"Helga!".
Eric's voice resounded out over the shouts and screams that Parvan and Henrik were giving off. The fifteen year old young man had some.... affections for the young woman, and his eyes turned red as he gazed at Arthur. A bloodthirsty expression marred his face.
Even though he was under the effects of a Rank 2 Spirit Affection Tree Fae, Eric was still seeing nothing but red.
Summoning his moonsword fae and sunsword fae, Eric charged ahead, running past Parvan and Henrik's combined defense, his feet and ankles glowing a radiant silver colour, obviously from the effects of a moon stalker fae.
When Eric got within ten metres of Arthur, he lifted both of his arms back, charging up a moonslice fae and a regular slice fae within his two weapon type Fae. Eric swung both of his arms down, mimicking the strength of the Clan Leader, sending out two brightly coloured crescent slashes towards Arthur.
Arthur rolled his eyes and waved his leafsword fae in front of him, smashing the moonslice and the slice fae before flicking out his own moonslice, aimed directly at Eric's wrist.
He decreased the power significantly, it being only a Rank 1 moonslice, however, it was more than enough to sever the tendons in his wrist, causing him to instantly drop his sunsword fae.
Eric screamed as a bright flashes of red liquid appeared all over his face. The blood from his veins came spurting out, spraying him and the area around with a crimson coloured liquid.
The last thing Eric remembered before passing out, was the feeling of Arthur's halberd fae smashing against the side of his face, knocking him out instantly.
Arthur healed the wound to Eric's wrist, but left the massive bruise on the side of his face. Turning back towards Parvan and the others, he smiled, noticing their defensive posturing.
They had just gone form nine members down to seven, losing about one fifth of their overall strength. Even if Helga and Eric were still vapour quartz origin essence Fae Masters, they could still attack Arthur while the rest of them were keeping him busy.
Parvan, who led the older group, and Henrik, who led the younger group glanced at each other before nodding, Henrik turning around and focusing on Milena, Dagen and Nyssa.
"Us four will attack Arthur from all sides! Iryna and Parvan will focus on the defense! Zlatanna has her job, and will make sure the other two are okay! Understood!?".
All three of them nodded, despite the fact that Milena was older than Henrik. Even the rivalry between Dagen and Henrik had been put aside, and Nyssa was obeying orders quite nicely.
Arthur smiled.
They were getting there.... at least most of them were.
"I can still hear you! Don't think that I don't know what you are all planning!".
The seven ignored Arthur's blatant provocations, instantly scattering, with Iryna and Parvan remaining on either sides of him. Despite Iryna's non-existent supportive abilities, she still had ample agility, defense and strength with the power of her Spider Transformation Fae.
Spiders were extremely powerful types of spirit beasts. Perhaps in terms of strength, endurance and defensive powers they were weaker than the average spirit beast, however their ultimate strength laid in their numbers.
They could cross all-terrains if one had the correct variant of Spider type Transformation Fae, and even fly to some degree with their webbing. Their legs allowed them to scale most surfaces, and they could build traps for unsuspecting prey in hidden locations.
In a one-on-one, a Spider type spirit beast might be at a disadvantage against a Fae Master, due to them not having the time to prepare their traps. However, if a Fae Master with Spider type Transformation Fae were to fight against another Fae Master, then things would be very different.
They could use other Fae to supplement their weaknesses. And add traits and characteristics to their webbing, venom and other abilities with more Fae.
Even in his previous life, Iryna became quite the Fae Master within the Kovacs Clan. She became a peak solid ruby origin essence Fae Master just before he left the Village.
It was quite impressive.
With Arthur's guidance, she could become a perfect all-rounder. Strength. Speed. Agility. Endurance, and even augmented type abilities.
Iryna switched her Golden Poison Lance Fae to another variant Fae that she had picked up, no doubt due to Arthur's influence.
The Golden Poison Lance Fae in her possession gave her the greatest offensive power in terms of poison. So long as she cut her opponent with her Golden Poison Lances, they would inevitably be affected by her poison, and feel the affected area gradually become numb and swollen.
Her defensive oriented Fae was the Bone Piercing Lance Fae. The thickness of each lance was more than double that of the Golden Poison Lance Fae, roughly the same size as an grown man's thigh. They were covered in a thick bone carapace as well, only adding the defensive power.
The only other Spider Lance Transformation Fae in her possession was the-.
"Coiling Vine Lance Fae....".
A variant Fae which shouldn't exist within the Azure Envy Continent. It normally formed in the Viridian Greed Continent, created when the corpse of the Coiling Vine Spider combines with the essence of leaf honey, underneath the soil where rain was common.
It was quite the addition to her combat style, considering it allowed for even greater mobility and a powerful defense at the cost of most of her offensive power.
The most powerful trait of Coiling Vine Spider was that their legs resembled vines. They were ridiculously flexible, could regenerate like vines and were even covered in strange flower-like symbols and characters.
Iryna let her flexible Spider Lances coil around several stone monoliths, before shooting out numerous webs from the centres of her palms. This bright green coloured web caused Arthur to frown for a moment before glancing at Parvan and the others.
It didn't happen vert often.... but Arthur couldn't recognize this particular Fae.
'Green webbing? Is it Wood Attributed? Or perhaps a Poison Attributed Fae? Life? No.... It's-!'.
Arthur's eyes showed a glimpse of surprise and Iryna smirked as her net of webbing was fully connected to one another. Her being at the centre, with a huge amount of shade being created due to her spider web.
The girl turned towards Milena, Dagen and Nyssa on her right, left and right respectively.
All three of them had their hands on one section of the webbing, and their hands connected with several bright white coloured lines.
"Connection Fae!".
Arthur raised an eyebrow and turned towards Iryna who was standing high above him. The corners of her mouth raised upwards, as a huge amount of origin essence flowed into the web.
Even if it was quite slow, and the preparation for the Skill wasn't instant, like Elder Vova's or Arthur's, it was still almost as fast as Dominic and Leon's Combined Control Skill.
It was rough, and from Arthur's perspective, couldn't even be qualified to be called a Combined Control Skill.
A combination of Plant, Blood, Corpse and Bone appeared all around Arthur.
The sections of webbing above him bloomed as numerous blood flowers, bone petals and sweet-scented corpse poison filled the air. The green coloured vines hummed with an powerful glow, as Iryna coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Quite a number of Connection Fae weren't quite adjusted correctly, and the rebound affected her origin essence sea.
The girl just continued to grin, as blood stained her pearly white teeth.
"Wood Attribute Control Skill: Verdant Corpse Garden!".