The Rise of the Black Plain

Time passed smoothly and quickly. Three years flew by in the blink of an eye for the group sailing towards Gunaway Refuge.

Minos and his wives remained at their previous levels throughout this journey, having continued their routine meditations, but also taking the time together to enjoy the sea voyage in relative peace.

These years were not confrontational for them, although they had a few problems here and there. But most of the challenges on the journey to this point had been of a common nature related to the extreme phenomena of the Violent Sea.

The group was already strong enough to survive these challenges and move on, even more so considering the valuable directions from the Nautilus' Compass. As such, the group was now reaching the island in the far north of Zocarro, where they soon intended to leave the planet once again.

The few living beings that had gotten in their way in recent years had not been looking for fights and when they crossed the line, they were driven away by their Hell Lifelings. Although the Violent Sea was strong, there were few late 12th stage creatures along the vast ocean. So too was the situation on the last island in their path on this current journey.

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As they got off at the port city where they had arrived in Ganaway Refuge, Minos, and his group looked around the outskirts of this grand city, seeing many people coming and going from ships in the area.

Most of the people, turning the place into a hectic environment where one could easily get lost, were oblivious to them and just continued on their way. But some more attentive individuals, guards in particular, soon noticed the presence of specialists in the area.

When they saw a group of four people, two level 122 and two level 121, the guards and some travelers or even local natives looked toward Minos' group with narrowed eyes, instinctively retracting their auras.

Minos walked alongside his wives, leaving behind the Hell Lifelings, who were supposed to wait for their return to the island. The four of them looked for the way out of the city into the interior of the island, with the clear aim of going to the capital city of Gunaway Refuge, where they could go to the Artificial Moon.

They tried to make their way without interacting with this city, but soon some local experts got in their way.

"Senior experts," said a man, appearing in the middle of the flow of people passing in front of Minos and his wives. "Welcome to my city. My name is Elpam and I am the ruler of Sleekhall. To what do I owe your visits to my humble home?" this level 117 local native asked.

Minos and his women looked at that low-level Supreme and others who had appeared in the surroundings. Each of these cultivators had cautious looks on their faces, respectful of their positions, but also worried.

It was unusual for a group as strong as theirs to pass through continental cities, even more so here in this extreme place.

The locals were naturally worried, something Minos had expected and knew how to resolve without delay.

"Elpam, there's nothing to worry about. We're going to the Artificial Moon, so we are merely passing through Gunaway Refuge." Minos said, signaling with one of his hands for the locals to calm down.

These individuals felt a silvery aura envelop their bodies and relax their tense muscles as they saw scenes from the future in their minds.

As they looked into Minos' golden eyes, shining brightly at the moment, those various experts realized that this was the work of this tall and strong white-haired winged individual.

The local leader responded after sensing this supernatural power. "Please, senior, allow me to escort you there. It will be my honor to help you get through as quickly as possible. I certainly don't want you to waste your precious time on this simple island."

The force behind the Artificial Moon rarely made exceptions to its rules for getting to and from their great space station. But when experts above level 120 came to Gunaway Refuge, the local leaders were allowed to do whatever was necessary to please these cultivators and get them to leave as soon as possible.

As Gunaway Refuge and the Artificial Moon were governed by a power that had a leader of only level 119, naturally the force didn't want to have experts stronger than that indefinitely.

Minos smiled, having already seen that this local man was going to do his best to please his group and get them to leave.

'That's great. It'll save us a later conversation to convince the locals to let us leave the island more quickly,' Minos thought to himself as he nodded positively to Elpam.

"Very well, guide us to our leaving point, Elpam. We're in a hurry, so don't hesitate to pick up the pace."

Elpam made a gesture of thanks to Minos, as if he were the one receiving help there. Meanwhile, the surrounding Supremes sighed in relief, witnessing experts who didn't want to waste time on the island or make a scene to show how powerful they were.

Some experts had childish behavior and when they reached places weaker than their level, they acted mightily, suppressing locals. This was the greatest fear of experts like those from Gunaway Refuge.

They thanked the heavens that today's experts weren't the kind of travelers passing through their island as they watched Elpam go ahead with those four and three more local guards.

"Seniors, are you leaders of some great force on the continent?" Elpam asked with a gentle smile on his humanoid face, a version of his appearance that he had used for the first time that day to make himself more palatable to the gaze of Minos, Ruth, Abby, and Gloria.

"Not exactly." Ruth said with a smile. "But we're going to become that eventually, haha."

"Impressive. Your force must be powerful, then." He said before asking, "But I imagine you're going to a world even stronger than ours, right? It's not often that experts of your caliber leave Zocarro, but when they do, they always head in the same direction.

The Narrow Discus!"

Elpam wasn't wrong. That was indeed the destination of Minos' group, the Quasar from a neighboring galaxy, where there were worlds with the presence of 13th stage specialists, the peak of the universe!

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