The Rise of the Black Plain

Chapter 2789  New Player

Months later, Minos and his group arrived back at the place where the Qhava Devil's territory was commandeered.

Arriving there for the second time on his journey, Minos was surprised to find a place relatively full of creatures, unlike the emptiness he had seen years ago when he arrived in the area.

But it made sense. Qhava had called not only him, but all her subordinates and disciples to the current meeting.

As a level 127 True Celestial, Qhava alone had 33 disciples, of whom, together and added to her underlings, totaled over 300 individuals who now occupied her grand estate.

Most of them already knew each other from previous encounters, but Minos wasn't the only newcomer there. Devils constantly sought out the subjects for their disputes. After all, it wasn't uncommon for deaths to occur among their disciples.

But even the oldest in the area looked at Minos differently, clearly seeing in the rocky, black appearance of his soul that he had achieved a lot since joining Hell.

Minos was Qhava's youngest disciple, but he could already place himself in the top 15 of her disciples with the most territories directly controlled by him.

He was also one of those who had the most subordinates under his leadership, currently having 16 individuals, counting Gloria and Ruth among that number.

"Undar, it's good to see you again." Qhava looked at Minos with a mischievous glint, seeing how big a hit this had been on her.

She didn't fail to notice the identities of two of Minos' women, but she didn't bother. They both had crowns on their heads and as his subordinates, they were his subordinates, too.

Minos kneeled down in front of Qhava and greeted her, showing Gloria and Ruth how they should behave in front of this creature.

The two women had heard enough from him over the last two years to immediately behave as they should, hiding the fact that they were much more aware than they perhaps should have been.

"Master, I came as quickly as I could. I heard that a new devil has emerged. What is the exact situation?"

Qhava looked around, seeing that there were still three groups to go. But she advanced to Minos, given the connection he had with the main person responsible for today's meeting.

"You probably don't remember, but when I brought you here, there was another woman besides these two beside you now. That woman was very lucky." The look on Qhava's dark face became particularly funny at this point, almost as if she was amused by what she was saying. "She was fortunate indeed.

She entered a Devil's cultivation site and stole his crown, dominating his mind and then killing him. Don't ask me how such a weak creature did it, because I don't know myself. But what she did was start a war to dominate the land left by that dead fool."

Minos did his best to not only control his expression, but to make Gloria and Ruth not show their worried thoughts about Abby.

"Oh? There was someone like that?" Minos asked in false surprise.

Qhava laughed and clapped one of her hands on one of his shoulders. "Now we go in search of the territories she's going to lose soon."

"Are we going to fight this person directly, master?" Minos asked as best he could without drawing Qhava's attention.

"Maybe." She laughed, narrowing her eyes mischievously. "Maybe I should make you hunt her down for me? Haha, or maybe I should just wait for the enemies who will defeat her and leave her big territory free!"

'Shit!' Minos smiled on the outside, but inside he was boiling with rage. 'That was terrible. If Abby hadn't taken one of the Devil's positions, I could have taken her under my wing. Now I can only expand my domains and seek to become a Devil too. Otherwise, I won't be able to protect her.'

His thoughts sped up, and he didn't even notice when Qhava left his side to talk to the many others on her estate.

Gloria and Ruth understood the problem in his mind and stayed close to him, using the mental pathway between them to resolve the situation.

'Can't we run away?' Ruth said suggestively. 'If we run away, we can become stronger in Zocarro and resolve this issue in the future.'

The problem with being connected to Hell was that you couldn't run away from it forever. The escaped spectres were the greatest example of this. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Minos looked at his black-haired wife and said, 'We can escape, but we would be considered fugitives from Hell just like the spectres. If someone found us and started a banishment ritual, we'd be dead.

In Hell, we have our infernal powers. But out there, out there, we'd be vulnerable against someone with those powers.'

'Are you saying that the powers of the crown only work in Hell?' Gloria asked.

'Not exactly, but those who escape or stay outside Hell for too long have their crowns weakened. Only by returning to Hell can they recover all their infernal powers.

This is a limitation imposed by the Upper Realm in the war of the two dimensions.' Minos explained, before saying, 'Abby, however, can escape. Only other Devils could hunt her down, but there are few Devils and most of them are more focused on increasing their number of disciples. Going after her would also be complicated, since you can't start a banishing ritual against Devils.'

'So how did you want to escape from Hell?' Ruth asked, understanding that it would be best for Abby to escape, but their situation was still bad. First, Abby wouldn't do it if she remembered them. Second, it would be more difficult for them to escape from this place and return to their plans.

'My plan was to escape temporarily as soon as Qhava went into seclusion when I got stronger. As her domains increase because of me, the closer she gets to advancing to level 128. Then, at some point, she would go into seclusion to speed up her progress. At that point, we would escape and only have to worry about her minions coming after us. But I'd be able to deal with them all when I reached level 121.'

'But isn't cultivating in Hell super-fast? Wouldn't that give us very little time to escape from Qhava, since she would be so close to advancing?' Gloria questioned.

'Time in Hell is slower. One year here is equivalent to three in Zocarro. Five years for Qhava to cultivate would be enough for me to travel to the Violent Sea and search for information on another part of a True Celestial's body.

By the time she comes after me, I might confront her and get rid of her.' He explained a little nervously, but certain that this was the most favorable situation for them, and how unfortunate it was that things were going in a direction that would prevent him from following this plan.

Ruth and Gloria sighed as they asked in unison, 'What now?'

'Now we take a risk and rush everything!'