H24 Light of the Star Guardian

Book Cover

**Light of the Star Guardian**, the 24th book in the The Golden Age of Adventures series was published in January 2019. It is the English language edition of the original Chinese comic, **十字凶星**, which was published in August 2018.

## Sypnosis

AIMING FOR THE TOP! SAVING THE EARTH!

The Twilight Doctor's treachery is finally revealed as a fierce battle rages across time and space! The world has become a battlefield for a war so cataclysmic that the very life of the planet is threatened. Is this the return of... Akhator? And who could the voices calling to Alex belong to?

## Cast

* Alex
* Lulu
* Axe
* Cammy
* "Twilight Doctor" Ming
* "Silver Bullet" Benny
* Adolf

## Plot

***Spoiler warning!** Plot and/or ending details follow.*

### Chapter 1: Tree Spawn

Lydia does not want to stay and help because she can't participate in the events she prophesied.

Aligon injects the tree spawn's arm with Alex's blood. It rips it off and regenerates a new one with the life force of the Dark Adventurers, including Jeff. The chance to destroy the spawn is lost, but the Void replicates the blood into two vials. He pours them into watering cans. Fury takes them to up as Void ordered. He pours the blood on the spawn's face. Aligon decapitates it. Woe takes its center eye. The Ferocious Four leave the scene. Nacho disappears.

In the Cretaceous Period, everyone fights Rafael. Alex hears voices calling him liberator.

### Chapter 2: Envy

Benny shoots Ming's remote for the IBYon cells. Rafael damages Axe and Lulu. Marie Wright and Alex attack him from the side, but they are blasted away by Rafael's power roar. Fenrir wants Rafael to come home with him. Rafael declines, because he has hated him since he was born.

Back when the brothers were kids, Fenrir was always the stronger and smarter one. Everyone loved him, but not Rafael. Father always compared them both. After Fenrir massacred the village, Rafael studied his brother's wolf silhouette under the moonlight. He followed him in his search for the Blood Clan. Fenrir had detected his brother's scent, but thought it was a memory. Then Rafael met Ming. He agreed to work with him in exchange for Fenrir's body. Now he got what he wanted.

Alex tells Rafael that Ming only cares about his research and doesn't care if he dies. Rafael reveals to him he was Bobby, the one who saved him back in Egypt. He unleashes a stronger power roar. Marie took the hit for Lulu. Lulu transforms into her adult form in anger. Rafael captures her. Alex ties his other hand with his rope. Sally sprays rage gas from Iron Heart's castle in England at him.

### Chapter 3: Wolf at the Door

Lulu transforms back. Rafael mindlessly kills one of the Neo-Nazi soldiers. The forces of good use this chance to tend to their wounded. Ming runs back to the Shambhala portal location where one soldier stands. He opens the portal by solving a 'find the odd one out' puzzle. He orders the soldier to blow up the entrance after going through. The soldier, Cammy in disguise, puts Marie's collar bomb on his neck.

Alex sees Cammy's signal. At the portal location, Ming is kept alive because he knows how to remove the IBYon cells in Robert. The wounded enter the portal first. Ming steps on one of the caged weasel's tail, making it scream. Rafael appears. Fenrir handles him and tells the rest to leave him. Sally opens his emergency exit at his back and take his head out. Alex pulls them closer with his rope. He, Cammy, Sally and Fenrir enter the portal. Lulu seals it, closing the portal before Rafael could reach. He is left to fight a tyrannosaurus rex.

### Chapter 4: Deep-Seated Hate

The forces of good have entered a large circular room. The Neo-Nazis are one step closer to Shambhala's center. Robert wants Sally to fix Ming's remote. Fenrir sees mural figures that remind him of something. As Ming Kong wanders around, the enemy appears. They have also brought a tank. As its inventor, Sally knows their weak spots, so Benny shoots at those spots. One of bullets is stopped by a green energy.

Adolf Hitler the Holy Leader exits the portal, with Lt. Red Snake the Colonel bowing down. The two sides fire. Adolf sees the room's center, which emits divine radiance, and Alex and Lulu. He struggles, then orders to crush the two into thousand pieces. Marie and Axe defend Alex and Lulu. A green energy with a ghastly face radiates from Adolf. It is Akhator!

### Chapter 5: Berseker Pills

While he was struggling, Adolf sees Akhator's memories during the Akhator War. Red Snake has been cornered by Marie and Axe, so she swallows her berserker pill. The Colonel consumes it too. Adolf's body has encountered Alex and Lulu before, so he will crush them before ascending to godhood.

The soldiers consume their berserker pills. Ming created them from the beanstalk's seeds. When the drug wears off, the consumer dies. Ming Kong notices a puzzle behind a dragon head. Goken thinks of getting it wrong, so that the trap will help turn the tide as the forces of good are losing. After answering wrongly, the dragon heads spew lava. Red Snake dies from the lava.

Adolf captures Alex and Lulu with his hair. He blocks Robert's kick. Robert uses the remote that was fixed by Sally to activates his cells, destabilizing Adolf. This gives a chance for Steel Fang to cut Adolf in half. Now that his body's past memories are out of the way, Adolf uses the Star Seeds to launch himself into Shambhala's center.

### Chapter 6: Gaia

Steel Fang, Alex and Lulu follow him before the lava covers the center. Adolf sees a green ball of divine radiance. Alex ties him with rope, but he extends his arm to touch the ball. With the endless energy, Adolf understands this is the Earth itself, and merges with it. In Antarctic waters, the red demon from Giant Clam Island feels uneasy. Snow falls in Bali, Indonesia. Egypt has a flood and Japan has earthquakes. Lydia and her group watch lightning strikes.

Adolf has merged with Earth's core, becoming an entity of terror. He unleashes spirit animals towards Steel Fang and Lulu as they are charging to him. Alex cuts them with Akhazane's cells. Steel Fang gets burned, Alex gets hit by rocks and Lulu gets electric shocked. Alex hears those voices again. They are coming from the Star Seeds. Alex touches them, and enters a pocket dimension.

He meets three entities: Ignis, Frigus and Oude Boom. They were once planets until the IBYon turned them into Star Seeds. Thanks to Alex, they are free. They were going to help him defeat Adolf before they fade, but there is a bigger problem. The corruptive IBYon cells are giving nightmares to Gaia, the Earth itself.

### Chapter 7: Raw Power

Gaia is young and still in slumber. Foreign matter has set off her defense mechanisms, which is why natural disasters are happening everywhere. It is like a fever in a human. Alex is more concerned about them fading away. Oude Boom tells him how the IBYon turned him into a Star Seed. The three planets regained some strength when Alex broke their shackles during the Akhator War. This how they can call Alex out, but Dr. Bubu's sunspot energy is destroying them. They decide to transfer their energies to Alex, even though it may be too powerful for him to handle.

Adolf has defeated Steel Fang and Lulu. Alex appears fully IBYon and wields the Star Seeds (like in the book cover). He walks towards Adolf. He decimates any spirit animals in his path. He touches Adolf's face, and the core turns red. Alex rips Adolf's head off from Gaia.

Lava has filled the lower levels of the circular room. There is no exit in sight. Marie cries because she thinks she has lost Lulu. Alex, with Lulu and Steel Fang, appears from a portal and tells everyone to grab his ropes.

### Chapter 8: Loss

Alex, with Oude Boom's help, transports everyone to Paris, where the tree spawn is wreaking havoc. The tree spawns are Oude Boom's children. They have a huge appetite, but there were enough resources provided before the IBYon attacked. Lack of food causes them to turn violent. The planets bid farewell to their liberator. Alex spits blood and energies burst out of him, destroying the tree spawn and dispersing around the world.

This marks the end of the World War III. Gaia returned to her calm state and natural disasters ceased. In the circular room, the lava has hardened. Ming breaks out. He survived the lava and Marie's bomb with his dragon scales. He now wonders how to find an exit. Since the war has ended, the World Adventure Union is under the Global Alliance for Humanity's control. All adventuring has been put on hold. The remaining Neo-Nazis and Dark Adventurers are hunted down. Documents and relics stolen from the Union are being retrieved.

Two weeks later at the WAU hospital in USA, Fenrir's golem head has been indarted into an endoskeleton covered by a "Fenrir's human body" Cammy created. Alex's legs are paralyzed. He speculates it is because of the sunspot energy. This is beyond the doctors' abilities to fix, but a cure will be searched upon. With the Union temporarily shut down, the Adventurers have nothing to do, but they'll keep in touch until next time.

### Post-credit scene

Six mysterious red beings gather around Gaia. The one from the Giant Clam Island watches her memories. It turns serious after seeing Alex.