The Rise of the Black Plain - Chapter 2716: Faction Stronger Than Ever

“How’s old Dillian, Grandma?” Kendrick asked the woman sitting in front of him, while the Stuart family were all gathered at his estate in the inner ward of the city.

With hours having passed since the arrival of the group of almost 50 people who had come with Julian from the Spiritual World and The Adamant Land, everyone had already registered with the guild and gotten their Recruit IDs.

Now those with blood relations to Minos and their wives were gathered at Kendrick’s house to talk about the details of what had happened in the Spiritual World and The Adamant Land over the last few decades and the journey to Zocarro.

Maisie said with a smile, “He’s getting better. He still thinks about Eda constantly and obviously doesn’t see life with the same brightness as before her death. But he’s getting over it and moving on. When we left, he had reached level 94 and promised me he would come to Zocarro before Minos went to the Upper Realm.”

Dillian was the one who believed in Minos the most of all, having accompanied the Stuart family patriarch from the beginning of his journey. Having believed in Minos when they went to the Black Plain a long time ago, Dillian wouldn’t doubt Minos now!

“He continues to serve as Rowan’s chief advisor and also as the empire’s doctor in his spare time. Given his current position, he will probably be a God in at most another 300 years of time in Zocarro.”

Those who had been in Oqia before were happy to hear about Dillian’s situation, as everyone there respected the man greatly and had had their own stories with him. Some had fought alongside Dillian during the war, others had received advice, been taught, healed or even done business with the man many times in the past.

They wanted Dillian to one day join Armhands and be able to take his cultivation to higher heights.

The group continued chatting, learning about how Dillian was also teaching the heir to the Black Plain Empire, how Rowan’s son had already married and was in search of the king’s first grandchild.

It was strange for Kendrick and his sisters to hear how their brother was already approaching the moment when he would become a grandfather!

Hell, not even Minos had met his grandchildren, but one of them was already preparing to become a father!

This cheered up the family members who had been in Zocarro before, leading the conversation straight to Sarah’s family, who were currently at level 94 and had had another child after the departure of Vico and Callie’s group.

The youngest of Sarah’s children was already an adult, however, and was due to come to Zocarro in the future with his mother and father when they left The Adamant Land.

Sarah’s plans were to travel with George and her youngest son to Zocarro when her eldest son reached the 10th stage of cultivation and had his first child. Rowan, on the other hand, wanted to stay in the Spiritual World until he and Kyla became Gods, which should take less time than Sarah intended.

Hearing about the group’s adventures on the journey between The Adamant Land and The Enchanted Realm, followed by their time in this world of high temporal distortions and then the final journey to Zocarro, Kendrick and his sisters were surprised by the amount of challenges Julian’s group had faced.

“… Luckily, our group was much stronger than Vico’s and Callie’s. Otherwise, I don’t know if we would have survived.” Explained Sibley, level 108.

“It’s good that you got out of those problems unscathed.” Oswald breathed a sigh of relief, not having imagined earlier that things had been so difficult for this group.

‘It’s not for nothing that the strongest of the group are at such higher levels than we expected. They’ve had several challenges on their journey.’ Kendrick pondered in silence.

After almost three hours of talking about the Spiritual World, The Adamant Land and their journey to Zocarro, Emlyn asked about the future. “What will our steps be like from now on? Are you planning to send a group to meet Minos in Uzira?”

“We’re not sure about that.” Hollie looked at her siblings and said, “The current Commander of the guild is our father’s wife, Segiel. But even so, she doesn’t plan to send groups to Uzira before our father gives some signal or the Supreme Leader of the guild orders such a thing.

But the Supreme Leader has been in seclusion since our father left, so we have no plans to leave just yet.”

“Then what’s the plan? Do nothing?” Maisie didn’t like that.

Kendrick replied, “We’re going to carry on as we always have. Let’s cultivate and strengthen our cultivations. Developing our skills is the best we can do. With your group, our faction will become even more powerful and influential, which will enable us to achieve more.

For now, let’s take it easy and head for new heights. The 11th stage may seem easy to you who have just arrived in Zocarro, but when you reach my level, you’ll see that a single advance could cost you centuries, even in Zocarro.”

Lily saw the unhappy looks on the faces of some of her family members and said, “If it’s any consolation, in another 200 years, the Supreme Leader may be able to advance you to level 124. At that time, we may leave if we still haven’t heard from our father.”

This interval seemed like a lot, but for a group that had just experienced over 50 years of travel between their departure from The Enchanted Realm and their arrival in the guild, it wasn’t much. In 200 years, most of them wouldn’t even be high-level Sovereigns, which would basically leave them in a position of not being able to join the group that might or might not be sent to Uzira.

With this in mind, they put their concerns about Minos’ group to one side, hoping that the group would just be busy with the challenges of Uzira and not destroyed somewhere in the Violent Sea or on the continent of Uzira itself.

With so many possibilities for them to grow in the coming decades and Armhands’ own internal competition, they would soon disperse to start their new routines or return to their responsibilities.

They didn’t know it now, but it would take a lot longer than 200 years for them to get such a chance to go to Uzira!