Chapter 499 150: The Pitch-Black Lion and the Legendary Meat Beast

In response, Udi could only search for methods to help higher-level life forms proliferate within the All Realms Commerce Association while simultaneously making pastries.

Time passed slowly in these leisurely days without pressure.

One by one, Black Wing Nest-style gigantic buildings sprang up like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Tal Plane.

The originally heavily wounded races of the Tal Main Continent also began to flourish.

The entire Tal's life forms began an explosive growth.

In a peaceful environment with abundant food supply, tens of millions of humans can grow to billions in a few short decades, not to mention the demons with even shorter proliferation timelines.

And with the birth of a large number of life forms, a vast empire rose steadily.

In the Tal Plane, all beings that do not submit to the leadership of the Black Wing Empire must skulk and hide.

However, as time passed, more and more Void creatures appeared, gradually shrinking the hiding spaces of those concealed beings.

In the blink of an eye, twenty years had passed since the migration of the Metal Dragon Group.

The area reaching one hundred million square kilometers of Dusk Island.

No, at this point, it can no longer be called an island, because this island, comparable in size to a typical small Material Plane continent, has been thoroughly transformed into one integrated super city after twenty years and countless billions of followers working day and night.

A city covering one hundred million square kilometers?

It sounds indeed extravagant.

Generally, human-built cities take up only a few dozen to hundreds of square kilometers, while larger ones might reach thousands of square kilometers, and rarely exceed ten thousand square kilometers.

It's not that they can't be built.

In a world with extraordinary powers, a Ten-Ring Magic could construct a city cluster, and a city covering ten thousand square kilometers could be achieved by a Legendary Mage with decades to a century of effort.

The issue is, even if such a gigantic city cluster is constructed, there wouldn't be enough population to live within.

How many humans can live in a city spanning ten thousand square kilometers?

A billion?

No, even ten billion humans could live in it.

But, how many resources would ten billion humans need to survive?

The various aspects involved are so immense that even a Legendary Mage, no matter how mighty, couldn't accomplish them.

Transportation, manufacturing, roads, commerce, materials, food, everyday necessities... all these cannot be achieved solely by a Legendary Mage.

Unless it is an extraordinary city, such that, with the pull of magical extraordinary powers, there might lie a possibility to operate and activate a city cluster covering ten thousand square kilometers.

And constructing the Dusk Island, spanning one hundred million square kilometers... is now the Black Wing Empire's capital city, Black Nest.

This is an extraordinary city.

Operating in various departments are casters and items manufactured by casters.

For example, in transportation, there are airships, hovercars, spatial bags.

Regarding food, in each of the one hundred districts of Black Nest, there is a solidified teleportation array.

Opposite each teleportation array is a large extraordinary ranch, where meticulously selected magical beasts are bred, from the lowest Level 0 Magical Beasts to top-level beasts.

Only two types of top-level magical beasts are bred: one is the Mountain-Shaking Boar, with a body exceeding eighty meters, and the other is the whale-like Sea Beast, known as Whale Beast, with a body reaching a staggering one hundred thirty meters. These two top-tier giant beasts are crafted through the joint efforts of dozens of Legendary Mages and thousands of master-level mages, based on breeding materials purchased at great expense from the All Realms Commerce Association, and after extended research.

Mountain-Shaking Boar and Whale Beast, these two top-tier breeding species, are regarded as top meat beasts, serving as exquisite ingredients for the Black Emperor and his harem.

Aside from these two researched and matured top meat beasts, the Black Wing Empire's research department is simultaneously investigating hundreds of types of top meat beasts, and even legendary meat beasts.

Although spending time and energy on top meat beasts can always yield some results, legendary meat beasts are far more challenging.

To date, the Black Wing Empire's research department has only developed one defect-type legendary meat beast.

Which means, it's a meat beast with a legendary body but lacking legendary traits.

Similar to the legendary fishman artificially created by a necromancer years ago.

....

"There is progress, there is progress!"

"038 has undergone a benign mutation, creating a special fluctuation resembling legendary traits...."

Inside the Black Wing Empire's First Research Institute.

A disheveled Legendary Mage, looking at the sleeping pitch-black lion in front of the closed chamber, exclaims with ecstatic joy.

The exclamations attracted many researchers from the institute, whose strength was at least Level 18, with most holding caster-type occupations such as mage, caster, and alchemist.

As the empire's most powerful institute, the First Research Institute has developed many products beneficial to the empire's progress.

Among them, the Mountain-Shaking Boar and Whale Beast, these two top-tier meat beasts, are two of the institute's most proud products.

However, today, perhaps the most proud products will be changed.

A shimmer of light flashed past, and a silver-haired beauty with dragon horns appeared instantly within the institute.

The researchers around her immediately showed expressions of reverence.

"Director."