Gradually the energy flow stabilized and the condition returned to calm, the tribal tattoo that enveloped the entire body shrank back into Astrum's chest.
Astrum opened his eyes with a frightened face, sweat dripping down his face and body. Right now, no one was paying attention to him as everyone present was stabilizing their level.
Astrum had just realized the great danger of trying to break through without stabilizing his level. He was grateful that the tribal symbol he got from the Beast baptism was protecting the energy from breaking his body from within.
Recovering from the shock by catching his breath, he checked the flow of energy in his body and saw that the current branch of energy in his body was not what it used to be.
The energy branches on his hands and feet had many small twigs coming out of the main branch.
Checking the energy branch on his head didn't change, he felt somewhat relieved. He doesn't know what effect will arise with this change of the energy branch.
Calm down and refocus on the energy center to stabilize his level.
After three hours of meditating to stabilize his level, he is now trying to strengthen the branch of energy flowing into his head. He is trying to improve his control ability.
The energy flows through the branch to the part of his brain. The energy splits the tip of the branch into several small branches. The branches continue to grow other branches until three layers.
His current form of energy body looked like roots spreading throughout his body.
He was very confused by his current condition but he didn't dare to consult Stella or Sidius. He was worried that they would be angry if they found out that he was carelessly forcing his level up.
He noticed that the energy branches in his brain were stable and solid. He felt that the concentration and control over the energy of the stars were becoming higher than before.
He wanted to immediately try to practice the ability to control his Star Beast, but when he looked at the energy center, he saw that his Star Diagram showed something unusual.
He looked at his Star Diagram, finding that the round slab with the tribal symbol had a halo that didn't exist before. He suspected that this tribal symbol was still active to protect his energy from escaping from his body.
He felt that his body was normal and tried to deactivate the tribal symbol. Touched the chip but there was no change, the chip still had a halo.
Sensing that his body was fine at the moment, he ignored the tribal piece and moved on to another.
This time he looked at the pieces with the star symbol and three pieces with the star beast symbol appeared. He touched the chip with the symbol of a bear.
When he touched the symbol, there was information that entered his consciousness. He suddenly understood the meaning of this symbol, then touched another star beast symbol.
He gained an understanding of the abilities of the Star Beasts that he possessed, the Bears had high defensive abilities, the Bulls had great strength and the Horses had speed.
After gaining this understanding, he only realized the power of stars. All this time he had star power without Insignia.
Another common insignia uses the abilities of Star Beasts to increase their abilities. After Astrum obtains Insignia, he can access Star Beast abilities.
In addition, it gets better things than the common Insignia. He can control his Star Beast at will.
Coming out of his consciousness, he found Lilo right in front of him with a worried look. He patted Lilo's head as a sign that everything was fine.
He sensed that his level had not increased, remaining at level 27. Seeing that there were currently 300 Star Beasts, 1 Starian, and 2 Insignias, he guessed that his achievements were split across all of them and that he only gained a few.
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One month had passed, Astrum discovered that controlling the Star Beast was quite a complicated matter. Currently, he could only control only one Star Beast at a time.
There were currently 75 Star Beasts with level 30, 100 Star Beasts with level 20, and the rest had levels below 10.
With this number, Astrum and Thea decided to take only 175 Star Beasts and leave the Star Beasts that had not yet reached level 10 on the planet. Then they decided to report to Sidius.
When they arrived at Sidius's location, there the troops and Beastros were astonished to see the presence of Astrum and the pack of Star Beasts.
Some of the Star Beasts showed auras that were so strong that the Beastros felt suffocated to the point of being speechless.
Sidius and Stella approached Astrum.
"Wow, in one month already got this much" Sidius was very satisfied with this result.
"Unfortunately the amount of material is not sufficient for all the Star Beasts" Thea replied.
"Don't be so greedy, we still need those materials for Nexor."
"We're getting closer to Nexor, we expect to arrive in a month."
Thea hearing this news became even more excited.
"I found that the closer we get to Nexor, the more Cosmic Fiends there are."
"Let's use this opportunity to hunt and get some materials."
Sidius proposed.
Astrum heard this became very excited, he had the opportunity to use his new ability.
"Alright, you guys go to the location. I'm going to pull some asteroids."
With orders from Sidius, Astrum's group rushed to a location devoted to attracting asteroids. Currently, Astrum only brought his three Star Beasts, the rest were left to return to the forest.
At that location, Astrum had been waiting for a while accompanied by Thea and Lilo.
Not long after, 5 Asteroids fell to that location and created a large crater. From the crater emerged 5 Cosmic Fiends.
Astrum looked at the Cosmic Fiends and realized that they were only at level 20. He sent his three Star Beasts to take care of the Cosmic Fiends.
The battle was very short and all the Cosmic Diends had fallen. Of course, it was easy for Astrum's Star Beasts, their level gap was too great. Then Astrum collects Star Source material from the Cosmic Fiend's body.
Even though the battle had been won, Astrum was not satisfied. He planned to try his new ability but because the enemy was too weak there was no chance to try.
"Thea, you can communicate remotely with uncle Sidius"
"Of course, what message do you want to send?"
"Please ask Uncle Sidius to attract more Cosmic Fiends."
"Ha! More than this?"
"No need to worry, my Star Beast level is already at 30"
Then Thea sent her message to Sidius. Hearing a message like this, Sidius protested but realizing that the Star Beast Astrum was already at level 30, he agreed.
Not long after that 8 Asteroids fell to their location and the Cosmic Fiend came out of the asteroid. Astrum read their level found that their level was higher than the previous one, this Cosmic Fiend's level was at level 25.
This time he did not ask his Star Beast to attack. He took a tier 4 material wrapped it with the surrounding earth and made it like a lump of rock.
Thea watched Astrum in astonishment.
Astrum threw a boulder containing a tier four material into the center of the Cosmic Fiend's location.
"Astrum, what are you doing? Those materials are very valuable."
"No need to worry, we'll just have to wait."
Not long after, the 8 cosmic Fiends were fighting for the material.
Astrum used his previous tactics to obtain a higher level cosmic Fiend, but Thea still didn't understand Astrum's intentions.
The eight Cosmic Fiends fought fiercely, in just a few moments remaining two Cosmic Fiends standing still. Astrum remained silent and waited for the Cosmic Fiend to fight each other.
Thea watched this curiously as to what Astrum would do.
At this point, the Cosmic Fiend battle was over. Only one Cosmic Fiend remained and he absorbed all the star sources of the defeated cosmic Fiend.
The Cosmic Fiend's body grew bigger and bigger and its aura increased. Astrum looked at the Cosmic Fiend and realized that his level had increased to 25 and was still increasing.
Lilo was ready to move towards the Cosmic Fiend but was stopped by Astrum.
The cosmic Fiend's level continued to increase, when it surpassed level 27, Astrum had not read the level. Astrum connected himself to the bear Star Beast and once connected he could sense the Cosmic Fiend's level.
Astrum waited and let the Cosmic Fiend finish his leveling up. Then the Cosmic Fiend's level stopped at level 29. The Cosmic Fiend's body was slowly recovering, this was because the process of leveling up was not interrupted.
In the previous Astrum strategy, when the Cosmic Fiend was leveling up, it had already attacked so that the process of leveling up was disrupted.
Right now, the Cosmic Fiend was gaining an uninterrupted level increase. He raised his level comfortably and there was no need to stabilize his level.
The Cosmic Fiend showed a fierce face towards Astrum.
Astrum replied with a smile and ordered the Bear Star Beast to come forward to fight the cosmic fiend.