Light enveloped his vision and suddenly Astrum had moved into a different place.
His eyes slowly opened, his blurry vision slowly becoming clearer. Looking around him there were many beads of green energy floating around.
He looked at Thea who was concentrating with his eyes closed.
"Kyaa!" Lilo jump from Astrum's chest to face.
"Astrum, you are awake."
Thea immediately hugged Astrum and cried.
"Astrum, I'm sorry… I'm sorry for getting all of you involved." Thea said while sobbing.
Astrum slowly woke up and realized that he was in an unknown room.
"Thea, what happened? Where are we?"
"I am Lander. Sorry for being late to help."
"Lander? From the Lon clan?"
"That's right, I am the Lon clan chief; Lander."
"Astrum, they were the ones who saved you from Zax," Thea explained.
"What happened?"
"Actually, we were already monitoring your movements when you arrived on this continent. We want to help the attack, but we must look for intruders. We didn't expect not just one intruder, but it turns out that the entire Beak clan has cooperated with Zax."
Hearing Lander's words, Astrum becomes furious because of Anggul's betrayal. Looking around, he saw Bi and Hiru were unconscious and wrapped in green bandages.
"Their energy bodies are burned out from Zax's attack," Landers explained.
Astrum slowly got up from his bed and was about to approach Bi and Hiru.
"Astrum, you should rest. Your body hasn't fully recovered yet." Thea said.
"They have sacrificed for me, at least I have to help them."
He walked towards Bi and Hiru, placing his hands on Bi and Hiru's foreheads. The tribal symbol on his chest changed, there was black ink flowing into his hand.
Bi and Hiru's bodies began to glow, the bandages covering their bodies slowly opened. The flow of energy that was seeping out started to come back in, and the wounds on Bi and Hiru's bodies began to close. Tribal symbols began to appear on their chests.
Lander and Thea were very surprised to see this, they didn't know how Astrum made the symbol for Bi and Hiru. Lander, who had just seen this symbol, immediately knelt down respectfully.
"Before they had received baptism, but they didn't understand it. If there are material crystals it will help speed up their recovery."
"We still have some materials." Lander immediately exited the room.
"Astrum, you got understanding from Beast baptism?" Thea asked curiously.
"Just a little, maybe will get more when I get all the baptisms."
Not long after, Lander returned with some tier 4 materials.
"Lander, where did you get this much material from?" Thea was confused.
"We robbed the Zax Warehouse during the attack."
Astrum took the material and squeezed it into a mist of energy. The energy mist slowly entered Bi and Hiru's bodies. Astrum wanted to use the recovery glyph to speed up Bi and Hiru's recovery, but his current state didn't allow it. His condition is also still in recovery.
"Leave them like this for a while, it will take them a while to recover."
"Lord Astrum, what are you going to do now?"
"Clan Head Lander, you don't have to be that polite to me."
"Sorry master Astrum, you have that mark, it means that now you are our leader."
Astrum realized what Lander meant, he didn't comment anymore.
"I have to go back there to retrieve my parents' bodies"
"Lord Astrum, please follow me."
They walked out of the room and into another room. In the room, several Beastros were guarding two bodies wrapped in black cloth.
Astrum suspected that the two bodies were his parents.
"Master Astrum, we brought the bodies of your parents from the town square. We don't want Zax to use their bodies."
"Using my parents' body? What do they want to do?"
"Master Astrum, they have a method to draw energy from the corpse of the insignias."
"What do you mean?"
"I will explain later, now that their bodies are here, what to do? We dare not perform the ceremony before you."
Astrum approached his parents' bodies and opened the black cloth that wrapped their faces.
Tears streamed down his cheeks. Bowed and knelt in front of his parents and said: "Father, Mother, I'm sorry."
"Forgive me for being too weak!" He knelt while hitting the ground several times.
"Astrum, this is all my fault. I am to blame!" Thea said while embracing Astrum from behind.
"Not! It's all happened. They should all be punished!" Astrum said with anger.
Lander approached Astrum and handed Astrum the pendant and ring.
"Lord Astrum, this is the legacy of your parents."
Astrum took the ring and pendant. The ring belongs to his father and the pendant is a pendant that has the essence of the Levian sea.
Suddenly someone entered the room in a hurry.
"Clan chief, we have a movement!"
"What happened?" Landers asked.
"Currently, Solux is preparing a spaceship."
"What does she want to do?"
"Looks like Solux is going to get materials from a planet not far from here."
"How could there be another planet near here?" Lander was even more confused by the news he received.
Astrum was shocked to hear this news, he slowly got up and asked Lander.
"Clan Chief, How did you guys know something like this?"
"Lord Astrum, apart from us robbing their warehouse, we also planted several bugs throughout the green city."
"Eavesdropper? How did you guys find the eavesdropper?"
"That is the technology of the Green Leaf army. Ever since Zax invaded this planet, we Lon clan have cooperated with the Green Leaf army."
"You called captain Aun here." Lander gave orders to his subordinates.
Not long after, a middle-aged man in a black leaf-patterned robe entered the room.
"Miss Thea" he bowed in respect.
"Lord Astrum, let me introduce you, It is Aun who is the current captain of Green Leaf."
"Master Astrum, I am Aun Hij Deen captain Green Leaf, you can call me Aun." Aun bowed respectfully.
"I've heard a lot about you. I thank you for helping my nation before."
"Captain Aun doesn't need to be so polite."
"Captain Aun, you can tell me what's going on right now," Landers said.
Then Aun told the current situation of Zax's troops.
Thanks to the bugs installed during the attack, they now have an ear for the situation within Green City. The Horn Clan and Star Beast troops were brought back to the Beak clan home. Sidus and Stella were detained by Zax in the mansion and Zax's army is currently recovering from the previous battle.
Solux is currently making preparations to retrieve material from a planet 1000 kilometers from Nexor.
"We also don't know where this planet came from, because this planet suddenly appeared after the attack," Aun said.
"That is my planet, we hid the planet before coming here. It seems the hiding glyph disappeared when Aunt Stella was caught."
"If they manage to retrieve the material, their strength will increase greatly," Aun said.
"We must stop them immediately! My star core is still on that planet!" Thea suddenly said.
"Hah? Miss Thea, how did your star core get on that planet?" Lander was confused by Thea's statement.
Then Thea recounted her experience of running away from Nexor until she met Astrum's group.
"Right now, there are some situations that need to be addressed immediately," Aun said.
"The first is to prevent Solux from getting the material. Secondly, rescuing our captured comrades. Third, destroy the soul leech factory."
"Soul Leech Factory?" Astrum is shocked to hear this.
"We have found the location where they produced the soul leeches. The location of the factory is in Green City." Aun said as he opened the green city map hologram.
"This factory is controlled by Folux, and according to the information we have, in 7 days they will get a new supply of leeches."
Astrum pondered about his next move. His current condition has not fully recovered, it will be very difficult to attack.
"We have to do this one at a time. The most urgent thing is to prevent Solux from getting the materials."
Suddenly someone entered the room in a hurry and said: "Captain, Solux has departed!"
"Damn it! We're late!" Astrum said clenching his fists.
"Thea, are you still able to control the planet?"
"My Star Source is still there, of course, I can control it."
"Alright then you use your power to hide the location of your star source and all the inhabitants, let Solux bring the materials to Nexor. But don't make it too easy."
"Astrum, what is your aim?"
"We can't stop Solux from getting there, so what we can do is grab the material before it gets here."
"How do we seize the material?"
"Hmm…. We're going to hijack one of their spaceships!"
"Okay."
***
Moments later, Lander prepares a ceremony for Astrum's parents. They all circled the bodies of John and Ave which were wrapped in black cloth. Lander handed the torch to Astrum.
Astrum stood with his hands shaking holding the torch. His eyes were filled with tears, his heart was torn, he still couldn't accept the death of his parents.
Thea accompanied Astrum from the side, unable to say anything. He felt very guilty about this situation.
"Father… Mother… Rest in peace, I will avenge them all." Astrum said in a deep voice.
The fire burned the black cloth that wrapped John and Ave, their bodies instantly burned. Amid the majestic flames, two symbols appeared. Astrum noticed the symbol and realized that it was his parents' star marks.
From these symbols came the shadows of the figures of John and Ave, they smiled at Astrum. The shadow only appeared for a moment but was very clear.
"Their souls have synergized with the star mark," Thea said after seeing the star mark shadow.