While Minos was training with his two girlfriends, the interests of the royal family of the Brown Kingdom were growing towards this place...
The news concerning the defensive dome of Dry City and the possibility of planting on the Black Plain had already reached the Brown family!N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.
That had happened just over two weeks ago when a crow from the Black Plain brought this information, which had been gathered by the investigators sent out earlier...
As a result, the local royal family had already wholly changed their attitudes towards this territory in the westernmost part of the kingdom.
To begin with, they had refused the Black Plain's request for independence...
After all, since that place could yield taxes for the kingdom, there was no reason for King Brown to let these crystals get away from him!
After that, a little over a week ago, a group of people from that family went out towards Dry City to begin official talks with Minos.
The governments behind Minos and the Brown Kingdom had already communicated a few times before this happened, and both parties had shown interest in negotiating...
As a result of these talks, this group in question had been formed.
But while this committee was on its way to Dry City to meet with Minos, the royal family had already taken several measures regarding this matter.
For example, some instructions concerning the observation and espionage of Dry City and Minos had already been passed on to the forces in the Maritime City. And not only that, an even larger post would soon be built in that city.
Since the Black Plain was beginning to gain importance, this royal family of the Brown Kingdom could not let Minos threaten their only coastal city.
They did not fear that this young man would plot something against that city, but nothing would prevent young Stuart from building a new coastal city soon.
That place could compete with the Maritime City for trade routes, the passage of specialists from outside the kingdom, and so on.
But since the royal family of this state already had important businesses there, things they did not want to lose, gaining a worthy competitor would be problematic.
Not that they feared that Minos had so many resources to build a great city in that region. But the Maritime City itself was not that great... Hence, it would not be that difficult or costly to make something competitive in that coastal region of the Brown Kingdom!
So, to secure their control over business coming in and out of the kingdom by sea, the Brown family was willing to invest in that town.
With this, more military forces would be in that place to watch over Minos' forces and keep him under control. Also, this royal organization would make more significant investments in the Maritime City.
Other than that, House Brown had already passed on this information to the family experts so that these people would change their behavior regarding the Black Plain.
"Yes, it is awe-inspiring. But I'm curious to know how that happened..."
"In the past, some of our ancestors even tried to ask for help from Spiritual Saints, but they never discovered a way to correct the previous problem."
"I wonder what changed?" Another level 57 cultivators inquired as he remembered the history of the Brown family.
That organization had had successful members in the remote past, who had even reached the intermediate parts of the 7th stage of cultivation. As such, it hadn't been impossible for them to get someone from the beginning of the 8th stage to take the time to analyze that territory.
But that had been more than 200,000 years ago, and many things had changed in the meantime...
Anyway, upon hearing that individual's question, the last level 57 cultivator of the three nodded and said. "I also have my doubts. But from what we know, up until the time the last ruler left that territory, the Black Plain was no different from the past information."
"Those changes coincide with Minos Stuart's arrival in that place..."
"Do you think he had any great opportunity after going to the Black Plain?"
"That doesn't make sense. After all, before we left that area hundreds of thousands of years ago, we had already collected all the valuable resources from that place."
"Not even one hidden treasure could have been left behind!"
"And as for the growth of anything of the sort, that would be even more impossible." So, one of the three reasoned, refuting the idea that Minos had caused that change because of some opportunity in that area.
And he was right. The Black Plain had been thoroughly explored before the royal family left that place. And since at that time the spiritual root already presented the problem that Minos solved after his arrival there, nothing of value could grow in such a place.
Even crystals, which only depend on the rock composition in the soil and the spiritual energy in the atmosphere to be formed, had greatly diminished in quantity in that region.
Hence, the growth of any other unique resources would be impossible to occur.
"That makes sense... But maybe he still has some relation to that..."
Hearing this discourse, London, level 58, finally said something. "It's not impossible that Albert's young son has some connection. But, at the very least, he was very efficient in using that place, and we have to give him credit for that."
"But, of course, that may have changed before his arrival!"
"Hmm, the supreme elder is right." Thomas finally said something, as he agreed with his uncle. "That may have changed before this young man arrived. But since we haven't observed that territory often in the past, we may have missed that information."
"If I'm not mistaken, the last experiment happened 26 years ago...."