The Rise of the Black Plain

After walking around the premises of the Black Plain Army headquarters, Minos' group arrived at an area where several soldiers were waiting for him.

Upon arriving at this place's highest level training area, they immediately encountered a group of about 30 people, silently sitting at different points of a grandstand.

After passing through the entrance door of this place, Abby immediately saw some old faces, among others recently added to her forces.

At level 59, Angela and Celeste were amidst the group waiting for Minos, each more eager than ever to fight with the local sovereign.

Like many high-level soldiers of this organization, they had the disadvantage of age on their side, which was why even Eduard had outgrown them in this period. Because of this, they always worried about being able to push their conditions further, fighting seriously against Minos, one of the few who could stimulate the maximum of their potential.

But not only were they excited about training with King Stuart. Ernest, Grayson, Grace, level 57, Mirya level 59, Viola level 56, Elena level 58, Brooke level 55, and several others were also looking forward to this situation.

Obviously, it was excruciating to fight Minos, but the advantages were undeniable. After all, none of them had his talent, so they needed all the external stimulation possible to climb the cultivation ranks.

In this case, suffering a little at his hands was a practical way to bring out the best in them!

Seeing that group of people, Minos observed the surroundings and probed the cultivation level of each of them. 'Hmm, Celeste, Angela, and Mirya are close to climbing to level 60.'

'Especially Mirya.' He looked in the direction of Viola's mother and blinked, interested in the day that woman would move up a stage.

She still had some scars from the accident years ago, when the assassin members of the Scourges of the Devil had sacrificed, trying to kill Minos' group. But with her advancement to the 7th stage, Minos knew that she would finally make a full recovery.

'I think you will soon overcome your demons, Mirya.' He remembered how this woman had for all this time closed herself off to relationships with others, be they men, women, Minos himself, and even her daughter, Viola.

Seeing Minos' signal in her direction, Mirya understood what he meant by that signal and smiled softly, looking forward to the day of her breakthrough.

These years had been difficult for a person as sexual as she was. But luckily, there were always plenty of things going on, and most of the time, she did not have to think much about her abstention.

'Ah, Minos is so kind to me...' She thought as she blushed. 'Even after all these years, he still looks at me with desire...'

'I'm decided!'

Mirya then clenched her fist, determined like a few times she had been in her life. 'Apart from other women, I will not have sex with others but him!'

Simultaneously, Abby looked in that woman's direction and noticed the rosy hue in Mirya's cheeks. 'Uh? What's wrong with her? Is she sick?'

If she had been one of Minos' several sex partners in that place, Abby would have correctly understood Mirya's flushed face. But he and this woman had not touched each other in years, so Abby did not correctly understand the situation, which did not irritate her...

She tolerated all those women with her man but did not like them acting intimate with him around her. Unlike Ruth, she was always concerned about keeping other women away from this man full of love to give.

Hell, she had even banned brothel services in the Black Plain just to ensure that her man had no indirect contact with the affairs of such places.

She trusted him entirely, but there was no way to guarantee that no slut would approach him on her own. As such, Abby had a team working to avoid such problems. Not only that, she had already set standards for how women should behave in the king's presence.

And in a way, her methods had worked well since, besides his old partners, Minos had not slept with anyone else in these four years!

Anyway, Minos did not know what his queen was thinking at the moment, so he went straight to the point when he saw those people. "Come on, hold hands. We're going to the Spatial Kingdom now."

Then everyone there took the hands of at least one of their colleagues, with the last of them touching Minos' shoulder, Abby and Ruth holding his hands. After that, he activated the Spatial Kingdom ring, quickly teleporting everyone to his cultivation sanctum!

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As they appeared in the vicinity of the lake house, the newly arrived group saw some Elite Squad soldiers in the vicinity and the spiritual beasts of the Black Plain royal family.

Emlyn and Kyla were not from the royal family, as they were officially members of the Black Plain Army. In any case, they were both there, with the mother fox taking care of the Spatial Kingdom, her function, and the daughter chatting with her friends.

Next to Kyla, level 54, were Abby's mount, Ebba, currently at level 55, Ruth's mount, White, level 55, and Minos' mount, Maida, level 59.

They were all going to participate in this training with Minos and the high-level army soldiers, so they immediately ran close to their masters when they saw them.

"Oh? Is it time already?" Emlyn opened her eyes and looked in Minos' direction, interested in finally being able to fight with her recovered body.

Minos laughed upon hearing her excited tone and commented. "Yeah, I hope you don't lose your animation later, haha."

"We'll see..."

He then looked in the direction of the soldiers training in that area and the instructors there, Eda among them. "Well, get ready to observe our combat. It will be precious to you!"

"Yes, Your Grace!" As the hundreds of people rushed toward the outskirts of the Space Kingdom's main combat area, many voices broke out.

Minos then looked at his wives and commented. "Come on, time for you to join them in trying to stop me, hehe."

"Tsk!"

"You're going to intimidate us..." Ruth said as she pouted and ran to her place.

On the other hand, Abby kissed one of her husband's cheeks and joined the rest of those nearly 40 of his opponents, smiling at what was about to happen.

Not everyone there knew King Stuart's 7th technique in practice, so many would probably be shocked to feel it for the first time, even if they had heard of it from their companions.

"Ready?" Minos looked from one side of that place to the other, seeing the nervous expression on Eduard's face, one of the few there who had trained with him since his advancement to the 7th stage.

"Hehe, then let's get started!"

As he said this, Minos activated his first four com combat techniques with a low-level grade-3 sword in his right hand.

Devouring Art!

The moment Minos activated this technique, immediately everyone with spiritual energy in their bodies within 400 meters of him was at his disposal to yield their energy to him.

At the same time, the conversion rate of this technique, which at the beginning was only 20%, now gave Minos 40% of all the energy his technique absorbed.

However, this was not the only advantage of this technique after he reached the 4th phase of it. No, he could now directly absorb the energy of energy attacks against his body, making him invincible against attacks up to 100% stronger than him!

Previously, if someone like that hit him, his defensive technique would absorb the damage without harming him by using his energies as fuel. However, now if someone within that strength range attacked him, his defensive technique would use none of his energies, and he would still gain something!

Thinking about it, Eduard was unhappy about facing an opponent who only had a victory as a possible outcome in his fights. 'It is useless for us to try to hit His Grace's body with energy blows. Only long-range blows that do not contain spiritual energy can affect him.' He thought of this as he promptly activated his movement technique.

However, as he did so, he suddenly felt a certain nostalgic feeling. "Damn!"

'Is he going to start with that already?'

Chaotic Gravity: Attraction!

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