Recaps

Benjamin carried research and specimens through repeated cycles as the wizards fought the Sickle-Skull Race and developed ways to preserve their memories. In the fifteenth cycle, Artorius revealed that the resets came from a Time Paradox Generator and proposed overwhelming it with more information and tactical changes than it could process.

• Benjamin completed the Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light Launcher and brought the Black Giants and three charged staffs to the first cycle’s battlefield.
• Benjamin commanded a tactical battalion, discovered that the Sickle-Skull Race remembered previous cycles, and adapted his forces to disrupt its tactics.
• Benjamin shared recordings with Frost, who used the intelligence to defeat a night raid and launch research into the Sickle-Skull Race’s biology and time cycles.
• Benjamin preserved research instruments, specimens, and records in his Internal Grotto-Heaven, then investigated how time reversal restored or erased living beings and objects.
• Benjamin and his allies found that the plane’s laws and energy changed across cycles, while repeated enemy offensives forced the wizards to refine their research and tactics.
• Frost authorized elite raids to capture specimens and secure time for research, leading to Memory Anchoring and then Time Anchoring Wizardry, which let wizards retain memories across resets.
• By the fifteenth cycle, Benjamin and Allison had found no hidden will behind the resets, and Benjamin concluded that Artorius had deliberately increased the variables by sending reinforcements.
• Artorius revealed that a Time Paradox Generator caused the reversals and proposed overwhelming its error-correction systems with at least sixty information shocks, while warning that the machine could inflict immense damage on him.

Benjamin helped Artorius seize control of the Time Paradox Generator, then left the Samsara Plane and developed his own research. When Starfall Wizard’s Living Plane awakened violently, Benjamin helped Viola recognize its fear, and Starfall secured the Federation’s support for teaching it wizard knowledge.

• Benjamin accepted Artorius’s mark, entered the Time Paradox Generator’s core, and gained its highest authority after uncovering the Sphere Will’s history.
• The Sphere Will cast Benjamin into a temporal branch, where he defeated his Time Afterimage and escaped with Star-Forged Artorius before the branch collapsed.
• Benjamin returned to the Samsara Plane, helped Artorius reclaim the Generator, then left the project and returned to Noren Academy No. 147.
• Benjamin developed his Time Afterimage training and Incense Divinity Path, then agreed to help Viola respond to Starfall Wizard’s unstable Living Plane.
• Benjamin and Viola joined Mentor Clark aboard Viola’s battleship, where they monitored the Living Plane as its awakening consciousness strained the Restraint Arrays.
• Benjamin persuaded Viola to delay attacking the plane, and his emotional analysis showed that its destructive outbursts came from fear and pain.
• Benjamin and Viola entered the stabilized plane and found Starfall as a translucent soul beside Clark, then learned that she intended to make the plane a wizard.
• Starfall reported that the Star Ring Federation would teach the Living Plane wizard knowledge and accept it as a special member, while Felix granted her a Level One Training Agreement.

Benjamin prepared for the Coordination War by modifying spells, upgrading his defenses, and assembling a Black Giant army. At Fortress No. 7, Noren Workshop’s forces withstood the first assault, while Benjamin prepared a cannon strike against enemy reinforcements.

• Starfall gave Benjamin, Viola, and Clark her Spirit Awakening Technique 1.0 before Benjamin returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and completed the Cross-Space Energy Transmission System.
• Benjamin modified Return to Void Armor, Causal Shadow Tracing Technique, and Void-Step, upgraded the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier, and automated production of compact Wizard Artifacts.
• Viola told Benjamin the Coordination War would begin in twenty-five years, and Benjamin later marshaled his Black Giant forces and joined the wizards assembling for war.
• At the battlefield, curses shattered Benjamin’s defenses, but his Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier survived the attack and sent poison and Killing Intent back to its caster.
• Noren Workshop built Fortress No. 7 as Clark revealed his enormous Shadow Army, while Benjamin took control of twelve Superheavy elemental Disintegration Cannons.
• Benjamin’s cannons formed a vast Light River that stopped the enemy pursuit, and Mordiggian then sent hundreds of millions of cannon fodder units against Noren Workshop’s defenses.
• Noren Workshop opened gaps in its linked fortress barrier so its defenders could fight the intruders, and Benjamin aimed Turret No. 3 at roughly thirty thousand Level 4 Chaos Cult units gathering behind the battlefield.

Benjamin helped Noren Workshop win its opening battle, then joined the hunt for the enemy camp and fought a Level 6 pursuer. He survived the wizard’s soul-destroying attack and killed him, but remained gravely weakened as enemy pursuers approached.

• Benjamin fired Turret No. 3 repeatedly, growing stronger as he watched Clark hold off the enemy’s assembled Wizards.
• Clark broke through the Coalition’s assault, killed Mordiggian, and forced the enemy to retreat while Dionysius ordered Noren Workshop to consolidate its defenses.
• Saladin organized daily harassment and scouting attacks as Noren Workshop’s defensive array neared completion, and Benjamin later intervened to save a scouting squad from an ambush.
• Benjamin killed thirteen enemy Wizards outside the defensive line, then returned to find Noren Workshop preparing specialized hunting missions and a concealed-force counterattack.
• Benjamin slipped beyond the defensive line, located the Coalition camp’s approximate position, and killed several patrol Wizards before escaping a search team.
• Benjamin ambushed Karon and two other Level 6 Wizards with hidden arrays, contaminating Karon and another Wizard with Mortal Aura, but the remaining Tower of Silence Wizard pursued him.
• Benjamin turned to fight the pursuer with his Floating Cannons, survived the Hand of Silence, and killed the weakened Wizard after his apparent death concealed his consciousness.
• Benjamin realized his body was adapting to death itself, but he remained gravely weakened and struggled to conceal his traces as pursuers approached.