The Rise of the Black Plain

After sealing their agreement with the leader of Ciri TF, Minos and his group would spend the next few days on this planet, getting some rest from their journey and preparing for the road to Nemo Colony.

Besides the main agreement to this civilization to support the Black Plain Empire, Minos would use the days on this planet to train with the strongest local cultivators and talk about the future.

He would show these creatures in practice just how strong he was, giving them a glimpse of the terror they could face if they did the wrong thing against the empire. But this demonstration of power also showed the local natives how strong Minos' support for them could be in the future.

Minos was a terrible enemy, but he was also a wonderful ally to have!

His plans for both the Black Plain Empire and Zocarro, especially for Armhands, were very ambitious, the kind that, if they worked, whoever was with him would grow a lot with him.

Preferring Minos as their ally rather than their enemy, the local experts took their days with him positively, showing their affinity and assuring him they would do their best.

Some of them couldn't help but be excited about the possibility of joining Minos' group on Zocarro, something that could transform them substantially and allow them to reach positions that perhaps none of them could reach on their own.

On the group's seventh day on this planet in the Omega Solar System, they set off through the local universal wormhole, heading towards Nemo Colony!

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In the blink of an eye, two entire months had passed since the group's passage through Ciri TF!

After 9 weeks traveling through the universal wormhole between that planet and Nemo Colony, Minos' group was reaching the spatial distortion in front of them, through which they would leave the space tunnel and reach their short-term destination!

Minos led his family members towards the other side of that area, arriving at the starting point where he and his five companions who had come from Zocarro had spent over 3.5 years ago.

They were finally back in Nemo Colony; the area shaped like a space ring around the port of departure and arrival of aliens from this galaxy.

Those on Nemo Colony for the first time looked with curiosity at the ring where over 100,000 aliens lived, a place much stronger than Ciri TF, despite not being a planet.

But they understood why the area was so strong. As well as being further away from the center of the galaxy, the space colony's high level formations kept the area in a privileged position for cultivation in this galaxy.

In this place, one could cultivate to level 102, a sign that Ruth and the two level 102 Sovereigns could get back to trying to improve their strength after years of not being able to do so!

Although it was interesting and full of possibilities for entertaining the group, Minos had no intention of staying in Nemo Colony any longer than necessary. As soon as they had left the universal wormhole they had been using, they headed towards the terminal to buy their tickets on a spaceship that would leave this area for Aether Terminal.

When they reached a counter in the departure terminal, Minos told the alien at his disposal that he wanted 13 tickets to Aether Terminal.

"We have a ship leaving for Aether Terminal in 8 weeks. The cost for 13 tickets is 105 Crystex. It's best for your group to book your tickets as soon as possible. There's a lot of movement between our galaxy and your destination." Minos paid the Crystex, spending the currency that could be used in Nemo Colony and Aether Terminal.

Fortunately, one could use Qilnats in Aether Terminal, as several spaceships left from there for Zocarro.

Even if Minos and his group had no intention of going directly to Zocarro, they could use their Qilnats when they arrived at that terminal.

Picking up their Nemo Colony departure tickets, Minos and his group set off from the boarding terminal, heading for the space ring where the grandiose waiting area of this place was located, where one could cultivate, carry out missions and learn about what was needed to continue their journey through the universe.

Minos and his group didn't need any of this, being already prepared for the journey ahead, when the real dangers to the group would begin to appear as they moved closer to Aether Terminal.

Aether Terminal was in an area where the cultivation limit was level 110, so the dangers near the end of the journey to that stopping point would be enough to put even Minos' strongest companions at risk.

Soon the group would find places to go into seclusion in Nemo Colony. Apart from Minos, everyone there was interested in spending the next two months cultivating in this interesting place for most of the group.

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The 8 weeks at Nemo Colony would pass in the blink of an eye!

For a group as strong as Minos' team, the dangers and problems of a place like this were so limited that his people had nothing to worry about over the weeks.

They cultivated peacefully in good local cultivation halls, in places where even level 103 cultivators could easily recover their powers. They couldn't get stronger by cultivating there, but recovering their spent energy was possible, even without the use of Zocarro's cultivation resources.

At the end of the group's two-month wait, they made their way back to the boarding terminal, where they soon came face to face with the spaceship that would take them to Aether Terminal.

The ship was not the same as the one that had brought them there, much less was the crew the group Minos had already met. But he and his family soon boarded, while he gave his recommendations to those new to the experience.

They had done their best to prepare their companions for the extreme spatial effects of journeys like the one about to begin, but only by experiencing it could these individuals get used to it.

In this way, the group began their journey to Aether Terminal, where they were due to arrive, if there were no delays, in 30 weeks!