<h4>Chapter 33: Leaving the City of Pornd</h4>


    Somewhere in the capital of Stone Ind, there was arge mansion with a multicolored garden. At this moment, a young woman with blond hair and green eyes was sitting at one of the tables in this garden, having a cup of tea, calmly.


    ''I haven''t gone out to do business in the Brown Kingdom for over a year… I wonder how far the ck in has developed.'' The young woman thought to herself while curling a lock of hair with one hand.


    This was Elen Nash, the merchant with whom Minos had made an exclusive deal.


    At this moment, a beautiful woman was walking towards Elen with a worried face. She had blond hair and wore a green dress, which highlighted her sensual curves to the point of attracting even other women.


    "Elen, I have some bad news. We lost contact with our subordinates in the Kingdom of the Waves…" The beautiful woman then began to report the situation to Elen, with a serious look on her face.


    …


    At the same time, in the Brown Kingdom, in the main city of the Red Valley, Otis Silva, the patriarch of the Silva family, was having a meeting with four other Spiritual Kings subordinates of his family.


    They were in a well-lit and luxuriously decorated room. There were some high-end paintings on the walls, arge bookshelf on the left side of the room, a ss table in the center, tworge sofas in front of each other, and an armchair at the end of the room, with its back to the balcony from the office.


    At that moment, one of the subordinates, who looked younger and was sitting on one of the two sofas, said with a serious face. "Patriarch recently has been a lot of bandit activity in the region of the border between the Kingdom of the Waves and the ck in."


    "Because of this, some of our 4th-stage subordinates disappeared a few weeks ago, along with the items that were being transported. I rmend that we use a different route to get to the Kingdom of the Waves. This is at least in the short term until the situation returns to normal."


    The patriarch frowned and spoke unhappily. "I heard about it, but I didn''t think the situation would reach at this point... Won''t the Kingdom of the Waves do anything about it? If this continues, our business in the kingdom will be dyed!"


    This was an important issue for anyone who did business in the Kingdom of the Waves and wasing from the south of this kingdom. This is because, between the Kingdom of the Waves and the Brown Kingdom, a mountain range divided them until the beginning of the ck in. This made it considerably more difficult to travel bynd in this region.


    And since most of the trade between the kingdoms was transported bynd, passing through the ck in region was the way that minimized the distance between the two kingdoms. Because of this, many traders who came from the Brown Kingdom and some from the Cromwell Kingdom used this stretch to reach the Kingdom of the Waves.


    Otherwise, there would be a need to transport these resources across the sea, which would make transportation more expensive. This is because it was very difficult to obtain marine spiritual beasts. Thus, the means of maritime transport were considerably slower and more expensive thannd.


    As for the border with the ck in, next to the Kingdom of the Waves, there was a ce with arge presence of criminal groups.


    This was due to the lower spiritual density of the region, which distanced the interest of noble families in keeping those areas under control. However, this ce was still considered better than the ck in, which is why there were not many groups of bandits in the territory of Minos.


    As they continued to discuss matters of the utmost importance to the Silva family, an elderly man hurriedly entered the room.


    This was a servant of the Silva family.


    "Patriarch, something terrible has happened." He said while his face waspletely pale. In fact, he didn''t want to have to deliver such news, but… Unfortunately, it happened on his shift.


    While the servant was sweating coldly, Otis Silva looked at him with an ugly expression on his face and asked. "Why did youe in here like that? Don''t you see that I have an important meeting?"


    "I''m sorry, patriarch, but this is urgent. The sign of the young master Darell''s soul has disappeared." The older man said as he lowered his head in fear. He was afraid of being killed just for delivering such news!


    "Huh? What did you say?" Patriarch Otis asked in disbelief.


    …


    Meanwhile, two days went by quickly, and now Minos and his group had already returned to the city of Pornd. Most of them had already recovered much of the superficial injuries and were now training behind closed doors in their rooms.


    Minos had also purchased several spiritual healing pills to help his subordinates recover faster. He had also contacted other alchemists and made offers to attract them to his side.


    However, no one showed great interest after he said that he is the sovereign of the ck in. After all, few would risk going to such a poor ce.


    But Minos was not unhappy with this, as he had already expected such a thing to happen, and it would not be long before the news that his region had been recovered and now he was doing business here on the Stone Ind was spread in this region.


    With that, Minos was confident that, even if these experts did not ept his offer now, it did not mean that they would not change their mind in the future.


    ''It seems that there is nothing else I can do here in Pornd.'' Minos thought to himself as he ate an apple and looked at the city''sndscape through the window of the room he was in.


    He didn''t want to do a lot of business around here, as he would be heading to the Stone Ind capital, Old Stone, shortly thereafter. Thus, he could buy the items necessary to develop the ck in in a ce with better-rated products and higher quantities.


    ''I will wait just one more day before we leave. It will be better to give this time for my soldiers to recover fully.'' Minos thought to himself before entering the Spatial Kingdom.


    "I wonder how Miss Elen is doing…" He spoke in a low voice as he walked to the house by theke. He had a smile on his face as he thought of that young trader.


    In fact, as a young teenager of 16-years-old, Minos could not help thinking of beauty as the young Elen. And with his reunion getting closer and closer, he had been thinking more and more about ''interacting'' with the young blonde.


    ''Ahh, I better get rid of those thoughts and start my training…'' Minos thought with a sly smile on his face.


    …


    After that, it was not long before Minos began to perform a series of repetitive movements besides theke.


    Spatial Sword!


    Swooish!


    Swooish!


    The attack technique was activated dozens of times before Minos finally stopped to rest. He was covered in sweat and had spent most of his spiritual energy on this training session.


    Glub! Glub! Glub!


    He drank a jug filled with water while saying irregrly and breathing quickly. "Hu, hu, hu, it''s getting more and more difficult to advance my sword technique. Hu, hu, hu, it''s really hard to have to activate it a thousand times…"


    After a while, Minos began to cultivate to replenish his energies. He then started his defensive training after a few hours of cultivation.


    Indestructible Body!


    After activating his defensive technique dozens of times, Minos prepared to take the final blow of the session.


    A de of energy wasunched in the direction of Minos.


    Such an attack came from a grade-1, high-level, spiritual array that Minos had bought in Pornd in the past few days. This array emitted a de attack equivalent to an attack by someone at level 39!


    Swooish!


    "Phew, hu, hu, hu, I''m going to stop here," Minos said aloud as he sat on the floor to rest.


    ...


    Thus, a day quickly passed, and Minos finally decided to leave the Spatial Kingdom. All soldiers were fully recovered and ready to continue traveling at that time.


    Minos left his room and called Sergeant Pyke. "Is everything ready for our trip to the Old Stone city?"


    "Yes, young master. We rented three carriages here in Pornd for the trip, and they are already at the entrance in the Olson Hotel." Pyke said calmly.


    "Great, let''s go then. We have nothing else to do in this city." Minos spoke as he walked to one of the elevators on the floor where his room was.


    It didn''t take long, and the entire group of 11 people left Pornd, heading towards the central part of Stone Ind.