Recaps

Benjamin discovered that the Mushroom People could rapidly advance by devouring their own spore-born descendants, but doing so devastated their intelligence. He suspected their missing Level 7s had been sacrificed to raise a hidden leader to Level 8, and traced the likely hiding place toward the direction Augusta had gone.

• Benjamin found that the Mushroom People had secretly prepared for the invasion and forced selected Level 5 elites to advance by devouring others.
• Benjamin learned that each Mushroom Person's spore-born descendants could increase its intelligence, and that forced advancement without enough descendants caused severe mental decline.
• Benjamin concluded that the missing Level 7 Mushroom People might have been used as nutrients to advance an unknown leader to Level 8.
• Benjamin mapped the Mushroom People's movements and narrowed the likely hiding place to the direction Augusta had taken.
• Benjamin decided to send the intelligence to Augusta and wait for her report before making further deployments.

Benjamin joined Augusta in fighting five unexpectedly powerful Level 7 Mushroom People, whose rapid healing and defenses made them difficult to defeat. After they crippled all five, Benjamin searched one’s soul and found its memories were fragmented, leaving the cause of the Mushroom People’s strength unresolved.

• Augusta reported finding traces of Level 7 Mushroom People, and Benjamin teleported to her battlefield, where she was fighting three.
• Benjamin attacked two more Level 7 Mushroom People with Echo Bomb Rune Artifacts, while Augusta’s matter-manipulating attacks struggled against their defenses and healing.
• The Mushroom People turned on Benjamin and Augusta, but Benjamin’s escalating Echo Bombs and Augusta’s gravity and electromagnetic forces crippled all five.
• Benjamin searched the soul of one defeated Mushroom Person and found its memories were fragmented, just like those of Mushroom People that had temporarily advanced to Level 6.

Benjamin and Augusta concluded that the Level 7 Mushroom People had been deployed to delay them while their leader advanced, then used a mineral survey to locate the high-level Mushroom People’s gathering place. They set their sights on the plateau where the remaining mineral-like elemental readings were concentrated.

• Benjamin and Augusta sealed five Level 7 Mushroom People and discovered that they had been forcibly promoted by devouring their own kind, leaving their souls severely damaged.
• Benjamin concluded that the Mushroom People’s leader was stalling for time to advance to Level 8, while Augusta explained how false clues had delayed her investigation.
• Augusta and Benjamin considered whether the trail ahead led to a prize or another deception, and Benjamin waited for additional intelligence.
• Benjamin received a plane mineral analysis showing that the plane’s remaining elemental reactions were concentrated in one plateau region.
• Benjamin and Augusta inferred that the concentrated readings came from high-level Mushroom People underground and identified the plateau as their likely gathering place.

Benjamin and Augusta uncovered a hidden Mushroom People cavern and found that its leader had recently advanced to Level 8. After they killed its Level 6 guards, the colossal leader awoke and warned them that they had lost their final chance.

• Benjamin and Augusta checked the barren plateau for traps, then Augusta used her powers to lift the ground and expose a vast underground cavern.
• They found only a dozen Level 6 Mushroom People and a colossal leader whose law patterns revealed it had advanced to Level 8.
• The Level 6 guards attacked to protect their newly advanced leader, but Benjamin and Augusta killed them in a single exchange.
• The Level 8 Mushroom People leader awoke, triggered an Elemental Riot with its roar, rose from the cavern, and told Benjamin and Augusta they had lost their final chance.

Benjamin and Augusta attacked a newly advanced but unstable Level 8 Mushroom People leader, deploying their forces to contain it and withstand its assault. The battle escalated as the Black Giants and Nest defended against thousands of rock meteors while Benjamin bombarded the leader with Echo Bombs and Final Rays.

• Benjamin and Augusta laughed at the Mushroom People leader’s threats, survived its tentacle strike, and judged that its unstable advancement left it weaker than a normal Level 8 Lifeform.
• The Mushroom People leader raised thousands of immense rock meteors and hurled them at Benjamin and Augusta.
• Benjamin summoned four Level 7 Black Giants and Nest, then assigned them roles in the fight while Augusta used the Four Fundamental Forces to restrain the leader.
• The Black Giants smashed incoming meteors as Nest shielded and replenished them, while debris turned the battlefield into a destructive storm.
• Benjamin fired Final Rays and thousands of Echo Bombs at the leader, tearing off its tentacles and filling the battlefield with explosions.

Benjamin, Augusta, the Black Giants, and the nest fought the Level 8 Mushroom People leader and broke through its defenses. After it survived their finishing attacks, the leader surrendered, revealed that it had pretended to be unintelligent, and became Augusta’s contracted servant, ending the Plane War.

• The Mushroom People leader battered the Black Giants and the nest, while Benjamin and Augusta searched for a way past its strong defense and regeneration.
• Augusta slowed the leader with gravity as the Black Giants and the nest restrained it, allowing her Electromagnetic Cannon and Benjamin’s Void String to crack its rocky armor.
• Benjamin and Augusta struck the exposed leader with the Final Ray and Electromagnetic Cannon, leaving it gravely wounded.
• The leader rose and charged, then fell over and exposed its vulnerable stalk to surrender to Benjamin and Augusta.
• The leader admitted it had feigned stupidity to seek a chance to attack them, but surrendered because it could not win.
• Augusta completed a master-servant contract with the leader, and Benjamin and Augusta declared the Plane War over.

Benjamin learned that the Mushroom People came from an unknown plane and arranged for the Lineage to study their origins, then began researching them as potential cannon-fodder units. After decades of research and reflection on the steep path to higher wizard levels, he received Dean Avery Knight’s order for all Academy instructors to gather.

• Augusta shared the Mushroom People leader’s memories with Benjamin, revealing that scientists had created the race as mining tools and that its people had been exiled from another plane after gaining collective consciousness and rebelling.
• Benjamin and Augusta agreed that the Lineage could study the Mushroom People leader’s structure and Law imprints to try to recover the coordinates of its original plane.
• Benjamin returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, inspected the war’s losses, and placed the captured Level 7 and Level 6 Mushroom People in separate Restraint Arrays for future modification research.
• After several decades, Benjamin reviewed his progress in the Laws, improved spells, and Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror, then considered the immense requirements for advancing to Level 7.
• Dean Avery Knight summoned all Academy instructors to a meeting, and Benjamin left his laboratory through the Teleportation Array.

Benjamin attended an Academy-wide meeting where Dean Avery Knight announced an education reform that would enroll every child with minimum wizard aptitude and improve their aptitude through the Blood Sacrifice Method. A low-level wizard from the Crimson Court had solved the soul-sampling cost problem with a prenatal technique, making the reform feasible and leaving the instructors to recognize its civilization-wide potential.

• Benjamin arrived at a crowded conference room and saw that senior instructors and Academy administrators had gathered for Avery Knight’s meeting.
• Avery Knight announced that Noren Academy No. 147 would enroll all children with minimum wizard aptitude and use standardized Blood Sacrifice Method modifications to raise their innate potential.
• Benjamin doubted the plan could be afforded because safely sampling ordinary people’s souls had made the Blood Sacrifice Method too costly to apply broadly.
• Avery Knight revealed that a low-level wizard from the Crimson Court had developed a Low-Level Soul Cultivation Technique that safely collected samples from fetuses.
• Benjamin confirmed that prenatal soul sampling could resolve the cost barrier, and the instructors recognized that combining the techniques could transform Wizard Civilization.

Benjamin agreed to lead Noren Academy’s effort to standardize the Blood Sacrifice Method and integrate it with other technologies into a long-term system for producing Wizard Apprentices. The meeting ended after Dean Avery approved Benjamin’s request for full access to the relevant materials and technologies.

• Benjamin confirmed that the Blood Sacrifice Method could be standardized and scaled, but Dean Avery Knight explained that it killed ordinary people with insufficient soul talent.
• Dean Avery Knight said that making every newborn a wizard could disrupt society and sharply reduce the birth rate, while maintaining a large ordinary population supported Wizard Civilization.
• A Level 6 mentor raised concerns about the Academy’s capacity, and Dean Avery Knight presented plans for expansion, automated laboratories, artificial mentors, resource quotas, and plane-based education centers.
• Dean Avery Knight asked Benjamin to oversee the technical integration of the Blood Sacrifice Method, clone cultivation, fetal soul sampling, and aptitude testing.
• Benjamin accepted the assignment on the condition that he receive full access to all relevant materials and technologies, and Dean Avery approved his request.

After the meeting, Viola told Benjamin that he had been unusually isolated from ordinary wizard society and explained that his research reports had been required because the mentors worried he might die in seclusion. She urged him to quickly establish the first version of the Education Reform system before the Academy departed to help Mentor with his marriage plans.

• Benjamin met Viola in the corridor after the meeting and learned that she already knew about the Education Reform.
• Viola questioned Benjamin about his lack of social life, and he said his routine consisted of research, cultivation, war, rest, and eating.
• Viola explained that most wizards maintained social ties and revealed that Benjamin alone had been required to submit regular reports so the mentors could confirm he was alive.
• Viola urged Benjamin to build the Education Reform framework quickly because the Academy would soon depart.
• Benjamin guessed they were going to help Mentor show his strength, and Viola corrected him by saying they were going to marry their teacher's wife into the family.

After the Academy’s enrollment system became fully automated, Benjamin finished his work there and prepared to help Clark retrieve Mistress Castillo. He met Clark and Viola at a transit plane, where Viola explained that Azrael and his school had strong reasons to oppose them, though Clark intended to handle Azrael personally.

• Benjamin confirmed that the Academy’s soul sampling, clone cultivation, and Blood Sacrifice Array were operating stably and could run without his supervision.
• Benjamin entrusted the Black Giant Legion’s training to Mount Magma and the Black Giant Priests, left the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s research with Hadar, and relied on the Creation System to refine the Celestial Star Array’s Array Eye.
• Benjamin stepped through a Teleportation Array and met Viola and Clark at a transit plane.
• Viola explained that Azrael was a Senior Level 7 Wizard from one of the Scarlet Brood’s main schools and might advance to Level 8 by joining paths with Mistress Castillo.
• Viola said Azrael’s school would support the union, while rival schools might oppose it, and Clark appeared ready to deal with Azrael himself.

Benjamin, Viola, Clark, Wizard Noren, and Grand Mentor Anton traveled to the Crimson Court to support Clark in a coming factional challenge tied to an inter-faction marriage. They arrived in Crimson Court territory, where Benjamin saw its heavily militarized architecture and wizard units.

• Viola explained that Azrael's faction would likely challenge them rather than start a full-scale war, with Clark facing their Level 7 Wizards and Benjamin and Viola handling the Level 6 Wizards.
• Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton arrived, and Benjamin sensed that both had grown stronger after using the Reflection Prism.
• Viola revealed that she, Clark, and the others were going along to back someone up, surprising Benjamin, who had thought they were only going to marry Mistress off.
• Wizard Noren teleported the group directly into Crimson Court territory with a powerful spatial spell.
• Benjamin observed the Crimson Court's aggressive, war-focused buildings and heavily equipped wizard units.

Benjamin and Viola arrived at the Crimson Court’s Scarlet Brood, where they learned more about the faction’s war-driven pursuit of enemy technology. Castillo welcomed them by playfully inspecting and messing up their hair, then embraced Clark.

• Benjamin observed the Crimson Court’s frontier and heard Viola explain that its wizards prolonged intense wars to extract enemy knowledge and technology.
• Grand Mentor Anton explained how the Crimson Court’s war philosophy let combat-focused wizards gain data and technology through their enemies’ research.
• Benjamin and the others traveled through several Teleportation Arrays and arrived at the living, flesh-built Scarlet Brood.
• Castillo greeted Benjamin and Viola, inspected them, and ruffled their hair despite their protests that they were sixth-rank wizards.
• Castillo and Clark reunited with an embrace, prompting Viola and Benjamin to comment on their closeness.

Benjamin accompanied Clark and Castillo to a High-Rank Wizard gathering, where Azrael challenged Clark to settle their dispute through three duels. Castillo revealed she had already resolved the matter and was eager to watch the battles, leaving the group poised for the contest.

• Benjamin recognized Morin and Aislin as Level 8 Wizards from Castillo’s lineage, and Morin opened a vast spatial portal to the gathering venue.
• Morin led the group into a garden banquet attended by dozens of powerful wizards, where they introduced Noren, Anton, Clark, Viola, Castillo, and Benjamin.
• Azrael approached Clark, acknowledged his partnership with Castillo, and proposed three one-on-one battles between representatives of both sides.
• Castillo told Benjamin that the battles would not change her decision because she had already settled the internal disputes within the Mother Nest.
• Castillo admitted she was excited to watch the rare contest and said she would join the fighting herself if her position allowed it.

Viola fought Gis in the first match between Noren Workshop and Azrael’s side, turning his Law of Decay against her into strength through her Law of Pain. She defeated him with a powerful kick, giving Noren Workshop the first win.

• Wizard Morin started the first match, and Azrael chose his chief disciple Gis to fight for his side.
• Viola volunteered to face Gis, and the duel began with their Law Solidification Domains colliding.
• Gis repeatedly inflicted severe decay injuries on Viola, but she endured and grew stronger as her Law of Pain converted suffering into power.
• Viola revealed that she had been warming up, then overwhelmed Gis with her expanding domain.
• Viola struck Gis with a decisive kick that sent him crashing into a crater, then declared that she had won the first match.

Benjamin faced Rashid in a duel, but used his Time Law to rewind the fight before it could happen. Rashid realized he had already been defeated, and Benjamin left the platform after thanking him for yielding.

• Rashid stepped onto the Duel Platform, and Castillo warned Benjamin that Rashid’s Disintegration Law could destroy matter, spells, and spatial structures.
• Rashid prepared to fight Benjamin’s puppet, but Azrael told him to come down because he had already lost.
• Gis sent Rashid a memory of the battle, showing Benjamin rewinding Rashid’s attacks and even his hidden Great Disintegration spell.
• Rashid understood that Benjamin’s Time Law could return a localized area and its occupants to an earlier state.
• Benjamin withdrew the Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand, thanked Rashid for yielding, and drifted off the platform.

Benjamin stunned the wizards by revealing profound mastery of the Time Law, then Clark and Azrael began a carefully restrained duel. The fight left off as Azrael drew in the power of decay and released a different kind of energy.

• Benjamin reversed time across the Duel Arena, shocking the wizards and changing how they viewed his abilities.
• Clark and Azrael entered the Duel Platform, which expanded and strengthened its defenses for their Level 7 duel.
• Azrael unleashed his Decay Law Solidification Domain and attacked Clark with a barrage of spells.
• Clark calmly dispersed or deflected Azrael’s attacks while keeping his strength restrained, and Benjamin and Viola recognized that the duel was headed toward a draw.
• Azrael’s expression turned colder as he gathered the decay power and released a different fluctuation of energy.

Azrael shattered the Duel Arena’s spatial structure, trapping Clark, Benjamin, Viola, and the Scarlet Brood wizards in the Chaotic Interlayer. As Clark confronted Azrael, a dangerous spatial giant beast formed in the void, forcing both sides to unite against it.

• Azrael’s Decay Law breached the Duel Arena’s Protective Array and tore open its space, sweeping Clark, Benjamin, Viola, and nearby wizards into the Chaotic Interlayer.
• Benjamin identified their location as the threshold between real space and the Reflected Dimension, while Viola warned that drifting toward the Reflected Dimension would be deadly for them.
• Clark suppressed the surrounding chaos with his Law Solidification Domain, anchored the island, and demanded to know Azrael’s purpose, but Azrael insisted the rupture was an accident.
• As the island began shaking and spatial fragments gathered, Clark and Azrael called off their confrontation to face the disturbance forming in the void.
• A colossal transparent beast made of spatial waves emerged from the vortex, and both groups turned to confront it under Clark’s protection.

Azrael identified the creature attacking the wizards as a Spatial Fold Beast that mirrored each opponent’s strength and abilities. The battlefield split into isolated spaces, leaving Benjamin alone against a beast that matched his Triple Dharma Manifestation in size.

• Azrael explained that the Spatial Fold Beast adapted to each opponent and that every wizard would face a separate beast once battle began.
• Benjamin, Clark, and Viola prepared to defend themselves as the Spatial Fold Beast charged at Benjamin.
• The beast shattered Benjamin’s Return to Void Armor’s steady-state field, and the surrounding space divided into isolated battlefields for each wizard.
• A transparent giant claw struck Benjamin’s puppet and shattered its head, triggering his alarm at the beast’s danger.
• Benjamin unleashed the Triple Dharma Manifestation, and the Spatial Fold Beast expanded until it matched the manifestation’s enormous size.

Benjamin fought the Spatial Fold Beast in the chaotic void, adapting to its spatial attacks while enhancing his Dharma Image with Final Ray. He destroyed the beast with a series of increasingly powerful punches, then reflected on the adaptive evolution his Body Tempering Method had achieved.

• Benjamin used God of Light Transformation with Final Ray and fought the Spatial Fold Beast, relying on Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand to rewind their movements.
• Benjamin repeatedly endured the beast’s attacks as Adaptive Evolution strengthened his body, defenses, and connection to his Dharma Image.
• Benjamin allowed the beast to strike his chest, grabbed its claw, and unleashed punches empowered by Echo Bomb’s elemental-stacking logic.
• Benjamin rewound the fight whenever the beast broke free, then crushed its body with a final series of blows and erased its fragments with terminal light.
• Benjamin regretted that the rare creature could not be captured for research, but was pleased that the battle had advanced his adaptive evolution.

After defeating his Spatial Fold Beast, Benjamin learned from Viola how to use the creature’s spatial imprint to enter other wizards’ battles without creating new Fold Beasts. They prepared to provide support and ruled out their mentor Clark’s battlefield, which was beyond their ability to affect.

• Benjamin kept his God of Light Transformation active and wondered whether joining another wizard’s isolated battlefield would create a new Spatial Fold Beast.
• Viola emerged from a spatial rift with an injured Scarlet Brood wizard and told Benjamin she had tested a way to enter other battles safely.
• Viola explained that spreading the dead Spatial Fold Beast’s spatial imprint over one’s body prevented new Fold Beasts from appearing.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye to reproduce the spatial fluctuations, and Viola confirmed his camouflage was sufficient.
• Benjamin and Viola prepared to support the other wizards, but Benjamin excluded Clark’s battlefield because they could not help there.

Benjamin and Viola rescued Scarlet Brood wizards trapped in spatial fragments, crushing the Spatial Fold Beasts that had been hunting them. After saving the last level-six wizard, they left the rescued wizards awestruck and afraid of their strength.

• Benjamin and Viola chose spatial fragments to enter, while the rescued wizard stayed behind to recover.
• Benjamin spotted a badly injured Crimson Court wizard surviving a Spatial Fold Beast's relentless attacks and noted the Crimson Court's strong survival skills.
• Benjamin entered his chosen fragment and killed the Spatial Fold Beast with a single blow from his Dharma Image.
• Benjamin ordered the rescued wizard to record the beast's lingering spatial fluctuations, then carried him back to safety.
• Benjamin and Viola swept through the fragments and rescued Scarlet Brood wizards until Benjamin brought back the last level-six wizard.

Benjamin and Viola debated whether to rescue Clark or Azrael first after saving the trapped Crimson Court wizards. The wizards chose to help rescue Clark because Azrael might turn on them and the spatial fragments were steadily falling into the Reflected Dimension.

• Benjamin found a Level 6 wizard hidden among scattered flesh, observed his regeneration, and brought him to the safe zone as Viola rescued another wizard.
• The rescued wizards discussed the Spatial Fold Beasts while Benjamin and Viola weighed whether to help Clark or Azrael first.
• The Scarlet Brood wizards asked to rescue Clark first, explaining that they feared Azrael might silence them.
• The old wizard revealed that the spatial fragments were falling into the Reflected Dimension, making outside rescue harder the longer they waited.
• Benjamin and Viola agreed to gather everyone’s strength and discuss tactics for rescuing Clark.

Clark, Benjamin, and the wizards fought a gigantic Spatial Fold Beast, with Benjamin destroying its foreclaw and Clark ultimately suppressing it. Clark then swiftly defeated the beast on Azrael’s battlefield, leaving Azrael to recognize the vast gap between them.

• Viola led the wizards into Clark’s space fragment, where their restraint spells briefly distracted the Spatial Fold Beast and Clark pinned it with his Law Solidification Domain.
• Benjamin used Entropy-Increasing Fire to erase the beast’s foreclaw, then was struck by its counterattack and had his Dharma Image smashed apart.
• Clark exploited the opening to devastate the beast, while Viola and the other wizards fled the spreading aftermath with Benjamin.
• The wizards watched Clark finish suppressing the Spatial Fold Beast, and Clark praised Benjamin before Viola shared her method for masking spatial fluctuations.
• Clark entered Azrael’s space fragment and crushed its Spatial Fold Beast almost immediately; Azrael emerged injured and admitted that the gap between him and Clark was enormous.

After returning from the spatial battle, Benjamin and the others saw the Level 8 Wizards dismiss the incident as an accident, while Castillo chose to leave with Clark. Meanwhile, Azrael and two elders retrieved the Death Relic, a rare treasure that could help wizards advance to Level 8.

• Benjamin and the others returned to the garden, where Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton challenged the opposing Level 8 Wizards over the suspicious spatial accident.
• The opposing wizards apologized and offered compensation but maintained that the incident had been an accident, and Wizard Noren let the matter drop.
• Castillo told Morin that she had made up her mind, said goodbye to Aislin, and walked toward Clark.
• Azrael and two Level 8 elders activated a formation in a sealed Scarlet Brood laboratory and pulled a broken mirror-like object out of space.
• Azrael identified the object as the Death Relic, a remnant of a dead Spatial Fold Beast that could help wizards complete Law Fixation and reach Level 8.