Arthur couldn't exist as a soul for ever. He wouldn't last very long and he would not be able to help the hero. To survive he would need a vessel. This vessel would sustain his soul but also give him a chance to grow stronger carry out his goal.
The world of Arebos offered the perfect chance for Arthur to forge himself a vessel by taking advantage of the cosmic laws of this world that allowed incarnation in a spirit corpus.
Arthur's ghostly form drifted through the primordial ocean of the universe that was the void, being guided by Ra towards the World of Arebos. There were countless worlds they drifted by in there journey and Arthur had to wonder just how lonely Ra's existence had been.
He had escaped his world and watched it devoured and then lived on in perpetual eternity, unable to enter any world because of cosmic laws against what he had become. He spent his endless life peering into worlds like a homeless man watching homes outside the window unable to become part of them.
It wasn't that different from Arthur's loneliness. But what was 18 years against eons of loneliness? Atleast Arthur found comfort in the hero's journey. Ra was the hero of his world. What comfort could a hero ever find when he failed to save his own world.
At the edge of his awareness, Arthur sensed something drifting within the void. When he focused on it, he discovered it was a mass of Giant snake heads their necks tied together in a chaotic ball. They were made of deep purple darkness that seemed to struggle to maintain that form.
The snake heads roared silently and bit into each other, their forms collapsing into formless essence as they reformed. The entire mass was as big as a moon and a horror to behold.
A Void creature!
Arthur drifted wide from the Eldritch horror. He had no desire to find out how fast any of those heads would eat his soul or if Ra was capable of protecting him from such a thing.
Soon the Nebula of Arebos was before them. A vast pool of multi colored cosmic dust swirling endlessly. The raw essence of the void fractured into colossal threads of energy as they were pulled into this cosmos.
Arthur's ghost flowed along these threads into the swirling Nebula. As Arthur swam through these Currents of energy, He let his will and consciousness flow into these energies. Within them were the currents of Fate of this world and he would be able to peer into Arebos this way.
His soul had instinctively done it for 10 years and he had been able to watch the Hero's fate.
Ra had said it was important they peer into this world before venturing forth so that they would be able to find what they were looking for.
Arthur found himself floating as an ethereal ghost under a vast sky filled with great orbs of light. The sky was a luminous canvas of various colors melting and blending into one another endlessly like a chaotic rainbow. Each orb seemed as big as a moon bright with radiance like luminous pearls. The sky of was like a rainbow ocean of a thousand moons. Magnificent to gaze upon.
Below them was an endless Ocean of spiritual essence. it glowed blue with golden hues and radiated infinity power and potential. The Central planet of Arebos.
"Beautiful isn't it!" Ra said. Arthur found the titan standing by his side. The Giant of of Shadow and red energies had manifested his will alongside Arthur to peek into the world of Arebos together.
They had not come for site seeing but in search of something Ra believed will Help Arthur grow stronger.
Arthur agreed with the titan. Arebos was simply beautiful. He was reminded that Ra spent his life like this. peering into worlds, browsing from the outside, unable to experience them in anyway. Arthur felt a pang of sadness at that but decided not to dwell on it.
They ventured forth across the world of Arebos. Two ghost companions enjoying each other's company and the sights of a world neither were born into.
The ocean of essence had numerous wonders to be found within its vast spirit waters. There were Titanic spirit beings of various forms and natures. He saw Colossal beasts in the form of sharks and fire, Gigantic serpent like creatures of greenish energies whose forms towered above the ocean high into the sky.
Two Elemental Titans battled for dominion across a continent sized ice glacier. One a Red bleeding Phoenix, the other a Blue draconic creature scaled in lightning. The Phoenix spat a mountain sized breath of burning red magma at the dragon and it summoned hundreds of tree sized pillars of lightning from the Giant cloud that swirled around it, all of them directed at the Phoenix.
It was breathtaking as it was catastrophic. The destruction they could visit upon a physical world was terrible to imagine. The ocean of essence raged all about them in a tornado of energy and force.
According to R, the surface of this world was ruled by such spirit gods.
Woven across the ocean were Luminous veils of energy. They seemed to cover areas Ranging from tiny islands to continent. They were like shrouds thicker than mist yet thinner than clouds.
These were pocket realms across the spirit globes. They were small worlds woven from Spiritual essence where various spirit races dwelt and thrived.
According to Ra, the Ocean's spiritual energy was highly concentrated, only spirit gods could maintain their forms without breaking into nothingness.
Arthur and Ra travelled through these pocket worlds.
The sights were amazing to behold. Different pockets had different designs. some with floating islands, others were Worlds of water and some realms of eternal ice age. Some were molded into grand cities, others forests and others worlds of clouds. There was a world which was one Giant tree, each branch as big as a town.
There was diversity in the spirit races that dwelt in these closed Islands.
Arthur saw humaniod beings, some elemental in nature, others had wings, numerous arms, some Beast like in nature. The freedom of spiritual essence over physical matter allowed for such a world to exist.
Their cities varied in many ways as well.
Some worlds had Spirit beasts. He saw an island of Giant wolves, a civilization of great birds among many.And others were mixed, beasts and men living together or at war with one another.
Throughout the beauty of these places Ra searched. They drifted through each island, combing through it as Ra looked for what had brought them.
Arthur was clueless and was just following for the sight seeing.
After transversing Many island worlds, across the vastness of the sea of Arebos, Ra finally Found what he was looking for.
This island world was A vast open plane with a Great Mountain at the center. The sky was snowy white and luminous. Great Gigantic trees rose across the plane, some as high as the mountain.
This world was the dwelling of spirit beasts. They hunted one another, slaughter and devoured each other. Some roamed in packs, fighting for territory and hunting lone beasts.
At the top of the mountain, above it's peak floated a pearl like object of reddish golden luminesce. it spun about it's position at a slow steady pace and it seemed to contain a vast mass of spiritual energy
Ra came to stand before the Pearl, Arthur by his side.
"This is it!"Ra exclaimed. "The prize within this world that you must claim."
"The Divine Soul seed!