The Rise of the Black Plain

Three months passed after Minos and his group arrived at the space pocket where the Sky Whale was.

During that time, their group did not encounter any major problems as they had expected. Even though they encountered two other groups in this space pocket, they did not engage in any fights or disputes because they were all wary of the creature sleeping in the lake.

Also, with the blow he had dealt earlier to destroy the wooden dragon, this whale had made life much easier for anyone who entered this area.

He had practically left the most valuable resources of the area unguarded, free for anyone to take.

With so many exciting things and so few people to fight over them, all three groups in this space at that time had achieved good results and had not wasted their time fighting each other.

For all three groups, most of these months had been cultivation and training time, and the few moments when they had to act strongly were due to the chaotic effects of this dimension.

Minos' group had even encountered two natural phenomena that caused them to suffer greatly during this period, even forcing some of them to use the Spring of Life to recover.

Other than that, they simply used this time to absorb the essence of some consumable resources they had received from the previous elven group, but also in this area.

After almost two months of seclusion in this place, Abby had advanced to level 82, while the first Demigod of the Black Plain Empire had appeared!

The hybrid from Minos' group finally had enough peace to digest the energy from the various medicines he had consumed so far.

Forrest had also enjoyed this time and was approaching level 94.

However, he had no expectations of advancing within this Spatial Kingdom and focused on getting things for his group and helping his faction partners become stronger.

One person in his group still needed to advance to the 10th level. Meanwhile, the time had come for him to seek more high-level resources for his faction.

At the beginning of this event, it was common for groups like theirs to search for things to strengthen their team members. But as the event gradually drew to a close, more and more beings would go after things for their families, factions, and so on.

When the hybrid of Minos' group finally moved on today, the group decided to end their seclusion and go back to searching, this time not just for things that would benefit them.

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Leaving where they had spent the last few weeks meditating and training, Minos' group began their journey searching for a new portal to leave this space pocket in search of another area.

As they grew stronger, they all became more confident in facing the natural threats of the Ancient Dragon Spatial Kingdom, as well as the many experts who entered this space.

It had been more than five months since the stabilization of the portals in the Flaming Empire, so with practically half of the event having passed, many of those who had entered this Spatial Kingdom should have died by now. Also, some had probably already gotten what they wanted and left since not everyone would have to worry about finding things for their organizations.

After making small advances that wouldn't harm their foundation, even if they used outside resources, many would surely return to the mainland.

Thus, the stronger their group became, the less chance there would be for problems to arise and get in their way.

However, the group suddenly came upon an ancient temple when they were looking for a place to leave this space pocket where the Sky Whale was.

This area was very large, and they had gathered a lot of resources before they had even explored half of the forested area of this place.

They hadn't been through this area yet, so when they arrived there, they were naturally surprised to find this ancient temple.

"This..." Ruth saw several gigantic weapons at the edge of the altar-shaped temple in an area with almost no vegetation.

Minos looked at them and said. "This must have been a place to encourage the young members of the dragon tribe in the ancient past."

Henricus Longus had never entered a dragon Spatial Kingdom, but he had lived in the Spiritual World for over 50,000 years and had enough experience with dragons to know a lot about them.

With the most important memories of this ancient God, Minos could easily realize certain things about this space. "Dragons are powerful. One of the reasons is that they have a great affinity with many natural laws.

Humans usually reach 5 to 10 affinities after a long and arduous cultivation journey up to the 10th level. But dragons are born with 10 natural affinities, and throughout their lives, they can not only strengthen these affinities but also add new ones.

Because of this, these creatures are among the strongest in the Spiritual World in terms of raw power."

Forrest nodded and said. "So they naturally place great value on training and strengthening their offspring... This place must have been made for that."

Just as humans could use artifacts to become stronger, so could beasts.

Many of them proudly preferred not to use artifacts. Yet, in a fight against someone of equal level and combat skill, even proud creatures would use artifacts to increase their strength.

Dragons were born with a taste for valuable things, so by providing high-level weapons in this area in the distant past, the elders of this tribe helped their juniors to have goals to become stronger.

Not everyone wanted to get revenge, get stronger to impress someone, or change their status and be respected. Some simply wanted to get stronger to be like their leaders and family members or even to have enough to use an artifact.

Dragons provided high-level weapons in the Weapons Temple for their juniors to compete with each other for these artifacts. Anyone skilled enough to remove one of these weapons from its location would have the right to possess it.

Even without knowing the legend of this place and the weapons there, knowing what dragons were like, Minos and Forrest immediately understood what this place was about and became interested in the artifacts there.

In particular, a giant high-level grade-4 axe!