The Rise of the Black Plain

"How about we set a day for me to introduce you to this place? The teleportation array I used was disposable, and I'd like to settle some matters in the Flaming Empire..." He said, not liking that but having no choice.

'If she accepts, I will remove most of the Endless Snow Mountain Range skeletons before taking her there.' Minos considered this alternative to keep possession of these grandiose skeletons.

Queen Mcbride would hardly try to take one of those skeletons away from where it was. After all, even though she was at level 93, she was far from obtaining the strength to manipulate one of those.

They were cumbersome and only using high-level grade-4 arrays would someone have a chance of achieving something like what Minos had done in taking those two skeletons to the Spatial Kingdom.

But even if the queen had arrays of that level, removing one of those remnants would still be quite complicated.

Yet Minos preferred to keep as many of those bones private as possible for him and his staff. So in this situation where he was being forced to agree to show these bones to Hannah, he would not show her all his wealth!

It was not necessary!

Hannah reminded herself that Minos still had to recover and that a representative of Shannon was accompanying him. He wasn't just giving her an excuse not to take her to one of those sets of bones.

On the other hand, she was being watched by the representative of the Travisani family. In that case, if she insisted on going now, it might create a higher expectation on this observer than she would like, which could cause some problems.

She looked Minos in the eye and agreed. "Very well. I will visit Dry City in one year, and you will take me there. Is that enough time for you to settle your affairs?"

Minos nodded and said. "Yes, one year is enough."

After those words, Minos finally found himself back where he was previously standing next to Oswald and Shannon's representative.

Queen Mcbride was no longer around when he realized he was no longer in that cloud-filled place where he appeared to be nothing more than a worm.

Oswald was surprised by the sudden appearance and then disappearance of the queen, something that for him and the woman there had happened in just a few short seconds.

What to Minos had seemed like more than 5 minutes of conversation had not been much more than the time of a breath for those two and the Spiritual Sage of the Eastern Empire!

Minos knew that this was one of the capabilities of Spiritual Demigods and promptly explained it to his grandfather.

"Queen Mcbride had some doubts and came to question me about it... After getting her answers, she left."

"Doubts? What did she ask?" Oswald didn't know what such a woman could have asked, not doubting the ability of an expert of that level to have questioned Minos in the seconds that passed.

"Nothing much... We'll talk about it later," Minos said as he indicated an area ahead to his fellow travelers. "Anyway, let's make a stop to cultivate a bit."

"Oh? All right, then." Oswald did not insist, following his grandson's recommendation to stop and cultivate, something he had wanted to do for some years now.

Minos looked at the level 81 woman accompanying them and said. "After we are done, I want you to take us through a wormhole to where Mortimer Burgess is."

"OK." She said, thinking that was better.

For her, using wormholes was a faster travel alternative, which consumed more energy but shortened the time she would have to keep up with these men.

She had no particular problem with Minos and Oswald, but she would rather be in the Flowers Kingdom and not act as their guide. So she naturally appreciated Emperor Stuart's demand.

With that, they would spend more than an hour cultivating in that place, in the middle of a forest in this border part of the Flaming Empire with the Flowers Kingdom.

After that time, Oswald would finish recovering his soul strength, feeling at the limit of his powers once again after years of a sealed cultivation base.

As for Minos, he managed to recover the energy spent in the confrontation with Bridget, but due to the injuries generated by the explosion of his black hole, he would still need more time to recover.

They would stay in that area until nightfall, and then the level 81 woman would open a wormhole towards the vicinity of where Mortimer was.

...

In a part close to the volcanic area of the Flaming Empire, a place where Minos had exploded a Black Hole Bomb many years ago, a crack in space appeared 200 meters above the lava level.

With the opening of that crack, a female hand appeared there, immediately opening the space fabric enough for people to pass through without the danger of being crushed by space.

Minos and Oswald passed through there, arriving at that part of the Flaming Empire.

The two immediately realized where they were as they heard the voice of that guide. "Mortimer Burgess is in that direction, about 100 kilometers from where we are." She said, pointing with one of her hands.

The two looked to where she had indicated, nodded, and immediately flew off to that destination.

The speed of the two was not low, so it would only take a few moments for them to cross most of the way.

As they approached where Mortimer was supposed to be, Minos and Oswald saw this woman stopping and signaling something.

Soon after, two other women, both 9th stage cultivation, appeared in the vicinity and introduced themselves to the two.

"Where is Mortimer?" Minos insisted.

One of them quickly replied. "He is in the interior of that floating island." She pointed to one of the 12 floating islands in that area, a place that was large and diverse in plant life.

Minos' eyes narrowed as he looked in that direction while Oswald clenched his fists, interested to see that fellow who had terrorized the Flaming Empire years ago. But not only that, as old enemies, he wished to witness the end of Mortimer, and seeing his grandson move, he moved as well.

"What shall we do?" He asked Minos.

"We'll see how he's doing," Minos said, in a good mood. "Today, I will end his suffering and free this world from his evil presence."

"Hmm, that will make the empire a better place for people to live," Oswald said, remembering the many diabolical stories involving Mortimer.

Mortimer had in his history several tragedies, genocides, orders to kill, and even the murder of his own son, something motivated by his simple desire to possess his son's wife.

Thinking how Mortimer had committed such vile acts that even the impure would feel contempt, Oswald couldn't help but see a better future ahead for the empire with this individual's death.

While they had similar thoughts in mind, the women of the Flowers Kingdom walked away, leaving the two there to do whatever they wanted against Mortimer.

And it wouldn't be long before they caught up with that man!

"Mortimer Burgess, today is the day of your death!"

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