The Rise of the Black Plain

Another two weeks went by quickly...

On this day, Minos and his crew were about 10 days away from the Mechanic Empire when everyone in the group began to position themselves around their spaceship for the decisive moment ahead.

The robots of the Mechanic Empire, under Minos' mind control, positioned themselves next to Emperor Stuart and Maximillian, ready to guide them through what needed to be done for their plan to work.

Their plan was simple. Create a space rift in one of the walls of the space tunnel they were traveling through and escape from that wormhole before the space rift closed.

That would theoretically take them to another location in the universe, most likely near The Adamant Land, but with the possibility of taking them literally anywhere in the universe.

For the group's best performance, Maximillian and Minos prepared to act and defend their spaceship, as well as follow the advice of creatures who understood more about these wormholes than they did.

Maximillian was at one of the front ends of the spaceship with a level 98 robot at his side, while Minos was at one of the rear with two level 97 robots.

At the same time, each member of the spaceship's crew was in place, with its controllers positioned to control it as best they could.

Ruth was in the safest area of the spaceship, while her innate ability connected her to Minos and the native beings of the Spiritual World, except Maximillian.

Her powers would never affect the body of a God like Maximillian at the level she was at. So, she could only try to help the Demigods in her group.

Meanwhile, the two aliens who had been held hostage by the Spiritual World for the past three decades were scared to death to witness the madness this group was willing to risk.

"We're all going to die!" One of them commented as he was shackled to his companion in the spacecraft's control room. "Do you realize that this is collective suicide? Do you think a single God and the damned Minos will be able to contain the violent spatial distortions that will try to crush us?"

"You still have the chance to change your plans and go to The Adamant Land!" The other said, feeling the tension of the moment. "Your chances will be better if you go to our world! At least we won't have to go through a bloody storm and space turbulences!"

Minos' group ignored these two while they were genuinely afraid of what was about to happen.

They obviously preferred that the group go straight to the end of the universal wormhole between The Adamant Land and the Spiritual World. After all, their chances of survival would be excellent if that was Minos' plan.

However, even though they wanted to lure these people to their world, these creatures were really afraid of dying if the surrounding humans tried to force them out of this wormhole before the end of the space tunnel.

They had already had a similar experience and felt how terrible it was to walk through the chaos of unexplored space.

Space in any part of the universe, whether on planets or in a vacuum area, was divided into two parts. The explorable part, where beings powerful enough could travel through wormholes, hide in space, or even build regions similar to Spatial Kingdoms. And the unexplored part, where it was almost impossible to do anything.

The walls of wormhole tunnels were usually part of the unexplored space, which was very difficult to manipulate, and you had to be very skilled not to be completely destroyed just by touching that part of space.

The unexplored part was usually found outside the planets, in the vacuum of space. It was terrible, and if one accidentally or unintentionally touched or passed through it, that being could face unpredictable problems.

Typically, only strange and unexplainable phenomena caused cracks in the walls of the space tunnels. These events were rare, so it was tough for someone to accidentally travel through the unexplored part of space.

But it could happen and be caused by a deliberate action by someone with at least level 100 power.

In these situations, the unexplored part of space would become accessible very quickly, which might make it possible for someone to pass through it.

But as the name implies, it would be impossible to explore such an area. Even if one were to come in contact with it, one would almost immediately be expelled and thrown away, along with the appropriate punishments for accessing something so dangerous and chaotic.

How they could be ejected from the unexplored part of space was very variable. Space could bend and throw their spaceship into another part of the universe, breaking the ship in half or even causing parts of it to disintegrate completely. They could be chased by Black Lightning Tribulations that could even threaten Gods. The possibilities were endless, and they could even have their spiritual powers destroyed.

Hence, there is a great fear of these two despite their obvious interest in taking this crew to The Adamant Land.

"Put something on these two to stop them talking." Said a level 97 Gorgon as she glared at the creatures.

Then Maximillian's voice rang in the ears of everyone on the ship. "We are one minute away from our destination. Get ready for what's about to happen!"

Minos heard this and did not hesitate to raise his cultivation to level 94 by borrowing the powers of one of the mid-level Demigods in his group near his location.

As the crew prepared for the final moment of their plan, Maximillian activated his divine abilities and prepared a spatial attack strong enough to open a crack in the spatial wall of the tunnel that his group was flying over at high speed to collide with it.

He momentarily appeared outside the spaceship with his golden trident in hand and made his move, using half of his energy to unleash a blow capable of severely injuring even Gods as strong as the former Mechanical Emperor.

Swooish!

A blade of energy the size of Minos' spaceship sliced through the space tunnel towards the distortion the group was trying to pass through.

When this attack hit its target, Maximillian was already back inside Minos' spaceship, while a terrifying sensation spread from the direction where his energy blade had just collided with the spatial distortion.

A crack appeared at that shock position, and then black rays emerged from the dark space inside the crack, releasing an aura of death capable of frightening anyone inside the wormhole at that moment.

Maximillian clenched his teeth and directed his divine powers to protect the ship he was on, while Minos did the same, manipulating the space around the ship to protect the group as best he could.

This ship was all that could protect them, so their barriers were the only thing they could rely on the moment they stepped through that rift!