Dyon could clearly feel the flames still raging within him, and he didn’t dare to invoke his flames using his divine sense for fear of burning his soul to nothingness, but there was a clear change that took place. Under threat of his dao heart, his chaotic flames became docile.
With a squeeze of his hand, the spear of black flames shattered, falling from the skies and extinguishing.
‘Hmm…’
Just as Dyon turned to leave, a blur of wind charged toward him, diving into his arms and kicking his shin so fiercely that he thought his leg might break.
“Ah–“
Dyon looked down and sighed. He had thought that Clara would be asleep for at least several more weeks, but it seemed that he had underestimated the strength of her body.
“You’re too powerful to kick my leg that hard,” Dyon said bitterly.
“Shut up.”
In the end, Dyon chose to listen.
**
Just outside the large natural moat surrounding the Belmont Holy Land an army of millions was gathered. However, the oddity was that their morale had seemingly dropped to an all-time low. Whether it was their target, the Belmont Clan, or themselves, no one seemed eager to attack.
In the center of the encampment, there was a large tent standing more than twenty meters tall and fifty meters wide. It almost stood as a castle into itself.
“What the hell was that?!” A towering man standing at almost four meters tall with sharp bull horns coming from his large forehead raged, shattering the carpeted ground beneath his feet in a fit of anger. “Those Aumen Clan cowards have already retreated back to the teleportation stations! If I don’t crush them to dust after this is all over, know that the name of my Mino Clan means nothing!”
This man was none other King Mino, the leader of the formerly imprisoned Mino Royal God Clan.
After Saru and her people left, the Mino Clan once more laid claim to their Planet Mino. Not only that, but their powers surged due to the copious amounts of resources that Saru left them in apology.
With 17 years of growth, the foundation of the Mino Clan had undergone a qualitative change, shifting the position of most powerful experts to be heavily skewed in their favor.
Just hours previously, the Mino and Aumen Clan alliance had been launching their most recent in a long line of continuous attacks levied toward Earth. However, when Dyon’s music covered the planet, the leaders got cold feet, and for good reason.
The Aumen Clan, who had experience with Madeleine’s parents were the first to retreat, believing that the couple was back.
The Mino Clan was less cautious, mostly due to their hot-headed King, and thus camped on the other side of Belmont Lake.
King Mino’s disposition was of no real surprise, though. The Mino Clan, similar to the Viserion Clan from Dyon’s second trial, were a line of humans with beast blood within them, namely the Demon Bull.
Although the Demon Bull wasn’t on the same level as a Dragon, obviously, it was still a Heaven grade beast in its prime.
Still, the Mino tribe only had access to a very diluted portion of this bloodline, bringing them to cusp of the Earth grade on average. Only their most talented geniuses would be born with enough bloodline density to reach the Earth grade.
However, the reason the treasures Saru left behind were so valuable was exactly because Saru’s Shruti Clan, and their subordinate clans, were all humans with beast blood as well!
Saru’s royal family had the blood of the noble five headed white elephant, while their subordinate Hanu Clan had various elite monkey and ape bloodlines within them. Because of this, they were very familiar with methods of stimulating and purifying beast bloodlines, thus giving the Mino Clan a much-needed power boost.
Even still, this wasn’t the most poignant point.
The Mino Clan migrated to this universe just like the other Clans had. Only Dyon’s mortal world were true natives of this universe.
While the Ragnor Clan controlled 29 universes, the Pakal Clan controlled 26, and the Uidah Clan controlled 24, there still remained 21 universes in the Celestial Deer Quadrant that were seemingly ‘unclaimed’.
One had to also remember that Dyon’s home universe wasn’t adjacent to just the Uidah Universe, it was also adjacent to the Chaos Universe, the former home of the elves.
Why was this important? Simply put, the gifts the Shruti Clan left for the Mino Clan in compensation also involved the reason Saru and her clansmen decided to occupy Planet Mino instead of any of the other four planets available to them.
The Shruti Clan was able to decipher important ancient ruins left for the Mino Clan by their ancestors, ruins they had long forgotten the meaning of.
This was all to say that this war was just a first step for the Mino Clan. If they took this step appropriately, becoming the fourth big shot of the Celestial Deer Quadrant wouldn’t be impossible.
However, in their pursuit of this greater goal, they had met a seemingly insurmountable mountain and their King wasn’t taking it so well.