Chapter Summaries

After ten years, Benjamin completed a Level 4 Black Giant Core but found that hatching a Black Giant would take over a century without more energy. He discovered that his protocol had earned him thirty billion Low-Level Military Merit, paid the balance for his Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, and began buying smaller pools to prepare Black Giants for the next plane war.

• Benjamin finished cultivating the Level 4 Black Giant Core and placed a fragment in the Incubation Pool to hatch a Black Giant.
• Benjamin realized the Incubation Pool lacked enough energy and would take over a hundred years to produce one Black Giant on its own.
• Benjamin checked his account and discovered the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol had earned him more than thirty billion Low-Level Military Merit, mostly during its first year.
• Benjamin paid Clark the remaining eighteen billion Military Merit for the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, which Clark said would be delivered in less than ten years.
• Clark reminded Benjamin that his mandatory conscription deadline was approaching, and Benjamin decided to test the Black Giants in the next plane war.
• Benjamin began purchasing small elemental Pools to supply the Incubation Pool and shorten the Black Giants' hatching time to under half a year.

Benjamin welcomed the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, then went to the Junction Point to register. There, Master Roland asked whether Benjamin had created the anonymous Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol.

• Benjamin assessed the five Black Giants he had raised and worried that limited energy had slowed their growth and stunted their potential.
• Mentor Clark delivered the Level 7 Large Elemental Pool, gave Benjamin a Space Expansion Bag full of operating manuals, and approved of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane during a brief inspection.
• After Clark left, Benjamin postponed studying the manuals and traveled to the Junction Point to register.
• Master Roland recognized Benjamin at the Junction Point and asked if he was behind the anonymously released Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol.

Benjamin sold Master Roland a higher-grade version of the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol in exchange for advance repayment of a future loan, then went to register for another plane war. The chapter left him at the Affairs Center, signing the required contract in person.

• Master Roland recognized Benjamin as the creator of the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol and asked to buy a more powerful version for his spatial research.
• Benjamin agreed to provide the professional version in exchange for advance repayment of the loan he would owe Roland after reaching Level 3 Wizard.
• Benjamin sent Roland the technology through an encrypted channel, and they signed a binding contract to complete the transaction.
• Roland hurried away to build a new laboratory, while Benjamin stayed to eat at the restaurant.
• Benjamin went to the Affairs Center and began registering for the next plane war, which required a new contract and his soul imprint.

Benjamin prepared his Purgatory Sulfur Plane base before reporting to the junction point for a new planar war, where he reunited with Wizard Jack and other seniors from his early days in the Wizard World. As more than a hundred thousand wizards gathered, an enormous ship Plane arrived to carry them toward the expedition.

• Benjamin secured his Golden Garden, laboratory, and Incubation Pool with upgraded defenses, stocked energy, and instructions for the giants before leaving for the junction point.
• Benjamin waited in the assembly square and recognized Wizard Jack and several former Logistics Department seniors, whose squad had grown stronger but lost members over the years.
• Benjamin exchanged experiences and contact information with Jack's group, and they agreed to support one another during the planar war.
• More than a hundred thousand wizards gathered in the square, far exceeding the turnout for Benjamin's previous war.
• A vast ship Plane covered the simulated sky, and Benjamin recognized it as one of the junction point's converted abandoned planes used to transport expeditions.

Benjamin and the other wizards gathered for an expedition were confronted by their leader, Level 7 Wizard Dionysius Spencer, whose overwhelming aura silenced the plaza. After Dionysius ordered everyone aboard the ship Plane, they departed the junction point and prepared for battle as a new world emerged beyond a spatial rift.

• Benjamin realized that only one supervisor was arriving, then recognized the descending figure as a Level 7 Wizard.
• The Level 7 Wizard introduced himself as Dionysius Spencer and ordered all personnel to board the ship Plane and depart immediately.
• Benjamin summoned five Black Giants from his Internal Space as the other wizards prepared their forces for battle.
• The ship Plane left the junction point and sailed into the Endless Chaotic Void.
• A vast spatial rift opened, revealing a world filled with dense white mist as the expedition's new battlefield.

Benjamin and the other wizards entered a strangely silent plane after Dionysius Spencer reported that no life above Level Five or intelligent beings had been found in the region. Benjamin discovered that the plane had no gravity and that its lack of Earth Elements weakened force-field spells, leaving him to investigate its unusual conditions.

• Dionysius Spencer opened a spatial rift without first giving the wizards information about the target plane, and they found no attacks or energy fluctuations beyond it.
• Dionysius Spencer sent a report stating that the strongest observed life-form was no higher than Level Five and that no intelligent life-forms had been found in the region.
• The wizards became bloodthirsty and rushed through the rift, while most of their Biochemical Beasts stayed behind.
• Benjamin and five Black Giants entered the plane, where Benjamin found that he could float without a Flight Spell because the world had no gravity.
• Benjamin tested the plane's elemental conditions and confirmed that force-field spell models were difficult to construct and unstable.

Wizards invaded a world without Level Six creatures and slaughtered its native inhabitants to collect research materials. Benjamin sampled the spoils, discovered the Black Giants struggled in the mist, and continued gathering specimens with them following in makeshift flying Wizard Artifacts.

• The wizards poured through the spatial rift, confident that no Level Six creatures could threaten them, and began plundering the region.
• Wizards attacked and exterminated a colony of giant ray-like creatures, collecting their remains and capturing several alive.
• Benjamin examined and tasted the creatures’ flesh, discovering its cognitive effects, and judged their bones suitable for wind-amplifying Wands.
• Benjamin noticed his five Black Giants flailing helplessly in the mist and recognized their unsuitability for aerial and underwater combat.
• Benjamin fitted the Black Giants with temporary flying Wizard Artifacts and resumed collecting biological specimens across the region.

Benjamin led his Black Giants through an unexplored region of the mist-filled plane, where they hunted Cloud Monsters and demonstrated the Giants’ adaptive evolution. After the battle, Benjamin used his terminal to find his bearings, and the camp issued mandatory missions as he worried about getting lost beyond signal range.

• Benjamin changed course toward a Cloud Monster colony detected by his Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and ordered his Black Giants to feed.
• The Black Giants devoured the Cloud Monsters, gaining energy, while Benjamin captured several as research samples.
• A group of Cloud Monsters self-destructed together, blasting the four Level Two Black Giants away while the Level Three Black Giant continued its rampage.
• Benjamin observed cyan energy pathways appear on the Black Giants, confirming that his Body Tempering Method gave them adaptive evolution after enduring attacks.
• Benjamin used his terminal to locate the Ship Plane and determine his direction, then received a notification that the camp had begun issuing mandatory missions.

Benjamin accepted the mandatory mission to place Signal Nodes across the Void Plane and headed back to the Ship Plane, while realizing that spatial hazards might have trapped other wizards. An invisible attacker ambushed him, but after narrowly surviving two strikes, Benjamin recognized that it wielded spatial power.

• Benjamin reviewed the mandatory Signal Node mission and flew toward the Ship Plane, judging its timing and requirements to be reasonable.
• Benjamin noticed an emergency mission to search for lost wizards skilled in spatial knowledge and considered the danger of spatial turbulence in the Void Plane.
• An invisible attacker struck at Benjamin, shattered his concealed shield, and nearly hit his forehead before he dodged.
• The five Black Giants surrounded Benjamin as he raised more shields and checked his detection artifacts, which had failed to reveal the attacker.
• The attacker struck again from above, broke through Benjamin's shields, and wounded his left arm, but Benjamin identified spatial power as the source of its attacks.

Benjamin used his spatial knowledge to locate a Level 2 creature that hid in spatial folds, then captured it after baiting it into attacking him. He left with the creature sealed in his Internal Space and continued toward the Ship Plane.

• Benjamin realized the creature could manipulate spatial power and decided to capture it for its research and sale value.
• Benjamin expanded the All-Purpose Eye's range at great cost to his soul and found the spider-snake-like creature concealed in spatial folds.
• The creature attacked Benjamin's back with Spatial Severance, but Benjamin reshaped his body and trapped its limbs.
• Benjamin subdued the creature, sealed it with multiple methods, and stored it in his Internal Space.
• Benjamin healed the holes in his chest with the Body Tempering Method and Extreme Body Activation, then flew toward the Ship Plane.

Benjamin returned to the Floating Camp and searched for a way to survive the unstable space. Senior Jack recruited him for a rescue mission in a spatial distortion in exchange for a potion that could permanently improve spatial perception, and Benjamin agreed before spotting a caged creature at a market stall.

• Benjamin arrived at the Floating Camp, registered for his mandatory mission, and searched the market for an artifact to protect him from spatial turbulence.
• Senior Jack told Benjamin that Levin Mills had made a potion that permanently heightened sensitivity to wind elements and spatial power, but they lacked the ingredients to brew more.
• Jack invited Benjamin to help search a vast spatial distortion for lost wizards and promised him a bottle of the potion as well as a mission reward.
• Jack explained that the spatial distortions contained valuable resources, and Benjamin accepted the offer to gain rewards and learn from experienced wizards.
• Benjamin continued searching the camp market for a way to calm spatial turbulence and stopped when he noticed a caged creature at a stall.

Benjamin bought more than ten thousand Soundwave Spider-Snakes to support his research into a powerful mutated member of their species. Unable to store the creatures himself, he rented a vast breeding warehouse and settled them there before heading to meet Jack.

• Benjamin recognized the Soundwave Spider-Snakes as the same species as the spatially powerful creature he had captured and decided to buy them as research subjects.
• After bargaining, Benjamin purchased every Spider-Snake at the stall and in the wizard's reserves for five thousand Military Merit.
• Benjamin learned that the camp's Affairs Center rented creature-breeding warehouses and rented a high-grade warehouse for ten years.
• Benjamin moved the Spider-Snake Monsters into the warehouse, activated its breeding systems, and stocked it with concentrated nutritional feed.
• Benjamin searched the square for a Wizard Artifact but found none, then headed to meet Jack.

Benjamin joined Jack’s rescue team and followed him to a concealed spatial distortion zone, where the wizards discovered an inverted region with cloud-like ground and gravity. Levin Mills warned them that the clouds hid dangerous distortions, while the air above them was relatively stable.

• Benjamin met Jack and eleven mostly low-level wizards, then followed the group on a six-day flight to the spatial distortion zone.
• Jack used a bird-shaped Wizard Artifact to locate Levin Mills and showed the group a safe, winding route marked by faintly glowing spheres.
• Levin Mills reported that the search area was expanding and that his scouting beasts had found nothing, then led the wizards into the zone.
• Benjamin entered first and discovered that the region had gravity, with the wizards appearing upside down relative to his initial perspective.
• Levin Mills explained that the cloud-like ground contained wind elements and dangerous spatial distortions, so the wizards rose to remain safely above it.

Benjamin joined Jack Squad’s search through the inverted-gravity world, using contracted bioengineered mosquitoes to scout ahead. He fought and captured a group of supersonic creatures, then continued searching as distant battles suggested the other wizards had also encountered enemies.

• An obese wizard created swarms of reconnaissance mosquitoes, which Benjamin and the other wizards contracted to search the area.
• Levin Mills organized the wizards into a fan-shaped formation, and they spread out to scout ahead while leaving coordinate markers.
• Benjamin spotted supersonic creatures approaching through a mosquito’s shared vision and activated his Acceleration Rune Artifact.
• Benjamin blasted the creatures with destructive spells, then captured them after injuring them enough to stop their movement.
• Benjamin detected energy fluctuations from distant battles but continued probing deeper because nobody had called for help.

After a wizard disappeared from the team’s communication network, Benjamin and the others traced his last known movements and discovered creatures hidden in the clouds. The swarm’s mass soul-curse illusions left even powerful wizards confused, and the group faced the attack as their reactions faltered.

• After more than ten days of searching, Benjamin noticed that one recruited wizard had vanished from the Glowbug communication network, though his insects remained alive and within range.
• The wizards regrouped and flew to the missing wizard’s last known location, where Levin Mills sensed evidence of a fight from the previous day.
• As the group advanced, Benjamin felt his Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier being attacked and saw that the others could not hear his warning, so he jolted them awake with energy bolts.
• A tide of white, mist-like creatures rose from the clouds, and Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye to identify how their bodies blended with the surroundings.
• Levin Mills warned that the creatures used soul curse-type illusions, and Benjamin realized their enormous numbers had overwhelmed the group’s mental defenses.

Benjamin and the other wizards fought off a vast swarm of white fluff creatures, with Benjamin’s Rune Artifacts providing overwhelming firepower. After the group resumed its search, they found the missing wizard’s skin packed with juvenile fluff creatures and continued through the Void Plane.

• Benjamin used Accelerate to assess the wizards’ condition as Levin Mills, Jack, and the others fought the attacking fluff creatures.
• Benjamin protected the incapacitated wizards, then unleashed his Rune Artifacts in Blast mode and cleared the visible swarm.
• The survivors collected the creatures and accepted Benjamin’s demand for ten thousand military merit from each protected wizard.
• Levin Mills praised Benjamin, while Jack asked to buy his Rune Artifacts and Benjamin refused, saying they involved his core knowledge.
• Guided by the stout wizard’s mosquitoes, Levin Mills found the missing wizard’s skin filled with transparent juvenile fluff creatures, and the group collected them before continuing its search.

As spatial distortions made the search more dangerous and resource-rich, Benjamin learned that the Glowbugs’ scout was creating them by stripping away his own flesh. Levin Mills gathered the wizards to plan a joint search of a vast, unusually tall region, while the scout warned he could endure for only thirteen more days.

• The wizards navigated unstable spatial distortions, using Glowbugs to scout while collecting increasingly valuable resources.
• Benjamin found the former plump wizard gaunt and learned from Jack that he had been turning his own flesh into Glowbugs.
• Levin Mills asked the gaunt wizard how long he could continue, and the wizard said he could last at most thirteen more days at the current rate of losses.
• Levin Mills announced that the group would search a large, relatively stable area together the next day and described its unusually tall, upside-down trapezoid shape.

Benjamin led the recruited wizards through a narrowing region of the distorted space and found an injured Level 4 Wizard beyond a vast canyon. When the wizard attacked, Benjamin discovered that Jack’s group had approached from behind and attacked his team, leaving the two groups facing each other amid the Level 4 Wizard’s spatial assault.

• Levin Mills divided the wizards into two search teams, and Benjamin led the recruited wizards through the lower region.
• Benjamin’s team advanced through increasingly dense terrain as the space narrowed, while Jack and Levin Mills’s team searched an upper region that kept widening.
• Benjamin’s team entered a seemingly lifeless canyon and found a vast barren area blocked by a spatial barrier.
• Beyond the barrier, Benjamin and the others discovered an injured Level 4 Wizard, who raised his hand as they approached.
• Benjamin used Acceleration to shield his team from attacks launched by Jack’s group behind them.
• The Level 4 Wizard’s spatial attack missed Levin Mills and the others, and Benjamin fixed his gaze on Jack.

Benjamin and the recruited wizards fought Jack's group after discovering the supposed rescue mission was a trap. Benjamin unleashed his Rune Artifacts and Great Light Manifestation to hold off the attackers, leaving both sides locked in a brutal stalemate.

• Benjamin and the other survivors formed a spiritual contract with the Level 4 Wizard to unite against Levin Mills and Jack's group.
• Jack's group shattered Benjamin's shield, and the Level 4 Wizard engaged Levin Mills in the sky.
• The gaunt wizard destroyed the recruits' Glowbugs, inflicting a soul backlash that incapacitated many Level 1 Wizards.
• Benjamin summoned five Black Giants and used them with the surviving wizards to hold off seven Level 2 attackers while he confronted Jack and four others.
• Benjamin's Rune Artifacts and Level 4 Wizard Artifacts pinned Jack's group down, then his Great Light Manifestation unleashed a devastating torrent that forced them to dodge.
• The battle became a stalemate after Benjamin's assault eased pressure on his allies, though the recruits suffered heavy casualties and two Black Giants were destroyed.

Benjamin discovered that Jack had targeted him out of envy, then helped defeat Jack’s group as the battle turned in the Wizards’ favor. After Levin Mills defeated the Level 4 Wizard, he rejected Benjamin’s proposal to withdraw, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Benjamin judged that Levin Mills was suppressing the Level 4 Wizard, while Jack’s attacks failed to penetrate Benjamin’s energy defenses.
• Benjamin asked Jack why he had singled him out, and Jack admitted that he envied Benjamin’s talent and felt ashamed of his own mediocrity.
• Benjamin understood that jealousy had driven Jack to choose him as prey, and the realization sharpened his control of the Great Light Manifestation.
• The remaining Black Giants and injured Level 1 Wizards defeated the last two enemy Level 2 Wizards, and Benjamin’s group wiped out Jack’s forces.
• Levin Mills defeated the Level 4 Wizard and descended to face Benjamin, then refused Benjamin’s offer for both sides to withdraw.