The Rise of the Black Plain

While Brooke worried about the safety of young Stuart, several prominent families were beginning to prepare for the chaotic future that was near them all.

With the discovery about those responsible for the Maritime City raid and the rebellion on the Black Plain, many of the regional organizations' leaders already knew that the potential for this to hit them was not small.

After all, Minos had chosen to make his confrontation public, something that could only mean that he was confident!

Thus, it was only a matter of time before the Brown family activated the Counter-Revolutionary Statute.

Obviously, it would take a while before all the orders were given, and troops began to travel to the Brown Kingdom from each of the kingdoms in that region. But still, preparing in advance was crucial for these organizations.

After all, just because the Brown Kingdom was facing problems would not mean that the everyday problems of these organizations would stop arising.

Children would continue to enter the spiritual academies, new cultivators would emerge, many would die, and the daily life of their territories needed to continue.

Otherwise, how could they sustain a war?

At the end of the day, daily work would still be every person's priority in this region.

And since many of these powers might have to send troops into the Brown Kingdom, then starting to change their routines, schedules, events, and so on from now on would be the best thing for these organizations.

So, even though the Brown family had not even made a formal request for help yet, many noble houses were already preparing for when it was done!

Many were merely beginning fundamental changes in their routines, but a few organizations were very interested in the Black Plain.

Unfortunately for Minos, most of them had hostile intentions towards him and his territory.

That was the case with the enemies this young man had made on his way here, among them the House Collins, but also the Reid and Cromwell families.

The Cromwell family was not necessarily an enemy of Minos. Still, King Cromwell wanted to eliminate this young man because he thought that the ruler of the Black Plain was with the Snows.

As for the Reid family, their desire for revenge against the competitor Minos was ancient. Hence, it was natural for them to think of the Black Plain at this time, even to consider joining the war before the Counter-Revolutionary Statute was activated.

As for the Collins, they were the ones most surprised by all this, as well as the ones who had made the most changes to their plans.

Previously they had been interested in joining forces with their allies to send troops to Stone Island. But now, with such news, they are much more interested in the Black Plain, where their main enemy was.

They had lost many high-level fighters because of Minos' organization. So, getting rid of whoever was in Dry City seemed more important than taking action against Elen's family on Stone Island!

Therefore, they and the Reids were very interested in the destruction of Dry City and were already thinking of joining the Brown family after that recent misunderstanding.

All this was bad for Minos, but nevertheless, he was still lucky!

That was because the information exchanges between regional powers were not so good or typical. Hence, all this information had different impacts on whoever received it.

That is, the Collins family knew that the base of the Black Plain Army they had attacked earlier was of the rebellious force in this territory. But they did not know what was exported through that place!

The Allen family and the families in the Farmland area, on the other hand, knew what was exported in that naval base. However, they did not know that the base belonged to the same organization behind the rebellion on the Black Plain!

After all, just because a building of some organization is in an area would not necessarily mean that it belongs to the sovereign power of that location.

For example, even royal families had posts spread around the region.

So, it would not be strange to have a foreign organization in Minos' territory without him being its leader.

And because of this lack of information that those families suffered, Minos had fewer enemies at this point than he would have if everyone knew that all!

That is, if this information got out, the attentions of the Farmland families, of the allied families of House Allen on Stone Island would turn against him.

And that would be bad!

But for the moment, this was not the case, and such families were still oblivious to all the change on the Black Plain.

However, not everyone saw Minos and the Black Plain negatively. The Stone family was very interested in this recent news since they knew that such a young man traded in products of high spiritual concentration!

And knowing this, they were the only ones, besides Minos' allies, of course, who knew about the true potential of that territory!

What would be better? To have an ally who is weaker than you, whom you can perhaps manipulate somehow? Or to have an ally as strong as you, whom you could hardly take advantage of?

The first option, of course.

And that was the Black Plain for the Stones. A place with many potentials but lacked power and fundamental structures to stand up against other regional powers.

They could wait for the Black Plain to fall and with that try to take advantage of that valuable territory alongside the Brown family. But they could also support Minos and perhaps get a 'bigger piece of the pie' when this young man was established!

The best option for them was clear!

So, unlike those who wanted the downfall of the Black Plain, the Stones were very keen to see Minos win!

...

While each of those powers was preparing for chaos, the representatives of the royal families from the northern region of the Central Continent had finally arrived at the capital of the Brown Kingdom.

After many weeks since the request for a meeting sent by Thomas to the other five regional royal houses, experts from the Snow, Walker, Carline, Cromwell, and Stone families arrived in the City of the Setting Sun today.

And without wasting much time, now the five experts sent here were face to face with Thomas and some of the Spiritual Kings of the Counter-Revolutionary Army assembled before.

Among them was the patriarch of the Miller family...

Anyway, they were all in the royal hall, finishing greeting that influential expert from the Brown Kingdom.

"Well, Your Majesty, it's good to see you well. But why are we here?" A level 55 Spiritual King of the Carline family asked this out of pure formality.

It did not take the mind of a genius to know what this was all about!

Thomas then looked at those five experts with a horrid expression due to the hatred he had been experiencing since the publication of the Night News. 

He then confirmed the obvious. "As you all may already know, the Black Plain is in rebellion against my kingdom."

"That is why you are here!"

'I knew it...'

'No surprises here.'

'Hehe, looks like you guys are suffering, huh?'

And then one of them asked. "So, Your Majesty will call the Counter-Revolutionary Statute? Is Your Majesty in agreement with what is necessary for that?"

"Well, to be honest, I will decisively attack that territory in a few days. On that occasion, I hope to weaken the enemy forces considerably. Still, I am aware that there are chances that the enemy side will not be exterminated easily."

"So, you are here to accompany us and serve as witnesses, if necessary, that we have no alternative but to appeal to your organizations for help."

"If things go wrong in this attack of ours, then yes, I am in agreement with all the necessary procedures for the activation of the Counter-Revolutionary Statute!" Thomas said directly, honestly revealing his intentions and plans to those people.

"So, that's how it is..."

"It seems that the enemy is quite troublesome." A representative of the Walker family commented reflexively.

On the other hand, the expert sent by the Stone family was standing there silently, enjoying all this. 'Well, this will be an opportunity for us to assess the strength of the Black Plain.'

'If they are too weak to withstand the pressure from King Brown, then the Counter-Revolutionary Statute will certainly crush them...'

'In that situation, it won't be worth it for us to act carelessly!' So, he pondered before finally hearing the voice of the Snow family representative.

"By the way, I don't think that edition of the Night News has the best information about the enemies, right?"

"Hmm, don't worry. We have everything ready to pass on to you..."

So, the conversations continued in that place. At the same time, from time to time, the Cromwell family expert looked strangely at the Spiritual King sent by House Snow.

That continued until some people there began to disperse, among them, the patriarch Miller....