The Rise of the Black Plain

When the bluish gem atop Abby's staff stopped emitting the intense light of a few seconds ago, such a thing began to crack as if it were breaking.

But before such a thing exploded into infinite pieces, the box with the remaining soul fragment of the God of Death collapsed in on itself, with the end of this being.

The entire soul fragment of the God of Death within that thing was consumed by the intense light of the gem, evaporating like water in a hot frying pan.

When this happened, the small tattoo on Minos' forehead, of an incomplete trident surrounded by a silver circle, also disappeared, letting a dark mist escape from it.

Simultaneously, the circumference-shaped tattoo on Minos' forehead turned into a beam of energy that followed back the path of the Spatial Kingdom ring.

"It looks like that staff was quite powerful..." Minos muttered as he saw the end of that part of the God of Death, lamenting that Abby's weapon had probably become defective with it.

The gem on top of that staff did not explode, but several crack lines could be seen in it. Considering that the blue glow of that gem had faded with the disappearance of the soul fragment of the Goddess of Life, such a weapon had significantly weakened.

Abby then collapsed to the ground as that weapon fell from her hands, with her highly exhausted given what had just happened.

The Goddess of Life had given this weapon to Abby, something that even someone of this blue-haired girl's level could hold this grade-4 weapon because of the soul fragment in it. But when such a thing disappeared, Abby felt it get much heavier and could not help but let go of it.

She was also tired from the overuse of her energy, which made her breathe hastily with her tongue out.

Minos saw his wife and went to her side, massaging her sweaty head as he prepared to send her to the Spatial Kingdom.

It was time for him to erase the weapons with marks of the God of Death, so she could not be there after the black hole appeared.

"Take the staff." He said to her. "I'll meet you in the Spatial Kingdom in a few moments."

"Hmmm." She nodded to him, quickly using her spatial ring to collect that item, then being sent by him to where Ruth and Gloria were.

When he found himself alone there, Minos once again looked at the weapons, structures, arrays, etc., the items of the God of Death, and lamented.

'They are excellent artifacts, but they are all contaminated with that individual's aura.' He looked at the black trident, a weapon he judged extremely powerful and valuable.

"Sigh!"

"But I've earned enough, so I'll have to dispose of you." He muttered in a low voice, no longer wasting his time there and soon activating his two techniques needed to create the black hole.

Minos did not know exactly how many hours he would have to escape from this place before the curse went active again. So he could only hurry to finish his period in this desolate place.

So, in the blink of an eye, all the energy of his being was directed to a small sphere devoid of light, which was spinning at low speed.

But even though it was pretty small, such a thing was horrifying to the point that even its creator had some reverence for it.

Then, when he was tired enough, Minos threw it into the artifacts pile before teleporting to the Spatial Kingdom.

He had already increased some of his fusion control with his recent advances in levels since the beginning of this trip, but also due to the Aura of Death. But it would still be a while before he could use fusion, similarly to how he used his techniques.

So not to risk himself while he was still weak, he would not wait to see the effect of that destructive thing.

'I think I'll use that to build a new advanced cultivation room in Dry City...' He thought as he disappeared from that area.

By the time that happened, the black hole he launched had reached the pile of objects and began to devour whatever was in its path.

However, each of those things was of a very high level, the 'weakest' being a medium-level grade-3 weapon, the 'strongest' being the high-level grade-4 trident.

Because of how high the level of those items was, the black hole thrown by Minos did not simply devour them as if they were nothing to him.

Upon touching some of those items, that region of space slowly began its absorption process, degrading such things little by little as if it were chewing on them.

Some items were simply swallowed up as if they were nothing. Still, others remained motionless and unaffected, as if they did not exist in the view of the black hole.

But it was not that they did not exist. The opposite of that, they were so dense and powerful that the black hole simply could not swallow them up by the hour.

Fortunately, such a thing was the most extreme in this world, and the more it 'ate,' the more it gained the ability to devour faster and more items of higher quality!

'What is it?' A remnant of the God of Death in the black trident trembled as he felt the sensation that had just arisen in his being.

'Why is every mark left by me disappearing?' He began to feel nervous, unable to perceive the largest fragment of his soul. 'Has someone already absorbed my main soul fragment? But I don't sense any of my potential heirs!'

Unfortunately, he did not have time to think much about it. In just 5 hours, the black hole created by Minos grew exponentially, reaching the mark of covering almost half the space of that reddish ground.

When such a thing reached that level, even the highest level Natural Laws in the area began to be absorbed by it, frightening even the curse that had just awakened.

'What the fuck is that?' That creature wondered while its spirit body was still transparent due to its incomplete recovery.

It sensed when the Trident of the Devil had just begun to be devoured by that thing that escaped common sense, beginning to fear for itself.

'Who did this? How did this thing get here?' It pondered, knowing that it was difficult for that to destroy it. Still, considering the rate at which such a thing was growing, it was already beginning to fear that thing would become a threat to it!

Minos' black hole was already absorbing the highest-level weapons of this world, which made it so strong that it could swallow even Spiritual Sages!

Weapons and living beings were quite different, so naturally, this feature of Minos swallowing a high-level grade-4 weapon did not mean it could swallow Demigods.

But still, seeing how that only grew, this being who could not be threatened even by Demigods got worried and started to take distance from the area.

'Damn it!'

'I hope it stops growing until at least I finish recovering!'