Chapter 238: Return
Before anyone realized it, fifty years had quietly slipped away.
For mortals, that was already half a lifetime of vicissitudes.
But for wizards immersed in the ocean of knowledge, it was no more than the flick of a finger.
Benjamin stood, as usual, within his vast underground laboratory.
His gaze was fixed intently on two clusters of light hovering in midair, held aloft by countless precision instruments as they slowly fused together.
Amid the intertwining of complex energy fields, one blue and one red core, both radiating primordial auras, were steadily merging, permeating, and tangling with each other at an extraordinarily slow yet unwavering pace.
Once he confirmed that the cores' stability had finally settled, Benjamin's face revealed an expression mingling exhaustion and anticipation.
Of these two cores, the red one belonged to a Lava Giant, while the blue one belonged to a Snow Monster.
Strictly speaking, these two pure elemental lifeforms did not actually possess anything resembling a "core" in the conventional biological sense.
While Lava Giants were alive, their so-called cores were in fact countless tiny crystalline fragments, each no larger than a grain of rice, scattered throughout their bodies.
These crystal fragments contained not only their most fundamental life information, but also stored enormous quantities of fire-element energy.
Because there were so many of them, spread across nearly their entire bodies, even losing a large portion during fierce combat would not cause them any fatal harm.
When Lava Giants needed to reproduce, they separated the fullest small crystal from their bodies and cast it into an Incubation Pool or a magma pool rich in energy.
The so-called "Lava Giant core" before Benjamin was actually created after a Lava Giant died, through artificial means,
by carefully selecting every remaining tiny crystal within its body and