Translator: AnubisTL
After Jieming concluded his communication with Master Roland, having repaid the heavy "knowledge debt" of this phase, the final stage of transforming the Elosia Plane survivors in his territory was finally underway.
These survivors, who had endured decades of hardship, had undergone a complete transformation through over twenty years of bloodline optimization and soul reshaping led by professional teams from Noren Academy.
They had not only adapted to the laws of the wizard world but also possessed the foundational potential to become wizard apprentices.
Jieming notified Noren Academy, requesting them to send a final team to conduct final inspections and evaluations of all the transformed individuals.
Once everything was confirmed to be in order, the academy's transport ships descended outside the Golden Garden, systematically loading up all the transformed survivors who had been registered as "academy assets."
With these "historical legacy issues" resolved, Jieming sent a message to David explaining the situation, finally putting this matter to rest.
To fill the labor gap left by their departure, he also purchased a large number of new-model alchemical "construct puppets" from the Noren Workshop.
He tasked these tireless metal constructs with taking over the tedious work of maintaining the Golden Garden, which had previously fallen to the remaining inhabitants.
Having completed these tasks, Jieming recalled Senior Viola from the Flamefrost Plane—a woman of difficult temperament who had nonetheless been a considerable help to him.
Remembering her request before he left and the likelihood that she was still toiling day and night as Mentor Clark's "workhorse," Jieming purchased several highly effective mental clarity potions, packaged them, and sent them to the Flamefrost Plane as a gesture of "sympathy."
With these miscellaneous matters finally settled, Jieming let out a long sigh of relief.
Now, he could finally begin processing the most special and highly valued spoils of war he had acquired during his time on the Flamefrost Plane!
Within the Elosia Plane Cluster, on the plane named "Purgatory Sulfur," Jieming floated in mid-air, gazing at the vast magma pool that churned with crimson light. He shook his head in dissatisfaction.
This massive magma accumulation, so vast that it would be more accurate to call it a "magma sea" rather than a "magma pool," stretched before him like an endless, fiery horizon.
This massive energy convergence point was created by Jieming by forcibly gathering most of the active earth veins on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, using the infrastructure he had previously established here.
But comparison reveals the stark difference.
The "Blazing Sun Realm" of the Flamefrost Plane and the environment of this Purgatory Sulfur Plane might appear similar—both vast seas of fire—but their energy reserves were worlds apart.
After months of painstaking effort, Jieming had managed to create only a sea of magma in the target region.
Yet, according to his detection, the energy intensity at the core of this magma sea barely matched that of some minor earth veins on the Flamefrost Plane.
"Well, this level of energy should at least be enough to power the hatchery's basic functions," Jieming sighed. "We can upgrade it later once the academy's seventh-tier elemental pool is installed."
With another sigh, he retrieved from his personal storage space the most extraordinary spoil of war he had obtained on the Flamefrost Plane—the "second-tier hatchery" of the lava giant race!
After years of research, Jieming had finally managed to decipher the hatchery's operational principles.
The lava giant hatchery possessed a unique technology, likely imbued with the lava giants' innate talent, allowing it to directly connect to a projection of the Fire Elemental Plane and draw energy from it.
This connection also explained the subtle spatial disturbances around the hatchery.
Jieming gazed at the hatchery hovering before him, his expression complex. "If it weren't for this thing, I wouldn't have had to fight that third-tier lava giant to the death..."
"But thinking about it, getting this just for fighting two third-tier lava giants... I guess I got lucky, right?"
Shaking his head, Jieming dismissed these thoughts and carried the hatchery toward the lava sea's energy convergence area.
The hatchery's connection to the Fire Elemental Plane projection meant that external energy sources primarily served as a "switch" to activate the hatchery and guide its initial energy flow.
Once operational, the hatchery replenished most of its energy through its inherent connection to the elemental plane projection.
Of course, relying solely on the hatchery's internal energy reserves without external support would significantly reduce its incubation efficiency.
Moreover, without an external energy source to replenish it, further evolution of the hatchery became impossible.
For the time being, Jieming had no better alternative and had to make do with this arrangement.
As a "switch," the lava pond only needed to maintain a stable energy level and reach the minimum peak energy required to activate the hatchery.
After securely installing the massive hatchery at the center of the lava sea, Jieming retrieved an active lava giant core. This core pulsed slowly like a heart, radiating intense fire elemental energy.
It was the very core he had "found" in the snow monster city—the core of the fourth-tier lava giant corpse!
Originally, this core had completely lost its activity upon the giant's death.
However, since the Lava Giant King surrendered and joined the wizard alliance, the wizards had acquired several of their unique technologies.
Among these was a method to restore activity to well-preserved high-tier cores.
Jieming had paid a substantial sum of military merits to specialists on the Flamefrost Plane to partially reactivate this core using that technology.
Jieming couldn't help but marvel, "In some ways, the vitality of elemental creatures far surpasses that of most flesh-and-blood beings."
Although the core's activity was still far from sufficient to fully resurrect the fourth-tier lava giant, the immense life essence it contained could serve as a "mother source," sustaining the rebirth of a new lava giant within the hatchery!
Using alchemy, Jieming carefully extracted a tiny fragment from the fourth-tier core, no larger than a grain of sand.
As the fragment's light rapidly destabilized, Jieming decisively tossed it into the slowly rotating hatchery.
Over the next two months, Jieming remained almost constantly in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, meticulously documenting the entire process of the core fragment nurturing a new lava giant within the hatchery.
Throughout this period, he recorded a wealth of invaluable data on the gestation of elemental creatures.
Jieming's luck held. The newly hatched lava giant, having fully matured after two months, steadily reached the second-tier level.
Among the lava giant clans, it was already considered a minor elite.
"Roar!"
The second-tier lava giant, nearly ten meters tall, let out a ferocious roar the moment it was born.
But before it could demonstrate its power, an invisible giant hand formed from pure mental power casually suppressed it, plucked it from the hatchery, and suspended it in mid-air.
Jieming meticulously examined this perfect elemental construct using his Universal Eye and alchemy, his gaze lost in thought.
In the past, he would have considered a second-tier lava giant that could be stably mass-produced to be a decent combatant, a considerable addition to his forces.
But now, Jieming found their strength... still too weak.
Even third-tier lava giants posed little threat to him in his current state.
Unless they could be deployed in numbers of hundreds or thousands, their contribution to his combat power would be minimal.
Therefore, he needed to find a way to enhance the individual combat power of these lava giants!
Jieming's initial idea was naturally to subject the lava giants to biochemical modifications.
However, after careful consideration and simulations, he ultimately abandoned this approach.
After all, the effectiveness of biochemical modifications depended on the baseline quality of the "raw materials."
Using several second-tier lava giants as subjects, he could only create units with early third-tier combat capabilities at best.
The return on investment simply wasn't high enough.
Admittedly, using this fourth-tier core as a "template," he could reliably produce a large number of second-tier lava giants and a smaller number of third-tier ones.
But the problem was that this core was a non-replicable consumable!
Unless he struck gold and a newborn lava giant miraculously mutated during the hatching process, spontaneously generating a new fourth-tier core, once the core's primordial energy was depleted, he would be forced to use the cores of third-tier lava giants as his new "templates."
By then, the production of second-tier lava giants would plummet, with most newborns reverting to first-tier status.
High-rank wizards with vast resources wouldn't face such problems. They could simply release these lava giants into an entire flame plane suitable for their reproduction, allowing them to breed freely. With luck and a sufficiently large initial population, they could eventually produce even greater numbers of fourth-tier and fifth-tier lava giants through spontaneous mutations.
But Jieming lacked the resources to sustain an entire plane of elemental creatures. He needed to find another solution.
The second method Jieming considered was still biochemical modification. However, unlike his previous approach, which treated lava giants merely as "raw materials" and "biological weapons," he now aimed to fundamentally elevate the very essence of the lava giant race—from their genes to their souls.
(End of the Chapter)
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