The guide advised that they prepare a single structure that would be able to house all of their manpower and war machines and would be able to slip into the world of Aries before the spatial channel could be closed.
This way, by the time their presence in the world of Aries was noticed, it would be too late to stop them. This is better by scattering their forces in many vessels, which creates many opportunities for their forces to be blocked from gaining entry into the world.
There was a risk that by putting all of their eggs in one basket, it would be easy to destroy them in one fell swoop, even if they managed to enter Aries. This is why the guide advised them to prepare a very sturdy structure for invasion.
Fortunately, the Red and Blue Fire sect had a solution to this problem. They had something called a mothership.
The motherships are large structures the size of secret realms. In fact, they might as well be motherships because they require mana seeds as power sources for them to run.
The Red and Blue Fire sect had three motherships. Sword Flash stole all of them from the vault of the Red and Blue Fire sect. He didn't share them with the other sects. He didn't even let them know that the motherships existed.
One mothership was at rank 6, while the two were at rank 5. This ranking determines their durability and defense.
A rank 5 mothership has a strong defense that cannot be breached by a golden core cultivator or a rank 4 being. Even a rank 5 being wound struggles to breach its defenses because its defense is at the peak of the fifth mortal coil.
So it would require a very powerful rank 5 being for its defenses to be breached. As for destroying the rank 5 mothership completely, that would require a rank 6 being attacked by the rank 5 mothership.
They could only use the rank 5 mothership because they only had a rank 5 mana seed. But this was enough for the upcoming war because it was large enough to contain up to 50 mobile fortresses and 50 floating fortresses.
The size of the motherships was truly enormous for them to hold this much cargo. Even the smallest mobile fortresses had lengths and breadths of 100 meters, and some of them reached up to 300 meters in length. Their height was generally 100 meters.
So the smallest mobile fortress covered an area of 10,000 m² or 1 hectare. For the mothership to carry 100 of them, the mothership must have an area that is at least 1 million square meters or 100 hectares.
But this is just one level in a mothership, and the fortresses only account for half of the space on this level. A mothership has three levels: one for cargo and troops, a second for personnel and special equipment, and the third for command.
The level for cargo and troops is the bottom level. It is also the largest level, accounting for half of the height of the mothership.
The mothership also possessed guns used for defending itself and attacking long-range targets. So the mothership isn't just a tough sitting duck.
The guide that Sword Flash got and the loot from the Red and Blue Fire sect meant that even though the Blood Skull sect was a new force participating in the act of invading worlds, they were not completely clueless about what to do and had good tools to help them achieve success.
Usually, it is the junior elders of the sect that take charge of the sect and make most of the preparations for anything that the sect wants to do. They usually only need to confirm certain things from the patriarchs, but this time, the patriarchs are the ones doing most of the preparation.
For the patriarchs to get their hands dirty preparing for an event, one can imagine how important this event is to the sect. As for the junior elders, they will be the main fighting force, while the golden core elders will be leaders and commanders, and the patriarchs will be the generals giving instructions and controlling the overall progress of the war.
With the patriarchs participating in the preparation, everything was ready in a month. The only thing that was ready was the rank 7 artifact that Sword Flash had recently acquired.
The rank 7 artifact needed a period of activation before it could become useful. One month wasn't enough time to activate it. Especially since Sword Flash was also busy preparing for other things.
By the time Sword Flash discovered how long it would take to prepare the rank 7 artifact, it was already too late. The fact that he was too weak as a rank 6 being meant that it would take at least a year for him to prepare the rank 7 artifact.
The long amount of time needed to prepare the rank 7 artifact and the six-month deadline made Sword Flash decide to give up on using the divine artifact for the leadership assessment. So they didn't postpone the time they decided to leave for the Aries world.
After one month, everyone in the inner sect was arranged in the open field before the central tower of the sect. From there, they walked in a straight line into the tower.
They were led down a series of corridors and steps through the tower until they reached a place beneath the ground. Even as they walked, Arthur recognized the path because he had been taken through it on his first day in the inner sect.
As they moved on, he recognized the three large stone doors that they passed through. He also recognized the pictures drawn on the walls they passed by and remembered Lady Evergreen's explanation for the pictures.
All of these meant that he was mentally prepared not to be shocked when they reached the destination. He expected to know where they would end up.