The Rise of the Black Plain

After Minos ordered the investigation of the level 95 Demigod, he stayed in the capital city of Veora for two more days to take care of his local affairs.

During these days, the three relatives of the Goddess of Life left Veora for Dry City to gather a better-prepared group to come to that state.

Minos finished meeting with the envoys of the Central Continent states, the nobles, and the wealthy families of Veora, assuring these individuals of what the next few years would more or less look like, as well as the fact that he would not act against other states on the continent.

Once he'd sorted that out and was finally free this morning, it was time for him to leave Veora's capital!

Three of the four Faith Power gathering idols of the Veora family, which worked best when activated simultaneously, were already in Minos' hands.

He intended to search for the fourth in the kingdom over the next few days before continuing his journey to the Western Empire.

So he took leave of his subordinate staff, ordering them to continue their work and wait for the return of the relatives of the Goddess of Life so that they could begin to make local changes.

...

After leaving the capital of Veora, Minos began to travel around the kingdom with a clear purpose: to find the last idol of the old local royal family.

His plan was simple: to survey this state with his glowing eyes as he traveled from east to west and west to east, slowly making his way south.

He would survey the entire territory, and if the three relatives of the Goddess of Life were right, he would find something.

If he found something, Minos would leave his mark on the idols and put them to work when he returned to the Black Plain Empire.

His current plans wouldn't take him much time. In a month or two, he could finish all his business. 

A month or two wouldn't make a significant difference when it came to gathering the power of faith, so he wasn't in a hurry to return to the core of his state to use those special artifacts.

However, his ability to see through spatial distortions, which allowed him to see into the Spatial Kingdom, was very good. After only four days of searching for the item he was interested in on Veora, he found it!

It was very well hidden in the central ruins of that state, in a perilous place where 10th-stage beasts lived.

Luckily for Minos, he was very powerful, and none of the inhabitants of those ruins managed to get in his way. After some work, he collected the last idol of the Veora family, which could help him a lot in his future progress!

With such an item in his spatial ring, he didn't hesitate to head to the Western Empire to enlist the help of another level 99 Demigod!

...

In less than a day's journey, Minos had already reached the northern coast of the Western Empire, where the capital of that territory was located.

He had already passed through part of this region in the past when he had set out from this coast in the direction of the Seraphim Ancient Sarcophagus, which was located in the central part of the Ancestral Sea.

Arriving in this area, which was one of the most densely populated in the entire state, he didn't hesitate to manipulate space on his way to the capital.

Since he was already powerful and knew that this place had been at peace for some years, Minos wasn't afraid of encountering problems on his way. As soon as he arrived at the border of Voera with this state, he cut through space until he reached the vicinity of the largest city of this territory.

Arriving ten kilometers away from that place, Minos looked towards the center of that city and saw several powerful auras there, but also a large region of space folded in upon itself.

'That is the Spatial Kingdom of the Quinn family.' Minos saw the first Spatial Kingdom other than the one Henricus Longus had left for him.

The entrance to the Quinn Family's Spatial Kingdom was in the imperial palace, on the most protected level of the entire structure.

There were several high-ranking Demigods nearby, ready to defend the entrance to their cultivation shrine if necessary.

Meanwhile, a large spatial distortion served as the gateway to and from the Spatial Kingdom, which was basically a large headquarters city for the Quinn family.

Minos could see through space what the inside of such a Spatial Kingdom looked like, even if he couldn't sense the auras of the beings and things inside such a cultivation sanctuary. Thus, he noticed the home of the Quinn family, where there were more than 100,000 people at this very moment.

The family's youngest members, the families of the most important subordinates, in short, all lived in this place.

While observing this space, Minos was noticed by one of the men on guard in the capital, who immediately realized that this newcomer was looking in the direction of a very important area locally.

"That young man..." A level 97 Demigod muttered to himself as he looked at Minos, and it did not take him long to realize who this person was.

He then asked Minos, who was still standing, where he was in the imperial palace, while Emperor Stuart was standing several kilometers away. 'Your Majesty Stuart, you caused some trouble in Veora recently... Are you in my state for something similar?'

Minos felt the aura of the Demigod who had just spoken in his mind and looked in his direction. 'I'm looking for His Majesty Henry Quinn. I wish to discuss an important matter with him. He's in your Spatial Kingdom, isn't he? I'd be grateful if you could call him for me.'

'How do you know he's in our Spatial Kingdom?' The old Demigod felt uneasy.

Minos laughed. 'If he's not in the capital, where else could he be? Please let him know that I'll be waiting for him here.'

With that, Minos made his way to the entrance of this city, passing an imperial army post without a problem but drawing the attention of some soldiers who knew how to recognize him.

He didn't go straight to the imperial palace and decided to walk around the center of the city while he waited for someone from the Quinn family to come and summon him to the emperor.

He was curious to see how things were going in this city; how the local technologies had improved the state and changed the lives of the commoners.

In the middle of his walk, he saw some disciples of a local sect and couldn't help but smile as he remembered an old acquaintance who was part of that sect.

'Luke Nash... I wonder how he's doing?' Minos thought of the old young master of the Nash family who had lived in the Western Empire for a long time.

Unfortunately, Luka didn't live in the capital. Otherwise, Minos would have gone out for a drink with his old acquaintance from the beginning of his cultivation journey.

While he was thinking about this and watching the Spiritual Emperors of Luke's sect, a woman wearing a suit of armor with the symbol of the imperial family approached him.

"Your Majesty Minos Stuart?"