Recaps

Benjamin tested the Black Giant Priests against a Native in the Information Plane and discovered that it could destroy them by altering their core information. After the Native’s attempt to hack him failed and it cut the connection, an alarm suddenly sounded throughout the ship Plane.

• Benjamin waited ten days for the Black Giant Priests to find a Native, then spotted one on the thirteenth day and ordered the priests to approach it.
• The Native rippled with light, and all ten Black Giant Priests died after it altered their energy-balance formulas and caused their cores to collapse.
• Benjamin reviewed the Fate System’s records and concluded that the Native could exploit weaknesses in information-rich artificial constructs.
• The Native traced the observation channel back to Benjamin and tried to hack him, but the Fate System suppressed its information stream until it disconnected.
• A piercing alarm rang throughout the ship Plane, and Benjamin turned to look out the window.

Benjamin helped stop an invasion from the Information Plane after its Natives breached the ship Plane through fallen wizards. With high-level wizards overpowering the attackers, he used Incense Poison to disrupt their retreat before the connection was severed.

• Benjamin saw the ship Plane’s barrier and Elemental Pool destabilizing as dozens of wizards fell into the Silent Ones’ vacant state.
• Benjamin connected to a fallen wizard’s Spirit Sea and used the Fate System to block the invading information, but the Natives’ growing numbers began to overwhelm him.
• More than a dozen high-level wizards arrived and connected to fallen wizards, crushing the invading information streams.
• Benjamin sent Incense Poison through the spiritual channel, spreading chaotic thoughts through the Natives’ computational network and disrupting their retreat.
• The connection was severed, the alarm stopped, and the barrier stabilized as Benjamin declared that they would face the Natives again.

Benjamin listened as Ashen Heart Martin explained the Information Plane’s attacks, which could disrupt spells and overwhelm conventional wizard research. After studying the intelligence report, Benjamin identified elemental attacks and stronger information manipulation as possible counters, then considered testing his Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light and using the Fate System for protection.

• Benjamin wondered whether his Internal Grotto-Heaven and Fate System would increase the information volume that drew the Information Plane’s attacks.
• Ashen Heart Martin explained that attacks intensified with a target’s information volume, and showed light creatures defeating spells by disrupting their underlying information.
• Martin reported that elemental attacks could damage the creatures and that their ability to manipulate information overwhelmed Fate Wizards’ interference.
• Martin sent the wizards detailed intelligence and ordered them to seek ways to break the deadlock while the legion suspended its offensive.
• Benjamin studied the report for two hours and concluded that complex elemental spells and stronger information manipulation might work against the creatures.
• Benjamin considered testing the Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light and using the Fate System to protect himself.

After a large-scale Information Being invasion left thousands of wizards Silent, Benjamin helped repair the ship Plane’s defenses and was tasked with creating a system to share the Fate System’s computational power. He began building the first designated defense array and altar with help from Level 6 Wizards.

• Benjamin realized the Information Beings had prepared coordinated attacks and wondered why the Incense Poison had affected them so intensely.
• Benjamin repaired damaged runes and Protective Arrays while wizards treated the injured, then learned that another three thousand seven hundred had become Silent Ones.
• A Level 6 Wizard restricted probing operations to designated areas and ordered Specialized Defense Arrays built to isolate future invasions.
• Benjamin received a construction task for one of the marked areas and began setting up defensive structures with the Black Giant Priests.
• Martin asked Benjamin to make his computational-power-enhancing method available to other wizards, and Benjamin agreed to establish access altars for the Fate System.
• Benjamin assigned the Level 6 Wizards sent by Martin to build an altar and energy nodes in the designated area.

Benjamin completed an altar array that shared and amplified wizards’ computing power, then entered the Information Plane himself to investigate it. He discovered that the plane had no inherent space or time and began using information to approach the Natives.

• Benjamin completed the altar array, which let nearby wizards share and amplify their computing power.
• Benjamin refused to send another probe and flew through the rift into the Information Plane.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye and the Fate System to discover that the plane contained no inherent space or time.
• Benjamin created land by supplying information, then realized that distance in the plane depended on information rather than physical space.
• Benjamin adjusted his information to resemble the Natives and sensed something approaching in a particular direction.

Benjamin encountered a Native in the sea of white light and tested how his abilities worked against it. He destroyed it with a torrent of basic elements, then used Causal Shadow Tracing Technique to recover information from its remains.

• Benjamin found a Native whose energy shell and information core resembled his God of Light Transformation.
• Benjamin blocked the Native's information attack with Return to Void Armor, which devoured the invading tentacles.
• The Native analyzed and erased Benjamin's Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light by altering its information structure.
• Benjamin used a basic fire rune to gather and launch a torrent of raw elements, overwhelming the Native and destroying its information core.
• Benjamin used Causal Shadow Tracing Technique to trace and collect information from the Native's scattered fragments.

Benjamin investigated the Information Beings, discovering that elemental attacks could expose their cores and that their apparent deaths sent them back to their headquarters. After defeating thirteen attackers and seizing some of their information fragments, he retreated from the sea of light to the ship Plane.

• Benjamin concluded that the Information Beings depended on the four elements and could not be killed or captured by conventional means because their information was transferred and rebuilt elsewhere.
• Benjamin tried using the Causal Shadow Tracing Technique to reach a Native's information core but failed repeatedly because he misunderstood how the beings worked.
• Thirteen Information Beings ambushed Benjamin, shattered his Return to Void Armor, and attacked him with information tendrils.
• Benjamin used the Fate System to immobilize all thirteen beings, then exposed their information cores with elemental torrents and froze fragments with the Causal Shadow Tracing Technique.
• Benjamin gathered what information fragments he could and withdrew through the Plane Barrier to the ship Plane.

Benjamin tested different materials against the Information Beings and discovered that Incense Poison triggered a violent, contagious reaction that made them self-destruct. He escaped their pursuit through the rift, where the ship Plane’s Defense Array drove them back, and left with a promising weakness to investigate.

• Benjamin reviewed his failed Causal Shadow Tracing Technique attempts and concluded that the different failure reasons meant he was close to finding a way to use it.
• Benjamin prepared samples of materials from the Immortal Cultivation World and the Wizard World to test how Information Beings reacted to them.
• Benjamin entered the Information Plane and found more than thirty Natives waiting to surround him.
• Benjamin’s Incense Poison made one Native convulse and explode, and the resulting contamination threw the nearby Natives into disorder.
• Benjamin fled through the rift as stronger information fluctuations approached, while the disorganized Natives pursued him.
• The ship Plane’s Defense Array blasted back the Natives that emerged from the rift, forcing them to retreat into the Information Plane.

Benjamin concluded that Information Beings reacted most strongly to chaotic information, which could act like a logical virus against their orderly nature. After he presented his findings to Ashen Heart Martin and the expeditionary command, Martin ordered a dedicated testing group to verify the theory.

• Benjamin compared the Information Beings’ reactions to five materials and concluded that information chaos, rather than information volume, caused their stress responses.
• Benjamin uploaded his analysis to Expeditionary Force Command Headquarters and was summoned to the core camp by Martin.
• Benjamin explained his evidence from five samples and described his materials as Imaginary Element condensates created through his Fantasy Law.
• The wizards reviewed Benjamin’s findings and shared past experiments that also suggested chaotic effects provoked stronger reactions.
• Martin purchased Benjamin’s remaining materials and ordered a dedicated testing group to produce a plan within three days.

Benjamin confirmed that Information Beings revered Entropy Reduction and learned that Martin wanted to bring them under his command, prompting a mission to find a way to damage or subdue them. Back in his laboratory, Benjamin began designing a new spell to disrupt their ordered information and obtained chaotic pain data from Viola, leaving him ready to continue developing it.

• Benjamin reviewed more than ten thousand tests and confirmed that Information Beings favored orderly information and rejected chaos.
• Martin announced that he intended to bring the Information Beings under his command and issued a mission to find a way to damage or subdue them.
• Benjamin returned to his laboratory and began combining the Causal Shadow Tracing Technique with Void-Step to design a spell that could disrupt the beings' Entropy Reduction.
• Benjamin contacted Viola and bargained for her pain-related data, agreeing to pay her 100,000 Advanced Military Merits.
• Viola sent Benjamin her records of pain-induced emotional fluctuations, mental disturbances, and confused consciousness.

Benjamin used his new spells, Information Weaving and Pain Glitch, to kill an Information Being and obtain a blue crystal. The Information Beings swarmed after him, but he escaped through the rift to the Ship Plane with the crystal.

• Benjamin named his new spells Information Weaving and Pain Glitch, then entered the sea of light.
• Benjamin used Information Weaving to disguise himself and approached an isolated Information Being.
• Benjamin struck the creature with Pain Glitch, severed its causal links to the Mother Network, and trapped it inside a sealed local network.
• Benjamin unleashed Pain Glitch at full power, killing the Information Being and causing its remains to condense into a pale blue crystal.
• Benjamin took the crystal and fled through the rift as Information Beings converged on him, escaping to the Ship Plane.

Benjamin escaped the Information Plane with the core of an Information Being he had truly killed, provoking a desperate assault on the Ship Plane. He explained how his new spells had severed the being from the Mother Network, and Martin promised him the mission’s highest reward as the wizards prepared to strengthen the defenses.

• Benjamin fled as the Information Being army poured through the rift and attacked the Ship Plane’s Defense Arrays.
• Benjamin saw the arrays use chaotic information to disrupt the attackers, slowing their revivals, then received Martin’s urgent summons.
• Benjamin showed Martin and the high-ranking wizards the blue crystal and explained that he had truly killed an Information Being.
• Benjamin revealed that Information Weaving and Pain Glitch had cut the being off from the Mother Network and erased it.
• Martin offered Benjamin one million high-level Military Merit for the spell models, while the Information Beings intensified their assault.
• Martin told Benjamin to keep the crystal, and the wizards left to reinforce the front lines with his spells.

Benjamin watched the Information Beings turn the battle against the wizards by drawing on the Endless Chaotic Void, coordinating through a growing network, and seizing control of the Ship Plane’s defenses. Martin and the senior wizards temporarily pushed them back, but the endless reinforcements and the strain of maintaining suppression left the battle poised to worsen.

• Benjamin saw the Information Beings use chaotic void energy as weapons while their growing numbers formed a network that analyzed and attacked the Ship Plane’s Defense Arrays.
• Information Beings corrupted cannon fodder creatures and seized Elemental Pool Number Three, forcing it to fire on Defense Array Number Six.
• Martin and more than a dozen Level 7 Wizards suppressed the network, retook the tampered control hubs, and cleared the corrupted cannon fodder.
• Benjamin realized the Information Beings were regrouping with limitless reinforcements while Martin’s attacks slowed under the strain of suppressing them.

Benjamin used the Fate System to sever thousands of Information Beings from the Mother Network, allowing the wizards to kill them and harvest their crystals. The remaining Information Beings watched from beyond the rift, and Benjamin warned Martin that they were preparing to fight to the death.

• Benjamin rushed to the central altar and joined more than a hundred wizards in powering the Fate System.
• Benjamin reached the Fate System's full computational power, enabling Martin to lock down the Ship Plane and seal the rift.
• Benjamin severed the connections of tens of thousands of Information Beings, cutting them off from the Mother Network and preventing their escape or revival.
• Martin and the other wizards killed the isolated Information Beings and collected the blue crystals left behind.
• Benjamin noticed the Information Beings beyond the rift watching the Ship Plane and warned Martin they were going to fight to the death.

The Information Beings launched an information attack that overwhelmed the Ship Plane’s defenses, but Ashen Heart Martin and the Expeditionary Force countered with biological computing machines and the Fate System. After sealing the Information Plane, Martin gave Benjamin his share of the battle’s core crystals, and Benjamin headed to his laboratory to study them.

• The Information Beings altered gravity, temperature, and elemental activity, then used a formatting attack to destroy the Ship Plane’s defenses and threaten Elemental Pool No. 3.
• Ashen Heart Martin took command and assembled biological computing machines, including the Brain Village Tree, to combine their processing power with the Fate System.
• Martin’s computational torrent shattered the white information waterfall and erased Information Beings that tried to return.
• Martin and the Level 6 and Level 7 Wizards cast an information barrier and a law-based seal, blockading the Information Plane.
• Martin gave Benjamin more than a hundred core crystals as spoils for his contribution, and Benjamin went to his laboratory to study them.

Benjamin studied the Entropy Brains left behind by the Information Beings and discovered that one could organize the knowledge in his mind, greatly advancing his understanding of Fate. He decided to save the remaining crystals for later, more effective use as the battle outside continued.

• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye and Fate System to examine 103 Entropy Brains and found that they were complex biological information-processing organs with almost no stored energy.
• Benjamin touched the smallest Entropy Brain with a thread of spiritual power, causing it to shatter into points of light that entered his Spirit Sea.
• The Entropy Brain organized Benjamin’s accumulated knowledge, clarified connections between fields, and brought him close to getting started with Fate-related knowledge.
• Benjamin realized that using Entropy Brains after learning more would yield greater gains, so he suppressed his urge to hunt more Information Beings and sat down to digest his insights.

News that Benjamin had obtained an Entropy Brain spread through the Expeditionary Force, exciting Wizards who hoped it could organize knowledge and help them advance. Benjamin saw that the Information Beings still guarded the rift, leaving the Wizards unable to enter and harvest more Entropy Brains.

• Benjamin discovered Wizards probing outside his laboratory and learned that news of his Entropy Brain had spread.
• Benjamin checked the Magic Network Terminal and found Wizards speculating about Entropy Brains, offering to buy them, and organizing expeditions into the Information Plane.
• Benjamin watched Wizards openly debate, trade spell knowledge, and bargain over a fingernail-sized Entropy Brain.
• Benjamin considered how the Entropy Brain could organize knowledge and help Level 5 Wizards overcome advancement bottlenecks caused by Plane Origin.
• Benjamin looked toward the rift and recognized that the Information Beings' defenses and the blockade layers left both sides trapped in a standoff.
• Benjamin's Magic Network Terminal stirred as Wizards continued discussing how to break through the enemy defenses.

Benjamin attended a high-level meeting about entering the Information Plane and harvesting the Entropy Brains. After the wizards rejected direct attacks as too risky, Benjamin proposed infecting the Information Beings’ network with a self-replicating information packet, giving the discussion a new direction.

• Martin explained that the Information Beings were trapped inside the Information Plane, while the wizards could not enter to harvest the Entropy Brains.
• A Level 7 Wizard proposed attacking head-on, but an elderly Level 7 Wizard explained that the Information Beings had no central command system and could recover from localized destruction.
• A female Level 7 Wizard suggested severing the Information Beings’ network connections, but the wizards said their quantum-entangled links could heal and the isolation array could not be brought into the plane.
• Benjamin recalled computer viruses and proposed a self-replicating information packet that would infect the Information Beings and spread through their network.
• The wizards raised concerns about designing and deploying the packet safely, but the proposal gave them a new direction.

Benjamin watched the wizards test twelve virus wizardry models against the Information Beings, and the resulting Information Plague rapidly breached their outer defensive line. Martin asked Benjamin what to call the spreading virus, and Benjamin named it the Information Plague.

• Benjamin arrived at the observation platform where Martin, the Ashen Heart, and the Level 7 Wizards prepared to test twelve virus wizardry models.
• Martin ordered the expendable units carrying the virus wizardry to charge into the black rift and enter the Plane Barrier.
• The Information Beings analyzed the intruders, allowing the viruses to use their computational power to replicate and spread through the network.
• The Information Plague caused waves of Information Beings to flicker, crash, collapse, and attack one another as the outer defensive line broke.
• The remaining Information Beings tried to sever connections and establish quarantine zones, but the plague had already spread deeper into the network.
• Martin asked Benjamin what to call the virus, and Benjamin named it the Information Plague.

After the Information Beings isolated three infected regions, the wizards rushed into the Information Plane to claim the abandoned Entropy Brains and build an Outpost Camp. The Information Beings then formed Silent Abyss, a powerful defensive unit modeled on Martin, and began mobilizing the plane against them.

• The Supreme Consensus Algorithm severed all connections to three virus-infected regions, abandoning millions of Information Beings as they collapsed into Entropy Brains.
• Benjamin ordered the wizards to establish an Outpost Camp, collect the Entropy Brains, and prepare spells capable of crashing Information Beings.
• Martin brought Benjamin to the front line, where the wizards rapidly built defenses and gathered the Entropy Brains.
• Benjamin sensed that the Information Beings were preparing a response as their distant sea of light froze and began to converge.
• The Information Beings created Silent Abyss, an immense humanoid defensive unit that replicated Martin's information and drew power from across the plane.
• Silent Abyss pointed toward the Outpost Camp, disrupting its surroundings and triggering alarms as Martin watched it gravely.

Ashen Heart Martin fought Silent Abyss while Benjamin and the wizards defended their Outpost Camp and assembled an expanded Fate System altar. The altar activated, and Martin prepared to unleash his full power against Silent Abyss.

• Ashen Heart Martin countered Silent Abyss's information-based attacks, then trapped its authority with rune chains and sent an elemental torrent toward its core.
• Silent Abyss sacrificed its left arm to escape Martin's attack, analyzed the elemental thread, and struck toward the Outpost Camp, but Martin stopped and shattered its light pillar.
• Silent Abyss sent an information net toward the camp, while Martin disrupted the net and shielded the wizards from its aftershocks.
• Benjamin directed the Black Giant Priests to assemble the enlarged Fate System altar as Level 7 Wizards used Information Weaving to battle the Information Being army.
• Benjamin activated the altar, sending a golden pillar of light skyward, and Martin turned back to Silent Abyss and unleashed his full power.

Benjamin and the wizards killed Information Beings despite their evolving defenses, while Martin destroyed the Silent Abyss with gray flames. The flames stopped at a mysterious wall of pure nothingness before reaching the Information Plane’s core, and Martin wondered at its appearance.

• Benjamin and the wizards continued killing Information Beings, whose new information-screening defenses weakened Information Plague spells but slowed their reactions.
• Benjamin noticed Martin confronting the Silent Abyss as it drew power from the Information Plane and the Endless Chaotic Void.
• Martin formed a speck of gray light and sent it through the Silent Abyss’s defenses, erasing the giant and leaving no Entropy Brain.
• Martin’s gray flames continued toward the Information Plane’s core until a black wall of pure nothingness appeared and extinguished them.
• Martin examined the mysterious wall and remarked that it was interesting that the Information Plane could do this.

After the wizards failed to cross the Absolute Zero Barrier, Martin revealed that he had deliberately chosen the Information Plane to study entropy reduction, while Benjamin realized Martin’s gray flames might transform his God of Light form. The chapter ended with high-level wizards volunteering to help Benjamin adapt his combat framework to the Level 8 Wizard’s Entropy-Increasing Fire.

• Benjamin studied the Absolute Zero Barrier and learned that it froze all change, while Martin’s gray flames had erased many Information Beings and their Entropy Brains.
• Martin admitted he had specifically selected the plane to complete his study of entropy by confronting a species devoted to entropy reduction, but clarified that he was not close to reaching Level 9.
• The wizards concluded that breaking the barrier required attacking the beings maintaining it, overpowering their computational strength, or striking with overwhelming force, but Martin hesitated to risk losing more spoils.
• Martin tested a small gray flame against the barrier, where it went out without effect, and Benjamin saw a way to replace the energy source in his God of Light Transformation.
• Benjamin sent his proposed combat-form modifications to the high-level wizard group, and several wizards offered to help calculate and adapt its modules.

Benjamin and the High-Rank Wizards completed a new form of God of Light Transformation that used Martin’s Ashen Fire, though it drained energy and computation rapidly. Benjamin used the form to break through the Absolute Zero Barrier, revealing an endless sea of light and the retreating Information Beings beyond it.

• Over half a month, Benjamin and the High-Rank Wizards combined God of Light Transformation with Martin’s Ashen Fire, using Martin’s data model to overcome the conflict between order and heat death.
• Benjamin activated the new Heat Death Form, becoming a gray-white flaming figure that could break matter and energy down but consumed vast energy and computational power.
• Benjamin tested the form against the Absolute Zero Barrier, and his Ashen Fire began cracking it while the Information Beings poured computational power into its defense.
• Benjamin pushed through the barrier until it burst open, exposing an endless sea of light and Information Beings retreating in terror.

After the barrier broke, the Supreme Consensus Algorithm abducted Benjamin into an information-only void and tried to use his knowledge to trigger the Wizard Civilization’s protections against the Expeditionary Force. Benjamin resisted by activating the Fate System and Incense Divinity Path, drawing on the independent thoughts of ten billion Black Giants to hold off the attack while his body adapted.

• Martin realized the breach was a trap and ordered the wizards and Expeditionary Force to attack the spreading void and retrieve Benjamin.
• Benjamin awoke in an information-only void, where the Supreme Consensus Algorithm froze his Spirit Sea and tried to make him submit to entropy and silence.
• Benjamin recognized that the Information Beings planned to spread his stolen knowledge among the Expeditionary Force and use the resulting contract violation to kill its wizards.
• As the algorithm began reading and copying his information, Benjamin activated the Fate System and Incense Divinity Path and opened his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• Ten billion Black Giants sent their independent thoughts into the Fate System, easing the pressure on Benjamin as his Body Tempering Method began adapting to the information attack.