Arthur, with Andrea in hand, led her towards the rear end of Parachenko Village. Near towards where he met with the Sleipnir at the beginning of the year.
It was a cliffside, where all the streams and rivers of Parachenko Village flowed off from, and towards the myriad lakes and rivers that laid below.
Arthur and Andrea had come across a couple Knight Ranked spirit beasts that were small enough to sneak through the gaps in Leon and Dominic's group attacks.
The pair ignored all of them, before arriving at the cliffside, hand in hand as they looked down amidst the rain and wind.
Arthur lifted his hand and moved a loose strand of green hair off Andrea's face and behind her ear. The girl smiled at the sudden show of affection before he pulled her in close, causing her to turn red slightly.
The embrace, was.... much tighter than usual. It almost seemed as if-.
Andrea glanced downwards before turning back towards Arthur, who only smiled in return.
"We're not.... I mean, we don't have to, unless-".
Arthur's smile was gentle, yet possessed an indescribable mischievous within.
The girl's eyes widened, and she instantly felt weightless, the moment that Arthur pulled their bodies over the side of the cliff, and down towards the endless abyss of green and blue and black.
Andrea wanted to scream, but she just dug her face deeper into Arthur's shoulder. The speed, the wind, the rain and even the fluttering of her hair seemed inconsequential as she felt Arthur's embrace tighten.
Their sudden drop suddenly halted, as Arthur's free arm coiled around a group of vines, letting the pair swing around before Arthur brought them both into a small-looking cave that had been built into the side of the cliff.
This "small looking" cave might only appear small from the outside, seeing as though it was covered by vines and rocks and even small trees but-.
Andrea's eyes widened as she noticed the lack of any harsh wind, or any rain at all. The young girl lifted her head and gazed up and around the inside of this cave, noticing the plethora of different Fae Boxes, notebooks, equipment and food hidden inside.
It even had a bed, covered in thick wolf fur blankets and swan father pillows. There was a small pool of water that dripped down of a naturally forming stalactite.
She felt Arthur pull away from his embrace before opening his arms wide and gesturing towards everything in the cave.
"This is my.... actual place. I found it accidentally one day when I fell off the cliffside".
That part... was actually true, no lies could be discerned from his words.
The only problem about that was, was that he hadn't actually discovered this place until after he "left" Parachenko Village. Arthur lived her for numerous months, perhaps almost close to a year, doing nothing but eat, sleep and cultivate as he tried his best to push his cultivation beyond Rank 2.
Andrea glanced at the numerous books and drawings that Arthur had done. All of them were just for show, but the knowledge within caught Andrea's eye, making her focus wholeheartedly on the words inside these books.
".... Diary Entry #178. The Fae Formula for the Rank 3 Bone Hadron Fae has been a success. The requirements for such a Fae to form is the bones of at least three Baron Ranked spirit beasts, or 3 Rank 3 Fae Masters to be buried together in a warm, dry place. Then, one must gather up the skeletons of numerous Rank 2, or at least a hundred Rank 1 spirit beasts and place them above the buried bones. Bone essence worms, or even the leaves from a Withering Skeleton Tree must be ground up and scattered about, so as to infuse these skeletons with the correct spiritual essence. After that one must....".
Andrea's eyes widened at the level of thought and knowledge that was written within these books, that she didn't even notice Arthur move the Fae Boxes in the room, to specifically designated spots.
Numerous Connection Fae and Link Fae had been placed in certain spots as well.
Andrea hadn't noticed, but the design of this cave was strangely.... sculpted.
The walls were too flat, too sanded down to be naturally occurring.
The room, or the cave rather seemed rather small with all the furniture inside, but if one were to remove everything, they would notice that it was rather large, and with Thirty-Three sides.
The number seemed odd, especially since they appeared as though they had all been sanded down.
The spiritual essence in the cave itself was extremely thick, almost comparable to the Falling Snow Famous River, due to the bottle of multi-coloured liquid Arthur had received from said River.
This liquid, which gleamed with every single colour of the rainbow, was Source Water from the Falling Snow River.
It took a hundred years for a the Falling Snow River to accumulate even a single drop, and yet Arthur possessed at least 100mls of the liquid.
It had quite a number of uses, especially when it came to the formation of Fae, but Arthur needed it to support the vast majority of his Fae within this cave.
Source Water couldn't actually be feed to Fae, but if the spiritual essence in the air was high enough it could be used to support it so long as if kept absorbing spiritual essence.
Even if Arthur left all these Fae alone for over a hundred years, they still wouldn't feel hungry, and only after a hundred years would this Source Water eventually run out.
In other words, it could be used to dramatically slow down the need for Fae to eat.
It was an important resource that Arthur planned on treasuring.
Glancing around, Arthur nodded slightly as he let out a breath of relief.
'Everything.... was finally ready', he thought.
He moved towards Andrea, wrapping his arms around her waist as her body stiffened slightly, but quickly relaxed as he leaned into his chest.
'The contents of this book were extremely valuable to any Fae Master. This was probably Arthur's biggest secret', she thought
She turned around, placing the book on the shelf before wrapping her arms around Arthur's neck.
The current Andrea was fully in love with Arthur, and would gladly save his life at the cost of the entire Village if she had too.
She would never hurt him and would never try to do harm to him, but-.
'This knowledge.... would Arthur let me take all of it? Even if it meant giving up all his secrets?'.
Arthur noticed the small glint in her eyes before smiling and kissing her on the cheek.
"Everything in here is yours. This knowledge, and even my body and Fae, all of it belongs to you Andrea....".
The girl's eyes widened, and her body shivered somewhat as she shook her head and smiled at Arthur.
Her eyes seemed slightly teary, although Arthur had no doubt that this was the affects of the Boundless Forest Yearning and not Andrea.
He smiled, noticing his origin essence being expended, even though he wasn't doing anything.
The tender and gentle smile on his face grew somewhat polite as he moved his head and whispered into Andrea's ear.
His tone was low, masculine and somewhat seductive in the eyes, or ears of Andrea. The girl bit her bottom lip, as she knew full well what Arthur wanted.
.... Or did she?
"But.... I want something in return for this knowledge of course".
The girl's face turned red as she noticed the huge fluffy bed behind them.
Her eyebrow raised, as the sounds of wind and rain slowly vanished, leaving nothing but two young lovers, standing silently as the sounds of a battle raged on in the distance.
"Oh? And what would that be?".
The next words that came out of Arthur's mouth, caused her to freeze up, and shake uncontrollably.
His smile grew uncontrollably, making Arthur resemble something other than human.
For a second there, Andrea could've sworn she saw horns, grow from the top of Arthur's head, and scaly black wings from his back.
A demon.... or perhaps a devil?
Arthur's hand moved away from her back, and crawled up towards her neck, tightening as the girl's eyes widened, her pupils shrinking to the size of pins.
"What I want? Isn't that obvious?".
"You".