After the brutal death of that Spiritual Saint of the Saints Killing Sect, Minos' wives watched in shock at the golems in that place.
They had already expected this place to be dangerous because of Minos' reminders of how they should behave here. But none of them had imagined that the traps there were so terrible as to eliminate Spiritual Saints quickly.
That woman had not had a chance. Not even her soul escaped in time from her body before those creatures butchered her.
A Spiritual Saint could live in soul form outside their body temporarily until they found a new body to possess. But even with that possibility, that level 71 woman was killed in the blink of an eye.
It was horrifying!
"That place is hazardous!" Abby commented to her harem sisters as she looked at Minos. "Are you sure we can do what you have planned here? I mean, if the protection mechanisms in this place were meant to protect the skeleton from being stolen, why would we be able to take it without being hurt?"
Minos then said. "Well, the security mechanisms are to prevent strangers from getting here, not to prevent the removal of this skeleton from the area. So as long as someone knows how the gears in this place work, there's no danger about it."
Upon hearing that, the three were reassured, quickly putting that woman aside to turn their attention to the giant skeleton.
On the other hand, Minos wasted no time and quickly took the spatial ring from that woman as the golems disappeared, returning from whence they came.
Soon after, he turned his attention to his purpose there, the giant skeleton on this mountain.
To remove this thing from there, he would need to destroy the crystal that served to camouflage the powerful spiritual fluctuations of those bones.
Since he already knew what needed to be done, he immediately began to manipulate the invisible mechanisms in that area, slowly causing this place to transform.
As the crystal melted, dripping into the area where the traps were, the gigantic skeleton slowly fell to the ground outside the area where Minos and his wives were.
It first had its long tail resting against the ground, following that point of its body to the others until all the crystal had melted and it was totally on the ground.
Its body was curled up when this happened, as some great beasts usually slept. But, at the same time, streams of liquid crystal flowed from that place, heading towards the magma field outside this cave.
Seeing this, Minos realized that his work was done, and now he only needed to store this grandiose skeleton in his Spatial Kingdom!
"Now what? How do we move it?" Ruth asked, feeling that the thing was cumbersome and could not be easily manipulated.
Minos smiled at her and said. "Touch me. Let's go to the Spatial Kingdom with it the way it is."
The three obeyed their man, watching him immediately afterward place the tip of his right foot on one of the parts of that skeleton.
With that done, Minos activated the ring of the Spatial Kingdom, causing unique energy to cover all those in contact with him before teleporting them there!
Zum!
...
In the blink of an eye, Minos, his wives, and the great skeleton appeared inside the Spatial Kingdom, in a different area from where they usually arrived or departed.
But this was to be expected. After all, this time, Minos had a heavy load that he could not control. So, he teleported to a place without vegetation or human structures in that space.
There, the skeleton that looked like it belonged to a gigantic bird rested on the ground, not reacting strangely in any way.
But an earth tremor arose after Minos appeared, something related to the extreme weight of that thing that had bones with superdense spiritual energy.
"What do we do now?" Gloria asked, seeing that such a gigantic thing seemed to have been accommodated.
"We'll go back and continue with our journey. There's nothing we can do about it now, so let's not waste more time." Minos said before touching his wives and leading them back to that area.
As they left, some of the spiritual energy in the surroundings slowly began to transform as if connecting to something different.
...
Zum!
As they appeared back in the cave from before, now very empty due to the lack of that giant skeleton, Minos and his women soon departed.
They made their way back just as carefully as before, quickly arriving where Maida and Kyla were passed out.
"Did that woman do that?" Ruth asked as she stooped down beside Kyla and massaged the orange fur of this Nine-tailed Fox.
"Probably..." Minos commented, feeling that his traveling companions needed some time to rest.
With that, he decided to send them to rest in the Spatial Kingdom, then immediately look at their wives and signal for them to fly away.
They were all faster than Maida, so traveling for a while on their own would not be much of a problem.
So, without further delay, they disappeared from that area where three Spiritual Saints were exterminated as if they were nothing.
Minos, of course, closed the secret entrance there, making that place look like just a giant mountain on fire.
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Meanwhile, in the headquarters of the Saints Killing Sect...
Someone rushed into the sect master's office, feeling extremely nervous while carrying three soul lamps.
"Sect master! Sect master!" An elderly man shouted as he entered there.
The people in the surrounding area did not stop this individual, as anyone from that person's department could enter there unceremoniously in cases of emergency.
And seeing the soul lamps in the hands of such an individual, soon several of them understood what this was all about.
"What's the problem?" The sect master frowned his eyebrows. "News from the battlefield? Have any elders died to the cursed Grey Clouds Sect?"
"No, sect master. Something strange has just happened. Three of our low-level elders just died!" He said while sweating, feeling how bad this news was. "Elders Lyons, Parker, and Alvarez left the sect a few days ago, supposedly in pursuit of someone, within the empire."
"But their deaths happened within a few minutes of each other, with them dying almost instantly. Only Elder Parker lasted a little longer, a minute."
"What?"
"Within the Empire?"
"Instant death? Why didn't they flee in their soul forms?"
"Someone managed to kill them before they had the chance?"
The people in the area commented on the matter, while the sect master had a severe expression on his face.
These three were just low-level Spiritual Saints. But each 8th stage cultivator carried great weight in the future of the Flaming Empire's organizations!
Thus, losing three of these people without it even being related to the war against the Gray Clouds Sect was terrible!
He then shouted. "Send people immediately to investigate the matter! I want to know who dared to exterminate my sect members brutally!"
"Yes, sect master!"
