There was a commotion in the Beak clan's house, Aryae and Kaheer disappeared without a word and their guards also disappeared. The Beak clan guards were busy wandering around looking for their whereabouts.
Arrot who was the head of the beak clan army gathered his troops.
"Have you guys still not found it?"
"Guardian Arrot, We've searched all over the place and couldn't find them at all."
"Damn it! Enlarge the search perimeter. Search all the way to the foot of the mountain!"
The beak clan troops immediately dispersed and came out of their homes. Arrot assigned half-insignias of the beak clan to carry out the quest.
In the throne room, Angul paced back and forth very anxiously. Then Arrot came into the throne room and approached Anggul.
"Arrot, how is it? Have you found them yet?"
"Sorry Clan Chief, currently the troops are assigned to look for them at the foot of the mountain."
"Damn it, it's been a day. It's impossible for them to just disappear without news!" Anggul said in a very worried tone.
"Is there any information from Zax's squad?"
"They don't participate in the search; they focus on guarding the enemy's attack."
"Damn it! Speed up the search!" Anggul shouted in an angry tone.
Then Arrot walked out of the throne room.
From behind the throne room wall, Astrum smiled contentedly listening to their conversation. He walked back down the stairs to the depths.
In the darkroom, Aryae and Kaheer were tied to the cave wall. Aryee's condition looked normal, in contrast to Kaheer who was full of wounds. Kaheer's condition looked very deplorable, his body was covered in wet wounds, and blood was flowing from the wounds.
Not long after that, cyan light grains appeared in the air, they came into contact with Kaheer's wounds, and instantly the wounds closed tightly. The blood stopped flowing from the wound.
From the darkness, Astrum appeared with a sinister face. Aryee looked at Astrum wide-eyed, she wanted to scream but she couldn't.
"Princess of the Beak clan, how are you?" Astrum asked in a sarcastic tone.
Aryae was unable to reply to Astrum's question, his beak tied. Tears rolled down her terrified face. She looked at his brother Kaheer who was slowly coming to his senses.
"Oh, it seems the prince has come to his senses."
Kaheer opened his eyes and widened his eyes, he couldn't move from his current position. His body had just recovered thanks to the recovery energy. He had been tortured for a whole day, every time he was unconscious, Astrum would recover him and tortured him again.
When Astrum arrived at the beak clan, he did not immediately move rashly. He delayed the ambush time to await an attack from the Green Leaf army.
The Green Leaf army will attack the beak clan in four days. He didn't want to wait without doing something. Taking advantage of his free time, he kidnaps Aryee, Kaheer, and their guards.
"You guys are amazing, aren't you? You really want my parents' star sign and pretend to be nice."
"You guys must not die so quickly; I still have some things prepared for you."
Astrum's statement gave a bad indication, he didn't want to stop torturing them yet.
"But before that, what liquid is this?" Astrum holds a cup with black liquid.
Kaheer didn't react at all to Astrum's question. This is the umpteenth time Kaheer has done this. Astrum also realized it, so he tortured Kaheer. This time Astrum didn't move towards Kaheer, it moved towards Aryee. Removed Cutlass from his waist and aimed at Aryae.
The cutlass was John's weapon, when he kidnapped Aryee and Kaheer, Astrum had retrieved their parents' weapons. He also gets the contract directly when he touches his parents' weapons. Currently, there is a new sign on his left arm, a tattoo in the form of two lizards circling each other.
Aryee looked at Cutlass who was pointed at her, she was very afraid of the torment that would be experienced like his brother. As the Cutlass got closer, she shook his head, she was so scared that his eyes filled with tears.
"Oh, sorry. I forgot that you can't speak."
Then Astrum untied Aryee's beak. The instant the bond was untied, Aryee wanted to scream.
"Heel…."
Before she could finish her sentence, the Cutlass sliced her throat. Blood dripped from his throat and Aryee lost her ability to scream and fell unconscious.
Kaheer who was right next to him glared at Astrum slashing his sister's throat viciously. But not long after, a flowing cyan light healed the wound on Aryae's neck. Astrum didn't inflict a deep wound on Aryae's neck, he scratched her neck neatly. Inflicts fatal wounds but not death.
Astrum re-tied Aryee's beak, and then switched to Kaheer.
"Do you want to be like your sister?"
This time the Cutlass aimed at Kaheer. Kaheer had endured this torment for a day, but that did not make him stronger against Astrum's torment. Because every time Astrum torture him, he would increase his torture stronger than before.
"I will untie your mouth, if you shout then I'll not polite. I don't need the two of you, just one is enough."
Astrum's statement is very clear in his meaning, if Kaheer makes a mistake then it is no longer torture but death that comes. The knot on his beak was loosened, Kaheer didn't move at all. He didn't dare scream like Aryee.
"Good, be an obedient child."
Kaheer looked at Astrum with a frightened look, he had lost his arrogance.
"I'm just going to ask this one last time." Astrum raised the cup with the black liquid to Kaheer's face.
"Those are materials liquid!" Kaheer replied trembling.
"Material Liquids? What do you mean?"
"It was a gift from Folux, he said it could replace the material consumption."
"Where did this liquid come from?"
"I don't know, I only know that this liquid can replace material crystals."
-Bugh!-
Astrum hit Kaheer's stomach so hard that Kaheer immediately fell unconscious.
"Is this liquid that Aun said?" Astrum has a suspicion that this fluid is a fluid obtained from Insignias' body.
He left Aryee and Kaheer unconscious, walking to the deeper side of the Hallway. There are several guards Ayee and Kaheer tied up. There are 10 guards tied up at the moment, and 5 of them are insignias. Their condition is no better than Kaheer.
The difference was that their wounds were still wet. Astrum doesn't use any recovery glyphs for them. He tortured them ruthlessly to obtain information about the condition of the beak clan. Astrum also didn't kill the Insignias of the beak clan, as he didn't want to take the contract from them. Astrum had plans to transfer their contract to the horn clan or the Lon clan.
From the torture, Astrum got some important information. He had the locations of the Horn clansmen and his Star Beasts imprisoned. He was unable to act directly to save them, as there were quite a several troops guarding them.
He could of course defeat them easily, after all, their level was far below Astrum's. But with the presence of Zax's army, it would be very troublesome to face them. He waited for the right time to save the horn clan and his Star Beast.
He continued walking into the cave, ignoring the unconscious guards. After going deep enough, he sat down quietly. Entered his consciousness space and checked his star diagram.
In front of his star diagram, he looked at the insignias he had. Previously there were 3 pieces, now increased by one. One new piece is a piece that has a lizard symbol.
He was surprised by this chip because he got a contract from two Star Beasts, it should be two pieces. But now only one chip appeared.
He found something different in his stats. Currently, there are additional points in strength and perception, the addition is not large only 3 points each. He guessed that the asterisk that had been integrated with the weapon would add the stats, but that's just a guess. He could only find out the truth after asking Thea, Stella, or Sidius.
He was trying to get the lizard star beast to get its main body. Touch the chip to try to connect with the Star Beast. From the outside, the star marks on his parents' Cutlass and Phaser shone. The two lights turned into shadows with lizard form.
Astrum opened his eyes and saw them, their bodies were only shadows, not full bodies. He tried to connect with the Star beast, but his every attempt was fruitless.
"Sghhh…. It seems impossible to get them to get their real bodies once integrated." Astrum could only sigh.
After a while, he stood up and went back down the aisle and back to the back door of the throne room.
"Alright, I think this is the good time to move."