The Rise of the Black Plain

By the time Minos landed in front of the Assembly building, he had his Soul Avatar activated, with the projection of his soul onto the average height of the buildings on the sides of that area.

While he had his 8th technique already activated, the mid and low-level Spiritual Saints in the surrounding area, more than 40 individuals at this instant, had their eyes narrowed.

Everyone could already sense that Minos' 8th technique was not simple and that his powers had increased as he advanced to the 8th stage. Even more, he did not seem to have such peaceful intentions toward this place!

"Your Majesty, what is the meaning of this? Why do you show such aggressiveness against the Assembly?" One of the men opposed to Minos there, who had not been accepting his 'blessings' in recent years, asked this while circulating his energies to act any moment now.

The others there, all opponents of Minos within that house, were also on alert, preparing to fight.

They knew Minos' powers had improved, but none would give up trying or even testing their ruler.

He had grown stronger, but did that mean tens or hundreds of them could do nothing?

Absurd!

Minos could have done this with powers from the northern region. Still, unlike the people in that area, those individuals had good Silver-grade techniques and much more combat experience.

Minos realized that he would have to demonstrate his strength to take the reins of this place and answered that first individual's question. "Aggressiveness? No aggressiveness, I'm just willing to start training with my vassals..."

"Consider it a test!" He laughed, remembering what those seven individuals from moments ago had tried to use to act against him without appearing rebellious.

"A test?" Some of the more naive ones trembled in doubt if this was a test, while the smarter ones frowned, seeing the emperor's shameless attitude.

"Stop joking around, Your Majesty. We've never done anything of the sort, and we weren't even warned..."

"Never did?" Minos asked. "I do it from time to time in the core of my territory with soldiers from my army, but also with allies. As my vassals, you should expect that I would do this to you sooner or later!"

"In any case, this is a surprise test, so it is obvious that you would not be warned."

"Tsk!"

That person clenched his fists in anger at not being able to reason with Minos. But he thought that this way would not be so bad either. They would already have to face the emperor one way or another, so it was better to do it under the guise of a simulation since then they could get rid of some guilt more easily.

If they proved to be stronger than Minos, they could finish this guy off once and for all. If they were weaker, they would give up their positions so as not to be attacked in the future.

Hell, thinking about it, this was the best situation for them!

'He was already bribing the less prominent families in the state, so eventually, he would act against us anyway. Better now than in the future!'

But while some were thinking this way, one of the elders there looked at Minos and understood this fellow's move. 'Does he want to give us a chance? Maybe he's doing this to justify not having to kill anyone and weaken his territory?'

'Sigh...'

'Great move... That is, as long as he can win.' This level 76 fellow thought as he cautiously looked at Minos' avatar and felt his beard shaking with the winds in the area.

At that moment, more Spiritual Saints arrived in the area, including those Minos had thrown away earlier.

"Fellows, His Majesty is too powerful. You better not underestimate him." One of those individuals said to the elders of his family already in that place.

Not all of the Spiritual Saints of Vogel or the noble families of that area were in that city. After all, those powers had ranks all over that territory.

Hence, although there were more than 600 Spiritual Saints in the local noble families, a fraction of them, just over 150, were in the capital of Vogel at the present moment. So only those individuals were standing there in front of Minos when the last of them arrived.

At the same time, the representatives of the Assembly, young Spiritual Emperors, were retreating from that area in fear of what might happen there.

'What is this bastard doing?' The former president of that house wondered, remembering that he had not only lost his position during those two days of Minos' stay in this city previously but permanently lost his post.

After the revelations of what he had done together with the directors of the Assembly, they all lost their seats and were then replaced by new representatives.

Since this man felt that he would go bad whenever Minos was around, he could not help but make an ugly expression as he saw the local sovereign pointing one of his fingers to the sky.

"Let's fight up there." Minos said aloud before flying in that direction, preparing to fight all the Spiritual Saints there, including his allies.

To make this look like a test, he had to do this. At the same time, Minos' allies in this Assembly were not as loyal to him as the allies on Stone Island, for example. They needed history with him and reasons to respect and be as loyal to him as those powers in the state of Elen.

With that in mind, Minos also wanted to use this opportunity to reinforce these people's interests in staying in the same boat as him and not thinking about dangerous things.

These people were surprised to notice that he seemed interested in fighting them all and soon understood that he wanted to show them how right they were to be on his side.

Then, everyone who was there to represent noble families flew to an altitude of 5 kilometers above the Assembly building, where they could fight without much trouble.

The Spiritual Emperors of that institution also flew to higher positions to watch this event from favorable positions, fearful but also looking forward to this battle.

In fact, this battle had such great potential that all the Spiritual Saints in that city had their attention turned to that area above the Assembly building.

That was true from the experts in the Church temple to the members of local bourgeois families, from where the experts in this city soon left to see the battle up close.

With that, before the fight that would decide Vogel's fate even began, more than a thousand people, all above level 68, were floating in the surrounding area to watch Minos and the local leaders.

Minos saw this and opened his arms to show those 150 opponents to take the opportunity to start this 'test.'

Since this was the traditional attitude of the strongest being, the local leaders there immediately frowned, feeling humiliated by Minos.

'Not only does he challenge us, but he acts as if he is stronger than all of us?' The leader of the Guzman family thought about this while her beautiful face contorted.

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