The Rise of the Black Plain

In the blink of an eye, over two months had passed, and Minos' group traveling through the wormhole between Irpoll and The Adamant Land was about to reach its destination!",

During those weeks, those who had been in the Spiritual World during Minos' arrival had exchanged information with the two Sovereigns who had remained in The Adamant Land.

The robot had little interest in what had happened on his master's home planet, but the level 103 Spiritual World native valued information about his home world. Although he didn't intend to stay there long before departing for Zocarro, the man couldn't help but mourn the loss of his homeland. He also sighed in relief that there was still a future ahead of his world.

With Minos in charge of the Spiritual World and implementing reforms, it would only be a matter of time before the planet recovered from the war and progressed to a new level.

The spirituality of the Spiritual World would never change, but the planet could become the birthplace of a civilization present on stronger worlds.

Anything was possible as long as one was alive. So it was a relief to know there were enough beings left to take the Spiritual World to a better future.

The group from the Spiritual World was anxious about conquering The Adamant Land. Not only was that planet stronger than their home planet, but it also possessed several technologies and methods of traveling through space that would lay the foundations for Minos' galactic empire.

The time that Minos intended to attend to the affairs of the Spiritual World was short, but it was more than enough for many things to be done.

As they left the wormhole for Irpoll, the group looked forward to their return to establish the future of their civilization.

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As soon as they left the universal wormhole built long ago by the forces of the Mechanic Empire, Minos' group landed in a grand local forest.

As they arrived there with their spacecraft, native creatures sensed their arrival, behaving apprehensively as they moved away from where the group would land.

As soon as the spacecraft's engines shut down, the robot said to the group. "In this galaxy, there are worlds capable of cultivating up to level 105, so we must act quickly before some strong civilization notices us."

Level 105 beings didn't worry the group about their own safety. The robot and those who had stayed in the Spiritual World during Minos' space journey already knew how strong he was from the stories Ruth and he had told.

The problem that worried everyone there was the possible emergence of an interest by civilizations in this galaxy toward The Adamant Land, something that could bring many dangers to the Spiritual World.

Even if they were to destroy the wormhole between Irpoll and The Adamant Land, if a single being at the Divine Journey noticed them, they could attract trouble.

Destroying the wormhole would certainly delay any trouble for a few years, maybe decades, but a civilization with level 105 creatures could reach The Adamant Land relatively quickly.

No one there wanted to have to keep returning from Zocarro to fight wars for their homeworld, so everyone agreed they had to act carefully.

That was why the group had come to Irpoll in its entirety, instead of splitting up to travel to the other four worlds of interest.

Minos looked at Ruth and the two level 103 Sovereigns and said. "I'll leave the east, west and south areas to you. I'll take care of the north. We'll meet at this point on Irpoll when we've finished exterminating the civilization of this planet."

The three agreed, with Vico going ahead alongside his old acquaintance, who was currently at level 103, while Abby and Gloria stayed behind with Minos.

Unfortunately, they were too weak to do anything, so they were just there to watch their husband in action.

They weren't sad or frustrated at being left behind in terms of cultivation by Minos and Ruth. From what these two had told them, as soon as they reached Zocarro, they could solidify their foundations and grow stronger quickly.

Ruth estimated that in five years in Zocarro, the two would advance three to four levels!

After these initial rapid advances, they should cultivate more slowly, but considering how much weaker they were than the rest of the group that had been in Zocarro, they should catch up with them as time went by.

So they went along with Minos to watch him deal with their enemies, something that wouldn't be long in coming.

Irpoll was a relatively small world, with few sentient creatures. While the Spiritual World had billions of inhabitants before the war, this world had only a few million living beings capable of cultivation.

In contrast, every being in this world seemed to be 5 to 10 times larger than the natives of the Spiritual World, with gigantic trees, beasts that exceeded the size of dragons and sky whales, but also an impressive variety of races.

There was no race in this world with as many members as humans in the Spiritual World. Irpoll's dominant race was the apes who led the invasion of The Adamant Land and the Spiritual World, but the ape race in question had just over 2 million members.

As they traveled through the area where they arrived, at the north pole of that world, Minos and his two wives would come across a situation similar to what they had seen in the Spiritual World, with small groups of aliens controlling large territories.

But this did not surprise them. As Irpoll was home to a Druidic civilization, most of the living beings there were powerful plants, while organisms like apes were the minority who used the power of nature to their advantage.

But faced with Minos, these intelligent beings and the powerful plants of this place were no match for the group.

Seeing the first enemies shortly after separating from his companions, Minos killed his way through without asking questions, taking down the enemies while leaving Abby and Gloria to collect bodies and valuable plant parts.

This world was like a great botanical garden where many valuable medicines grew!

Luckily, they had brought with them plenty of space storage items to take the riches of this world back to their home planet.

'That's what you get for trying to exploit us, Irpoll!' Abby's heart sank as she watched Minos clear the path ahead, the once beautiful green world transforming into a desolate, barren wasteland.

And so, the downfall of Irpoll began, an ancient civilization that would crumble within a mere week when faced with the assault of the group's four formidable experts!