The Rise of the Black Plain

Chapter 2837  How to Access the Surface

After doing business with the high-level Supreme earlier, Minos and his women were alone in one of the negotiating rooms of the local exchange company.

They used the minutes they had in that secure room to analyze the files they had just acquired at an expensive price. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

They divided those folders of information among themselves, quickly studying each of the items left by the high-level Supreme, recognizing the information they had obtained in less than 5 minutes.

As some of the documents decomposed on a small table in that room, the four of them talked about what they had read.

"I think we got lucky," said Abby as she was the first to speak, having read the most important part of the documents bought by the group. "This 'king of beasts' was a native of Eater. I can't say whether he died on the planet, but he was born and lived here for a long time. According to that man's information, the 'king of beasts' even had his own territory on the surface, located at the north pole of Eater.

But I couldn't get any more detailed information about him. I think that salesman kept it a secret in order to sell it with any other information we asked for."

"How do you know that for sure, Abby?" Ruth asked.

"The term 'king of beasts' was written in the first position of his titles... It may not be him, but the coincidence would be too great, in my opinion."

"It is him," Minos confirmed on hearing what Abby had said, with a good feeling about this clue.

"That's good," Gloria said with a smile on her face. "I got the Celestials' areas of influence on the surface. I think we can combine what Abby studied with what I read. Maybe we'll arrive at the probable location of the 'beast king's' former territory."

They exchanged information until they came up with a more interesting scenario for them to continue their search.

The 'king of beasts' had disappeared some time ago and, after a long period without news of him, had been presumed dead by his own subordinates. After that, conflicts on the surface raged for a while, something natural after the confirmation of the fall of a great lord of Eater. Eventually, things calmed down and returned to the usual peace, with winners and losers settling down as they should.

Now the area formerly belonging to the 'king of beasts' was part of two different domains, and there were also some ownerless free zones in it, supposedly just as dangerous as those territories claimed by others.

Gloria sketched out the route that would be best for the group to take, considering the information they had got about the current situation on the surface, thus coming to the end of their time in that room.

When the door unlocked and the sign in the area indicated that they should leave, the group moved on, with Ruth leading the way towards the lower areas of the floating city.

The most common method for leaving a city in Eater and entering the surface involved going to the last level of the city, the noblest area, given the fact that it was closest to the surface, which made it naturally richer in energy and laws. In this area, there were elevators leading up to the surface, devices controlled by the sovereigns of Eater and the strongest of each of the floating cities.

There were a few methods of gaining passage. One, if you were a member of one of the dominant forces on the surface, all you had to do was show your ID. Two, you could pay, which would be as expensive as nurturing a high-level Supreme for a few years. Three, you could acquire passage permits by carrying out missions in one of the floating cities. And finally, four, by challenging someone who fulfilled possibilities two and three and obtaining what made them able to make such a journey.

This was a savage world, so no one in the group doubted that the most common method was the fourth.

In their hours in that floating city, they had already witnessed three battles and one death, all of them involving Supremes.

But even in a violent and competitive place, high-level Supremes didn't have to fear their path so much. They moved on to the lower levels of the city, soon reaching the fifth floor of the city, where the area quickly became more affluent, with better decorations and resources available in the stores, but also more powerful cultivators circulating.

Minos was careful on this stretch of the city, aware that Celestials could quickly become problems for his group if they noticed the essences that each of them had in their bodies.

Luckily, all of them were already very strong and able to hide most of their auras well enough for only very impressive individuals to be able to understand what they had with them.

They sensed the presence of Celestials on the second floor of the city, but didn't need to worry until they entered the area where they could negotiate permission to land on the surface.

Minos was a wealthy man, so he didn't intend to waste time fighting or conquering locals. He quickly paid the salty fee for him and his women to make their way to the surface, attracting a little attention, but not enough to provoke a fight.

He saw the threats in their path and neutralized them before they even happened, making use of his prophetic abilities to ensure that his group entered the elevator to the surface.

When the dead men Minos had knocked down fell to the ground, he and his women were already inside the device that would take them to their destination on the surface in no time.

The guards even realized what he had done, but it was too late. When it was too late to stop the transportation device, Minos and his wives saw the local guards complaining in their direction and almost instantly felt gravity taking them down.

The elevator seemed to plummet out of the air, passing through the special dust cloud, soon arriving below this surface protection zone, reaching an area where they could see the vast and grandiose Eater. Not only that, each of them felt the planet's real aura, which made the local surface so famous in the previous floating city!

Arriving at this place, they wasted no time in appreciating or thinking about how far they would go if they cultivated there. They understood where they were in relation to the map and soon started moving towards the destination indicated by their findings.