The Rise of the Black Plain

At a point between the End area's territorial sea and the North Sea, 10 high-level Spiritual World ships were stationed there.

Of these 10 crews, two were from the Central Continent, and the others were from sea beast tribes from the Ancestral, Southern, and Eastern Seas, as well as land beasts from the Continent of Beast.

There was the ship of the Phoenix Tribe, and there was also the ship of the strongest tribe in the world, the Sky Whales.

From the powers of the central continent, there was the group from the Black Plain Empire and the Evergreen Empire, which obviously had members of the Spiritual Church on their ship.

In short, there were about 60 Demigods on these ships at that moment, with the weakest being the Black Plain Empire, which only had level 90 

Demigods and Sages on their side. On the other hand, the strongest people there were level 97 Demigods, the leaders of some of the ships there.

They had been stationed in this area for a few weeks, and each group had information from other groups around the North Sea because they all communicated with each other, even though some were closer than others.

Since no one could keep an eye on the entire North Sea border with the other areas that this vast territory came in contact with, the groups cooperated with each other with information.

Every few hundred kilometers, there was a group that watched different points and passed the information to the other groups.

In this way, the Spiritual World watched a large part of the North Sea border. If something unusual happened in one of these areas, distant groups could quickly learn of it.

Of course, each crew had its own interests, and if one area had calmed down, there was no guarantee that the information would reach the others quickly. But the groups communicated every six hours, so the disappearance of one group for longer than that would be an alarm in itself.

So the groups had been working together for the past few months, confident that their cooperation would work very well most of the time.

Even former enemies had put aside their rivalries to do their jobs over the months, resulting in the success of all these forces around the North Sea watch.

In particular, those groups that were relatively close to each other near the Central Continent had worked very well together, even though some of them had no recent history with each other, such as the Phoenixes and the Sky Whales.

But on this very day of observation, which seemed like an ordinary day to these 10 nearby crews, they all noticed something different coming from the continent and took their attention away from the North Sea for a moment.

When they did, almost all of them saw the arrival of Vico Travisani in the area, with the members of the nearby Spiritual Church widening their eyes when they saw the man there.

'A God?'

Gulp!

Everyone was shocked, especially the men of the Black Plain Empire, who knew that Vico would kill him as soon as he had the chance!

'Shit! Has this guy succeeded in his advance?' Thought one of the Demigods of the Longus family on the empire's ship while hiding behind his cabin.

The surrounding beasts were also shocked by Vico's appearance there, even more so with his current cultivation level. Reaching level 100 was a Herculean task that less than 1% of those who reached level 99 could accomplish!

At the same time, the difference between level 99 and level 100 was so great that even if all the level 99 Demigods in the world got together, they could not defeat a single God!

That was the difference in proportions between the 10th and 11th stages!

Seeing this existence so close to them, the members of the strongest crews there didn't hesitate to bow their heads and greet Vico as he deserved.

"Your Majesty, congratulations on reaching level 100."

Several beasts and humans said simultaneously, some fearful, others full of reverence for Vico.

Below level 100, there were beings of different species with different problems to solve. But these differences did not exist at the highest level of this world. Any God, regardless of his race, would be respected by the beings of this world.

As someone who had overcome all the challenges of cultivation, a God would never be treated as an enemy or an ally but rather as a supreme being to be worshipped.

Only other Gods could react differently to one of them!

Thus, even the men of Minos or the Spiritual Church congratulated Vico while this man watched the sea ahead and saw the storm that could threaten even high-ranking Demigods not far from where he had stopped.

Vico ignored the people from the Black Plain Empire and the Spiritual Church in the area and concentrated on what was in front of him.

'This... This isn't something natural. Those things above the atmosphere are causing all this commotion.' Vice immediately understood the problem when he saw the various energy circles of the enemy formations.

When he looked more closely at one of these circles, he noticed the essence behind it, something that showed ways of using the laws of this world that were completely foreign to Vico. Not only was this thing completely different from the ways of the Spiritual World, but there were laws behind it that this man had never seen in his life.

'What the hell? How can I have reached level 100 and still not understand everything about the Spiritual World?' He frowned. 'That's...' Vico remembered what he had heard from Emperor Quinn's people before the war with the southern region started.

'Are these the external enemies he feared? The enemies that the brat Minos also fears?' Vico connected the memories he had absorbed earlier with what he himself had experienced several years ago.

When he thought about it, he concluded that the people watching the North Sea had taken days or weeks to notice.

'Damn it! Enemies are trying to invade the Spiritual World!' He clenched his fists at this thought, not knowing what to do with this information.

He had reached level 100, but things in those defensive formations told him that the enemy was not simple.

Then he looked at the Sky Whale Tribe's ship, and in a single moment, he appeared on the deck of that huge ship.

Even the strongest people on that ship couldn't see Vico's movement, but they weren't too afraid either.

"Your Majesty..."

Vico said first. "Tell me about the situation in the North Sea." He knew only the basics of the problem at the North Pole, so he wanted more details from these beings who had been watching the area for weeks or months!

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