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To Benjamin, who had devoted himself to forging his own foundation, a hundred-odd years had passed in the blink of an eye.
Yet during those years, his Purgatory Sulfur Plane had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Viewed from outside the plane, the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane had become a dazzling crimson expanse.
It was a scorching sea of magma that covered nearly the entire surface of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and seemed almost never to extinguish.
Powered by a Level 7 large Elemental Pool, even the faint energy it leaked was enough to melt the stones on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's surface completely.
Within this rolling red purgatory, scattered here and there were black "islands" that constantly moved and changed.
They were not true landmasses, but places where Black Giant communities gathered.
Black Giants were born with the instinct to absorb heat from their surroundings. When large numbers of them congregated in one place for extended periods, their combined effect could cool and solidify the high-temperature magma around them, forming temporary patches of black rock.
Driven by their natural yearning for high-energy environments, Black Giant communities continually migrated toward hotter regions.
Once they departed, however, those black "islands," deprived of their continuous heat-absorbing effect, would soon be melted and swallowed by the surrounding magma once more.
After more than a century of reproduction and survival, the Black Giant population had approached six hundred million.
Even scattered across tribes of varying sizes, their enormous numbers were already capable of exerting a significant influence on local environments.
A new ecosystem centered around the Black Giants gradually took shape. Aside from the unusual Magic Beasts naturally capable of surviving in magma, many other kinds of Magic Beasts developed the habit of following the Black Giants in their migrations. The Black Giants, in turn, domesticated