The Rise of the Black Plain

"You defeated the curse?" Gloria asked in disbelief.

"Temporarily, with the help of the God of Death's weapon and the features of that place." He stated without hiding the truth.

"What about that item you absorbed? Was that from the God of Death?" Abby asked, wondering whether or not her husband had forgotten their purpose there.

"I absorbed something called the Aura of Death. The God of Death coincidentally managed to get some of that resource out of the Divine Continent." He commented with a smile on his face.

"I quickly absorbed that resource and improved some of my skills."

"Aura of Death?" Abby and Gloria exclaimed simultaneously.

The blue-haired woman knew what this was all about due to her heritage from the Goddess of Life. As for the beautiful pregnant redhead, she knew about the Aura of Death because that was a challenging resource to obtain.

Only Ruth was unaware of it, but she quickly heard an explanation from Minos as those two continued to be surprised at their husband's luck.

"And you got a new skill by doing this?" Gloria asked, curious to know about the consequences.

"Yes, my killing intent has evolved a bit, and now I can use something called Dark Sea, which can create a sea of darkness up to 200 meters away from me." He said, knowing this as he could sense everything about the skill through spiritual analysis.

"When activated, this soul skill can suffocate targets in its range through despair. But it can also mess with the targets' minds, making them see enemies that don't exist or even make their allies look like enemies."

This new ability of Minos was similar to the second attack made by the enormous shadow behind him when he fought the curse. The difference is that its power was much less than at that moment. At the same time, his ability could not summon the dead but manipulate the living.

After hearing Minos' explanation, the three women were happy for him, as this new ability seemed impressive and valuable for someone like him.

Obviously, all the attributes of Minos' killing intent had improved as well, so there was no need to point out how impressive such a thing had become after the Aura of Death.

Due to the cleansing of his soul and physical marrow, Minos had also improved his powers somewhat, accelerating his advancement to level 63 by a few weeks.

"What about the other stuff?" Abby questioned after a while, feeling it was time to settle her mission.

He then replied. "The other items he handed me are more connected to him. Some techniques and resources in this box and his sealed soul fragment in this other one." He showed them the two boxes.

"The second one has to be destroyed, but the first one, we can take the medicines and stuff like that for us. So we will only destroy the techniques and artifacts produced by the God of Death himself."

"That looks better..." She sighed, feeling that the resolution of this situation had been less complicated than she had imagined.

"Where will you do this?" Ruth questioned Minos.

He said. "In that place. The curse will return in the next few hours, so we have to leave as soon as possible."

"I'll throw the black hole at the most massive things there after we collect the useful items in his tomb. Other than that..."

He then debated a bit with his women until Abby said what she would do.

"I will deal with his soul fragment." She commented, knowing that was the Goddess of Life's primary purpose.

Due to the vengeful plans of that goddess, she had prepared the staff she gave Abby to deal with possible remnants of that individual's soul.

So unlike the black hole of Minos that might have great difficulty swallowing such a thing or even become a big problem later, her staff could annihilate that fragment!

So, soon, she was left with the responsibility of erasing that piece of the soul of the God of Death, and Minos with the role of erasing the physical items left by that ancient specialist.

In this way, the two left the Spatial Kingdom, once again leaving Gloria and Ruth behind.

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As they left the Spatial Kingdom, Minos and Abby came across that red area from before, utterly silent given the absence of the curse and negative aura of the God of Death.

The main thing in that area was undeniably the curse. But the black mist around this area was generated by the God of Death's heritage. However, since this thing had already been finished, all the black mist had dissipated from the surroundings.

So the two could see much further than before and were even more visible to nearby people.

It was just lucky that this place had no humans around, so they both had the privacy to gather all the items to be destroyed there while Abby prepared to annihilate the enemy.

Minos felt pain in his heart to see so many excellent and valuable items in the pile of items to be destroyed. Still, he could do nothing to save them.

The Goddess of Life was decisive and wanted every remnant of that man erased from existence!

With that, he sighed and looked at Abby, waiting for her to act.

Abby finished preparing herself and circulated all her energies to the staff in her right hand, making the blue gem on its top glow brightly.

When this happened, a semi-transparent silhouette appeared beside Abby, holding that exceptional staff.

The being that looked like the Goddess of Life looked at the small box in front of her and understood that this was an enemy to be eliminated.

So, as Abby's energies were sucked up to exorbitant rates, that staff began to emit light from its top, shining the surroundings like a miniature sun.

However, while such luminous rays were comfortable for Minos and Abby, such a thing was highly damaging for the soul fragment of the God of Death.

When such bright rays hit it, smoke began to rise, while a strange noise spread through the surroundings, as unique torture was happening there.

Minos and Abby could tell that the soul fragment had woken up and noticed someone wanted to exterminate him. However, he seemed trapped in that little box, totally defenseless to the high-level weapon used by the last remnant of the Goddess of Life in her spiritual weapon.

'Time for you to lose your last dream, you bastard!' She thought about it in her highly unfavorable state for unnecessary thoughts.

The Goddess of Life had planned her revenge for a long time and learned about the God of Death's objective in death. He wanted to abduct someone and have the chance to get a second life in the future.

Because of this, she had prepared to leave something to her heir that could eliminate such a fragment.

Therefore, in this situation, that remnant on the silver staff laughed in satisfaction as she saw the God of Death disappearing from the Spiritual World!

'Now I can rest for good...' She looked at Abby one last time as her body finally disappeared, and this woman collapsed.

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