Benjamin briefly calculated the Black Giants' current reproduction efficiency.
Including the main pool and the offspring pools it had split off, he now possessed ten deeply modified Incubation Pools.
With the nearly inexhaustible energy supply of the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, every Incubation Pool could "produce" one Level 3 Black Giant per minute—a terrifying rate.
Yet even with such astonishing efficiency, expanding the Black Giant population to the ten-billion scale he envisioned would still require a considerable period of accumulation.
The Purgatory Sulfur Plane was a typical small material plane, with a surface area roughly equivalent to the Earth from Benjamin's previous life.
The difference was that there were no azure oceans or clearly defined continental plates here.
As far as the eye could see, most of the land consisted of roiling lava seas, erupting volcano clusters, and scorched earth shrouded in sulfurous smoke.
To ordinary creatures, this environment was a dead end. To Black Giants, who fed on lava and energy, it was a perfect paradise.
As a result, this plane could support an extraordinarily vast population of living creatures.
Even though Black Giants generally stood more than ten meters tall, Benjamin roughly estimated that, at its limit, the Purgatory Sulfur Plane could accommodate nearly a hundred billion Black Giants!
Of course, that was only a theoretical number.
If the density truly reached that level, not only would the Black Giants' quality of life plummet, but the energy and resources available to each individual would also be spread thin, which would not benefit the early Black Giants' devouring evolution.
After weighing the matter, Benjamin believed that maintaining a population of ten billion was the ideal state at this stage.
"Ten billion Black Giants..." Benjamin imagined that legion blotting out the sky like a black tide, and a hint