Chapter Summaries

Benjamin countered Levin Mills's Anti-Magic Field by draining the surrounding elements and forcing their fight into close combat. He defeated Levin with superior martial skill, leaving the Level 3 Wizard badly wounded and his vitality fading.

• Levin Mills activated a rune-engraved artifact that suppressed magic across the battlefield and disabled Benjamin's Rune Artifact.
• Benjamin's disc-shaped Wizard Artifact absorbed Levin's Anti-Magic Field and the surrounding elements, creating an elemental vacuum.
• Benjamin and Levin fought with their bare hands, but Benjamin evaded Levin's attacks and steadily wore down his life force.
• Benjamin let Levin strike his shoulder, then broke Levin's knee with a sweeping kick and landed a crushing knee strike to his abdomen.
• Levin crashed into the ground, lost his ability to recover with the vitality rule, and lay defeated as his life force rapidly dissipated.

Benjamin killed Levin Mills and searched his damaged soul, uncovering the truth about a plot to obtain spatial Plane Origin by sacrificing wizard souls. He secured a contract with the surviving Level 4 Wizard and led the survivors back, leaving the fate of the suspected forced advancement to the camp’s review.

• Benjamin destroyed Levin Mills's body, wounded his soul with a Level 4 artifact, and used Soul Search to uncover his memories.
• Levin Mills's memories revealed that a missing wizard squad had attacked his team to sacrifice wizard souls in exchange for spatial Plane Origin.
• Benjamin learned that the surviving Level 4 Wizard had forcibly advanced by absorbing Plane Origin and lacked the knowledge and skill normally required at that level.
• The wounded Level 4 Wizard agreed to submit to camp judgment and review and signed a contract with Benjamin.
• Benjamin collected the spoils and led the survivors back toward the way they had come.

Benjamin returned to the Floating City with the surviving wizards and reported a betrayal involving the Plane Origin, earning a personal audience with Level 7 Wizard Dionysius Spencer. Dionysius rewarded Benjamin with a large share of the trial proceeds and twenty pure strands of wind-law Plane Origin, leaving Benjamin to put them to use.

• Benjamin brought the bound Level 4 Wizard and the surviving Level 1 Wizards to the Affairs Center and reported the mission, the Plane Origin, and a wizard betrayal.
• Dionysius Spencer summoned the group and ordered two Alchemy Puppets to take the Level 4 Wizard for review.
• Dionysius Spencer praised Benjamin's conduct and promised him 85% of the subsequent trial proceeds if the Level 4 Wizard passed review.
• Benjamin gave Dionysius Spencer a memory replication detailing the spatial distortion zone and Levin Mills's actions.
• Dionysius Spencer gave Benjamin twenty pure strands of wind elemental Plane Origin, and Benjamin left the quiet room with the valuable gift.

After receiving a generous reward from Dionysius Spencer, Benjamin considered the dangers of the Void Plane and prepared to explore it more safely. He acquired a spatial fluctuation detector and set out on a mission to investigate an unknown biological community.

• Dionysius Spencer gave each Level 1 Wizard a strand of Plane Origin, and the wizards thanked Benjamin for helping them survive and earn the reward.
• Benjamin reflected on Dionysius Spencer’s remark that the Void Plane was merely “dessert before the meal” and decided to focus on strengthening his survival abilities.
• Benjamin reviewed Wizard Camp’s supplies, learned that spatial fluctuation detectors were available for exchange, and bought one for ten thousand Military Merit.
• Benjamin activated the detector and found it could reveal boundaries between stable and distorted space with little information load.
• Benjamin accepted a mission to explore an unknown biological community near a newly discovered spatial fold and flew from the Floating City toward the region.

Thirty years into the Plane War, Wizard Civilization had plundered the Void Plane on an immense scale while its resources continued to replenish, and the Floating City’s World Teleportation Array was nearing completion. Benjamin suspected Lord Dionysius Spencer’s true objective was worth more than the plane itself, then accepted a high-risk mission to investigate an abnormal energy source called the Eye of the Storm.

• Wizard Civilization’s extraction transformed the Floating City into a vast resource hub, and the early activation of the World Teleportation Array began sending supplies back to the core heartland.
• Benjamin returned with captured creatures, handed them to Alchemy Puppets, and sold most of his haul in bulk through the Magic Network Terminal.
• Benjamin observed the expedition’s rapid growth in Level 3 Wizards and considered the severe ecological damage and deaths caused by decades of plundering.
• Benjamin suspected Lord Dionysius Spencer’s expedition targeted something more valuable than the Void Plane, but suppressed his speculation.
• Benjamin accepted a high-risk mission to investigate an abnormal energy source in a large spatial fold called the Eye of the Storm and left the Floating City.

After surviving a battle with a Tranquil Jellyfish colony in the Eye of the Storm, Benjamin used his All-Purpose Eye to uncover a concealed artificial spatial fissure and sent its coordinates to the Magic Network. Dionysius Spencer received the report and recognized the discovery as what he had been seeking.

• Benjamin entered the Eye of the Storm's core with his two surviving Black Giants, both of whom had advanced to Level 4.
• Benjamin and the Black Giants fought a Tranquil Jellyfish colony for days, defeating its giant king while Benjamin collected biological samples.
• Benjamin searched the core for the mission's energy anomaly, then used his All-Purpose Eye to detect a vast spatial fissure hidden behind folded space.
• Benjamin recorded the fissure's coordinates and reported that it was likely artificially constructed.
• Dionysius Spencer received Benjamin's message in the Floating City and murmured, "Found it—"

Benjamin discovered that Dionysius Spencer had used the momentum of his fate to locate a spatial rift, but accepted the wizard’s valuable Fate School notes as compensation. Spencer summoned the Expeditionary Force, revealed that they would invade another world through the rift, and ordered them to secure the passage when it stabilized in three standard days.

• Benjamin accused Dionysius Spencer of weaving his fate, and Spencer explained that he had only borrowed its momentum to reach the desired coordinates.
• Spencer sent Benjamin his personal notes on advancing to Level 6 in the Fate School, and Benjamin accepted the gift as compensation.
• A mandatory mission summoned every Expeditionary Force wizard to the spatially distorted region, where Spencer announced that a rift there connected to another plane.
• Spencer teleported the Floating City to the region, cleared the spatial distortions, and revealed a massive but unstable rift.
• Spencer ordered the wizards to prepare to enter the new world in three standard days and keep its inhabitants from closing the passage.
• The Expeditionary Force deployed workshops, defenses, Golems, and Biochemical Beasts around the rift.

The Sacred Continent’s four Holy Gods prepared to celebrate the World Gate Festival as a powerful Sacred Spirit’s branch hosted the costly ceremony. The Wizard Civilization forced its way through the supposedly closed gate, and Benjamin emerged with two Black Giants, beginning an invasion as the Holy Servants and gods watched.

• The four empires assigned a peak Sacred Spirit’s branch to host the World Gate Festival, angering his younger brother, who believed the decision was meant to hinder his rise.
• The Sacred Spirit accepted the burden, and his forces joined the immense gathering of Holy Servants and Sacred Spirits at the World Gate Altar.
• During the festival ritual, the closed gate rippled and two Black Giants forced their way through, with Benjamin standing atop the leading giant.
• Benjamin surveyed the Holy Servants and the four storm vortices, declaring that the world had given them a grand welcome.
• Several minutes earlier, Benjamin recognized the circular passage as an artificially made gate, stepped back behind the other wizards, and heard Dionysius Spencer order the Vanguard Army to attack.

Benjamin and two Black Giants crossed the unstable spatial gate ahead of the Vanguard Army and found themselves alone among the Holy Servants of a hostile world. After he destroyed more than a dozen Sacred Spirits with the Great Light Manifestation, the Holy Servant army charged, just as the Wizard Legion began emerging through the gate.

• Benjamin and the two Black Giants endured the chaotic spatial passage and reached the other side before the rest of the Vanguard Army.
• Benjamin discovered an enormous altar surrounded by hundreds of millions of Holy Servants and four Sacred Gods, then sent a spatial-coordinate signal to guide the Wizard Legion to him.
• A Sacred Spirit attacked a Black Giant and was killed with one blow, prompting more than a dozen Sacred Spirits to surround the giants.
• The Sacred Gods ordered the intruders killed, and Benjamin used the Great Light Manifestation to annihilate the attacking Sacred Spirits in one volley.
• The Holy Servants launched an all-out assault on Benjamin and the Black Giants as the Wizard Legion began pouring through the spatial gate.

Benjamin’s forces poured through the spatial gate and fought the Holy Servant army, but the narrow passage and enemy numbers kept the battle in a brutal stalemate. Three Level 4 Wizards intercepted four Level 5 Holy Gods, while Benjamin and the Black Giants prepared to face the remaining god as the battle continued at the gate.

• Benjamin’s signal guided the Wizard Legion through the spatial gate, where biochemical beasts and war golems collided with the Holy Servant army.
• Benjamin fought off Sacred Spirits, but the Wizard Legion remained outnumbered because the gate restricted how quickly troops could enter.
• The four Holy Gods gathered attacks to destroy the spatial gate, but three Level 4 Wizards emerged and intercepted them.
• The three Level 4 Wizards engaged three Holy Gods, while the fourth turned toward Benjamin and the gate.
• Benjamin and the two Black Giants, joined by several Level 3 Wizards, charged the remaining Holy God.

Benjamin and the Wizards struggled against the God of Blades and the Holy Servants until the spatial gate expanded and reinforcements poured through. Wizard Dionysius Spencer arrived, scanned the Sacred Continent, and ordered the Wizards to kill all resistance.

• The Black Giants and Level 3 Wizards restrained the God of Blades while Benjamin fought the Holy Servants after the Great Light Manifestation ran out of energy.
• Official Wizards emerged from the spatial gate, and their combined witchcraft helped stabilize the ground battle.
• The spatial gate expanded to nearly two kilometers, allowing more Biochemical Beasts, war golems, and Wizard Legions to enter and push back the Holy Servants.
• Wizard Dionysius Spencer’s vast will crossed through the gate and scanned the Sacred Continent, finding no Level 6 or higher beings.
• Wizard Dionysius Spencer ordered the Wizards to eliminate all resistance and occupy the realm.

With the spatial gate stabilized, the Wizard Legion crushed the Holy Servants, captured the Holy Gods, and forced mass surrender. Benjamin learned the Sacred Continent’s history and the source of its distorted power structure as the wizards began establishing an outpost to absorb the world.

• The Wizard Legion overwhelmed the Holy Servants with sorcery, while three Level 4 Wizards unleashed their full power against the Holy Gods.
• Dionysius Spencer reached through the spatial gate with a ghostly blue hand and dragged the God of Blades away, breaking the defenders’ resolve.
• The Level 4 Wizards captured the remaining three Holy Gods, and millions of Holy Servants surrendered as the wizards halted their slaughter.
• Benjamin used Soul Search on a Holy Servant corpse and learned about the Sacred Continent, its empires, the World Gate, and the Holy Gods’ rule.
• A Level 4 Wizard ordered Benjamin and the other wizards to continue clearing the battlefield and establish an outpost to digest the world.

After fifty years of conquest, Benjamin returned to the Void Plane troubled by Dionysius Spencer’s hidden purpose and the devastation of the Sacred Continent. Seeing a Void Giant Fish feeding on the spreading mist, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

• Benjamin received foremost merit for discovering and stabilizing the spatial gate, and Dionysius Spencer granted him a share of knowledge gathered on the Sacred Continent.
• Over the next fifty years, the wizards conquered the Sacred Continent, while the unstable gate prevented them from reaching the other four worlds.
• Benjamin completed his mission and reflected on Dionysius Spencer’s indifference to the continent and possible plans for a greater target.
• Disturbed by the continent’s devastation, Benjamin flew alone, passed through the spatial gate, and drifted through the mostly abandoned Void Plane.
• Benjamin spotted a Void Giant Fish feeding on particles in the mist and suddenly realized something was wrong.

Benjamin uncovered that the white mist concealed microscopic life and interfered with cognition, then began collecting it. Dionysius Spencer watched from the Floating City and allowed Benjamin to take some, constrained by fate’s equivalent exchange.

• Benjamin recovered his lost insight and realized the white mist contained microorganisms that creatures could filter-feed on.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye and discovered that the mist withdrew from its detection range, hiding its contents from observers.
• Benjamin concluded that cognitive interference concealed the mist’s abnormal nature and suspected it was Dionysius Spencer’s true objective.
• Benjamin began cautiously collecting the white mist, believing Dionysius Spencer had noticed but permitted his actions.
• Dionysius Spencer watched Benjamin from the Floating City and accepted that fate required him to let Benjamin obtain part of the mist.

Dionysius Spencer uncovered the origin of the white mist and the reason the Sacred Continent’s World Gate had attracted four other planes, then reported his suspicions to the Star Ring Federation. Benjamin returned from the war to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and began assessing the many projects awaiting him.

• Dionysius Spencer read the God of Blades’ memories and learned how the Sacred Continent’s ruler became the white mist, a half-step Level 8 lifeform.
• Dionysius Spencer concluded that the four planes had connected to the sealed World Gate as part of an organized effort to establish a transit station, and he sent a report to the Star Ring Federation.
• Benjamin quietly left the conquered planes, returned to his laboratory on the Eloria Plane, and checked that his equipment and research remained in order.
• Benjamin entered the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and found that the Black Giants’ chaos crystals had only begun their energy infusion.
• Benjamin reviewed his many pending research and construction projects and realized that even a two-hundred-year rest period would feel short.

Benjamin overcame the loneliness that had kept him from advancing and secluded himself on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane to reach the Golden Core realm. After condensing his Golden Core without needing his prepared potion, he felt his Inner Circulation method begin expanding the Internal Space within his body.

• Benjamin understood that his loneliness as a transmigrator had caused his cultivation bottleneck, and his encounter with Jack’s jealousy helped him feel connected to the people of this world.
• Benjamin studied Golden Core insights for more than a decade and brewed a promotion Magic Potion suited to himself.
• Benjamin sealed the Purgatory Sulfur Plane from the outside world and began breaking through in a quiet chamber.
• Benjamin’s abundant True Essence shattered the Golden Core barrier, and a flawless golden core formed in his dantian without the potion.
• Benjamin’s new Golden Core began drawing Spiritual Power and vital essence from his body as his Inner Circulation method started expanding his Internal Space.

After advancing to the Golden Core Realm, Benjamin absorbed a Magic Potion and discovered that his Internal Space had expanded dramatically and his power and lifespan had increased. He spent several months developing a new Rune Artifact, then tested it on a mountain and confirmed that it could unleash city-destroying force.

• Benjamin drank the Magic Potion and absorbed its power into his Golden Core and expanding Internal Space.
• Benjamin found that his Internal Space had grown large enough to hold a small village and had begun to develop the features of a world.
• Benjamin sensed the Golden Core Realm's improvements to his body, senses, Spiritual Power, and lifespan, then hurried to his laboratory.
• Over several months, Benjamin used his improved ability to draw on external energy to create a more powerful Rune Artifact.
• Benjamin tested the Rune Artifact on a metal-rich mountain, vaporizing its upper half and creating a vast crater.
• Benjamin concluded that the Rune Artifact's attack surpassed a Level 2 Wizard's power and could destroy an entire city.

After reaching the Golden Core Realm, Benjamin began addressing the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s energy shortage and reviewing the Black Giants’ battlefield performance. He received biological samples from the Void Plane and planned to use them to develop specialized aerial and aquatic combat units.

• Benjamin hired a Noren Workshop engineering team to upgrade the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s infrastructure and build a plane-wide energy collection and dispatch system.
• Benjamin reviewed the Black Giants’ strengths and weaknesses, deciding to improve their core combat abilities while leaving aerial and aquatic roles to new specialized units.
• A Noren Workshop logistics wizard delivered the biological samples Benjamin had collected during the Void Plane—Sacred Continent Plane War.
• Benjamin arranged the environmental simulation chambers across the wasteland and inspected the varied creatures preserved inside.
• Benjamin planned to analyze the samples and use their genes and structures to create his own aerial and aquatic combat units.

After fifty years of research on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, Benjamin accepted a teaching position at Noren No. 147 Wizard Academy in exchange for a longer rest period. He also received nine more strands of Plane Origin, bringing his total to twenty-nine, while his research and the plane’s transformation continued.

• Benjamin completed his analysis of a Wind-Howling Wing Beast and checked on the Spider-Snake specimens he was breeding and studying.
• A Level 6 Wizard told Benjamin that Noren Workshop’s plane transformation project was progressing on schedule and should be completed in fifty years.
• Dean Avery Knight reported that the plane where the Destruction Demon God resided had been incorporated into the Eloria Plane Cluster and that Noren No. 147 Wizard Academy would open in ten years.
• Dean Avery Knight invited Benjamin to teach at the Academy, and Benjamin accepted after learning that low-level Wizard teachers received double the usual plane-war rest period.
• Benjamin received the nine remaining strands of Plane Origin promised for his earlier discovery, raising his total to twenty-nine, and decided to keep them for future use.

Benjamin returned to Noren Academy No. 13 after Viola said Instructor Clark wanted to see him, only to learn that she had tricked him. There, he discovered Clark had taken on a young apprentice, leaving Benjamin reflecting on how he had once entered the same office as a nervous boy.

• Benjamin accepted a teaching position at Noren Academy after speaking with Dean Avery, and Viola explained how instructors’ benefits differed by Wizard level.
• Viola told Benjamin to visit Instructor Clark at Noren Academy No. 13, but Clark denied summoning him when Benjamin arrived.
• A young apprentice brought Clark a summary of observation data, and Benjamin realized the boy was Clark’s new personal disciple.
• Clark described the boy as having average aptitude but ideas of his own, and Benjamin remembered his own first cautious visit to the office.