The Rise of the Black Plain

In the blink of an eye, two entire months have passed since their tough decision, fraught with benefits and harms for the group.",

The journey between The Mirror Realm and The Enchanted Realm was uneventful despite everything, with the group having traveled without encountering others traveling, nor having to deal with extreme spatial effects.

Given the current situation in the galaxy, both those in The Enchanted Realm were leaving their world less frequently, and those in The Mirror Realm were going less frequently to the destination of Minos.

After two months of traveling without being able to cultivate, given the group's travel conditions, they were arriving at their destination this morning!

Seeing the spatial distortion in front of them, the group slowed down in that wormhole, with Minos taking the lead of his group to enter this new world, his family's next place for who knows how long.

With everyone prepared to encounter some difficult situation on the other side, they crossed the spatial distortion ahead of the group!

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Crossing the end of that wormhole ahead of his people, Minos was prepared to fight and generate powerful defenses ahead of his group. But when he reached the other side of the distortion, he relaxed when he saw it was still a safe place to reach this world.

Dozens of powerful guards, similar to those around the outpost where they had left The Mirror Realm, were on the outskirts, blocking the passage of the newcomers.

Leaving this world would be easy. Even though the guards there were also on hand to warn the natives interested in traveling off the planet, they wouldn't stop anyone from leaving. But entering the planet was another matter.

Who could guarantee these guards that this wasn't a group of enemies disguised to infiltrate the planet?

Because of this possibility, as soon as the rest of Minos' group had finished crossing the spatial distortion, they found themselves surrounded by Sovereigns keen to interrogate them and make sure they wouldn't be a problem.

"Space travelers, we are happy that you have chosen The Enchanted Realm as your side in this tyrannical war started by The Blossom World. You must understand we have to make sure that you are not enemy agents trying to infiltrate our world. I hope you can all cooperate so that our meeting is swift and peaceful."

Said a level 112 being—the strongest in the area.

Minos and his group nodded in agreement, observing the surroundings, which were a mixture of technologically advanced artificial constructions, but also a little of the nature of this area far from the cities of The Enchanted Realm.

"Our procedure for accepting foreigners into The Enchanted Realm is not complicated. Just answer our questions while directing your powers at these crystals here and, if all goes well, we'll give you your permits to enter our world." The level 112, humanoid being, said as he showed several diamond-like crystals, special items capable of telling one's true intentions.

Each of the members of Minos' group went on to talk to different local natives in the area.

Minos stopped in front of a level 107 being and heard the most basic question possible.

"What is your intention in entering The Enchanted Realm?"

"I want to cultivate to become stronger and take advantage of this planet's special time distortion." Minos got straight to the point.

"Is that enough to make you join the war against The Blossom World alliance?"

"Of course. My enemies are just as powerful as the natives of the galaxy. I'm afraid that if I don't take the risk, I'll be killed on my way back to my guild, so it's well worth it."

"Which guild do you come from? Where is it in the universe?"

"Armhands, which is on a high level world called Zocarro..."

Minos answered several questions, questions very similar to those his companions would answer during their first 30 minutes in The Enchanted Realm.

The crystals showed the surrounding guards whether the newcomers' intentions matched their words, discovering that this was just a group of space explorers trying to take advantage of local opportunities, as many others had done in the past.

They saw no problem with that. Space explorers gave as much or more than they took from worlds like this, and the local ruling forces liked the competition beings like Minos brought to their world. It was a way of encouraging the local population to become even stronger than they already were!

As the group's motives were sincere and not harmful to the local forces, after half an hour of talking, the entire group was approved by the guards stationed at the border post.

As soon as they finished answering the questioning, they were given IDs, which wouldn't give them any special rights in this world, but would ensure that local forces wouldn't crack down on them without them committing crimes.

These IDs contained basic information about The Enchanted Realm, such as local laws and the things a newcomer should avoid in order not to get into trouble that could cause their death or being hunted down.

Thus, the group got past the guards in position around that spatial distortion, one of the few three ways of leaving this large planet, about three times the size of the Spiritual World.

Passing that border point, the group came across a large forested area, where, according to the information Minos had, it was a good place to cultivate as he wished at ordinary times, but not so interesting at present.

Given its proximity to one entrance to that world, that forest would be quite dangerous if enemy forces from the local civilization brutally attacked that planet through one of the three local exits.

He and his group would not stop there, but would continue on to one of the other interesting points for them, something already indicated by Minos' superior in Armhands on the map that being had given Minos earlier.

Taking care not to get into trouble on this planet, the group would begin their first few days of travel there, until they reached the point where Minos intended to begin his advance to level 100.

It was finally time for him to become a Sovereign, a cultivator of the Divine Journey!