The Rise of the Black Plain



Meanwhile, at the place where Minos and his group had encountered the level 90 sky whale earlier...

After the creature left, Minos and his party immediately began investigating the dragon graveyard they had discovered.

It was a vast cave with several levels. After spending an hour there, they would find out how big the place was, and when they finished exploring the first level, they quickly went to the lower levels of the area.

There were several skeletons and some sealed dragon tombs on the first level. There were only a few useful resources for Minos' group in these remains, and none of them were preserved to the point that the group was tempted to steal corpses from the area.

But with Minos' current knowledge of the dragon tribe, he and his party soon made their way to where the remains of the tribe's most important members were buried.

Dragons often passed their powers onto descendants or stronger enemies in special ceremonies. But for various reasons, some tribe members could be buried with their whole bodies.

This was most often seen with the bodies of low-level dragons, the children of experts who were not worth devouring. It could also happen that experts would not allow these bodies to be devoured.

The group saw some of the graves of such low-level beings and the skeletons of dragons that had been devoured.

During the ceremony of one dragon devouring the body of another, the bones of the devoured would never be eaten or sold, despite their value. They were usually sent to cemeteries like this one, where the dragons were laid to rest.

Some of the skeletons the group had seen were those of devoured creatures.

Anyway, leaving the first level without many items, the group soon arrived at level 2 of this graveyard, where Minos immediately realized something relevant to his group when he saw some inscriptions at the entrance to this second area.

"We need to go to level 4 of this graveyard," Minos commented to his group. "The inscriptions on these walls speak of a river of bones. If I'm not mistaken, all the bodies and skeletons that have rested here for millions of years must have given rise to something in the last level of the cemetery."

"River of bones?" Forrest asked as he narrowed his eyes, not understanding what that could be.

Minos explained to the group. "The bodies of powerful beings, even skeletons, contain much power. You know that, right?" He saw the group nod their heads in agreement while they were already walking through the second level of this place.

"So, the power of strong experts' corpses slowly leaks out of them and can be used to spiritually enrich places, help a spiritual root, or even be used to make pills or fertilize medicines.

But in a special place like this, that kind of power can "leak out" and accumulate somewhere. I think the dragons have found a way to accumulate these remnants of their ancestors in this place." Minos said with interest, feeling that they should get to the bottom of this location first.

"Are you saying that this river of bones is like an essence left by all the bodies buried here?" The level 91 phoenix asked with interest, feeling this would be great.

As much as there were many low-level dragon corpses in this place, there were also high-level dragon corpses.

If something had accumulated the essence of dead dragons for millions of years, this river of bones would be extremely valuable!

"Hmm, I can't tell what it is. It must have evolved after that level 100 dragon died. But it's something like what's written on the walls of this place." Minos said. 

Forrest agreed with Minos' suggestion. "Then let's go to the last level of this place. Ignore what's around here. We'll leave it to you to search the area for items when we leave this place."

With that, the group moved through this level, quickly finding the passage that led to level 3, where it would take them even less time to find the other passage.

As they moved deeper, the areas of the levels of this dragon's resting place decreased. At the same time, the "density" of high-level tombs remains increased.

When they reached the 4th and last level of this place, after 15 minutes of moving inside this cave, Minos' group came to a red place that looked like a fracture of a tectonic plate where magma was visible.

The place of red rocks was not large. From the place where the passage from level 3 to level 4 was, there was what looked like a small beach in front of a red lake the size of Minos' Spatial Kingdom house.

The dragon skeletons there were small compared to what they had seen on the previous levels, and they seemed to be slowly melting away.

Upon seeing this, one of Minos' women sighed and said. "As expected. Most of what was here has already been taken."

They all felt the density of that dark red essence that looked like magma but was only a special kind of liquid power.

There was still something there for them, but it was something extremely weaker than what was there when the two dragons came to this place months ago. Not only that, but the sky whale had also taken some of that liquid with him, leaving spiritual wealth in that small river of bones for Minos' entire group.

Minos understood the frustration of one of his wives and a few others in his group but said. "Do not underestimate this place. I sense that it can still be replenished. The next time this Spatial Kingdom opens up, I have a feeling that this place will be regenerated and will be able to help even 10th-stage dragons improve their strength and physical quality.

As for us, I think we can get three jars out of this river of bones. I doubt that anyone here will get a big improvement from it, but this liquid can help three of our men.

Forrest can probably reach the peak of his level if he uses this liquid to meditate." He finished and looked at the black-haired man.

Forrest felt the same way and decided to use his group's share to strengthen himself. 

In the meantime, the beast group wouldn't be able to get any stronger from it. Still, they were sure they could pass it on to one of their companions when they returned to their continent.

With this in mind, the group quickly divided the three bottles and took the remaining essence from this place until the red lake became clearer.