Chapter Summaries

The Snow Monster King Agron and the Lava Giant King Kalamus assembled their forces and prepared a joint strategic weapon, while a disguised Soul School wizard secretly reported their plans. After two years of fortifying the Wizard Camp, Augustine departed, leaving Benjamin and the other wizards exposed to Planar Rejection as the coming war grew more dangerous.

• Agron and Kalamus confirmed their armies were assembled and agreed to delay their plan for half a cycle while the Snow Monsters adjusted their strategic weapon.
• A disguised Soul School wizard overheard the kings’ meeting, grew wary of their confidence, and slipped away to warn the camp.
• Over two years, Augustine directed the camp’s expansion and defenses while Benjamin helped build the Protective Array and conducted research.
• Augustine departed aboard the Ship Plane, and the fissure connecting it to the Frostfire Plane closed behind him.
• Benjamin discovered that Planar Rejection had made wizardry harder and reduced his control over the elements by nearly thirty percent.
• Viola explained that Augustine’s protective rules had left with him, while Benjamin worried that the remaining wizards faced a far more perilous war.

After the Snow Monsters launched a massive advance, the wizard camp issued an emergency alert and began preparing for a prolonged war. Benjamin studied Biochemical Beast technology and went to inspect a frontline defense node, where a Level 3 Lava Giant Boar attacked the barrier.

• A Level 2 wizard hunted rare creatures in the Frost Dark Realm before a huge Snow Monster army caught him and a Level 3 Snow Monster killed him.
• The camp issued an emergency alert ordering wizards to return and defend it, while Benjamin received a mission to learn Biochemical Beast production.
• Benjamin recognized that the camp was withdrawing its defenses and preparing for a major, potentially prolonged war.
• After two months of study, Benjamin traveled to a temporary defensive node to inspect it and gather materials.
• A Level 3 Lava Giant Boar rammed the node’s force field, revealing that the plane’s wild beasts had become the first threat at the front line.

Benjamin inspected a defensive node and killed a Lava Giant Boar, but a swarm of Fire Crows fleeing from an unseen danger warned him that something far worse was approaching. His warning let him escape just before a massive horde of Lava Giants swept over the node and crushed the wizards and everything in its path.

• Benjamin tested the node's rune arrays, killed the Lava Giant Boar with two Lightning-Energy Arrows, and sent its corpse to the camp for processing.
• Benjamin completed his inspection and recorded that the outer nodes were intended to intercept wild beasts and provide early warning.
• A vast flock of Fire Crows attacked the node, and the wizards there opened a passage through them to rescue several fleeing wizards.
• The rescued wizards warned that the Fire Crows were fleeing from an enemy, and Benjamin sensed an overwhelming threat and escaped using the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror.
• Time stopped across the node as a vast horde of Lava Giants marched in and crushed the Fire Crows, the wizards, and the defensive node.

Benjamin reached the Wizard Camp with urgent intelligence but was badly injured when its Protective Array mistook him for an enemy and knocked him out of Light Transformation. After he warned Master Elwin that the Snow Monsters and Lava Giants had joined forces, wielded a strategic-level time-based ability, and breached the frontline node, the camp prepared its defenses for the coming attack.

• The Protective Array struck Benjamin as he approached the camp, forcing him out of Light Transformation and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Master Elwin caught Benjamin with a levitation spell and gave him a Magic Potion to stabilize his injuries.
• Benjamin told Master Elwin that the Snow Monsters and Lava Giants had joined forces, the monsters wielded a strategic-level time-based ability, and the frontline node had been breached.
• Benjamin explained that the Lava Giants had amplified the Snow Monsters' time-based talent with their vast energy reserves, then lost consciousness.
• Master Elwin ordered the camp to activate the Temporal Stability Anchor, switch defensive nodes to anti-temporal-distortion mode, mass-produce Time-Freezing Potions, and equip combat squads with Time-Lag Runes.

After recovering from Light Transformation, Benjamin discovered that his body had adapted to the backlash and was ordered to create Biochemical Beasts for the front lines. He joined the wizards at his assigned defensive node just as the Lava Giant and Snow Monster army appeared on the horizon.

• Benjamin woke in the camp, realized his injuries had healed, and concluded that his Body Tempering Method had made him more resilient to Light Transformation's backlash.
• A silver puppet told Benjamin that the camp had confirmed the enemy army's location and that Roland had ordered him to produce Biochemical Beasts.
• Benjamin spent half a month creating modified Lava Giant beasts and sent them to the front lines, exhausting his materials.
• Headquarters ordered all wizards to leave the core camp and defend their assigned nodes, and Benjamin gathered his equipment and went to his post.
• Benjamin joined more than a dozen wizards at his defensive node as an alarm sounded and a torrent of flames and magma approached across the horizon.

Benjamin and the wizards fought the Lava Giant legion at the defensive nodes, while the giants’ strange lack of focus suggested the battle was not their real objective. When the Lava Giants’ time-stopping field met the Snow Monsters’ field, the Frostfire Plane shuddered and its sky collapsed.

• Benjamin watched the Lava Giants advance through a Time Stagnation Domain, and the defensive nodes fired their Main Energy Cannons into the vanguard.
• Benjamin and the wizards sent biochemical beasts against the giants, then used spells and the Great Light Manifestation to defend the nodes as the enemy broke through.
• Benjamin learned that the wizards could not stop the giants from bypassing the nodes and noticed that neither side’s strongest fighters had joined the battle.
• A wizard told Benjamin that the Temporal Stability Anchor had been installed in the node long ago and only needed to be activated.
• Lava Giants and Snow Monsters met across the battlefield, and their intersecting time-stopping fields caused the Frostfire Plane to tremble and its sky to collapse.

Benjamin realized that Augustine had allied with the Frostfire Plane’s monster races and used their time-stasis fields to return with reinforcements. As the wizards recognized that a more powerful master might control the monsters, they received orders to brace for an impact on the camp.

• Benjamin saw the Ship Plane appear in the sky as Augustine brought it into collision with the Frostfire Plane.
• Benjamin deduced that the Lava Giants’ and Snow Monsters’ time-stasis fields had frozen the Frostfire Plane, allowing Augustine to return quickly by outside time.
• The wizards concluded that Augustine had allied with the monster races and wondered what greater enemy they were facing.
• Benjamin realized that a powerful master likely controlled the monster communities, explaining why they produced no Mortal Aura.
• The three Level 5 Wizards ordered everyone to face the camp and prepare for impact, and the wizards raised defensive barriers.

Benjamin and the wizards survived a catastrophic earth-vein attack, then fled the Frostfire Plane as the time stop ended. From the Ship Plane, they watched the Frostfire Plane awaken as a colossal living being.

• Benjamin formed an energy shield to withstand the earth-vein formation’s devastating blast, which destroyed the Wizard Camp and opened a vast magma-filled sinkhole.
• Benjamin noticed the time stop had ended and suspected another being had interfered with it.
• Augustine ordered the wizards to drink Time-Freezing Potions and evacuate through the rift to the Ship Plane.
• Benjamin escaped with the wizards as the Lava Giants and Snow Monsters also flew toward the Ship Plane.
• The Frostfire Plane transformed into a gigantic face with magma pouring from its mouth and two vast eyes in the sky.
• The Frostfire Plane released a furious soul fluctuation, revealing that it was alive.

Benjamin and the other wizards witnessed the Frostfire Plane reveal itself as a Living Plane and attack the Ship Plane. Benjamin received a mission to help Augustine by supplying energy to an array node, where he discovered a vast protective array just as the ground began to shake violently.

• Benjamin realized the Frostfire Plane was a Living Plane whose elemental projections had shaped the territories of the Lava Giants and Snow Monsters.
• Benjamin wondered whether Augustine could defeat the Living Plane, while Viola reveled in the pain it and the frightened wizards were experiencing.
• Viola told Benjamin that the wizards would be assigned missions to assist Augustine, and the Magic Network Terminal sent him to array node 369-7.
• Benjamin teleported to a wasteland, entered the node's fortress, and linked his wizard authority to its control system.
• Benjamin discovered that the fortress was part of a vast Protective Array, then felt the ground shake as something colossal seemed to awaken beneath the Ship Plane.

Benjamin watched the Ship Plane transform into a heavily armed war fortress and learned that senior wizards had secretly prepared for the Frostfire Plane’s true nature. The Ship Plane and the Living Plane began a devastating battle, and Benjamin’s mission was about to arrive.

• The Ship Plane split open and revealed a colossal main cannon and numerous other weapons, transforming into a plane-sized war fortress.
• Viola told Benjamin that Augustine had planned the transformation after learning the Frostfire Plane’s secrets, which Level 3 and higher wizards had kept hidden from lower-ranked wizards.
• Viola admitted that she and the other senior wizards had pretended to speculate about the enemy’s technology, then warned Benjamin that his mission was imminent.
• The Ship Plane and the Living Plane began fighting, firing the fortress’s main cannon against the Living Plane’s magma and energy beams.
• The Ship Plane’s shields blocked most attacks, but the impacts shook the plane and destroyed mountains and icebergs.

Benjamin operated his node during the battle between the Ship Plane and the Frostfire Plane, then realized Augustine’s earlier strike had left the Living Plane too badly injured to fight at full strength. He recognized that Viola had anticipated his discovery and saw her bloodlust as she confirmed it.

• Benjamin followed commands to operate his node while the Ship Plane and Frostfire Plane exchanged attacks.
• Benjamin wondered why the Ship Plane was holding its own against a Living Plane with far greater mass and mastery of rules.
• Benjamin noticed that the Frostfire Plane trembled and suffered disrupted energy flows whenever it counterattacked.
• Benjamin realized Augustine’s Earth Vein Core Strike had caused severe pain and weakened the Frostfire Plane.
• Benjamin turned toward Viola and saw her wicked excitement as she asked whether he had figured it out.

Benjamin learned that Viola’s Pain Rule was disrupting the Living Frostfire Plane, but its growing adaptation was turning the battle against the Ship Plane. Viola revealed that she planned to use a Soul Ascension Potion and the Living Plane’s feedback to advance from Level 3 directly to Level 6.

• Benjamin realized Viola’s Pain Rule had been crucial to the Wizard Camp’s attack, forcing the Living Frostfire Plane to experience pain for the first time.
• Viola explained that she could keep inflicting pain from anywhere as long as her spiritual power let her lock onto the Living Plane.
• The Ship Plane’s main cannon struck the Living Plane’s magma mouth, intensifying its pain, but the Living Plane adapted and began pressing the Ship Plane harder.
• Viola revealed her plan to advance directly to Level 6 and showed Benjamin a Soul Ascension Potion that could temporarily raise her spiritual power.
• Viola explained that the Living Plane’s suffering fed her new understanding of the Pain Rule, allowing her rule to grow stronger and intensify its pain in return.

Viola drank the Soul Ascension Potion and advanced to Level 6, helping Augustine and the Ship Plane overwhelm the Living Frostfire Plane. As the battle stalled against the plane’s extraordinary resilience, Benjamin sensed the Baleful Intent Sealing Curse he had placed on the Sea of Yin Evil within the plane’s exposed core.

• Viola drank the Soul Ascension Potion and used the Living Frostfire Plane’s pain to break through to Level 6.
• Augustine and Viola intensified the Ship Plane’s assault, and Viola’s Pain Rule amplified its weapons and disrupted the enemy’s attacks.
• The Ship Plane breached the Living Frostfire Plane’s outer defenses and damaged its Blazing Sun Realm, but the living plane kept counterattacking.
• Viola realized the battle might turn against them when her potion wore off, and Benjamin saw that neither side could deliver a quick, fatal blow.
• Benjamin sensed a familiar black power in the Living Frostfire Plane’s exposed core and recognized it as the Baleful Intent Sealing Curse he had placed on the Sea of Yin Evil.

Benjamin discovered that the Yin Evil Aura came from races the Frostfire Plane had destroyed and used it to make the Living Plane suffer from within. The wizards exploited its sudden weakness to strike its core and seal it.

• Viola explained that Kalamus and Agron had agreed to cooperate with the wizards to escape the Frostfire Plane's repeated destruction of races created for its amusement.
• Benjamin reversed his Baleful Intent Sealing Curse into a Baleful Drawing Spell, stirring the Sea of Yin Evil within the Frostfire Plane's core.
• The Yin Evil Aura filled the Frostfire Plane with intense pain and weakened its power as it attacked the Living Plane's soul.
• Augustine ordered the wizards to fire the Ship Plane's super main cannon into the exposed core.
• The wizards bound the dying Frostfire Plane with prepared spell arrays and sealed it, bringing the war to an end.

After the Frostfire Plane was sealed, Benjamin catalogued its shattered islands and gathered scattered Yin Evil Aura. More powerful wizards arrived to study the Living Plane, while Mentor Clark came to install a cross-plane teleportation array and collect Viola’s thousand-year debt, leaving Benjamin worried about his own loan.

• Viola realized Benjamin had played a role in turning the battle around, but she kept her questions to herself until Benjamin teased her and she pinned him down with her Level 6 aura.
• Months later, Benjamin surveyed the Frostfire Plane’s floating islands, recorded their ecology and resources, and collected scattered Yin Evil Aura before uploading his findings to the Core Database.
• A spatial array brought dozens of visitors to the ship Plane, including Level 6 and possibly Level 7 Wizards eager to study the Living Plane.
• Viola told Benjamin that she owed Mentor Clark more than a thousand years of work for the loan she had used to buy a Soul Ascension Potion.
• Clark said he had come to help Wizard Augustine install a cross-plane Space Teleportation Array, assured Benjamin that his debt was postponed until the work was done, and carried Viola off to assist him.

After fifty years helping develop the Frostfire Plane, Benjamin returned to the Junction with enough Mortal Aura and mental power to prepare for advancing to a Level 2 Wizard. A teleportation malfunction left him stranded in an unfamiliar part of Eloria, where he began assessing the accident.

• Benjamin bade farewell to Mentor Clark and Senior Viola, and Clark gave him extra time to repay his debt while encouraging him to focus on advancing.
• Benjamin sold most of his collected Frostfire Plane materials at the Junction, earning a little over two hundred thousand Military Merit in total.
• Benjamin entered the teleportation array bound for Eloria and planned to prepare for advancement, refine Mortal Dust Potion, and organize his research.
• The teleportation light and spatial coordinates destabilized, and a powerful force ejected Benjamin from the passage.
• Benjamin stabilized himself above unfamiliar mountains and forests in Eloria and recognized that the malfunction was a serious security incident.

After returning to Eloria Plane from a fifty-year absence, Benjamin discovered that his territory had developed into a populated kingdom and went to confront its king. The king recognized Benjamin as one of the wizards who had once enslaved him and sat trembling on his throne.

• Benjamin found that an invisible barrier had blocked his teleportation just beyond the boundary of his Golden Garden territory.
• As Benjamin flew toward Golden Garden, he saw villages, towns, and cities whose inhabitants were generating Mortal Aura.
• A patrol stopped Benjamin near Dragon City and told him that King Otto the “Lionheart” ruled the Dragon Kingdom, which was at war with Elves and dwarves.
• Benjamin demanded to meet the king, then flew toward the castle and gently sent the guards and their mounts crashing into the forest.
• Benjamin subdued the city’s troops with his spiritual power and entered the castle, where he found that the king was a former slave manager who recognized him and froze in terror.

Benjamin learned how his territory had changed during his fifty-year absence and discovered that humans, elves, and dwarves had fallen into conflict. He reached Golden Garden, broke through its barriers, and was recognized by Elwin, though the young elf guards remained defiant.

• Otto confessed that he had led humans to find and cultivate food, and that they eventually made him their king.
• Otto explained that elves and dwarves had sealed humans out of Golden Garden before the two races split and the three-way conflict worsened.
• Benjamin ordered Otto to follow him and flew to Golden Garden.
• Benjamin used Analysis Art to break the garden's defensive barriers after finding elves guarding them.
• Elwin recognized Benjamin, knelt, and ordered the guards to stop, but the young elf captain showed open defiance.

Benjamin returned to Golden Garden, uncovered the Elves’ betrayal, and reasserted control over his territory. After appointing a new Elf leader and learning how the Dwarves had isolated themselves, he arranged for the Academy to transform the humans, Elves, and Dwarves into Wizard World inhabitants.

• Benjamin inspected Golden Garden, found that the Elves had blocked spatial travel, and discovered his resource-gathering formations had collected abundant materials.
• Benjamin killed Elwin, incapacitated the Elf guards who attacked, and ordered a respected older Elf to take Elwin’s place while allowing Otto to remain king.
• The Dwarves arrived with their backup Material Converter and explained that they had left Golden Garden after opposing the Elves’ barriers and had since lived apart from the humans and Elves.
• Benjamin told the Dwarves to reassure their people that further transformations were planned and reviewed the supplies and messages accumulated in his laboratory.
• Benjamin posted a commission with Noren Academy to transform the humans, Elves, and Dwarves in his territory.

Benjamin reviewed the messages and affairs that had accumulated during his fifty years away, then began preparing to advance to Level 2 Wizard. He had met the requirements for mental power and knowledge, and now needed to activate his soul and body before beginning the advancement ritual.

• Benjamin read Amy and Victor's messages about their military service and plans to adventure together after returning, then replied that he was back and wished them success.
• Benjamin handled other messages and inspected the Golden Garden's defenses, the underground laboratory's energy circulation, his territory's personnel, and the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• More than ten days later, Benjamin began preparing for advancement, having filled the Ring of Truth with mental power and completed the knowledge needed to reconstruct it.
• Benjamin focused on the final requirement of extreme soul and body activation, valuing its help in sensing rules more than its combat benefits.
• Benjamin learned that mainstream wizards temporarily activated themselves with surgery, potions, or similar methods, then used the life sublimation of advancement to stabilize that state permanently.