The Rise of the Black Plain
chapter-2601

As the elders returned to their places and duties, Minos left his faction's cave, returning the two corpses to their respective urns, while his cultivation returned to its new normal.

With a powerful level 110 cultivation base, he headed to the downtown area of the headquarters, receiving congratulations from several Officers on his way to the family residence.

Minos was currently living in the guild Council, with an exclusive residence in the most important area of the headquarters. However, the family residence was still in the inner area, where most of his family and fellow faction members could easily access it.

When he arrived home, Minos walked past the estate guards to the backyard of the beautiful 500-square-meter estate on one of the major downtown streets.

There he found Ruth and Abby, as well as Kendrick and Grisdi, still at the same level of cultivation as before his seclusion, of course.

Even with his help—with the temporal manipulation to let them experience years of cultivation in months of real time—they still needed more time to get closer to their next breakthroughs.

But his whole family was very close to making further improvements after he returned from his trip to the Seraphim World. With his help in using the Temporal Sands, all of his family members should reach a new level of cultivation in the next five years.

"Level 110... It suits you better, father," Kendrick said as he hugged his old man with a smile on his face.

Minos accepted his son's hug and nodded to Grisdi, who also congratulated him on this level increase.

Looking at his wives standing there, Minos said, "Where are the girls and Gloria? I want to start the family tournament in a few weeks."

"A few weeks? I thought you wanted to start right away," Ruth said in surprise.

"So did I." Abby nodded in agreement. "The girls and Gloria are finishing their seclusion while Kendrick has already finished his preparations and is just waiting for you."

Minos explained, "It was my idea to start the tournament right away, but I'm curious to test some things..." He smiled, trying not to look like a child who just got a new toy.

"By the way, the tournament is not in a hurry." He added, "We'll hold the fights one at a time from the first one until we've finished the competition in a few months."

"What do you mean?" Kendrick frowned.

"I'm going to limit your cultivations and make you fight each other against each of your opponents. If someone wins all the fights, they'll take the Hydras' Amulet without having to go through a last fight. If no one wins all three fights, we'll have a second battle between those who won two fights each." Minos changed the plans for the family fight.

"Does that mean we'll have six fights? Everyone will fight everyone?" Grisdi asked with interest, understanding Minos' point after seeing him nod in agreement.

'Whoever wins all three fights will prove themselves superior to all their opponents... It's an interesting model. There would be no doubt who was the strongest, who truly deserved to inherit something as powerful as the amulet.' This native of The Enchanted Realm thought to herself, interested in the combat model Minos mentioned.

It was a scoring model. Whoever had the perfect score wouldn't have to worry about the following competitions. Since second or third place didn't matter, there was no need for a competition between the losers.

"And when will these fights happen?" Kendrick understood what his father was asking.

"When I return, we'll have the first fight. Be prepared for my return. After the first fight, we'll have one fight a month. Since you'll be fighting at the same level, the cultivation time won't make a difference, but we'll still be able to focus on our guild activities." Minos explained.

There were still too many things going on concurrently for them to stop for a whole day and fight all six battles. But for one fight at a time, they could all make time for their guild responsibilities.

"When are you leaving?" Ruth asked, having spent almost two years in seclusion and looking forward to going to the battlefield. "The day after tomorrow. You two can come with me. The others should stay at the guild to prepare for the family tournament upon my return." Minos looked at his wives, also interested in having them at his side for the experiments he wanted to do.

Not only would he be able to permanently absorb the powers of his enemies, but he could also provoke the same reaction in his allies, albeit on a smaller scale.

Still, with Abby and Ruth at his side, he could try out many of his new abilities.

The two women smiled, obviously preferring it when they traveled together.

"Before that, we'll produce two more Supreme corpses. I believe that with my quality improvement, we'll be able to produce new corpses in less time and with less risk for us," he said this specifically to his blue-haired wife.

She agreed, and soon joined him toward the faction's cave, while Ruth prepared for another external mission, and Grisdi and Kendrick returned to their local duties.

The war continued, but none of them intended to go out on any missions until after the family tournament. Until then, it would be a time of seclusion for them, preparation for when they would once again be involved in the war.

Even with the changes brought about by the Supreme corpses and the guild Elders' more direct involvement in the war, the confrontation with the Firestone Mines coalition wouldn't end overnight.

A war was not settled with a desperate, ill-conceived action. Even though First Elder Juma was willing to sacrifice his parasite to resolve the conflict, even if it cost him his life, they would only act when the time was right.

Juma was waiting for a meeting of the leaders of the opposing coalition to act, and until then, the current conflict was only slightly more dangerous than it had been when Minos had just returned from the Seraphim World.

There were opportunities for people like Kendrick and Grisdi, as well as Minos and his two wives, to go out and test their current powers!