Benjamin stood before the Incubation Pool, staring at the Black Giant "embryos" developing within it, his brow slightly furrowed.
Half a month had passed in the blink of an eye.
His breakthrough in Alchemy meant that Benjamin had reached a certain standard in biological knowledge.
With that, he began preparing to resume the various research projects he had previously set aside due to insufficient knowledge.
Such as modifying cannon fodder units...
The most important of them was studying the sole Level 7 Black Giant, the Black Giant Leader, Mount Magma.
After all, it was the most powerful individual under his command and held the greatest research value.
However, Benjamin did not rashly begin by studying Mount Magma. Instead, he planned to start with the lower levels and work his way upward.
After all, Black Giants had existed for nearly a thousand years.
Over such a long period of natural evolution, the Black Giant population had undergone subtle mutations. He needed to understand those changes before laying the groundwork for studying Mount Magma.
First grasp the fundamentals, then tackle the profound.
Over the past half month, he had examined more than a hundred Black Giants of varying levels, from Level 3 to Level 6, making detailed records for every one. Torso structure, energy circuits, core arrangement, soul fluctuations...
All the data was entered into the Fate System for cross-comparison.
Benjamin discovered that the Black Giants' cores had not changed much.
The energy core he had originally designed, built upon the Five-Viscera Sacrificial Divine Art and the innate talents of elemental lifeforms, had remained almost unchanged over the past thousand years. Every Black Giant core followed the template he had set back then with considerable precision and stability.
But that was only natural. If they had not been stable enough, the Black