"Thea, why can't I speak normally when connected to a Star Beast?" He asked in a confused tone.
"Hahaha, of course. How can any Star Beast speak normally like us?"
"When you connect, you have to share your consciousness. You can control the Star Beast however you want, this is useful in battle. Star Beasts generally fight using their instincts, with your awareness you can help them attack strategically."
"This will not be obtained by ordinary contracts of insignias or contracts of worship. This can only happen on a Full Dominance contract."
"Since you have obtained this contract, now is the best time to practice this new ability."
"Let the other Star beasts metamorphose naturally." Thea's statement meant that another Star beast was still in the process of transforming.
John and Ave congratulate Astrum, as parents, they are very happy to see their child get a blessing like this.
Stella and Sidius also congratulated Astrum, as their mentors they were very proud to see Astrum's achievements.
It wasn't long before Stella and Sidus returned to their post to help move the planet toward Nexor. John and Ave were still in the same place watching another Star Beast metamorphosis.
Astrum was excited to practice this new ability. When he wanted to try practicing, he just remembered about Beast Baptism.
"Thea, there is one more thing I want to ask."
"Yes please," Thea answered very casually.
"On my Star Diagram there is a Tribal sign and it shows there are six branches instead of five?"
"Hah? Your Star Diagram has the Tribal mark too?"
"Shouldn't there be?"
"Generally, Star Diagram insignias only show the number of Insignia connections," Thea answered thoughtfully with her hand on her chin.
"The Star Diagram has not only Tribal and Insignia marks, but also glyph marks," Astrum added.
"What? Let me enter your consciousness."
When Thea entered the Astrum consciousness space, she was surprised to see the shape of the space. He had never imagined the form of Astrum's consciousness space to be so wide and beautiful as a meadow. Looked at the Star Boar and was even more shocked.
Seeing that the Astrum Star Diagram was very different from the Star Diagram he knew and seeing all of Astrum's learning achievements printed on the Star Diagram. After a moment of observing, he came out of the Astrum consciousness space.
"I also don't know that there are 6 types of baptism, maybe you can find out after going to the Altar in Gleas."
Since this matter still couldn't be solved at this time, Astrum finally returned to practice his new ability to control Star Beasts.
Several times he tried, he found that sharing consciousness with Star Beasts was extremely difficult. Every time he entered Star Beast consciousness, he lost control of his body. He guessed that this might be because his conscious control was still low.
It had been a long time since he had practiced the power of control, the last time he practiced his control was when he experimented with making glyphs from a combination of Stella and Sidus glyphs.
Entering the space of his consciousness and seeing the energy branch running through his head had become a fairly stable branch. It tries to increase the flow of energy from the center to the branch, it tries to enlarge the branch.
Tried several times, he found the energy flow from the center was very stable. It requires additional energy intake to provide a spike to this energy flow.
This time he had already prepared two tier 4 materials. He planned to use these materials after all the Star Beasts had finished evolving. But right now if he didn't know how long the final metamorphosis process would take.
He decided to use this material.
Holding material in the right hand and then the material turns into a mist of energy which is then directly absorbed by Astrum.
In the space of his consciousness, he felt the same sensation, waves of energy began to appear and hit him. Calm and silent let the waves hit him.
From the outside, his body was already starting to glow. It was a sign that his level would increase. The light spread to a radius of 100 meters, enveloping everything in that radius.
John and Ave felt a very subtle energy wave making them immediately enter a meditative state. Thea who this time had her body also felt the same way. The other Star Beasts that were not in their cocoons also felt a surge of energy.
In Astrum's consciousness space, his Star Diagram floated in the air. Astrum looked at his Star Diagram and found that a new branch had appeared. The centerpieces absorb all the energy that has been refined and shine brightly.
Currently, there are shining round pieces as well; round pieces with a star symbol, a glyph symbol, and a new symbol. Astrum saw this realized something, he realized that he could distribute the energy he got into the branch he chose.
He analyzed that he needed this energy to improve his control, he chose round pieces in the form of glyphs. Then the energy from the center of the round pieces flows into the round pieces with the glyph symbol, the energy flow flows to the branches with white glyphs.
After all that energy flowed into the white glyph, the branch with the new symbol slowly disappeared.
From outside, the light that spread from Astrum's body returned to his body again.
Astrum felt his level increase to 27, he obtained three levels from one medium-rank material (4th tier material).
"Why did it seem like there was a breakthrough but it disappeared all of a sudden?" Thea who just woke up from her meditative state.
Right now only Astrum got a level up, everything around him didn't get it. They gain a little enlightenment from the subtle energy waves but have not been able to breakthrough.
Astrum looked around in realization and muttered "Perhaps the new symbol is a talent that usually raises levels around me"
Thea checked the state of her unraised level feeling extremely furious. John and Ave just smiled at Thea's behavior.
There was still one more material in Astrum's hand, he wanted to try it one more time. He noticed that his energy center was already filled with new energy much bigger than usual. He was considering using this material now or after he strengthened his energy branch.
"Oh, what the heck!" It tried to break through once again using the remaining materials.
After the material turns into a mist of energy and enters Astrum's body. The previously disappeared symbol reappeared, he chose the symbol to answer his guess.
Sure enough, his body emitted white light once again and enveloped the entirety within a 100-meter radius. When the light returned to his body, the bodies of John, Ave, Thea, and the Star Beasts shone.
They feel a breakthrough, their level increases. John and Ave became level 21, Thea became level 20 and the Star Beasts had various upgrades. Several Star Beasts that had not metamorphosed at all were currently starting to get wrapped up in cocoons of energy.
Astrum felt a huge amount of energy in its center, the energy was so great that it could no longer be contained. The energy moved ferociously to spread out over every branch. Astrum tried to control this flow of energy but to no avail. This current of energy was too fierce for him to control.
He forgot Stella's suggestion, that each level up should be stabilized first. Because he didn't stabilize his level, right now the energy flow in his body became choppy and extremely fierce.
Release from the energy center and flow into every branch. The energy branches in Astrum's body began to be unable to withstand the energy flow. Its energy branch could break at any moment.
Astrum sensed this and endured the pain that rose from within, his eyes closed and his jaw clenched. He felt that his body could crumble at any moment.
The flow of energy became more and more unstable and the energy branches on his body were already showing cracks.
"BREAK!!!" the energy broke and flowed out of the branches.
Astrum could feel his energy pouring out of the branches and flooding into his body. The energy waves were so ferocious and wanted to burst out of his body. He could feel his body being broken from within, his body burning from within. Those energy currents continuously flowed out from the branches and wanted to exit Astrum's body.
Suddenly one of the round pieces on the Star Diagram shone, it was round pieces with the Tribal symbol.
The Tribal Symbol on his chest shone brilliantly and released tribal-shaped black ink all over the body.
Astrum's body is covered in black tribal tattoos all the way to his neck. And right now, his body is fully turned in black color, It looks like gonna transform him into a beast.