The Rise of the Black Plain

When they arrived in front of Minos, those four stopped in front of the other members of their group so that the emperor could easily notice that there were 17 people there.

Minos knew they wished to meet him a few minutes ago, so he got right to the point upon seeing them there. "Well? Have you decided to join my forces?"

The level 85 man made a common gesture for people subordinating themselves to others and said it aloud. "Yes, Your Majesty. We are here to pledge eternal loyalty to you if the conditions are not abusive."

Minos liked what he heard, while his imperial guards in the surrounding area smiled, feeling that their strength would significantly improve with all these high-level Spiritual Sages and Spiritual Saints.

Most in the group of these distant relatives of the Goddess of Life were Spiritual Sages, but some of them were Spiritual Saints.

This was not their entire group. Somewhere, the weakest, the children and elders of this family were hiding.

But since their enemies only wanted the heads of the nobles in the group, the weaker ones had been left in a safe place while they fled with the stronger ones.

That's why there were only 17 people there, even though these people had their younger or older relatives still alive.

Minos said. "As long as you are good and loyal to me, you will have a home to call your own and people to fight by your side, protect you and even take revenge.

In exchange for your loyalty and service, I will give you opportunities for cultivation and protection.

I will arm you with the best artifacts whenever possible, and I promise to take as many of you as I can to the 10th stage!"

"If that is the case, we agree to subordinate ourselves to Your Majesty Minos Stuart." That man said, feeling that those words were enough for them to go through with it.

They would sign Soul Contracts eventually. But for now, Minos' promises were good enough for them to follow through with this agreement.

They all bent their knees to Minos and took their oaths.

After half an hour, Minos had already heard the names of each of these men and women, getting 11 Spiritual Sages between levels 80 and 85 and 6 Spiritual Saints between levels 78 and 79.

Because of this, he smiled in a satisfied manner as he spoke, "We will expedite the papers for you to sign. Only after that can I begin to offer you the best opportunities on my wings.

However, you can now be considered my subordinates, so tell me more about your situation. I am eager to get to know more about you and find out how to help you."

The level 80 young man stepped forward and said. "Your Majesty, our family has been declining for the past 100,000 years. Because of this, we had to change our surname once again during this period, and the surname of the Goddess of Life today only exists in our memories.

Before this, we had already suffered other problems that caused us to lose important members and permanently weakened our family. But eventually, we managed to get rid of those problems.

However, today we are still pursued by the same enemies that made us change our name last time.

This is the royal house of the Veora Kingdom, the Veora family!"

The level 83 woman continued what this fellow had been saying. "About 100,000 years ago, one of our ancestors found something valuable to that family and hid it for future enjoyment.

Unfortunately, that drew the will of that family to us, and even without that item, we were hunted and chased by them for all that time.

That ancestor died before he could pass on where he had hidden it to us, so none of us know where he hid it.

In this situation, many of us died without having anything to talk about, and many others were forced to disperse around the world, losing contact with the core of our family.

After all this period, our family has become weaker, and even though our ancestors have wrought our demise, there are still those from the Veora family who still seek us out."

"Oh? You have such a history?" Minos took an interest in that. "But if your mortal enemies are members of the Veora family, why were you still around those lands? If I were in your place, I would have fled the Central Continent long ago."

That woman nodded, agreeing with Minos. "The rest of our family did that. They currently live in a small tribe elsewhere, in an area where humans can live in peace.

But the strongest among us decided to take an alternative path. Many of our relatives have died over the past 100,000 years, and we can't just stand still!"

The level 81 woman said. "We were in the lands of our enemies, for despite the danger of being there, that is where the item hidden by our ancestor is.

Since they hurt us so badly for something we don't even have, we are committed to finding such a thing and using it against the cursed Veora family!"

"What is this item about?" Minos asked.

The level 85 man looked at him in silence for a moment and answered in place of those nobles. "That should be one of the idols of the Veora family. According to the legends, this family has three sacred items that can collect something called Faith Power and use that to facilitate the cultivation of Demigods.

We know that this family only has 2 of these idols currently, so the third one must be the one that the ancestor hid."

Minos knew how the Faith Power worked, so upon hearing this, he was pleased to hear that one of his subordinates knew about the possible location of one of these.

Although magnificent, this kind of power was difficult to convert into real power. There were a few methods used to do this, but they were all secret, and few in the Spiritual World had relevant information about them.

Even Henricus Longus hadn't left much knowledge about this to Minos since it was still under development in his period.

The Faith Power had only been discovered with the appearance of the Gods, but Henricus Longus had been the first human to achieve this feat.

As such, Minos lacked an item that could be used to collect this kind of power!

Even though it was possible to use faith without such a thing, having such an item was much better. So he decided to help them in this quest!

"Very well, I will help you with this, as long as I can use this item in the future..."