Chapter 365 The Black Giant Priest
"priest?"
When Jemin heard the report from the Black Giant Commander, his first reaction was surprise.
The Black Giant is a biological weapon that he designed and modified himself, and its core requirements are stability and controllability.
Although he endowed them with extremely high intelligence, combat power, and growth potential, everything should be within his predetermined framework.
This spontaneous emergence of the "priest" role, which clearly leans towards a social and cultural function, should theoretically never occur.
But this surprise lasted only a moment before Jemin's gaze instinctively turned to the laboratory window—though he couldn't see it, his senses could clearly perceive the incense and divine network that covered the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane and was operating slowly but steadily.
"Yes... the way of incense and deities." He murmured to himself, a look of realization flashing in his eyes.
The core of incense and deity worship is to guide faith, gather the power of civilization, and transform the mundane into the divine.
It affects not only energy, but also subtly influences the intelligent beings within it.
As the only "core inhabitants" of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, and recognized by the incense and divine path, the Black Giant race, while providing faith and worldly energy, is inevitably subject to the feedback and shaping of this power.
The emergence of priests was a qualitative leap in the ethnic group triggered by the accumulation of this feedback to a certain extent—they began to evolve from purely combat weapons into a complete civilized ethnic group capable of constructing social structures and generating culture and beliefs.
“Let’s go take a look,” Jemin said to the Black Giant Commander, suppressing the turmoil in his heart.
Jemin became interested in this matter; he needed to witness this historic moment firsthand.
Following the commander, Jemin arrived at a huge incubation pool deep within the plane.
A number of black giants have already gathered here. They stand silently around the pool, and beneath their ferocious and terrifying appearance, one can sense a solemn anticipation.
Another level-five black giant leader guards this place like a black mountain.
"How long have you been here?" Jemin asked casually.
Upon seeing Jemin arrive, the leader of the guards bowed and reported, "My Lord, we have been waiting for a day."
"One day?" Jemin raised an eyebrow slightly.
He knew the efficiency of the hatchery; it only took one minute to mass-produce a standard Black Giant Warrior.
This particular individual consumed an entire day's worth of energy and time from an incubation pool.
This is enough to illustrate the terrifying potential of its power.
Jemin didn't say anything more, but just waited quietly.
As time went on, the energy fluctuations within the incubation pool became increasingly intense, as if a vortex was frantically drawing power from the bottom of the pool.
With a thought, Jieming connected to the upper-plane control array through the magic network terminal and carefully mobilized one millionth of the energy from the level-seven large elemental pool.
In an instant, a vast and pure torrent of elements was guided and poured into the incubation pool, causing the energy halo in the pool to almost solidify.
At the very moment when the energy reached its peak, Jemin keenly sensed that a faint yet pure special power was beginning to emanate from the surrounding cluster of black giants.
Having studied the divine power faith network in depth, Jemin immediately recognized it as the power of faith!
These originally scattered thoughts of faith were captured, purified, and distorted by the ubiquitous network of incense and deities, and eventually transformed into a new energy with a faint golden glow, more orderly and powerful—that was the initial incense and divine power!
This newly generated divine power of incense seemed to have found its home, and without hesitation poured into the embryo that was taking shape in the center of the incubation pool.
boom!
Accompanied by a roar that did not originate from the material world but from the soul, light and shadow distorted above the incubation pool, and a figure slowly condensed and appeared.
That was indeed a black giant.
Its entire body is as black as ink, and its surface is covered with a layer of flowing liquid metal.
But compared to his compatriots who are often tens of meters tall, his size can be described as "petite".
It was only a little over two meters tall, with a slender and thin body, and its outline even showed a hint of human-like coordination.
It has lost some of its ferocity as a behemoth, but gained a strange sharpness.
He hovered in mid-air and slowly opened his eyes.
Those eyes were no longer the kind of burning flames or pitch black that ordinary black giants possessed, but rather, like the purest obsidian, deep, calm, and containing a rational brilliance far surpassing that of their kind.
His gaze immediately locked onto Jemin. Without the slightest hesitation, he landed on the ground, knelt on one knee in Jemin's direction, and bowed his head in a solemn manner.
The movements were fluid and natural, filled with awe and submission, demonstrating exceptional wisdom and a clear understanding of one's own position.
“My Lord.” His voice was not as deep and thunderous as the other black giants; instead, it was clear and steady.
Jemin stepped forward, activated his All-Seeing Eye, and began to examine the surrounding magic array with great interest.
Basic physical strength, energy absorption and conversion efficiency, time manipulation talent... the results showed that this priest was no different from an ordinary black giant warrior in these aspects, and was not weakened by the change of form.
His special qualities lie mainly in two aspects:
First of all, this priest seemed to have been born with a complete grasp of the laws of "energy".
According to the wizarding world's classification, he was a true level six being from the moment he was born!
This is not something that comes from devouring and evolving, but rather an innate talent.
Secondly, he possesses extraordinary intelligence.
Jemin conducted a few simple tests of logical reasoning and complex information processing, and the results surprised him.
Even the most intelligent black giant leader under his command seemed like a clueless child compared to this priest.
His thinking speed, depth of understanding, and completeness of logical chains have reached a whole new level.
However, perhaps it's because the Black Giant race's underlying code is ultimately a "biological weapon."
Aside from his astonishing intelligence and mastery of innate energy laws, this novice priest does not seem to have awakened the supernatural abilities that traditional priests should possess, such as healing, prophecy, large-scale blessings, or curses.
Jemin stroked his chin, sizing up the "skinny" black giant kneeling respectfully before him, his mind racing.
Such high intelligence, such strong affinity with the laws, yet lacking matching "divine arts" or special abilities... isn't that...?
Suddenly, Jemin's eyes lit up.
"Isn't this a natural experimental assistant?!"
Without further hesitation, he said directly to the priest, "Come with me."
Returning the newly orphaned priest to his main laboratory, Jemin casually pulled out a stack of knowledge crystals related to high-energy physics and fundamental laws from the mountain of documents and handed them over.
“Learn them, understand them, and then tell me your thoughts,” Jemin instructed, wanting to see for himself how efficient the priest was at learning.
The black giant priest respectfully accepted the knowledge crystal. The moment his obsidian-like eyes swept over the crystal, it seemed as if countless streams of data were flashing within it.
Without any hesitation, he found a corner and, like the most devout scholar, immersed himself in the ocean of knowledge, beginning to read and understand at lightning speed, his focused posture as if he were born for this purpose.
Watching the new priest's back as he buried himself in his studies, Jemin nodded in satisfaction.
"If it works... at least I'll have someone to keep up with my train of thought..." He turned around happily, turning his attention back to the shimmering fragments of spider carapace on the lab table.
(End of this chapter)
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