The Rise of the Black Plain

"Oh? Are you challenging me?" Minos said with a smile on his face. "A level 67 Spiritual Emperor challenging a level 61? What will happen to your honor when you lose? Will you give up your life and hide under a rock?"

"When I lose?" That fellow laughed, finding the size of the confidence of the person in front of him interesting. "If I lose, my honor will no longer have any value since I will serve this place according to your proposed contract. So, it is meaningless!"

Minos looked sideways and gestured for his men to move away. "If he wants to surrender and become one of you, what can I do but show him his place?" He laughed as he circulated his energies.

As Minos did so, a golden armor appeared in his surroundings, commanded by this king's mind to connect the right parts of his body.

Then, a sizeable purple-bladed sword appeared in his right hand, with him already fully prepared for this combat.

"Are you prepared?" The red-haired man asked.

He had given Minos time to prepare since it would not be the least bit fair to be challenged by someone of a higher level and still not have the chance to at least use his artifacts.

On the other hand, it did not make much difference to this man those items from Minos as he just wanted to challenge this person to get a feel of how someone with that murderous intent fought.

Minos did not answer right away and asked. "What is your name? I want to know where the fool in front of me comes from."

"Tsk!"

"My name is Gavin Rowse. As for where I'm from, I'll just say I'm from the south." He said as he waited for Minos to signal the start of this fight. "What about you?"

"Who do you think I am?" Minos replied with a question, preparing to act.

"Minos Stuart..." He frowned, looking with interest at his opponent. "They say you are a monster..." He laughed. "Where I come from, people also call me a monster..."

"Who will be worse?"

"We'll see!" Minos said before moving his fingers against the air, making little spots appear over space as he used his 7th technique.

Chaotic Gravity: Attraction!

When Minos activated his technique, Gavin lost control over his flight and found himself heading towards his opponent's right hand, faster and faster towards the impact.

"What?" He was surprised by this.

But as he felt shocked at being drawn in such a way, a black ring appeared around his body, sucking his energies like a parasite.

Infinite Dream!

Spatial Sword!

Minos shot an invisible beam of energy through his eyes as he delivered a killing blow into the air with his sword, hurling a powerful blade of spiritual energy at his target.

Being attacked with everything at the beginning of the fight, Gavin felt that his situation was not simple!

That was not the power of someone at level 61, but something that he at level 67 had to be wary of, or he could be hurt!

At the same time, he felt he could not easily escape the parasitic technique acting on his surroundings. Not only that, he was feeling 'stuck' in the attraction, making him fly so that with each passing instant, it seemed to get harder for him to use his movement technique.

'How is this possible? I can't do anything against this attack?' He opened his mouth and saw that he was almost colliding with the blade sent by Minos.

Simultaneously, he could feel that his mind was suffering a considerable mental burden while Minos seemed to be saying voices in his head.

'Give up...'

'Submit to the Black Plain...'

'Use your powers for a higher purpose...'

"Bastard!" He shouted with all his might as he gave up holding back, promptly activating his lineage ability.

The moment he shouted, drawing Minos' attention, seven circular patterns around his pupil began to glow, circling in different directions from each other.

With that, as the scar on his forehead seemed to tremble, wanting to open, Gavin teleported 100 meters away from where he was standing, sweating as he had narrowly escaped the enemy blow.

Minos saw all this from his position, identifying that individual's powers through the memories of Henricus Longus.

He looked again at his opponent's forehead and realized the situation.

"Destruction Eyes, eh? No wonder you came to the northern region. You are preparing to hide from those wanting to steal your powers, right?" Minos asked.

Destruction Eyes was an extraordinary power of the Rowse family, a power that appeared in the form of a third eye on the forehead of its host.

Such a thing rarely appeared, being considered an ancient curse that only struck those marked by tragedy.

And precisely because this power was not as simple as an ordinary innate ability, it was compatible with anyone with exceptional sensitivity, shared among that family.

Such a thing was marked by the circular patterns around the pupil, which in ordinary family members was the sign of their lineage power.

Because of this possibility, those born with the 'curse' of the third eye had to worry about their relatives trying to steal such a thing from an early age!

Henricus Longus had known the history of this family in his time, so Minos had readily understood Gavin's situation.

"What? Did you recognize this?" That red-haired fellow's eyes opened wide as he felt fear rise in his heart.

"I read a book about it..." Minos flew closer to that fellow, once again attacking him.

But this time, he made no ordinary attacks. Instead, he prepared to fuse some of his techniques.

"Let's get this over with!" He said as he dropped his sword and brought his two hands close to his eyes.

As he did so, the fingers of Minos' hands trembled as if there was an invisible ball forming between the space in front of his eyes. Yet, simultaneously, his eyes glowed in rainbow colors, shining brighter and brighter as if it was getting ready to shoot.

Infinite Dream: Shaking Reality!

Rays of energy shot from Minos' eyes, hitting the invisible sphere being compressed by his two hands.

That created what appeared to be a small universe filled with glowing stars.

Chaotic Gravity: Shaking Reality!

The moment Gavin saw this forming, he felt a bad feeling in his being, as if he was about to face the worst nightmare of his life.

Not only was what Minos was preparing dangerous, but the fact that his opponent had information about his innate ability was a danger in itself.

So, he had no choice but to use everything he had!

Destruction Eyes!

His third eye opened, revealing an eye with the same circular patterns as the others, but did not have a pupil.

The circular patterns in the three eyes began to rotate as pulses of energy surged from him, destroying everything in their path.

Unfortunately for this fellow, Minos had not only been faster but had also used the one weak spot in those eyes!

"Uh? What's that?" Gavin realized something and shivered in fear as he felt the worst sensation of his entire life.

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