The Rise of the Black Plain

After reaching the Vogel border with Veora Kingdom, Minos said goodbye to his men at that border post and immediately opened a wormhole to cross the border of that state.

Once again, he was entering the Western region with the intention of hiding his movements. So he chose to jump the border of this place with his state to prevent possible local observers from noticing him moving.

Minos was still being watched by powers from various parts of the continent, including the Eastern Empire. But given his current abilities and the presence of a well-developed wormhole network of the Black Plain Empire, following or tracking his movements had become impossible.

At most, someone could keep an eye on whether he was in his state's capital or check his passage through other locations in his domains. But if he wanted to venture into the Spiritual World, reaching him now would be much more difficult.

One of Vico's Demigods had had great difficulty doing this when Minos was at level 77, so now, at level 80, such a thing would be even more complicated.

He knew this and intended to move through wormholes only through the riskiest borders and places on his way since this kind of travel had its dangers.

Upon entering Veora Kingdom, he immediately started down the path he had once taken through this state alongside local beasts who had come to an agreement to direct him to the border with the Western Empire.

Given the fact that he knew the way and was much faster than before, Minos quickly moved through the terrain, following the strategy of moving at a speed equivalent to his level and not flying so as not to draw unnecessary attention.

Because of this, in a matter of a few minutes, he reached the spot on the kingdom's coast near the tribe where he had stayed a few days earlier.

From there, he immediately started his way along the nearby coastline, avoiding the beast tribes and human cities he knew were nearby, given his previous experience.

This helped him at first, and Minos soon crossed more than half of his way to the border of this state with the Western Empire with no problems on his way. But he would soon be faced with a situation he could not simply ignore.

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While running through the dense forest paths of the Veora Kingdom, Minos suddenly came upon a battle in his path.

He was heading west when he saw a creature as large as a carriage flying out of control like a meteor.

This creature looked like a bird with gray feathers, a black beak, and eyes as big as human heads. It had part of its body covered in blood and flew wildly in Minos' direction.

Meanwhile, a creature with a snake body, black and red scales, golden eyes, and vertical pupils was attacking in the direction of that gray creature, invariably sending attacks in Minos' direction.

Minos saw the creature's tail traversing space at a point not far from him and realized that he would have no choice but to act, as it would be too late for him to simply try to dodge it.

Luckily none of these creatures was a Demigod, and his chances there were not small.

Chaotic Gravity: Void Crushing!

He immediately activated this technique as his Space and Time Avatar showed itself, immediately causing the walls of the wormhole used by that snake to collapse over its body.

Amid this initial act, Minos observed the snake's body with his visual ability, noting the creature's weakness.

He then activated his 9th technique without delay, casting a seal against that body.

Divine Seal: Scarlet Hell!

Red flames surged around that creature as soon as the seal reached its body, putting it in the face of its great weakness, flames.

Suffering these two swift attacks from the weak Spiritual Sage in its path, that snake looked at him hatefully, feeling the pain of being attacked so mercilessly by surprise.

It was a powerful level 88 Spiritual Sage. Still, without preparing for Minos' surprise move, it had immediately taken minor damage from the quick action of this level 80 Sage.

"Human!" It looked in his direction and shouted, immensely offended.

The level 87 creature flying toward Minos realized what was happening and thanked the heavens that this human had prevented its opponent's final attacks.

It was badly wounded, and if it suffered those last blows, it would surely die!

Minos realized this and, upon noticing that body so close to him, used his abilities to slow down its speed, initiating a repulsive force on that body to slow it down.

'Lend me your strength, bird.' He said calmly, showing that creature that he was not the least bit frightened by his opponent eight levels above his own.

That bird didn't understand what Minos' mental communication meant since it was severely injured, so how would it lend its strength to him?

But after using this Spiritual Sages ability for the first time, Minos immediately stole the bird's cultivation base, taking advantage of the fact that it was very weakened and didn't have that many defenses against him.

If it were in another situation, where this bird was at its peak, it would be complicated for Minos at level 80 to steal the cultivation base of a level 87 being. But given the current circumstances, he managed to do that.

In the blink of an eye, he raised his level to 82, immensely shocking the creature furiously looking in his direction.

That snake had already escaped the space trying to crush its body and the flames created by Minos' seal. When he had raised his cultivation base considerably, it was quickly flying towards him, intending to murder him before doing so to its rival.

However, it had made a crucial mistake in approaching Minos!

When Minos felt the level 82 forces in his body, he immediately activated the Indestructible Body and clenched his fists.

Then he made his Soul Avatar clench one of its hands, the space in the surrounding area shook considerably just for that.

Then he punched in the direction of that creature closer and closer to him and the bird.

The right fist of Minos' soul projection brought down the space as it traveled at extremely high speed against his opponent, causing the spiritual energy and space in the surroundings to become chaotic.

Any being more than a kilometer away from Minos could not manipulate space at that instant due to the consequences of his punch!

When that blow struck that snake's head, it felt terror upon itself, trembling with fear as it saw death giving it a nod.

'Shit...'