The Rise of the Black Plain

After the opening of the General Hospital, two days passed quickly.

In the meantime, many citizens have gone through this new service available in the city, mainly to learn about the costs related to treatments.

Even though most of this population were not warriors and were not involved in great danger, many still needed medical services or regenerative pills. As a result, although not excessively large, the demand for this service was still significant, to the point where nearly 30 doctors under Dillian's orders were occupied for most of their shifts.

Some people suffered from common ailments in the region, conditions related to aging such as loss of strength, decreased flexibility, bone weakness, etc.

A low-level person who could carry 200 kilograms with ease might not be able to do the same after a few decades. Such a thing happened to any cultivator near the end of his life expectancy and with low cultivations.

These people would naturally begin to languish little by little until they would not be able to do almost anything related to the activities of the Spiritual World. At most, at the end of their lives, these people would be as strong as uncultivated, level 0 humans!

At least that was the reality for those who didn't even reach the 6th stage of cultivation. After that, even if a person can no longer improve his level, he can continue to engage in cultivator activities and even train until his death.

Of course, such a thing would only happen if the person was healthy, suffering only from aging.

However, even if they ended their days more dignifiedly, these people could no longer fight like before. A simple struggle, which could be recovered with a few days of rest, could be catastrophic at the end of these people's lives.

Only those above the Spiritual Sage stage could maintain their top physical condition until their last few breaths!

Naturally, people at this stage of cultivation could already manipulate their physical characteristics, remaining young even in their last moments. And this was not something related to outside appearances but something internally seen inside these people's bodies.

Anyway, there was no one like that in the current Dry City, and the citizens here were still aging. As a result, many needed regular medical care or pills to improve their quality of life.

And obviously, there were those individuals with fight wounds, as the hunters. These people struggled constantly, and the need for medical treatment was widespread for them. And because of that, several of the local hunters had also visited the hospital.

Some just wanted to see the service, while others came to use it.

Many beds were available at the local hospital, and soon, many people were already under medical observation!

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As local doctors began to get used to their new treatment routine and training, Minos took care of daily business in his office. Among them was the military exercise with the army Sergeants, which was already close to taking place.

In this fight, he didn't expect any surprises, and it probably wouldn't be such a big challenge for him. However, this would be an opportunity for his soldiers to understand what it would be like to fight someone as strong as a Spiritual King.

Such experience was essential for these soldiers to shape their future training, increasing their individual and collective efficiencies. Naturally, they had to increase their strengths to the maximum, but if in the end that still wasn't enough, at least having good teamwork could save them!

That was the opportunity for the soldiers to understand the difference between heaven and earth without running into excessive dangers.

Such a battle was scheduled to take place in less than a week, and after that, Minos would leave for the Kingdom of the Waves!

This new trip he was going to take could be considered the most important of all, and young Stuart had to plan well for it.

He planned to buy Blue-grade and Black-grade spiritual techniques, specializing in the support professions.

As in the case of alchemy, medicine, cooks, etc., currently, there were people in the Dry City from several of these areas, people generally coming from the Yellow City, Stone Island, and Kingdom of the Waves.

These individuals could not improve in their areas at the same rate as the rest of the local citizens due to the lack of specialized and decent techniques. After all, most of the library's techniques came from enemies, who were warriors, not support professional cultivators!

And as Minos wanted to develop an attractive city for these professionals, he needed to have at least the Blue-grade techniques focussed on these areas. That would not only make the town more attractive, but it would also place local professionals at a higher level than those in other cities or states.

That was what he wanted for the Dry City!

A  prosperous place due to its agriculture and trade, related to activities of great added value, as in the production of spiritual artifacts.

Things like high cuisine, top-notch doctors, array masters, and blacksmiths could create a whole flow of resources for the Dry City. After all, there weren't many top grade-2 options in this region, but they could achieve it in their town with the proper techniques!

And such high-value professions could generate taxes for the city, in addition to making this place even more attractive.

But Minos did not forget the potential of non-spiritual professions!

Some areas generated very high amounts of spiritual crystals, such as the naval industry, production of high-end carriages, textile industries, and so on. There was a variety of areas with high value-added products, even among the non-spiritual professions.

But concerning these areas, it was a little more difficult for the Dry City to evolve the quality of locally produced items.

Unlike what happened in spiritual professions that everything depended on the techniques used, in these non-spiritual professions, such a possibility did not exist.

If one wanted to develop faster and more comfortable boats, this would have to be studied and evolved slowly, accumulating knowledge and correcting possible problems. Thus, primarily, the evolution of these professionals' products was more related to intelligence than the quality of techniques or skills!

So, Minos didn't have much room to resolve it. At the most, he could attract experts with favorable conditions and differentiated local development. But that might not be enough, as many of these families were wealthy and wouldn't accept coming to the Black Plain without knowing what changes had taken place here.

On the other hand, he couldn't just spread the information to these powers that might have relationships with noble families that Minos wouldn't want to draw attention to right now...

And for this reason, he could at best hope that organizations like Robin's family would come to the Black Plain on their own.

Finally, Minos would also have to buy several items for himself and the local army.

First, he needed a decent sword worthy of his current strength. Second, as the Dry City grew, he needed to buy more spiritual gathering arrays for the town and others for the Cultivation Tower.

This location was already operating at total capacity and was already in need of an expansion in the number of rooms.

As for arrays for the city, this town was already occupying a large part of the area influenced by the current arrays and naturally needed new ones. Another point is that Minos wanted to buy a medium-level grade-2 one so that the local spirituality could rise even higher!

There were also items related to Dillian. As he had already reached the 6th stage of cultivation and soon Eda could also arrive, Minos would need to provide adequate training rooms for both of them. Naturally, this required new arrays and spiritual artifacts made by medium-level grade-2 specialists.

Lastly, Minos wanted to buy a lot of spiritual pills for his soldiers.

Unfortunately, the town's alchemists couldn't even keep up with the inhabitants' demands, so this young man's soldiers had been relying on exported pills all the time.

But Minos wanted to negotiate this directly with the Kingdom of the Waves alchemists, not just import it through the Cohen family store. With that, he might even bring a few more alchemists to the Dry City, further improving the supply of pills locally.