Translator: AnubisTL
After submitting the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol, Jieming stopped paying attention to it.
He devoted nearly all his energy to cultivating the Black Giant.
For a focused wizard, time is always the cheapest resource.
Ten years later.
The new crystal core, fused from the cores of a third-tier snow monster and a fourth-tier lava giant, finally ceased its pulsating under the relentless quenching of countless interwoven energy fields.
When it fully stabilized, the entire core emitted a black radiance, as if devouring all the light in the laboratory!
As the initial burst of energy dissipated, a perfect fourth-tier Black Giant core, as deep and dark as obsidian yet swirling with blue and red nebulae within, was finally complete.
Jieming reached out, gently caressing the core's terrifying aura from a distance.
He could clearly sense the terrifying energy fluctuations emanating from the coreβa force that threatened to freeze and tear apart space itself.
A satisfied smile spread across his face, the kind a proud father wears when gazing upon his accomplished child.
Now came the most crucial step.
Using this powerful and flawless core as the "mother matrix," he would officially "hatch" the first true Black Giant within the massive hatchery.
Arriving at the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, Jieming carefully detached a grain-sized fragment from the black core.
After activating the Universal Eye to confirm the fragment's condition was normal, Jieming solemnly tossed it into the hatchery, where specially formulated magma churned.
He then moved to the monitoring instruments nearby, reading the constantly updating data to calculate the time required to cultivate a Black Giant.
His smiling expression suddenly darkened.
The Black Giant cultivated from a fourth-tier "mother matrix" core indeed possessed exceptional innate talent!
According to energy model simulations, this cultivation could produce a Black Giant with a biological level approaching the third-tier!
Moreover, with proper nurturing, this Black Giant's biological level could potentially reach the peak of a third-tier creature upon reaching adulthood.
However, the drawback was...
The energy required to cultivate this Black Giant was simply terrifying!
The hatchery, tasked with nurturing this entirely new speciesβthe Black Giantβa fusion of two extreme forces, already demanded energy levels tens of times higher than those needed to cultivate ordinary lava giants.
Compounding this, the Black Giants currently being cultivated were of such high biological levels...
As a result, the hatchery's self-sustaining energy extraction from the elemental plane was proving insufficient.
"Damn it..."
"At the second-tier hatchery's current energy extraction efficiency, without external energy supplementation, relying solely on the hatchery's self-generated energy for cultivation... the Black Giant's birth would conservatively take over a hundred years!"
"And due to energy supply limitations, only one Black Giant can be cultivated at a time!"
Over a hundred years to produce just one!
In the high-end battlefields of the future, these units might only qualify as "elite cannon fodder"... What use would they be?!
By the time we've built an army of cannon fodder, the opportunity will have passed!
Jieming scratched his head in frustration, desperately searching for a solution.
Regarding this energy shortfall, Jieming instinctively thought of the seventh-tier large elemental pool he had ordered from his mentor, Clark.
According to Clark's estimate at the time, the elemental pool should be completed within the next few decades.
Speaking of which... although he had paid the initial deposit by selling everything he owned, the remaining balance of eighteen billion military merits for the seventh-tier large elemental pool remained completely unfunded!
However, Mentor Clark had suggested that as his student, Jieming could apply for an internal interest-free loan and repay it gradually...
Though with his current earning capacity, it might take two or three thousand years to repay the debt.
Thinking this, Jieming instinctively opened his personal terminal and checked his balance.
The next moment, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets in shock!
Account Balance: 30,121,514,586 Low-Tier Military Merit
Thirty billion!
Jieming rubbed his eyes in disbelief, wondering if he was hallucinating from exhaustion. He meticulously counted the digits again, starting from the ones place, and confirmed he wasn't mistaken.
In just ten years!
The [ Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol ] had earned him a staggering thirty billion low-tier military merit?!
What kind of joke was this?!
To put it in perspective, the seventh-tier large elemental pool Jieming had ordered was priced at only twenty billion low-tier military merit.
And to pay the mere one-tenth down payment of two billion, Jieming had been forced to venture onto the planar battlefield and fight a living plane to the death!
Upon returning, he had spent countless sleepless days and nights refining over five hundred bottles of [ Red Dust Magic Potion ] just to scrape together the initial deposit!
The result... this seemingly insignificant "auxiliary technology," in Jieming's eyes, had unexpectedly generated enough funds to cover the entire remaining balance for his seventh-tier large elemental pool in one fell swoop!
This sudden windfall left Jieming stunned for a moment.
Only after repeatedly verifying the cold, unyielding numbers on his terminal did he manage to calm himself down from the overwhelming shock.
Once his mind had settled, he quickly grasped the underlying reason for this extraordinary success.
The Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol had amassed such a staggering fortune in just ten years primarily because, during its early stages, major wizard factions, acting out of caution after receiving official endorsements from the "artificial intelligence" Felix, had purchased copies as samples for internal experimentation and testing, regardless of whether they actually needed it.
With the backing of "official certification," sales naturally exploded.
He suspected that such an absurd rate of profit growth would likely not be sustained in the future.
Opening the holographic display, he reviewed the detailed annual revenue reports for the past decade, quickly confirming his hypothesis.
The first year's earnings accounted for nearly ninety percent of the total revenue.
He estimated that once the technology was fully implemented, the annual revenue from the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol would stabilize at around one hundred million low-tier military merits.
(End of the Chapter)
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