Recaps

Benjamin led the nobles through the wilderness while they feared being targeted by their own relatives after reaching the Royal Capital. A mercenary brought news that a wizard named David had been killed in a battle against several kingdoms, leaving Benjamin uncertain whether the famous wizard was truly dead.

• Count Reinhardt, Baron Fabio, and General Brandon worried that relatives in the Royal Capital might arrange their deaths to seize their titles, estates, and authority.
• Benjamin monitored the nobles’ fear and suspicion with the Eye of Investigation and sent mercenaries to gather intelligence from nearby villages.
• A mercenary captain reported that Orc forces were gathering in towns north of the Royal Capital and might launch an offensive soon.
• The captain repeated a rumor that several kingdoms had killed the powerful wizard David after a devastating battle, and that David’s vengeful spirit had cursed some of his enemies.
• Benjamin connected the rumor to David’s changing contribution-board rank and wondered whether the Level 10 wizard had really died; he decided to seek more information in the Royal Capital.

Benjamin led the exhausted survivors of Golden port toward Orsay, where assassins sent by the nobles’ relatives attacked them. After Benjamin killed an ambushing giant python and an elite Orc squad, the group discovered a human-written route map and suspected a traitor was among them, while Benjamin secretly smiled at the evidence.

• The convoy reached Orsay, but Benjamin kept most of the nobles and guards outside while a small group entered the city to buy supplies.
• Assassins attacked the nobles at the city gate, and Benjamin killed them before using Soul Search to learn that their relatives in the Royal Capital had ordered the ambush.
• Count Reinhardt refused to enter another city, so the nobles returned to the convoy and continued toward the Royal Capital.
• A giant python burst from a marsh and lunged at a carriage, but Benjamin killed it by tearing its head apart.
• Orcs ambushed the convoy with arrows and attacked the nobles’ carriages, but Benjamin slaughtered the entire elite squad.
• General Brandon found a human-written parchment showing the convoy’s route and carriage identifiers, prompting Count Reinhardt to declare that a traitor was among them; Benjamin secretly smiled at the scroll.

Benjamin arrived in Eloria City with the surviving nobles, who praised his deeds to protect themselves and gain royal favor. King Ottorek III suspected Benjamin was an Orc spy but appointed him Special Advisor to watch him, while Benjamin welcomed the role as part of his plan to pass as someone from this world.

• Count Reinhardt, Baron Fabio, and General Brandon reached Eloria City with Benjamin and thanked him while presenting him with a chest of gold and gems.
• Count Reinhardt and the other nobles met at his estate and agreed to report Benjamin's supposed heroic deeds to the king for protection.
• Ottorek III and the chief minister suspected Benjamin was an Orc spy and decided to keep him free in the capital to draw out other agents.
• Benjamin received the title of Special Advisor, an estate, and limited access to public records, then gave the minister a bag of gold coins.
• Benjamin concluded that the king's suspicion helped his plan to disguise himself as someone from this world.

Benjamin used divination to find a way around the royal palace’s surveillance and secretly began assembling something in his residence. At a royal banquet, he sensed three unusually powerful members of the foreign delegations and noticed the arrival of the Sage’s disciple.

• Benjamin used copper coins and divination to identify a blind spot in the watchers’ attention at his residence.
• Benjamin created an illusion in the study to fool the watchers, then secretly arranged materials and began assembling an unknown device.
• Several days later, Benjamin attended a royal banquet welcoming the Orc, Elf, and Dwarf delegations and gathered information from the guests.
• Benjamin sensed unusual auras around an Elf woman, an Orc warrior, and a Dwarf woman, but chose not to divine their origins.
• Benjamin noticed the Sage’s disciple at the banquet and returned to mingling with the guests.

Benjamin tested his spatial teleportation device and used it to continue his experiments in a concealed laboratory in Golden port. Summoned to the palace council hall, he observed negotiations that descended into hostility while Ottorek III used his presence as a political ploy.

• Benjamin teleported to his Golden port laboratory, checked that the captured Orc generals were still alive, and ordered the magic puppet to give them nutrients.
• Benjamin examined the concealment formations hiding his estate among Golden port's ruins, then continued his research there over the following days.
• A palace messenger summoned Benjamin to observe negotiations, and Benjamin returned by teleportation to his Royal Capital estate before going to the council hall.
• Ottorek III told his chief minister that Benjamin's presence would unsettle the Orc delegation and might expose useful intelligence.
• The human and Orc delegations argued over compensation and conquered cities, while Seraphina insulted both sides and the Dwarves remained drunk and silent.
• Benjamin watched the delegation leaders and sensed that something was wrong as the negotiations grew more hostile.

Benjamin explored Eloria City and discovered concealed Wizard runes scattered throughout the capital, forming a network that gathered energy toward the church district. He also met Reis, the Sage’s disciple, and sensed an unexpected threat from him.

• Benjamin left the estate to explore the Royal Capital after being barred from observing the delegation negotiations.
• Benjamin sensed traces of a concealed Wizard runic formation beneath an old well and began searching the city for more nodes.
• Benjamin watched Reis heal a child and win the crowd’s praise, while sensing a faint threat from the Sage’s disciple.
• Benjamin found more runic traces around the capital and mapped their connections as parts of a vast energy-gathering formation.
• Benjamin returned to his estate and concluded that the rune network directed energy toward the church district.

Benjamin attended a Royal Capital banquet, where he learned about growing war fervor and noticed Miss Mary’s powerful calming influence. Back at his residence, he traced hidden runes to three linked arrays and realized four Noren Workshop wizards were working toward a shared goal, prompting him to join them.

• Benjamin examined the rune placements and decided their power could help him achieve his own goal.
• At the banquet, Benjamin reunited with Count Reinhardt, Baron Fabio, and General Brandon, who discussed Miss Mary’s influence and the Royal Capital’s rising anxiety over the war.
• The nobles described Kaiden’s fiery speeches against the wizards and the resulting surge in public and military fervor; Benjamin suspected Kaiden was a wizard in disguise.
• After returning home, Benjamin connected the hidden runes and found they formed three linked magic arrays converging on the Royal Capital’s faith nexus.
• Benjamin decided to assist the other Noren Workshop wizards, then discovered mismatched runes suggesting a fourth wizard was involved.

Benjamin secretly adjusted two of the Royal Capital’s three magic arrays, then prepared to activate them as the city readied for war against the foreign demons. In the sewers, he encountered four other wizards who had gathered for the same purpose.

• The king and the High Priest forged an alliance between humans and Orcs, while the Elven Kingdom signed a non-aggression pact and pledged aid.
• Benjamin located the three magic arrays and secretly corrected flaws in the eastern and northern arrays, while noticing another wizard nearby.
• Benjamin inspected the southern array, found no changes necessary, and burned his map after confirming his preparations were complete.
• Benjamin entered the sewers that night to activate the arrays and detected several witchcraft energies.
• Benjamin waited in hiding as four figures converged on him through the sewers.

Benjamin met Anya, Seraphina, Kaelen, and Rex in the sewers beneath Eloria's Royal Capital and discovered they were all working to affect the gods through mortal faith. His plan to contaminate the Divine Power Faith Network was far more extreme than their efforts, but they agreed to proceed together.

• Benjamin approached four disguised wizards in the sewers and revealed his identity to Anya, who recognized him as the former top contribution ranker.
• Anya, Seraphina, Kaelen, and Rex removed their disguises, and the five realized they had independently been working against the gods of the Eloria Plane.
• The others objected that Benjamin's plan to contaminate faith was reckless compared with their more cautious schemes to stir negative emotions among mortal races.
• Benjamin explained that even a momentary distraction among the gods could let the high-ranking wizards outside the plane seize them without risking the plane's destruction.
• As the five headed toward the magic formation nodes, Anya and the others explained their plans and agreed to follow Benjamin's altered formations.

Benjamin and four fellow wizards contaminated the Royal Capital’s faith network by activating their formations and injecting five different agents into its core. They escaped before the authorities arrived, leaving the contamination to remain hidden until the gods drew on the corrupted faith during a future battle.

• Benjamin and the others followed Rex through the sewers beneath the church district to the core shared by their three formations.
• The five wizards positioned themselves around the core and activated the formations, redirecting the Royal Capital’s Power of Faith toward it.
• Benjamin injected Mortal Aura into the network while Seraphina, Kaelen, Anya, and Rex added Dust of Delusion, Orcish chaos, Seeds of Decay, and Logical Paradox Runes.
• The contaminated energy spread through the church district, triggering a violent tremor, strange light, and alarms as guards and priests converged.
• Benjamin led the group into the sewers to escape, while he planned for the corruption to strike the gods when they later replenished their power from the faith network.

Benjamin and his companions escaped Eloria City as several high-rank wizards fought the gods and sealed them away. The Wizard Camp declared the trial mission complete and ordered all apprentices to return for evaluation.

• Benjamin and his companions escaped the chaotic Royal Capital without encountering resistance and reached the forest beyond it.
• A rift opened in the planar barrier, and several high-rank wizard phantoms emerged as the gods descended to confront them.
• The wizards overwhelmed the gods, sealed every god and Angel, and departed through the rift.
• The planar rift healed, and Benjamin received a message from the Wizard Camp ordering the apprentices to return for contribution evaluations.

Benjamin and his companions returned to Wizard Camp and discovered David ranked second in contributions, while the chaos in Eloria City revealed that David had secretly allied with the Sage to eliminate the plane’s leaders. David promised to transform Eloria’s people into citizens of Wizard Civilization, leaving the fate of the devastated plane in his hands.

• Benjamin, Seraphina, Kaelen, Anya, and Rex returned to Wizard Camp and saw the new contribution rankings, with Benjamin first and David second.
• The group wondered how David had earned so many contributions, and Seraphina said the mission reports would explain it later.
• In Eloria City, Kaiden learned the assessment had ended early, then killed a squad of guards when they threatened her and left after revealing herself as Bert Vera Augusta.
• David revealed his identity to the Sage in the ruined assembly hall, where the leaders of Eloria’s many races had been killed.
• David told the Sage that his mentor would use human modification potions to gradually transform Eloria’s humans into citizens of Wizard Civilization, honoring their agreement.

David and Sage secured the Eloria Plane's submission by killing its mortal leaders, while Benjamin remained in the conquered plane to study its faith network. David asked Benjamin to shelter selected native beings in exchange for his research notes, and Benjamin agreed.

• David and Sage secretly killed the Eloria Plane's mortal leaders, leaving the Royal Capital unable to organize a response after Benjamin and the others escaped.
• Sage recalled David's appeal to protect the plane's living beings and explained why he had chosen to support the decapitation plan.
• Mentor Clark praised Benjamin's performance, encouraged him to study the faith network, and left with the other mentors.
• Benjamin stayed at Wizard Camp, recorded his research on Mortal Aura, talisman Seals, and the Divine Power Faith Network, and organized the materials he had collected.
• David offered his research notes in exchange for Benjamin settling Sage-approved native intelligent beings in his future territory, and Benjamin accepted.

After the planar war, Benjamin spent his free time researching the Eloria Plane’s energy network, improving his wizardry models and Rune Artifact. When David offered him territory in the plane, Benjamin chose Golden port as his first base and arranged to receive its people and supplies there.

• Benjamin studied the Divine Power Faith Network and concluded that an efficient energy transmission system came before faith and the birth of gods.
• Over several months, Benjamin researched the Eloria Plane’s residual energy network and integrated what he learned into his wizardry system.
• Benjamin optimized his three Wizardry Models three times, improving their range, intensity, and spiritual-power efficiency.
• Benjamin tested a new Rune Artifact prototype and found that his research had more than doubled its energy conversion efficiency and burst intensity.
• David told Benjamin that the Eloria Plane’s main areas had been cleared and offered him land according to his contribution.
• Benjamin chose Golden port as his first territory and asked David to send the people and notes there, along with enhancement potions in batches.

Benjamin claimed the ruins of Golden port and prepared to rebuild the region as a vast garden and research ground. He settled tens of thousands of modified new residents there and left them to begin construction.

• Benjamin secured ownership of Golden port, returned to his preserved manor, and used Rune Artifacts to clear and purify the surrounding ruins.
• Benjamin purchased survival supplies and tools, then arranged for David to bring tens of thousands of selected and preliminarily modified people to the region.
• David explained the residents’ modifications, handed Benjamin his research notes, and departed.
• Benjamin provided the newcomers with temporary housing, food, and water, then ordered the healthy laborers to transform Golden port into an enormous garden.
• Benjamin showed the workers a blueprint of gardens, rivers, grasslands, and research facilities, then left the craftsmen to organize the work.

Benjamin modified his Elemental Storage Rune Artifact with technology derived from the Divine Power Faith Network, giving it the ability to plunder energy from nearby wizardry. He discovered that this effect came from combining Wizard Civilization conversion methods with Cultivation Civilization talisman Seals, and recognized the combination as his true advantage.

• Benjamin used David's research notes to advance his study of energy conversion in the Divine Power Faith Network.
• Benjamin tested a modified Elemental Storage Rune Artifact and found that its self-charging mode could forcibly drain energy from a Protective Array.
• Benjamin modified a standard Elemental Pool and confirmed that it charged more efficiently but could not plunder energy from wizardry.
• Benjamin traced the difference to the talisman Seals in his Rune Artifact, which combined with Divine Power Faith Network technology to resonate with and convert external energy more aggressively.
• Benjamin concluded that combining the strengths of Wizard Civilization and Cultivation Civilization let his Rune Artifacts draw on far more external power while greatly amplifying its effects.

Benjamin completed the Golden Garden and organized its residents to collect Hundred Flower Dew and maintain the flowers, creating work and trade that would generate Mortal Aura. He discovered that the garden’s flowers produced collectible Gang Sha and began gathering it as material for future equipment.

• Benjamin inspected the newly built Golden Garden and ordered its residents to collect Hundred Flower Dew and care for the flowers in exchange for coins.
• Benjamin returned to the mansion to make preparations, then visited the garden at dawn as residents gathered dew before it evaporated.
• Benjamin used his True Essence to perceive the flower-and-plant Gang Sha rising from the blossoms and leaves.
• Benjamin activated a newly refined Qi-Gathering Gourd and collected the Gang Sha from a patch of flowers, pleased with the amount it held.

After Amy and Victor returned to the Wizard Camp, they told Benjamin that Noren Workshop planned to establish Noren Academy No. 147 in the Eloria Plane Cluster, where they might serve as instructors and rulers. Mentor Clark then offered Benjamin his reward for the trial: ownership of any plane in the cluster except its main plane, and Benjamin considered choosing a Demon Plane for its resources and harsh environment.

• Amy and Victor visited Benjamin's Golden Garden after months away and said Noren Workshop had completed the initial integration of the Eloria Plane Cluster.
• Amy and Victor explained that Noren Workshop planned to establish Noren Academy No. 147 as an outpost and training base, with the two of them likely among its first instructors and rulers.
• After Amy and Victor left, Mentor Clark told Benjamin he could claim any entire plane in the cluster except the main plane and retain Golden port as private territory.
• Mentor Clark described affiliated elemental planes, Fairy Planes, and Demon Planes as possible choices, highlighting the Demon Planes' abundant minerals and unusual materials.
• Benjamin became interested in a Demon Plane because its resources suited his skills and its dangerous conditions could help give rise to Killing Intent.

Benjamin chose a Demon Plane and learned he could delay frontline service while the Workshop prepared its new Academy. He then tempered the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and his soul with Mortal Aura, gaining stronger spiritual clarity and control but discovering that both needed time to recover.

• Benjamin chose a Demon Plane, and Clark said he would contact the person in charge of the Eloria Plane to arrange the procedures.
• Clark told Benjamin that the Workshop planned to establish a new Noren Academy on the Eloria Plane and that participating in planar war could count toward military service and allow further recuperation.
• Benjamin used a wisp of Mortal Aura to temper the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror, awakening its spirituality, then sensed that it needed time to recover.
• Benjamin guided a tiny trace of Mortal Aura into his soul and experienced the joys, griefs, desires, and fears of countless mortals.
• Benjamin emerged exhausted but with purer mental power, improved spell control, and faster Alchemy work, then realized his soul needed time to digest the Mortal Aura.

Benjamin experimented with transmuting Mortal Aura and developed a promising potion using it in its original form, but postponed testing it when his graduation ceremony arrived. At Noren Academy No. 13, the celebrated Benjamin stood before Mentor Clark as the ceremony began.

• Benjamin transformed Mortal Aura into soul-nourishing energy and combined it with Hundred Flower Dew to make a low-cost potion, but judged its benefits limited.
• Benjamin developed a second potion using untransmuted Mortal Aura, then stored it until his soul recovered and he could test it safely.
• Amy and Victor summoned Benjamin to the graduation ceremony, and he returned with them to Noren Academy No. 13.
• The apprentices at the Academy fell silent and watched Benjamin with awe because of his achievements in the Eloria Plane trial.
• Mentor Clark called Benjamin forward, and Benjamin stepped before him as the ceremony began.

Benjamin graduated as a Level 1 Formal Wizard and learned that Horn had died during a trial on the Eloria Plane. Mentor Clark then gave Benjamin the documents and gateway coordinates for Purgatory Sulfur, the vast Demon Plane awarded to him, leaving Benjamin ready to begin exploring and developing it.

• Mentor Clark gave Benjamin his Formal Wizard badge and robe as he graduated.
• Benjamin watched graduates depart for plane wars and learned from Amy and Victor that Horn had died on the Eloria Plane after neglecting his studies.
• Mentor Clark summoned Benjamin and gave him the survey materials and coordinates for Purgatory Sulfur, a vast, dangerous Demon Plane awarded through his trial contributions.
• Mentor Clark explained that Noren Workshop had installed a permanent spatial gateway and offered Benjamin access to a logistics construction team.
• Benjamin thanked Mentor Clark and hurried from the office, eager to begin exploring his plane.

Benjamin entered the Purgatory Sulfur Plane through a portal and surveyed its harsh, energy-rich environment and formidable ecosystem. After finding valuable creatures and ruined demon settlements, he began testing the plane’s mineral resources.

• Benjamin used Mentor Clark’s rune core to travel from his underground laboratory to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin surveyed the volcanic landscape and discovered that its fire elements and free energy particles were exceptionally abundant.
• Benjamin found abandoned demon caves and stone palaces, left empty after the wizards removed the plane’s intelligent demons.
• Benjamin observed red maggots feeding on lava, a lizard creature devouring them, and a Winged Demon killing and eating the lizard.
• Benjamin recognized the plane’s powerful creatures as valuable research subjects and began testing its mineral resources.

Benjamin discovered that the Purgatory Sulfur Plane was rich in metal and decided to consult Mentor Clark about obtaining a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool to transform it. Clark agreed to contact his own mentor if Benjamin could find a way to afford the enormous cost, and Benjamin said he would have an answer within two months.

• Benjamin examined the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s rocks and magma and found metal content ranging from sixty to ninety percent.
• Benjamin returned to Golden Garden and contacted Mentor Clark to ask about a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool.
• Clark explained that even a Level 6 Large Elemental Pool cost more points than Benjamin currently had, and a Level 7 version would cost even more.
• Benjamin recognized the cost as a major obstacle but told Clark he expected to resolve the point issue within two months.
• Clark agreed to contact his mentor about manufacturing the pool if Benjamin could secure the necessary points.

Benjamin ran short of points while preparing to develop the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, so he hired a wizard construction team with his remaining balance and spent a month producing Adamantine to pay them. Afterward, he drank the potion he had made from Mortal Aura and Hundred Flower Dew and sensed that its effects differed from his previous experiences with Mortal Aura.

• Benjamin hired a team of low-level wizards through Noren Workshop to survey and begin developing the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, but discovered he had only enough points for their deposit.
• Benjamin considered ways to earn points, dismissed an Aptitude-Enhancing Potion made with Purple Qi of the East as too limited to produce in quantity, and chose to test a colorful potion refined from Mortal Aura and Hundred Flower Dew.
• Benjamin spent the following month producing and selling Adamantine through the Workshop to raise points for the construction team.
• When his alarm sounded, Benjamin found his exhaustion from his previous immersion in Mortal Aura had lifted and decided it was time to test his potion.
• Benjamin drank the potion and still experienced the many emotions and lives flowing through his spiritual world, but immediately sensed a difference.

Benjamin confirmed that his Mortal Dust Potion purified the soul and spiritual power while greatly reducing the mental strain caused by Mortal Aura, and decided to sell it primarily to Level 6 Wizards. He gave a bottle to Mentor Clark, whose successful test left him impressed and asking how Benjamin planned to price it.

• Benjamin tested the Mortal Dust Potion and found that it preserved Mortal Aura’s purifying effects while shortening the mental recovery period.
• Benjamin decided to target Level 6 Wizards and contacted Mentor Clark as a potential first buyer.
• Benjamin brought the finished potion to Clark’s Wizard Tower and asked him to test it.
• Clark drank the potion and experienced a profound emotional flood that purified his soul and improved his control and understanding.
• Clark recognized the potion’s value and asked Benjamin how he planned to price it.