After all of Minos’ men had arrived at their posts for the attack against Abe and the terrorists, this ruler and his wives arrived near where it would all begin.

In one of the southernmost cities of Cromwell, where one of the Black Plain Army bases was, Minos and his three wives had just appeared in the inner area of a teleportation port.

Upon arriving at that place, the emperor was met by several soldiers and allies in the surrounding area. He was quickly updated on the local situation.

“So we couldn’t get that previous request approved?” He was surprised to hear such a thing from Eduard, level 65, who was there to welcome him alongside some elders of the Gray Clouds Sect.

“No. Of the more than 600 members of the Assembly of Vogel, 411 voted against Your Majesty’s request.” That soldier said, just before adding the latest information from the group nearby. “However, some Spiritual Saints and hundreds of high-level Spiritual Emperors from this state have decided on their own to come and join the battle. So we won’t be fighting without any help.”

“Is that right?” Minos’ eyes narrowed as he thought he was not wrong. He really needed to visit those people to make them feel some of the respect they had for him when he became king of Vogel.

Now Minos’ powers had increased significantly, and recently he had even started to use high-level grade-3 weapons and armor due to his latest advancement.

Previously he had been able to do this, but due to the level of these items, he would be exhausted after one or two moves. But with the latest advancement, he could already handle fighting with items of this quality while using ‘batteries’ to keep himself in battle.

Because of this, his individual powers, even without using fusions, had already reached a level similar to those cultivators with Black-grade technique sets who were at level 76.

Some of the local leaders were people with Silver-grade technique sets and were between levels 75 and 76, people that Minos could not win without other help due to his limit being at level 74, considering that other characteristic.

But even though he had this disadvantage, Minos judged that he could currently put more pressure on people of this status than the last time he had seen them, when he had been crowned. So he wanted to use the opportunity of being around to visit those people!

‘I’m still guaranteed a few years as local sovereign, so they won’t be able to remove me from my position yet.’ Minos thought about this as he walked alongside his women and his people. ‘That will give me some advantage here, considering I can advance in the meantime, while they have little chance of achieving the same…’

‘Some will definitely prefer to be on the side with greater future potential!’

Minos knew that when he reached the 8th stage, everything would change. He would immediately become stronger than most Spiritual Saints, even from the Flaming Empire.

Since Vogel’s Spiritual Saints were even weaker than those of the Flaming Empire, this would give him an undeniable advantage in this place!

That way, he was ready to show that he had not previously become king just to accept all the decisions of that Assembly!

“Very good. I will pay a visit to the capital of Vogel after our first attempt against Abe and start solving that problem then.” He said after leaving that city alongside his group, flying towards a further outpost of his forces.

After speaking of this, he turned to the Spiritual Saints already on his side and to Gloria and said. “Your focus is on the strongest opponents, particularly the Spiritual Sage. Any enemy below level 76 should be ignored and left to me. You must focus your strength on disrupting the remaining opponents.”

They heard that and accepted Minos’ orders, already knowing that this brown-haired fellow could deal with all opponents below level 76 at once.

Minos’ reputation as a killing machine, made for war and reaper of battalions, existed long before he used the black hole for the first time!

Since many there already knew this, no one would ask him to think twice about it!

Gloria then added. “All of you should make the battlefield as chaotic as possible. Only then will we be able to disrupt the Spiritual Sage and ensure that Abe is injured!”

If there were attacks in virtually every direction, the space itself would be hostile, and even if the Spiritual Sage managed to get Abe away, this fellow could still end up dying.

As such, these people planned to make it as difficult as possible for the enemy to escape and to ensure that even in the case of escape, Abe would be significantly injured.

Everyone there already knew the strategies of Minos and the Spiritual Church, which was advising them to try to disrupt the Spiritual Sage. So they nodded in agreement, keeping these ideas in their minds for the battle that would soon begin.

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So, dozens of minutes passed, and soon Minos’ group arrived at the outskirts of one of the forward encampments of his forces, which was watching the enemy’s movements.

Several of these outposts were scattered around an area 10 times the size of Dry City, which stretched more than 100 kilometers between Cromwell and Vogel.

The enemies had been surrounded and were in this ‘small’ area, trying to hide or run away from them.

Upon arriving at that post, Minos did not go to observe Abe. Instead, he just went on to talk to the strongest men already in that place, giving his last orders for everyone to start acting as soon as possible.

“Is everyone already far outside the boundaries of that area?” Minos asked a level 78 Spiritual Saint, thinking about how he would start the attack.

“Yes, Your Majesty. Just as you ordered, no one from our allied forces is within the area marked as enemy territory.” That person promptly replied.

“Very well, prepare to act. I intend to initiate the attack.” He got up from a chair at the end of the table from where he was and prepared to get out of there.

He had experienced the situation of using his skills against enemies on several occasions and judged that everything would be easier for his forces if they fought in a ‘clean’ setting. So Emperor Stuart had already decided how to clear the area and make it as difficult as possible for his opponents to escape.

The people there already more or less expected what Minos indicated he would do and promptly began to prepare, sensing that he would violently initiate this battle.

Everyone began to retreat, indicating subordinates and weaker individuals to raise defenses and prepare for the shock.

As thousands of individuals began to be alerted, Minos flew to the center of that area. Then he picked up a mirrored sphere that he had been given back by one of his men upon arriving in the previous city.

“Now is your time, Abe. Today you die!” Minos muttered to himself before arming that device and hurling it toward the center of that forested area.

With that move, the Spiritual Sage in the distance noticed Minos taking action, already at the beginning of the battle using a Black Hole Bomb!

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