Living, in an old dilapidated building, sat Arthur, completely expressionless as he quietly refined his origin essence sea.
His features, despite their youth being unable to hide, appeared much more mature over the past week, and his demeanour and temperament, seemed unbelievably cold, despite his lack of expression.
The physical effects of the Boundless Forest Yearning were beginning to show. His Physique was now one of the strongest throughout the entire Thirty Three Heavens, and his talent, appearance, demeanour and aura were all beginning to change as a result of that.
His hair once more turned into its dark shade of green, as his origin essence sea slowly, but surely reached the peak of vapour quartz origin essence.
When he stole the Boundless Forest Yearning, the difference in origin essence seas was almost 100%. As a result, the quality of his origin essence didn't decrease, but his overall cultivation fell, in order to make up for this disparity between his original talent, and his current one.
It had fallen all the way back down to vapour quartz origin essence, but with the assistance of the wood essence fae, the bloodseeker leaf fae, the wood essence melons and the vein limit fae, Arthur's cultivation speed skyrocketed.
He let out a breath of turbid air, smiling, before clenching his fist slightly, summoning a Fae.
It was a relatively tall Fae, about two metres tall, with an extremely thick base and root system, along with large green maple leaves, and soft, pink coloured vines, carrying flowers of the same colour on them.
Despite only being a Rank 1 Fae, it was still much larger than his Rank 1 Water Leaf Fae.
"Although, I suppose it's actual strength is probably close to Rank 2 Fae", Arthur muttered.
Other than improving his cultivation speed, Arthur had spent the vast majority of his time adapting to the powers and abilities of the Boundless Forest Yearning Sovereign Boundary Physique.
The origin essence sea and the origin essence regeneration was relatively easy to adjust to, especially since he once had an origin essence sea, similar to size to his current one, while awakening his Secondary Origin Fae took a little over 24 hours, and was completed without any problems or worries.
The faint "image" of an Affection Tree Fae could be seen within his Mind Origin Essence Sea. Its size was hundreds, if not thousands of times bigger than Arthur's current Affection Tree, and the heavenly laws that were produced from it were far beyond anything Arthur had ever seen before.
"The creativity and the wisdom of the Wood Race.... how astounding".
Arthur had yet to awaken the innate ability of the Boundless Forest Yearning, as the Sovereign Boundary Physique was still adjusting to his knowledge, thoughts, emotions and desires.
It wouldn't even take half the time that Andrea needed it to form, despite the fact that she never awakened this ability while possessing the Physique.
Arthur had heard of two other possessors of the Boundless Forest Yearning, the first possessor of the Physique, who was written in the
That Rank 8 Fae Immortal's innate ability was "Attraction Destruction".
They could destroy all forms of attraction in another party, or even themselves, leaving behind only desires and wills. It essentially destroyed the emotion "attraction".
It was a great way of sowing discord between two parties, or even multiple parties if the situation was right.
Arthur didn't know what type of innate ability he would awaken, but, it would only be a matter of time before such a thing occurred.
He smiled.
"Things should be able to progress quite nicely if everything remains the same. As a result of the enormous death rate, the Clan will implement new rules that promote the birth of babies in both the mortal and Fae Master populations. Mortals don't particularly gain anything special other than the chance to become Fae Masters, but those of us that were already Fae Masters will gain the chance to earn Fae depending on how many children we have.....".
Arthur narrowed his eyes, debating the options in front of him.
Having children was of no consequence to someone like Arthur.
Through specially Attributed Fae, like Blood Attributed Fae or even some Water Attributed Fae and Life Attributed Fae it was possible to track someone through their shared blood.
Attacking was out of the question, unless they were close enough, but such a thing would damage the other party whom shared the targets blood.
The Kovacs Clan was technically Arthur's weak point, but the truth is, is that the strength of Blood Attributed Fae could be multiplied, depending on how much blood of similar likeness was present.
The power of a dozen wouldn't multiply it by much, but the power of a hundred? Or even a thousand? Well.... that would certainly be something that even Rank 4 and Rank 5 Fae Masters would fear.
There would be a large influx of Blood Attributed Fae in the coming weeks and months, a result from the previous battles.
Arthur had already started to.... sow seeds in potential followers, and would start to see the benefits of such things in the coming days.
That little girl.... whom he saved, was one of said seeds.
His current appearance and demeanour was supposed to be "broken" and "lost" due to him failing to protect the one he held dearest in his life. As if he had fallen into the deepest, darkest abyss, devoid of any and all light.
Wherever he tried to go, nothing but a cold, uncaring darkness would greet him.
Arthur didn't particularly feel anything, but he needed to act the part.
With the help of the Affection Tree, he would be able to inspire affection in those he considered "seeds", which would help him in the long run.
He let out a small breath, smiling slightly, before he abruptly turned his head, narrowing his eyes as he gazed towards the door.
Within five seconds of him narrowing his eyes, the sound of two distinct knocks could be heard on the door.
Arthur sighed for a moment before letting a wave of emotions wash over him.
His green hair turned black, and his eyes lost their unfathomable lustre.
His voice became course, and his figure somewhat unsightly as he opened his mouth.
"Who is it!? What do you want!?".
There was a slight pause in the air before a familiar sounding voice entered Arthur's ears.
"Um.... Arthur? It's me, Leon".