Ren lowered his eyes back to the bottom half of Arturo's report, his brow furrowing as a specific set of figures caught him off guard.
"She sent a detachment of her elite units into the mountains to force-breed Diamonds, using the exact cannibalization method Sirius and Liu witnessed in the southern cavern," Ren said, his finger tracing the column of numbers.
"At the same time, she sent the rest into the outer rings to mass-produce standard beasts. Looking at Arturo's deductions here..." He paused, running the math in his head a second time in disbelief. "She went from two hundred and fifty Platinums back up to five hundred. She almost doubled her main army in less than a day. What has it been, sixteen hours?"
The room went quiet as the weight of that timeframe settled in.
Doubling a force of hundreds of Platinum horrors in two-thirds of a day was an absurd, unprecedented rate of production. Ren knew the grim arithmetic of the corruption's food chain by heart.
