Recaps

Benjamin returned to the Floating Camp and searched for a way to survive the unstable space. Senior Jack recruited him for a rescue mission in a spatial distortion in exchange for a potion that could permanently improve spatial perception, and Benjamin agreed before spotting a caged creature at a market stall.

• Benjamin arrived at the Floating Camp, registered for his mandatory mission, and searched the market for an artifact to protect him from spatial turbulence.
• Senior Jack told Benjamin that Levin Mills had made a potion that permanently heightened sensitivity to wind elements and spatial power, but they lacked the ingredients to brew more.
• Jack invited Benjamin to help search a vast spatial distortion for lost wizards and promised him a bottle of the potion as well as a mission reward.
• Jack explained that the spatial distortions contained valuable resources, and Benjamin accepted the offer to gain rewards and learn from experienced wizards.
• Benjamin continued searching the camp market for a way to calm spatial turbulence and stopped when he noticed a caged creature at a stall.

Benjamin bought more than ten thousand Soundwave Spider-Snakes to support his research into a powerful mutated member of their species. Unable to store the creatures himself, he rented a vast breeding warehouse and settled them there before heading to meet Jack.

• Benjamin recognized the Soundwave Spider-Snakes as the same species as the spatially powerful creature he had captured and decided to buy them as research subjects.
• After bargaining, Benjamin purchased every Spider-Snake at the stall and in the wizard's reserves for five thousand Military Merit.
• Benjamin learned that the camp's Affairs Center rented creature-breeding warehouses and rented a high-grade warehouse for ten years.
• Benjamin moved the Spider-Snake Monsters into the warehouse, activated its breeding systems, and stocked it with concentrated nutritional feed.
• Benjamin searched the square for a Wizard Artifact but found none, then headed to meet Jack.

Benjamin joined Jack’s rescue team and followed him to a concealed spatial distortion zone, where the wizards discovered an inverted region with cloud-like ground and gravity. Levin Mills warned them that the clouds hid dangerous distortions, while the air above them was relatively stable.

• Benjamin met Jack and eleven mostly low-level wizards, then followed the group on a six-day flight to the spatial distortion zone.
• Jack used a bird-shaped Wizard Artifact to locate Levin Mills and showed the group a safe, winding route marked by faintly glowing spheres.
• Levin Mills reported that the search area was expanding and that his scouting beasts had found nothing, then led the wizards into the zone.
• Benjamin entered first and discovered that the region had gravity, with the wizards appearing upside down relative to his initial perspective.
• Levin Mills explained that the cloud-like ground contained wind elements and dangerous spatial distortions, so the wizards rose to remain safely above it.

Benjamin joined Jack Squad’s search through the inverted-gravity world, using contracted bioengineered mosquitoes to scout ahead. He fought and captured a group of supersonic creatures, then continued searching as distant battles suggested the other wizards had also encountered enemies.

• An obese wizard created swarms of reconnaissance mosquitoes, which Benjamin and the other wizards contracted to search the area.
• Levin Mills organized the wizards into a fan-shaped formation, and they spread out to scout ahead while leaving coordinate markers.
• Benjamin spotted supersonic creatures approaching through a mosquito’s shared vision and activated his Acceleration Rune Artifact.
• Benjamin blasted the creatures with destructive spells, then captured them after injuring them enough to stop their movement.
• Benjamin detected energy fluctuations from distant battles but continued probing deeper because nobody had called for help.

After a wizard disappeared from the team’s communication network, Benjamin and the others traced his last known movements and discovered creatures hidden in the clouds. The swarm’s mass soul-curse illusions left even powerful wizards confused, and the group faced the attack as their reactions faltered.

• After more than ten days of searching, Benjamin noticed that one recruited wizard had vanished from the Glowbug communication network, though his insects remained alive and within range.
• The wizards regrouped and flew to the missing wizard’s last known location, where Levin Mills sensed evidence of a fight from the previous day.
• As the group advanced, Benjamin felt his Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier being attacked and saw that the others could not hear his warning, so he jolted them awake with energy bolts.
• A tide of white, mist-like creatures rose from the clouds, and Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye to identify how their bodies blended with the surroundings.
• Levin Mills warned that the creatures used soul curse-type illusions, and Benjamin realized their enormous numbers had overwhelmed the group’s mental defenses.

Benjamin and the other wizards fought off a vast swarm of white fluff creatures, with Benjamin’s Rune Artifacts providing overwhelming firepower. After the group resumed its search, they found the missing wizard’s skin packed with juvenile fluff creatures and continued through the Void Plane.

• Benjamin used Accelerate to assess the wizards’ condition as Levin Mills, Jack, and the others fought the attacking fluff creatures.
• Benjamin protected the incapacitated wizards, then unleashed his Rune Artifacts in Blast mode and cleared the visible swarm.
• The survivors collected the creatures and accepted Benjamin’s demand for ten thousand military merit from each protected wizard.
• Levin Mills praised Benjamin, while Jack asked to buy his Rune Artifacts and Benjamin refused, saying they involved his core knowledge.
• Guided by the stout wizard’s mosquitoes, Levin Mills found the missing wizard’s skin filled with transparent juvenile fluff creatures, and the group collected them before continuing its search.

As spatial distortions made the search more dangerous and resource-rich, Benjamin learned that the Glowbugs’ scout was creating them by stripping away his own flesh. Levin Mills gathered the wizards to plan a joint search of a vast, unusually tall region, while the scout warned he could endure for only thirteen more days.

• The wizards navigated unstable spatial distortions, using Glowbugs to scout while collecting increasingly valuable resources.
• Benjamin found the former plump wizard gaunt and learned from Jack that he had been turning his own flesh into Glowbugs.
• Levin Mills asked the gaunt wizard how long he could continue, and the wizard said he could last at most thirteen more days at the current rate of losses.
• Levin Mills announced that the group would search a large, relatively stable area together the next day and described its unusually tall, upside-down trapezoid shape.

Benjamin led the recruited wizards through a narrowing region of the distorted space and found an injured Level 4 Wizard beyond a vast canyon. When the wizard attacked, Benjamin discovered that Jack’s group had approached from behind and attacked his team, leaving the two groups facing each other amid the Level 4 Wizard’s spatial assault.

• Levin Mills divided the wizards into two search teams, and Benjamin led the recruited wizards through the lower region.
• Benjamin’s team advanced through increasingly dense terrain as the space narrowed, while Jack and Levin Mills’s team searched an upper region that kept widening.
• Benjamin’s team entered a seemingly lifeless canyon and found a vast barren area blocked by a spatial barrier.
• Beyond the barrier, Benjamin and the others discovered an injured Level 4 Wizard, who raised his hand as they approached.
• Benjamin used Acceleration to shield his team from attacks launched by Jack’s group behind them.
• The Level 4 Wizard’s spatial attack missed Levin Mills and the others, and Benjamin fixed his gaze on Jack.

Benjamin and the recruited wizards fought Jack's group after discovering the supposed rescue mission was a trap. Benjamin unleashed his Rune Artifacts and Great Light Manifestation to hold off the attackers, leaving both sides locked in a brutal stalemate.

• Benjamin and the other survivors formed a spiritual contract with the Level 4 Wizard to unite against Levin Mills and Jack's group.
• Jack's group shattered Benjamin's shield, and the Level 4 Wizard engaged Levin Mills in the sky.
• The gaunt wizard destroyed the recruits' Glowbugs, inflicting a soul backlash that incapacitated many Level 1 Wizards.
• Benjamin summoned five Black Giants and used them with the surviving wizards to hold off seven Level 2 attackers while he confronted Jack and four others.
• Benjamin's Rune Artifacts and Level 4 Wizard Artifacts pinned Jack's group down, then his Great Light Manifestation unleashed a devastating torrent that forced them to dodge.
• The battle became a stalemate after Benjamin's assault eased pressure on his allies, though the recruits suffered heavy casualties and two Black Giants were destroyed.

Benjamin discovered that Jack had targeted him out of envy, then helped defeat Jack’s group as the battle turned in the Wizards’ favor. After Levin Mills defeated the Level 4 Wizard, he rejected Benjamin’s proposal to withdraw, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Benjamin judged that Levin Mills was suppressing the Level 4 Wizard, while Jack’s attacks failed to penetrate Benjamin’s energy defenses.
• Benjamin asked Jack why he had singled him out, and Jack admitted that he envied Benjamin’s talent and felt ashamed of his own mediocrity.
• Benjamin understood that jealousy had driven Jack to choose him as prey, and the realization sharpened his control of the Great Light Manifestation.
• The remaining Black Giants and injured Level 1 Wizards defeated the last two enemy Level 2 Wizards, and Benjamin’s group wiped out Jack’s forces.
• Levin Mills defeated the Level 4 Wizard and descended to face Benjamin, then refused Benjamin’s offer for both sides to withdraw.

Benjamin countered Levin Mills's Anti-Magic Field by draining the surrounding elements and forcing their fight into close combat. He defeated Levin with superior martial skill, leaving the Level 3 Wizard badly wounded and his vitality fading.

• Levin Mills activated a rune-engraved artifact that suppressed magic across the battlefield and disabled Benjamin's Rune Artifact.
• Benjamin's disc-shaped Wizard Artifact absorbed Levin's Anti-Magic Field and the surrounding elements, creating an elemental vacuum.
• Benjamin and Levin fought with their bare hands, but Benjamin evaded Levin's attacks and steadily wore down his life force.
• Benjamin let Levin strike his shoulder, then broke Levin's knee with a sweeping kick and landed a crushing knee strike to his abdomen.
• Levin crashed into the ground, lost his ability to recover with the vitality rule, and lay defeated as his life force rapidly dissipated.

Benjamin killed Levin Mills and searched his damaged soul, uncovering the truth about a plot to obtain spatial Plane Origin by sacrificing wizard souls. He secured a contract with the surviving Level 4 Wizard and led the survivors back, leaving the fate of the suspected forced advancement to the camp’s review.

• Benjamin destroyed Levin Mills's body, wounded his soul with a Level 4 artifact, and used Soul Search to uncover his memories.
• Levin Mills's memories revealed that a missing wizard squad had attacked his team to sacrifice wizard souls in exchange for spatial Plane Origin.
• Benjamin learned that the surviving Level 4 Wizard had forcibly advanced by absorbing Plane Origin and lacked the knowledge and skill normally required at that level.
• The wounded Level 4 Wizard agreed to submit to camp judgment and review and signed a contract with Benjamin.
• Benjamin collected the spoils and led the survivors back toward the way they had come.

Benjamin returned to the Floating City with the surviving wizards and reported a betrayal involving the Plane Origin, earning a personal audience with Level 7 Wizard Dionysius Spencer. Dionysius rewarded Benjamin with a large share of the trial proceeds and twenty pure strands of wind-law Plane Origin, leaving Benjamin to put them to use.

• Benjamin brought the bound Level 4 Wizard and the surviving Level 1 Wizards to the Affairs Center and reported the mission, the Plane Origin, and a wizard betrayal.
• Dionysius Spencer summoned the group and ordered two Alchemy Puppets to take the Level 4 Wizard for review.
• Dionysius Spencer praised Benjamin's conduct and promised him 85% of the subsequent trial proceeds if the Level 4 Wizard passed review.
• Benjamin gave Dionysius Spencer a memory replication detailing the spatial distortion zone and Levin Mills's actions.
• Dionysius Spencer gave Benjamin twenty pure strands of wind elemental Plane Origin, and Benjamin left the quiet room with the valuable gift.

After receiving a generous reward from Dionysius Spencer, Benjamin considered the dangers of the Void Plane and prepared to explore it more safely. He acquired a spatial fluctuation detector and set out on a mission to investigate an unknown biological community.

• Dionysius Spencer gave each Level 1 Wizard a strand of Plane Origin, and the wizards thanked Benjamin for helping them survive and earn the reward.
• Benjamin reflected on Dionysius Spencer’s remark that the Void Plane was merely “dessert before the meal” and decided to focus on strengthening his survival abilities.
• Benjamin reviewed Wizard Camp’s supplies, learned that spatial fluctuation detectors were available for exchange, and bought one for ten thousand Military Merit.
• Benjamin activated the detector and found it could reveal boundaries between stable and distorted space with little information load.
• Benjamin accepted a mission to explore an unknown biological community near a newly discovered spatial fold and flew from the Floating City toward the region.

Thirty years into the Plane War, Wizard Civilization had plundered the Void Plane on an immense scale while its resources continued to replenish, and the Floating City’s World Teleportation Array was nearing completion. Benjamin suspected Lord Dionysius Spencer’s true objective was worth more than the plane itself, then accepted a high-risk mission to investigate an abnormal energy source called the Eye of the Storm.

• Wizard Civilization’s extraction transformed the Floating City into a vast resource hub, and the early activation of the World Teleportation Array began sending supplies back to the core heartland.
• Benjamin returned with captured creatures, handed them to Alchemy Puppets, and sold most of his haul in bulk through the Magic Network Terminal.
• Benjamin observed the expedition’s rapid growth in Level 3 Wizards and considered the severe ecological damage and deaths caused by decades of plundering.
• Benjamin suspected Lord Dionysius Spencer’s expedition targeted something more valuable than the Void Plane, but suppressed his speculation.
• Benjamin accepted a high-risk mission to investigate an abnormal energy source in a large spatial fold called the Eye of the Storm and left the Floating City.

After surviving a battle with a Tranquil Jellyfish colony in the Eye of the Storm, Benjamin used his All-Purpose Eye to uncover a concealed artificial spatial fissure and sent its coordinates to the Magic Network. Dionysius Spencer received the report and recognized the discovery as what he had been seeking.

• Benjamin entered the Eye of the Storm's core with his two surviving Black Giants, both of whom had advanced to Level 4.
• Benjamin and the Black Giants fought a Tranquil Jellyfish colony for days, defeating its giant king while Benjamin collected biological samples.
• Benjamin searched the core for the mission's energy anomaly, then used his All-Purpose Eye to detect a vast spatial fissure hidden behind folded space.
• Benjamin recorded the fissure's coordinates and reported that it was likely artificially constructed.
• Dionysius Spencer received Benjamin's message in the Floating City and murmured, "Found it—"

Benjamin discovered that Dionysius Spencer had used the momentum of his fate to locate a spatial rift, but accepted the wizard’s valuable Fate School notes as compensation. Spencer summoned the Expeditionary Force, revealed that they would invade another world through the rift, and ordered them to secure the passage when it stabilized in three standard days.

• Benjamin accused Dionysius Spencer of weaving his fate, and Spencer explained that he had only borrowed its momentum to reach the desired coordinates.
• Spencer sent Benjamin his personal notes on advancing to Level 6 in the Fate School, and Benjamin accepted the gift as compensation.
• A mandatory mission summoned every Expeditionary Force wizard to the spatially distorted region, where Spencer announced that a rift there connected to another plane.
• Spencer teleported the Floating City to the region, cleared the spatial distortions, and revealed a massive but unstable rift.
• Spencer ordered the wizards to prepare to enter the new world in three standard days and keep its inhabitants from closing the passage.
• The Expeditionary Force deployed workshops, defenses, Golems, and Biochemical Beasts around the rift.

The Sacred Continent’s four Holy Gods prepared to celebrate the World Gate Festival as a powerful Sacred Spirit’s branch hosted the costly ceremony. The Wizard Civilization forced its way through the supposedly closed gate, and Benjamin emerged with two Black Giants, beginning an invasion as the Holy Servants and gods watched.

• The four empires assigned a peak Sacred Spirit’s branch to host the World Gate Festival, angering his younger brother, who believed the decision was meant to hinder his rise.
• The Sacred Spirit accepted the burden, and his forces joined the immense gathering of Holy Servants and Sacred Spirits at the World Gate Altar.
• During the festival ritual, the closed gate rippled and two Black Giants forced their way through, with Benjamin standing atop the leading giant.
• Benjamin surveyed the Holy Servants and the four storm vortices, declaring that the world had given them a grand welcome.
• Several minutes earlier, Benjamin recognized the circular passage as an artificially made gate, stepped back behind the other wizards, and heard Dionysius Spencer order the Vanguard Army to attack.

Benjamin and two Black Giants crossed the unstable spatial gate ahead of the Vanguard Army and found themselves alone among the Holy Servants of a hostile world. After he destroyed more than a dozen Sacred Spirits with the Great Light Manifestation, the Holy Servant army charged, just as the Wizard Legion began emerging through the gate.

• Benjamin and the two Black Giants endured the chaotic spatial passage and reached the other side before the rest of the Vanguard Army.
• Benjamin discovered an enormous altar surrounded by hundreds of millions of Holy Servants and four Sacred Gods, then sent a spatial-coordinate signal to guide the Wizard Legion to him.
• A Sacred Spirit attacked a Black Giant and was killed with one blow, prompting more than a dozen Sacred Spirits to surround the giants.
• The Sacred Gods ordered the intruders killed, and Benjamin used the Great Light Manifestation to annihilate the attacking Sacred Spirits in one volley.
• The Holy Servants launched an all-out assault on Benjamin and the Black Giants as the Wizard Legion began pouring through the spatial gate.

Benjamin’s forces poured through the spatial gate and fought the Holy Servant army, but the narrow passage and enemy numbers kept the battle in a brutal stalemate. Three Level 4 Wizards intercepted four Level 5 Holy Gods, while Benjamin and the Black Giants prepared to face the remaining god as the battle continued at the gate.

• Benjamin’s signal guided the Wizard Legion through the spatial gate, where biochemical beasts and war golems collided with the Holy Servant army.
• Benjamin fought off Sacred Spirits, but the Wizard Legion remained outnumbered because the gate restricted how quickly troops could enter.
• The four Holy Gods gathered attacks to destroy the spatial gate, but three Level 4 Wizards emerged and intercepted them.
• The three Level 4 Wizards engaged three Holy Gods, while the fourth turned toward Benjamin and the gate.
• Benjamin and the two Black Giants, joined by several Level 3 Wizards, charged the remaining Holy God.

Benjamin and the Wizards struggled against the God of Blades and the Holy Servants until the spatial gate expanded and reinforcements poured through. Wizard Dionysius Spencer arrived, scanned the Sacred Continent, and ordered the Wizards to kill all resistance.

• The Black Giants and Level 3 Wizards restrained the God of Blades while Benjamin fought the Holy Servants after the Great Light Manifestation ran out of energy.
• Official Wizards emerged from the spatial gate, and their combined witchcraft helped stabilize the ground battle.
• The spatial gate expanded to nearly two kilometers, allowing more Biochemical Beasts, war golems, and Wizard Legions to enter and push back the Holy Servants.
• Wizard Dionysius Spencer’s vast will crossed through the gate and scanned the Sacred Continent, finding no Level 6 or higher beings.
• Wizard Dionysius Spencer ordered the Wizards to eliminate all resistance and occupy the realm.

With the spatial gate stabilized, the Wizard Legion crushed the Holy Servants, captured the Holy Gods, and forced mass surrender. Benjamin learned the Sacred Continent’s history and the source of its distorted power structure as the wizards began establishing an outpost to absorb the world.

• The Wizard Legion overwhelmed the Holy Servants with sorcery, while three Level 4 Wizards unleashed their full power against the Holy Gods.
• Dionysius Spencer reached through the spatial gate with a ghostly blue hand and dragged the God of Blades away, breaking the defenders’ resolve.
• The Level 4 Wizards captured the remaining three Holy Gods, and millions of Holy Servants surrendered as the wizards halted their slaughter.
• Benjamin used Soul Search on a Holy Servant corpse and learned about the Sacred Continent, its empires, the World Gate, and the Holy Gods’ rule.
• A Level 4 Wizard ordered Benjamin and the other wizards to continue clearing the battlefield and establish an outpost to digest the world.

After fifty years of conquest, Benjamin returned to the Void Plane troubled by Dionysius Spencer’s hidden purpose and the devastation of the Sacred Continent. Seeing a Void Giant Fish feeding on the spreading mist, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

• Benjamin received foremost merit for discovering and stabilizing the spatial gate, and Dionysius Spencer granted him a share of knowledge gathered on the Sacred Continent.
• Over the next fifty years, the wizards conquered the Sacred Continent, while the unstable gate prevented them from reaching the other four worlds.
• Benjamin completed his mission and reflected on Dionysius Spencer’s indifference to the continent and possible plans for a greater target.
• Disturbed by the continent’s devastation, Benjamin flew alone, passed through the spatial gate, and drifted through the mostly abandoned Void Plane.
• Benjamin spotted a Void Giant Fish feeding on particles in the mist and suddenly realized something was wrong.

Benjamin uncovered that the white mist concealed microscopic life and interfered with cognition, then began collecting it. Dionysius Spencer watched from the Floating City and allowed Benjamin to take some, constrained by fate’s equivalent exchange.

• Benjamin recovered his lost insight and realized the white mist contained microorganisms that creatures could filter-feed on.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye and discovered that the mist withdrew from its detection range, hiding its contents from observers.
• Benjamin concluded that cognitive interference concealed the mist’s abnormal nature and suspected it was Dionysius Spencer’s true objective.
• Benjamin began cautiously collecting the white mist, believing Dionysius Spencer had noticed but permitted his actions.
• Dionysius Spencer watched Benjamin from the Floating City and accepted that fate required him to let Benjamin obtain part of the mist.

Dionysius Spencer uncovered the origin of the white mist and the reason the Sacred Continent’s World Gate had attracted four other planes, then reported his suspicions to the Star Ring Federation. Benjamin returned from the war to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and began assessing the many projects awaiting him.

• Dionysius Spencer read the God of Blades’ memories and learned how the Sacred Continent’s ruler became the white mist, a half-step Level 8 lifeform.
• Dionysius Spencer concluded that the four planes had connected to the sealed World Gate as part of an organized effort to establish a transit station, and he sent a report to the Star Ring Federation.
• Benjamin quietly left the conquered planes, returned to his laboratory on the Eloria Plane, and checked that his equipment and research remained in order.
• Benjamin entered the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and found that the Black Giants’ chaos crystals had only begun their energy infusion.
• Benjamin reviewed his many pending research and construction projects and realized that even a two-hundred-year rest period would feel short.