Afterward, the assessment of merits left no room for suspense. Benjamin, by being the first to discover and stabilize the spatial gate node, holding back the gods at a critical moment, and transmitting crucial coordinates, among other outstanding contributions, was recognized as having rendered the foremost merit.
Though the three Level 4 Wizards were somewhat envious of the generous reward, considering that each of them had obtained a living Level 5 "native god" as research material, they tacitly remained silent and raised no objections.
The enormous number of Military Merit points awarded for the foremost merit was enough to make even someone of Benjamin's means feel quite pleased.
More importantly, Level 7 Wizard Dionysius Spencer personally decreed that Benjamin would receive a share of all knowledge gathered on the Sacred Continent from then on!
To a wizard in pursuit of knowledge, its value was beyond measure.
Benjamin was greatly satisfied with this.
The next fifty years followed the Wizard Civilization's standardized plane-conquest process.
Resistance?
Having lost their highest-ranking gods, with their faith shattered and facing the wizards' endlessly emerging sinister methods, the remaining Holy Servant forces melted away like ice and snow beneath the sun.
The wizards swept across the entire Sacred Continent with overwhelming force, like dead trees and rotten weeds before a storm.
The only regret for some exploration-loving wizards was that the spatial gate connecting the Sacred Continent to the world beyond seemed to have shown signs of instability after Dionysius Spencer had forcibly opened and maintained it. For the time being, they could not locate the coordinates of the other four alien worlds the Holy Servants claimed to have conquered.
This potential path of expansion was temporarily cut off.
Fifty years later, Benjamin completed a mission to eliminate the remaining resistance forces and returned to the