Arthur was also anxious to continue cultivating. So he rushed out of his room to go to the medicine hall to get pills to replenish his mental energy quickly.
He wants to recover his energy so that he will be able to take advantage of his fast cultivation speed. He also plans to use energy stones to cultivate directly.
Unlike cultivating with the mana in the atmosphere, cultivating with energy stones will be faster. This is because the mana in energy stones is in a high-concentration state and readily available for refining.
So it will take less time and cost less mental energy to cultivate with energy stones. But he would rather use those energy stones to acquire pills that he can use to recover his mental energy because the mana in the atmosphere is free while the mana in the stone is expensive and the pills to recover mental energy are cheap.
He has some energy stones given to him by the family, and he also has redemption cards that he can use to redeem pills from the medicine hall. He plans to use those first before he touches the performance points he has earned.
But before going to the medicine hall, he first went to the weapon forging hall to use his redemption card to get a flying artifact. He has always wanted to get one so that he won't have to take the meandering mountain paths and go to his destination in a straight line by flying there.
He was in a hurry, so he bid farewell to the sleepy Roar and left his house in a hurry. Along the way, he noticed that his internal energy was reducing a little at a time.
This phenomenon made him roll his eyes.
His internal energy was reducing even though he wasn't casting any spell or actively using it for anything because his life seed was draining it and using it to grow.
If for some reason he runs out of internal energy, his life seed will resort to draining his vitality. When he runs out of vitality, the next thing that will happen is for him to turn into a tree.
This outcome is like the blade of a guillotine hanging over his neck. Because of it, he can't run out of internal energy, or he will be doomed.
But this didn't put him in a bad mood because he can feel his life seed growing stronger. As it grows stronger, his life force becomes stronger, and his capacity for both life force and internal energy will increase in size.
He can't be unhappy about what his life seed is doing because it is not taking his internal energy for nothing. It is not a parasite trying to kill him. It is a symbiotic tree trying to grow and turn him into an everlasting tree.
He can't be unhappy about something that is working day and night to make him stronger. It is, in fact, reasonable that he provides his life seed energy for it to do its work.
What made him extra happy was that the influx of understanding from the two colorful phantoms in his mind was combining with the tireless work ethics of his life seed to make him stronger faster.
This put him in such a good mood that he even laughed as he ran towards the closest weapon forging hall.
When he got to the weapon forging hall, he was told that his redemption card could be used to exchange for one top-grade weapon or two high-grade weapons or three mid-grade weapons or four low-grade weapons.
He was told that defensive and flying artifacts were more expensive than offensive artifacts, but as long as he had the redemption card, there would be no difference between the three of them for him.
What he wanted the most was a flying artifact. So he decided to get a top-grade one.
He didn't need to get any other kind of artifact because Elder Storm Hawk told him that once he got the Divine Lightning Armament, he wouldn't need defensive and offensive artifacts.
She even claimed that if he got lucky, he might get a Divine Lightning Armament that would allow him to fly. Her Storm Hawk Divine Lightning Armament is an example of that kind.
While it is a good thing for the lightning armament to be capable of flight, this flight will be expensive in terms of energy usage and will reduce other physical attributes of the Divine Armament, such as strength and defensive capabilities.
He decided to get the top-grade flying artifact because it is highly efficient in terms of energy usage and because he can use energy stones to power it, which will reduce the consumption of his internal energy.
A top-grade artifact is a level 10 artifact in terms of power amplification. This is just slightly better than the high-grade artifacts with a power amplification between level 7 and level 9.
The difference in power is small, so the difference in the top speed of a top-grade flying artifact and the best level 9 high-grade flying artifact will be very small. But what makes top-grade artifacts truly stand out over high-grade artifacts is their energy efficiency.
Low-grade artifacts (level 1-3) have an energy efficiency of 10%. Mid-grade artifacts (level 4-6) have an energy efficiency of 20%. High-grade artifacts have an energy efficiency of at least 40%, while top-grade artifacts have an energy efficiency that is at least 80%.
So at the same speed, top-grade artifacts will last twice as long as high-grade flying artifacts with the same energy. This is why he decided to go for the best flying artifact instead of prioritizing quantity.
The flying artifact he got was a panel that looked like a surfing board. It could only hold three people at most. Of course, the energy usage will be much higher.
The flying artifact was a top grade artifact. It was the best of the best, so it had a power amplification of level 10.