More than a decade passed quietly.
Once the funding was in place, the construction progress of the Creation System seemed to be shoved onto an accelerated track by an invisible hand.
The Black Giant Priests led millions of Black Giants in working around the clock on the wasteland. Massive engineering machinery and rune arrays operated in turns. The Spirit Material Ripening Zone was the first to complete calibration, and the energy pipelines of the Spiritual Power Mobilization System were laid soon afterward.
The moment the energy conduit of the final submodule successfully connected with the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, the entire circular array suddenly trembled. In the next instant, soft dark-golden light illuminated the intricate rune circuits all at once, like rings of tranquil tides slowly washing across the construction zone.
The fourth official subsystem of the Incense Divinity Path had gone online.
Benjamin floated above the very center of the circular array, his black robe gently billowing in the energy currents while his gaze rested on the array's gradually stabilizing radiance below.
He could clearly feel that after the Creation System activated, the somewhat rigid barrier between Incense Divine Power and Spirit Energy was being reconciled anew in an entirely different way.
Within the Spirit Material Ripening Zone, the first batch of test samples had already begun to grow slowly.
The seedlings that had once been thin and frail gradually unfurled their branches and leaves beneath the nourishment of the array's light.
The pace was not particularly fast, yet it lacked the jarring unnaturalness of conventional accelerated growth, as though these plants had always been meant to grow this quickly.
And beyond the plants, the mineral deposits buried deep underground were constantly changing as well. A brand-new order was quietly taking shape across this land.
Benjamin closed his