Pre-Battle Preparations

Benjamin sat at his desk, staring blankly at the Magic Network Terminal for a while.

Only then did he calm down, before slowly laughing. "Looks like I'm pretty lucky..."

Benjamin turned around and glanced at the scattered Memory Crystals on the desk.

Fundamentals of Fate, Fate Studies, Information Processing Theory, Causality Models...

"Five years..." he murmured. "That should be enough."

Benjamin stood there for a moment, then strode out of the laboratory.

Outside, the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane was a scene of bustling activity.

Benjamin stood at the laboratory entrance and looked out over the crimson earth, where busy Black Giants could be seen everywhere.

Some carried enormous slabs of stone, some dragged thick metal components, some excavated foundations, while others erected towering structures. The Dark Giant Priests floated in the air, waving rune staves that shimmered with light as they directed the work below.

Nearly the entire Black Giant tribe had mobilized. Even Mount Magma, the Black Giant Leader, had joined in.

Benjamin looked toward the distance.

The colossal figure, ten thousand meters tall, was striding toward them. Every step it took made the ground tremble faintly.

Mount Magma carried a gigantic stone pillar more than twenty thousand meters long on his shoulder. It was a special material excavated from deep within a high-gravity plane, with an incredibly high density, suitable for constructing the core array node of the Fate subsystem.

Behind Mount Magma followed a group of Level 6 Black Giants over a hundred meters tall.

They carried various construction materials as well, advancing in neat ranks under the direction of other Dark Giant Priests.

The sight was too magnificent for words.

Benjamin watched for a while before withdrawing his gaze.

With a wave of his hand, a leading Black Giant Priest immediately descended from the air and