Not long after that, the light from Astrum's body shone brightly creating a dome of energy that covered everything within a 100-meter radius. The Star Beast looked up at the dome of the energy. Bi and Hiru are currently still with their eyes closed, stabilizing their levels. They realized there was a greater wave of energy entering their bodies, trying very hard to stabilize this turmoil.
10 minutes they were still in a static state, then Astrum slowly opened his eyes. The energy that formed the dome returned to his body. The turbulent energy gradually calmed down.
But it didn't last long, in an instant all the Star beasts, Insignias, even the Starians who were previously in the dome emitted energy. A sign that they will get a level up. Thea witnessed this phenomenon was very surprised, she looked at Astrum with great astonishment.
Slowly Astrum regained consciousness and sensed that his level had increased to 24, Bi and Hiru also regained consciousness and felt his level increase to 25. John and Ave's level increased to 21. Sidius and Stella each got 1 level increase, Sidius level is 36, Stella level becomes 39.
By this time Thea had disappeared, leaving a message to Astrum's consciousness not to tell everybody that she was here. Sidius' group felt so happy with this level increase, they rushed to Astrum's position.
"Astrum, Star Beasts use these materials?" Stella, who asked first, saw that there was 1 empty container and another half of the material left.
"Yes aunty, this Star Beast is a new one." He pointed at the 250 Star Beasts.
"Hey, why are you guys here?" Sidius realizes the existence of Bi and Hiru.
"Eh…. We have come to help Astrum." Bi replied nervously.
Thea had also left messages for Bi and Hiru to keep her presence is a secret.
Sidius wants to interrogate them, he suspects something of this incident. But before he could ask any questions, some of the Star Beasts showed unusual symptoms. They roared loudly as they stared into the sky, there were at least 75 Star Beasts showing this symptom. The other Star Beasts surrounded the roaring Star beasts.
After a long roar, their bodies were wrapped in threads of light. The light threads tightly covered their entire bodies, forming like a huge cocoon.
"What happened?" Ave saw this incident in surprise.
"Metamorphosis" Sidius and Stella answered at the same time.
"Once Star Beasts advance to level 10, they will undergo metamorphosis" Hiru replied, remembering Thea's earlier explanation.
"How do you know something like this?" Sidius is curious about Bi and Hiru's presence.
"We are here to help Astrum raise the level of the Star Beasts. We understand a little about the Star Beast's changes." He said while covering his nervousness.
Sidius and Stella knew about the Star Beast metamorphosis, but they did not know the trigger for the Star Beast metamorphosis.
"How long will they be like that?" Ave as a biologist is very curious about the metamorphosis of Star Beasts.
"They will take a while because they need to stabilize their energy first" Hiru replied as if he understood this event. He was actually just continuing from the information Thea had given earlier.
They waited patiently while watching the metamorphosis. It's been 10 minutes but it doesn't show any change. Finally, Sidius, who started asking first, broke the silence.
"Astrum, you brought this material?"
"No, these materials were brought by them" Astrum replied while pointing at Bi and Hiru.
Sidius looked at them, Bi and Hiru felt very nervous at this time.
"Who ordered you to bring these materials?"
"Eh…. We realized that Astrum wanted to need materials for Star Beasts, so we took the initiative to bring these materials here."
Stella smelled the lies of Hiru's words, narrowed her eyes, and glared at them.
Ave felt the atmosphere become very tense, she tried to defuse the situation.
"You know how long this metamorphosis process takes?"
"Sorry, we don't know too much" Bi answered innocently while scratching his head.
"Maybe Thea knows?" Astrum this time joined the conversation. He also wondered why Thea had hidden her presence from Stella and Sidius.
"Alright, let's go back to the cave and ask Thea" Ave suggested.
John and Astrum nodded in agreement, Bi and Hiru also nodded.
Stella saw that there was some middle-rank material left from one of the containers, she suggested saving the material again. After all, those materials were meant for the Star Beasts on this planet, so he wasn't disappointed.
Bi and Hiru were asked to return the remaining materials to storage and Astrum returned the remaining Star sources to storage. John and Ave wait for Astrum to meet Thea. Sidius and Stella return to the spaceship location to plan a trip to Nexor.
On the spaceship, Sidius is looking for the location of Nexor by opening the flight recorder. They found the location of Nexor was quite far from them, if using this spaceship it would take at least 6 months. They also discover that Bolx and Solux are aides sent by Zax to catch the fleeing Thea. That's why Solux can get to their location quickly because Solux's position is not far from the previous planet. Solux gets a message of help from Blox when Bolx tries to escape the planet.
They discovered that Solux had not reported the news to Zax, much to their relief. They were planning a sneak attack. Sidius plans to get more information about Zax's army by interrogating Bolx and Solux. Currently, the troops were not fully recovered, so Sidius and Stella arranged for a few days for them to recuperate before leaving for Nexor.
In the cave, currently, Astrum and his parents were talking to Thea.
"Thea, you know about Star Beast metamorphosis?" Ave is very curious about this.
"Of course, who else but I here know a lot about Star Beasts" Thea replied with great pride.
"The Green Starian race is the race that interacts the most with the Star Beasts."
"How long does the metamorphosis process take?"
"Oh, it depends on their respective conditions. If they could stabilize their energy it would be instantaneous. On average that metamorphosis takes about 1 month"
"You have to look at the metamorphosis process, it's not a common thing. Because usually, Star Beasts will hide when they want to metamorphose."
"Oh…" Ave was very excited.
"John, let's set up camp there to observe the metamorphosis"
John agreed with Ave's request, then they went out of the cave to prepare camp. Leaving Astrum, Lilo, and Thea in the cave.
"Thea, why don't you want to let Uncle Sidius know your presence?"
"Oh that, nothing. I just don't want General Sidius to worry too much about my recovery. If I get caught wandering around then I can be locked up here."
"Ohh.." Astrum simply believed Thea's words.
"Hey Astrum, how can you increase the level of star power like that?" Thea was very curious about the previous incident.
"Ah that, Sidius uncle said it might be an innate talent"
"Your talent is truly unique"
"Hey Astrum, you want to learn the glyphs from me?" Thea asked very excitedly.
"Of course, I enjoy studying star glyphs."
"The previous growth glyph is honestly useless to you because that glyph can only be used by Green Starian,"
"The Green Starian race has a class as support, we don't have many glyphs for combat".
"But maybe these glyphs can be of use to you."
Then Thea casts two glyphs and explains them to Astrum about their functions.
The first glyph is Snare Glyph, this glyph is useful for holding back enemy movements by making roots like what happened to Solux. But this glyph has its drawbacks because it requires a territory with plants.
The second glyph is Light Synthesis, this glyph functions to absorb starlight and convert it into additional energy for allies. The capacity to absorb starlight depends on the endurance and control of the user, the stronger the resistance the more light can be absorbed and glyph control has an important role to speed up the synthesis process.
"Since my level is still low, I can only make these two glyphs. Please choose which glyph is the most useful."
"Can I learn both?"
"Ho ho ho, that would be even better" Thea was very happy with Astrum's choice, the more she gained enlightenment from the glyphs Astrum is better.
Before Astrum wanted to study the glyph, he had a question in his heart.
"Thea, I've never seen Bi and Hiru use glyphs. You know why?"
"Oh that's natural, Beast races very strong physique but not their mind."
"They can't use glyphs because they can't concentrate energy on glyphs."
"Unless they undergo an evolution that enhances their mind."
"This is also one of the weaknesses of Growth Fruits. Growth Fruits only increase the physique not the mind of the Beast Race."
"You mean, Beast races can use glyphs if they evolve their mind?."
"Of course, but such an evolution would take millions of years. Green Starians train the beast to evolve their consciousness, so they can use the Star power to enhance their attack or defense. But to train them to use glyphs, we don't' have any methods"
Astrum is currently contemplating something, he remembers that Stella's talent is an evolution. He wondered if it was possible with Stella's talent for the Beast Race to evolve. He decided to try consulting Stella after learning about the glyphs from Thea.
Then he studied the glyphs from Thea. Astrum finished studying the glyph in no time, but he chose to study every fragment of the glyph that appeared when he studied the glyph. The goal is to be able to produce glyphs with purer and stronger energy.
Astrum's achievement was better than before, in one day he had studied a glyph along with all its fragments. Hand the glyph back to Thea. Thea gained several levels of improvement from studying this one glyph, this is very possible because Thea's level is still very low.
After 3 days, Astrum had finished studying all the glyphs. Thea's level had also increased greatly after studying the glyphs purer from Astrum, currently, her level was 19. At this level, Thea felt that something had changed about her. He felt his control over the planet increase greatly, even now his body has recovered 90%. This acceleration was beyond his expectations, and he became very excited to continue his plan.
With her current condition, Thea tried to get her body out. Her experiment was successful, by now his body was already out of the green light that fused with the planet. She also still has a connection with this planet.
From these conditions, she realized that the core of the star was still stored and fused with the planet. Her body was able to roam freely, but she also realized how dangerous this condition was. Right now her star core had no protection from her body, so it was extremely vulnerable to attacks.
"At least this is enough to continue with the plan" Thea talks in her mind.