When they saw Minos back, Ruth and Gloria quickly flew to him, hugging him tightly, seeing their man after more than a year away.
"Gloria, you have advanced to the 9th stage. Congratulations!" He immediately commented in one of this beautiful red-haired woman's ears, feeling the vibrant level 80 spiritual fluctuation coming from her.
Ruth had also advanced and was currently at level 79.
Minos congratulated Ruth afterward, smiling in satisfaction at his women's advances in his absence.
The two grinned as they felt the warmth of Minos' body, noting that he had succeeded and also congratulated him.
"It looks like you've done much more than us in the meantime," Ruth commented as she looked at those specialists in Minos' group. "We merely dealt with high-level Sages, but you defeated Demigods... Congratulations, Minos, you are now a world-class expert."
"Nonsense." He laughed. "But how exactly did you deal with these people? I was worried about what the underlings of the former patriarch Longus might have done here."
"We got help from the Mcbride family. The Queen sent some level 90 Demigods, and they exterminated those high-level Sages from the Longus family." Gloria said, looking at those beings in Minos' group, feeling they would not like to hear that.
"So that's how it happened..." The strongest elder among those beings muttered, but he did not feel anger toward those women.
They were weaker than such envoys of the ancient patriarch Longus. So they had the right to react to them as they wished!
As much as they were his relatives, and he preferred to find them alive, this old man did not feel sorry for their souls and only sighed that some more of his family had perished.
Minos understood how such a problem had been solved and soon realized that he owed a new debt to the women of the Flowers Kingdom.
"I see... I will pay Queen Mcbride a visit in the future." He commented as he loosened his women's waists.
Soon after, Minos moved to his imperial throne palace, a good place for everyone to talk.
As people followed him there, and the imperial guards prostrated themselves in his presence, Minos appeared in front of his throne before disappearing, heading to the Spatial Kingdom to seek out his family.
He was swift, so in less than 10 seconds, he reappeared there, already with Abby, Isabella, Sarah, and Kendrick by his side.
In the meantime, essential people from the army and local government also appeared in that hall, such as Dillian and Elen Nash, both currently at level 75.
With the whole family gathered and important local government members, Minos presented everyone with his results of months of travel.
"Alright, everyone, my mission to find the Longus family and resolve the threat upon us has been successfully completed. I have killed the former leaders of the family and brought back the remnants willing to follow me.
We now have over 1,200 new members between levels 60 and 89."
Upon hearing his words, everyone there celebrated, understanding that these people who arrived with Minos were new subordinates, members of the Longus family.
"Most of them are currently in the Spatial Kingdom, but I will soon bring them to Dry City for them to join our army and gain their respective roles.
In any case, I see that in my absence, many of you have made good progress." He smiled, looking at some of his old acquaintances but also family members.
His Aunt Angelica was currently at level 78, while Patience was at level 80, the same as Maisie. Besides them, Lee and Alison had reached the 8th stage, with him at level 71 and her at 70.
Ivory Moss, a former member of the Gray Clouds Sect, was also around, currently having reached the peak of the 8th stage, level 79. Meanwhile, several of the former elders of this sect had advanced to level 80, a pleasant surprise to Minos.
He hadn't expected to find so many Sages in this group after his return from the Divine Continent!
The strongest of these people was at level 86, the Sage part of the group of relatives of the Goddess of Life, Esmond.
"We did our best. Everyone trained hard in your absence." Ruth commented as she longed for some time at her husband's side.
After that, the people who had come with Minos from the Divine Continent introduced themselves briefly, fraternizing a bit with the high-ranking members of the local government.
They were neither impressed nor disappointed by Minos' strength in this city. They already expected that the composition of the local government would be more or less as they were seeing it.
Anyway, they were pleased to see these people and this city, which was much richer in spiritual energy than the place they had arrived outside the city dome.
After a few moments of conversation, Gloria commented. "We have developed the plans for our faction within the Spiritual Church well, while Ruth has deftly handled the affairs of our marine expansion.
Our numbers have also been greatly helped by the migration of people fleeing the war in the southernmost part of the continent."
Hearing this, Minos became more serious as he thought about the Vico and Maximillian war. "How are things to the south? I've heard that the war has started, but I know almost nothing about it."
Dillian became serious and summed up what had come to the Black Plain so far. "Maximillian and Vico faced each other at the beginning of the confrontation. At that time, catastrophe spread across half of the Central Continent due to the confrontation between the two.
Neither was victorious in that conflict. Both sides retreated when they were close to exhaustion. But the damage had already been done, and the border of the Flaming Empire with Mairin was devastated, victimizing hundreds of cities and forests between these areas.
After the confrontation ended, tens of millions of people from the border areas of the western region began to migrate, many of them seeking refuge in the empire."
Minos heard that, and everyone in the surrounding area became serious about it.
It was a war of absolute proportions that they were talking about!
This confrontation could threaten the existence of kingdoms and empires!
In addition, countless lives were in danger, while crises of lack of food, resources, and many more could soon hit the entire continent.
At the same time, this was an unprecedented opportunity for them to grow!
While everyone was focused on the conflict to the south, Minos intended to take his state to a new level in the north of the continent!
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