One week later...
After a long sunny day, Clouds City was slowly 'seeing' the sun setting over the local horizon when a large shadow hovered over one side of this city.
Several people noticed this from various points around the city, looking up into the sky to witness a grandiose level 76 beast flying over this territory.
Like any other large city in the Flaming Empire, it was not allowed to fly over the area. So on this cloudless day, several local guards, members of the Gray Clouds Sect, soon became on alert upon witnessing someone with such a powerful beast flying over this territory.
Beasts were difficult to tame and usually only subordinate to those of greater power or skilled tamers.
Hence, upon seeing a level 76 beast, the local guards immediately thought that some sect opponent was there to disrespect and challenge them somehow.
With thoughts along those lines, several individuals started flying towards where that being was slowly flying towards the sect headquarters, while others went to notify the local leaders.
But when some Spiritual Saints and even Spiritual Emperors were getting close to the dark green being, they felt gravity pushing them down hard.
"Uh?" A level 75 man felt his body accelerate downward as he lost control of his flight.
At that instant, Minos appeared at the back of that beast, looking at the frightened people of that city, noting that the men of this place were not slow to act.
They naturally could not stop someone like him from forcibly entering that territory. Still, they could have somewhat different reaction speeds.
As the leader of the organization that dominated this place, it was his duty to evaluate and alter the local defensive structures!
With that test done, Minos stopped using Chaotic Gravity and said to the high-level elders who were already flying toward him. "I'm back. How are you doing? Eager to train and get stronger?"
When they heard Minos' words, this time, none of the high-level elders behaved in a 'not-so-respectful' manner as before since this sovereign was already stronger than all of them.
They all then stood in front of Minos and that beast, bowing their heads and making gestures of greeting to him.
"Your Majesty."
The beast beneath Minos' feet saw these elders at levels 77, 78, and 79, acting respectfully toward its master, and felt good as if these people were doing that for it.
'Hehe, if it were in the past, I would have to hide from you... But with my master here, you guys have to respect me.' It thought.
"How about we fight?"
Minos did not know what Maida's replacement was thinking, so he paid attention to what these people had to say.
"Your Majesty must be joking. We do not dare." Patriarch Terry said this while he had a smile on his face.
But Minos then said. "No, I want to test my limits with actual experts. Unfortunately, the Assembly of Vogel elders are not that powerful, so I couldn't use my skills to the limit."
He jumped off Little Green's back and made a sign with one of his hands, calling these people to himself. "That way, why don't we fight a little friendly match of you 15 against 1?"
The high-level elders looked at each other while other lower-level elders in the surrounding area looked on, impressed at how direct Minos was.
But they could not deny their desire to personally watch Minos and feel how much in danger they were when it came to the threat called Mortimer.
The elders taking care of this organization thought so, and all agreed to Minos' proposal after a few moments of conversation.
Soon after, they flew to high altitudes, from where they could not affect Clouds City, and Minos could not use the Chaotic Gravity evolution.
Minos realized what the biggest motivator of these people was and laughed. "I want a group of 20 Spiritual Saints between levels 74 and 75 to be positioned..." Minos promptly gave some orders for these 20 people to get into position to protect Clouds City from what he intended to do there.
'You may have moved me away from the local terrain, but what about what I have in my spatial ring?' He smiled, thinking of the surprise those people would get.
Meteor formation by means of his 7th technique required only mass to be successfully formed. But where that mass came from really did not matter!
With that in mind, Minos had already prepared one of his spatial rings with debris, and the fact that it was far from the surface would not hinder him at all.
"Are you ready?" He looked at his 15 opponents, having ordered Little Green to stand back and watch the show.
That way, more than 500 individuals had gathered in the surrounding area to watch this fight, among them even observers from other local organizations who were there to maintain relations with this sect.
But there was no one from the Saints Killing Sect around due to that organization's history with the Gray Clouds Sect and the seclusion and house arrest of its top leaders.
Anyway, with the confirmation of the 15 elders for the beginning of the fight, Minos smiled and activated his techniques, quickly showing his Soul Avatar to his many subordinates there.
The moment he did this, the time immediately began to pass differently within his domain, as he instantly began to absorb the cultivation level of two level 77 elders.
Even before the black rings of the Devouring Art appeared in that space, or Chaotic Gravity began to pressure those people, they felt the two weakest in the group losing strength to Minos.
Minos had had his visual ability active since arriving in this city, so he had readily noticed the two individuals most susceptible to his initial action and acted without mercy.
Because of how fast his current abilities were, by the time all his opponents had finished activating their Soul Avatars, Minos' cultivation was already at level 71!
Gulp!
'He can really do that!'
'How incredible!'
'That's the ability of a born leader...'
Several elders and observers thought different things as they saw Minos' level increasing without showing any signs that it was not actually his.
But then, everything changed for those people when he activated his other abilities, combining them with his Dark Sea.
As if in a dream, the hundreds of people in the surrounding area saw the weaker high-level experts of the Gray Clouds Sect turning against the stronger ones.
Meanwhile, only the strongest were losing their energy to the black rings circling them and being afflicted by the Infinite Dream.
Minos would not let those people fight for him and soon had a spiritual sword in his hands, activating the Spatial Sword.
Swooish!
That way, as he moved to attack, the high-level battle that would soon become famous in the Flaming Empire began!
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