The Rise of the Black Plain

Following Minos' orders, his group quickly collected the spatial rings of their fallen opponents and used what little spiritual energy they had to destroy the markings on those rings.

The owners of these spatial rings were too exhausted to do anything about it, so all the markings protecting these items were quickly destroyed.

"You bastards! This doesn't end here!" The strongest elf, the only one still conscious, shouted as he witnessed the theft of this group.

Minos' group didn't care about this person and was already moving away, leaving them behind.

The right thing to do in such a situation would be to kill these already fallen enemies. Unfortunately, except for Ruth, Gloria, Harold, and Isabella, all of them were too exhausted to deal with any killing blows.

But those four people were not enough to eliminate those opponents.

They could even kill some of those unconscious individuals. Still, the stronger ones, such as the elves and Demigods, they couldn't kill them.

If they couldn't kill everyone, it was better not to kill anyone, or else they would attract even bigger problems in the future.

Either way, a simple theft was less harmful than murder!

So, their group left the survivors behind and fled with only the resources of those opponents.

"We'll have trouble because of them..." Gloria said as she helped Minos move away from the area.

Minos didn't disagree. "Yes, but maybe not. This place is too dangerous to be as vulnerable as they are now. There is a chance that some of them will perish in the coming days due to the natural effects of this area, beasts, or even other opponents like us.

Whether they will meet us in this Spatial Kingdom in the future is uncertain. There is no need to worry about that now."

Forrest agreed. "Even if we run into them later, it's not like we can avoid it. At least we have their resources. That's good enough."

Each of them had already identified the resources of the spatial rings they'd split when they'd left the elven group.

One of the elven rings had been left to Forrest and his men, while the other was with Minos and his family.

In these two rings were the remains of the resources the elves had been using to reach level 90, as well as some other interesting items.

As elves, the two had Spring of Life in case they needed them, but they also had a lot of special items from Elves Island.

Elves fed themselves even at high levels. They valued food much more than humans. But they didn't eat just anything.

Elves were basically vegetarians, eating only fruits, grains, vegetables, and leaves. But their favorite food was a type of grain that grew only on their island.

This grain and other plant foods in the spatial rings of these two were rich not only in spiritual energy but also in laws, the kind that could help even Sages to increase their understanding.

Minos had such plants on the Black Plain, something he had cultivated for a long time and used to his advantage to strengthen his population. But even though his products were of great quality, they could not be compared to the things grown on Elven Island.

In addition to these resources, the elven rings contained many minerals, artifacts, and ingredients that could be important to Forrest and Minos' forces.

The spatial rings of the humans and the storage items of the beasts of that defeated group also held great resources, especially for the Spiritual Sages there.

In particular, the hybrid of Minos' group was the one who could benefit the most from this harvest, for in addition to valuable medicines, he had received an artifact that matched his bestial form.

In general, the returns from this battle were very good, and part of the group wanted to take advantage of this to cultivate and try to absorb some of these gains.

With this in mind, they soon found a place to meditate, and the more exhausted of the group soon began their cultivation hours while the rest watched their surroundings.

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Three weeks had passed after the battle between Minos and the elves.

During that time, another level 89 Sage from the Forrest faction reached level 90, as he was one of those who benefited the most from the items collected from the enemy group.

But even though he hadn't made much progress, Forrest had begun to absorb the main resource those elves were using earlier and was already feeling stronger.

It had taken their group a few days to fully recover from that fight, but after that, they all felt stronger than before and had fought a few more times in that period.

They hadn't encountered the group of elves after that day. With the reappearance of the wooden dragon in that space, they thought that those beings had either died or were hiding somewhere.

After almost 2 months since they entered this place, they finally decided it was time to leave this space pocket and try their luck in another area of the Ancient Dragon Spatial Kingdom.

According to the information from the Church and the Pantheon of Honor, this area they were in shouldn't have many more important things than what they had already achieved in the past weeks.

After finishing their last cultivation session there, the group manipulated space and reappeared in that underground area where they had found one of the portals a few days ago.

When they arrived there, they all observed this portal for a moment, preparing themselves for new dangers and adventures.

Minos and Forrest activated their avatars and then took the group's lead, walking through the portal that they knew led to another part of the Spatial Kingdom, not the Flaming Empire.

A few seconds later, the first of them appeared tens of meters above the ground, near one of the spatial distortions of the area in which they had arrived!

"Shit! The spatial distortion of this area almost swallows this portal!" Minos commented as soon as he realized the danger nearby, ignoring the large lake in sight where they had just appeared.

Forrest looked at that and swallowed his saliva, quickly standing in the middle of this portal to the spatial distortion to protect the group coming from the other space pocket.

The others were also surprised when they arrived there. Yet, since they acted cautiously, they could escape the danger without further trouble, quickly moving away from that portal as they headed toward the lake in the center of that area.

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