The Rise of the Black Plain

As Minos moved closer to his targets, a special kind of energy was leaving the destroyed skeletons and slowly approaching Abby.

She was cultivating, but soon she felt this kind of unique energy approaching her, not giving off any negative feelings.

Noticing this, she realized this was similar to the Genetic Key already in her body and understood what that was. 'That's why that fellow said I should strive to defeat the opponents without much help from Minos!'

'Only the opponents killed by me released this special energy.' She felt that those killed by the other skeletons were simply falling apart, leaving no trace behind.

'But what could that be for?'

While Abby was wondering about that, Minos used his mental technique on several opponents, making them pass out one after the other without dying.

At the same time, he skillfully controlled the Devouring Art to exhaust the energies of dozens of individuals while sending out attacks just to immobilize or weaken the opponents.

In doing so, Minos took down a hundred opponents in the blink of an eye, while hundreds suffered from his attacks, primarily aimed at arms and legs.

'How can this be? How can he dominate us so easily?' A skeleton with power equivalent to that of a level 64 Spiritual Emperor wondered in astonishment.

And not only were the enemies looking in surprise at Minos, the seven skeletons fighting beside him were, too, as they did not expect him to be this strong.

'This person... He already has a power equivalent to that of someone at the end of the 7th stage!' The first skeleton to come into contact with Minos let its jaw drop as it saw the hundreds of opponents decline to dozens.

Meanwhile, Minos did not have even a drop of sweat dripping down his face, looking as good as he did at the beginning of the fight.

'Hmmm, most of them have been overpowered and may be eliminated by Abby once she recovers a bit...' Minos controlled the gravity in his surroundings, making the last opponents in the area float under his wish.

'That easy?' One of the skeletons in Minos' group wondered, seeing that it and its partners had barely served to help the Goddess' chosen one.

"What are we going to do now? Aren't we going to eliminate these opponents?" One of them asked.

"Abby will eliminate them when she recovers," Minos replied to that individual.

"You have no interest in them? When these individuals are killed by one of the inheritance candidates, they leave something useful for the tests ahead." The same skeleton as before said.

"I don't need this inheritance, and my wife is already here competing. So naturally, I will help her."

"You don't need it?" That skeleton looked at one of Minos' hands and felt that this made sense.

...

A few minutes later, Abby finally finished recovering.

When she saw the state of the surroundings, where many skeletons were lying on the ground, she smiled at her man and stepped forward.

Then she used her skills again, taking advantage of the passive state of her targets to destroy each of their bodies.

Ultimately, she managed to eliminate all those beings captured by Minos, again becoming exhausted from using so much of her abilities.

"How are you?" Minos asked as he held her by his wife's slender waist.

"Tired, but content..." She leaned her face against his right chest and slowly inhaled the air, smelling the masculine scent of her man.

"Well, cultivate again and gather the energy left by these opponents. When you're done, we'll go find another group of enemies to attack them."

"OK." She said as she sat down on a cultivation cushion.

Meanwhile, Minos looked at those skeletons and asked. "Where should we go now? Where will there be more of those opponents?"

The first skeleton to have talked with Minos and Abby stepped forward. "We must rally the forces of the Goddess. I already know that you can handle the enemies alone, but this mission is not just about eliminating them."

"Only if the innocents of this place have a chance to participate in the final conflict will they have a chance to disappear in peace."

"Oh?" Minos pondered this and sighed. "All right, let's do this, so nothing goes wrong."

"But where will these victims be?" He asked as he took his eyes off his wife and looked at the skeletons.

One of them then answered him. "Most of the citizens of the Goddess' homeland were massacred in the northeast of this place, where the city stood."

"They were massacred?" Minos found that strange. "Are you telling me that their forces are very different from their enemies?"

"Yes, that is the case." Another skeleton began to explain. "At that time, the Goddess' homeland was at one end of her territory. Such a place was not home to powerful warriors, but a village that grew into a city but retained its modesty."

"Because of this, the inhabitants of that place were only Spiritual Emperors or weaker cultivators when alive. So, their post-death strength must be inferior to that of low-level Spiritual Kings."

"Really?" Minos asked. "And why did the Goddess of Life put them up as help for potential heirs? You guys don't think these people can help with anything, right? At most, they will die one more time."

"Besides, how could an ordinary level 60 person survive this test?"

The seven skeletons looked at each other in silence at Minos' questions

One of them said. "Well, that strength wouldn't help the combat so much as to unbalance the battle in our favor. But the living and the dead have differences, with the advantage on the side of the living."

"On the other hand, the Goddess candidate has to be special and intelligent. So, the difficulty of that test is not so ridiculous..." Another of them commented.

Finally, the strongest one there said. "As for those victims, as long as they have the opportunity to fight and eliminate some opponents, they will disappear in peace, even if they lose in the overall context."

"Even if hundreds of them have to die, as long as they manage to eliminate one of the enemies with their sacrifices, that would already be a liberation for them."

"I see..." Minos scratched his chin as he pondered the situation of this place.

"What happens in case a competitor dies during the inheritance? Is there something to protect him, give him a second chance?"

"No. If a contestant dies, their corpse will be thrown back to where he came from."

After hearing that, Minos looked at Abby, pleased that he was here to take care of her. 'In the future, I have to make my women take more care. Abby got that from a simple tap on a map...'

"Sigh!"

'And that guy, how is he doing? He didn't have much luck coming to this place with that shaky foundation of his...' He thought of Wilfred, wondering if that person would survive the first test.

"But can you give up that inheritance? From the tests?"

"Yes, but not during the tests. So, none of you can give it up until the first test is over."

"I see..."

After that, Abby quickly finished recovering, and their group departed from that area full of bones in the surroundings.