Golden port. Benjamin's former private residence was now awaiting the initial completion of the Golden Garden.
Tens of thousands of residents outside the city sweated under strict planning, gradually sketching the outline of a garden across the flat land.
Meanwhile, Benjamin had "exiled" himself to the deep underground laboratory beneath the residence.
This was his true paradise. Cold metal workbenches, mountains of rune scrolls, and all manner of intricate alchemical instruments formed the world he knew best.
The research notes David had provided now lay quietly on his workbench, becoming a new foundation for his deeper study of the Eloria Plane's Divine Power Faith Network.
Although David's research did not match Benjamin's in its in-depth analysis of the Divine Power Faith Network, it offered an entirely different perspective.
David had focused on the underlying logic of mortal emotions, the essence of faith power, and how to efficiently stir up and guide those forces.
This incisive analysis of the "source" left Benjamin suddenly enlightened, as though a brand-new door had been thrown open before him.
Before this, his research into the Divine Power Faith Network had focused on energy transmission.
But in truth, the Divine Power Faith Network's official designation should have been the Energy Transmission and Conversion System—beyond transmission, there was also conversion.
This caused Benjamin's research into the energy conversion system within the Eloria Plane's Divine Power Faith Network to advance by leaps and bounds. Like dry tinder meeting a raging blaze, he soon achieved astonishing results.
"Right here. This adjustment should do it—"
At the center of the laboratory, Benjamin was fully focused as he calibrated a floating metal disc before him.
This was the Elemental Storage Rune Artifact he had made previously.
However, compared with before, the metal disc now bore several obscure and intricate patterns of