"Thea! What are you doing!" Sidius was angry when he saw Thea's actions.
"It's okay, I just want to prove something" Thea just smiled noisily.
"Look, his body has changed. Now Astrum's body is stronger than before."
Sidus and Stella also observed what Thea meant, Currently, there is not the slightest wound from the flat stone attack.
"What really happened?" Sidius became more and more curious to see Astrum's body without any injuries.
"I told you, his body changed thanks to that Beast Baptism. The change that happened to Astrum's body is that his skin is now very hard like the Beast race."
"You mean, my body is getting stronger now?" Astrum just realized seeing his own body.
"Look at your chest, there should be a sign of Beast Baptism," Thea instructed Astrum to take off his clothes.
When Astrum took off his shirt, there appeared to be a tribal tattoo in the middle of his chest.
"Thea, what is this?"
"That is a sign that you have obtained the Beast Baptism. If you get all five forms of baptism then the mark will change and your body will change too."
"Changed? Changed like what?"
"The form of Baptism you get is a skin change, fortunately, your skin doesn't grow hair or scales like a Beast".
"What? You mean my body will turn like a beast?" Astrum was shocked.
"HaHaHa, just kidding.. don't be too serious"
"The skin change from baptism doesn't completely change your skin, but strengthens it"
"Ah…" Astrum felt very relieved to hear that, he was very surprised that his body would turn like a Beast.
"Thea, you said earlier that there are five forms of baptism, what are they?" Astrum remembered Thea's words when he got the beast baptism.
"There are five forms, first is skin, second is a muscle, third is blood, fourth is bone, the fifth is senses"
Thea explains the five forms of Beast Baptism and their benefits.
Baptism of skin to change the structure of the skin to be very strong like the Beast race, Baptism of muscle form to strengthen endurance, Baptism of blood to increase agility, Baptism of bones to increase physical strength, and Baptism of senses to increase the ability of the senses.
"I have said before that the Beast race is the strongest of the form races. The uniqueness of the Beast Race is their physical ability that surpasses that of other living races."
"Do you know that this galaxy has two general types of races, it's the Cosmic race and The living form race?"
"Cosmic types are formed from cosmic energy and possess immense power like Starians, Star Beasts, and the others. The Starians lead the other cosmic races because the Starians are more perfect and intelligent from the other cosmic being."
"There are so many races of living being in this galaxy, for example like you are the human race. The human race may not be the strongest race but it is one of the races most intelligent to overcome challenges ."
"The Beast Race is a race with the strongest physical strength among the living races."
"Now imagine what if the strongest living race had cosmic powers."
Astrum was very impressed by Thea's explanation, thought about it for a while then got an answer.
"The strongest race among the living races"
"Correct! So is the Ancient Beast Race, they are a very powerful race plus cosmic power so their strength is incomparable."
"But unfortunately, I don't know what happened suddenly they disappeared and only became history"
Hearing and seeing the evidence that Astrum's body showed after the Beast Baptism, they began to realize what Thea said might be the truth. The Beast Race in the ancient Era was the strongest race of living beings.
"Thea, what happened to me if I got the whole form of Baptism?" Astrum is getting more and more excited to get all forms of Beast Baptism.
"I honestly don't know, because Beast Baptism usually only occurs in the Beast Race."
"When the Beast Race acquires all forms of Baptism, their rank will increase."
"Rank?" Astrum became more and more curious about this, even Stella also had a question in her mind.
"In the Beast race culture, the strongest will gain everything." Sidius this time answered.
"How do you know?" Stella looked at Sidius in astonishment.
"I have been friends with Thiberry for a long time, he explained a lot about the Beast race".
"Correct! In the culture of the Beast race strength is number one." Thea reiterated Sidius' statement.
The Beast race rankings from the bottom are Delta, Beta, and Alpha. Delta is the lowest rank who acts as a follower, Beta acts as a helper to serve Alpha, Alpha is the highest rank in a group. In the Beast race, it was very common to fight each other to gain rank. Alpha rank will get everything in group, food, women, and honor. Beast races ranked below him were unable to resist this. It's ingrained in their DNA.
"However… based on ancient records, the Ancient Beast Race that led the Beasts was on a different level. Ancient records wrote Sigma and Omega ranks. I don't remember much of this myself." Thea shared about her understanding that was opened by seeing the tribal glyph.
"How do you get another form of baptism? Is it possible to study the tribal glyphs like before?" Astrum was excited to get another form of baptism. By getting it, he hopes his strength will also increase.
"It doesn't seem possible. The tribal glyphs that appear are because the Beastros have evolved their minds. With that evolution plus they are already integrated with the star power then their knowledge is a bit open."
"After all, apart from all the incompletely evolved Beastros, there is currently no Beastros who have broken through to the rank above Alpha".
"How do you know?"
"If they are at a level above Alpha, then they will automatically submit. But nowadays, every clan has the instinct to fight for their highest rank."
"Oh..."
"But, if you are interested in this, you can visit our home planet – Gleas"
"Ha? What's in Gleas?"
"The Ancient Beast Race not only left the records, but they also left Altar"
"Altar?"
"Yes, this altar is only useful for fully evolved beasts. Maybe you can give it a try, after all, as far as I know, no Beastros has been baptized like you."
"Okay, later I will visit Gleas when I enter the Galaxy Ring" Astrum confirmed his intention.
"We don't know what happened to Gleas at this point. Most of the people of Gleas have fled because of the hunt." Thea said looking sad.
"Let's finish one by one first." Sidius patted Thea's shoulder to ease her sadness.
"Thea.. You said earlier that Thiberry couldn't be saved if you didn't come. What does it mean?"
"Commander Thiberry knows how important Nexor's seal is, he doesn't want Zax to know and break the seal. He made another seal to lock the planet's core and without the key, it would be impossible to get close to the planet's core."
"That means we just have to find the key" Sidius answered straightforwardly.
"I am the key to the seal!" Thea answered firmly.
"What do you mean?" Sidius looked at Thea in shock.
"Commander Thiberry made me as the key. When the opportunity arose, commander Thiberry helped me escape from Nexor"
Sidius was pensive hearing this information, with this latest information their whole plan changed.
"After all, how did you guys gonna deal with Soul Leech without him?" Thea pointed at Lilo.
Sidius also realized this, previously he planned to take Lilo but it was impossible. Lilo never goes far from Astrum. He plans to capture Zax and his army and bring them back to this planet so that Lilo can help release the soul leech.
"General Sidius, let us join you to Nexor. We will be a valuable help to you" Thea pleaded with Sidius.
Sidius was still contemplating a new strategy to attack Nexor.
"However, your body can't be too far from the core."
"Let me use some medium rank materials to speed up recovery. If my body recovers enough, I can move the planet towards Nexor."
Sidius still doubts the decision to bring Thea, because this mission is quite dangerous.
"Uncle don't worry too much about us." This time Astrum spoke.
"I will train some Star Beasts to help in the attack on Nexor"
"Astrum, although you brought some Star Beasts, their strength is still low. Based on the information we know, Zax's group has a level between 22 to 28." Stella joined in giving her opinion to prevent Astrum from getting involved in this attack.
"Then, let's use this opportunity to level up them," Astrum answered straightforwardly.
"We can't overuse materials, these materials will be useful to replace the missing materials at Nexor"
"Give us one container with a medium rank material. I will help speed up the level of the Star Beasts." Thea said very excitedly, she agreed with Astrum's idea to bring the Star Beasts.
"After all, the materials that Zax robbed weren't all lost. Zax is still saving the materials. If we catch Zax, then the material can be returned to keep the seal intact." Thea added her proposal.
Sidus and Stella negotiate this new proposal, they are trying not to involve the Astrum family in the Nexor attack. After a while, they decided to accept the proposal with some conditions. The Astrum family will be with Stella as their guardian and Sidius with Thea and the troops will be tasked to save Thiberry and others.
But Suddenly Stella speak.
"Although you can restore your body with materials, at your current level it will be very slow to bring this planet closer to Nexor."