New Workhorses and New Spells

Buzz—

As the deep hum gradually faded, the gigantic forging furnace, hundreds of meters tall and engraved with countless intricate energy circuits, finally stopped operating.

The heavy gate at the furnace mouth slowly rose under the dual drive of mechanical hydraulics and runes.

In an instant, the residual particle stream, heated to millions of degrees inside the furnace, surged out like a mad dragon that had been bound for far too long, sending ripples through the laboratory's specially designed protective force field.

A jade-like hand suddenly reached out from the energy turbulence that had yet to fully disperse and gripped the scorching edge of the furnace mouth.

Then Benjamin's head emerged.

Having completed his daily body tempering, he wore a trace of fatigue on his face, but even more than that, the ease that came after a successful refinement.

He exhaled a long breath of high-temperature white vapor, casually accepted a brand-new wizard's robe respectfully offered by a Black Giant Priest who had long been waiting nearby, and smoothly put it on, covering the body that had been tempered a thousand times by the Body Tempering Method and faintly flowed with restrained radiance.

Benjamin had barely tied his robe sash when another Black Giant Priest standing by stepped forward at the right moment.

He held a small crystal display in his hands, its surface scrolling complex streams of real-time data.

"Master, during your body tempering, Project Team Seven completed the third-round verification of the elemental-Spiritual Power conversion efficiency threshold. The data matched expectations. Project Team Three has broken through the bottleneck concerning elemental shield folding. The energy consumption of the new rune array has been reduced by 17%. Construction of the Incense Divinity Path automatic collection module has advanced to 42.7%—"

The Black Giant Priest's voice was clear and steady