Why were his eyes wide open?
What exactly had shocked Zhou Ming?
The numbers were far too small.
Only 150 Sword Cannon Venerables could be created.
Only 180 Great Magicians could be created.
270 Judgment Great Angels could be created.
At most, 250 Dark Assassins could be created.
The strongest combat unit—the Space-Time Harvester—had the smallest number, with only 110 capable of being created.
None of the five powerful troop types could be produced in quantities exceeding three digits.
Even added together, the total did not exceed 1,000.
That was still far, far below the millions or tens of millions Zhou Ming had hoped for.
Forget expanding outward—even for self-defense, such numbers were hardly enough.
Of course, the system had explained that the troop units Zhou Ming wanted to create were synthesized by extracting spiritual energy and magic resources from instances such as Spirit Essence Continent and Magic Surge. Producing too many would inevitably extract too much magic power from those instances and disrupt their internal balance.
It was like an orchard that produced enough fruit to feed roughly 1,000 people.
Now, 200 more people who consumed fruit had been added to the orchard, while the total quantity of fruit remained relatively unchanged.
Therefore, for the orchard's sustainable development, it was better not to increase the number of fruit eaters too much.
However, if Zhou Ming wanted to support more people who "ate fruit," the best approach was still to expand the orchard and let the fruit trees bear more fruit.
But some might find this strange. The Material Sphere in Zhou Ming's possession contained countless forms of matter, while the Power Sphere contained countless forms of power.
Since that was the case, why not fully utilize the resources in those two spheres, first converting hundreds of thousands of types