The Rise of the Black Plain

Kendrick had reached the age to begin his cultivation a few weeks ago.

At that time, he had gone through the awakening ceremony, surprising his family by inheriting his father's innate ability.

Like Minos, Kendrick had the ability to increase energy, one that was already at the Saint grade, the same as that of his father and mother.

But his ability had its own characteristics, and Kendrick could not steal the cultivation base of those of similar levels to his at present.

No one knew if he would ever be able to do that, but in any case, the fact that his cultivation base was already like Minos' was enough for everyone to have high expectations of him.

And he had been fulfilling these expectations. Currently, Minos' second child was already at level 11 and had already learned his father's first two techniques.

Knowing these techniques, after seeing his father check them out a few moments ago, this young man couldn't help but look at him with his eyes shining, seeing how amazing his old man was and where he could one day get to.

He had Golden-grade talent, so there were few barriers in his way to reaching peak cultivation!

"Mom, what technique is Dad learning?" He asked Abby, who was still at level 78, as were Isabella and Ruth.

Abby continued watching for her husband and said. "That must be a sealing technique. It is called Divine Seal, has three phases, and is obviously Golden-grade.

You and your sister will learn it one day when you reach level 80."

Sarah listened to that close to Kendrick, eager to reach her father's level and learn this technique.

"What can it do?" Sarah asked instead of Kendrick.

This time, Gloria, level 79, answered. "This technique can seal things, from cultivation to even space. Because of that, it has many versatilities."

Minos had already introduced this technique to his family, as he intended for them all to learn it when they reached level 80.

So they all knew about each of the characteristics of this technique.

Ruth said. "If you are talented enough, you can use this technique to force contracts without the need for spiritual judges or beast tamers. You can hide an entire city behind a distorted space or even use its properties to summon distant things.

A seal has many uses. It can be used in simpler ways to block a person's cultivation paths or, more sophisticatedly, to create a prison from which things can be summoned.

In short, this technique has as many possibilities as your creativity limits it."

Isabella said. "Ultimately, it can be merged with other techniques you will learn."

As for the limits of this technique, it only worked with people, beings, or objects up to 100% more powerful than Minos' soul and could not be affected by his ability to temporarily steal the cultivation base of others.

So as long as he was at level 80, he would at most be able to use this technique against opponents up to level 83. That is, of course, if he didn't use it in a fusion. In that case, the fusion limit would have no such limitation.

In short, this was not an offensive technique but a supportive and defensive one that would be stronger as Minos advanced.

Some techniques needed to give their users maximum power right away, but for their best growth, having one or another support technique that would become more important in the future was necessary.

As such, Minos had chosen this technique for this stage and, without much delay, achieved basic control over it to activate it for the first time.

Divine Seal: Infinite Connection!

Minos concentrated 100% of his forces on this first activation, not because it was necessary, but because he wished to test his and Henricus Longus' theories.

Henricus Longus had created Minos' techniques to give his heir incredible powers. But he had also developed them to create a warrior capable of connecting in some way with the extraordinary giant bones that existed in this world.

This particular technique had been created for the primary purpose of connecting the energy of these bones to the user of the technique so that this connection would somehow strengthen him.

Henricus Longus did not know that her chosen one would be Minos, nor that the innate ability of this young man would already connect him to these bones. So he had not set such high expectations of what this technique would do.

When Minos made the seals of the technique and pressed a large circular-shaped inscription on one of the bones of those skeletons, his test proved more successful than his 'mentor' had anticipated when creating such a technique.

The moment the seal fell on that bone, it suffered no repulsion from it. It quickly integrated with that part of the gigantic skeleton, forming what looked like a tattoo on that bone.

Those circle-shaped inscriptions changed shape as they integrated with that bone, growing and causing various symbols to appear all over that bone.

It did not move on to other parts of that giant skeleton but soon began to emit something that made Minos happy.

Minos felt his absorption of the laws and energy of that skeleton rising in level so that even without using his innate ability, he seemed to be tempering his body and soul with this seal!

The seal he had just created connected his soul and body to that bone, and no matter where he was, he would continually be 'baptized' by the powers of that bone.

Luckily he had already absorbed enough of those skeletons to achieve good compatibility with them, and for that reason alone, his attempt had not failed!

'Henricus Longus wasn't entirely wrong, but at this stage, I still couldn't do it without my innate ability.' He considered as he assessed what was happening. 'But I believe that in the 2nd phase of this technique, I could do it even without my ability.'

With that, he sighed and smiled, feeling that he was complete to begin his journey searching for the Longus family.

But first of all, he would recover from this activation that had consumed his spiritual energy, returning to cultivating while the people in the surrounding area celebrated the end of his seclusion.

Some were happy just for Minos, but others were also happy because they could return to the mainland after the time they had spent in this place cultivating.

Several had changed levels in this period, so they were eager to show their relatives and friends their current situations!

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