The Rise of the Black Plain

Upon arriving at the location from which he was to depart in a few moments, Minos met up with Dillian, Eda, Abby, and Ruth, the latter two who would accompany him that evening.

"Eda, you have reached level 60. Congratulations!" Minos smiled as he saw the relatively young woman standing next to Dillian, one of the three people in his forces who had recently advanced.

"Hehe, thank you, Your Grace." This brown-haired woman said happily, first looking at Minos and then winking at the mustachioed man at her side.

Seeing his wife winking at him, Dillian closed his eyes, already imagining what the evening would be like. Eda had looked good before, but now she no longer had any sign of age on her body, looking almost as young as Ruth and Abby.

Consequently, he could not help but think of his beautiful wife as he finished another day of service. 'His Grace will be gone for at least a few hours, so there is plenty of time...' He thought about this in silence as Minos' wives also praised Eda.

"Anyway, I hope I don't have to act tonight, but if our mission goes wrong, we may have to do something more flashy," Minos commented as he became more serious. 

"Hmm." Abby nodded at him and said. "This place we're going doesn't seem to be big. So, even if we have to act against those people, at most, we'll have to take out a small group."

But Ruth did not think that was so simple. "But we have to make an effort to make it all work out. Even if we can deal with that group, causing something flashy over, there will alert all our enemies."

"Yeah, that wouldn't be good." Dillian agreed. "By the way, Your Grace, why don't we act right away against these migrants from Albano? There are already camps of them with thousands of enemies."

"I think we can already do a lot of damage..."

Minos then thought quietly for a few seconds as they stood in the middle of a garden. "Let's see what we can find out today. I think we're better off letting them underestimate us for a while longer."

His eyes then grew cold, and he commented. "I still think their current numbers are too low. It would probably be a waste of our position for me to show myself while there are so few enemies..."

Eda and Dillian momentarily looked at the ground, thinking on that point of Minos. 

"In any case, if we scare them off too much, things may become more worrisome at a more accelerated rate. So let's keep a passive position for a while, give them a chance to underestimate us a little more, and prepare more significant numbers."

"Once we are close to the limit, we will act decisively against these invaders!"

The four people there with him nodded in agreement just before Eda and Dillian took their leave of the trio.

Then, Minos and his two women went to the place where the teleportation array of this city was. From that place, they set off toward one of the border cities of the Black Plain's main territory.

...

After a few breaths, three people appeared in a small square inside one of the headquarters of the Black Plain Army of this territory. 

At first glance, this place looked like an ordinary fighting stage with many trees. But on this stage, several metal rings circled the surroundings at different angles and positions, going underground and then through the air.

At that moment, the rings stopped their circular movements, while a colorful flow of spiritual energy covered the surroundings, making this place lose its ordinary appearance.

Some soldiers were near that place, and when they saw the three people appearing in the middle of that stage, they rushed there and made the customary greetings.

"Your Graces!" They bowed their heads as they said this aloud.

Seeing that the teleportation array had entered a waiting state, Minos and his wives walked out of that area, waving to those people.

"In what direction is the enemy camp?" Abby asked one of those soldiers.

"Your Grace, follow this direction, and you will come across the site." One of them pointed towards the northeast.

After hearing this, the three jumped toward the skies, quickly beginning to fly to the indicated location, leaving the soldiers eating dust.

"Honey, how will we get into the enemy camp without being noticed?" Ruth asked as she flew a little behind Minos.

He then looked at Abby and blinked. "We'll use Abby's innate ability and my mental technique to trick the enemies working on patrol. Then, we will infiltrate that place and take what we want."

They were not on this mission to destroy an enemy outpost. On the opposite of that, they wanted to avoid such a thing and just interrogate some high-level members of the opposing force to solve some of their doubts.

Minos and his forces had not done this so far because until a few months ago, there was no enemy camp in this region. As a result, most of the invaders were scattered, and it would not be easy to get someone with information without significant action on the part of the army.

But with the change that had been happening, with more and more enemy camps forming around the region, it had now become more affordable to break into one of these places and get someone with such information.

Because of this, they, the strongest group with the best ability to act on the Black Plain, had set out to solve this problem now that several conditions had been met.

"Won't anyone else notice us?" Ruth worried since Spiritual Emperors did have much more powerful presences than Spiritual Kings.

Abby then replied. "We'll probably sort it all out before anyone notices. We are flashy, but most people in a camp like this leave watch duty to the guards on patrol. So, as long as we're quick, there shouldn't be any problems."

After a few moments of silence, Minos spotted the bright spots around a desert area of the Cromwell Kingdom, near the border with the Black Plain. "Get ready!"

"Yes!"

Then, they followed an almost vertical trajectory, descending at great speed at one end of that camp. 

But in doing so, they did not land immediately but rather floated in the air a few meters above one of the posts where there were lookouts in the surrounding area.

With this, Minos activated his mental technique and made all those people fall asleep simultaneously. Then the three of them landed and, without delay, went on with their plans to incapacitate the guards around this camp.

Minos went alone, circling that area and taking down his opponents, while Abby and Ruth used the opposite direction to go through the outer areas of the camp.

After some time, the three met again when they had finally solved the problem.

"Come on. We don't have much time." Minos commented as he realized the location of the strongest person in this camp with about a thousand Spiritual Kings stationed.

...

Inside the main tent of this camp, three level 59 Spiritual Kings were sitting around a table, where maps and various symbols were scattered disorderly.

Each of these men seemed to be in their middle age, but they were all wearing armor of different types. However, they had more in common, such as, for example, the anxious expression on their faces.

"Our alliance command expects that another 10,000 brothers in arms will arrive at the borders of the Black Plain in the next two months."

"At this rate, we will be able to attack this place in less than six months." An extremely thin man said this, smiling in anticipation of the day they would attack the Black Plain.

"When the time comes, we will simultaneously attack that entire territory without giving the local forces a chance to survive!" The other said in a low voice, but not low enough not to be heard by the 'walls' of that place.

'Let's see who won't have a chance of survival...' Minos thought in his mind as he touched the right shoulder of the blue-haired beauty at his side.

After receiving the signal from her husband, Abby opened her arms and activated her innate ability, causing a blue mist to travel towards the ground against those three.

At that instant, the three realized something was wrong and turned in the direction of where Abby was standing.

"What?" The farthest of the blue mist said in perplexity, not understanding where that goddess had come from.

However, before they had a chance to try to escape or alert others, Minos appeared behind two of them and Ruth behind the third, holding them by their necks.

"Let's talk..."