Federation Year 3538.
Five hundred years had passed since the Federation began its full-scale black hole transformation.
Now, there were no ordinary people among Federation citizens over the age of twenty.
Moreover, the proportion of people who reached Peak Dark Energy Manipulator within a hundred years had reached 97%.
Originally, once someone reached this stage, they could undergo a second adjustment. After completing it, they could become a Black Hole Lifeform within a year.
However—
The second adjustment was far more difficult and time-consuming than the first, both technically and in terms of time.
As a result, a new problem emerged.
The efficiency of second adjustments could not keep up with the rate at which Peak Dark Energy Manipulators were being produced.
To put it simply—
They could complete a second-stage adjustment for one person each year, yet a thousand Peak Dark Energy Manipulators could emerge in that same year.
Therefore, even after becoming a Peak Dark Energy Manipulator, one could not immediately receive a second adjustment and advance into a Black Hole Lifeform.
Of course, even though second adjustments were inefficient, five hundred years had passed after all.
Of those who had already become Black Hole Lifeforms and possessed at least a 95% Life Source compatibility, more than thirty percent had advanced on their own without undergoing a second adjustment.
Thus, based on this situation, the Federation established an entirely new set of rules for second adjustments.
Only those who still could not advance into Black Hole Lifeforms within three hundred years of becoming Peak Dark Energy Manipulators would undergo a second-stage adjustment to help them advance.
With this, the efficiency of second-stage adjustments was barely enough to handle the current situation.
As the Federation's number of First Tier Black Hole Lifeforms continued to grow, and every one of