Recaps

Azrael’s lineage obtained the Death Relic after using Viola to lure Spatial Fold Beasts into a trap, though Benjamin unexpectedly changed the plan. Back in Benjamin’s laboratory, the Wizards discovered the magic array had collected a shattered region of the Chaos Interlayer and planned to return using Benjamin’s wreckage as a coordinate marker.

• Azrael explained that his lineage had long sought a Death Relic and had used the Spatial Runes’ collapse to lure the group into the Chaos Interlayer, expecting Viola to defeat the Spatial Fold Beasts.
• Azrael and the other Level 8 Wizards acknowledged that Benjamin had changed their plan, then shut down the magic array after securing the Death Relic.
• A ruined puppet head drifted through an elemental maelstrom, and a faint light flickered in its remaining eye.
• At Benjamin’s laboratory, Benjamin showed Viola, Clark, Wizard Noren, Grand Mentor Anton, and Castillo a recording of the magic array drawing in and compressing a vast battlefield of spatial fragments.
• The group learned that the shattered region was connected to the Spatial Fold Beasts and realized Benjamin’s wreckage could serve as a coordinate marker for a future expedition.
• Wizard Noren said they could use the coordinates to return in a few hundred years, and Grand Mentor Anton eagerly anticipated obtaining Death Relics themselves.

Benjamin and Viola received compensation from the Decay Lineage, then Benjamin checked on the Celestial Star Array and his research team’s latest findings. The Dragon-kin bloodline optimization appeared stable and preserved fertility, though the researchers advised against applying it to the entire population.

• Grand Mentor Anton gave Benjamin and Viola a Space Ring containing compensation from the Decay Lineage, and Clark and Castillo left without taking a share.
• Benjamin and Viola found valuable Crimson Court materials in the ring and agreed to split them evenly.
• Benjamin checked the Celestial Star Array’s progress and confirmed that Sun True Fire and Stellar Force remained the main limits on forging its Array Eyes.
• Benjamin visited the Second Laboratory, where a Black Giant Priest reported that optimized Dragon-kin had reached Level 7 and showed no obvious harmful effects.
• The researchers confirmed that optimized Dragon-kin could reproduce but recommended against optimizing the entire population because higher bloodline levels made reproduction more difficult.

Benjamin reviewed the Dragon-kin and Black Giant research programs, then considered how his recent battle exposed weaknesses in his defenses and spells. He decided to improve his understanding of the Great Dao by spending his surplus Military Merit on Plane Origin and awaited the deliveries.

• Benjamin learned that the Dragon-kin population had surpassed fifteen thousand and promised them first-tier treatment if they reached one hundred thousand.
• Researchers reported that the Black Giants’ Level 7 advancement route had been clarified, and Benjamin ordered them to continue their work.
• Benjamin recognized that his Return to Void Armor and Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light lagged behind because his comprehension of their Great Dao was shallow.
• Benjamin checked his Military Merit and began buying Plane Origin to raise his mastery of laws.
• Benjamin waited eagerly for the Plane Origin deliveries to arrive.

After years of seclusion, Benjamin absorbed the last of his Plane Origin and assessed his greatly improved mastery of laws, Spirit Energy, and Dao-Integration. His discoveries left him wondering how powerful he might become by mastering every law in the Wizard World.

• Benjamin absorbed the final wisp of Plane Origin into his Spirit Sea and found that most of his law mastery bases had risen above twenty points, while the Four Great Elemental Laws reached twelve.
• Benjamin observed that his Space Law had risen only to thirty-five points despite his efforts, then realized Living Planes might naturally combine knowledge across many fields.
• Benjamin considered Wizard Starfall’s work on the Plane Spirit Awakening Technique and recognized that her genius, not merely his Spirit Energy, had driven its development.
• Benjamin discovered that his self-created Spirit Energy Law had reached ten points, strengthening and expanding his Law Solidification Domain.
• Benjamin unfolded his Dharma Image and found it denser and more powerful, while his Dao-Integration trait had also begun improving faster.
• Benjamin wondered how far he could advance by mastering every law in the Wizard World and felt tempted to go shopping.

After decades of research, Benjamin discovered that the Mushroom People had once been far more powerful than he had thought, but attempts to give Dragon-kin their reproductive ability failed. He then conceived a way to give Mushroom People a trace of dragon blood, allowing Dragon-kin to command them through Spiritual Link, and began preparing to test the idea.

• Benjamin concluded that obtaining a Level One Training Agreement was necessary to fund his plan to master all laws, then spent more than a decade reading papers before returning to his research.
• Benjamin found evidence that the Mushroom People had voluntarily reduced their strength from Level 8 to survive a long period of scarce resources.
• Black Giant Priests reported that they had failed to give Dragon-kin the Mushroom People's spore-based reproductive ability.
• Benjamin realized that adding a trace of dragon blood to Mushroom People could let Dragon-kin connect to their Spiritual Link and command their collective army.
• Benjamin decided to test the idea of Dragon-kin leading Dragonblood Mushroom People and began making preparations.

Benjamin attended Clark and Castillo’s wedding, where the couple exchanged bracelets they had made from an old promise. After the ceremony, Augusta told Benjamin that the Lineage had preliminary results from research on the Mushroom People and the primitive plane, and they agreed to discuss them later.

• Benjamin studied a newly cultivated Mushroom Person and reflected on his research into the laws and technology he needed to advance.
• Viola met Benjamin at the Teleportation Array and hurried him to Clark and Castillo’s wedding.
• Benjamin and Viola joined the guests at the ornamental plane’s garden venue, where Benjamin admired its living lawn and spoke with Augusta about the Lineage’s preliminary research results.
• Clark and Castillo exchanged vows before Wizard Noren and Wizard Morin, then transformed their old bracelets into Wizard Artifacts and put them on each other.
• The guests applauded, and the wedding banquet began as Benjamin found a quiet spot and laughed beneath the starry sky.

Benjamin learned that the Mushroom People's Origin Plane lay in a region of space so chaotic that reaching it normally could take over ten million years. Augusta proposed sending concealed Media through the unstable coordinates to contact local beings and persuade them to open a portal, and Benjamin became interested in using the tactic.

• Augusta gave Benjamin the preliminary coordinate calculations, which showed that many planes were connecting and causing severe spatial distortion.
• Augusta warned that the region was in the chaotic stage before a Plane Cluster formed, making a safe journey impossible and the instability likely to last over ten million years.
• Augusta proposed sending large numbers of Media through the coordinates so some could reach the target planes and guide local beings into opening portals.
• Benjamin recognized the method as similar to the Destruction Demon God's attempt to enter Noren Plane 147 through a summoned portal.
• Augusta offered to deploy Media for Benjamin and explained that they should be sturdy, stable, concealed, and initially capable of transmitting only consciousness.

Benjamin studied the Great Dao and the Wizard World’s elemental laws, then spent several hundred years refining his spells. The chapter ended with him testing the strengthened Return to Void Armor and confirming that it could withstand a massive barrage.

• Benjamin realized that Li-Fire represented energy release and that his spells needed to be deepened through the Wizard World’s laws.
• Benjamin revised his research plan to focus on the wind and fire elements, while also laying a foundation in water and earth.
• Several hundred years later, Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Legion to test his Return to Void Armor in a remote starfield.
• The Black Giant Legion unleashed increasingly powerful attacks, but the armor returned them to nothingness without harming Benjamin.
• Benjamin concluded that the simplified armor could withstand the frontal bombardment of many ordinary Level 7 Wizards.

Benjamin tested a new spell derived from the Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light and discovered it could erase matter by disrupting its elemental connections, though it lasted only milliseconds. As he considered using talismans to release it, he gained an elusive insight that advanced his Spirit Energy Law and steadied his Dao-Integration Realm.

• Benjamin tested the modified Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light on reinforced meteorites and erased every target in its path.
• Benjamin identified the new spell as the Great Annihilation Divine Light, whose power could destroy matter and even tear through reinforced space.
• Benjamin realized the spell's unstable nature limited its range and prevented it from being stored in a Wizard Artifact.
• Benjamin concluded that a disposable Rune Artifact would function much like an ordinary talisman for releasing the spell.
• Benjamin reflected that he had returned to the simplest forms of Wizard Artifacts and talismans, then gained an elusive insight that advanced his Spirit Energy Law and steadied his Dao-Integration Realm.

Benjamin investigated why the Dragon-kin had exhausted their resources and discovered that the Dragonblood Mushroom Legion had grown far stronger than expected by absorbing power from the Celestial Star Array’s Array Eye. He ordered the Dragon-kin chief to expand the legion to ten billion Level 6 units and promised the Dragon-kin Clan early Level 1 Servant Civilization status if they succeeded.

• Benjamin concluded that he could not test the upper limits of the Return to Void Armor and Great Annihilation Divine Light without an Elite Level 7 Formation, then returned to studying the Four Great Elemental Laws.
• Decades later, a Black Giant Priest told Benjamin that the Dragon-kin had exhausted the resources assigned to the Dragonblood Mushroom Legion, so Benjamin traveled to their planet to investigate.
• The Dragon-kin chief reported that the legion contained about one hundred million selected Mushroom People, including nearly ten million Level 6 units and one hundred thousand Level 7 units.
• Benjamin learned that the Mushroom People had grown by absorbing the power released by the Celestial Star Array’s Array Eye, and that the chief had suppressed any Level 8 individuals.
• Benjamin transferred more resources and ordered the Dragon-kin chief to expand the legion to ten billion, all at Level 6 or higher, promising early Level 1 Servant Civilization status if they delivered results.

Several years later, Benjamin attended an emergency meeting at Noren Academy 1 about a Wonder in the Endless Chaotic Void. Wizard Noren announced that it would intersect with Noren Workshop’s sphere of influence in about 120 years and that the Workshop would send investigation teams to examine it.

• Benjamin received an official summons from Noren Workshop and teleported to Noren Academy 1, where he found many High-Rank Wizards gathered.
• Benjamin met Viola, who reminded him that Dean Avery Knight had warned of the Wonder hundreds of years earlier and urged wizards to prepare for its approach.
• Benjamin and Viola entered the main conference hall, where thousands of wizards assembled and awaited the meeting.
• Wizard Noren announced that the Wonder would intersect with Noren Workshop’s sphere of influence in approximately 120 years.
• Wizard Noren said the Workshop could not yet determine the Wonder’s nature and would form several investigation teams to examine it.

Wizard Noren selected Benjamin for the First Investigation Team, assigning him to analyze spatial structures and anomalies around the disaster's outer region. Benjamin joined four Elite Level 7 specialists, and Chloe led the assembled team toward their mission.

• Wizard Noren explained the investigation teams' goals and began naming their members.
• Wizard Noren assigned Benjamin to the First Investigation Team to assess spatial stability and record anomalies.
• Benjamin realized his selection likely came from Savien, Bastian, and Morna's endorsements of his spatial expertise.
• Benjamin met Chloe Nasha, Ed Danka, Tori Merlin, and Elma, the team's elemental, rune, temporal, and fate specialists.
• Chloe confirmed the team was ready and led them out.

Chloe led Benjamin and three other Elite Level 7 Wizards through the Endless Chaotic Void toward the Wonder. After nearly five months, they reached their destination and saw an enormous sphere floating beyond a spatial storm.

• The five wizards left Noren Workshop's sphere of influence and relied on Chloe to find a safe route through the void.
• Benjamin used repeated Void-Step casts to catch up with the others and keep pace as they increased their speed.
• The group traveled through the Endless Chaotic Void for nearly five months with Chloe leading the way.
• Chloe circled around a spatial storm and announced they had arrived.
• Benjamin crossed the storm and saw an enormous sphere floating in the distance.

Benjamin and the other Level 7 Wizards investigated a vast Wonder that drew in chaotic elements and rendered them inert. After learning its influence extended more than a hundred light-years, Benjamin began analyzing its spatial structure from the outskirts.

• Benjamin and Edgar observed that the Wonder’s immense mass of dense chaotic elements slowed storms and spatial turbulence as they entered it.
• A colossal elemental storm struck the Wonder’s boundary, was pulled inside, and vanished without a trace.
• Elma used Fate Law to estimate that the Wonder’s influence exceeded a hundred light-years in diameter.
• Tori and Chloe warned the group not to approach and assigned Benjamin to analyze the Wonder’s spatial structure.
• Benjamin activated his abilities and tools to penetrate the chaotic boundary and collect spatial data.

Benjamin and the other four entered the Wonder and followed the flow of distorted space toward its core, enduring crushing elemental pressure and a growing time distortion. They finally reached an immense mass of darkness, which Elma identified as a Singularity.

• Ed connected the five wizards’ Law Solidification Domains with a Magic Array to reinforce their defenses before they entered the Wonder.
• Inside the Wonder, the group faced pressure equivalent to constant Level 7 attacks, while Ed observed that Benjamin’s defenses matched those of the others.
• Benjamin sensed spatial distortions flowing in one direction and used Void-Step to carry the group through a series of spatial jumps.
• Tori detected that time was slowing inside the Wonder and adjusted the group’s perception and bodily time flow to match Noren Workshop’s baseline.
• The five reached the Wonder’s core, where frenzied elements formed an enormous shell of absolute darkness, and Elma exclaimed that it was a Singularity.

Benjamin and the Level 7 Wizards investigated an immense Elemental Black Hole and discovered that probing its interior risked triggering a catastrophic explosion. Benjamin used his Void String spell and True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to observe inside, where he realized the black hole was an artificial creation.

• Elma identified the phenomenon as an incomplete singularity after seeing the starting point of a Fate Thread within it.
• Edgar, Chloe, and the others concluded that the Wonder was an Elemental Black Hole with an Event Horizon about half a light-year across, and warned that probing its interior could trigger a devastating explosion.
• Benjamin offered to investigate using his Void String spell, while Edgar informed the Workshop and Tori prepared a space-time anchor.
• Benjamin manifested his five-hundred-kilometer true body and used Void String, the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil, and the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror to observe inside the Event Horizon.
• Benjamin saw that the elemental ocean moved according to precise, unnatural patterns and concluded that the Elemental Black Hole was artificial.

Benjamin and the investigation team discovered that the Elemental Black Hole was an artificial apparatus and devised a way to enter it. Inside, they found a silver-gray altar and identified the invisible object floating above it as the Singularity.

• Benjamin showed Chloe, Edgar, Tori, and Elma the Elemental Black Hole’s repeating elemental patterns, and they concluded it was an artificial apparatus worth investigating.
• The five worked together for several days to analyze the elemental currents and determine how to disguise themselves as elements belonging to the black hole.
• Edgar and the others built a Magic Array that concealed their life signatures, allowing Benjamin to lead the group through the Event Horizon.
• The team followed the orderly elemental flows deeper into the black hole and discovered a silver-gray altar.
• Elma recognized the imperceptible object above the altar as the Singularity after finding the starting point of Fate there.

Benjamin and the investigation team found the Mechanical Altar’s control node, but their attempt to shut it down triggered a deadly automatic defense that disintegrated four wizards. Benjamin survived by escaping in a puppet body and warned Wizard Noren that the altar was broadcasting a signal as something approached through the void.

• Edgar found the Mechanical Altar’s Elemental Gravity control node, and Chloe told him to try shutting it down while the others stabilized the surrounding forces.
• As Edgar disrupted the altar’s circuits, Elma foresaw danger and Edgar realized internal damage had activated the altar’s automatic defense.
• The Elemental Gravity attack shattered the team’s Law Solidification Domains and disintegrated Tori, Elma, and the others, while Benjamin escaped in his puppet body using the Mustard Seed Dao-Containing True Body Art.
• Benjamin repaired his Internal Grotto-Heaven and told Wizard Noren that the altar’s gravity fluctuations appeared to be transmitting a signal into the Endless Chaotic Void.
• Wizard Noren began analyzing a route to Benjamin, while spatial-jump fluctuations grew near the Wonder and Benjamin urged him to hurry before something else arrived.

Benjamin summoned the Black Giant, Dragon-kin, and Dragonblood Mushroom legions to face a technological civilization's fleet of Level 8 warships. His Great Annihilation Divine Light destroyed the fleet's vanguard, but endless enemy reinforcements overwhelmed the battlefield, leaving Benjamin to endure concentrated fire and keep fighting.

• Benjamin opened the passage to his Internal Grotto-Heaven and summoned the Black Giant, Dragon-kin, and Dragonblood Mushroom legions from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• More than a thousand silver-gray Level 8 warships and their escort mechas emerged, and both sides immediately began a large-scale battle.
• The Dragonblood Mushroom Legion attacked, but the fleet's Level 8 cannon fire inflicted massive casualties on the Mushroom People and Black Giants.
• Benjamin unfolded his Triple Dharma Manifestation, activated the Return to Void Armor and God of Light Transformation, and erased the enemy vanguard with Great Annihilation Divine Light.
• Thousands of enemy warships arrived and concentrated their fire on Benjamin as both sides continued pouring reinforcements into the expanding battlefield.
• Benjamin steadied himself under the bombardment, opened his passage wider to send more troops into the fight, and charged forward again.

Benjamin fought an overwhelming Level 8 mechanical legion while his allies’ lines were driven back and his strength dwindled. Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan arrived, erased the attacking machines, and told Benjamin to rest as they took over the battle.

• Benjamin endured the mechanical legion’s cannon fire and destroyed a firepower node with Great Annihilation Divine Light, but the enemy spread out and continued pressing him.
• The Black Giant Legion and Dragonblood Mushroom People fought to hold the line, suffering heavy losses as the battlefront retreated.
• Benjamin used Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand to restore the Mushroom People and himself, but a Space-Time Anchor blocked further use of the technique.
• Benjamin’s Dharma Manifestation crumbled under another barrage, and he neared collapse before sensing someone approaching.
• Wizard Noren arrived and erased a volley and the mechanical units across several million kilometers in fifty-three seconds.
• Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan joined Noren, destroyed the mechs fighting Benjamin’s forces, and told Benjamin to rest while they handled the enemy.

Benjamin recovered enough to observe Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan take control of the battlefield with contrasting combat styles. As enemy reinforcements continued to arrive, Benjamin confirmed that his earlier opponents had only been the vanguard.

• Benjamin repaired his grotto-heaven and transmission system enough to keep fighting, then watched the battle from a fractured rock.
• Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan tore through warships and mecha, shrugging off their attacks with his law fixation and destroying them through sheer force.
• Wizard Noren shifted between complex spells to overcome the enemy’s countermeasures and decimated their forces.
• Benjamin concluded that high-rank wizards relied on overwhelming power because intricate techniques lost their effectiveness against powerful opponents.
• Enemy reinforcements continued to arrive, confirming to Benjamin that the force he had fought earlier was only the vanguard.

Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton destroyed the invading mechanical fleet, but its dying captain summoned the President, a Level 9 mechanical being. Noren called three more Level 8 Wizards to join them, and the President faced a group of powerful wizards who had surrounded Level 9 beings before.

• Wizard Noren wiped out the approaching mechanical forces and gave Benjamin a captured robot to study.
• The Wonder’s elemental ocean turned against the encircling fleet, and Grand Mentor Anton returned with a mechanical captain’s head.
• Benjamin realized the captain and the enemy mechs had once been living beings transformed into machines.
• The dying captain invoked the President, who appeared above the Elemental Black Hole and erased the captain for failing his mission.
• The President called the wizards valuable research subjects, while Wizard Noren welcomed the challenge and summoned three more Level 8 Wizards.
• The President dismissed the wizards as uncivilized natives, and Benjamin recalled that wizards had surrounded and killed Level 9 beings before.

Benjamin witnessed the overwhelming power of the Grand President, a Level 9 Mechanical Lifeform, before Wizard Noren sent him back to Noren Academy. He waited with Chloe, Edgar, Tori, and Elma until Wizard Noren, Grand Mentor Anton, and the other Level 8 Wizards returned from the battle in good condition and apparently victorious.

• The Grand President awakened its full power, and its clash with the wizards nearly overwhelmed Benjamin despite Wizard Noren's defensive barrier.
• Wizard Noren pulled Benjamin out of the battle and returned him to the teleportation plaza at Noren Academy.
• Benjamin met Chloe, Edgar, Tori, and Elma, who had been resurrected after the elemental gravity wave killed them, and told them the wizards were fighting a Level 9 Mechanical Lifeform.
• Benjamin and the four Level 7 Wizards waited at the academy while discussing their earlier research and watching for news.
• Wizard Noren, Grand Mentor Anton, and three other Level 8 Wizards returned from the battle, damaged but pleased, and the three visiting wizards left to handle the spoils.

After the mission, Wizard Noren rewarded Benjamin and the investigation team, while Grand Mentor Anton gave Benjamin the Mechanical Altar. Benjamin lent the altar to his teammates in exchange for their research findings and began considering sharing other discoveries with outside research teams.

• Wizard Noren awarded Benjamin and the four investigation team members ten billion advanced military merit each and offered them discounted, priority reservations for Substitute Dolls.
• Benjamin reserved another Substitute Doll from Wizard Noren.
• Grand Mentor Anton secretly gave Benjamin a sealed sphere containing the Level 9 Mechanical Altar.
• Benjamin offered to lend the altar to Edgar, Tori, Chloe, and Elma in exchange for copies of every technological result they produced.
• Benjamin considered sharing the Infinite Energy and other research materials with specialists to speed up his research.

Benjamin brought a Level 8 robot and mechanical fragments to Hadar and the Plant-folk researcher, asking them to study the technology and develop their own path. He then arranged for Viola to research the Level 9 Creation he had taken from the Octopus-folk, and they agreed on a time for her to collect it.

• Benjamin scanned the Level 8 robot, gathered mechanical fragments and Level 7 technical materials, and brought them to the Second Laboratory.
• Benjamin asked Hadar and the Plant-folk researcher to study the Level 8 technology and produce innovations after absorbing it.
• Benjamin decided to rent out the Level 9 Creation seized from the Octopus-folk and contacted Viola for a researcher recommendation.
• Viola volunteered to research the Level 9 Creation herself and argued that the arrangement would benefit both her and Benjamin.
• Benjamin agreed to Viola's offer, and they arranged a time for her to collect the Creation.