The Rise of the Black Plain

"Stimulant plants?" Gloria and Ruth asked, frowning their eyebrows without understanding what this meant.

Minos more or less understood the situation due to the knowledge of local geography left by Henricus Longus. "Don't worry. You will get a chance to understand this later..."

Vogel was in an area where some plants capable of stimulating unique reactions in men and women grew.

Because of this, this state had great aphrodisiac products and exported such items to various parts of the Central Continent.

But neither Gloria nor Ruth knew this because most of those who sought these were men or women with more experience in their baggage...

Young women who were virgins until a few years ago would not look for information about this kind of trade, so naturally, the two were ignorant of the subject.

Since both were from the Flaming Empire, an enemy of Vogel, they did not have much information about this place either, which was another reason for their ignorance about this local product.

But they were both curious about this thing now that Minos had said that.

"We'll see about that later..." He smiled at them before turning his attention to the great eagle there. "Tell us more about this state."

"Well..." It then explained the basics of Vogel, from the dangerous tribes they could encounter on the way to the capital to the high-level noble families in the human cities.

Vogel was smaller than the current Black Plain in terms of area, so there weren't as many powers or tribes for Minos' group to worry about as would be the case with the Flaming Empire.

The entire Flaming Empire was about the same size as the northern region, a colossus, one of the largest states in the Spiritual World in terms of area.

Because of this difference, they soon learned the basics from that spiritual beast, understanding a little better about the information they already had, about where to pass and what to avoid.

"So, that's it..." Minos sighed as he opened his arms and felt it was time to get back on his way. "Well, I won't make your life difficult since you said all that."

"Leave some of the medicine you have with you and go away." He pointed to a pouch that had wrapped around the neck of that big bird.

Spiritual beasts could also use artifacts produced by humans.

That was rare in the northern region of the Central Continent as there were not many interactions between beasts and humans in those areas. But in places like Vogel, interspecies relationships were much more common, and it was not strange to find beasts with spatial bags or other items.

Since Minos could recognize that this was the storage item usually used by beasts, he did not miss the opportunity to extort this eagle.

Beasts valued medicine much more than spiritual crystals, so it was natural for him to assume that there were some interesting things with that eagle!

Upon hearing that, that creature clawed the ground with its nails, but it did not take long to deliver some King-grade medicines to Minos as payment for its misdeeds.

"Hmm, perfect, big brother!" Kyla jumped in front of Minos and devoured those medicines, filling her belly in a few seconds.

After seeing this with pain in its heart, that creature took Minos' permission and flew away from there, angry at the two snakes that had put it in that situation.

As for Minos' group, they did not waste much time and were soon back on the road, making their way towards the first Vogel city they would pass!

...

After two days of traveling through the sizeable forested region that separated Vogel from the Cromwell Kingdom, Minos and his group finally arrived in a city called Damiana.

At this point in their journey, they left the two beasts traveling alongside them in the Spatial Kingdom for training and resting since there was no need to have them around inside a human city.

Abby was still in the main room of the lake house, but since Minos could do nothing about her situation, he and his two other wives headed off to visit Damiana.

Before reaching this city, they had fought many times along the way, just as the eagle from earlier had warned them would probably happen if they did not take certain precautions.

But that was just what Minos wanted, fights to train for during this trip to the Flaming Empire!

So, he, Ruth, and Maida had taken advantage of these two days and fought against beasts and even a group of humans.

Because of this, they already felt their cultivation speeds were improving, as they now had stronger opponents to press them, which was impossible to find in the current northern region.

And so, the trio decided to get to know a little of Damiana to relax from the days of fighting!

With that, in this instant, Minos was walking hand in hand with Gloria and Ruth through the central sidewalks of this great human city, getting to know this place that none of them had ever been to.

"This city is truly different from those we find in the northern region or the Empire," Ruth commented to her companions as she looked at the building model and the manners of the people in her surroundings.

"Hmmm." Gloria nodded in agreement. "Just look how coyly the women here dress..."

Upon hearing that and seeing the gestures of his favorite pregnant, Minos looked in the direction of a few women in the vicinity, all of whom were wearing clothes that hid much of their bodies.

In general, only the hands, faces, and feet could be seen unprotected on the women walking through the city's central streets.

At the same time, most men were dressed formally, as if everyone there was a businessman.

As for power, most people on the streets they passed were Spiritual Kings, with significant amounts of Spiritual Emperors coming and going.

And while Minos noticed these things, the people in the surrounding area also noticed them since, unlike many places in the Spiritual World, monogamy prevailed in Vogel!

As such, upon seeing the intimate hand-holding behavior of this group, some could not help but notice that these could only be foreigners.

'How do they accept this?' A middle-aged woman cleaning the windows of a store wondered as she looked in the trio's direction. 'This is a real humiliation!'

'I myself would rather castrate my husband than see him with another!'

As people in the surrounding area judged them, Minos and his wives entered a herbal store in the central part of this city, where he had already received the recommendation when checking into a local hotel earlier.

'Love House.' Ruth read the sign above the front of that store, wondering what the stimulants that eagle had mentioned were.

But as they entered, it did not take long for her and Gloria to realize what Minos was talking about!

When they smelled some herbs there, they soon began noticing some strange sensations in their bodies, which, although faint, were noticeable.

'This...'

Gloria, who was particularly sensitive due to her pregnancy, felt a slight wave of heat as she subtly thought of some special memories with Minos.

"Minos, how do you bring us to a place like this? Don't you think this is wrong?" Ruth stood before him as she noticed Gloria's situation just because they had walked in there.

Minos laughed and hugged Gloria's tiny waist while playing with one of Ruth's hands. "Don't worry. Some of these herbs have no negative effects on pregnancy and even have the potential to increase the couple's power after the act..."

"Don't you want to try it? It's not impossible to become about 10% stronger during the period of effect of these substances."

"That will be very useful in the coming days." Although true, he used that point, which was not the main reason he wanted to try such possibilities...