Author: M_W Cancer 

Leo immediately found a comfortable spot to begin forming the Star, specifically it was on the top of the Commander's Palace wall where his front is facing the moon of the night. 

"Base on the book, I should not try to do the hard way, which is to gather more Mana while forming the Star, but rather just use what amount of Mana my consciousness could fully contain within," Leo said to himself. 

Leo sat down on the stone, brick floor before crossing his legs together. Then he closed his eyes before gathering Mana from his surrounding. 

"This process would also let me know my maximum Mana Capacity." Leo whispered to himself while gathering the Mana from his surrounding. 

What Leo had just said was indeed correct. By gathering Mana until his consciousness is full, he would know just how much Mana could his consciousness at this point could handle.

Whoooosh!

Mana was slowly being filled inside Leo's consciousness, filling it slowly and slowly and slowly.

The small twinkling light of the Fireball spell and Green Terrain spell was also drowning within this Mana, though it didn't cause any sort of effect to them because they were made off using a certain Element Mana, hence Pure Mana wouldn't be able to get inside them. If the Mana being gathered was of Fire or Nature Element instead, then one of them would definitely start treating this as a feast, eating all they can in order to strengthen themselves. 

Moments later, Leo's consciousness was finally filled to the brim. There was no longer any space for him to put any Mana within, signaling him to stop. He also began suppressing the Mana to not cause any damage to his consciousness. 

However, seemingly out of nowhere, the Red Cube suddenly started consuming the Mana that he has worked really hard in order to fill his consciousness. 

"Wait, a moment... what the heck is the Red Cube doing?" Leo exclaimed inwardly due to being surprised. But, after a few seconds of being surprised, rather than trying to stop what is currently going on, he instead began gathering more Mana. 

Ever since the Red Cube had merged with his consciousness, it had never once tried harming him. In fact, all of the things it had done so far was to help him in his path as a Mage, from easily gathering Mana in Mana stones, the Triple Layer Magic circle, and even the unique Cultivating technique that allows him to improve in a much faster rate compared to the others. So, the Red Cube absorbing the Mana he had gathered in his consciousness should be its act to help him once again.

Whoooosh!

Mana continued being filled inside Leo's consciousness while the Red Cube continued to busy itself from gathering the Mana into somewhere he doesn't have any clue about, seemingly intending to do something that he doesn't have any idea yet. 

This continued on for over 5 hours straight before Leo was finally able to fill up his consciousness with Mana without the Red Cube trying to consume the Mana anymore.

"It seems like the Red Cube is now also filled. Then, I should begin forming the Star." Leo thought to himself. With the Red Cube done, he can now focus on forming the Star.

Whoooosh! 

After saying that, Leo quickly began gathering all the Mana in his consciousness into one single point. At first, it was very hard because other than this was his first time doing this, with how full his consciousness was, it was also nearly impossible to gather them into one single point. 

He needed to push all of the Mana in every direction into a single point, which required him to fully focus and concentrate to the maximum limit. 

Whoooosh!

It was only after a few hours later when he finally finished gathering them at one point. 

Out of a sudden, Leo was completely caught off guard when the Red Cube began releasing the Mana it had gathered within itself. 

However, unlike the Pure Mana he had just gathered before, the Red Cube was surprisingly releasing an Element Mana, specifically the Fire Element. The Fire Element Mana seemingly formed into a river as it slowly flows towards the gathered big ball of Mana.

While that was happening, Leo felt that the big ball of Mana would be destroyed, hence he quickly began suppressing them so as to not let them get destroyed, which at the same time also began the merging of the Mana inside the big ball of Mana. 

"Isn't this what the book had mentioned as the hard way?" Leo soon after became dumbfounded the moment he discovered this. 

Just like what the book had mentioned, it was also possible for a Mage to keep on gathering Mana while forming the Star. But it was extremely hard because he would need to gather Mana from his surrounding, suppress the gathered Mana so that it won't cause any damage to his consciousness, and lastly suppress the big ball of Mana to begin it's merging process. He needs to do all three at the same time, which is what makes it extremely hard. 

To be honest, he had indeed thought of doing it that way, but since this was his first time, and also being not yet knowledgeable about Magic related stuff, he decided not to. 

However, with the Red Cube's help, what the book had mentioned as extremely hard became very easy, or more appropriately, it became smooth as a flowing river, as in literally. 

It wasn't only that, it seems like his Star would be different from the others because it wouldn't be formed out of Pure Mana alone, but also with Fire Element Mana. No, it seems like it would also be formed out of the 5 Elements of Fire, Water, Nature, Earth, and Wind. 

Moments later after the Fire Element Mana began flowing smoothly like a river inside the big ball of Mana, hence tainting the Pure Mana with Fire Element Mana, the river suddenly turned blue, representing the Water Element, then green, representing the Nature Element, afterwards brown, representing the Earth Element, and lastly, it turned gray, representing the Wind Element, before finally, the river stopped flowing, indicating that there were no longer any Mana inside the Red Cube. This process continued for an hour straight. 

Finally, the big ball of Mana now has 6 different colors, representing the Pure Mana, Fire Element Mana, Water Element Mana, Nature Element Mana, Earth Element Mana, and Wind Element Mana. 

Leo was sweating buckets while that was happening. Every time the Element Mana was changed to the next Element, it would become extremely harder for him to suppress the big ball of Mana. 

Fortunately, because the big ball of Mana was being suppressed while the Element Mana was flowing inside, hence it minimized the difficulty by a bit due to the merging, which is still very helpful nonetheless. 

"What kind of Star would I have after all of this?" Leo can't help asking himself while looking at the big ball of Mana with different colors. 

Although he doesn't know what the result would be, he was a hundred percent sure that it's going to become extremely powerful, even more powerful than the other Mage's Stars.

"Wait... if the normal Star's function is to simply absorb Mana around me every time and store it inside them for later uses, then what would the function be if it is this unique kind of Star?" Leo thought to himself. To be more exact, would there be added functions? Maybe like, the speed of gathering Mana to the Star increases by many folds or something. Of course, based on having 5 Elements, it would also have some kind of functions related to the other Element Mana, though he isn't sure what exact function it would be. Anyways, it would definitely be great. 

Whoooosh!

After asking himself with those future possibilities, Leo returned to putting all of his focus and concentration once again to forming the Star.

A few hours later, the Mana inside the big ball of Mana was finally merged with each other. 

Now, the only thing left was to wait while it's forming a shell to finally complete the Star. 

But, based on what had just happened a few hours ago, this Star would definitely only be formed after many weeks' passes. And obviously, he wouldn't just be contented with all of that. 

"It's time to take out the Magical resources I've prepared!" Leo said to himself as he quickly took out dozens or so different kinds of Magical resources that he had stolen from the Twilight Bears back at Twilight Forest from his Storage Ring.

Without wasting any more time, Leo then quickly began absorbing the Element Mana inside the Magical resources by doing the unique Cultivation technique of the Red Cube, specifically to use a Mana stone to activate the Red Cube's unique Cultivation technique, then convert the Pure Mana into an Element Mana, before finally consuming the Element Mana to himself to further strengthen his Star. But because he can't casually change the Element Mana once he chooses which Element Mana to absorb, he could only use all of the Magical resources with the same Element first before transferring to the other.

Meanwhile, while Leo was cultivating, five uninvited guests suddenly appeared.

"Here he is!" Cassandra exclaimed out loud the moment she saw Leo crossing his legs while looking at the rising sun.

Elizabeth, Angel, and Ash then began cracking their knuckles, intending to wake Leo up.

Fortunately, Charlotte was smart enough to notice that Leo is in the middle of his cultivation. 

"Everyone, quiet down!" Charlotte quickly stopped everyone. 

"Why? After he had just suddenly ditched us and left us to look for him for half a day. In the end, we will only find him just sleeping over here. But yet you actually want us to just stop and let it go?�� Elizabeth can't help rolling her eyes.

"Wait, Charlotte is right! Everyone, don't touch Leo for now." Angel who also just noticed that Leo is in the middle of his cultivation quickly backed up Charlotte. 

"Guys, let me explain." Ash said before walking up in front of everyone. She then continued, "Leo is in the middle of cultivation right now, so we should not disrupt him. If we do that, then something dangerous might happen to him. Forget about him being angry at us, he might just completely abandon us after we cause him harm. So for now, just wait until he finishes cultivation. Anyways, we can just simply beat him up at a later date." 

"Oh, okay then!" Cassandra nodded in understanding. 

"Sounds fair to me!" Elizabeth agreed. 

"Anything is fine for me." Angel agreed as well, though she definitely wouldn't join them.

"Can't argue with that." Charlotte chuckled. 

"Then, let's just look for a place and wait for Leo to finish his cultivation." Ash said before she began looking for a comfortable place to wait.

Cassandra, Elizabeth, Angel, and Charlotte also quickly followed after. 

In the end, they still decided to beat Leo up after ditching them and leaving them to look for him for half a day. The only difference is they would postpone it until he finishes his cultivation.