The Rise of the Black Plain



As Oswald returned to his position, Minos' group passed through the portals and arrived at one of the unstable areas of the Ancient Dragon Spatial Kingdom!

The first of them to pass through this portal had been Minos. Upon arriving in this Spatial Kingdom, Minos looked around and frowned, feeling such a strange spatial sensation for the first time.

To him, this could not be called a Spatial Kingdom. This space did not have the classic stability of Spatial Kingdoms, and even Spiritual Sages could manipulate space there. 

Unlike what one would find in his Spatial Kingdom, which seemed to be a boundless land, when Minos looked at the horizon, instead of the infinite horizon, he saw large distortions.

When he noticed these bluish distortions, he immediately realized some of the dangers of this place.

If someone fell, were thrown, or pushed there, they would surely die in the chaos of space!

When he saw this and the Church's men arrived where he was, Minos realized the spiritual fluctuation of this place.

Even though it had been badly damaged in the battle a long time ago, at least this part of the Spatial Kingdom had a good spiritual density. It was not like the region of space Henricus Longus had created for his heir, but it was better than the high-level places in the Central Continent.

The vegetation there was complex, quite different from what one would find in the Central Continent.

But that was to be expected. After all, Spatial Kingdoms were nothing more than parts of the world that were spatially manipulated to create kingdoms detached from their places of origin. But their bases would never change and would always be parts of where their creators had folded space.

In the case of this Spatial Kingdom, it had been created on the Continent of Beasts, specifically in the home of the dragons, in the northeastern part of that continent.

Naturally, the vegetation and terrain of this place were similar to what one would find in that area.

However, when Minos observed this place, which was well lit by the sunny sky, he noticed the differences between human and dragon Gods.

Perhaps because of the difference in their size or other characteristics, Minos did not know for sure, dragons could create much larger spaces than humans.

This was just one of the unstable areas resulting from the partial destruction of this Spatial Kingdom, but even so, this place was at least three times the size of Minos' Spatial Kingdom.

Noticing all this, Minos smiled as his wives appeared behind him.

"This place is really fantastic..." Gloria commented, following what her family had planned.

Unlike the people of the Spiritual Church, they could not react to this as if the place was just another version of what they already knew. No one knew they had their own Spatial Kingdom, so they all quickly demonstrated their "surprise" at this place.

"So, Spatial Kingdoms are like this? Incredible! It's no wonder high-level powers manage to keep their talents for so long!" Harold exclaimed, participating in this collective performance.

Forrest laughed upon hearing this and commented since they were allies and Gloria was part of the Church, "This is nothing. A complete Spatial Kingdom is much better than this. Besides, every Spatial Kingdom has plantations of Divine Medicine, but this place has none.

This was just an unstable area of the Ancient Dragon Spatial Kingdom, but Forrest's group, as well as other groups that had recently passed the portals, knew that there were no Divine Medicines in this place.

After this space was damaged in the battle countless years ago, this place had strangely lost its ability to produce medicines of that quality.

After countless openings of this dimension, all the strongest powers in the world were aware of it, and no one had even tried to plant medicines of that quality there.

But there were a lot of Saint-grade medicines on this site, and near where this group arrived, they could already feel some of these plants!

"Is that so?" Minos smiled when he heard Forrest. "It must be amazing to cultivate in a Spatial Kingdom... I'm looking forward to entering one, one day."

"Haha, that's the spirit." Forrest smiled. "But if you're interested, there's an organization on the Divine Continent that anyone with the necessary crystals can pay to enter and do whatever they want in their spatial kingdom.

But the entrance is quite expensive. It costs 100,000 high-grade crystals per month. And you have to pay for all your expenses within the area, such as food and shelter.

Some Spatial Kingdoms were used as headquarters for organizations, but others were used to protect entire cities!

In the case of the Spatial Kingdom Forrest mentioned, it was actually the capital of one of the three states of the Divine Continent, where the nobility of the entire continent lived.

The three states of this continent were 'brothers,' allies who had never fought each other since their founding. As such, even noble families from other states had their headquarters in this city within a Spatial Kingdom.

The nobles did not pay to come and go from this place, but anyone else interested in living or entering this space had to pay the fee Forrest mentioned.

"That's really great," Harold said, this time with sincerity. He had never thought that this world would offer something like that!

The level 89 Sage of Minos' group knew of such a place, but he said nothing, observing the place he was in, the second Spatial Kingdom he entered.

This was a hybrid of a human and an animal race from the Divine Continent, Griffin.

Hybrids could create new races of hybrids by crossing with other pure races or even with other hybrids. 

There were a variety of ways to do this. Still, few of them had a good success rate, so in the Spiritual World, you would usually only find hybrids that were a mixture of two pure breeds.

Cases like this being with falcon's eyes, a humanoid torso, wings on the back, and a lion's tail were extremely rare.

He used his super visual characteristics and alerted his group to this place, drawing them away from their previous conversation and primary observation of this space.

"Your Majesty, there is a strange creature right in front of us." He said in a somber tone, for he had never seen anything like it before.

This creature seemed to be made of roots, but it had the body of a one-eyed giant, and it seemed to be looking at them while kneeling on the ground hundreds of meters in front of them.

Upon hearing this, everyone in the group stopped thinking about Spatial Kingdoms and their curiosities to pay attention to this creature, one of the guardians of this space.

Minos immediately remembered the map he had received from Julian and the hints this elder had given him.

"This is a piece of a wooden dragon's body!" He exclaimed as he saw the creation of a level 100 dragon looking in their direction.

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