Recaps

Benjamin entered Noren Academy, hid his cultivation while studying Alchemy, and used the Great Dao Library to create a valuable isolation material. After earning points and advancing to Qi Refining Level 2, he drew attention to his work and faced a dangerous laboratory accident during class.

• Benjamin passed Noren Academy’s aptitude tests at Level Six and chose Alchemy Studies after Jack explained the Combat Department’s battlefield losses and the Logistics Department’s ties to Noren Workshop.
• Benjamin accepted Mentor Clark’s contract, concealed his exceptional progress in meditation, and secretly used elemental power to build True Essence and ignite his Spirit Fire.
• Benjamin learned Alchemy’s basic shaping techniques, refined gold into Adamantine in a rented laboratory, and used it to coat white iron for isolation material.
• Benjamin took low-paying tasks while waiting for his material to be tested, studied Academy equipment, and reached the peak of Level 1 Wizard apprentice as his cultivation neared a breakthrough.
• Benjamin rented a temporary laboratory, advanced to Qi Refining Level 2, and absorbed Purple Qi at sunrise, learning from the Great Dao Library that abstract concepts could be extracted from ordinary substances.
• Benjamin learned from Amy that his White Iron-based Isolation Material had sold out for 100 contribution points per unit, and he found 500 points in his account.
• Benjamin hid his aura and coated himself with Adamantine while anticipating an investigation, but none came before an Element Dust Separator malfunctioned during class.
• Benjamin warned the apprentices, pulled Amy behind a pillar, and studied the failing separator as corrosive dust and chaotic energy injured and knocked down students.

After the Academy cleared Benjamin of suspicion and granted him a Level Two Training Agreement, he developed reusable Rune Artifacts and entered the Gray Rock Plane trial. There, he tested his inventions, uncovered the Native Coalition’s traps, and joined the apprentices drawn toward a final assault on its leaders.

• Benjamin stopped the laboratory accident, and the Academy examined him before approving a Level Two Training Agreement that gave him broader research privileges.
• Benjamin studied Wizard World materials and cultivation techniques, then created Attack-, Defense-, and Movement-Type Rune Artifacts that drew on ambient elemental energy.
• Benjamin entered the Gray Rock Plane trial and tested his Rune Artifacts against its beasts, collecting tokens and unusual materials.
• Benjamin spotted signs of Native inhabitants and later learned that their Coalition was ambushing apprentices with poisoned weapons and spatial interference.
• The Coalition leaders planned to exhaust and kill the apprentices, while Augusta and Horn broke through Native defenses and their victories rallied the others.
• After scouts and troops sent to the northwestern region disappeared, the Coalition leaders prepared a final assault without Ant and Lurs.
• Benjamin destroyed a Native group and killed hidden attackers, while the apprentices chose to follow Horn and Augusta toward the Coalition’s hidden valley, suspecting a trap.

Benjamin turned the Gray Rock Plane trial around, then used his winnings and growing cultivation to forge the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror. As Noren Academy prepared for war with the Shadow Plane, Benjamin tested the new treasure’s dangerous escape ability.

• Benjamin broke the Indigenous Coalition’s siege with a barrage of Rune Artifacts, helping the apprentices defeat the army before the trial ended.
• Oswaldo revealed the captured Sky God to the Native leaders, then left them with a sphere of the god’s power and the old knight commander urged them to obey the higher-plane beings.
• Benjamin returned to Noren Academy with a thirty-sixth-place ranking and designed a prototype Eye of Investigation to improve his ability to detect and track threats.
• Benjamin advanced to the seventh level of Qi Refining, gathered five kinds of conceptual light, and forged the preliminary Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror after a failed first attempt injured his Spirit Sea and soul.
• Clark commissioned Benjamin to refine Adamantine for wizards returning from the Shadow Plane, and Benjamin processed more than ten thousand cubic meters of gold into the material.
• Benjamin noticed that a seemingly ordinary returning wizard was Level 5, then nurtured his Dharma Treasure until it entered its first stage of formation.
• Benjamin tested the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror’s Light Transformation Escape, shot uncontrollably into a boulder, and estimated that he had traveled at least a thousand li.

Benjamin reached Foundation Establishment, prepared for wizard advancement, and joined Amy and Victor in the invasion of Eloria Plane. After destroying an Orc shrine and earning a top-ten ranking, he became a Level 1 Wizard, drawing nearby creatures toward them.

• Benjamin studied potions and alchemy, refined a Foundation Establishment liquid, and advanced through his own cultivation, discovering that his Inner Space generated Spirit Energy.
• Benjamin spent years improving his cultivation and Rune Artifacts before Clark took him and other apprentices to Noren Workshop’s assessment, where they were sent to Eloria Plane.
• Benjamin adapted his Rune Artifacts to Eloria’s energy, fought a giant Magic Beast, and reunited with Amy and Victor in the forest.
• Benjamin led Amy and Victor to attack an Orc shrine, where they defeated its guards, drained its crystal, and extracted a Shaman’s memories.
• Benjamin, Amy, and Victor misled their Orc pursuers and learned that a Fate Wizard had scanned the apprentices’ actions to calculate contribution points, placing Benjamin in the top ten.
• Benjamin and his companions headed toward the frontline, and Benjamin used Extraction Art to show how they could make potions from unfamiliar materials.
• Benjamin secured an underground chamber, drank an advancement potion, and linked his nine Truth Runes into a Ring of Truth to become a Level 1 Wizard.
• Benjamin’s advancement released energy into the wilderness, drawing roaring creatures toward him, Amy, and Victor.