The Rise of the Black Plain

After the failed experiment with Titus, two years passed quickly for the people in Minos' Spatial Kingdom.

Nothing exciting happened inside or outside this Spatial Kingdom during this period. The Spiritual World was still preparing for the aliens, and the global temperature dropped daily.

The ice age was to begin in less than four years officially, so many areas of this world were already covered in snow, with extreme climate changes compared to the normal of a few decades ago.

But aside from the climatic changes brought about by the ice age, the world was relatively calm, the terrorist problem had been completely solved, and there were virtually no more disputes between the major powers.

If there were destructive interests among the world's dominant powers, they were interests for the future, and at least for the time being, they didn't show themselves.

As a result, the Black Plain Empire grew considerably during this time, with Veora practically fully integrated into the empire's rules and plans.

Meanwhile, Minos was still in the Spatial Kingdom with many important men for the empire, still focused on developing technologies based on the aliens' belongings and new things using the knowledge of the Ancient Folk and his own theories.

After 2 years of much study and various experiments, his group improved on several fronts, experiencing new mistakes in experiments but also arriving at less flawed methods.

Some guinea pigs died during these 2 years. Still, most survived, and many enjoyed their new abilities, having already progressed to levels previously thought impossible.

Beings with talents similar to Black's could only cultivate to level 89 at most, even with the help of external items. However, with Minos' intervention, at least 40 people with black talents were now at level 90, while several others were at level 89 and working to advance one level.

As mentioned earlier, they couldn't conduct their experiments with individuals at the peak of their stages, or else they would experience the same thing as Titus.

Did this mean the people at their cultivation bottlenecks couldn't improve along with Minos' guinea pigs? No! It just meant that those individuals couldn't participate in Emperor Stuart's experiments for now.

However, once safe methods were developed, these beings could achieve the same results without the risks that Titus had experienced.

After two years of study, trial, and error, Minos' group was already working on something for such beings!

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In the Spatial Kingdom of Minos...

Minos was meditating in his lake house while the three level 99 Demigods were cultivating at different points in the area, each with different groups of observers cultivating near them.

A group of beings of various types worked alongside Demigods and Spiritual Saints who had recently reached levels above their maximum cultivation bottlenecks.

If the rest of the world discovered how many people Minos had changed their talents, even the Gods of his world would be terrified!

But he had changed not only the talents of these people but also the races of at least half of them, transforming them into individuals of new species with powers far superior to their previous ones.

The mere fact that evolution had improved the abilities of these individuals was so remarkable that the level increase was considered secondary. Some organisms had improved so much that if they had previously been useless to the empire in many important things, this had now changed significantly.

For example, there was a group of insects in this Spatial Kingdom that could only work with the local vegetation and could not understand the alien planting methods. However, after the evolution of some of these insects, this changed completely, and some of them were already involved in the study of foreign methods.

Many other animals that had evolved were now involved in new study fronts. Not only that, but some individuals who had never studied as scholars demonstrated a high capacity for learning and understanding, superior to others who had participated in the studies for years.

But Minos' group already understood this kind of phenomenon because they had realized that part of the alien methods was actually derived from a form of energy similar to giant bone's energy. When someone had more of this type of energy in their body, it was easier to understand and develop things similar to the alien methods.

Thus, many people were busy in various groups around the Spatial Kingdom, with some scholars also working on one of Minos' priorities, the cultivation methods left behind by the Ancient Folk.

Much had been developed and corrected in the ancient methods that Minos' allied curse had passed on to him. They were still being worked on and improved, but if he had to use them now, the results would be much better than those of the time with Titus.

But they were not yet at the point where Minos thought it would be ideal for him to test them thoroughly, let alone give his people access to them.

Anyway, while almost everyone was working around the Spatial Kingdom, Kyla and Emlyn lived quietly in this place, always watching over the area to keep it in order.

Mother and daughter were currently at levels 86 and 84, respectively, and the eldest had already told Minos that she would go through the evolution method when she reached level 88. Minos didn't disagree, feeling that in another five years or so, the time it would take her to reach that level, their group would improve a lot, and the probability of something bad happening to her would be low enough to risk it.

Kyla was also eager to evolve, eager to try out special powers similar to those of Titus, who had evolved so much that he now looked more like a Fox God than a member of their race.

Titus continued to cultivate as Minos had commanded. Still, from time to time, he would pause to rest and process what he had improved, and on these occasions, he would show the beings of this Spatial Kingdom a little of what he had become.

For this reason, the two of them were somewhat anxious about their chances of changing races.

As for the fear of suffering the same as Titus, they had none, for after the first ten experiments, no death or severe case like Titus's had occurred.

In the middle of this quiet day in the Spatial Kingdom, where almost everyone was doing their duties, Minos finished an eight-week-long cultivation experience.

He felt a little stronger when he opened his eyes, but he was still far from the middle of level 90.

'I haven't been to Dry City for a year. I'll take a few days off to see what the situation is like there, and then I'll come back and stay here for another year or two.' He thought as he stood up and prepared to leave for his capital.

'I will leave it to you to build the gate to the Spatial Kingdom in the Yellow City area when one of these three advances... After that, many things will be within our reach!'