"You, Aspin, have incredible growth ability, so I think you can help the spread of the flowers on this barren grass field and strengthen the effects of the flowers more me Seth and I are counting on you. " Thally said excitedly, and Aspin nodded, not even going to question her.
Finally, her gaze turned to Cinabbar. "And you, I hope you can try increasing Seth's mental defence, and if you can't at least try to stop any ability users or creatures with mental attack or infiltration abilities."
Despite the oddness of the situation, Cinabbar still nodded with a smile. "I would be sure to do my best, but..uh, can we talk to Seth...it gets quite lonely despite us being together."
At that, Thally blinked then placed a hand on her chin. "I mean, it really depends on how far your roots are connected to Seth or else you wouldn't even appear in front of his eyes then even connect to his mind, if you increase your speed at growing and increasing his mental strength you can talk to him in about three months."
Cinabbar was disappointed at that, but she was not at all deterred, a flame of determination lit up in her eyes, she vowed to overwork herself till her own mental strength was depleted every day.
Aspin was speechless as she felt Cinabbar's excitement, Aspin herself was excited, but she felt slightly pressured by her, so she too took the same resolve as Cinabbar and got to work.
Sumac was already going to do her best to help Seth, so she didn't really feel all that pressured like the other two try-hards.
The chains were now just slithering in the mind scape since they didn't really have anything to do.
Seeing her orders were accepted without any complaints, Thally felt prideful, and went out of the Mindscape and opened her eyes back inside Seth's body.
***
In the far reaches of the Andromeda galaxy, on a planet filled with countless beasts, there was a crater so large that it spread through almost an entire region of the planet, in that crater was a broken crystal egg that had lost its lustre and under the broken egg was a hole.
The hole was dark and deep, but if one were to go through it, they would have fallen into a vat of lava deep inside the planet's core.
But that was not the case for Alvia. Her crystalline hair wasn't affected by the lava, nor were her three sets of wings.
Alvia's wings were different from her race on, ignoring the fact that she had three sets of wings, the placements of the wings were strange, the on on her shoulder blades were like that of a bird, facing up but the other two were like that of a bat, facing down but still had feathers and despite most of her race that devoured precious metals or stones as food, she had a higher consumption to the point she had been starved the moment of her birth till now.
She could easily suppress that hunger, but it was really unbearable that she told the chief she could satiate her hunger if she devoured the huge rock in the middle of the planet, but he refused. Nonetheless, no one could stop her now since she had been ejected from her planet due to the invasion of the star race and despite having the memories of almost everybody in her race, she still kept her personality, she had a chance to satiate her hunger and she was not letting it go.
At the thought of the rock deep within the planet, Alvia swam faster into the lava, ignoring her clothes were burnt, it didn't really matter since she could easily just create one out of crystals, on her way to the planets core, she dud meet quite some beasts that were made from metals which posed no danger to her as such beasts won't attack her, there was even a beast that encompassed half the planet and stared at her as she went further into the core.
It took her some time, but she finally arrived at the planet's core.
The core of the planet was a ragged piece of crystalline metal that had an energy raging within it. The size was not impressive, but it was enough to fit in her arm, and without any hesitation, Alvia took it and tried to pull it as a magnetic force was trying to repel her hand away but as a being who had almost all control over earth and all metals, her Sovereignty wouldn't be ignored. The resistance only lasted for a second before she pulled away the crystal and dropped it into her mouth, chewing it with satisfaction.
If she were to describe the taste, she would say it tasted sweet and a little bit crunchy.
As the core shattered between her crystalline teeth, the molten waves around Alvia shuddered, rising and falling like tides pulled by some unseen moon. For a moment, silence reigned in the depths of the planet—then the energy sealed inside the metal crystal exploded outward, surging into her body like a storm breaking its chains.
Her three sets of wings flared wide, feathers of light scattering across the molten cavern, glowing so brightly that the surrounding lava seemed dim by comparison. Her hunger that had plagued her since birth began to vanish, consume, and be replaced with something else: power, heavy and oppressive, threading itself into her veins, bones, and soul.
Alvia's crystalline hair lengthened as if each strand had drunk from the same energy, glowing faintly with shifting colours—ruby, sapphire, emerald, and then a deep shade of obsidian that pulsed like a heartbeat. She gasped, half in pain, half in ecstasy, as her body began to resonate with the planet itself.
The great beast that had encompassed half the planet earlier stirred again, its colossal metallic body grinding against the crust. Its molten-red eyes opened in the distance, locking onto her form as if finally sensing the theft of its heart.
Alvia turned to it, licking her lips slowly. "So this was yours?" she asked softly, though her voice carried across the liquid heat. "Then you should have guarded it better."
The beast roared, a metallic screech that made the entire planet tremble. Lava geysers burst from fissures in the crust, storms of molten iron, and stone tearing the skies above. Yet Alvia only spread her wings further, unafraid, a crystalline aura cloaking her form like a throne of refracted light. "Quiet, you shall now obey me, Beast."
The beast roared, and the planet died. It was simply an apocalypse for the living creatures above.
If one were to observe the planet from space, one would see a large metallic pointed leg burst from the ground.
***
A day had passed, and Seth was in his room and Thally was surprisingly inside her pot with a smile on her face. She was holding the edges of the pot, waiting for Seth to wake up, and if he didn't, she would wake him up herself through some not-so-comfortable means.
Seth, as if sensing danger, woke up with a yawn. He slowly sat up and rubbed his back while grimacing. The beds on the spaceship definitely did not feel comfortable, he might actually just take out a sleeping mat next time and go outside to sleep but he really didn't want to take chances against underground beasts so he would just put it down on the metallic floors and then sleep.
He turned around and noticed Thally on his bed in her pot. He forgot that he had placed her there when he was going to sleep. He greeted her with a smile. "Good morning, Thally, you seem happy today."
Thally chuckled and immediately stood up from her pot. "Yep, don't you feel something different?"
Seth raised an eyebrow and got off the bed. "Huh?"
Seth exclaimed and then lifted his leg. He somehow could not feel his body weight, actually, he felt light and his mind felt free, he could also feel much better than before if he had been dropped into a pool of health. "I feel amazing. What did you do, Thally?"
Thally had her hands on her waist and proudly raised her chin. "I got rid of all the impurities in your blood and increased the roots in your body."
He looked at her with his mouth wide open. What did she mean by getting rid of all the impurities in his body and increasing the 'roots' in his body? Well, she simply did as she said. She removed all the unnecessary stuff in his body, and somehow, in his mind then she used the roots of the three flowers fused with the spirits on his head and spread their roots all over his body, increasing his constitution, the other flowers' roots were growing into his body but it was at a slower rate compared to his body.
That wasn't the only thing Seth could feel changed about him. He raised his finger and focused on it for a moment, and then a small vibe began to wrap around it steadily and slowly, it was smooth, it felt too smooth and Seth turned to Thally, once again dumbfounded by her.
Thally rolled her eyes and made her body wither. She then reappeared on Seth's shoulder and began explaining to him. "You can now do what I do to appear outside your body, creating vines and leaves using your body and directly using the effects of the plants on your head. You are now a slightly stronger, pawn-level ability user with the slight strength of an abnormal class beast. So you're welcome."
Seth rubbed his eyes and felt like going back to sleep. He didn't want to believe Thally's words, but seeing is believing, and he definitely saw, but he did not believe. It was not that Seth was disappointed. In fact, he was delighted. It was the fact that he couldn't really control his new strength, so he might get a few suspicious glances pointed at him. "Can you suppress the strength until we go back to earth, I don't think I can control it now."
Thally snorted and looked displeased. "Hah, not even a thank you, but you don't really have to worry about, your roots will transfer the information about your body to your mind, so you will automatically learn to control it, it's a feedback mechanism available to plants but i just increased yours a bit since plants grow slower than humans so they have more time to adjust."
That was solved rather quickly and before Seth could even get a breath, he felt a splitting headache assaulting him. He clutched his head in discomfort and turned to Thally looking at her gloomily. "Why didn't you warn me about this?!."
Thally shrugged, how was she supposed to know that he couldn't handle a little pain, in fact, she was even diluting a lot of it so he wouldn't collapse on the bed.
Seth rubbed his head, the headache surprisingly didn't last for long but he would not forget it because he could still feel the lingering pain, he sat there for a full minute before he had to get off and take a bath. Though that would mean he would miss what was happening outside but how would he know that?.
Outside of the planet was a ship, the ship was large and it was shaped like a large configuration of metals and things, if one from Earth were to describe it, they would say it was a mother ship or even a Warship.
On top of the Ship was a black haired Star race with three horns with each having an oily gold flame, In his hand was a book and he was writing on it with something resembling a pen but instead of ink it was fire.
Naturally, members of the Star race can breathe in space but moving in it is not so much. "Oh my, the old geezers are showing off bringing such a thing here, do they want to intimidate the alliance candidates?"
A girl who was looking down at his book asked, her hair was pink and she had pink eyes with an X-shaped iris. She had two horns that extended from the back of her head to her forehead, there was a wild pink flame floating above her hair.