The Rise of the Black Plain

The dark fog completely disappeared from the area when the body of the Level 73 Spiritual Saint fell, and the rest of his blood began to seep out from the base of his neck.

Along with this, the Spiritual Emperors saw where the battle had taken place and the state of their enemies' bodies.

Thus, they came face to face with a much more degraded terrain than it had been minutes ago, while each of the five bodies was extremely brutalized.

They had parts cut off at odd angles, with organs showing and expressions of terror on their faces. Yet, at the same time, Minos did not have a single scratch on his body, and his armor was clean, just as it was when he arrived at this location.

Seeing this, those soldiers felt even more respect for their leader, who managed to single-handedly turn the situation in their favor and allow them to take revenge.

Meanwhile, Minos had the words of that enemy in his mind, considering the threat that high-level Spiritual Saints posed to him and his allies.

The four enemy states of the Flaming Empire only had problems with this state because none of them had such people in their ranks, except for their sovereigns.

Therefore, Minos finding out in this place that such strong people were involved in this mess helped him to light an alert in his mind.

'Why would high-level Spiritual Saints get involved in this? What are these people aiming at?' He wondered, thinking it was a shame that he was not strong enough to interrogate these people.

'Come to think of it, none of it makes sense. Who would attack the Church and me like that just because of the Vogel family and that sect of Albano? The only ones who could be behind something like that would be the Vogels, but they don't have the resources for that...'

'Could it be that someone is using this excuse to create a chaotic situation in the area?' He pondered the situation carefully as he collected the spatial rings of the five dead enemies.

He then said to his soldiers there in the area. "Five of you, I want you to look for places where spiritual roots are closest to the surface level. Then, I want you to bury these five bodies in these five different places."

"There's no reason for us to waste good nutrients."

Upon hearing that, the soldiers there did not question Minos' orders, five of them quickly predisposing themselves to do this service.

Most of them did not understand what the purpose of this was, but some, as was the case with Eduard, more or less had an idea of what Minos was trying to achieve with this.

'Is this to nurture the spiritual roots of the region? Is that how one improves the spiritual concentration of a territory?' Eduard remembered that Minos was responsible for the improvement in the spiritual root of Dry City and wondered if that was the great secret of the Black Plain.

And partly, it was. The idea of burying these Spiritual Saints near a spiritual root was to help nurture such an organism. But the dimension this represented could not be compared to using Divine-grade medicine.

So, obviously, these Spiritual Saints would not raise the quality of the area in which they were buried much unless there were a few hundred more individuals like them.

In any case, the Natural Laws in the 8th stage cultivators' bodies were concentrated enough to make some difference for spiritual roots. So Minos did not want to waste any of them. He would at least use the corpses of his enemies to raise the quality of his territory a little!

After sorting this out, Minos flew toward his army's outpost closest to his current position. It made no sense for him to stay in that area, so he would return to his city to wait for other signals.

'I have to see who the real target of these people is... It makes no sense for them to have high-level Spiritual Saints targeting me.' He pondered as he flew off at high speed. 'For what they can know, I should be vulnerable to people like that.'

'Then their target is probably someone or some high-level organization ally of mine!'

...

After the previous battle, Minos and his family experienced uncertainty for a few days, occasionally with one or the other having to go to the battlefield to protect the interests of their state.

Because of this, deaths broke out on both sides. However, the opposing side suffered more due to their outdated information about Minos and his wives.

This way, more Spiritual Saints had already been buried in various parts of the current Black Plain. In contrast, Minos had started with his containment plan.

Since high-level Spiritual Saints were coming to these areas, he had produced a new black hole and had been 'feeding' it with enemy Spiritual Emperors.

His orders had changed somewhat, and his forces now had to capture opponents at the 7th stage and deliver them to the Black Plain Army.

Ultimately, these individuals would be interrogated and then meet their end by becoming part of the black hole that Minos was 'fattening up.'

But before he could create a 'great' Black Hole Bomb, Minos finally received the visit he had requested for the past few days. The Matriarch of Vogel!

...

"Your Imperial Majesty, to what do I owe this call?" Clarissa Lawson, level 76, asked Minos as she stood face-to-face with this young man in the middle of the imperial throne hall.

At the moment, there were not many people there, only Minos, Gloria, and Clarissa herself, while Ruth and Abby were attending to other matters.

Minos then looked into the eyes of this woman he had met in Vogel years ago and got right to the point with his suspicions. "I believe the enemy will attack your Church post with high-level Spiritual Saints."

"What?" The quiet expression on this woman's face changed considerably, with her unable to believe at first that something like that could be said out loud.

Gloria then sighed. "We have fought quite a bit against the terrorists attacking our region over the past few weeks. And from what we have learned so far, the enemy has a massive attack plan that will take place in a short time and be attended by high-level Spiritual Saints."

"We believe their target is the Church post in Vogel since it doesn't make sense that this movement is against anyone else."

Clarisse then questioned. "But why would they do this against us?"

Minos stated his theory. "This terrorist group justifies their actions because of the downfall of the Vogel family and the end of that sect in Albano. So if you consider everyone involved with those two problems, besides me, the only one who can be associated with those calamities is your Church post."

"But I am much weaker than you and would not justify dispatching high-level Spiritual Saints..." He said while having a suggestive expression on his face. "Then you should prepare for the worst and call for reinforcements while there is still time!"