Vol. 9Wars and Wonders

Benjamin advanced his spatial technology, fought in a plane war, and helped resolve a dispute between Azrael and Clark. After surviving the battle at an artificial Elemental Black Hole, he returned with mechanical technology and arranged for Viola to study a Level 9 Creation.

  • Benjamin survived attacks on his way to the Academic Exchange and secretly secured the Reflection Prism in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
  • At the conference, he and Savien refined the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol, and Benjamin prepared to present its advanced version.
  • Benjamin presented the Life Stabilization Field, survived an ambush, and developed three Rune Artifacts before joining Augusta’s invasion of the Mushroom People Plane.
  • Benjamin and Augusta defeated the Level 8 leader, then Benjamin investigated the plane’s depleted resources and captured Mushroom People.
  • Benjamin joined Viola and Clark at the Crimson Court, where he and Viola won their duels before Spatial Fold Beasts disrupted the conflict.
  • Benjamin helped defeat the beasts and force Azrael to concede, while Azrael and two elders retrieved a Death Relic.
  • Benjamin investigated a Wonder with Wizard Noren’s team and discovered an artificial Elemental Black Hole, escaping after its defenses killed four investigators.
  • Benjamin and the other wizards survived the battle against the President, and Benjamin returned with the Mechanical Altar and arranged for Viola to study a Level 9 Creation.
Chapters 803–903 Read from ch. 803

Arc 33The Academic Exchange

Benjamin survived several attempts to kill him on his journey to the Academic Exchange Conference and secretly took possession of the Reflection Prism. At the conference, his work with Savien and his new spatial technology drew the attention of leading Wizards, and he prepared to present an advanced version of his Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol.

  • Benjamin accepted the conference invitation, crossed into the Public Star Region, and survived a Black Wizard ambush after his teleportation was redirected into a sealed wasteland.
  • Benjamin traced further attacks through a restaurant and chose the Shattered Bone Corridor to draw out the enemy, but became caught between factions fighting over the Reflection Prism.
  • Benjamin defeated the Tripe creatures, seized the Reflection Prism, concealed its fate, and sent it to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane for safekeeping.
  • Benjamin crossed the Shattered Bone Corridor, endured spatial storms that damaged his Pocket Dimension, and reached the conference city while his pursuer withdrew the ambush forces.
  • Vilen brought Benjamin to the conference grounds, where Savien approached him and asked how to make the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol adjustable without losing spatial stability.
  • Benjamin and Savien refined the protocol together for most of a month, and Benjamin’s spatial-law mastery increased before the conference opened.
  • At the welcome reception, Savien introduced Benjamin to Bastian and Morna, who examined the Spatial Mapping Node in his puppet body and recognized it as a new technology.
  • Benjamin told Bastian, Morna, and Savien that he would present an advanced technology of the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol, and they anticipated his presentation.
Chapters 803–827 Summaries Read

Arc 34The Mushroom People War

Benjamin presented the Life Stabilization Field, survived an ambush, and developed powerful Rune Artifacts before joining Augusta’s campaign against the Mushroom People Plane. As the invasion met increasingly organized resistance, Benjamin captured Mushroom People and discovered signs of artificial modification and depleted resources.

  • Benjamin presented the Life Stabilization Field at the conference, revealing its potential to stabilize wizards during dangerous advancement and combat.
  • After accepting a warning about the stolen Reflection Prism, Benjamin was ambushed by Hogg and another Level 7 Wizard, but Wizard Noren and Anton Buchanan rescued him.
  • Benjamin developed Final Ray, Echo Bomb, and Void String, then agreed to join Augusta’s war against a newly discovered plane.
  • Benjamin and Augusta led the invasion of the Mushroom People Plane, where the young wizards initially overwhelmed starving defenders before the Mushroom People rallied by consuming corpses.
  • Benjamin captured Level 6 Mushroom People and learned that their leaders had used them as sacrificial pawns while relocating and feeding on their own kind.
  • After the Mushroom People ambushed Augusta’s forces and disrupted space, Benjamin arrived with Level 6 Black Giants and ordered them to capture enemies alive.
  • Benjamin searched captured Mushroom People’s memories, found their claim that the plane’s high-energy resources were exhausted, and ordered an investigation of its geology and mineral distribution.
Chapters 828–852 Summaries Read

Arc 35The Scarlet Brood Duel

Benjamin and Augusta ended the Mushroom People war, and Benjamin later joined the Academy’s education reform before traveling with Viola to support Clark and Castillo’s union. The duels with Azrael’s faction were interrupted by Spatial Fold Beasts, and the arc ended with Azrael and two elders revealing a Death Relic.

  • Benjamin and Augusta defeated the Level 8 Mushroom People leader, secured its surrender, and declared the Plane War over.
  • Benjamin returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, reviewed the war’s losses, and later accepted Avery Knight’s assignment to integrate the Academy’s aptitude and soul-sampling programs.
  • Benjamin traveled with Viola and Clark to the Crimson Court, where Azrael proposed three representative duels over his union with Castillo.
  • Viola defeated Gis, and Benjamin made Rashid yield by using his Time Law to rewind the duel.
  • Azrael’s attack tore open space and released Spatial Fold Beasts, scattering the wizards into separate battlefields.
  • Benjamin defeated his beast and joined Viola in rescuing the stranded wizards, then helped Clark defeat his beast and force Azrael to concede.
  • Noren and Anton challenged Azrael’s elders over the spatial rupture, while Castillo chose to join Clark.
  • Azrael and two Level 8 elders retrieved the Death Relic from a sealed Scarlet Brood laboratory and identified it as a means to complete Law Fixation.
Chapters 853–877 Summaries Read

Arc 36The Artificial Black Hole

Benjamin advanced his laws and weapons while preparing his forces, then joined an investigation of a Wonder that proved to be an artificial Elemental Black Hole. After surviving the battle with the Level 9 Mechanical Lifeform known as the President, he gained access to its technology and arranged for Viola to study a Level 9 Creation.

  • Benjamin improved his law mastery, tested the Return to Void Armor and Great Annihilation Divine Light, and expanded the Dragonblood Mushroom Legion.
  • At Clark and Castillo’s wedding, Augusta gave Benjamin coordinates for a region of severe spatial instability and proposed sending Media through it.
  • Wizard Noren assigned Benjamin to an investigation team, which found a vast Wonder and discovered that it contained an artificial Elemental Black Hole.
  • Benjamin and the team crossed the Event Horizon and reached a silver-gray altar, but its defenses killed Chloe, Edgar, Tori, and Elma while Benjamin escaped in his puppet body.
  • Benjamin summoned his legions to fight the arriving mechanical fleet, then Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan arrived and turned the tide.
  • The President appeared and fought Wizard Noren, Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan, and three other Level 8 Wizards, while Benjamin was returned to Noren Academy with the surviving investigators.
  • Wizard Noren rewarded Benjamin and the investigators, and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan secretly gave Benjamin the Mechanical Altar to share with the researchers.
  • Benjamin brought mechanical technology to Hadar and the Plant-folk researcher, then agreed to let Viola study the Level 9 Creation he had seized from the Octopus-folk.
Chapters 878–903 Summaries Read
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