The Rise of the Black Plain

After a few moments, Wilfred arrived at the residence where Gloria and Ruth stayed inside the Walker family's royal palace.

In that place, the two were sitting in different parts of a large cultivation area, each meditating with their eyes closed.

But they were not cultivating since there was no spiritual energy density as good as that of Dry City, nor even quality arrays in that place.

Because of that, the moment the guards took Wilfred nearby, they both opened their eyes, noticing the visit.

"You? Already?" Abby shouted in surprise as she looked at Wilfred while still sitting on her cultivation cushion.

"Where is Minos? Why isn't he with you?" Gloria questioned.

After hearing those two beauties' words, Wilfred dared not continue watching them from above and bent his knees, followed by his family's royal guards. "Your Majesties, the king, and queen, are not here because they are still taking the tests for the inheritance of the Goddess of Life."

"I was too weak for that inheritance and couldn't continue, so I managed to leave before my life was even more in danger."

"Are they still doing the inheritance?" Ruth looked at Gloria, as this pregnant woman was curious to know what had happened so far.

"You said your life was in danger. What happened? And Minos and Abby?" That redhead from the Spiritual Church asked.

"The king and queen are fine. At least that is the truth for when we parted at the end of the first test of the Goddess of Life's inheritance." He was sincere while getting straight to the point. "Anyway, the first test was easy for them but difficult for me."

"In it, we had to..." Then, as he laughed bitterly, this black-haired fellow told the resume of what had happened over the past few days.

While he was doing this, his mother and younger brother arrived at that place, promptly approaching the area where Ruth and Gloria were, without interrupting his narrative.

"In the end, I was lucky that the Goddess of Life was a kind woman in life, who left something not so evil behind..." He sighed, remembering the fear he had felt upon finding out what might have happened to him.

"So, that was it..." Ruth and Gloria commented, pleased to find out that Minos and Abby were fine and that they were already taking the second test.

"If that's true, then we won't have to stay here for months, as the Walker family assumed," Ruth commented to Gloria in satisfaction.

Hearing that, Wilfred's mother, who was still open-mouthed at seeing her son return so quickly, said. "That must be because of His Majesty's presence in this test. He is much stronger than the minimum needed to start the exam, so the process has been accelerated."

"Yes," Wilfred nodded. "If it weren't for him, it would probably take weeks for someone to complete the first test..."

"Or rather, no one would complete that. A person without his abilities and only at level 60 would die in that place!"

Blake listened to this carefully, startled that even Spiritual Emperors were so fragile in such a situation. "Then I can assume we failed, eh? Too bad..."

But upon hearing that, Wilfred said in pride. "I failed to follow that inheritance, but not before getting things for our family!"

"Oh?" His brother and mother looked at him in surprise, slowly with smiles forming on their lips.

He tossed the spatial ring he had loaded with items from that place for the two to check out while turning his attention back to Minos' wives.

"Your Majesties, I don't know exactly how the last two tests of the king and queen will go. But from what I heard from the skeletons in the first test, the next challenges shouldn't be like the last one. That is, they shouldn't be battles."

"So, I believe they won't take that long to return, even considering that the next tests will be of a higher difficulty level than the previous one." He said.

The two looked at each other, pleased to hear this information.

Then Gloria said to Wilfred, "Tell us what you heard from these skeletons these days. I want to hear the story behind this place..."

After that, it did not take long for Minos' two wives, Wilfred's mother and brother, to pay attention to what he had to say.

...

Meanwhile, inside the Secret Tomb...

After flying toward the vortex of dark clouds from earlier, Minos and Abby flew for a few minutes without knowing exactly where they were going.

They did this until the clouds in their surroundings decreased in density and appeared in a place where they seemed to be flying from the sky to the ground.

"That's weird..." Abby commented to him.

At all times, they had been flying upwards. But somehow, they were now flying downwards, towards a different place from the previous cemetery.

Instead of a dimly lit area or a simple place with many graves, there was a wooded area with rivers and lakes, warm colors, and natural lighting.

But not everything was perfect. Although it was not a darkened environment, gray clouds filled the skies, giving a melancholy look to anyone observing the area.

"What will this test be like?" Minos murmured in one of his wife's ears as he slowed his flight speed to land in the area, not far from a village.

"I am not sure, but I feel we will find our answers in that village ahead." She said as she watched in the direction of the simple houses in that place.

With that, when the two of them put their feet on the ground, they soon made their way towards that village, noticing that there were animals and other beings that seemed to be alive in that place.

And with that, they soon realized that this village was not the home of skeletons resurrected by the Goddess of Life technique but a place where fleshly, breathing people were!

But they did not have much time to think about the difference between this and the other test when they heard the screams coming from that place.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhh!"

"Help me! Help me! Get him off me!"

"Ahhhhh! It's killing me with pain!" A woman's voice echoed from a house as dozens of village residents crowded in front of the blue house on one of the lower hills there.

Hearing that, Minos and Abby ran near that place.

"What's going on here?" Abby asked in curiosity, still hearing many screams coming from inside that house.

"Ahhhh!"

"Calm down! Breathe slowly! You just need to push, Sarah!" A female voice, which had a touch of age in it, sounded, more or less giving Minos an idea of what this was all about.

One of the residents gathered on the outskirts of that house commented without looking at Abby. "Sarah, that shameless woman, got pregnant by another man while her husband was traveling, and now she's in labor."

"But it seems her little bastard doesn't want to be born!" He maliciously said.

Upon hearing that, Minos was a little surprised that someone would speak the whole truth of another person that quickly and almost laughed.

As for Abby, she opened her mouth in shock, both from hearing such gossip and from finding out that someone was in labor.

On that account, she took one of Minos' hands and forced their way closer to that house.

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