Over the past few days, Milena had finally stabilized her cultivation as a Rank 2 vapour ruby origin essence Fae Master. Not only had her origin essence and physical strength increase by a qualitative amount, the Fae that Milena could make use of had increased dramatically as well.
She had purchased the largest amount of Fae from the travelling caravan that passed through Parachenko Village, however, the vast majority of said Fae were Rank 2 Corpse Attributed Fae.
Corpse Endowment Fae.... Rotting Essence Fae.... Bone Breaking Fae.... Skin Refinement Fae.... Corpse Imprint Fae.... Swine Poison Fae.... Corpse Trapping Fae.... Bone Coffin Fae.... even something relatively obscure like the Corpse Bandage Fae had been obtained by Milena.....
She was currently researching the School of Mummification in the path of Corpses, and as such, the vast majority of her research was into using the Coffin Evolution Ritual in order to evolve her Corpses to higher stages.
By placing Corpses within Coffins created out of a specific Fae material, then strategically placing certain other Fae materials in, and around the Corpse, after a certain amount of time, an evolution would occur.
The only downsides of this particular technique, is that it takes time, but the relative success wasn't by any means low....
Arthur glanced at his Viridis Forest Serpent Revenant, before waving his hand and activating a Fae.
It was the Desire Gathering Fae that he had used to create the Ghost Nurturing Swamps, and right now, it was the best Fae to help remove the problem to his newly created Ghost.
The large Serpent-species Ghost flew towards Arthur, letting a large amount of swirling translucent mist gather around Arthur's palm. Gazing down at it, Arthur flung the gathered mist to the side, letting it unravel and be absorbed by the Ghost Nurturing Swamps.
Arthur gestured for the Viridis Forest Serpent to hand back, and approached Milena, smiling at her while nodding his head.
"How does it feel to be a Rank 2 Fae Master?".
Milena's eyes widened slightly, glancing downwards towards her origin essence sea, before smiling wryly and shaking her head.
"I guess I can't really hide anything from you Arthur....".
The seventeen year old just shrugged before extended his hand forward, gesturing for Milena to place her wrist in his hand. Placing two fingers over her wrist, Arthur dived into her origin essence seas, noticing the large amounts of fragments gathered at the very bottom of her origin essence seas.
He nodded slightly smiling at her.
"Not bad.... foundation wise it's quite impressive how stable your cultivation is. So long as you keep cultivating, reaching Rank 3 won't be a possibility, it'll be an eventuality....".
The expression of Milena's face shifted, and the young woman's face lit up, as if fireworks at a summer festival. Her smile seemed genuine, and to Henrik standing next to her, was the first "real" smile he had seen Milena give off in weeks.
Arthur called back his Viridis Forest Serpent, gesturing for the others to come over and congratulate Milena.
Being the first one to become a Rank 2 Fae Master was an enormous thing, especially given the current situation. Having two Rank 2 Fae Masters to fight was an huge difference in terms of combat strength. Even if Arthur and Milena were to fight any of the others normally, they could just play the long game and wait for their opponents origin essence to completely run out.
Not only were their Fae stronger, but they could fight for longer as well.
Of course, this was excluding the fact that Arthur possessed Laws and Intent as well. Not to mention Attribute Control Skills, which were the trump cards of any accomplished Fae Master....
Arthur had started instructing the others on the foundations of Attribute Control Skills. The necessary requirements, the different types of Attribute Control Skills, how they function and what type that they should be looking to create.
With Arthur assisting them in the last area, it was the same as having a Fae Immortal help create their own Attribute Control Skills.
Arthur's usage of Connection Fae and Link Fae were different to those who hadn't yet undergone Ascension. His thought process was different to Rank 4 and even Rank 5 Fae Masters....
'After creating the Viridis Forest Serpent, I'll have to start experimenting with variations of the other Ghosts that I've created. Starting off randomly, even with my exemption from heavenly laws isn't a good idea. Building up off what I currently know is the most stable option for me currently....'.
Arthur glanced at the large building still housing the Monster carcase. He had already noticed the large amounts of vines that had started to crawl up every side of the building, and entered the area abundant with numerous different types of spiritual essence.
What greeted Arthur inside, caused his heart to pound slightly....
The effects of the basic Seasonal Array was to mimic the transformations of seasons within a certain area. It was to keep a specific area under the influence of a single season, while using the power of continuously changing seasons to power the next.
It wasn't by any means self-sustaining, but it was quite the advanced beginner array. Every Sect and Clan should have at least one of these types of Arrays going at all times. They needed to create and produce Fae materials, and Arrays were the easiest way to do it.
Normally, Arrays would be more powerful if they solely focused on a single, or perhaps two complimentary Attributes.
Yin and Yang.
Light and Darkness.
Life and Death.
The Five Element Basic Array and the Seasonal Array were also quite self-sustaining, and were both good beginner Arrays.
Even though the Fae that Arthur had used in his own Seasonal Array were disproportionate, leading to a large amount of spiritual essence going to waste, it was far better than just letting it stay inert, developing randomly, and without consequence.
The exact moment Arthur stepped through the front door, he was hit with a sharp wave of spiritual essence. He tilted his head to the side in order to avoid the unforeseen attack, and noticed a few stray hairs had been cut clean, unable to avoid the attack.
Turning his gaze towards the colourful world inside the building, Arthur's eyes widened as he gazed towards the numerous Fae materials inside.
Arthur had already known that within a certain radius of the Monster carcase, heavenly laws were completely ignored and any Fae materials within Human Heaven could appear so long as the spiritual essence was thick enough.
Other than the fact that the spiritual essence inside this building was even thicker than when Arthur last checked it, the numerous colours and rotating spiritual essence in the air caused Arthur's breath to hitch as he gazed down at the newfound existences within each of the Seasons.
In the summer area, a region dominated by Fire, Lava, Earth and Yang Attributes, a sea of thick, broiling lava constantly flowed and bubbled throughout the large area. The large piece of land, which was once completely nothing but dirt and stone, had been transformed, with numerous small islands peaking out of the crimson sea, abundant with numerous ores and rare Fae materials.
Arthur could see that the Flame Essence Seeds had already sprouted, and become trees roughly the same size as a small child. Their green coloured leaves possessed numerous crimson coloured veins to them, instantly telling Arthur that this was a variation of the normal Flame Essence Tree.
The Fire Flowing Source Water and the Ancient Lava Metal were the main components of this molten earth sea. Arthur knew that they could be combined through the interactions calculated by the A.I., but seeing them transfigure themselves into Lava Flowing Source Water, a Rank 4 Fae material caused Arthurs eyes to widen immensely.
That wasn't even the most frightening thing about the Summer Season Array....
In the very centre of the area, near where the temperature was the hottest and where none of the Fae materials could grow, a single, candle-sized flame burned brightly over all the other Fae materials present.
It was only roughly the size of a pinkie finger, yet Law Flowing Source Water actually moved around the flame, not daring to get too close....
Arthur did believe that with enough spiritual essence, and with the unknown powers of the Madness Attribute, it should be possible to form just about any Fae material. Arthur just didn't know enough about the Madness Attribute in order to come to a proper conclusion....
But even this.... was outside of his expectations.....
The green coloured flame burned brightly, its small size would make one believe that it could go out at any moment, yet in Arthur's eyes, its value alone exceeded every other Fae material within the Summer Season Array....
"Alchemical Flame..... Alchemy Attributed.... Shamrock Leaf Flame.....".