After the meeting ended, Benjamin returned to his laboratory in Golden Garden and quickly cast aside all the turmoil surrounding the Elite Combat Unit.
The Star Ring Federation's strategic shift sounded earth-shaking, but when it came down to Benjamin's daily life, the changes were negligible.
It was nothing more than changing from occasionally having to report to the Academy to being able to enjoy the long holidays granted to instructors without holding any position.
The terminal he used to accept war missions had been changed from the standard model at the junction point to a Magic Network Terminal issued directly by the Federation, with higher clearance and more integrated functions.
According to Dean Avery Knight, elite members like them would no longer need to rush to the junction points for registration and selection when participating in planar wars.
They only needed to submit applications directly through the Magic Network Terminal and wait for the system to assign missions.
Once they received a mission summons and teleportation coordinates, they could set off directly through the dedicated teleportation arrays established by the Academy or the Federation, saving both time and effort.
Other than that, this change brought basically no further differences for Benjamin himself.
Freeing himself from those trivial administrative procedures, Benjamin plunged straight back into his single-minded research life.
No longer paying attention to the shifting storms outside, he devoted most of his energy to analyzing the five newly acquired sets of core knowledge on the Divine Power Faith Network.
Time flowed on, and the self-circulating timer in the laboratory silently ticked through fifty years.
At that moment, Benjamin stood before a specially reinforced observation tank, his brows tightly furrowed and irritation glinting in his eyes.
Inside the tank, a seemingly ordinary mass of white mist slowly swirled, like the sight