Recaps

Benjamin realized that the Level One Training Agreement meant Starfall would be protected from the coming war, and Clark chose to stay with the newborn Starfall Plane to guide and study it. Before Benjamin and Viola departed, Starfall gave them the Starfall Spirit Awakening Technique 1.0, a major research breakthrough that could deepen Benjamin’s understanding of Spirit Energy.

• Benjamin understood that Noren Workshop would keep Starfall away from the war to protect her and her research.
• Benjamin and Viola prepared to leave, while Clark decided to remain and teach the newborn Living Plane.
• Starfall sent Benjamin, Viola, and Clark the model for her Starfall Spirit Awakening Technique 1.0.
• Starfall explained that the technique could awaken intelligence through energy resonance and information injection, though large-scale use risked losing control.
• Benjamin, Viola, and Clark thanked Starfall for the valuable research gift.

Benjamin completed the Cross-Space Energy Transmission System after nearly ten years of work and traveled to the Junction Point to test it. The test succeeded, while the Junction Point’s deserted, suspicious atmosphere showed that news of the coming war had spread widely.

• Benjamin returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and focused on finishing the Cross-Space Energy Transmission System with the Black Giant Priest team.
• After nearly ten years, Benjamin completed the system’s main construction and began planning a live test in a complex environment.
• Benjamin chose the Junction Point and found its streets and shops largely deserted as wizards from the three major powers eyed one another warily.
• Benjamin set up a private room and activated a Coordinate Guidance Talisman Plate to test energy transmission from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin confirmed that the transmission was stable and efficient, then reflected that he needed to grow stronger before the war arrived.

After completing the Cross-Space Energy Transmission System, Benjamin considered how to raise his combat power before the wizard war and decided to modify Spirit Transformation Stage spells. He selected three spells for further study, broadening his options beyond the Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light.

• Benjamin reviewed the system’s success and found that his mastery of the Spirit Energy Law had risen from about 14% to 20%.
• Benjamin judged that further Body Tempering should wait until his mental power and Spiritual Power caught up, and chose spell modification as his short-term path to greater combat power.
• Benjamin entered the Great Dao Library and searched its enormous collection for Spirit Transformation Stage spells with useful battlefield mechanisms.
• Benjamin selected Return to Void Armor for defense and counterattacks, Causal Shadow Tracing Technique for reconnaissance and tracking, and Void-Step for movement and concealment.

Benjamin began adapting several Cultivation spells into a wizard-based combat system and focused on understanding the Return to Void Armor by consuming Plane Origin rich in related laws. His costly research was sustained by a surge in Imaginary Element sales, and he continued his work with new income from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

• Benjamin planned to dismantle and rebuild the Return to Void Armor, Causal Shadow Tracing Technique, and Void-Step using wizard runes and models.
• Benjamin ordered large quantities of Plane Origin associated with devouring, annihilation, the abyss, the void, and entropy’s end to study the Return to Void Artistic Conception.
• Benjamin consumed strands of Plane Origin to absorb their stored knowledge, gaining information without truly understanding its deeper logic.
• Benjamin’s spell research and rare-material expenses strained his finances despite income from the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol and Liquid Adamantine.
• Wizards’ interest in Imaginary Element increased after news spread about Wizard Starfall’s Level One Training Agreement, and Benjamin accepted their lucrative orders.
• Benjamin used the growing Imaginary Element revenue and Spirit Energy sales from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane to keep funding his research.

Benjamin reached Level 5 Wizard after absorbing Plane Origin, but realized his cultivation had no clear path from Spirit Transformation to Void Refinement. Ancient records led him to conclude that later realms and Level 6 Wizard represented major leaps with few established steps, leaving him wary of the coming wizard war.

• Benjamin's Ring of Truth trembled as he reached Level 5 Wizard, though he recognized his orthodox wizard knowledge remained limited compared with veteran wizards.
• Benjamin found that his spiritual power and Spiritual Power kept growing rapidly, yet he could not sense a path toward Void Refinement.
• Benjamin searched the Great Dao Library and learned that cultivation bottlenecks were milestones refined by predecessors, while advancement from Spirit Transformation onward approached a more primitive, uncertain state.
• Benjamin reasoned that Wizard Levels 3 through 5 were stages within one mid-level realm, while Level 6 marked a qualitative leap into high-level wizardry.
• Benjamin recalled Senior Viola's easy passage through Levels 4 and 5 and her difficult breakthrough to Level 6, then resumed absorbing Plane Origin with greater concern about the coming war.

After ten years of research, Benjamin completed and tested a modified Return to Void Armor that could absorb Level 5 energy attacks and withstand sustained Level 6 bombardment. With his essence, energy, and spirit restored to balance, he decided to resume Time Afterimage training.

• Benjamin finished modifying the Return to Void Armor and brought it to the Testing Ground for trials.
• The armor absorbed Level 5 attacks for ten days without damage, storing only 67% of its estimated maximum energy.
• Against simulated Level 6 attacks, the armor endured more than an hour of sustained bombardment and reached 97% energy storage.
• Benjamin confirmed that faster energy digestion and conversion drove the armor’s improved defense, while its physical defense still depended partly on stored energy and his bodily strength.
• Benjamin noted that his essence, energy, and spirit had returned to balance and decided to restart Time Afterimage training.

Benjamin’s month of fighting Time Afterimages greatly strengthened his body, though his physical power outpaced his mental power and Spiritual Power. After Blake warned him of rising wartime demand and hinted at his own preparations, Benjamin inspected his stored resources and decided to upgrade the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier.

• Benjamin defeated his Time Afterimage, then recovered in a medicinal bath as a Black Giant Priest recorded major gains in his physical abilities.
• Benjamin accepted William Blake’s call, agreed to prepare more Liquid Adamantine, and warned Blake to prioritize survival preparations as war approached.
• After his bath, Benjamin visited the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s storage district and inspected his stocks of Flower Deity Malice, death Killing Intent, Power of Incense, and Mortal Aura.
• Benjamin summoned the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier and judged that its current reserves might not withstand powerful curse or illusion attacks.
• Benjamin decided to use his plentiful Flower Deity Malice to thoroughly upgrade the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier.

Benjamin discovered that the Incense Divinity Path had accumulated a large reserve of highly concentrated Incense Poison, which could serve as a powerful material for upgrading the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier. He decided to first modify Causal Shadow Tracing Technique and Void-Step before beginning the barrier’s transformation.

• Benjamin asked the Black Giant Priest where impurities from the Incense Divinity Path’s filtering system had been stored.
• The Black Giant Priest led Benjamin to a secured warehouse containing a mass of compressed Incense Poison held inside a Composite Array.
• Benjamin learned that Incense Poison was formed from harmful thoughts and emotions filtered out of Incense Divine Power and could erode the mind and soul.
• The Black Giant Priest showed Benjamin that the warehouse held substantial reserves of Incense Poison and that its daily output continued to grow.
• Benjamin judged Incense Poison suitable for strengthening the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier but cautioned that it required precise refining and a stable carrier.
• Benjamin decided to modify Causal Shadow Tracing Technique and Void-Step before using Flower Deity Malice, Mortal Aura, and Incense Poison to upgrade the barrier.

Ten years later, Benjamin completed wizard-energy upgrades to Void-Step and Causal Shadow Tracing Mirror and began gathering research to upgrade the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier. Viola informed him that the Coordination War would begin in twenty-five years on a Federation-modified abandoned plane, forcing him to focus on immediate combat strength.

• Benjamin reviewed the successful Void-Step test results and noted that his modified spells formed a preliminary combat system for offense, defense, scouting, and movement.
• Benjamin searched the Magic Network Terminal for research on Power of Faith and selected materials to help him safely use Incense Poison in upgrading the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier.
• Viola contacted Benjamin and revealed that the Coordination War had been scheduled to begin in twenty-five years, much sooner than expected.
• Viola explained that the Star Ring Federation had designated a specially modified ultra-large abandoned plane as the battlefield, where both sides would have limited access to local resources.
• Benjamin accepted that he had to prioritize immediate combat strength and confirmed the purchase of his selected Power of Faith research materials.

After fifteen years of preparation, Benjamin upgraded the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier and began mass-producing single-use Wizard Artifacts for the coming war. The manufacturing zone started full-scale production, while the requested materials continued arriving in vast quantities.

• Benjamin used the automated manufacturing chamber to fuse Flower Deity Malice, Dead Baleful Qi, Liquid Adamantine, Mortal Aura, and Incense Poison into the upgraded Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier.
• Benjamin tested the barrier, confirmed its soul connection and enhanced ability to punish curses, prophecy, and soul contamination, then concealed it around himself.
• A Black Giant Priest reported that Material Storage Area One was eighty-seven percent full and that more supplies were arriving through long-term contracts and cross-plane transportation.
• Benjamin produced and tested about five hundred compact, rapidly rechargeable Wizard Artifacts that each stored one full-power Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light.
• Benjamin connected the production system to the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool and activated fully automated mass production of the metal-plate Wizard Artifacts.

Benjamin completed his final preparations for the Coordination War, strengthening his body and Return to Void Armor before acquiring an Anti-Magic Disk. He gathered his ammunition and ordered his forces to assemble, leaving them poised to march to war.

• Benjamin focused his remaining resources on deepening his Return to Void Artistic Conception and pushing his physical strength to its limits.
• Benjamin spent 200,000 Advanced Military Merit on a Level 7 Anti-Magic Disk and stored it in his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• Benjamin transferred millions of Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light plaques into his Internal Grotto-Heaven’s ammunition reserve.
• Benjamin ordered all combat units of Level 5 and above to assemble at Temporary Assembly Point Seven and march to war.
• Across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, powerful forces answered Benjamin’s call and began gathering at the designated location.

Benjamin assembled the Black Giants’ strongest forces for the coming Coordination War and traveled to Noren Academy No. 147 for a meeting of its conscripted wizards. He joined the gathered high-level wizards and waited with Viola for the Dean to arrive.

• Benjamin selected eight hundred Black Giant Priests, one million Level 5 Black Giant warriors, and nearly ten thousand Level 6 Black Giants, led by Mount Magma and Rock Hammer, for the war.
• Benjamin sent the Black Giant army into his Internal Grotto-Heaven and left priests and Level 4 Black Giants behind to maintain and defend the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin traveled to Noren Academy No. 147 in response to the highest-priority assembly order and entered its packed conference hall.
• Benjamin greeted David, Seraphina, and other former cohort members, then took the seat beside Viola in the front row.
• Viola told Benjamin that the assembled wizards were waiting for the Dean, and they turned their attention toward the closed door.

Benjamin met several high-level wizards eager to buy Imaginary Element and gave them his contact information, while warning that his supply was limited. Avery Knight opened the meeting by confirming that Noren Workshop faced an absolute disadvantage against the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence.

• Mira Silverleaf and Oleg Startrace recognized Benjamin and asked to buy Imaginary Element for their research.
• Other nearby wizards joined the requests, and Benjamin explained that limited production meant orders would be filled according to sequence and available stock.
• Benjamin shared his Magic Network Terminal number so the wizards could place orders through him.
• Avery Knight began the meeting and reported that the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence had recruited formal wizards of Level 3 and above.
• Avery announced that Noren Workshop was at an absolute disadvantage in troop strength and assessed combat power.

Noren Workshop outlined its plan to delay the Tower of Silence and the Chaos Cult despite their overwhelming numerical advantage, then teleported Benjamin and the other wizards to the ship Plane. There, David reunited with Benjamin and reacted with disbelief at his rank.

• Dean Avery announced that Noren Workshop's priority was to stall the enemy and buy time.
• A military staff officer reported that the combined hostile forces outnumbered Noren Workshop and had far more high-level wizards.
• Several Level 6 Wizards explained the war preparations, and the conference ended.
• Viola told Benjamin that the newly installed teleportation arrays were an express route they had rushed to build.
• The array sent Benjamin to the ship Plane, where he recognized the controlled environment.
• David and his companions found Benjamin, and David asked whether he had damaged his brain.

Benjamin reunited with old classmates, who worried that his rapid advancement had outpaced his knowledge, but he reassured them that his Law mastery was built through research. At the battlefield staging area, Clark revealed that Angelo had died in a previous plane war, and Benjamin refocused on the imminent conflict.

• Rex, Seraphina, Anya, and David questioned Benjamin about his rapid rise to Level 5, and he admitted his knowledge had not fully caught up.
• Benjamin assured David and the others that he had built his Law mastery through his own research rather than relying on Plane Origin.
• Benjamin and his old classmates exchanged farewells as the group teleportation sent them to separate assignments.
• Benjamin arrived with Clark and Viola at the Ship Plane's staging area, where wizards prepared for war beside a stabilized rift to the battlefield.
• Benjamin asked where Angelo was, and Clark told him that Angelo had died after encountering a hidden Level 7 native lifeform in a previous plane development war.
• Viola recovered from the news, and Benjamin turned his attention to the coming battle and acknowledged that death might take anyone, including him.

Benjamin and millions of wizards prepared to enter a spatial rift and fight another wizard, while he confronted his nervous excitement and equipped his hidden Wizard Artifacts. As Mentor Clark announced that battle would begin as soon as they entered, the assembled forces activated their defenses and enhancements.

• Benjamin recognized that he was nervous and excited at the prospect of fighting another wizard.
• Benjamin noticed that the millions of wizards gathered on the ship Plane were also tense as they awaited battle.
• Viola asked whether Benjamin planned to fight in his plain robe, and he revealed and fitted Wizard Artifacts beneath it.
• Mentor Clark told Benjamin and Viola to check their defenses because battle would begin when they entered the rift.
• Millions of wizards activated spells, shields, and enhancements, covering the formation in layers of light.

Benjamin joined the wizard legion’s assault on the abandoned plane, where he was struck by an unknown attack immediately after crossing the rift. His defenses failed, and he spun uncontrollably toward the dead ground.

• Benjamin cast Return to Void Armor, layered shields, and enhancement spells as the war wizards prepared to attack.
• Wizard Noren and Anton Buchanan entered the spatial rift first, followed by successive formations of the wizard legion.
• Clark led Benjamin, Viola, and their formation through the rift into a barren plane with little elemental energy.
• Benjamin’s defenses detected an invisible attack; his shields failed, and Return to Void Armor shattered before an unknown barrier around him blocked the strike.
• The attack’s aftershock disrupted the elemental environment, knocked Benjamin’s levitation out of control, and sent him tumbling toward the ground.

Benjamin survived a powerful curse aimed at Noren Workshop’s young wizards, and his protective treasure sent the curse’s poison back to its caster. As the battle’s first round of curses ended, Clark and Dionysius reviewed the casualties and found that both sides had lost roughly half their targeted high-potential wizards.

• Benjamin realized a powerful curse had targeted him and watched other young wizards fall or resist similar attacks.
• Benjamin’s Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier consumed half its reserves and sent poison and Killing Intent back along the curse connection.
• Clark watched Benjamin survive without intervening, while Dionysius and a Level 6 Wizard praised his protective treasure.
• Dionysius reported that the first wave released 3,742 curses with an 89.3 percent hit rate, and the Tower of Silence intercepted far fewer attacks than the Chaos Cult.
• Clark and Dionysius assessed that both sides had lost roughly half of their targeted high-potential wizards, giving Noren Workshop a slight advantage despite the apparent even exchange.

Dionysius Spencer reported that the Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence had corrupted the region’s Fate Lines, leaving fate magic unusable by either side. As four Level 8 Wizards clashed in the distance, Clark and the wizards rapidly built a fortified steel stronghold to prepare for the approaching enemy army.

• Dionysius Spencer told Clark that the enemy had contaminated the Fate Lines, making fate magic unstable across the abandoned plane.
• Four Level 8 Wizards began clashing in the distance, and their pressure forced most lower-level wizards to the ground.
• Dionysius Spencer ordered the wizards to construct defenses while Lord Noren and Lord Buchanan engaged the enemy’s strongest combatants.
• Clark reshaped the ground into a steel fortress, and Benjamin reinforced its structure with seven specially treated metals.
• The Alchemy, Rune, and Elemental Department wizards finished a rune-covered fortress as enemy spell arrays began activating on the horizon.

The Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence launched curses against Noren Workshop, but a counterattack injured their curse wizards and weakened their Fate Wizards. Mordiggian judged the exchange a draw and ordered the joint army to advance on Noren Workshop’s landing zone.

• The Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence split their thousand-wizard vanguard into perimeter guards, Fate Wizards, and curse wizards.
• Three hundred curse wizards launched 3,120 curses at Noren Workshop’s geniuses, but the curse targeting Benjamin triggered a devastating backlash against its Level 7 caster and the linked curse formation.
• Mordiggian reviewed the results and found that only half the curses had hit, while more than forty curse wizards and one Level 7 wizard had been injured.
• The Fate Interference Group’s clash left three Level 7 Fate Wizards weakened, though they contaminated Noren Workshop’s Fate Lines.
• Mordiggian ordered the joint army of more than 1.7 million wizards to advance on Noren Workshop’s landing zone.

Noren Workshop prepared its fortified defenses as a vastly larger enemy army approached, and Benjamin deployed his Black Giant Legion outside Fortress No. 7. The chapter ended with the giants’ arrival intimidating the other wizards’ cannon fodder units.

• Hundreds of Noren Workshop wizards reinforced Fortress No. 7 while Vanguard Army units laid traps and spread reconnaissance devices across the wasteland.
• A frontline scout reported that an enemy force of 1.5 to 1.8 million wizards would reach the first trap line in forty-seven minutes, outnumbering Noren Workshop’s forces.
• Dionysius Spencer ordered the defenders to take positions, activate the fortress arrays, retreat the Vanguard Army, and release their cannon fodder units.
• Benjamin learned from Viola that Clark was regarded as Noren Workshop’s strongest individual genius because his unique research could not be replicated.
• Benjamin summoned one million Level 5 Black Giants, ten thousand Level 6 Black Giants, and seven hundred Level 6 Black Giant Priests from his Internal Grotto-Heaven.

At Fortress No. 7, Clark responded to the approaching Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence forces by creating an immense shadow legion. Benjamin watched as Clark's army appeared, leaving the gathered wizards stunned by his strength.

• Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Leaders to direct their clans and coordinate with the other Cannon Fodder Legions.
• Viola brought Benjamin to an observation window, where thirty-three high-level wizards watched the enemy forces approach Fortress No. 7.
• Dionysus urged Clark to show the enemy the bearing of Noren Workshop's greatest genius, and Clark said he would make up their missing combat power.
• Clark drew in the surrounding light and formed a vast legion of shadow warriors, assassins, wyverns, and more than ten thousand Level 8 Shadow Lords.
• Benjamin calculated the shadow legion's strength and stared at Clark in disbelief.

Benjamin and Viola witnessed the Shadow Legion’s immense power before Noren Workshop’s vanguard returned to Fortress No. 7 under pursuit by the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence. As the rearguard crossed into the fortress defense zone, the defenders completed charging their cannons and began firing.

• Benjamin realized Clark had mass-produced over a hundred million modified creatures, including Level 8 Shadow Legion soldiers, and Viola suggested Clark’s personal strength might exceed what he showed.
• The fortress alarm sounded as Noren Workshop’s vanguard appeared on the horizon, pursued by forces from the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence.
• Viola and Benjamin rushed to the command center, where the tactical commander ordered the fortress defenses to prepare for interception.
• Benjamin took control of twelve Superheavy elemental Disintegration Cannons and saw the pursuing forces attack Noren Workshop’s rearguard with curses and annihilating energy.
• Noren Workshop’s rearguard crossed the defensive line, and the cannons finished charging as the commander ordered them to fire.

Benjamin unleashed the fortress cannons, and their Light River devastated the pursuing forces before revealing Noren Workshop’s defensive deployment. Mordiggian ordered the first wave of the Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence’s cannon fodder to attack the fortresses.

• Benjamin connected his consciousness to the control cores of twelve cannons and ordered them to fire at the enemy’s densest concentration.
• The fortress cannons combined their beams into a three-kilometer-wide Light River that destroyed pursuing wizards and carved a vast trench across the battlefield.
• The Light River’s blast stopped the pursuit and revealed Noren Workshop’s fortresses, partially connected defense array, Cannon Fodder Legion, and Shadow Army.
• Mordiggian assessed the fortresses’ defensive array and ordered the Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence to release their cannon fodder for a first-wave assault.
• Hundreds of millions of cannon fodder units charged toward the trench and Noren Workshop’s waiting defensive line.

The Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence launched a vast cannon-fodder assault on Noren Workshop’s fortified line, whose defenders opened controlled gaps and fought the attackers in confined killing zones. As the defensive line held and the high-level battle remained undecided, Benjamin prepared a superheavy cannon shot at an enemy force gathering behind the front.

• Tens of billions of Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence units attacked Noren Workshop’s linked fortress barrier, while its disintegration cannons cut down the advancing waves.
• Dionysius Spencer ordered several gaps opened in the barrier so Noren Workshop’s cannon fodder could engage the enemies inside the defensive line.
• Black Giants, Shadow Warriors, and other defenders fought the intruders in the gaps as fortress artillery supported them, and the line held.
• Benjamin connected his consciousness to Turret No. 3 and locked onto roughly thirty thousand Level 4 Chaos Cult units assembling behind the battlefield.
• The superheavy cannon drew and compressed elemental energy for its disintegration shot, while Benjamin operated it under the Wizards’ rotation system.