After a while, Twig and Potta managed to survive the enemy's siege thanks to the help of Goren's Star Beast. They rushed towards Goren along with some of their Star Beasts.
The enemy spaceship was chasing Twig and Potta, but suddenly the enemy who was facing Goren raised his hand. That seemed to signal his troops to stop, and it was already clear that what Goren was facing is the leader of this army.
Goren realized his enemy's actions, he wanted to thank him but couldn't. And now Twig and Potta had arrived beside Goren. Their appearance was completely shabby and their Star Beasts also had wounds all over their bodies.
"Alright, since this is an Inner Circle matter, we won't interfere. We will go from here," said Goren.
"You have interfered with this mission and caused the Star Beast to escape. We can't just let it go, can we?" The squad leader asked with a certain meaning.
"What do you want?"
"Hand over some of your Star Beasts, then you can leave safely."
"Damn it! There's no way we'd give up our Star Beasts! Goren, let's just attack them!" Potta said loudly.
Twig approached Goren and whispered: "Goren, this situation is very chaotic. The chances of us winning are very thin."
Goren realized Twig's words, he judged that their chances of winning were very small. But to let go of the Star Beasts they possessed was also troublesome, their Star Beasts had been with them for quite some time.
The troop leader just silently waited for Goren's answer, he showed a cynical smile.
In an emergency like this, Goren showed a fierce gaze towards the enemy leader.
"Twig – Potta, it is an honor to fight alongside you guys"
Hearing the words that came out of Goren's mouth, Twig and Potta realized what would happen next. This is something that cannot be avoided.
Goren moved first to attack the enemy followed by Twig and Potta. Clashes broke out again, the enemy troops were ready and surrounded them all. Goren once again faced off against the enemy leader.
Goren and the Star Beast Bear attacked the troop leader viciously, Their cooperation was truly extraordinary; making the troop leader unable to escape. The fatal strike hit the troop leader and he finally fell.
Goren rushed to attack the enemy leader and deal the final blow. Suddenly the enemy troop spaceship gathered towards his leader and blocked Goren's direction.
When Twig realized there was an opportunity to escape, he immediately sent a message to Goren and Potta.
"Now!"
Goren realized Twig's intention, immediately backed away from his attack, and flew in a different direction. They managed to escape through the opening gap from the enemy encirclement.
The three of them flew with their star power, their state was already extremely chaotic. Their star energy was already critical and their bodies were already heavily injured.
Potta fainted first from running out of energy. Goren caught Potta who had run out of energy.
Exhausted and badly injured, Goren leads his group to head to one of the asteroids. Staring at the condition of his comrade who was seriously injured, he decided to rest on this asteroid.
Their condition was very severe, requiring at least three days for recovery.
While they were resting to recover their energy, Goren realized something was approaching. He looked behind him, where they had come from. From a distance, he could see several spaceships appearing.
As he got closer, he could clearly see that it was the enemy spaceship. This time there are three enemy aircraft.
"Damn it, they brought backup!" He muttered.
Seeing that his comrades were unable to fight, he decided not to disturb them.
The enemy spaceships were getting closer and closer to their location.
"Use this material later, now hide your star power" Goren spoke to Twig who was still conscious while handing over the storage marble he got earlier.
"Goren, what are you doing?" Twig asked weakly.
Goren didn't reply with words, he just patted Twig's shoulder. He then hurriedly flew away from their position using his already very critical energy.
He plans to save his comrades!
Twig watched Goren leave with a confused look, he didn't notice that an enemy spaceship was approaching. Not long after Goren left, the enemy spaceship flew past them.
Goren flew away from Twig and Potta's position. Realizing that his condition was unable to fly any further, he stopped and faced the enemy forces.
The enemy plane stopped only 100 meters from Goren. The leader of the enemy troops came out and stood on the outer deck of the spaceship, still injured with some patchwork.
"Finally, you were caught." He glanced cynically at Goren.
"Where are your friends?" The enemy troop leader looked around, realizing that currently, Goren was alone.
Goren stared intently at his enemy, he did not reply to the words of his enemy. He knew it would be useless.
Take out all their weapons and release their form into Star Beasts.
"You guys have been with me for a long time and surely you guys understand what will happen." He spoke in a deep voice which indicated that he was very tired.
"Only those who are worthy can have the power." He said those words while smiling at his three Star Beasts.
The Star Beasts nodded as a sign that they understood Goren's intentions.
The squad leader didn't hear anything from Goren, as Goren spoke these words quietly. He led his troops to surround Goren.
When all the spaceships had surrounded, the leader flew towards Goren with a smug look on his face. Goren just stared at his enemy approaching.
The troop leader took out his machete and aimed it at Goren.
"Hand over your Star Beast, then I'll make sure you die quickly"
"Only those who are worthy can have the power!" Goren shouted loudly.
All of the Star Marks on his body radiated bright light and so did his three Star Beasts. The light shone brightly and suddenly exploded violently.
Goren's body and all of his Star Beasts exploded into a scorching light like a nuke bomb with a 100-kilometers radius.
Enemy troops caught within the radius of the light blast burned and evaporated in space.
Astrum felt his body being torn apart, the pain experienced by the Star Beast could be felt by Astrum. He screamed very loudly as a sign of this excruciating pain.
After a while, the light disappeared. Everything in the 100-kilometer radius evaporated, Goren, the enemy troops, and the asteroid all disappeared.
At the center of the explosion, there were only three lights left, those three lights were the Star Source of the Star Beasts.
After the explosion subsided, the pain Astrum felt gradually lessened. He saw the three Star Sources floating in outer space. Drifting aimlessly and suddenly bouncing towards the outer galaxy.
At the galactic boundary, Astrum could see these three Star Sources being eroded by the energy in the galaxy's outer ring. After experiencing a strong impact and friction from the galaxy's dividing ring, the three Star sources came out of the galaxy.
Astrum saw this scene and realized that this star source was bounced into the Outer Ring.
The three Star Sources floated aimlessly in the outer ring. The Star Sources fall on different asteroids. After a while, the Star Source absorbed the dark matter in the asteroids and turned into a Cosmic Fiend.
"DING!" There was the sound of a bell ringing in Astrum's consciousness.
He opened his eyes and realized that he was now outside of the Star Beast's consciousness, his hand still attached to the cocoon of the Star Beast. Lilo also woke up with her body still clinging to Astrum's shoulder.
"Is that the memory of the Star Beast?" He muttered to himself, he realized that it wasn't just a dream.
Not long after, the cocoons of the star beasts opened from above. The strands of energy thread that formed the cocoon unraveled and became a thread that entered the body of the Star Beast within.
At this time the Star beast has finished metamorphosis, its back and shoulders appear sharp spines. Its head has two large, broad horns like a deer. The abdomen is covered with hard layers of orange color.
The Star Beast roared, and the star beasts surrounding it followed suit. Their roars shook the surrounding area and caused several nearby cocoons to vibrate violently.
The vibration stimulates the acceleration of metamorphosis.
"Hey, you did it." Thea's voice was very close.
Astrum turned and saw Thea was already on his right.
"How long was it?" Astrum could not guess the time he spent in the Star Beast's consciousness.
"One day," Thea said.
"One day!" Astrum was so shocked, he didn't expect that entering the Star Beast's consciousness would take so long. He felt only a few hours experiencing the memory of the Star Beast.
Astrum and Thea looked at the Star Beast in awe.
The bear Star Beast bowed towards Astrum. Astrum looked at the behavior of the Star Beast with a smile. Not long after that the surrounding cocoons that trembled also began to open.
"It is rare to see Star Beasts metamorphose simultaneously." Thea chuckled in admiration while seeing this phenomenon.
Astrum looked at this phenomenon in amazement and was delighted to see this Star Beast undergoing a transformation. He suddenly gasped and remembered something, leaving the Star Beast still looking down. Astrum riding Lilo flew up to look at the crowd of Star Beasts.