Chapter 365: Black Giant Priest

"Priest?"

Gao Jie Ming was surprised at the report from the Black Giant commander.

The Black Giants were biological weapons he had designed and modified himself, and their core requirements were stability and controllability.

Although he had endowed them with extremely high intelligence, combat power, and growth potential, everything should have been within his preset framework.

This spontaneous mutation of "priests," a role clearly biased toward social and cultural aspects, should theoretically never have appeared.

But this suspicion only lasted for a brief moment, and Gao Jie Ming's gaze subconsciously turned toward the window of the laboratory—although he couldn't see it, his perception could clearly capture the Incense Dao network that covered the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane and was operating slowly but firmly.

"That's it—Incense Dao." He muttered to himself, a flash of realization in his eyes.

The core of the Incense Dao is to guide faith, condense the power of civilization, and turn the mundane into the miraculous.

It affects not only energy but also subtly acts on the intelligent beings themselves who are within it.

As the current only "core residents" of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane recognized by the Incense Dao, the Black Giant ethnic group, while providing faith and Hong Chen Qi, must also be subject to the feedback and shaping of this power.

The birth of priests is precisely the qualitative leap of the ethnic group triggered after this feedback accumulates to a certain extent—they have begun to evolve from pure combat weapons into a complete civilized ethnic group capable of constructing social structures and producing culture and faith.

"Let's go, let's go see." Gao Jie Ming suppressed the waves in his heart and said to the Black Giant commander.

Gao Jie Ming became interested in this matter; he needed to witness this historic moment with his own eyes.

Following the commander, Gao Jie Ming came to a huge incubation pool deep in the plane.

Quite a few Black Giants had already gathered here, and they stood silently by the pool; under their hideous and terrifying appearance, one could actually feel a solemn anticipation.

Another Tier 5 Black Giant leader guarded this place like a black mountain.

"You—how long have you been here?" Gao Jie Ming asked casually.

Seeing Gao Jie Ming descend, the guarding leader bowed and reported: "Dominator, we have been waiting for a day."

"A day?" Gao Jie Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.

He knew the efficiency of the incubation pool; mass-producing a standard Black Giant warrior took only one minute.

And this special individual had consumed the energy and time of an incubation pool for a whole day?

This was enough to show the terror of its potential.

Gao Jie Ming didn't continue to say much, just waited quietly.

As time passed, the energy fluctuations inside the incubation pool became more and more violent, as if a vortex was crazily absorbing power at the bottom of the pool.

With a thought, Gao Jie Ming connected to the plane control array through the magic net terminal and carefully mobilized one-millionth of the energy of the Tier 7 large elemental pool.

In an instant, a majestic and pure elemental torrent was guided over and injected into that incubation pool, making the energy halo in the pool almost condense into substance.

And at the moment when the energy gathered to the peak, Gao Jie Ming keenly sensed that the Black Giant group gathered around began to emit a faint yet pure special power.

Gao Jie Ming, who had deeply studied the divine power faith network, immediately recognized it—that was the power of faith!

These originally scattered thoughts of faith were captured, purified, and distorted by the ubiquitous Incense Dao network, and finally transformed into a brand-new energy with a faint golden glow, more order, and a sense of power—that was the preliminary Incense Divine Power!

This newly born Incense Divine Power seemed to have found its home and poured into the embryo that was taking shape in the center of the incubation pool without hesitation.

Boom!

Accompanied by a roar that did not come from the material world but from the soul level, light and shadow distorted above the incubation pool, and a figure slowly condensed and appeared.

It was indeed a Black Giant.

Pitch black as ink, the body surface was covered with a flowing liquid metal layer.

But compared to the fellow clansmen who were tens of meters tall, his body size could be called "petite."

Only about two meters tall, the torso was also more slender and lean, and the outline actually faintly revealed a sense of coordination similar to that of a human.

Less of the hideousness of a giant object, and more of an unusual sharpness.

He floated in mid-air and slowly opened his eyes.

Those eyes were no longer the form of ordinary Black Giants burning with energy flames or pitch black, but like the purest obsidian, deep, calm, and containing rational brilliance far exceeding that of his peers.

His gaze locked onto Gao Jie Ming for the first time, without any hesitation, he landed on the ground, knelt on one knee toward Gao Jie Ming's direction in a solemn posture, and lowered his head.

The movements were smooth and natural, full of awe and submission, showing extremely high intelligence and a clear understanding of his own status.

"Dominator." His voice was not as dull as thunder like other Black Giants, but appeared clear and steady.

Gao Jie Ming stepped forward, activated the All-Purpose Eye, and began to check with interest, combined with the array next to him.

Basic physical strength, energy absorption and conversion efficiency, time manipulation talent—the results showed that this priest was about the same as ordinary Black Giant warriors in these aspects and was not weakened by the change in form.

His special features were mainly in two points:

First, this priest seemed to have mastered the complete "Energy" Law from birth.

According to the division of the Wizarding World, he was a solid Tier 6 living being the moment he was born!

This was not evolved by devouring, but a talent born with him.

The second was extraordinary intelligence.

Gao Jie Ming simply conducted a few logical reasoning and complex information processing tests, and the results surprised him.

Even the Black Giant leader with the highest intelligence under his command appeared like an ignorant child compared to this priest.

His thinking speed, depth of understanding, and the completeness of his logical chain reached a brand-new height.

However, perhaps because the bottom-layer code of the Black Giant race was ultimately a "biological weapon."

Except for this astonishing intelligence and innate mastery of energy laws, this newborn priest did not seem to have awakened traditional supernatural abilities that priests should have, such as healing, prophecy, large-scale blessings, or curses.

Gao Jie Ming touched his chin, looking at the "thin and small" Black Giant kneeling respectfully before him, calculating rapidly in his mind.

Such high intelligence, such strong law affinity, yet lacking supporting "divine arts" or special abilities—

Isn't this?

Suddenly, Gao Jie Ming's eyes lit up.

"Isn't this a natural experimental assistant?!"

He didn't hesitate anymore and said directly to the priest: "Follow me."

Taking this newborn priest back to his main laboratory, Gao Jie Ming casually pulled out a stack of knowledge crystals involving high-energy physics and basic law theories from the mountain of data and handed them over.

"Learn them, understand them, and then tell me your insights." Gao Jie Ming gave the order; he wanted to see with his own eyes how efficient this priest's learning was.

Seeing the Black Giant priest respectfully take the knowledge crystals, the moment those obsidian-like eyes swept over the crystals, it seemed that countless data streams were flashing within them.

He didn't have any hesitation, directly found a corner, and like the most devout scholar, immersed himself in the ocean of knowledge, starting to read and understand rapidly, his posture focused as if he were born for this.

Looking at the back of this newly appointed priest burying his head in hard study, Gao Jie Ming nodded with satisfaction.

"If it can succeed—finally there is a helper who can keep up with the train of thought—" He turned around happily and refocused his attention on the crystal-clear spider-snake carapace fragments on the experimental table.

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