Recaps

Benjamin sold his Mortal Dust Potion through Mentor Clark and continued researching while Amy and Victor prepared for another plane war. After realizing his Rune Artifact could leave him vulnerable under anti-magic conditions, he decided to strengthen his body and searched the Noren Workshop’s knowledge base for suitable techniques.

• Benjamin told Mentor Clark he could produce only two bottles of Mortal Dust Potion per month, and Clark offered to handle their sale.
• Benjamin handed Clark three bottles, received a large payment for two, and let him take the third to help secure approval for a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool.
• Benjamin spent the following months researching the Divine Power Faith Network and occasionally checking construction progress on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Amy and Victor told Benjamin they were entering another plane war after nearly a year of preparation, prompting him to reflect on how his uninterrupted research reflected his talent.
• Benjamin assessed his combat weaknesses and concluded that he needed to improve his body to fight under anti-magic conditions.
• Benjamin opened the Magic Network Terminal and searched the Noren Workshop’s knowledge base for body-strengthening techniques.

Benjamin studied Charles's Body Elemental Tempering Art and basic cultivation methods to figure out how to adapt body-cultivation techniques to Wizard Civilization. He recognized the Qi Refining Method as a remarkable but incomprehensible exception, then resumed overseeing the Golden Garden, the Purgatory Sulfur Plane construction, and his research.

• Benjamin selected Charles's Body Elemental Tempering Art and spent several days searching the Magic Network for research papers about its principles.
• Benjamin concluded that body-tempering methods from the Immortal Cultivation World failed in Wizard Civilization because they depended on Spiritual Power, while elemental techniques relied on elements.
• Benjamin began studying the two basic methods with the aim of combining their techniques and eventually applying the results to transform his plane.
• The Great Dao Library presented Benjamin with the Qi Refining Method, whose ability to unite essence, qi, and spirit across the worlds' structural differences fascinated him, though he could not understand its principles.
• Benjamin inspected the Golden Garden, absorbed its Mortal Aura, checked the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's preliminary construction, and returned to his laboratory to continue researching.

Benjamin developed a Body Tempering Method that used elemental energy to strengthen his body, then fought Magic Beasts and a Flame Lord to regain control of his growing strength and awaken his body's potential. He fled before the Flame Lord could cause irreversible damage, resolving to build resistance to fire first and eventually to all kinds of damage.

• Benjamin adapted Charles's Body Elemental Tempering Art and the Body Tempering Method into his own method, using elemental energy to temper his body.
• After rapid physical growth made him clumsy and disrupted his control, Benjamin traveled to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and fought a pack of Magic Beasts until he regained command of his strength.
• Benjamin challenged the Level 2 Being Flame Lord and endured its attacks, causing his body to adapt to fire damage as he fought.
• When the Flame Lord's attacks exceeded what his body could safely withstand, Benjamin escaped using his Flight-Type Rune Artifact.
• Benjamin felt that the fight had awakened some of his body's potential and set goals to gain resistance to fire and, eventually, all types of damage.

After more than a year of tempering his body against the Flame Lord, Benjamin became immune to its flames and searched the Purgatory Sulfur Plane for new challenges and useful materials. His exploration led him to a silent, black volcano whose earth veins had been severed and drained of energy.

• Benjamin fought the Flame Lord, whose attacks could no longer seriously harm him, and realized that continuing the battles offered too little challenge.
• Benjamin left the Flame Lord and searched deeper into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane for stronger creatures and elemental pressure.
• Benjamin found Crystal Fish in a lava river and collected them as potential Alchemy materials after recognizing their fire essence.
• Benjamin gathered Earthcore Sulfur Flowers and samples of unusual metal ores for study and cultivation.
• Benjamin discovered a lifeless black volcano surrounded by battle-torn corpses and found that its earth veins had been forcibly severed and drained.

Benjamin gathered and refined Killing Intent from a dead volcano, then established formations to make it a concealed, recurring source. He inspected the completed first stage of his plane transformation, a vast metal foundation built to amplify future formations across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.

• Benjamin used the Baleful Intent Gathering Art and Baleful Intent Refinement Art to collect Killing Intent from the volcano over several days.
• Benjamin installed concealment, gathering, and stabilizing formations so the volcano could keep producing Killing Intent for him.
• Benjamin received a call from the construction crew and flew to inspect their completed project.
• Benjamin examined the expansive metal foundation and sensed the network of embedded formations and energy conduits beneath it.
• Benjamin learned that the foundation could amplify future plane-wide formations, while advanced formations for influencing the Plane Origin would have to wait until he reached the sixth level.

Benjamin built a Gravity Training Room to improve his body and refined a Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier using Killing Intent and Mortal Aura. By adapting its energy circulation to elemental power, he confirmed he could convert elemental power into Spirit Energy by imitating a cultivation method’s circulation, opening the way for more experiments.

• Benjamin commissioned a Gravity Training Room and used its gravity and elemental attack arrays to temper his body.
• Benjamin established a regular routine of body refinement, laboratory research, and collecting Killing Intent from the Dead Volcano and other regions.
• After accumulating Killing Intent and Mortal Aura, Benjamin chose to refine the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier for protection against curses and divination.
• Benjamin used Adamantine armor to safely refine the Killing Intent into Gang Sha and combine it with Mortal Aura.
• Benjamin adapted the barrier’s restrictions to absorb elemental power and imitate the Qi Refining Method’s circulation, successfully creating the invisible protective treasure.
• Benjamin realized the process could let him convert elemental power into Spirit Energy without understanding a cultivation method’s underlying principles.

Benjamin reforged the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror for its First Refinement, gaining a longer Light Transformation and the ability to preserve shields through it. He then used the mirror’s new intelligence to create six autonomous floating platforms armed with Rune Artifacts, which followed him and attacked targets on command.

• Benjamin captured Creation Light while refining the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier and used it with other light concepts to complete the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror’s First Refinement.
• Benjamin tested the mirror in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and found that Light Transformation lasted twice as long, though a Level 4 Shield destabilized and weakened during the transformation.
• Benjamin discovered that his body cultivation let him survive the end of Light Transformation and defend himself even after exhausting his True Essence and spiritual power.
• Benjamin connected the intelligent Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror to an Attack-Type Rune Artifact and confirmed that it could independently use his authorized spiritual power to fire.
• Benjamin built six floating metal platforms fitted with Rune Artifacts, linked them to the mirror and Eye of Investigation, and watched them follow him and destroy moving targets.

Benjamin’s research into the Divine Power Faith Network had hit a bottleneck, so Mentor Clark brought him to his personal plane for a meal and offered him research manuscripts from another plane. The chapter left Benjamin with new material that might help advance his investigation.

• Benjamin realized that analyzing the Divine Power Faith Network of the Eloria Plane could take thousands of years with his current resources and methods.
• Benjamin told Mentor Clark about his research bottleneck while delivering the monthly Mortal Dust Potion.
• Mentor Clark brought Benjamin to his personal plane and explained how his servant races provided protection and formed a Servant Army.
• Benjamin ate delicacies from other planes that nourished his mental power and strengthened his body.
• Mentor Clark gave Benjamin a bag of his past research manuscripts on another plane’s Divine Power Faith Network, hoping they would inspire him.

Benjamin received Mentor Clark’s research on the Divine Power Faith Network, chose to focus on strengthening himself rather than pursue god samples, and spent a year studying. When his Ring of Truth began resonating with his Wizardry Models, Clark identified it as a sign that Benjamin’s own new wizardry was about to be born.

• Mentor Clark gave Benjamin a Space Expansion Bag filled with research manuscripts in exchange for the price of two Mortal Dust Potions and offered to help him seek god samples.
• Benjamin declined deeper research into divine materials, saying he needed to improve his strength, and Clark revealed that a Level 7 Large Energy Pool had been arranged but would take over a hundred years to complete.
• Benjamin returned to the Golden Garden and spent the next year studying Clark’s manuscripts while exchanging research with his mentor.
• A tremor spread from Benjamin’s Ring of Truth through his Spirit Sea, causing his Wizardry Models to resonate, so he went to ask Clark for help.
• Clark told Benjamin that a new wizardry was about to be born from his own accumulated knowledge and began explaining how to construct it.

Benjamin formed a specialized core rune from knowledge he had accumulated across different fields, then used it to create the All-Purpose Eye spell. He discovered that it offered extraordinarily detailed vision but overwhelmed him with information at close range, making it useful for research rather than combat.

• Clark showed Benjamin how to build a Wizardry Model by connecting mastered runes to a core rune, though he warned that constructing the full spell was more complicated.
• After weeks of concentration, Benjamin’s Ring of Truth produced a specialized core rune built from Resonance, Connection, Transformation, and Fusion.
• Benjamin realized the rune combined knowledge he had studied, and he quickly assembled a Wizardry Model around it.
• Benjamin found the rune and spell recorded in the Noren Workshop Magic Network under the name All-Purpose Eye.
• Benjamin activated All-Purpose Eye and discovered it could reveal many kinds of physical and magical details, but even a detection range under a meter flooded his mind with information.
• Benjamin concluded that All-Purpose Eye was unsuitable for broad battlefield detection but could replace many instruments in his research.

Benjamin’s All-Purpose Eye accelerated his research into the Divine Power Faith Network, but a sharp decline in Mortal Aura threatened his potion supply and plans for a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool. He decided to leave Eloria and join a planar war to find a new civilization, and Clark agreed to arrange a suitable target.

• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye to make rapid progress researching the Divine Power Faith Network.
• Benjamin discovered that Mortal Aura production had fallen so low that he could no longer gather enough for two bottles of Mortal Dust Potion each month.
• Benjamin concluded that wizard rule had transformed the Golden Garden’s society and weakened the conditions that produced Mortal Aura.
• Benjamin decided to seek a new, uncontrolled society by starting another planar war.
• Benjamin told Mentor Clark he would go to war, and Clark offered to arrange a target through Noren Workshop.

Benjamin learned that he needed to register to join a plane war, and Viola took him to a registration point at the junction of three wizard factions. There, wizards recognized that he had constructed the All-Purpose Eye himself and eagerly crowded around him.

• Benjamin learned that he had missed the Academy’s usual plane-war campaigns and needed to register as a volunteer wizard.
• Viola explained the registration process and offered to take Benjamin to a plane-war site at the border junction of Noren Workshop, the Tower of Silence, and the Chaos Cult.
• Benjamin and Viola traveled through several cross-plane teleportations to a vast fragment of space floating in the void.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye to inspect the area, and nearby wizards recognized the observation method.
• A group of wizards crowded around Benjamin after discovering that he had constructed the All-Purpose Eye himself, while Viola tried to shield him from them.

Benjamin learned that his All-Purpose Eye model had attracted researchers from the Tower of Silence, then toured the junction point with Viola and registered for Plane War missions. He left with a Magic Network Terminal that would notify him when missions were issued.

• Wizards from the Tower of Silence crowded around Benjamin to exchange communication serial numbers and discuss his All-Purpose Eye model, while Viola explained their interest and warned him to avoid the Chaos Cult.
• Viola explained that high-level wizards from the three factions had built the junction point, which had become a Floating Market filled with shops, unusual goods, and spatially distorted streets.
• Viola led Benjamin to the joint administrative center, where they registered for Plane War missions by submitting their information and specialties.
• Benjamin browsed the market, discovered that goods were bought with Military Merit, and chose not to spend his points.
• The otherworldly registration clerk gave Benjamin and Viola identity tokens containing Magic Network Terminals, which would deliver mission notices and provide access to the factions' networks.

Benjamin received a Substitute Doll from Mentor Clark, which could revive him using a specially prepared spare body if he died. Clark completed the replica body and allowed Benjamin to store it in his private laboratory before the expedition.

• Benjamin returned to the Golden Garden to prepare for the expedition, then answered Mentor Clark's summons to Noren Academy.
• Clark asked Benjamin for bodily materials and mental power, then gave him a Substitute Doll that could guide his life essence back after death if a spare body was available.
• Clark revealed that his own mentor had made the doll and expected Benjamin to provide ten more tubes of Mortal Dust Potion.
• The next day, Clark showed Benjamin a completed replica body preserved in an Incubator.
• Benjamin asked to store the spare body in Clark's private laboratory, and Clark agreed to hide it in a concealed compartment behind several layers of restrictions.

Benjamin and Viola gathered with thousands of wizards for a campaign, and Viola explained how rented planes carried armies through the Chaotic Void. The expedition’s Level 5 and Level 6 leaders arrived, leaving Benjamin keenly aware of the overwhelming power of high-level wizards.

• Benjamin checked the Golden Garden, contacted Viola, and met her at the junction point after receiving the assembly notice.
• Viola warned Benjamin to distrust wizards from the Tower of Silence and the Chaos Cult, and the two waited as forces from three factions assembled.
• Viola explained that planes crossed the Chaotic Void as warships and described the dangers of the void and the role of Plane Barriers.
• An immense barren war plane appeared above the junction point, and tens of thousands of wizards gathered to board it for the campaign.
• Three Level 5 Wizards and the expedition’s Level 6 Wizard descended from the plane, and Benjamin felt their formidable presence.

Benjamin joined a Wizard expedition aboard a plane that Augustine transported through the Chaotic Void, witnessing the power of high-level Wizards firsthand. After the Wizards prepared for an invasion, Viola explained that their scant intelligence came from observing the target plane and sensing its two Level 6 lifeforms from afar.

• Augustine of the Tower of Silence ordered the participating Wizards to board the Desolate Plane and depart.
• Benjamin and Viola landed on the plane, and Augustine connected it to the Plane Origin and sent it sailing through space.
• Benjamin observed Wizards deploying Biochemical Beasts and Golems as an advance force while he and Viola prepared for their Logistics Department duties.
• Benjamin checked the Magic Network Terminal and found only that the target plane had two Level 6 lifeforms and unusually active Fire and Water Elements.
• Viola explained that the intelligence came from external observation and that Level 6 lifeforms resonated with the Plane Origin, making them detectable from the Chaotic Void.

Benjamin and Viola arrived at the Frostfire Plane, where their presence tore open the sky above a world divided between fire and ice. Mistaking the incoming wizards for an invasion by their ancient enemies, the Lava Giant king Kalamus and Snow Monster king Agron both mobilized their armies for war.

• Viola explained that wizards who posted missions at junction points intended to conquer orderly-rule planes and make them their Wizard Towers.
• The plane shook as a breach opened in its barrier, and Viola announced that the wizards had arrived at their destination.
• The chapter introduced the Frostfire Plane, its Blazing Sun Realm and Frost Dark Realm, and the rival Lava Giant and Snow Monster civilizations locked in a stalemate.
• A guard alerted Kalamus to the enormous rift and the object in the sky, and the king summoned his Prophet to interpret the omen.
• The Prophet confirmed an ancient prophecy of enemies descending from the sky, so Kalamus ordered his legions to assemble at the Junction Mountains.
• Agron heard of the sky anomaly and likewise called the Snow Monster clans to arms, with both kings mistaking the incoming force for an attack by their sworn foes.

The wizards fought their way into the Frostfire Plane, overcoming the native armies long enough to secure a landing point. Benjamin and Viola began building the invasion’s outpost as the planar war began.

• The Chaotic Void’s distorted time allowed Kalamus and Agron to assemble their forces before the wizards arrived, and their flying legions attacked the plane ship.
• Wizard Augustine sent the wizards’ cannon-fodder armies into battle, and after days of fighting they wore down the natives’ aerial forces and advanced toward the Frostfire Plane.
• Kalamus and Agron attacked the wizard front, but Master Elwin held them back until the wizards secured a landing point.
• Master Elwin retreated after fighting both monster kings, and Kalamus and Agron withdrew with their battered armies.
• Wizard Augustine ordered the camp defenses and energy furnaces built, and Viola assigned Benjamin to construct the core energy matrix.

Benjamin and Viola observed how the wizards’ invasion strategy exploited the hostility between the Lava Giants and Snow Monsters, while Benjamin analyzed unusual resources from the plane. The chapter ended with Benjamin realizing that Logistics Department wizards were rare across wizard factions, unlike at Noren Workshop.

• Benjamin and Viola concluded that Master Elwin’s apparent defeat had been intended to exhaust the two Native powerhouses and keep the opposing races from fully uniting.
• Master Elwin sent an urgent notice stating that he had truly been overwhelmed by the combined attack of two Level 6 Natives, prompting the wizards to recognize the plane’s likely wealth of resources.
• The wizards established a fortified camp as the fighting diminished, and Benjamin analyzed Blazing Light Grass, which could form a fire-resistant membrane.
• Benjamin discovered that Iceburst Crystal erupted destructively when exposed to intense heat, and Tower of Silence wizards took the material to use as a casting resource.
• Viola explained that Logistics Department wizards were scarce in most factions, and Benjamin recognized that the camp’s nearly empty research area reflected their small numbers.

Benjamin analyzed a captured Lava Giant and uncovered its physiology, abilities, and vulnerabilities. He sent commanders a tactical report recommending combined low-temperature and physical attacks, along with high-frequency sonic waves.

• Benjamin was assigned to study captured Lava Giants because the Logistics Department lacked manpower.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye and Alchemy to examine a bound Lava Giant and found its rock skin could self-repair, its lava served as living tissue, and its body could digest minerals and breathe.
• Benjamin discovered that Lava Giants could sense heat, elemental energy, low-frequency vibrations, and underground tremors, and that they were powerful, fire-immune fighters.
• Benjamin found that prolonged heat let Lava Giants shift into a regenerating liquid-lava form, while extreme cold slowed their movement and regeneration by rigidifying their outer bodies.
• Benjamin wrote and uploaded a tactical report recommending low-temperature attacks followed by physical strikes, and noting that suffocation spells and high-frequency sonic waves could also hinder Lava Giants.

Benjamin collected battlefield Killing Intent and deathly aura with his Qi-Gathering Gourd while wizards around him salvaged materials from the landing battle. He learned that his reports had helped low-level wizards capture Lava Giants alive, making him a respected biologist in camp.

• Benjamin went to the battlefield and used his Qi-Gathering Gourd to absorb the lingering Killing Intent and deathly aura.
• Low-level wizards praised Benjamin for his reports and credited his advice with helping them counter Lava Giants.
• Benjamin reflected that wizards had successfully used suffocation techniques and High-Frequency Sonic Waves to immobilize Lava Giants.
• The wizards valued those methods because they let them capture living Lava Giants for study, servitude, and trade.
• Benjamin recognized that more advanced researchers would eventually surpass his findings, but he was glad his work had helped others.

The Lava Giants and Snow Monsters launched a massive assault on the Wizard Camp, where the battle turned against the wizards after the Lava Giants activated three strategic volcanoes. As Kalamos celebrated their advantage, he sensed a terrifying force gathering beneath the spatial rift at the battlefield’s center.

• Kalamos and Agron led enormous Lava Giant and Snow Monster armies in an assault on the Wizard Camp, and Augustine ordered the camp to prepare for battle.
• The wizards’ Golems and biochemical beasts clashed with the monster armies while Combat Department wizards supported them from behind the defensive line, leaving the front deadlocked.
• The Lava Giants redirected magma through underground earth veins to charge three volcanoes, which fired crimson beams into the battlefield.
• The beams unleashed extreme heat and underground lava, devastating the Snow Monsters and wizard forces while empowering the Lava Giants and forcing the wizard line back several kilometers.
• Kalamos ordered his subordinates to keep charging the volcanoes, then sensed a terrifying force gathering beneath the spatial rift and demanded to know what it was.

A targeted destructive spell developed by Master Elwin annihilated nearly ten million Lava Giants on the Frostfire Plane, turning the wizard expedition’s desperate defense into a rout of the Native armies. As the Snow Monsters and surviving Lava Giants fled, Viola told Benjamin that the war had entered its second stage.

• Benjamin watched the besieged wizards’ battle line falter as Lava Giants and Snow Monsters overwhelmed their limited forces.
• A colossal cannon on the Wizard "Ship" Plane fired a beam formulated to dismantle the Lava Giants’ elemental structure.
• The beam left the other beings and terrain unharmed but annihilated nearly ten million Lava Giants within seconds.
• Augustine ordered the combat wizards and cannon fodder to advance, and the wizards routed the remaining Native armies.
• Kalamus and Agron retreated in shock, while Viola told Benjamin that the war had entered its second stage.

After the wizards’ devastating attack routed the Frostfire Plane’s defenders, Benjamin and Viola led a squad in pursuit. When thousands of Lava Giants turned to fight, Benjamin’s Floating Cannons and sonic spells suppressed them, but the enemy focused its attacks on him and engulfed him in fire.

• Augustine ordered the wizards to pursue the fleeing Lava Giants and Snow Monsters and collect war materials and living specimens.
• Viola led a temporary squad into enemy territory, where a Level 4 Lava Giant general rallied several thousand Lava Giants to counterattack.
• Viola engaged the general while Ashe, Locke, and the other wizards fought the remaining Lava Giants.
• Benjamin used six Autonomous Floating Cannons and repeated High-Frequency Sonic Wave spells to suppress thousands of Lava Giants.
• The Lava Giants concentrated their attacks on Benjamin, and their barrage swallowed him.

Benjamin used defensive Rune Artifacts and wide-area High-Frequency Sonic Waves to withstand the Lava Giants’ attacks and help the wizards win the battle. After Viola awarded him the largest share of the spoils, the remaining wizards argued over how to divide what was left.

• Benjamin survived the Lava Giants’ concentrated attacks with layered defenses from Rune Artifacts while suppressing enemies with High-Frequency Sonic Waves.
• Viola and the other wizards kept powerful Lava Giants occupied as Benjamin drew enemy fire, allowing them to defeat or capture several thousand foes.
• Viola severely wounded and suppressed the Level 4 Lava Giant commander, and the wizards turned their attention to Benjamin as the battle’s greatest contributor.
• Viola awarded Benjamin most of the Level 2 Lava Giants and some Level 1 corpses, and he stored his share in his Space Expansion Bag.
• The remaining wizards argued over the division of the other captives and corpses, criticizing one another’s contributions as tensions rose.