"We will help move the planet towards Nexor and you can focus on recovering" Stella instructed Thea.
Hearing this Thea nodded in agreement, she was very excited to know that she would be returning to Nexor. Sidius instructed Beastros to help carry a container containing medium-rank materials to increase the level of Star Beasts and give some to Thea to speed up recovery.
John and Ave were a bit shocked by this news, but they were also excited to be involved in this attack. They obtained two medium-rank materials each to increase their level. Sidius was really careful in this attack, he wanted to ensure the safety of the Astrum family. By increasing the level of John and Ave the probability of their safety also increases.
With this decision the whole plan has changed, previously if using warp on spaceships they would get to Nexor in one month. But this time they have to move the home planet towards Nexor and it is estimated that it will take 3 months.
Thea did not return to the cave, she could use the materials provided automatically without having to return to the cave. Thea accompanies Astrum to level up the Star Beasts.
John and Ave increase their level with the given materials. Their level increased by two levels to 22 in an instant. Even if they gained a two-level increase, they still had to stabilize their new level, so they rested to stabilize their level.
Astrum this time returned to the middle of the forest where the location of the Star Beasts. The Three Hundred Star Beasts were still in the same place as before, they didn't move at all. Several Star Beasts were still surrounding the Star Beasts that were undergoing metamorphosis.
Seeing that the process of metamorphosis was still going on, Astrum realized that this process won't be finished anytime soon.
"Thea, how can we increase their level if they are still maintaining the metamorphosis?"
"Then we need to speed up the process"
"Ha? Do you have a method to speed up this metamorphosis process?"
"No, but you might be able to do it"
"Me? How?"
"I can't help them because my body isn't complete, but you can help them."
"As I said before, this process depends on their ability to stabilize their level. If they can stabilize the level then the metamorphosis process will be completed."
"How can I help them stabilize their level?"
"Do the same thing as you did before with the Beastros. Enter into their consciousness and guide them."
"Could it be just like that?"
"Of course, you managed to guide the Beastros before. That means you can also guide them."
"But you have to know, the consciousness of cosmic beings is different from the living beings. Even if you manage to get into their consciousness, you have to be careful not to get trapped there."
"Stuck in cosmic consciousness?"
"The consciousness of cosmic beings is very different from the consciousness of living beings. Cosmic consciousness also contains their experience and knowledge of previous forms. "
"Actually their knowledge is not all left in their old form. Most of that knowledge is still locked in their consciousness."
"If you enter that consciousness you will feel their past experiences, here you have to be careful. If you don't realize it then you will be trapped in their past experiences."
"Usually it's Cyan Starian's job to unlock their memories, but it's sometimes they failed. Unlocking their memories is difficult and complicated."
"If you go in there it's better not to touch their memory, just guide their consciousness to complete the metamorphosis."
After listening to Thea's advice, Astrum started to approach one of the metamorphosed Star Beasts. The surrounding Star Beasts made way for Astrum, somehow they had great respect for Astrum.
Astrum touched the cocoon, he felt an energy fluctuation inside the cocoon. Lilo who was beside Astrum jumped onto his shoulder, realizing that Lilo wanted to participate of course Astrum was happy. He didn't know if he could bring Lilo into the consciousness of this Star Beast.
Astrum used telepathy to send a message to the metamorphosed Star Beast, asking it to lower its defenses. The Star Beast did not respond to Astrum's message. Astrum realized this, he guessed that the Star Beast was concentrating on stabilizing its energy.
Astrum tried to enter the Star Beast's consciousness, light appeared from Astrum's touch on the cocoon. His eyes glowed bright white and Lilo also showed the same thing. Right now Astrum and Lilo's eyes were emitting a bright white light.
Astrum entered the Star Beast's consciousness, he felt adrift amidst the sea of energy. There was no place to stand, he just drifted into the waves of energy. Suddenly he realized something was pulling him out of the sea of energy. He looked up and smiled with relief.
Lilo pulled Astrum out of the sea of energy. Lilo floated in the air with the fly wings on her back and bit Astrum's collar. Lilo threw Astrum on his back.
Right now Astrum riding Lilo floated above the turbulent sea of energy. Astrum looked around for the energy center of the Star Beast. Seeing in the distance there is a pillar of light rising high into the sky, then he gave orders to Lilo to go there.
Flying across the fierce waves, Astrum felt very comfortable while riding Lilo. As he got closer to the pillar of light, he could see that there was a Star Beast in the center of it. The closer to the pillar of light, the more violent the energy waves became. Fortunately, Astrum was floating and far from the waves.
When the distance was only 2 meters, Astrum thought about how to guide these Star Beasts. Previously he had not asked Thea about how to guide the Star Beasts. He thought about using a glyph, but he didn't have the glyph to touch the Star Beast's consciousness.
Pondering for a moment, he thought hard to find a way to guide the Star Beast. Then he remembered his experience every time he leveled up, he also felt a surge of energy.
He used his telepathy to communicate with the Star Beast but to no avail. He tried to use his perception power to read the energy currents on the Star Beasts. As his perception power reached the Star Beast, he felt himself being sucked into the pillar of light. The suction was so strong that he and Lilo fell into the pillar of light instantly.
Within the pillar of light, he saw a Star Beast floating in the air. Approaching the Star Beast, he could see that the Star Beast didn't seem to be fully conscious, its eyes were glowing and it looked like it was in a trance.
Touched the back of the Star Beast and tried to send telepathy. The message is "calm down, let yourself be one with these waves".
And it turns out that the message can be received by the Star Beast. The Star Beast showed a change, its eyes slowly closed and its body curled up. The pillar of light opened and waves of energy crashed into the Great Star.
Realizing that the pillar of light was open, Lilo flew higher avoiding the waves of energy. Astrum realized below was a pillar of light-blocking his telepathy.
Astrum continued to communicate with the Star Beasts to remain calm and let the energy coalesce. These waves of energy crashed fiercely, smashing into the Star Beast's body. The Star Beast trembled for a moment but only for a moment, it was because Astrum continued to guide him through telepathy.
After a while, the waves became quieter. The previously chaotic sea of energy calmed down. Astrum realized that this process would be finished soon, he wanted to quickly get out of the Star Beast consciousness but he was curious about what he saw.
At this moment the Star Beast's body appeared streaks between the hard layers of its skin, The streaks of light shone brilliantly.
Astrum became very curious, he ordered Lilo to come down close to the body of the Star Beast. He wanted to take a closer look at these streaks of light.
Unexpectedly, when he approached. The light of the Star Beast shone even brighter and spread to a radius of 10 meters. Astrum and Lilo were swallowed by the light.
Astrum felt he had moved to a very different place, now he was in a dark black space. Looking around there were several dots of light hanging on the walls of the space. He became more curious, he ask Lilo to fly closer to the dot of light.
What he thought he was close to the light turned out to be far, after flying for a while the light was in front of him but could not be reached by his hand. Tried to fly further towards that point but what he saw remained the same. The size of the dot of light was still the same and could not be reached by his hand.
"Is this just an illusion?" He analyzed the point of light.
"We have to get out of here," He said to Lilo, and Lilo nodded in agreement.
Flying aimlessly in that empty space, there are no doors or anything in this empty space. Astrum thinking that they may be trapped in the Star Beast Consciousness.