Recaps

Benjamin held off the Spirit Race’s elite Level 6 attacker while recalculating Anvil Base’s teleportation array, enabling Jack to evacuate more than ten thousand survivors to the Backup Base. The Tentacle Mother destroyed Anvil Base, and its central eye searched the rubble for Benjamin.

• Benjamin identified the Spirit Race’s summoned attacker as an elite Level 6 threat and ordered Jack to lead everyone into the Underground Shelter.
• Benjamin stayed behind to recalculate the teleportation array while Jack guided the survivors to safety.
• Benjamin’s Protective Array briefly shielded Anvil Base as he separated the Tentacle Mother’s spatial disturbances from the array’s coordinates.
• After Jack signaled that everyone had entered the shelter, Benjamin corrected the coordinates and teleported more than ten thousand survivors to the Backup Base.
• The Tentacle Mother struck Benjamin and split Anvil Base apart, then searched the wreckage for him.

Benjamin defeated the Sacred Spirit’s attack with help from an ancient human defender nearing the end of his lifespan, then persuaded the old man to bring humanity into the Wizard Civilization. The wizards and their enormous Cannon Fodder Legion prepared to enter the human world.

• Benjamin fought the Sacred Spirit while defending himself with spells until the old man appeared and destroyed it and the surrounding aliens.
• Benjamin rebuilt his body, brought the old man to the backup base, and reassured Jack that the stranger had protected humanity.
• The old man saw the people living with hope and asked Benjamin to ensure humanity could continue living that way.
• Benjamin explained the Wizard Civilization’s terms, and the old man agreed to join it and help humanity join as well.
• Benjamin announced that the passage could now be opened as more than twenty High-Rank Wizards and hundreds of billions of Cannon Fodder Legion gathered at the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin told the assembled wizards to get ready, and they released their auras.

The King of the Sacred Spirits mistook the Shadow Dragon Race for the leaders of a rival civilization, then fled when the creatures on the other side of the spatial rift seized his tentacles. With Karl’s power, Benjamin widened the passage for the Wizard Civilization, then accepted Karl into it and Jack as his apprentice.

• The King of the Sacred Spirits emerged above Anvil Base and headed toward the spatial rift over the Backup Base, where he mistook the Shadow Dragon Race for the masters of the monsters.
• The King of the Sacred Spirits attacked the cannon fodder, but when Benjamin forced the rift wider, creatures on the other side grabbed his tentacles and made him sever them to escape.
• Benjamin used Karl’s power to expand the spatial passage, allowing the Cannon Fodder Legion to enter the new world.
• Jack recognized Gavin’s remains, buried him, and accepted Benjamin as his teacher; Benjamin introduced him to Viola, Clark, and Castillo.
• Benjamin gave Karl a Longevity Elixir, and Karl agreed to join the Wizard Civilization.

Benjamin reorganized his legion, sent half its forces to help Karl rescue the world's humans, and traced the sealed Spirit Race passage to reconstruct it. The rift began to open again, and Benjamin ordered his forces to attack.

• Benjamin watched the other wizards depart and considered the danger posed by the powerful civilizations in the plane war.
• Benjamin ordered his legion to consolidate and sent half its forces to help Karl rescue the world's humans.
• Benjamin found that his true body faced less suppression because Karl's recognition had earned the wizards some acceptance from the plane's origin.
• Benjamin led his legion to the sealed passage used by the King of the Sacred Spirits and analyzed its lingering spatial traces to locate the Spirit Race's plane.
• Benjamin reconstructed the passage's spatial array, began reopening the rift, and ordered all forces to attack.

The Sacred Spirits planned to conquer the Stepping-Stone World’s resources before attacking the Central World, but Benjamin’s army invaded the world and annihilated its Bat People defenders. After discovering that the Spirit Race had enslaved the Bat People and locating its stronghold, Benjamin led his legions toward the Holy City.

• The Sacred Spirits mocked a one-tentacled king’s warning and ordered their forces to confront the invading army in the Stepping-Stone World.
• Benjamin led his army through the spatial passage and learned that the Spirit Race was using the world as a stepping stone to invade the Jack Plane.
• The Black Giant Legion and Dragonblood Mushroom Legion wiped out tens of millions of Bat People after the Black Giant Priest killed the first guards who attacked Benjamin.
• Benjamin scanned a surviving Bat Person and discovered that a biological tentacle had permanently controlled its nervous system.
• Benjamin extracted memories revealing the Holy City as the Spirit Race’s stronghold and ordered his legions to march there.

Benjamin’s army crossed the wasteland and reached the Holy City, destroying a fortress the Spirit Race had set up to test its strength. After entering the city through its purple mist, Benjamin confronted the gathered Kings of the Sacred Spirits.

• Benjamin led his army past Bat People cities, ordering it to advance quickly as the controlled inhabitants charged and died.
• Benjamin found a fortress guarded by Bat People and towering constructs, then erased it with a blast of colorless light.
• Bat People scouts fled to report the destruction to the Holy City.
• Benjamin used his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to detect the purple mist’s trick and led his army through it into the Holy City.
• Benjamin saw the city’s central tentacled structure and more than a dozen Kings of the Sacred Spirits hovering above it, then taunted them.

Benjamin overcame the Kings of the Sacred Spirits’ perceptual distortion and defeated them, allowing his legion to overrun the Holy City. He let one injured King escape through a Spatial Passage, then sealed the passage after recording its coordinates and parameters.

• The leading King of the Sacred Spirits revealed its true form and used its power to distort the senses of Benjamin and his legion.
• Benjamin used the Return to Void Armor and True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to escape the perceptual field, explain how it worked, and dispel the purple mist.
• The Kings of the Sacred Spirits attacked Benjamin, but his armor repelled them and his Final Ray defeated them.
• Benjamin ordered his legion to eliminate resistance and collect spoils as the Black Giants and Dragonblood Mushroom Legion stormed the Holy City.
• A wounded King of the Sacred Spirits secretly escaped through a Spatial Passage, and Benjamin recorded its coordinates and sealed it against destruction.

After defeating the Spirit Race, Benjamin transformed its depleted plane into a grain of self-growing soil and returned to the Jack Plane. He then received an urgent message from Jack and teleported to help.

• Benjamin's forces captured or subdued the remaining Sacred Spirits and Bat People, and he judged the stripped plane to have little value left.
• Benjamin sent his army and its captives back to the Jack Plane, then flew beyond the plane barrier to cast Self-Growing Soil Creation.
• The spell compressed the dying plane into a grain of self-growing soil, which Benjamin sealed in adamantine.
• Benjamin returned to the Jack Plane and received Jack's message asking for help.
• Benjamin recalled his army into his Internal Grotto-Heaven and teleported to the coordinates Jack had sent.

Benjamin arrived at the battlefield where Karl faced more than a hundred Level 8 aliens gathered near ancient human ruins. After learning they sought something connected to the first mutations and the Central World, Benjamin rejected their offer of cooperation and declared that the Wizard Civilization would conquer them.

• Benjamin teleported to the battlefield and found Karl confronting over a hundred Level 8 aliens while Jack hid nearby.
• Jack told Benjamin that the aliens had attacked as he and Karl gathered surviving humans, and that the hostile species seemed wary of one another.
• Karl explained that the area contained ruins of humanity’s previous civilization and might be where the first mutations occurred, leading Benjamin to suspect it was close to the Central World.
• A fire elemental offered humanity protection and entry to the Central World in exchange for the location of its world, but Benjamin refused to cooperate.
• Benjamin summoned the Black Giant Legion and Dragonblood Mushroom Legion and declared that the Wizard Civilization had come to conquer the aliens and claim them as spoils.

Benjamin and the wizards crushed the Alliance of Seven Races, capturing its Level 8 forces and pursuing the survivors through their Spatial Passages. After the other Level 7 Wizards entered the passages to finish the fight, Benjamin turned with Karl and Jack to investigate the previous era’s human civilization ruins.

• Benjamin faced the Alliance of Seven Races, and Clark, Castillo, Wizard Augusta, and Viola emerged through a spatial rift to reinforce him.
• The wizards overwhelmed the alien forces, silencing the Insect Race and sealing several groups of Level 8 Lifeforms.
• When the aliens attacked and tried to flee, the wizards captured them, while Benjamin’s Black Giant Legion and Dragonblood Mushroom Legion rounded up the survivors.
• Wizard Augusta and the other Level 7 Wizards forced their way through the Spatial Passages to pursue the aliens, while Castillo thanked Benjamin and Viola returned home.
• Benjamin brought Karl and Jack to look for treasures left by the previous era’s human civilization.

Benjamin discovered that the stones in a ruin stayed unchanged and undetectable unless physically observed, then began excavating the Forbidden Zone to find more ruins. Five years later, Jack and Karl returned after gathering the humans and saw the Forbidden Zone transformed into a vast basin filled with exposed ruins.

• Benjamin followed Karl and Jack to a ruin that Karl said had already been thoroughly scavenged.
• Benjamin used his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to discover that the ruin's stones remained unchanged while unobserved and escaped detection by scanning methods.
• Benjamin restored an observed wall with Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand and concluded that many undiscovered ruins might remain hidden.
• Benjamin ordered the ground excavated piece by piece, while Karl and Jack were assigned to gather the surviving humans on the Jack Plane.
• Five years later, Jack and Karl completed their mission, and Jack saw that the Forbidden Zone had become a several-thousand-meter-deep basin exposing countless ruins.

Jack joined Benjamin at the excavation site as the Core Ruins neared their final exploration. Inside the ruins’ transfer passage, Benjamin defeated a guardian curse and explained how wizards could destroy curses by breaking their elemental structure.

• Jack reported to Benjamin that everyone on the plane had been rescued, and Benjamin said the Core Ruins would be ready for a final exploration soon.
• Half a month later, Benjamin led Jack through the ruins’ Public Transfer Area and explained its material-resonance teleportation system.
• A black mist guardian appeared and attacked Benjamin, but its body resisted both magical and physical attacks.
• Benjamin identified the guardian as an amalgamation of curses that tried to invade his soul, then destroyed it by shattering its fundamental elemental structure.
• Benjamin explained to Jack that curses could be defeated by finding and breaking their elemental structure.

Benjamin and Jack explored the layered laboratories beneath the ruins, finding research on the Mushroom People before reaching the central laboratory, where extreme spatial pressure forced Benjamin to send Jack back. Benjamin discovered records of world nesting technology and concluded that its failure had likely triggered the upheaval in the plane.

• Benjamin and Jack passed through the laboratory layers, collecting research materials and finding extensive studies of the Mushroom People in the ninth layer.
• Benjamin sent Jack back after the central laboratory’s dense, pressurized space made both of their Return to Void Armors shake violently.
• Benjamin examined compressed objects and documents in the central laboratory and learned that the researchers had been studying technology to compress one plane into another.
• Benjamin found a log titled “Nesting Experiment Phase Seven” and suspected that the technology’s loss of control had caused the plane’s upheaval.

Benjamin surveyed the recovered research and world nesting technology before Viola warned him that a parasitic Insect-kin had stolen part of Karl’s control over the plane origin. Benjamin left the excavation site and headed to help Karl suppress the creature.

• Benjamin left Jack to help the Tentacle Tree researchers clear and study the ruins, then returned to his command post to review the recovered materials.
• Benjamin sorted the Mushroom People research, the Core Ruins materials, and the incomplete records on world nesting technology, storing the documents for later study.
• Viola contacted Benjamin and reported that Karl had discovered part of his control over the plane origin was missing.
• Viola explained that a parasitic insect creature was hiding across the plane and eroding its origin, making it difficult for Karl to track and suppress alone.
• Benjamin received the creature's coordinates from Viola, told Jack the situation, and vanished to help Karl.

Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta attacked the Parasitized Insect-kin’s immense swarm of Parasite Beasts to weaken its hold over the plane origin. They began clearing the hosts while Karl stayed behind to stabilize the origin, and Augusta battled a powerful Dinosaur-kin commander.

• Viola told Benjamin that the Parasitized Insect-kin had taken about a third of Karl’s control over the plane origin, leaving Karl to stabilize it while the others fought.
• Viola explained that reducing the number of parasite hosts would weaken the creature and allow Karl to suppress it and drive it from the plane origin.
• Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta reached a plain crowded with Parasite Beasts, Dinosaur-kin, and Avian-kin whose bodies were controlled by worms.
• Benjamin released the Black Giant Legion and Dragonblood Mushroom Legion, while Viola summoned her plant-folk and Augusta charged the swarm’s Dinosaur-kin commander.
• Augusta shattered the commander’s bone blade with a punch as Benjamin and Viola entered the battle and began killing hosts and removing their parasite worms.

Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta confronted the Parasite’s enormous mountain-range main body and discovered that its Level 7 form contained energy on a plane-scale. They battled it together, but its vast reserves kept it regenerating and expanding.

• Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta found the Parasite’s main body spread throughout a colossal mountain range, and it rose from the ground to attack them.
• Benjamin’s Great Annihilation Divine Light damaged the Parasite’s shield, but its immense energy reserves quickly restored it.
• Viola realized the Parasite may have gained a third of the plane’s origin by consuming a third of the plane’s volume.
• Benjamin’s attempt to revert part of the Parasite with the Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand failed, and the creature expanded into a much larger body.
• Benjamin fought the Parasite with his Triple Dharma Manifestation while Viola and Augusta attacked its body, but it regenerated and continued growing.

Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta continued battling the parasite until angelic warriors from the advanced civilization backing the Avian-kin ambushed them. After six more months of fighting, they destroyed the parasite, leaving the larger conflict with the angels unresolved.

• Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta used their coordinated attacks and energy-restoring abilities to steadily weaken the parasite.
• Augusta warned the others as angels emerged from the void and struck Benjamin with weapons that pierced his defenses, but he repaired his puppet body and destroyed two attackers.
• Benjamin and Augusta recognized the angels' technology as the system behind the Birdfolk, and Benjamin suspected the Avian-kin and Insect-kin conflict had been manipulated.
• Augusta fought the angels while Benjamin attacked the parasite and Viola slowed their enemies with the Law of Pain.
• After six months of fighting, angelic reinforcements stopped arriving, the parasite dwindled to a quarter of its original size, and Benjamin destroyed its remaining worms.

After defeating the Parasite Beast, Benjamin restored Karl and Jack’s ability to study wizard cultivation and arranged for hundreds of millions of humans to resettle under Noren Academy No. 147. With the survivors settled, he returned to the Jack Plane and prepared to continue conquering the Sacred Spirit Plane with Augusta.

• Benjamin contacted Karl, who confirmed that he had regained control of the plane origin, and then used alchemy to modify Karl and Jack so they could practice Wizard Civilization’s cultivation methods.
• Benjamin asked Dean Avery Knight to resettle several hundred million humans and arrange academy studies for Karl and Jack; Avery approved the plan and praised Karl’s potential.
• Jack and Karl arrived at the welcoming plane prepared by Noren Academy No. 147, where they saw the new home and its provisions for the human population.
• Benjamin returned to the Jack Plane, said goodbye to Viola, and agreed to take Augusta with him to continue conquering the Sacred Spirit Plane.
• Benjamin checked the ruins excavation and began analyzing the sealed Spirit Race spatial passage’s coordinates and law parameters.

The King of Spreading Fear attended a meeting of the Sacred Spirit Civilization’s rulers after recovering from his defeat in the passage world. As the Blood-Tentacle Tyrant planned a full-scale assault, a spatial rift opened through the King of Spreading Fear, revealing that the enemy was using him as a coordinate to invade.

• The King of Spreading Fear woke from nightmares about the human in a Wizard Robe who had defeated him and his fellow Kings.
• The Blood-Tentacle Tyrant summoned over a thousand Kings of the Sacred Spirits to discuss the Angel Civilization, the Parasite Civilization, and the passage world.
• Several Kings mocked the King of Spreading Fear for his defeat, while he kept silent and recognized their attempt to take advantage of him.
• The Blood-Tentacle Tyrant announced that the Dark Realm Monarch and Soul-Devouring Sacred Lord would join him in an attack, and said the King of Spreading Fear must help reopen the passage.
• A spatial rift opened in the King of Spreading Fear’s chest, and voices from the other side announced they had found their coordinate and were tracing the passage.
• The Blood-Tentacle Tyrant realized the enemy was using the King of Spreading Fear to invade the Sacred Spirit World and roared in fury.

The Blood-Tentacle Tyrant tested the spatial rift with a psychic attack, and Benjamin and Augusta reflected it back with curses that killed many Sacred Spirit attendants. Convinced the invaders were a serious threat, the Blood-Tentacle Tyrant summoned reinforcements and ordered the Kings of the Sacred Spirits to contain the rift while he prepared to invade through it.

• The Blood-Tentacle Tyrant raged at the dying King of Spreading Fear while the other Kings of the Sacred Spirits cursed to mask their fear.
• The Blood-Tentacle Tyrant sent a psychic attack through the spatial rift, and Benjamin and Augusta redirected it back toward the palace.
• Benjamin's curses swept into the palace, killing dozens of low-ranking Sacred Spirit attendants and throwing the hall into chaos.
• The Blood-Tentacle Tyrant ordered the Dark Realm Monarch and the Soul-Devouring Sacred Lord to bring their armies and summoned his own legions.
• Dozens of Kings of the Sacred Spirits suppressed the spatial rift until it stabilized, while the Blood-Tentacle Tyrant kept it open as a future gateway into the enemy world.

Benjamin bypassed the Spirit Race’s defenses and entered an unguarded plane once ruled by the King of Spreading Fear. After discovering the Spirit Race had reduced another intelligent species to livestock, he decided to make up for the lost spoils by taking the Spirit Race’s own resources.

• Benjamin and Augusta agreed that Augusta would keep pressure on the Spatial Passage while Benjamin found another route into the Spirit Race’s Plane Cluster.
• Benjamin calculated the cluster’s coordinates and teleported to a plane formerly visited by the now-dead King of Spreading Fear.
• Benjamin entered the plane and appeared above its city, where the Spirit Race’s automatic defenses attacked his Dharma Image without harming him.
• Benjamin examined the plane’s ostrich-like livestock and realized the Spirit Race had likely parasitized an intelligent species, erasing its minds and turning it into beasts of burden.
• Benjamin concluded that the Spirit Race itself could provide useful resources and announced that he would make up for the lost spoils with what he found there.

Benjamin invaded the Spirit Race’s plane, incapacitating a Level 7 commander with his energy radiation and unleashing his army against the city. He asked Augusta to join him for a two-directional attack, but she refused.

• Benjamin’s God of Light Transformation and Dharma Image radiated energy that crippled a Level 7 Sacred Spirit Commander and threatened the other Spirit Race members in the city.
• Benjamin used a Spatial Seal to capture the commander alive and sent it to his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• Benjamin summoned the Black Giant Legion and ordered it to eliminate resistance and take prisoners as the army and Dragonblood Mushroom People routed Spirit Race forces.
• Benjamin contacted Augusta, who reported that the Spatial Array was holding and observed that his battle was going smoothly.
• Benjamin invited Augusta to join him so they could attack from two directions, but Augusta refused.

Benjamin and Augusta coordinated a two-pronged attack after the Spirit Race gathered its forces near the spatial passage. Benjamin led his legions through permanent passages to wreak havoc in the Spirit Race’s rear, leaving the Sacred Spirits struggling to contain the advancing army.

• Augusta told Benjamin that high-level Spirit Race forces had gathered near the spatial passage, so she would stay and keep them occupied while he attacked their rear.
• Benjamin ordered his legions to abandon difficult captives, kill those they could not capture, and advance quickly to throw the Spirit Race’s rear into chaos.
• The Black Giant Legion and dragonblood mushroom people broke through city defenses and moved through permanent passages into further Spirit Race territory as fleeing defenders spread warnings.
• A King of the Sacred Spirits ordered a counterattack but retreated, lamenting that the permanent passages could not be severed quickly and cursing the King of Spreading Fear.
• A level 7 dragonblood mushroom person self-destructed while surrounded, blasting the King of the Sacred Spirits backward and deepening his fury at the attackers.

Benjamin was surrounded by the Spirit Race’s assembled forces, including the Three Great Monarchs, after spending months fighting in their Plane Cluster. He revealed that their decision to concentrate their forces against him had left their defenses at the Spatial Passage vulnerable.

• The Spirit Race army and more than ten thousand Kings of the Sacred Spirits encircled Benjamin in a wasteland.
• The Blood-Tentacle Tyrant, Dark Realm Monarch, and Soul-Devouring Sacred Lord taunted Benjamin and declared that they had sealed off his plane and cut off his escape.
• Benjamin realized the Spirit Race had changed its pursuit tactics by pulling its main forces away from the Spatial Passage.
• Benjamin pointed out that the Spirit Race’s ambush had weakened its defenses elsewhere and suggested his forces could turn the plan against them.
• The surrounding Kings of the Sacred Spirits grew agitated as the Blood-Tentacle Tyrant understood Benjamin’s threat.

Benjamin used Dragonblood Mushroom People to destroy the Spirit Race’s Plane Cluster, then cast Self-Growing Soil Creation to refine thousands of planes and over ten thousand Sacred Spirit Kings into a lump of soil. The Three Great Monarchs attacked him, and the chapter ended with Benjamin fighting them in the Endless Chaotic Void.

• The Three Great Monarchs ordered their forces to kill Benjamin, and he sent tens of thousands of Dragonblood Mushroom People to charge and self-detonate.
• The explosions shattered the medium-sized plane and triggered a chain reaction that tore apart the surrounding Plane Cluster, allowing Benjamin to withdraw.
• Benjamin stopped beyond the cluster and cast Self-Growing Soil Creation, refining thousands of planes and more than ten thousand Kings of the Sacred Spirits into a lump of soil.
• The Three Great Monarchs grew to enormous size and attacked Benjamin, whose Dharma Image was battered by their combined strength.
• Benjamin fought back as he and the Three Great Monarchs traded thousands of blows across the Endless Chaotic Void.