The Rise of the Black Plain

For the next three months, a lot would happen in the inner parts of the North Sea.

Minos' group of about 40 creatures, humans and beasts, focused practically all of their time on understanding the enemy's technology without having to leave the old enemy headquarters.

Even the strongest members of the group who didn't have much useful knowledge of enemy technology, such as the great dragon, immersed themselves in exploring what the enemies had left behind. 

During the three months that passed, they focused on better understanding the enemy's armor and fought many battles with each other to test it and improve their speed in mastering these structures.

At the same time, the group led by the Sea Folk survivor had developed much of their ability to control ships and even enemy spacecraft.

They could now navigate the alien ships while they were close to understanding how to control the spaceships.

They still needed time to understand everything about these two modes of transportation. Still, with each passing day, they became more confident in what they were doing.

In the midst of this, some of the group studied the aliens' special cannons thoroughly, trying to understand how to replicate those armaments and how to use the technologies behind them to strengthen their own powers.

The power of those cannons was fantastic. Since they were based on laws that cultivators could learn on their own, it was possible to use the operation of these cannons to create new techniques or even to develop old ones.

Some in the group had similar powers, some based on flames, some based on sounds, and so these more compatible ones had tried to learn how the enemy's cannons worked to strengthen themselves.

They didn't intend to use artifacts like those cannons but to strengthen their spiritual fighting methods!

However, some of them obviously wanted to replicate such cannons because, as much as it wasn't interesting to rely on a power that wasn't yours, weaker people could make good use of such things.

Not everyone in the world had a chance to reach the top level. But many might be able to control such powerful weapons, which could greatly help a state like the Black Plain Empire.

As for the robots, Minos' group had made almost no progress with them. These robot creatures were still almost 100% mysterious to the group.

However, Minos' group of blacksmiths was well on its way to understanding how some of the robots' special metal alloys were made. 

That was definitely the least relevant thing of all to these creatures, but for the blacksmiths, who were excited about the possibility of learning how to develop more resistant metals, this in itself was incredible.

...

While the survivors of Minos' group worked on their experiments, trying to understand more about the enemy technology, he was at the side of his two wives, Ruth and Isabella.

Since he didn't intend to leave this place anytime soon, Minos had brought Isabella from the Spatial Kingdom, where their children were still with the rest of the humans.

He wouldn't bring children to an enemy base he wasn't sure he could control!

But his wives were strong enough to be there with him and help him understand the place better, but also to control the group's situation.

By now, the three of them were in the botanical area of the grand enemy facility, where there was a large greenhouse with various types of plants unknown in the Spiritual World.

Upon their arrival there, Isabella looked at the plants and asked. "They are like medicines... Do you know if we can eat them?"

"No. We have no idea where these alien resources might take us. Even though they seem stable, we don't know if they won't be destroyed by lightning outside of this special chamber." Minos commented.

In this headquarters, there were not only robots, spaceships, armor, ships, and weapons among the many interesting alien technologies to study. There were also greenhouses with plants that didn't exist in the Spiritual World, a medical area with equipment that no one in the group had ever seen before, and various artifacts that didn't exist on this planet.

In short, the entire enemy base was full of technologies that could revolutionize the world if they could be replicated.

Unfortunately, most of these technologies could only be studied by people with special skills. These people were not part of Minos' current group, nor were they part of his family's Spatial Kingdom.

Until they left the North Sea and found ways to send their experts to study this place, much of what was there was temporarily out of their reach.

"This... We have to test them. Some of these medicines feel better than the Saint-grade medicines of our world!" Isabella said, feeling that this had a lot of value.

"Hmm, unfortunately, we don't have any guinea pigs with us." Ruth smiled bitterly.

"You'd better not get attached to the things in this place. What we can't master by the time we leave will probably be mastered by high-level powers from the Spiritual World." Minos commented nonchalantly.

As much as he wanted to use all the technologies there to his advantage, he was aware that he couldn't do so. At the same time, considering the short time it would take for enemy reinforcements to arrive, he couldn't be stingy and try to keep this place for himself.

Once he had mastered what was within his reach, he would leave the place and make room for other powers from the world to come and study the technologies there.

Some things other powers would take over and would never reach Minos' hands. But others would become the property of the Spiritual World and might reach his hands indirectly.

Either way, he saw no problem in letting other powers in the Spiritual World learn many things that were there and that he probably couldn't bring back to his empire.

Ruth and Isabella looked at Minos hard because it was tough to give up so many good things. But they knew there was no way they could convince the strongest powers in the world to share these things with them.

As much as Minos had his treaties and great influence, the moment others found out about the potential of this place, his whole good history would be forgotten.

With the ice age approaching and now the alien invasion, everyone would try to strengthen themselves and not have a 9th-stage junior as their hope!

"Anyway, concentrate on what we can. When the time comes, we'll leave this place, and high-level Demigods will most likely dominate this alien facility. We may never have the chance to come back here again." Minos said quietly.

The two agreed and would soon leave him to try to understand the enemy technologies for themselves.

And so a few weeks passed.

By then, the powers of the world would know what was happening in the North Sea!