Maisie had naturally heard from her father that Minos had agreed to become the master of the Gray Clouds Sect. So after hearing him talk about such plans, she could not help but question the validity of his words.
After all, if he was going to become the leader of that sect, how would he have time to lead an Empire in this region? Hell, she already thought he should leave the Black Plain to focus his attention on the sect, so now she could only worry.
"What does one thing have to do with the other?" Minos questioned in incomprehension at his mother's question.
Maisie frowned her eyebrows and said. "You will have to go to the Empire to live there. That will make it difficult for you to lead from that place or whatever you have in mind."
Minos smiled and shook his head negatively. "Who says I'm going to live in the Empire?"
"Then how will you lead the sect?"
"I will do that from the Black Plain, of course." He answered.
Maisie's eyes narrowed even more, and she stopped to look at her son. "Your grandfather won't let you."
"It doesn't matter. When I am the sect master, I will give the orders for the sect command to move to Dry City. Then there won't be any problem." He said quietly, shaking his shoulders.
After those words, Minos went to his room next to his wife and Sarah, leaving Maisie alone with her thoughts.
...
The other morning, when he went out for breakfast before his morning work, Minos came across a strange situation in the kitchen of his residence.
In that place, Maisie was with Sarah in front of her while taking off the top of her clothes, revealing her right breast. Then, without noticing that her son was there, she brought her granddaughter into her arms and prepared to realize her grandmotherly goal.
"What are you doing?" Minos asked in surprise, not expecting to see his 'old' mother's breasts as he got up to eat something in the morning and still saw her daughter being 'abused' by Maisie.
Maisie was not bothered by Minos and felt little Sarah beginning to suck the milk she had produced for her granddaughter. "I am going to feed my first granddaughter. What do you think I am doing? Showing my breasts to you?"
Minos was a little annoyed by this but could not say anything, only managing to get a few laughs from his mother. "Although you've seen it all before, haha."
With that comment, he left the kitchen of his residence before he could get traumatized. He left to kiss his daughter later when little Sarah would not have the smell of 'old' Maisie's breasts.
'Now I'm going to have to see her walking around half-naked?' He wondered as he sighed.
...
After a while, Minos was in his office, dealing with the Black Plain situation.
After four years, this state had developed massively, something that had happened because of the number of people working locally and the quality of their services.
With business done earlier in the Empire and Albano, months after the return of Minos and his family to the Black Plain, Ruth's older sister had brought each of the techniques ordered.
With this, plus those copies of Silver-grade techniques that King Stuart had purchased, the quality of the local professionals had risen considerably.
That naturally caused an increase in the cultivation speed of the Black Plain's population, which also helped maintain population increases, even when this place already had so many people.
To get an idea, even now, the state of Minos still receives about 1 million immigrants per month, not only from the northern region but also from Albano, Vogel, Rosser, and Blackrock.
However, because of the growth in population and the increasing quality of the cities and services in this state, the criteria for entry to this state have risen considerably in these years.
Currently, only Spiritual Kings above level 55 could come from these domains outside the northern region to the Black Plain. At the same time, locals from this part of the continent could only compete for a migration opportunity if they were at least level 45 cultivators.
So, the average quality of the local population had already been considered, and not just anyone could move to the state ruled by Minos.
But that did not mean that those people with characteristics below King Stuart's requirements were completely left out. No, with the development of the Black Plain, all the states in the northern region benefited from it. In particular, Stone Island was the only one that was not a subordinate but an ally of Minos and was growing significantly.
Because of this, those who had no chance of coming to the Stuart family state were striving to grow in their respective kingdoms. On the other hand, people from outside the northern region were already migrating to places like Stone Island, hoping to surf the region's growth.
Even if they had no chance to be with Minos, they at least wanted to take advantage of the opportunities for growth in these still-weak states!
With all this, even after the Black Plain had passed the 150 million population barrier, the other states in the northern region had not weakened. Quite the opposite, practically all of them were stronger and had managed to lose fewer portions of populations than their leaders had imagined before.
But that was easy to understand. That is, people who passed Minos' requirement and migrated from one of the four enemy kingdoms of the Empire to the Black Plain had families. But while their family members could no longer enter this state, they could hope, or rather, grow up in the neighboring states in that region.
So millions of people had migrated from those four states to different parts of the northern region, creating a migration flow that had been slowing the population decline of those other areas.
In this reality, Minos currently had over 3.5 million soldiers in his army, about 50,000 of them being Spiritual Kings, a considerable fraction of the number of such individuals in the entire region.
There were currently over 300,000 Spiritual Kings in the northern region of the Central Continent, an extremely high number considering that 15 years ago, the number was barely over 3,000.
Anyway, Minos once again dealt with this reality at the beginning of the day, analyzing the overall numbers of his state and army and hearing from his subordinates the main points of the day.
That would last until Warner's group arrived to see him again. They quickly sat down to deal with business and serious matters related to the tense situation between those five states.
Minos was the leader of Vogel. So it was natural that he would be used in talks to avoid possible escalation of the conflict between the parties.
