While the strongest Bishops of that Spiritual Church branch were discussing the possibilities concerning the Black Plain, the Collins family had just discovered what had happened at that base!
After weeks of sailing, that surviving group had experienced several problems, even being attacked by sea beasts and pirate groups. But after many difficulties, they had reached the headquarters of the Collins family.
As such, they finally had given their complete reports of what they knew and had seen in that place, something they had not been able to do for many reasons.
For example, during the confrontation against that Nash family ship, the Spiritual King they had faced had killed all the crows on that ship to prevent messages from being sent by those people.
But, unfortunately, he had died, and his action had been of no use to himself...
But this had made it more difficult for these survivors to send such information to the Collins family headquarters.
In any case, they had managed to return to such a place after many trials. Hence, by now, the entire command of this noble family of the Kingdom of the Waves already knew the tragic results of that mission!
Almost 4,000 people had died. Among them, 9 Spiritual Kings had perished, while the last one was still showing signs of life but was probably captured by enemy forces.
To make matters worse, the person who had survived was one of the family's nobles, a level 55 cultivator, who knew a lot and didn't have a Soul Contract limiting her!
Consequently, they had conquered a new enemy who certainly already knew a lot of information about this great noble family.
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Melia City, Kingdom of the Waves.
Three people were walking through a courtyard of a large mansion in this city of the Collins family while talking in solemn tones.N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.
"Page's group was brutally slaughtered on the Black Plain..."
"Ah, how pitiful." A man who seemed to be at the end of his life said this while his white robe shook with every step he took.
Meanwhile, a young man with black hair was walking beside this figure, with an ugly expression on his face. He was dressed in a noble silver robe, full of fine details, typically worn by those of high regional status.
But no matter how attractive his clothes were, the look on his face would draw all the attention of anyone who saw him due to the bad mood he was in now.
"But as much as it is unwise to act against that naval base on the Black Plain until we have more information about that place, things are different for the Nash family!"
"Since they are already at war against the Allen family, we might as well fund the enemies of our enemies..."
And then the three continued to talk about this subject for a while, having talked about plans for dealing with those two organizations that they presumed to be their newest enemies. But, on the other hand, after talking about these bad matters, they didn't take long to arrange new partnerships of the royal family with the House Collins.
Although Charles was not a member of the Collins family, his mother was. And this young royal heir had always been very close to his mother's side of the family. In fact, almost all of this young man's friends and love interests were in this family...
As such, he would not let that organization be left behind when he took command of the largest state in the northern region of the Central Continent!
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Meanwhile, in Dry City...
Minos and the two women from Primrose had already arrived in this city on the Black Plain a few hours ago.
Hence, Vivian and Grace had already separated from this young sovereign to finally plan what their lives would be like here for the following year.
They had bought a high-standard apartment in Dry City, which they still needed to get to know and arrange in the best way that would please them. But, on the other hand, they wanted to truly experience this place, which they had not been able to do due to their previous brief time here.
With that, Minos had made his way to his mansion alone, where he intended to take a day off with his two girlfriends before finally returning to work the next day...
A man needed to be focused!
However, while Minos was having a good time with his girlfriends, Todd had returned to Dry City.
After he had negotiated the details of the alliance with Minos almost two months ago, this young man had not been slow to return to the Cohen family headquarters.
And since he had plenty of evidence that such an alliance with Minos was a good thing for the Cohen family, the patriarch of that organization had readily accepted the deal.
So, even though the leaders of Todd's family had not yet signed Soul Contracts with Minos, they were already acting as if they were his allies. For example, some time ago, this young ruler of the Black Plain had asked them to spy on the Collins family.
As requested, they were already keeping an eye on the actions of that organization!
But while the command of this family was already acting in this way, Todd had come to Dry City with some of his fellow family members to follow through with the negotiated agreement....