<h4>Chapter 397: Probably</h4>


    As soon as a bang sounded through that cultivation room, the spiritual energy in Minos'' body immediately reached the beginning of level 44!


    Upon feeling this, young Stuart''s face began to rx, as did the rest of the muscles in his body. ''Ah, another level surpassed...''


    And finally, the dense spiritual energy circling this young man''s surroundings dissipated. In contrast, the spiritual crystals around him had alreadypletely turned to ashes.


    At this point, he finished his meditation with a slight smile of satisfaction on his face.


    ''At this cultivation speed, I believe I''ll be at level 45 before we arrive at the Dry City…'' So, he thought to himself before opening his eyes and looking straight ahead.


    "Congrattions, Minos!" Abby ran and then hugged him, barely giving the young ruler of the ck in time to finish getting up from that ce.


    "Mmmm~"


    After that, the two kissed for a few moments, hugging each other tightly. Abby was leaning against him by the neck of young Stuart while this young man felt the measurements of Abby''s waist with his hands.


    "Abby, let''s take a walk around town. Maybe we can buy the techniques from those three associations."


    Hearing this, the blue-haired girl nodded in agreement and then moved away from Minos'' body, giving him room to dress.


    "By the way, do you think this problem that happened recently will dy our trip?" Abby asked as she watched the young man in front of her change clothes.


    And as he started to put on a shirt, Minos answered her in a calm tone. "I think not..."


    "But we don''t know the exact details of what happened. So, I may be ignoring something important. But I doubt that local doctors will take much longer to heal these forces that had recently fight."


    Naturally, Abby and Minos were talking about a particr situation that had urred just before the two arrived in this town. That had caused the best local doctors to go out to see several patients, thus leaving the affairs of the local medical association on hold.


    From the information the two had obtained, two influential local organizations had collided in the vicinity of Ath. Still, neither had been sessful in this endeavor. In fact, both had struggled and reached an impasse, in which neither side lost strength, but both were severely injured.


    And because of the power of the organizations behind the people involved in this situation, neither side has spared efforts to heal its most wounded warriors. Consequently, grade-2 doctors of this region had been hired for the service, resulting in this situation preventing Minos from doing business with that medical association.


    "This probably has to do with the royal session…" Abbymented reflectively, remembering the history sses she had taken back in the spiritual academy.


    Obviously, these sses and content were all designed to tell the story from the winners'' point of view. However, this did not prevent this type of education from teaching young people important lessons about the local reality. After all, even if part of the story was embellished to emphasize the figure of the winners, it used to be done based on facts.


    And based on that knowledge, Abby knew that battles were widespread in situations like this, which the Kingdom of the Waves was currently experiencing.


    The dispute for the throne was always very fierce in any state in the region, and usually, the number of casualties was not low.


    "Hmm, probably..." Minos agreed with her when he finally finished dressing. "Come on! If we''re unlucky in either of these two organizations, let''s go back to the hotel."


    "OK."


    ...


    While Minos and Abby were out to try to settle their affairs in Ath, a few hundred kilometers from the capital of this state, there was a medium to arge town.


    This ce wasn''t much different from Pornd in size, but it had a much more noble and sophisticated look. In fact, from the appearance of this city, it seemed to be governed by the efficiency of local services and amodation, something that is not often seen in this region.


    But such a thing did not happen because the rulers of that ce were generous or something like that. No, such a ce was like that because this was one of the cities directly governed by the royals of the Kingdom of the Waves.


    Royal families also had territories directly managed by them. After all, only a fraction of the members of these powers could direct govern an entire state. However, the status of a royal, even those furthest from the position of the royal sessor, would still be higher than that of ordinary nobles!


    With this, each royal family would have a particr region, generally close to the capital, where its members would govern, without the need to use vassals for such.


    Usually, these regions would be divided among the royalty, given a small area with at least one medium to arge city for the most important people.


    As for the other territories, although these ces officially belonged to the royal families, in practice, these organizations only collected taxes and imposed some of theirws. Other than that, in general, the vassal families ruled these ces as sovereigns.


    And as for the region under the royal family''s control, this served to generate resources, as they were generally the wealthiest parts of the kingdom. They also have the role of protecting the capital!


    That is because threats could appear at any time, and such things needed to be stopped before reaching the heart of the kingdom.


    ''It might not be easy to defeat an entire kingdom, but killing a few people might not be that difficult...'' That was a local maxim.


    And to prevent that an enemy battle from simply entering their capital, the cities around the capital, within this region ruled by royalty, had many military posts, with thousands of soldiers!


    For example, there were more than 20 thousand soldiers in this town in question, being one of the eight cities withrge bases of the Kingdom of the Waves Army!


    But in addition to the importance of this town for the safety of the capital of the Kingdom of the Waves, this was one of the three cities ruled by the princes!


    Because of this, this ce naturally had a much higher standard than one would typically see in cities in this northern region of the Central Continent.


    Anyway, in this city ruled by one of the princes, there was a castle in the central region of that ce, where at this moment a group of people was actively talking.


    That ce looked like a meeting room, where there was arge table with many chairs lined up side by side. And while each of these ces was upied, there was a single chair at the end of the table, where a young man in silver clothes sat with a worried expression.


    Beside him were two men standing, wearing armor with different symbols, watching everything happening without even blinking.


    At the same time, the young man at the end of that table just heard and watched the people in those ces; this young man''s expression was gradually bing darker and darker.


    "Of the 8 Spiritual Kings involved in the trap of 10 days ago, 5 of them are already practically cured and possibly be back to activity soon, but..."


    "These 3 that are left are in very different situations. ording to the doctors, one of them may return to active, but we will be without his support for the next six months."


    "Finally, of the 2 that were left, one lost an arm in the previous fight, and the other is unconscious. We don''t know if he can be woken up..."


    After that, another elder who was in that ce took his turn and said. "We''ve also had many cultivators at levels 48 and 49 severely injured. Therefore, we may have to reduce our actions on short..."


    Pa!


    After hearing this, the prince finally reacted to the bad news when he pped his hand hard on the table and said in a deep voice. "We lost a lot. I understand that. But what did that bastard lose?"


    However, no one dared to answer this directly.


    Pa!


    "Speak!" That young man screamed in fury as he watched the faces of each of these people in front of him.


    "Prince Wilfred, eh, I''m afraid the opposing side didn''t have any losses. Prince Charles..."