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Chapter 278 - The beginning

Arthur spent the next six days refining his Origin Essence Sea, removing as many of the broken fragments from the bottom of his origin essence sea as humanly possible.

Every time a Fae Master broke through a major realm, these fragments would break off and become sediment at the bottom of the Origin Essence Sea. If the sediment was then later dissolved, and then combined with origin essence, it would lower the purity of a Fae Masters origin essence.

It would take just a sliver more origin essence in order to activate a Fae. And just a sliver, could be the deciding factor between breaking through to the next sub-realm....

While Arthur was held up in the Nightfall Origin Essence Liquid Pond, the others were currently dealing with something else.

"Did you get those Flesh Breeding Plants?".

"Yeah! They're in your carriage already!".

"What about the Blood Tinted Iron! As well as the Sanguine Copper! And what about the-".

"They're all in the carriage behind Milena's! And don't worry about your Silver Moon Metal! That's all be stored away already!".

Other than Helga, who was currently taking care of the three babies, all of the others were loading up cargo onto the salvageable carriages and spirit beasts. The Kovacs Clan didn't raise many spirit beasts other than Cow-species, Sheep-species and Chicken-species spirit beasts, however Iryna had found a ground of Knight Ranked and Lord Ranked spirit beasts wandering the forests just outside the Clan.

They were a type of Bison-Species Spirit Beasts called; White Fog Bison.

Despite being relatively slow in comparison to Horse-species spirit beasts, the endurance of White Fog Bison were ridiculously high for their Rank. Their thick, slightly dark blue fur was capable of resisting most types of Rank 1 Fae, and usually only Lightning Attributed, or some strong Fire or Metal Attributed Fae were capable of piercing through their thick, rugged hide.

They liked eating Water Attributed Fae materials, so they stayed close to the various rivers and streams of Parachenko Village, living a completely herbivore-style life.

Iryna had captured a few of these, and put the fear of God into them after she became a Rank 2 Fae Master. With her strength and abilities, subduing a few of these spirit beasts into mounts, wasn't particularly difficult.

They had started loading up food and water at the very beginning of the week, and now had moved more than 80% of all their Fae and Fae materials. The vast majority were stored in Storage Fae and Fae Boxes, but those special materials that couldn't be stored were either used up, or destroyed completely.

Even the Ocean Vein Tree which Arthur had accidentally created was completely destroyed by him. The amount of spiritual essence that was released by all these destroyed Fae and Fae materials were enough to cause some other things to form naturally, but Arthur was going to completely destroy the landscape anyway, so even reconstruction would take an enormous amount of time.

Parvan, lifted his head up, wiping a small bead of sweat of his brow. Glancing around, he sighed before shouting towards Nyssa and Henrik.

"Oi! Have any of you seen Arthur?! We have to leave in a few hours!".

Nyssa and Henrik just shook their heads.

"He's still in that building! He has been for the past five or six days! I've got no idea what he is doing in-".

Before Henrik could finish his sentence, a huge explosion rocked the earth beneath them. The ground shook violently, and even some of the White Fog Bison trembled at the enormous amount of vibrations flowing throughout the earth.

Some of the partially ruined buildings became completely ruined buildings. And about a kilometre away, a huge amount of smoke and dirt had shot up into the air above the Village.

If one looked closely, they would be able to see a faint green tint to the smoke....

"It's all right.... There's nothing to be scared about now....".

Helga was gently patting the stomach of Titania and Ophelia, who had woken up due to the sound of the explosion. Grigori, on the other hand, despite the volume and intensity of the blast, remained silent, sucking on his thumb gently with his eyes closed.

It was almost as if he never even felt the explosion and the subsequent vibrations created by it....

Arthur just let out a sigh, shaking his head as he walked away from the Monster Carcase.

He had only managed to take away about 10% of its entire mass away, leaving the remaining 90% to be completely destroyed by him and the leftover explosion. A huge amount of spiritual essence was released up into the sky above Parachenko Village, and Arthur just sighed, before walking away.

"Flesh Devouring Worms.... Spirit Leeches.... Corpse Eating Flies.... Blood Drinking Hornets.... Even Bone Crushing Moss....".

All of these spirit beasts were rare within Parachenko Village, and Arthur had asked both Nyssa and Milena to search for some of these specific spirit beasts and hand them over to him. There were two or three that they missed, obviously due to time constraints, but with the ones that Arthur had left behind, they should be able to completely devour the Monster carcase.

Even if it did contain a monstrous amount of spiritual essence, that would only serve to mutate and evolve the spirit beasts into something more.... crazy.

Arthur had no idea how the flesh of something affected by "Madness" would influence a spirit beast, but considering that the "gateway" into the World of Madness, or Randolf, had been completely destroyed, Arthur didn't think that the Madness Attribute could touch Human Heaven.

If it could then....

Arthur sighed.

"Other than pushing a Foreigner to the brink of insanity, I don't know how to open up a gateway to the World of Madness. If devouring something that had been affected by Madness in the past could do such a thing then....".

At the very least, the other Clans within the Winter Rain Mountain would be in for something exciting. If they couldn't cut it off at the roots, then the Madness Attribute would inevitably spread towards the edges of the Winter Rain Mountain, pushing even further towards the other regions within the Azure Envy Continent....

That would be.... interesting, but still undoubtably bad.

It might even effect the future, meaning that Arthur's knowledge and grasp of the timeline would change. It might force him to speed up his timetable significantly.

At any rate-.

"Is this my carriage here?".

Parvan and Nyssa lifted their heads, hearing the familiar voice enter their ears. The slightly younger man smiled and nodded, before gesturing to all of the Fae materials within the large carriage.

Normally Parvan would be able to feel a sliver of Arthur's cultivation, the part that he released consciously. But now that Arthur had become a Rank 3 Fae Master, that tiny sliver had completely vanished from Parvan's perception.

He could still feel an aura of danger and power radiate from Arthur, but as far as his cultivation was concerned, he was still far behind his friend and Leader.

Smiling slightly, Arthur nodded before glancing at all of the other Fae Masters present.

He was about to leave Parachenko Village, but this time.... things were so much different.

He was a Rank 3 Fae Master.

Someone with a Sovereign Boundary Physique.

He had perceived two Laws as a Rank 2 Fae Master.

And formed an Intent before as a Rank 1 Fae Master!

This was what a thousand years of experience and knowledge brought him. Not to mention, some huge differences in the timeline.

His entire family was dead. Parachenko Village and the Kovacs Clan only had a dozen members remaining. And the existence of the Boundless Forest Yearning, was only the second biggest surprise of Arthur's knew life....

Arthur gazed at the enormous pillar of smoke rising up into the air. It had started to spread out, and form a massive amount of cloud cover above them. This would prevent others from using Sky Eyes Fae and other scouting-type Fae to find and follow them....

Not to mention, the next time it rained, everything droplet that passed through this smoke would possess a sliver of Hatred Imperfection Powder within it....

The spirit beasts within Parachenko Village, would all feel the power of Hatred fill their veins....

Arthur turned back, flicking the reigns on his carriage and started leading the others out of the confines of the Village.

"The World Of Madness....".

Even Arthur couldn't help but feel a little curious, about this new and unknown World....