After finishing off King Veora, Minos looked at the living men in the area as he lowered his overwhelmingly powerful aura.
"You now have a choice. Your leader has died, so it's time to decide whether to follow him into the afterlife or bow your heads and accept a new leader." Minos said unashamedly, not bothered by the fact that their leader was practically dead at his feet.
"I prefer the second option. The Black Plain Empire needs powerful people on its side to fight the aliens that will invade the world in a few years. Besides, I have no real reason to want everyone here to die.
None of this would have had to happen if your leader had done what I asked earlier... Anyway, I'll give you one minute to make up your mind. I will honor the choice of those who prefer the path of death and send them to the same place as King Veora."
The conscious men trembled as they heard Minos' threatening words, both threatening and understanding.
It was strange to hear this from a person who had just killed three powerful cultivators and caused the death of the fourth. But Minos had not been insincere in his words.
As they stood in silence, looking at each other, seeing the result of the brief confrontation that had taken place there, and remembering how domineering Minos had been, he moved to the altar in that area.
There were three statues around a small fountain where there was a spatial distortion. These three statues were filled with an extraordinary power, the condensation of the beliefs of many different people.
These statues attracted the power of the faith of the people from the capital city of Veora, causing this unique energy to circulate them and condense on the main statue of the three. From it, the power of faith followed into the spatial distortion, where Minos could sense that the true idol that gathered the power of faith was.
Leaving aside the survivors on the outskirts, he looked into this spatial distortion. He quickly used his spatial manipulation skills to grab what was there.
This distortion was not meant to enhance or change the way the idol received the power of faith in any way. It was merely to hide the idol and increase the level of security over the artifact.
But for Minos, who could create a quasi-Spatial Kingdom at level 90, this was nothing. He quickly reached the idol hidden in the small lake and revealed a rabbit-shaped artifact, a light brown sculpture with glowing red eyes and runes all over it.
This artifact was full of energy, as if the rabbit had eaten too much and was about to explode.
All it contained was pure faith energy, something that had to be collected in a similar manner to this altar before the appropriate person could absorb it.
'It looks like King Veora was on the verge of a breakthrough.' Minos smiled as he saw that this artifact could be used at any time.
Faith energy was not like other types of ordinary energy. There was no free faith power in the environment. Faith power existed where people devoted greatly to images, idols, people, organizations, etc., were. In those places, people who were interested in faith power had to have compatible artifacts to collect and store that form of energy.
When they reached a certain level, a person could absorb all the faith power they had accumulated over time and thereby improve many characteristics of themselves.
These characteristics included increasing one's cultivation ability, improving one's understanding, healing old wounds, increasing one's vitality, increasing one's luck, and so on. In short, everything would be easier for someone who could absorb the power of faith.
But not just anyone could absorb the power of faith! The belief in question would have to be directed against them or the organization they represented, or the belief would not be compatible with them.
Precisely for this reason, only the leader of the Spiritual Church could use the power of faith of his followers. At the same time, only King Veora could absorb the energy contained in the rabbit, which was now in Minos' hands.
If Minos wanted to use this idol to collect the power of faith, he would first have to completely cleanse the mark of King Veora from the artifact, expelling all the energy contained within it, and finally, create a connection between his soul and the artifact.
After doing all that, he would have to create altars like the one he was standing on now, near places where many people worshipped him.
Knowing what to do, he quickly used his 10th technique to remove everything related to King Veora from the rabbit-shaped artifact.
Seeing this, the level 95 man from earlier sighed when he saw that Minos Stuart could not be stopped.
'He is a monster... No one will stop him. Since he has such powers, the powers of the world will turn a blind eye to what he's done in order to have a powerful fighter in the war against the aliens.'
Then he said loud and clear. "I surrender to Your Majesty Minos Stuart. I hope you'll have mercy on me. I was only doing my job."
"General!" Some of the still uncertain men shouted simultaneously, unable to believe that a man of such high rank as their leader would so easily surrender to the enemy.
But this general told his men. 'His Majesty is dead. Not only that, but the Black Plain Empire is a large state, and the kingdom has no way of getting justice. Minos will take everything we have and rule Veora one way or another. The only way for us not to fall now is to help him.
Sigh... As sad and unfair as it is that we can't take revenge, would it change what has already happened? If it were possible for us to take revenge, His Majesty would still be dead... But there isn't even the possibility of revenge. Minos is too strong for us to think of defying him.
So, quickly surrender and think of your families. Maybe we can still protect the ones we care about if we surrender.'
'But what about the royal family?'
The mightiest Demigod closed his eyes. 'Poor souls. They are lost.'
While this Demigod convinced the others, Minos accepted this man's surrender. "Haha, you've made the right decision. By my side, you will become even stronger and have the best technologies in our world for when the enemies come to fight us all!"
Soon, all the survivors would surrender to Minos and accept seals from him, guaranteeing they would not betray him.
