"Thea, what does that mean?"
"A part of John and Ave's soul fused with the soul of the Star Beast. This is not uncommon but not common either. "
"You mean the UNION contract?"
"How did you know the contract?"
Then Astrum told his experience when he met Tiluk. Of course, Thea was very surprised. Thea didn't recognize the appearance or form of the Ancient Beastros, but if it came from the Beast baptism symbol then it must be correct.
"I'm not saying that their contract is UNION type because that type of contract only applies to Beastros. What I do know is, their souls fused with the Insignia. Which means that Star Beast has the feelings of your parents."
"Captain Aun, do you know where my parents' weapons are located?" Astrum asked.
"Both of your parents' weapons are currently in the hands of the beak clan."
"Alright, I'll take them back."
***
After the ceremony was over, Astrum used the available materials to recover. Even though he had regained consciousness, the state of his energy body had only recovered 20%. Fortunately, currently, Lander provided some materials from the previous robbery.
He realized that he needed to level up immediately, but he didn't want to spend Lander's materials either. He decided to wait for the materials that Solux would bring.
Thea controls the home planet to move materials within the wilderness, the goal being to slow down Solux's acquisition of the materials.
After a day had passed, Astrum had fully recovered. He noticed a change in him, then he checked into his consciousness. Astrum noticed a change in the Star Diagram, one of the tribal symbol pieces that had a ring of light currently changing shape. The ring has two sharp edges.
He realized that this piece had leveled up. He checked his stats and found his defense stat changed.
[Astrum - Level: 27]
Strength: 8
Agility: 8
Defense: 5 + 10 (15)
Perception: 6
"The increase in defense thanks to this beast baptism is amazing."
He came out of his consciousness and stabilized himself.
Suddenly there was an urgent call, one of Aun's men gave the news that something had happened to Bi and Hiru. Astrum immediately rushed to the room where Bi and Hiru were.
At this moment, Bi and Hiru's bodies were shining. Their bodies bore many scars, but no more energy or blood came out.
"What happened? Is it thanks to the enlightenment of the Beast Baptism?" Astrum was curious about this event.
"No, the effect of Beast baptism is not like this. There seems to be something else." Thea said.
The process lasts for 30 minutes. Slowly the light shrank back and returned to their bodies. The asterisks on their bodies shone brightly and then slowly changed shape.
"This…" Thea was surprised.
"Thea, what's wrong?" Astrum asked.
"Their Star Marks evolve!"
"What does it mean?"
"When Star Beasts make a contract, they cannot evolve. It was because their bodies had already turned into star marks. What's happening now is their star marks evolve."
Not long after, Bi and Hiru came to their senses. Not only did they recover, but their levels increased. The two of them immediately knelt respectfully in front of Astrum.
"Master Astrum, thank you for the blessing." They said in unison.
"Bi – Hiru, you guys leveled up?"
"That's right, Lord Astrum. It seems this is thanks to our oath." Hiru answered.
Astrum just remembered, before when they got an evolution, they gave a promise to follow Astrum. And apparently, their act of sacrificing themselves for Astrum is recognized as one of the fulfillment of the promise.
Currently, their level increased by 2 levels to 26, This is a great achievement.
"Not only have our levels increased but there seems to be a change in our energy bodies."
Astrum and Thea were also curious about Bi and Hiru's statement.
"Hiru, let me check your energy body," Astrum asks to enter Hiru's consciousness.
Hirupun opened the space of consciousness voluntarily, he had complete trust in Astrum. After Astrum checked Bi and Hiru's consciousness space, he concluded.
"Your energy body is expanding, not only is your level up but your control ability is increasing."
Astrum pondered a few things, "AH!" He gets inspired.
"Bi – Hiru, With your current controllability it looks like you can change the previously acquired skills."
Then they discuss to formulate a new skill.
***
After a while, Astrum asked Bi and Hiru to practice.
"Thea, how is the situation on the home planet right now?"
"I've made a maze in the middle of the forest to slow them down and it's very effective."
"Good, now is the time for us to hijack one of their spaceships."
They exit the room and look for Lander. Tracing the hallway, noticed that the walls of the hallway were engraved with ancient glyphs. He was curious about their current location.
"Lander clan head." Astrum greeted Lander politely.
Lander is currently gathering with Captain Aun and some personnel.
"Miss Thea, Lord Astrum."
"You have fully recovered? This is truly extraordinary." Lander was surprised to see Astrum's condition had recovered quickly.
"Thank you. It's thanks to the materials you provided."
"No need to hesitate. Lord Astrum introduces this as one of the guardians of the Lon clan; Certi."
Certi bowed respectfully to Astrum and Thea.
"I am also one of the guardians," Lander said as he took off his robes, showing the insignias mark on his hand.
"Oh... Where's Daal?"
"Oh.. yes, where is Daal? I forgot about him." Thea also said.
"Daal? You guys met Daal?" Lander was getting more and more curious about Astrum and Thea's question.
"Of course, he should have brought news of the invasion of the main continent," Thea answered and then recounted the meeting with Daal until his farewell.
"Daal hasn't been back since he was caught by Zax, and that was a year ago. If it's like this then it's likely that Arrot handed it over to Zax." Lander clenched his fists in anger.
They were all silent, Anggul's betrayal had been planned for a long time. This made them very angry.
"We need to find Daal, but before that, I have a question," Astrum said to Lander.
"Lord Astrum, please ask the question. Don't be too shy with me."
"Where are we now?"
"We are on the main continent. More precisely under the main continent."
"Hah? We are under the main continent?" Astrum was getting confused.
"Let's follow me first." Lander led the way to another Hallway.
While walking the lander explained their location. Currently, the place they occupy is an underground passage which is an ancient relic. They stumbled across this place while monitoring the perimeter of the green city.
After a while of walking, Lander led them into a special room. This room had several Green Leaf personnel busy with their equipment.
"They're tapping into the green city," Landers explained.
He walked over to the square table in the middle of the room. There was already captain Aun who was looking at the table seriously.
"Captain Aun, what are you doing?" Lander asked because their presence was not noticed by Aun. This was unnatural, as Captain Aun was always on guard. This means that something is so serious that it grabs his attention.
Aun was surprised by Lander's call, then calmed down and greeted them "Oh. Lander! Miss Thea, Mr. Astrum."
"What happened? Why are you so focused?" Landers was curious.
"Oh, this. Zax's army seems to be using their rotten methods to get material intake!"
"You mean?"
"Previously Zax's army lost so much material that they couldn't recover quickly. Now they are using that method to replace materials."
"What method do you mean?" Astrum was curious.
"We haven't got the detailed information, but from the rough picture; they use the insignias body to produce a liquid substitute for the material."
"That means they can use the insignias they caught instead of materials?"
"That's right! Right now I have information that they are taking some Insignias prisoners to a location near here." Aun answered while pointing at a location on the 3D map from the table.
"We have to save them immediately!"
"I agree, but at the moment we are short on resources and manpower."
"How is the current condition of the troops?"
"Currently we only have 100 personnel and two Insignias. One of our advantages is our untraceable location."
"Oh yeah, where are we?" Astrum just remembered the first goal he asked Lander.
Aun didn't answer directly, he just clicked something on the table. The 3D map of the green city changed, showing a green city above and an ant tunnel right below it. Astrum was stunned to see the map.
"We're right under the green city," Aun explained.
"Thea, didn't you say that commander Thiberry was in the basement of the mansion?"
"That's right, and it looks like our location shouldn't be far from the commander's location," Thea answered while looking at the map.
"That's right, what Miss Thea said is not wrong. Commander Thiberry's location is here." Aun pointed to a location on the map not far from them.
"But we can't get into the location, there seems to be a strong barrier."
"Lead us there, immediately!" Thea insisted.
Then they walked down the stairs deeper underground. On the way to Thiberry's location, Astrum asked: "If we are underground right now, how can you spy on us?"
"We dug underground tunnels to get out of Green City."
"Then you can only enter this place from outside the green city?"
"Oh no, we made a lot of secret doors. One of them is in the town square."
"Ha? Town square?"
"That's right when you guys attacked the green city, we used the opportunity to outwit Zax's army by punching a hole in the city wall."