Smiling as Arthur slowly walked back to the Village, the sixteen year old nodded as he passed some of the Clan guards, before quickly returning back to his basement underneath the tavern.
Overt the past few months he had been working diligently to prepare for the coming beast tide, obviously evident from the fully grown blood essence gathering tree and the nearly complete crocodile transformation fae.
This transformation would allow Arthur a certain degree of defense while fighting underwater, and in conjunction with his other fae, would mean that Arthur could fight lord Ranked spirit beasts, even in their natural environment.
Perhaps two at once, but any more than that would lessen his chances of victory.
He still had the moonslice fae and the moonsword fae which everyone knew he possessed, while his metal arms fae, woodpecker fae and halberd fae hadn't been used yet.
A normal Fae Master wouldn't know what to do with so many fae of different types and different abilities.
They would have to train themselves to get used to the new powers that their fae granted them, and make their combat styles mixed and impure.
Only geniuses at combat, and thousand year old demons who had the time to practice such things could use whatever fae they wanted and not have to worry about the consequences.
Arthur didn't have a Sovereign Boundary Physique either, so his choices in regards to fae weren't limited.
"I don't have a Sovereign Boundary Physique yet, that is....", he smiled.
Each of the Thirty Three Sovereign Boundary Physiques coincided with the abilities that the Race who created it possessed.
The Formless Night Shadow Sovereign Boundary Physique were created by the Shadow Race. This particular Race was extremely difficult to catch due to their innate properties.
Additionally, they could only use Shadow Attribute and Ghost Attributed Fae. They couldn't Fae of any other Attribute.
On the other hand, the Boundless Forest Yearning Sovereign Boundary Physique was created by the Wood Race. The term used to refer to the female members of their species were "Dryads" while the male members were "Treants".
Despite being from the same Race, these two branches were usually at odds with each other. Although when facing against any external threats, they would immediately form an alliance in order to protect their domain.
The Wood Race on the other hand, could only use Wood Attributed and Emotion Attributed Fae.
As such, the Boundless Forest Yearning Physique could enhance the effectiveness of both Wood Attributed and Emotion Attributed Fae.
Like the Forest Kelp Fae in Arthur's possession, or the Hatred Fae formed wherever hatred is expressed.
The members of the Myriad Races couldn't use any other Fae than what the heavens and the earth dictated they could use. Their creations, the Sovereign Boundary Physiques took the best parts of Humanity, their potential, and the affinities of the Myriad Races in order to create something that exceeded everything else before it.
Arthur smiled whenever he reminisced about these powers.
They were.... truly beautiful, he thought.
Wiping the smile of his face, Arthur shook his head before opening up his origin essence sea.
He had over a dozen fae at this point, and his daily expenditure for feeding his fae had gone through the roof.
He had gotten rid of his black smog fae and flash fae but kept the camouflage fae.
There were seven crocodile transformation fae, in which the air bubble fae was included.
The bloodseeker leaf fae and the water leaf tree were doing just fine. In addition to the new wood essence melons that he had received from Dominic.
The moonslice and moonsword fae sat quietly together within his origin essence seas, while the woodpecker fae sat silently on his shoulder.
The halberd fae and metal arms fae clashed loudly within his mind origin essence sea, occasionally producing a sound that caused Arthur to snap out his usual dazes.
Like an emperor sitting upon its throne, the Winter Solstice Salamander laid lazily in Arthur's lap. It came out occasionally to lick Arthur's hand whenever he was sleeping, and lie down on his stomach whenever it was cold.
Arthur smiled slightly as he patted the large Fae on his legs.
"C'mon Little Cold. Back in here you go....".
Arthur returned all of his Fae back inside his origin essence sea.
All of his fae, except for one....
"This little blue tree....".
Arthur had initially thought that it was some sort of variation from the purple blood gathering tree.
The fruits of the purple blood gathering tree could give someone a physique outside of the Thirty Three Sovereign Boundary Physiques.
The Purple Blood Physique.
It paled in comparison to actual Physiques gained through Bloodlines or Ascensions, but still, it was useful early on, all things considered.
However, when this "thing" came to Arthur's mind, it was nearly impossible to get rid of.
"It" was the only thing that Arthur could think of, that matches all of the details that this Fae possessed.
By rights, it shouldn't even be able to form in Human Heaven, due to the differently heavenly laws between Human Heaven and Ocean Heaven.
Arthur bit his lip.
"But heavenly laws don't affect me for some reason. I can create Fae from any Heaven, which is my greatest boon other than my knowledge....".
This was the one thing Arthur had yet to figure out, but for the time being, he made use of his immunity to the heavenly laws.
"If this really is an Ocean Vein Tree, then using it here might not be a waste. If any of the larger Sects or Clans in Azure Envy Continent, no.... in Human Heaven find out that I have this then....".
He sighed.
He'd probably be hunted down, to the very ends of the Thirty Three Heavens.
Ocean Vein Tree.... even at Rank 1 it can change a landscape.
Natural spiritual essence veins run all throughout the Thirty Three Heavens, constantly releasing spiritual essence with forms heavenly laws and fae and spirit beasts and everything else in between.
These natural spiritual essence veins are usually found around Fae Grounds, however, that isn't always the case.
Spiritual essence veins can be created or even moved, using extremely rare Fae.
Like this Ocean Vein Tree Fae, for example....
"This Ocean Vein Tree is only Rank 1, but it can create an artificial Ocean Vein directly underneath the area surrounding where it is planted. And since we are so close to the Falling Snow Famous River, over time the artificial spiritual vein will become real, and cement the future of the Kovacs Clan for another thousand years....".
Spiritual veins had a multitude of benefits.
The first and most obvious being the higher spiritual essence in the environment. Leading to a much more fertile land, and harvest no matter whether one plants a mortal melon or a Fae material.
The chances of Fae forming on a spiritual vein are much higher as well.
Fae Grounds, at their core are essentially one massive spiritual vein, so it was only natural that Fae would naturally form around them.
The chances of spirit beasts awakening were higher as well, since there were greater chances of Hatred Fae forming.
Rank 5 Fae Masters who undergo Ascension in spiritual veins will have a higher chance of being successful than those who do not. The benefits from Ascending on a spiritual vein would increase the potential once they become Fae Immortals.
And lastly, those who are born on spiritual veins tend to have a innately higher origin essence sea than those who do not.
This is why large Sects and Clans, despite having the same origins, as say the Kovacs Clan and the Marina Clan are so much more powerful, and have much deeper foundations.
Most of them were built directly on top of spiritual veins, meaning that that their descendents would have a much higher potential.
It was only Rank 1, and to someone like Arthur who can create these fae without having to worry about heavenly restrictions, something like this naturally didn't enter Arthur's eyes.
He could sell it, but would have to worry about people trying to find its origin since this Fae didn't come from Ocean Heaven.
Arthur could use it here, but the benefits from such thing wouldn't be much to Arthur, and would only benefit the Kovacs Clan as a whole more in the years to come.
Arthur sighed before shaking his head.
"Guess I'll just have to trade it in again. I wonder what I'll be able to get from such a Fae....".