In the blink of an eye, 20 days had passed!
In this period, no major regional events had shocked this part of the Central Continent as much as the previous news had done. Or at least no major news had been discovered and published in those days that had passed.
On the other hand, things on the Black Plain continued as before, with constant small battles around this territory.
Meanwhile, more and more members of the noble families of the kingdom were arriving on the borders of the Black Plain, joining the troops of the Brown family's Counter-Revolutionary Army.
With that, little by little, this force assembled by the Brown family was marching towards the interior of the Black Plain, for the moment just taking over more peripheral territories, but with a clear goal in mind.
They wanted to reach Dry City!
However, doing this would not be so easy!
After all, with his internal agents infiltrating the enemy side, Minos could act on inside information, something very useful in wars.
So far, things were following the expected pattern for a conflict like this, with both sides facing each other but without many high-level battles.
Because of this development, each party involved in this war could still settle their administrative affairs in their territories.
Wars were not only about fighting!
King Brown was dealing with the final preparations to be able to join the troops heading towards the enemy core while at the same time awaiting the arrival of the royal representatives.
The northern Central Continent was quite large. With only the beasts that the regional organizations had access to, even the strongest experts could take months to cross some states.
Certain places might be closer, and the trip would be shorter, as, in the case of Stone Island and the Brown Kingdom, a 5th stage beasts could take less than two weeks from one capital to the other.
But other trips could be much longer, as in the case of the one that the representatives of the Carline family would have to make. The journey between the capitals of these two states could take more than four months in ordinary beasts at level 49!
Considering this, Thomas Brown had to wait at least a few weeks until people from each of those royal families arrived in his state.
Some of the royal families had beasts at the beginning of the 6th stage, and those intervals could be shortened. However, the differences would not be that great, so he would still have to wait, even if more than five weeks had passed since Minos' attacks.
On the other hand, young Stuart was in his territory dealing with his army's plans for this war, as well as a specific matter, which was about to happen!
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Dry City.
It was hot at this moment in this city. But, still, many people could be seen walking in the central streets of this place as if today was a holiday or something similar.
The streets were full of people riding on their beasts. In contrast, others strolled in chariots, enjoying the comfortable wind that those in carriages could not.
At the same time, the sidewalks were crowded, with many people having to be careful not to bump into other pedestrians.
But all this movement on this sunny day was not due to the crowdedness of this city.
That is, spaces were becoming increasingly scarce in this place, with the maximum population of the area protected by the dome getting closer and closer to being reached. But that alone would not cause this abnormal movement, at least not on ordinary weekdays, as should be the case with this one in question.
Instead, today these many people have been given the privilege of three hours of paid time off in the middle of the day when they would have to attend a particular event.
The local government had established that on this day, from 11:00 until 14:00, every service provided by the government would be unavailable to citizens, while non-essential stores would follow suit.
Only then would the people of this city have the chance to attend the event that would take place in front of the local government mansion at 12:30.
There were only 30 minutes left before the event started. So, thousands of people were already leaving their homes, restaurants, and bars, heading towards that place.
Some people were running on streets farther away from the event, where there were more places to run. They were trying to get there in time and get a good spot to watch what would happen.
But many others were walking calmly, heading to that place with curiosity but in no hurry.
"Hahaha, this will be my first execution!" Some young man said in the crowd as he ran deftly, dodging the people in his path as he ran to the execution platform.
"Lucky us! I heard that the person who will be executed is a powerful regional expert, someone at level 58!"
"Tsk!"
"You guys believe that?"
"Level 58... How many of those exist in our region? I don't believe those rumors!" Another young man commented to the rest of his group, running along with that first person.
"What an idiot!"
"You're truly laughable, Bud!"
"Don't you know that Lord Minos is already one of the strongest in our region? He can easily kill kings!"
"Tsk!"
'You guys who are stupid to believe such nonsense!' Young Bud, the one who had been in Dry City the least time in that group, thought to himself while ignoring his friends.
Meanwhile, an elderly couple passing near that group of youths couldn't help but laugh as they heard some of those comments.
"Hehehe, those children are truly excited!" The man said to his wife while scratching his chin.
"And isn't it the same for you?" The woman asked, still walking beside her husband, with one of her arms crossed with one of that man's.
"You know me well, dear..."
And so there were many people in the surrounding area, talking about the possibilities of this event, many of them happy to have something different to do, no responsibilities to fulfill.
The war was there, but life in the city went on as usual, with responsibilities and goals to fulfill. As such, nothing better than watching a show, right?
Some people thought so.
But while many were using this moment to relax, to enjoy the show, a particular group of people was there on business.
Many of the local police officers and some low-rank soldiers, those who would not leave Dry City during the war, were in the surroundings, organizing the event.
But the group in question had no responsibilities towards Dry City, as in the case of those members of the local forces. On the contrary, these people were here at the invitation of Minos to attend today's event.
That was the group of journalists that Minos wanted to come to this place to observe the trial and execution of Otis Silva!
After Minos had passed on his intentions to Abby, his girlfriend had done what was necessary to contact the possible means of alerting the Night News.
They didn't know which organization was behind this periodical, but there were known ways to communicate this power.
With this, Minos' group had successfully contacted them and discovered that there was already a group of journalists coming into this territory.
After that, it was not difficult for the soldiers of the Black Plain Army to find such people.
"This city is awe-inspiring!" One of the three journalists who local soldiers were escorting commented this to his companions. At the same time, he had a solemn expression on his face.
They had arrived two days ago. But they had all been forbidden to enter this city, having stayed this entire time housed at one of the entrances to the local wall.
After all, Minos would not allow these individuals to explore his city and discover things they should not!
And because of this young man's goals in not allowing sensitive information to leak out, only Spiritual Warriors had been allowed to come to this city from the group of journalists sent to the Black Plain by that organization.
That is, only those who could not sense the spiritual fluctuations of the local citizens through spiritual sense were allowed to reach this point.
So, these three people saw the new Dry City for the first time. They were curious to find such a developed, beautiful to look at, and organized place with services that they knew were of a high standard.
"It's impressive!"
"And this number of people, I believe...."
