Chapter 419: Chapter 364: Black Giant Priest

"Priest?"

Benjamin heard the report from the Black Giant leader, and his first reaction was surprise.

The Black Giant was a bioweapon he had personally designed and modified, with the core requirement being stability and control.

Although endowed with extremely high intelligence, combat capability, and growth potential, everything should be within his preset framework.

This spontaneous emergence of a role like "Priest," which clearly leans towards societal and cultural functions, theoretically should never occur.

But this surprise lasted only a moment, as Benjamin instinctively cast his gaze outside the laboratory window—though he couldn’t see it, his perception was accurately capturing the slowly and firmly operating Incense Fire Divine Dao network covering the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

"Ah... Incense Fire Divine Dao." He murmured to himself, a flash of understanding in his eyes.

The core of Incense Fire Divine Dao is to guide faith, gather the power of civilization, and transform the mundane into the divine.

It influences not only energy but also subtly affects the intelligent creatures residing within.

The Black Giant clan, as the sole and core residents recognized by the Incense Fire Divine Dao on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, provide faith and Red Dust Qi and are inevitably shaped by the feedback of this power.

The emergence of the Priest is precisely a leap in the qualitative evolution of the clan after the accumulation of such feedback—it marks their shift from pure combat weapons towards becoming a complete civilization capable of constructing social structures, creating culture and faith.

"Let’s go and take a look." Benjamin suppressed the surge in his heart and spoke to the Black Giant leader.

Benjamin had taken an interest in this matter; he needed to witness this historical moment firsthand.

Following the leader, Benjamin arrived at a huge incubation pool deep within the plane.

Many Black Giants had already gathered here, silently surrounding the pool, their formidable appearance under which a solemn expectancy could be sensed.

Another Fifth Level Black Giant leader stood guard like a black mountain.

"How long have you been waiting here?" Benjamin asked casually.

Upon Benjamin’s arrival, the guarding leader bowed and reported, "Master, we have waited for one day."

"One day?" Benjamin raised his eyebrows slightly.

He knew the efficiency of the incubation pool; it only took a minute to mass-produce a standard Black Giant warrior.

And this special individual consumed a whole day of the incubation pool’s energy and time?

This was enough to indicate its terrifying potential.

Benjamin said no more and simply waited quietly.

As time passed, the energy fluctuations within the incubation pool grew increasingly intense, as though a vortex was frantically siphoning power from the pool’s bottom.

With a thought, Benjamin connected through the Magic Network Terminal to the plane’s control array, cautiously channeling one-millionth of the Seventh Level Large Elemental Pool’s energy.

In an instant, a vast and pure elemental flood was guided in, injecting into the incubation pool, causing the pool’s energy aura to almost solidify.

At this moment, as the energy converged to its peak, Benjamin keenly sensed a faint yet pure special power beginning to emanate from the gathered Black Giant population.

Having deeply researched the Divine Power Faith Network, Benjamin immediately recognized it as the Power of Faith!

These originally scattered faith thoughts were captured, purified, and twisted by the ubiquitous Incense Fire Divine Dao network, ultimately transformed into a new energy carrying a faint golden shimmer, more orderly and powerful—that was the nascent Incense Fire Divine Power!

This new-born Incense Fire Divine Power seemed to find its destination and unhesitatingly infused into the core of the forming embryo in the incubation pool.

Boom!

Accompanied by a roar not from the physical world, but from the soul level, above the incubation pool, light and shadow twisted as a figure slowly coalesced and appeared.

It was indeed a Black Giant.

Its entire body was as black as ink, its surface covered with a flowing metallic liquid layer.

But compared to their towering brethren, his physique could be described as "petite."

Only about a little over two meters tall, with a more slender, gaunt torso, its outline faintly revealing a harmony reminiscent of a human.

Less of the menace of giant beings, with a touch more of unusual robustness.

Floating in the air, he slowly opened his eyes. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Those eyes were not the ordinary Black Giant kind that burned with energy flames or were pitch black, but akin to the purest obsidian, deep, calm, and exuding a rational brilliance far surpassing his kin.

His gaze immediately locked onto Benjamin, without the slightest hesitation, he descended to the ground and moved toward Benjamin’s direction, adopting a solemn posture, kneeling on one knee and bowing his head.

The movements were smooth and natural, filled with reverence and submission, showcasing exceedingly high intelligence and a clear awareness of his status.

"Master." His voice, unlike other Black Giants’ thunderous rumble, was clear and steady.

Benjamin stepped forward, activated the All-Purpose Eye, and began to inspect with the array beside him with great interest.

Basic physical strength, energy absorption, and conversion efficiency, time manipulation talent... The results indicated that this priest was not inferior to ordinary Black Giant warriors in these aspects despite his form change.

His special traits primarily lay in two areas:

Firstly, this priest seemed inherently versed in the complete "Energy" Law.

According to Wizard World’s classification, he was undeniably a Sixth Level creature from the moment of his birth!

This was not acquired through devouring evolution, but an innate talent.

The second was extraordinary intelligence.

Benjamin conducted a few simple logical reasoning and complex information processing tests, and the results surprised him.

Even the highest intelligence Black Giant leader under his command seemed like a naive child compared to this priest.

His thought speed, understanding depth, and the completeness of logical chains reached a new height.

However, perhaps due to the Black Giants’ fundamental code ultimately being "bioweapons."

Apart from this astonishing intelligence and innate mastery of energy laws, this new priest did not seem to have awakened traditional supernatural abilities typical of priests, such as healing, prophecy, large-scale blessings, or curses.

Benjamin stroked his chin, scrutinizing the "petite" Black Giant respectfully kneeling before him, calculating rapidly in his mind.

Such high intelligence, such strong law affinity, yet lacking matching "Divine Magic" or special abilities... isn’t this?

Suddenly, Benjamin’s eyes lit up.

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

He no longer hesitated and directly said to the priest, "Follow me."

Returning with this new priest to his main laboratory, Benjamin casually drew a stack of Knowledge Crystals involving high-energy physics and fundamental law theory from the mountainous materials, handing them over.

"Study them, understand them, then tell me your insights," Benjamin issued the command, wanting to witness the priest’s learning efficiency firsthand.

The Black Giant priest respectfully received the Knowledge Crystals, and as his obsidian-like eyes glanced over the crystals, innumerable streams of data seemed to flicker within.

Without any delay, he found a corner, just like the most devoted scholar, immersing himself in the ocean of knowledge, beginning to read and comprehend rapidly, his posture so focused as if he were born for this purpose.

Watching the diligent back of the new priest, Benjamin nodded in satisfaction.

"If it succeeds... finally, a helper who can keep up with my thoughts..." he turned back with delight, refocusing on the experiment table with those shimmering obsidian armor fragments.