Recaps

Benjamin attended the Academic Exchange Conference, learned from Savien’s keynote on spatial theory, and explored the exhibition. Ryan of the Mobius Lineage apologized for an attack on Benjamin and showed proof that the responsible descendant had been executed, leaving Benjamin to recognize the political weight of Savien, Bastian, and Morna’s support.

• Savien opened the conference with a detailed presentation of his latest research on spatial theory, which Benjamin recorded and followed with difficulty.
• The hall transformed into an exhibition area where Benjamin examined a miniature teleportation array demonstrating spatial folding.
• Ryan, an elder of the Mobius Lineage, approached Benjamin and apologized for an unauthorized attack on his way to the conference.
• Ryan gave Benjamin a recording crystal showing the Lineage stripping its insignia from the culprit and executing him, while an elf servant who tried to intervene was also killed.
• Benjamin accepted the apology and concluded that the Lineage had acted quickly because Savien, Bastian, and Morna’s public recognition had changed his standing.

Benjamin accepted the Mobius Lineage’s costly compensation and reconciled with Ryan, who gained a direct connection to him. After the exhibition’s first stage ended, Benjamin reviewed the specialized sub-venues and stopped at a presentation by Redes.

• Ryan offered Benjamin a Space Ring filled with materials worth over a hundred trillion low-level Military Merit as compensation for the Mobius Lineage’s wrongdoing.
• Benjamin accepted the compensation and shook Ryan’s hand, bringing their grievances to an end.
• Benjamin exchanged contact information with Ryan, delighting him and surprising onlookers who envied the Mobius Lineage’s new connection to Benjamin.
• The first round of the free exhibition ended, and attendees were guided toward specialized sub-venues for academic presentations.
• Benjamin examined the presentation topics and paused at “Mental Power Fluctuation Fine-Tuning Technology in Practical Combat Spells,” presented by Redes, a Level 7 Combat Department Wizard.

Benjamin attended Redes's practical demonstration of a technique that adjusted spiritual power frequencies to make spells faster and stronger without extra power. The Wizards began testing the technique under Redes's guidance.

• Benjamin noticed that a Level 7 Wizard from the Combat Department was presenting a practical spellcasting technique and went to Redes's sub-venue.
• Benjamin found the venue arranged like a training ground, where Wizards were already exchanging spellcasting insights and practicing.
• Redes introduced his technique for adjusting spiritual power fluctuations to match spell runes.
• Redes demonstrated that the technique made a Fireball Spell nearly ten percent faster and almost seven percent more powerful without increasing spiritual power consumption.
• Redes explained how different rune combinations required different spiritual power frequencies, then guided the Wizards as they tested the technique.

Benjamin learned a practical mental-power technique from Redes and found it could be adapted to many forms of wizardry, though its underlying principles remained unclear. After attending more breakout sessions, he ended the day at the conference with ideas beginning to take shape in his mind.

• Benjamin used Redes's technique to form a wind blade that cut a rune target, then considered how it might improve wizardry and Rune Artifacts.
• Benjamin discovered that the mental-power frequencies varied unpredictably between rune combinations and concluded that Redes's method came from combat experience rather than a general theory.
• Benjamin admired the practical value of Redes's technique and attended several other specialized breakout sessions.
• Benjamin observed that wizards continued debating and deriving formulas through a brief tea break before the afternoon sessions resumed.
• At evening, the conference announced the first phase of breakout sessions had ended, and Benjamin organized the day's ideas as they began forming a new outline through his Entropy Brain talent.

Benjamin presented a new technology that stabilized a living organism’s body and soul, drawing intense interest from the conference attendees. The chapter ended with Combat Department wizards recognizing that it could help vanguards survive the destabilizing effects of unfamiliar planes.

• Benjamin attended Redes’s seminar on the relationship between mental power fluctuations and rune combinations, then spent the following week exploring research and exchanging ideas at the conference.
• On the eighth day, Benjamin arrived for his presentation and found nearly ten thousand wizards gathered, including Savien, Bastian, and Morna in the front row.
• Benjamin introduced an advanced technology derived from the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol, explaining that it stabilized living organisms rather than their surroundings.
• A Level 7 Combat Department wizard rose in alarm as he understood that the technology could keep a wizard’s body and soul stable after entering an unfamiliar plane.
• The Combat Department wizards realized the technology could save vanguard lives and significantly improve the Wizard Legion’s combat strength.

Benjamin’s Life Stabilization Field technology astonished the wizards with its potential to stabilize Law Solidification Domains, aid dangerous experiments, and assist advancement breakthroughs. The chapter ended as Benjamin began explaining the technology’s underlying principles and connection to the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol.

• Morna, Bastian, and Savien realized the technology could stabilize the flesh and soul during Level 5 wizards’ advancement to Level 6, improving their chances of success.
• Morna identified possible uses for high-risk Life Modification experiments, while Savien and Bastian noted the technology could strengthen Level 6 and Level 7 wizards’ combat performance.
• Savien concluded that the technology could help qualified Level 7 wizards break through to Level 8 by stabilizing their condition during advancement.
• The wizards in the hall reacted with shock and excitement as they recognized the technology’s broad applications and potential impact on Wizard Civilization.
• Benjamin explained that the Life Stabilization Field was a localized result of the basic Mind-Body Regulation principle from the Immortal Cultivation System.
• Benjamin displayed a new rune model and began outlining the technology’s implementation principles and connection to the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol.

After Benjamin’s Life Stabilization Field Technology brought him greater wealth and attention at the conference, Savien warned him that a treasure linked to Level 9 advancement had been stolen in the Shattered Bone Corridor. Benjamin prepared to leave the next day, grateful for Savien’s efforts to shield him from suspicion but mindful of the danger ahead.

• Benjamin uploaded Life Stabilization Field Technology to the Magic Network Terminal, causing his income and Military Merit to rise sharply.
• At the final dinner, Benjamin thanked Savien, Bastian, and Morna for protecting him from people who might oppose his work.
• Savien privately told Benjamin that a treasure recording the complete advancement of a Level 9 Lifeform had been stolen in the Shattered Bone Corridor by a group from the Multi-Race Alliance.
• Savien said he had directed investigators toward the Multi-Race Alliance group and advised Benjamin to be careful on his journey the next day.
• Benjamin considered Savien’s warning and returned to his room to prepare for departure.

Benjamin left the Void Architecture Institute, but someone tampered with a teleportation array and sent him to a desolate floating continent. There, Level 7 Wizard Hogg introduced himself as a robber who wanted to take some of Benjamin’s resources.

• Benjamin bid farewell to Savien, Bastian, and Morna before beginning his journey home.
• Benjamin sensed that someone had altered a teleportation array’s destination, but allowed the teleportation to finish and used his Magic Network Terminal.
• Benjamin arrived on a desolate floating continent and used the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to locate a figure hidden in a spatial crevice.
• Hogg emerged as a newly promoted Level 7 Wizard and said he had been waiting for Benjamin.
• Hogg admitted he was a robber and wanted to borrow the resources the Mobius Lineage had given Benjamin, without promising to return them.

Benjamin fought Hogg, a Level 7 Wizard who had targeted him for his resources, and gradually overcame the enormous difference in their levels through his strength, speed, and recovery. The battle ended with Hogg unable to continue fighting, while Benjamin remained standing.

• Benjamin refused Hogg’s demand for resources, and Hogg transformed into a giant and unleashed his Level 7 Law Solidification Domain.
• Benjamin manifested his Dharma Image and used God of Light Transformation to meet Hogg’s attacks, shattering their battlefield in the process.
• Hogg discovered that Benjamin’s power was still growing and that his Dharma Image could recover from severe wounds.
• Hogg unleashed millions of flesh tentacles, but Benjamin cut them apart with a sword of light and punched Hogg into the ruins.
• Hogg risked his life and charged Benjamin, but Benjamin’s repeated recovery gradually shifted the fight in his favor.
• Benjamin broke Hogg’s shield and destroyed everything below his chest, leaving Hogg unable to continue fighting.

Benjamin nearly defeated Hogg before a veteran Level 7 Wizard ambushed him and revealed that they wanted to control Benjamin and profit from his work. Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan intervened, killed the attackers, and took Benjamin toward the Star Ring Federation.

• A veteran Level 7 Wizard struck Benjamin's Dharma Image from hiding, then joined the recovering Hogg and demanded that Benjamin come with them.
• The veteran Wizard admitted that he and Hogg wanted to control Benjamin and collect the rewards from his research and Military Merit.
• Benjamin's hidden allies, Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan, emerged and used Law Fixation to disable both Level 7 Wizards.
• Wizard Noren turned Hogg and the veteran Wizard into particles, while Anton destroyed the signals they tried to send into the void.
• Noren and Anton explained that they had secretly escorted Benjamin after learning about the Reflection Prism, then vanished with him toward safety in the Star Ring Federation.

Benjamin returned to Noren Workshop and lent the Reflection Prism to Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton for research under an agreement that preserved his access to their findings. After reviewing his gains and shortcomings from the conference, he began designing a new Level 6 Rune Artifact and researching an offensive beam spell.

• Benjamin had Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton sign a lending agreement, then removed the seals from the Reflection Prism and explained how he had blocked its signal.
• Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton took the Reflection Prism away, eagerly arguing over who would research it first.
• Viola and Clark arrived; Viola teased Benjamin about his conference fame and bit his puppet body, while Clark praised him before leaving with her.
• Benjamin reviewed his improved knowledge, Law mastery, income, and connections, then reflected that he still fell far short of Clark’s Level 6 combat strength.
• Benjamin chose to develop a new Level 6 Rune Artifact, planned to use Wizard Redes’s Rune Frequency Combination Technique, and began researching beam-type spells.

Benjamin completed the foundational work on a new Rune Artifact and learned that Dean Avery Knight had returned to Noren Academy No. 147. After the academy meeting, Bert Vera Augusta approached Benjamin and asked to speak with him.

• Benjamin tested the new Rune Artifact and confirmed its stability, efficiency, and energy circulation met his standards.
• Benjamin decided to finish designing a new sixth-level spell based on Redes' Wizard Mental-Power Oscillation Theory before completing the artifact.
• Benjamin received an academy notice announcing Dean Avery Knight's return and went to the central conference hall.
• Dean Avery Knight addressed the instructors, heard reports on the academy's development, and discussed future arrangements for Noren Plane 147.
• After the meeting, Bert Vera Augusta approached Benjamin and asked if he had time to talk.

Augusta hired Benjamin to support her Lineage’s planned conquest of a newly discovered plane, and he agreed. Years later, Benjamin completed two sixth-rank sorceries for his Rune Artifacts and created a spatial sorcery called Void String, then prepared to test the artifacts.

• Augusta told Benjamin that her Lineage had discovered a plane and wanted him to help suppress its inhabitants while preserving their civilization.
• Benjamin agreed to join the future Plane War, partly because he wanted to test his nearly completed Rune Artifacts in a large-scale battle.
• Several years later, Benjamin completed Final Ray and Echo Bomb, the two sixth-rank sorceries used in his Rune Artifacts.
• Benjamin created Void String, a spatial sorcery designed to threaten high-energy beings and exploit spatial confinement.
• Benjamin took the Rune Artifacts engraved with Final Ray and Echo Bomb and prepared to test them.

Benjamin tested the destructive power of the Final Ray and Echo Bomb Rune Artifacts, then completed durability tests on the final batch years later. Augusta provided confirmed intelligence about a medium-sized target plane with at least five seventh-level energy signatures, leaving Benjamin to assess the coming war.

• Benjamin tested the Final Ray Rune Artifact and found its beam powerful enough to destroy a planet-scale target.
• Benjamin tested the Echo Bomb Rune Artifact, which destroyed a planet after three successive shots, and hoped the plane Augusta and the others had found was large enough.
• Years later, Benjamin finished durability testing the final batch of Echo Bomb Rune Artifacts and received Augusta's communication request.
• Augusta sent Benjamin intelligence confirming a medium-sized target plane with at least five independent seventh-level energy signatures.

Benjamin learned that calculating the resource-rich plane’s precise coordinates would take five years, giving him time to prepare Rune Artifacts and strengthen his combat system. A year later, he attended an emergency Academy meeting where Dean Avery Knight revealed that a reconnaissance station had discovered a Wonder of the Endless Chaotic Void.

• Augusta told Benjamin that severe interference meant the plane’s coordinates would take about five years to calculate.
• Benjamin accepted the delay and began preparing by manufacturing Rune Artifacts and planning to strengthen his armor and spells.
• A year later, Benjamin received an emergency Academy meeting notice from Dean Avery Knight and traveled to the conference hall.
• Benjamin noticed that only a small group of formal wizards above level six had gathered, while Viola admitted she did not know what the meeting concerned.
• Avery Knight showed the wizards a gray-black phenomenon in the Endless Chaotic Void and identified it as a Wonder.

Benjamin learned that an unidentified wonder was disrupting time and space and obstructing the Noren Workshop’s escape route. With contact expected in roughly fifteen hundred years, Dean Avery asked the wizards to remain close to the Academy starting a thousand years from then, and the meeting ended without immediate alarm.

• Benjamin reasoned that the unusual wonder likely contained a new form of elemental energy and could be dangerous to handle before its properties were known.
• Dean Avery reported that the wonder’s temporal and spatial interference had disrupted plane exploration and prevented the Workshop from confirming its exact coordinates.
• Benjamin and Augusta realized that the wonder had caused the Augusta Family’s earlier difficulty calculating precise coordinates.
• Avery projected the Workshop’s route and estimated that the Noren Workshop’s Plane Cluster would encounter the wonder in about fifteen hundred years.
• Avery asked the wizards to avoid distant expeditions starting a thousand years later so the Workshop could gather its top-tier combat power.
• The meeting ended, Viola disappeared, and Benjamin and Augusta exchanged greetings before leaving through separate Teleportation Arrays.

Benjamin joined Augusta aboard a void warship as she briefed the wizards accompanying them on a campaign against a plane inhabited by the Mushroom People. The scouting report revealed that the enemy had formidable high-level forces and more than a billion elite units, leaving the young wizards facing the scale of the coming war.

• Benjamin shut down his laboratory, confirmed his facilities were operating autonomously, and teleported to the gathering location Augusta had sent him.
• Augusta introduced Benjamin as the operation’s other leader to the young Augusta Family wizards aboard the warship.
• Benjamin assessed the group and recognized that several were likely Elite Combat Units, though most appeared to have come from the Logistics Department.
• Augusta displayed the target plane and explained that its inhabitants, temporarily named Mushroom People, combined rock-elemental and biological traits.
• Augusta reported that the plane had five to seven confirmed Level 7 creatures, over one hundred Level 6 units, and more than one billion elite units above Level 4 but below Level 5.

Augusta briefed the Wizards on the Mushroom People’s enormous population, rapid reproduction, and resilience, while identifying them and the plane’s abundant mineral veins as the war’s main targets. After the warship reached the plane barrier, Augusta and Benjamin prepared to lead the attack, with Benjamin handling large-scale suppression and Augusta facing high-tier enemies.

• Augusta reported that the plane held over a billion Level 4 and Level 5 Mushroom People and more than one hundred billion civilians.
• Augusta explained that Mushroom People reproduced rapidly through spores, survived on scarce resources, and could multiply almost without limit.
• Augusta identified Mushroom People samples and abundant elemental mineral veins as the main targets of the plane war.
• The warship reached the plane barrier, and Augusta told the young Wizards that she and Benjamin would lead the fighting.
• Augusta assigned large-scale suppression to Benjamin and high-tier combat to herself, then walked out of the bridge with him and the Augusta Family Wizards.

Benjamin and Augusta led a wizard force to invade a barren plane inhabited by hibernating Mushroom People. After Benjamin tore open and secured the Plane Barrier, Augusta ordered the legion to begin its advance through the breach.

• Augusta declared the plane their battlefield, and Benjamin enveloped the young wizards in his Law Solidification Domain as they approached the Plane Barrier.
• Benjamin manifested his enormous Dharma Image and ripped open a breach in the Plane Barrier.
• Benjamin used his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to spot Mushroom People fused into the rock, while Augusta confirmed that most were hibernating from a lack of food.
• Benjamin and Augusta agreed to clear the plane by regions and recover all Cannon Fodder Legion corpses so the Mushroom People could not use them as nourishment.
• Benjamin widened and secured the breach, and Augusta ordered the wizards to send their cannon fodder through it.
• More than a dozen wizards summoned nearly a million Cannon Fodder Legion troops, which surged into the plane.

Benjamin and Augusta investigated the Mushroom People, discovering that their souls were shattered and that the plane held signs of artificial influence. As the Augusta Family's young wizards celebrated an easy advance, their attacks awakened more Mushroom People, and Benjamin let the battle continue in hopes of drawing out the region's hidden Level 7 target.

• More than a hundred thousand starving Mushroom People attacked the Cannon Fodder Legion, but the young wizards' forces slaughtered them with little resistance.
• Benjamin examined captured Mushroom People and found that their hybrid elemental and living bodies had shattered souls, though he could not determine why.
• Benjamin and Augusta discussed evidence that the Mushroom People Plane had once been shaped by a civilization, despite showing no visible structures.
• The young Augusta Family wizards grew overconfident as their legions advanced, while Benjamin and Augusta noticed that dead Mushroom People were awakening others with food signals.
• Augusta chose not to intervene, allowing the young wizards to learn from their mistakes, and Benjamin let them continue their attack to help locate a Level 7 target.

As the Incense Divinity Path spread through the plane, the awakened Mushroom People overwhelmed the young wizards’ forces, prompting Benjamin to lead a Black Giant and Tentacle Tree army toward the source of their awakening. His legion reached the underground stronghold, where he found only Level 6 leaders despite earlier signs of a Level 7 presence, and ordered intelligent Mushroom People captured for questioning.

• The Mushroom People devoured battlefield corpses, replenished their strength, and drove the young wizards’ Cannon Fodder Legions into retreat.
• Benjamin and Augusta sensed a powerful awakening in the northwest, and Benjamin left Augusta to oversee the battle while he led reinforcements toward it.
• Benjamin deployed five hundred thousand Black Giants and a fleet of over a million Tentacle Trees, ordering them to clear a path and consume incapacitated Mushroom People.
• The Black Giants and warships cut through the Mushroom People and advanced to a wasteland riddled with underground tunnels.
• Benjamin discovered several awakening Level 6 Mushroom People below but no Level 7 leader, and ordered his forces to capture the leaders and any Mushroom People that seemed intelligent.

Benjamin’s forces captured several Level 6 Mushroom People, and he used Soul Search to uncover the Mushroom People leaders’ plan to sacrifice their communities while the Level 7 elders gathered strength. He ordered the captives guarded and flew with them toward the Plane Barrier crack.

• Benjamin ordered his legion to attack the wilderness, where Black Giants stormed caves and the Tentacle Tree fleet cut off Mushroom People reinforcements.
• Black Giant leaders brought Benjamin five Level 6 Mushroom People and over a hundred elite captives.
• A Level 6 Mushroom Person killed several elite captives, but Black Giants subdued the remaining Level 6 prisoners.
• Benjamin searched the Level 6 Mushroom People’s souls and learned that their upper echelon had sent them as sacrificial pawns while Level 7 Mushroom People regrouped and fed on their own kind.
• Benjamin ordered the captives guarded and sent his forces to help clear the plains before flying toward the Plane Barrier crack with the prisoners.

After the Mushroom People leader was captured, Benjamin sent the young wizards and Black Giant Legions to scout nearby gathering sites while Augusta searched for traces of the hidden Level 7 Mushroom People. Examining captured Level 6 Mushroom People, Benjamin discovered that someone had artificially modified part of their elemental life structure.

• Benjamin and Augusta confirmed the battlefield was clear and decided to send the young wizards on missions to nearby Mushroom People gathering sites.
• Benjamin summoned several Black Giant Legions, assigned one to each wizard squad, and ordered the squads to scout, attack if able, and capture Level 6 Mushroom People.
• Augusta set off to search for traces left by the relocated Level 7 Mushroom People.
• Benjamin stored the captured Level 6 Mushroom People in his Internal Grotto-Heaven and began studying them with the Black Giant Priests and Tentacle Tree researchers.
• After five days of experiments, Benjamin identified an orderly elemental structure within the Mushroom People and concluded that someone had artificially modified it.

Benjamin received an emergency call from an Augusta Family wizard whose forces were trapped by an overwhelming swarm of Mushroom People. As the besieged troops faced near-certain defeat, Benjamin arrived, and the Black Giants recognized their lord’s presence.

• A Level 5 Wizard of the Augusta Family reported that his forces were ambushed, and Benjamin sent Black Giants to guard the Plane Barrier crack before flying to assist.
• The Augusta wizards and their Black Giant and Cannon Fodder Legions found themselves surrounded by Mushroom People whose numbers and Level 6 fighters kept increasing.
• The Mushroom People overwhelmed the Black Giants underground and destroyed multiple Tentacle Tree warships outside the cavern, while the wizards discovered they could not escape because Earth Elements were disrupting space.
• A Level 6 Black Giant detonated himself, killing many Mushroom People and creating a temporary clearing that quickly filled again.
• A terrifying pressure descended over the battlefield, stopping both sides, and the Black Giants cheered as Benjamin arrived.

Benjamin arrived on the battlefield, brought in Level 6 Black Giants to defeat the Mushroom People, and captured several dozen Level 6 units. While searching their memories for the Level 7 Mushroom People, he discovered that their claims about the plane’s depleted resources conflicted with the Augusta Family’s reconnaissance and ordered an investigation.

• Benjamin opened the cavern ceiling and appeared above the battlefield, where thousands of Level 6 Mushroom People had surrounded him.
• Benjamin summoned more than a hundred Level 6 Black Giants and ordered them to capture the surrounding Mushroom People alive and kill the rest.
• Benjamin left the Black Giants to fight alongside the young wizards and stored several dozen captured Mushroom People in his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• Benjamin searched the captured Mushroom People’s memories for clues to the Level 7 Mushroom People and found that they claimed every high-energy resource in the plane had been consumed.
• Benjamin compared those memories with the Augusta Family’s reconnaissance data and ordered young wizards to investigate the plane’s geology and mineral distribution.