leeches will not be enough to save this 40 personnel.
But this time Lilo changed his body size to 10 meters, opened his huge mouth, and sucked in the air fiercely. The remaining forty troops couldn't hold Lilo's suction. The Astrum Troops were still able to contain themselves from Lilo's suction.
All the personnel was sucked in and into Lilo's mouth and slowly into his stomach. The Green Leaf troops watched this scene with terrified faces, seeing their compatriots being eaten alive by Lilo.
There were several lumps in Lilo's stomach, those lumps were the enemy troops she swallowed. After a while, Lilo vomited back the 40 personnel that had been swallowed earlier. Everyone fell unconscious with their bodies covered in slime from Lilo. Lilo then burped very loudly, his burp gave off a strong wind like a shockwave that made Astrum's hair and face spiked up.
Astrum just smiled proudly at Lilo and gave a big thumbs up, with his new ability he was able to save the troops. The war was over in an instant with the victory of Astrum's side.
Bi and Hiru gave a loud roar "Roaaarrrrrr!!!" as a sign of victory in this short war.
Then the green leaf squad helped their comrades who were previously prisoners of Solux, seeing that their compatriots were safe they became very relieved. After the war was over, Solux was tied together with Bolx. Stella helps recover injured troops and Sidius tracks them into the plane.
"Astrum, Lilo can change shape that big?" Ave asked very curiously.
"Yes, now with his new body Lilo can change its shape at will" Astrum replied while patting Lilo who had shrunk to the size of a cat clinging to his shoulder.
"Great, can other animals be like this?"
"Apparently not, the other animals can't change their shape like Lilo"
Ave was amazed by Lilo, she tried to remember where she got the specimen like Lilo. Unfortunately, she didn't remember anything about a specimen like Lilo.
At this time John and Ave approached the creature that attacked Astrum, accompanied by Bi and Hiru.
"Is this one of your comrades?"
"He is a Daal of the Lon Clan, he is also an Insignia just like us"
"He can hide his body undetected," John noticed that Daal had a strange ability.
"Yes, the Lon Clan has a special talent for camouflage with its surroundings."
The Lon clan is a clan with a lizard-like head and chameleon-like abilities.
A moment later Sidus got out of the plane and brought some news.
"We no longer need to harvest material to the planet"
"Ah.. Why?" Astrum looked disappointed.
"There's a huge amount of material in the ship, and apparently before they got here they had robbed the planet." Sidius was able to know this because he read the records of the ship's journey.
"The planet was destroyed because the materials were robbed by them"
Sidus uses a device that creates a hologram to show the planet's situation that was robbed earlier. The hologram shows the condition of the planet being shattered into pieces.
"How cruel" Ave was very sad to see the planet.
"This is the result if a planet loses its supporting material, its core will quickly cool and cannot maintain its shape" Sidius explains why the planet can crumble like that.
Then Sidius ordered the troops to unload a large amount of material from the plane.
"Let's use this material for a new Star Beast candidate."
Astrum was very excited to guide all the Star Sources they had, he rushed back to the star sources warehouse.
"John, are you aware of the fight before?" Ave realized something had happened while they were fighting with Solux.
"Yeah, Solux is somehow bound by the vines. Looks like someone's helping us."
"I think I know who helped you guys." Sidius heard Ave's question from a distance.