The Rise of the Black Plain

Just as they were about to be hit by the giant monster arm with a level 115 aura, their entire ship glowed with a strong golden hue.

Everyone in the party felt it as time stopped for a moment.

Minos wasted no time in saying. "Raise your guard! I'll go back a few seconds, but that's as far as I can take us. Everyone must be ready for this attack if you want to survive!"

Minos' group and the crew didn't need to hear any more from him. Everyone already knew of Minos' clairvoyance powers, which had saved them from trouble several times in the past weeks. If he took such drastic measures now, then the future was truly dreadful.

Even the captain of the ship, a level 114 Sovereign, put himself at Minos' disposal, taking a defensive stance. He had already been guided by his contractor at the beginning of the voyage to take this seriously!

As everyone prepared, feeling the nervousness of the moment, they felt time recede to everything outside the ship a few dozen kilometers from them.

When Minos' ability lost its effect, he stole Lily and Hollie's cultivation to increase his own power, merging his techniques to form a powerful and massive black hole.

Everyone scrambled to create a defensive barrier around the ship, while Ruth used her innate ability to connect with everyone.

Seconds after going back in time, they saw the same arm from before appear in front of them, rapidly approaching the ship to destroy them.

The captain watched in fear, aware of how much stronger a level 115 being was than all of them. Even if it were possible to combine all the powers of all of them into one individual, that being would still be weaker than a level 115 creature!

Several layers of defense appeared beneath Minos' black hole as he positioned himself with his wings in a defensive stance, with Kendrick right behind his father, with his exoskeleton already fully closed.

Callie used her powers to freeze the sea, using the large amount of water particles suspended in the air to create ice shields over a large area.

Then, part of the ship turned into pure mercury under Gloria's influence, with Abby using her innate ability to heighten her companions' senses.

BOOOOM!

Suddenly, several of the group's defenses exploded as the creature's giant arm descended upon them, part of it consumed by Minos' black hole, but most of it passing through that region of space until it reached the group.

The ice and energy shields shattered like fragile glass, and some of the group immediately coughed up blood, feeling their souls wounded by the mere collision.

Minos and Kendrick gritted their teeth as they felt the monster's heavy and huge body part reach out for them.

But the wings of one and the exoskeleton of the other held without showing any signs of breaking.

Minos once again used his divine ability, forcing the enemy to temporarily stand still in the position he and his group had forced it into.

Then, with a series of Abby seals, dozens of bodies of Sovereigns between levels 106 and 114, old enemies of theirs from their travels in recent years, emerged from the urns Minos and his group had prepared beforehand.

The Dark Sea and Minos' Infinite Dream came into play, controlling the minds of these corpses of old enemies, including beings beyond Abby's control.

"Attack it!" Minos ordered, while half of his group was already spiritually exhausted from speaking, and the other half was about to be severely injured when their divine ability stopped suppressing the enemy.

Then Otis moved, his cultivation having reached level 108 with Minos' help, as he used his new abilities to form a powerful and magnificent driving weapon to get the group away from the monstrous creature.

Everyone held on tightly to where they were before their ship took off like a rocket into the sky, taking advantage of the last second that the supreme level monster was trapped in Minos' ability.

When that arm finally broke free from Minos' control and headed for where they were a second ago, Minos forced all those corpses to sacrifice themselves while detonating the black hole like a black hole bomb!

KA-BOOOOM!

Then, under the terrified eyes of the group, dozens of extremely powerful explosions, each capable of killing or severely injuring even the strongest of the group, erupted around that Supreme level creature.

For a moment, all the water in the area evaporated, causing the sea to become even more turbulent, but also revealing tens of square kilometers of area that had been hidden by the fog that was now being blown away.

The group flew on the ship while watching the sea creature turn its eyes toward them, as if marking its soul with what had happened today.

Fortunately, they moved on without being followed, while Minos steered the ship in the direction he knew they could escape from the terrible creature.

Still, after coming face to face with death and seeing 80% of his party die in the future he had prevented, Minos couldn't help but turn extremely pale.

"We came very close to death today." He commented to his group in a weakened tone, his cultivation already back to normal while Kendrick, Callie, and several others were unconscious.

"Fortunately, we escaped for now. But don't weaken. Our fate in this sea is not yet certain!"

With those words, the few conscious people on the boat did what they could, landing back in the sea shortly thereafter, quickly trying to regain their strength and identify where they were.

After only ten minutes, the crew members reassigned the boat back to the route that had been planned before the journey began, and Minos and the other conscious people split off to cultivate and recuperate.

...

The next two months of travel wouldn't be as dangerous as the previous encounter with the Supreme being, but the group would still face their challenges, facing problems that were difficult even for them.

Fortunately, nothing like a Supreme being would come their way until they finally entered the final weeks of their journey, away from the greatest dangers of the Dark Sea.

At the end of the sixth month of their journey, they would finally see the mainland, about to enter Oqia after many years of planning to return there!