Recaps

After decades absorbed in research, Benjamin discovered that Victor and Amy had died on a failed plane-conquest mission. He struggled with grief and confusion, but Clark and Viola intervened, and Benjamin returned to his Lava Giant research with his turmoil eased.

• Benjamin received David’s message that he had advanced to Level 2 Wizard and realized decades had passed during his research.
• Benjamin checked his unread messages and learned that Victor Sario and Amy Gray Sparrow had been confirmed dead after the failed “Nest of Star Whispers” mission.
• Benjamin found that the mission had failed when the plane’s core was detonated by the Native race’s self-destruction mechanism, killing the entire Wizard squad.
• Benjamin told Senior Viola about the deaths, and she mocked his grief before Clark took over the communication and called him immature.
• Benjamin recognized that Clark and Viola had tried to help him, felt his grief ease, and returned to studying the Lava Giant.

After repeated experimental failures caused by grief over Amy and Victor, Benjamin accepted a mission to hunt an Illegal Wizard and traveled to the new Noren Academy branch. There, he discovered that the other wizard assigned to the mission was David, transformed in appearance by imposing black armor.

• Benjamin's grief distracted him during a precise experiment, causing a Lava Giant test subject to combust, so he paused his research.
• Benjamin accepted a Level 2 team mission to hunt an Illegal Wizard after learning that the target was estimated to be as strong as an ordinary Level 2 Wizard.
• Benjamin prepared his laboratory and traveled to the new Noren Academy branch, where the mission team was due to assemble within three days.
• Benjamin arrived at the meeting place and recognized David by his familiar soul aura, despite David's intimidating heavy armor and changed appearance.

David and Benjamin traveled to hunt an Illegal Wizard, and David explained that the target was the Sage of Eloria’s surviving soul, whose hidden cultivation and damaged mind had turned him into a threat. After finding no clues at the target’s last known location, they headed toward a nearby city to investigate.

• David and Benjamin left Noren Academy together and flew toward the Illegal Wizard’s last reported location.
• Benjamin asked why David had accepted the mission, and David explained the contracts that governed Wizards and how monitoring helped prevent Illegal Wizards.
• David revealed that the target had been born from the Sage of Eloria, whose divided soul secretly cultivated using an incomplete Meditation Method after the Plane’s transformation.
• David explained that the Sage’s remnant soul became cruel and destructive, prompting Noren Academy to issue a kill mission.
• Benjamin and David searched a scorched forest but found no useful traces, so they decided to question people in the nearest city.

Chuck’s belief in wizards led him to meet a dangerous stranger, but a city guard captain intervened before the man could kill him. Benjamin and David discovered the stranger had been artificially modified, and Benjamin recognized Chuck as a naturally talented potential Wizard Apprentice before they departed.

• Chuck secretly brought black bread to the black-robed man, who revealed himself as a dangerous wizard-like attacker and reached for Chuck’s neck.
• The city guard captain and his squad surrounded the man, but he attacked them with black fire; the captain shielded Chuck from the blast.
• Benjamin and David appeared above the alley and identified signs of artificial modification in the attacker.
• The attacker tried to flee and attack the wizards, but Benjamin killed him with a ray of energy.
• Benjamin gave the attacker’s head to David for analysis and recognized that Chuck had talent nearly equal to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice.
• Benjamin and David left, while Chuck watched them go with awe and longing for wizards.

Benjamin and David investigated an infected pseudo-wizard and identified an unfamiliar, inefficient power that consumed stolen life force, prompting a wider hunt for the Illegal Wizard. Two years later, they pursued the target toward the Storm Sea, knowing the pseudo-wizards served as mobile base stations that collected life force for him.

• David examined the captive's shattered soul and determined that the man had been infected by an unknown power after encountering the Illegal Wizard.
• Benjamin analyzed the man's body and found that the unfamiliar energy drained life force while converting only a tiny fraction of it into usable power.
• Benjamin and David confirmed that the power belonged neither to Noren Workshop nor to the Eloria Plane's old extraordinary system, and they requested more support and a wider search.
• Benjamin reflected on how generations of mortals had forgotten the truth about wizards and considered the long, painful path toward the maturity Mentor Clark described.
• Two years later, Benjamin and David received word that the target's latest suspicious energy trace appeared in the Storm Sea and flew there to pursue him.
• Benjamin and David recalled that the infected pseudo-wizards acted as mobile base stations collecting life force for the hidden Illegal Wizard.

Benjamin and David traced the Illegal Wizard to a remote island and fought their way through a legion of vitality-drained monsters. They confronted the apparently ordinary man at the island’s center, whose true strength was Level 3, and David recognized him as familiar.

• Benjamin and David followed the hidden vitality network to a storm-wreathed island in the ocean.
• A legion of Level 2 pseudo-wizards and modified sea monsters attacked them at the island’s perimeter.
• David smashed through the enemy ranks while Benjamin adapted to their vitality-eroding negative energy and became immune to it.
• Benjamin and David defeated the legion and advanced to the island’s center.
• They found a weathered man whose energy marked him as a genuine Level 3, and David silently recognized him.

Sage revealed that he had never accepted Eloria’s defeat and used the life force of false Wizards to open a gate to a forbidden being’s lair. The supposed Destruction Demon God fled upon hearing that Wizards were involved, but a Level 7 Wizard appeared and held the collapsing gate open.

• Sage explained that he had waited until Eloria’s survivors had been transformed into people of the Wizard World before seeking revenge with an external force.
• Sage activated a blood-red ritual array across the island and sacrificed the life force he had gathered to open a destruction gate.
• David and Benjamin pretended to panic behind the array’s barrier, then smiled mockingly as the gate opened.
• The Destruction Demon God roared in alarm at the mention of Wizards and swiftly tried to retreat through the collapsing vortex.
• A Level 7 Wizard in a black robe appeared beside the vortex and forcibly held the passage open with his hands.

Benjamin and David watched as Academy Dean Avery Knight revealed the Wizards who had secretly followed them and captured the Level 8 Destruction Demon God through the portal. The demon tried to destroy itself to protect its world, but Avery contained the blast and salvaged fragments of its origin.

• Avery Knight held open the spatial portal while Benjamin and David realized that the island was surrounded by hidden Wizards.
• Benjamin recalled that he and David had reported signs of an unknown civilization to the Academy two years earlier, prompting Avery and other Wizards to secretly follow them.
• Avery attacked the Destruction Demon God through the portal as the other Wizards stabilized the passage.
• Avery pulled the Level 8 Destruction Demon God through the portal and imprisoned its soul.
• The Destruction Demon God triggered a self-destruction to protect its world, but Avery sealed the explosion and retrieved fragments containing its origin.

After the portal to the unknown world collapsed, Dean Avery Knight ordered Wizards to study the Destruction Demon God’s remains and recover the world’s coordinates. He then offered Benjamin and David Plane Origin as an additional reward, leaving them to choose which type they needed.

• The spatial portal collapsed under the Destruction Demon God’s self-destruction, and Dean Avery Knight sealed the remains in a crystal of soul power.
• Dean Avery Knight ordered the Wizards to record the spatial energy, search for the source plane’s coordinates, and study the remains, sacrificial island, and Sage.
• Dean Avery Knight told Benjamin and David that the failed invasion was not their fault and offered each an additional reward for their valuable intelligence.
• Benjamin and David learned that Plane Origin could provide Wizards with knowledge of a plane’s laws, and Dean Avery Knight asked which type they needed.

Benjamin and David chose to receive Plane Origin related to the four great elements, even after Dean Avery Knight increased their reward to ten strands. They left the Dean to rest while he prepared their rewards, due in about a dozen years.

• Benjamin and David asked Dean Avery Knight for Plane Origin related to the rules of the four great elements.
• Dean Avery Knight explained the risks of relying on Plane Origin and revealed that the target plane’s multiple Level 8 lifeforms meant their reward would rise from one strand to ten.
• Benjamin reaffirmed his choice, and David overcame his hesitation and made the same choice.
• Dean Avery Knight approved their decision and said he would deliver their rewards in roughly a dozen years.
• Benjamin and David saluted Dean Avery Knight and departed from the sea region where the demolition work continued.

Benjamin returned to his research in Golden Garden and received a wisp of Water Element rule origin from Dean Avery Knight as an advance reward. After absorbing it, he gained the knowledge he needed to complete the final stage of his Lava Giant modification research.

• Benjamin resumed his Lava Giant racial modification research in his private laboratory after recovering from his grief.
• Dean Avery Knight sent Benjamin a sealed test tube containing Water Element rule origin and explained that the Academy had found the Destruction Demon God's plane coordinates.
• Benjamin crushed the test tube and absorbed the origin, gaining insight into Water Element and time rules.
• Benjamin realized that the origin's knowledge of restraint, tolerance, and circulation supplied the final insight needed for his Lava Giant modification plan.

After fifty years, Benjamin’s fusion experiment using Lava Giant and Snow Monster cores neared completion, and Viola returned from the Frostfire Plane exhausted but eager for new work. She learned of a war on a newly discovered plane and planned to prepare before joining it.

• Benjamin checked that the Lava Giant and Snow Monster cores were fusing steadily and estimated they would need about another year to finish.
• Viola arrived at Benjamin’s laboratory after decades of research on the Frostfire Plane, where Clark had pushed her to her limits.
• Viola told Benjamin that Clark’s research had made a major breakthrough and asked him to send the Mortal Dust Potions he owed.
• Viola explained that Clark had released her to catch up on her foundational studies and repay her debt, so she asked Benjamin about profitable jobs.
• Benjamin told Viola about a resource-rich plane at war, and Viola decided to prepare for twenty or thirty years before heading there.

Two years later, Benjamin tested a newly modified Lava Giant that combined a Lava Giant’s energy reserves with a Snow Monster’s time talent and powerful heat absorption. After defeating it, he named the creation Black Giant.

• Benjamin watched the black giant emerge from the Incubation Pool, whereupon it lost control and attacked him.
• Benjamin fought the black giant and discovered its extraordinary speed, soul-chilling cold, and ability to absorb energy from its surroundings.
• Benjamin assessed the black giant’s defenses and time-manipulating abilities as they battled across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin eventually knocked the black giant down and gave it the codename Black Giant.

Benjamin monitored his slow elemental-core fusion and confronted two immediate problems: his stalled cultivation and empty finances. After Viola suggested selling older technologies, he eagerly began choosing inventions to market.

• Benjamin checked the Lava Giant and Snow Monster cores and confirmed their fusion was progressing extremely slowly.
• Benjamin realized that despite reaching the peak of Foundation Establishment, he could not break through to Golden Core without a crucial opportunity.
• Benjamin discovered that his research expenses had depleted his points, and Viola admitted she could not lend him money.
• Viola advised Benjamin to sell outdated technologies to fund his research, explaining that knowledge could earn him points and military merit.
• Benjamin thanked Viola, ended the call, and began selecting technologies to sell while Viola called after him to offer to buy them.

Benjamin developed the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol by adapting the stable energy-circulation principle of Inner Circulation into a low-cost elemental magic array. After the Star Ring Federation’s artificial intelligence Felix offered to promote it in exchange for a sharply reduced price and waived fees, Benjamin agreed.

• Benjamin chose to adapt Inner Circulation’s stable energy circulation rather than sell his secret cultivation methods directly.
• After several months of work, Benjamin completed the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol, which isolated and stabilized energy in a small area.
• Benjamin submitted the protocol to the Star Ring Federation’s Magic Network, where its review was quickly approved.
• Felix contacted Benjamin and offered to waive the sales fee and promote the protocol if Benjamin lowered its price to two hundred low-level Military Merit.
• Felix explained that the technology qualified for support under the Civilization Advancement Fundamental Treaty, and Benjamin accepted the offer.

After ten years, Benjamin completed a Level 4 Black Giant Core but found that hatching a Black Giant would take over a century without more energy. He discovered that his protocol had earned him thirty billion Low-Level Military Merit, paid the balance for his Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, and began buying smaller pools to prepare Black Giants for the next plane war.

• Benjamin finished cultivating the Level 4 Black Giant Core and placed a fragment in the Incubation Pool to hatch a Black Giant.
• Benjamin realized the Incubation Pool lacked enough energy and would take over a hundred years to produce one Black Giant on its own.
• Benjamin checked his account and discovered the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol had earned him more than thirty billion Low-Level Military Merit, mostly during its first year.
• Benjamin paid Clark the remaining eighteen billion Military Merit for the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, which Clark said would be delivered in less than ten years.
• Clark reminded Benjamin that his mandatory conscription deadline was approaching, and Benjamin decided to test the Black Giants in the next plane war.
• Benjamin began purchasing small elemental Pools to supply the Incubation Pool and shorten the Black Giants' hatching time to under half a year.

Benjamin welcomed the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, then went to the Junction Point to register. There, Master Roland asked whether Benjamin had created the anonymous Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol.

• Benjamin assessed the five Black Giants he had raised and worried that limited energy had slowed their growth and stunted their potential.
• Mentor Clark delivered the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, gave Benjamin a Space Expansion Bag full of operating manuals, and approved of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane during a brief inspection.
• After Clark left, Benjamin postponed studying the manuals and traveled to the Junction Point to register.
• Master Roland recognized Benjamin at the Junction Point and asked if he was behind the anonymously released Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol.

Benjamin sold Master Roland a higher-grade version of the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol in exchange for advance repayment of a future loan, then went to register for another plane war. The chapter left him at the Affairs Center, signing the required contract in person.

• Master Roland recognized Benjamin as the creator of the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol and asked to buy a more powerful version for his spatial research.
• Benjamin agreed to provide the professional version in exchange for advance repayment of the loan he would owe Roland after reaching Level 3 Wizard.
• Benjamin sent Roland the technology through an encrypted channel, and they signed a binding contract to complete the transaction.
• Roland hurried away to build a new laboratory, while Benjamin stayed to eat at the restaurant.
• Benjamin went to the Affairs Center and began registering for the next plane war, which required a new contract and his soul imprint.

Benjamin prepared his Purgatory Sulfur Plane base before reporting to the junction point for a new planar war, where he reunited with Wizard Jack and other seniors from his early days in the Wizard World. As more than a hundred thousand wizards gathered, an enormous ship Plane arrived to carry them toward the expedition.

• Benjamin secured his Golden Garden, laboratory, and Incubation Pool with upgraded defenses, stocked energy, and instructions for the giants before leaving for the junction point.
• Benjamin waited in the assembly square and recognized Wizard Jack and several former Logistics Department seniors, whose squad had grown stronger but lost members over the years.
• Benjamin exchanged experiences and contact information with Jack's group, and they agreed to support one another during the planar war.
• More than a hundred thousand wizards gathered in the square, far exceeding the turnout for Benjamin's previous war.
• A vast ship Plane covered the simulated sky, and Benjamin recognized it as one of the junction point's converted abandoned planes used to transport expeditions.

Benjamin and the other wizards gathered for an expedition were confronted by their leader, Level 7 Wizard Dionysius Spencer, whose overwhelming aura silenced the plaza. After Dionysius ordered everyone aboard the ship Plane, they departed the junction point and prepared for battle as a new world emerged beyond a spatial rift.

• Benjamin realized that only one supervisor was arriving, then recognized the descending figure as a Level 7 Wizard.
• The Level 7 Wizard introduced himself as Dionysius Spencer and ordered all personnel to board the ship Plane and depart immediately.
• Benjamin summoned five Black Giants from his Internal Space as the other wizards prepared their forces for battle.
• The ship Plane left the junction point and sailed into the Endless Chaotic Void.
• A vast spatial rift opened, revealing a world filled with dense white mist as the expedition's new battlefield.

Benjamin and the other wizards entered a strangely silent plane after Dionysius Spencer reported that no life above Level Five or intelligent beings had been found in the region. Benjamin discovered that the plane had no gravity and that its lack of Earth Elements weakened force-field spells, leaving him to investigate its unusual conditions.

• Dionysius Spencer opened a spatial rift without first giving the wizards information about the target plane, and they found no attacks or energy fluctuations beyond it.
• Dionysius Spencer sent a report stating that the strongest observed life-form was no higher than Level Five and that no intelligent life-forms had been found in the region.
• The wizards became bloodthirsty and rushed through the rift, while most of their Biochemical Beasts stayed behind.
• Benjamin and five Black Giants entered the plane, where Benjamin found that he could float without a Flight Spell because the world had no gravity.
• Benjamin tested the plane's elemental conditions and confirmed that force-field spell models were difficult to construct and unstable.

Wizards invaded a world without Level Six creatures and slaughtered its native inhabitants to collect research materials. Benjamin sampled the spoils, discovered the Black Giants struggled in the mist, and continued gathering specimens with them following in makeshift flying Wizard Artifacts.

• The wizards poured through the spatial rift, confident that no Level Six creatures could threaten them, and began plundering the region.
• Wizards attacked and exterminated a colony of giant ray-like creatures, collecting their remains and capturing several alive.
• Benjamin examined and tasted the creatures’ flesh, discovering its cognitive effects, and judged their bones suitable for wind-amplifying Wands.
• Benjamin noticed his five Black Giants flailing helplessly in the mist and recognized their unsuitability for aerial and underwater combat.
• Benjamin fitted the Black Giants with temporary flying Wizard Artifacts and resumed collecting biological specimens across the region.

Benjamin led his Black Giants through an unexplored region of the mist-filled plane, where they hunted Cloud Monsters and demonstrated the Giants’ adaptive evolution. After the battle, Benjamin used his terminal to find his bearings, and the camp issued mandatory missions as he worried about getting lost beyond signal range.

• Benjamin changed course toward a Cloud Monster colony detected by his Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and ordered his Black Giants to feed.
• The Black Giants devoured the Cloud Monsters, gaining energy, while Benjamin captured several as research samples.
• A group of Cloud Monsters self-destructed together, blasting the four Level Two Black Giants away while the Level Three Black Giant continued its rampage.
• Benjamin observed cyan energy pathways appear on the Black Giants, confirming that his Body Tempering Method gave them adaptive evolution after enduring attacks.
• Benjamin used his terminal to locate the Ship Plane and determine his direction, then received a notification that the camp had begun issuing mandatory missions.

Benjamin accepted the mandatory mission to place Signal Nodes across the Void Plane and headed back to the Ship Plane, while realizing that spatial hazards might have trapped other wizards. An invisible attacker ambushed him, but after narrowly surviving two strikes, Benjamin recognized that it wielded spatial power.

• Benjamin reviewed the mandatory Signal Node mission and flew toward the Ship Plane, judging its timing and requirements to be reasonable.
• Benjamin noticed an emergency mission to search for lost wizards skilled in spatial knowledge and considered the danger of spatial turbulence in the Void Plane.
• An invisible attacker struck at Benjamin, shattered his concealed shield, and nearly hit his forehead before he dodged.
• The five Black Giants surrounded Benjamin as he raised more shields and checked his detection artifacts, which had failed to reveal the attacker.
• The attacker struck again from above, broke through Benjamin's shields, and wounded his left arm, but Benjamin identified spatial power as the source of its attacks.

Benjamin used his spatial knowledge to locate a Level 2 creature that hid in spatial folds, then captured it after baiting it into attacking him. He left with the creature sealed in his Internal Space and continued toward the Ship Plane.

• Benjamin realized the creature could manipulate spatial power and decided to capture it for its research and sale value.
• Benjamin expanded the All-Purpose Eye's range at great cost to his soul and found the spider-snake-like creature concealed in spatial folds.
• The creature attacked Benjamin's back with Spatial Severance, but Benjamin reshaped his body and trapped its limbs.
• Benjamin subdued the creature, sealed it with multiple methods, and stored it in his Internal Space.
• Benjamin healed the holes in his chest with the Body Tempering Method and Extreme Body Activation, then flew toward the Ship Plane.