Months 

After Minos returned to the guild, the months would fly by. Eight months would pass in the blink of an eye!

The situation of Minos and his companions now differed greatly from what it was nine months ago when they had dealt with Artaud the first time.

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Today, Minos' entire group was at the Armhands' headquarters, each of them carrying out their activities around the internal and external areas of the guild.

In the cave where Minos' faction had developed, prospective new faction members stood near its entrance, waiting for an opportunity to attract the attention of one of the faction members.

At the entrance to the mountain, where the entrance to the Minos faction's cave could be seen, a group of 13 creatures with cultivation levels between 102 and 105 were standing at the edge of the area where the bars separated the inner area of the mountain from the part of the outer city.