The results of a series of tests on the "Patroller" left Benjamin highly satisfied.
These "living missiles," which pursued speed and one-shot destruction to the utmost extreme, perfectly filled the gap in his aerial assault and rapid-strike forces.
Next, following his original plan, he turned his attention to another area still waiting to be completed—expendable units for naval warfare.
However, compared to the relatively smooth development of aerial combat units, the design and implementation of naval cannon fodder proved exceptionally tortuous.
In the end, it took Benjamin a full fifty years before he finally produced the final version.
At this moment, inside a giant ecological incubation tank specially made for the laboratory, a massive existence that nearly filled the entire room lay sprawled out, slowly writhing.
Its entire body was a deep, inky black, with a texture resembling viscous crude oil.
It looked like some enormous slime, with no fixed form, merely heaving unconsciously there,
flowing.
Holding a high-precision biological detector in one hand while activating the All-Purpose Eye, Benjamin used both methods at once to conduct the final parameter scan on the colossal creature.
The streams of data flickering across the screen were stable and powerful, while every parameter detected by the All-Purpose Eye met—or even exceeded—his intended design values.
He slowly lowered the instrument, deactivated his spell, and let out a long breath. A complicated expression of relief and accomplishment appeared on his face.
"Finally—finished."
In truth, the initial concept for developing naval cannon fodder had not been particularly difficult.
But after completing the Patroller in a proper, methodical fashion, the perfectionism and obsession with pushing things to the limit in Benjamin's researcher's heart had begun to stir restlessly throughout the process.
All kinds of fanciful ideas and stacked functions emerged one after another, causing the design goals