The Rise of the Black Plain

Now that Minos and his allies had executed the first significant move of this war, Dry City would have a peaceful period, and then chaos would arrive!

Since the Black Plain had demonstrated so much power, the enemy side would not be slow to respond with an attack, probably followed by the invocation of the Counter-Revolutionary Statute.

Obviously, this device would take some time to have practical effects on the Black Plains' war of independence. After all, this region was not small, and some states were so far from the Brown Kingdom that even 4th stage beasts could take more than six months to come here!

On the other hand, there would always be bureaucracies in such procedures, so it would take a while before massive troops like the one that eliminated the Kain family arrived here.

But even so, once this happened and the rest of the northern region of the Central Continent learned of the new reality of the Black Plain, things would get more hectic.

While there may be benefits, the pressure on the Black Plain Army would almost certainly be severe, complicating matters for young Stuart's forces.

With that, he and the people in Dry City had to use these days gained from the previous action to live their lives and gain more power!

And there was no shortage of things to do in this period!

First of all, Dillian and the government of Dry City would soon be faced with thousands of immigrants coming to this place at once.

That was a great thing since this city had always suffered from a lack of labor and the creation of job vacancies exceeding the number of new residents in the recent past.

But although this was a good thing, it was not only good things that such an addition brought to the administration of this city.

Undoubtedly, local businesses could grow much faster with these people, but human groups would always have difficulties living together.

Absorbing some immigrant families little by little was easy. After all, once such individuals arrived here 'alone,' they almost always tried to integrate with the community.

That was the most common to happen because, while the local culture was dominant, there were few options for specific groups to stay isolated from each other, in their bubbles, without truly integrating into local life.

And the consequence of this was great, something that could avoid many problems in communities of all sizes.

It was good that everyone had the right to preserve their culture and identity, but getting out of their comfort zone and learning about new things and perspectives would always be beneficial to the community.

Living in bubbles could simply limit the citizens of a given region, consequently decreasing the chances of new things being created.

What a shame it would be if something legendary were not created because the people required for it were too comfortable in their bubbles to try to meet new things?

The social pressure immigrants had to suffer to integrate into the community was very welcome and could generate positive points for the local government.

But since Dry City was about to absorb an entire city at once, things might be a little different.

Consequently, the local government would have a lot of work from now on to be able to integrate these immigrants so that Dry City and the Black Plain could better take advantage of their skills.

After that, Minos, his army, and the local government had the Otis Silva situation resolved in the coming weeks.

Young Stuart wanted this man executed in front of hundreds of thousands of people in his city.

Therefore, the preparations for this needed to be made with a certain amount of care and preparation. Just the days that had passed so far since his order regarding this execution would not be enough for that to happen.

That execution was partly for young Stuart's desire for revenge.

That was something he wanted to do to degrade the figure of that patriarch as much as possible, and also the Silva family. Because, when this happened, Otis would be the first individual with such prestige, fame, power to be executed in the more than 200,000 years of known regional history!

On the other hand, executing a level 58 Spiritual King was no small matter!

Otis was crippled. Still, every person in Dry City with the ability to sense other people's spiritual fluctuations would be able to perceive his previous cultivation level.

When they realized that the local government was strong enough to defeat, arrest and execute someone so influential, that would be like a confirmation of the army's power, something to be feared.

Minos wanted his people to believe in the institutions he had created, to follow the local laws because living in order was better for everyone. But just trusting that his population would act in good faith without fearing the local forces, himself, would be naive.

Hence, showing someone famous in the region, a person that everyone here had at least heard his name, being executed by the local forces was a good incentive for the population.

Due to the many local opportunities and constant investment by the government in the population, the crimes committed by the local citizens until then were quite common. They were simple things like disorderly conduct offenses, damage to public property, etc.

And so, until then, the population had not witnessed the local government acting decisively against anyone, with executions or other definitive penalties.

And Minos liked the idea of showing this to the people of his city, especially to those coming from the Maritime City!

But this would take days to prepare. As such, Otis needed to wait in the local prison, where he daily received the unique 'treatment' of the local soldiers and officials.

Finally, the army was already preparing for their future actions, plans to be used when the Brown family retaliation was launched.

In particular, the administrative soldiers were waiting for communication from the Miller family.

Certainly, the enemies had made decisions after the death of so many specialists on the Black Plain. Consequently, Minos' allies in this young man's enemy group should not take long to notify the Yellow City secret base about this intelligence.

After that, the administrative soldiers of the Black Plain Army could think of more effective responses against these opponents!

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While the institutions of Dry City were busy, the royal family of the Brown Kingdom had already found out about the survivors of their forces early in Maritime City.

After more than two days since the beginning of the confrontation in that city, the letters sent by the survivors who had escaped by land or sea had finally reached the headquarters of House Brown.

Hence, Thomas, the high hierarchy of the royal family and the noble houses, had found out about the atrocities caused by the enemy forces in that city.

Not only had they found out about the cowardly way of fighting the Dry City forces used, but they had also found out something extremely worrying!

They had found out about the potential involvement of the Collins family on that terrible day!

And if this was true, then the situation on the Black Plain could be much worse than they had assumed. After all, the Collins family was a high-level power of the Kingdom of the Waves and even had one of their descendants ready to take over that state soon.

That was terrible!

The Collins family might not be significant to the Browns. Still, that state was undeniably the strongest in the region. Consequently, if that kingdom went against them and broke the Counter-Revolutionary Statute at this delicate moment, then the chaos in the Brown Kingdom would be much worse than anticipated.

As a result, several representatives of the Brown family were already heading to that kingdom to make the necessary inquiries to the Walker family for the potential problem with one of their vassals!

A vassal would never do something so bold against a royal family of another state. So, if the Collins had done this, the Walkers would undoubtedly be behind it all.

Otherwise, they had still been attacked by warships from the Collins family. As such, even if that organization had not targeted them, they still needed answers!