Chapter Summaries

Mentor Clark explained how wizards advanced their laws through expansion and deepening after Viola demonstrated new control over others’ emotions. He advised Benjamin to follow his own pace, then sent him to the plaza outside the new Academy, wishing his appointment well.

• Clark inferred that Viola had used Benjamin’s visit to test her newly developed control over laws, and Benjamin contacted her.
• Viola revealed that she had chosen both expansion and deepening, while Clark warned her against advancing recklessly.
• Clark explained the two paths of law development and advised Benjamin to build a solid foundation without comparing his pace to others.
• Clark teased Viola about repaying her debt, and she ended the call to avoid answering.
• Clark wished Benjamin well at the new Academy and teleported him to its plaza, where Benjamin departed by teleportation array.

Benjamin watched Noren No. 147 Wizard Academy open on the Eloria Plane and staffed its Alchemy School recruitment platform, but no students enrolled. Days later, Dean Avery Knight assigned him to assist with the long-term transformation and fusion of the Eloria Plane Cluster.

• Benjamin saw fewer than three hundred apprentices arrive for the Academy's first admissions day and noted how few schools the new institution offered.
• Benjamin prepared to teach Alchemy, but the day's recruitment ended with his registration roster still blank.
• Benjamin accepted that prospective students preferred the more appealing contracts and prospects offered by Combat schools.
• Dean Avery Knight named Benjamin to assist with the Eloria Plane Cluster transformation and fusion project.
• Benjamin reviewed the mission roster and suspected that many Logistics Department wizards had been assigned because their schools had recruited no students.

Benjamin finished his preliminary work on Dean Avery Knight’s plane fusion and returned to research on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane. Two years later, his long-awaited automated factory arrived, and his expanded Internal Space gave him room to begin putting a long-planned idea into action.

• Benjamin completed the groundwork for assisting Dean Avery Knight with the plane fusion and learned that Senior Viola had taken on two students in the Potions Department.
• Benjamin returned to his core laboratory on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and spent two years optimizing the Divine Power Faith Network’s energy circuits.
• Noren Workshop’s logistics department informed Benjamin that his Pan-Plane Adaptive Multifunctional Precision Manufacturing Platform had arrived.
• Benjamin received the enormous manufacturing platform and realized his Golden Core-expanded Internal Space could hold it and large quantities of raw materials.

Benjamin stored the Automatic Factory in his Internal Space, powered it with a Level Four Large Elemental Pool, and began planning to add a mobile laboratory. He discovered that his Internal Space had consumed nearly all his Plane Origin, and chose to keep feeding it despite the uncertain benefit.

• Benjamin studied the Automatic Factory, stored it in his Internal Space, and ran trial production of Rune Artifacts.
• Benjamin found that the factory consumed energy crystals rapidly and ordered a Level Four Large Elemental Pool from the Noren Workshop.
• Benjamin connected the Elemental Pool to the factory, stabilizing its power supply and prompting him to consider storing laboratory equipment and supplies in his Internal Space.
• Benjamin discovered that twenty-eight of his twenty-nine strands of Plane Origin had vanished from their sealed box.
• Benjamin observed the last strand being absorbed into the Internal Space, which slightly strengthened its boundaries and made its Spirit Energy more active.
• Benjamin decided to regularly buy Plane Origin to feed his Internal Space, even though its growth remained uncertain.

Benjamin helped prepare Noren Academy No. 147’s first Graduation Trial and learned that successful graduates would help the Noren Workshop expand into new Plane Clusters. Forty years later, the completed transformation of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane gave him enough energy to accelerate Black Giant incubation and resume ambitious research.

• Dean Avery Knight assigned Benjamin to maintain the broadcast and monitoring system for Noren Academy No. 147’s first Graduation Trial and explained that the Noren Workshop was preparing to develop new Plane Clusters.
• Benjamin maintained the system as the apprentices completed the trial, and Dean Avery Knight took the top tenth to Noren Workshop headquarters for the Elite Trial.
• Benjamin spent the following years recruiting no Alchemy apprentices and pursuing his research while periodically maintaining the trial system.
• A Level 6 Wizard leading the transformation engineering team informed Benjamin that the second and third phases of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane project were complete, and Benjamin inspected the finished energy network.
• Benjamin activated full-domain energy mobilization and used the increased energy to accelerate Black Giant incubation, estimating that one could mature each year.

After more than a decade of research, Benjamin completed and tested a controlled self-destruction system for Black Giants that could deliver Level 2 spell-level damage and preserve a core for rapid resurrection. As another recruitment cycle at Noren Academy No. 147 began, Benjamin dismissed the notification and returned to his research.

• Benjamin completed a modification that let Black Giants unleash a directional explosion while protecting their core and soul information.
• Benjamin tested the modified Level 1 Black Giant on the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, where its explosion annihilated a metal-ore hill and produced destructive power equal to a Level 2 spell.
• Benjamin recovered the cracked core and restored the Black Giant in a high-energy infusion pool in less than a minute, preserving its memories and consciousness.
• Benjamin received a notification that Noren Academy No. 147's new student recruitment was about to begin, dismissed it, and returned to his research.

Benjamin recruited Anita Chuck into Alchemy Studies and began teaching her the basics, but her lack of interest left him doubtful that she would advance beyond Logistics. The chapter ended with Benjamin reflecting on the gap between his hopes for his first student and her apparent attitude.

• At the recruitment fair, Benjamin recognized Anita Chuck as a fourth-grade talent and accepted her into Alchemy Studies after she signed Noren Workshop's contract.
• Benjamin gave Anita her introductory books and tools, explained the Academy's rules, and told her to master the Basic Meditation Method before classes began.
• Ten days later, Benjamin found Anita waiting alone in the Alchemy Studies laboratory and introduced her to the discipline's principles.
• Benjamin demonstrated basic gold shaping and guided Anita through her first Alchemy practice, but she followed the steps mechanically without showing interest.
• Back in his core laboratory, Benjamin worried that Anita's attitude would keep her confined to Logistics rather than lead her toward true wizardry.

Benjamin accepted that Anita would choose her own path, while she struggled through Alchemy and failed to qualify for elite selection at graduation. As he advanced research on Black Giants and began refining Red Gold for the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror, Anita was left with the option of seeking a breakthrough through service in plane warfare.

• Viola teased Benjamin about his difficulties as an instructor, lifting his spirits and helping him accept that Anita's progress was up to her.
• Over the following years, Anita grew bored with Alchemy and focused on flashy spells and ready-made Wizardry Models despite Benjamin's warnings.
• Benjamin used the Purgatory Sulfur Plane's energy supply to expand his Black Giant population and continued designing new cannon fodder from Void Plane samples.
• Benjamin began repeatedly purifying Red Gold, preparing a thousand cubic meters of gold for the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror's second reforging.
• At Noren Academy No. 147's graduation, Dean Avery Knight announced the successful apprentices, and Anita Chuck was not among those eligible for elite selection.
• Anita and the other failed apprentices faced the choice of seeking a breakthrough through service on the front lines of plane warfare or falling there.

Benjamin completed the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror’s second refinement, greatly improving its spirituality and Light Transformation ability. After testing it, he decided to train daily to adapt to the transformation’s lingering weakness.

• Benjamin watched Anita and the other graduates leave through the teleportation array, then returned to his laboratory in the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• After two years of refining red gold into an immortal concept, Benjamin used part of it and other materials to complete the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror’s second refinement.
• Benjamin tested the upgraded mirror’s spirituality and found it could quickly calculate an optimal solution for millions of variables.
• Benjamin transformed into light and traveled one hundred thousand li in one-fifth of a second, then recondensed in a barren region.
• After collapsing into lava from the lingering weakness, Benjamin decided to practice Light Transformation once each day to adapt to its burden.

Benjamin received notice that his former apprentice Anita Chuck had died on the Plane Battlefield, then continued his research. Three hundred years later, he completed his analysis of most Void Plane samples and unveiled the fast-breeding, explosive Patroller, a living missile designed to overwhelm enemy defenses.

• Benjamin received an official notification confirming Anita Chuck's death and terminating his related teaching rewards and obligations.
• Benjamin added an item to his research to-do list, then returned to studying the Divine Power Faith Network of the Eloria Plane.
• Three hundred years after returning from the Void Plane campaign, Benjamin finished analyzing most of the biological samples he had brought back.
• Benjamin created the Patroller, a genetically enhanced, fast-moving creature capable of self-destruction, rapid reproduction, and growth into powerful individuals.
• Benjamin inspected the Patroller and began entering parameters for its combat simulation.

Benjamin completed the Nest, a mobile oceanic combat platform that could produce Patrollers, then spent fifty years preparing for his mandatory expedition. He arrived at a gathering of more than a million wizards and realized the coming campaign would be unusually large and dangerous, though its target remained unknown.

• Benjamin finished testing the massive black slime-like platform and named it the Nest.
• He arranged for the Nest to absorb biomass and energy, then rested after recognizing that his combat forces had reached the limits of his current resources and knowledge.
• Over the next fifty years, Benjamin handed over his positions at Noren Academy No. 147 while continuing his research and cultivation.
• Benjamin arrived at the Wizard Civilization Expeditionary Force's Assembly Junction and joined a gathering of more than a million wizards.
• He listened to wizards speculate about the unknown target plane as temporary teams formed across the plaza.

Benjamin arrived at the gathering square, declined offers to join a squad, and joined a million-wizard expedition aboard a heavily modified plane warship. A prewar report identified the Triangle Plane Cluster’s three Level 8 World Lords and ordered the enemy civilizations’ complete annihilation, leaving Benjamin to face the scale and severity of the coming war.

• Benjamin declined the Featherlight Wizard’s invitation to join the Heart of the Furnace squad but exchanged contact information with him.
• Benjamin told the other wizards that he planned to travel alone, then observed the gathering square.
• Dickson, Melister, and Oboloth appeared as the expedition’s three Level 7 supreme commanders and summoned a vast plane warship.
• A million wizards boarded the warship, and Benjamin was assigned to a formation of more than ten thousand wizards.
• Benjamin read the intelligence report naming Korg, Hira, and Fungus Lord as the Triangle Plane Cluster’s Level 8 World Lords and ordering complete annihilation.

The Wizard Expeditionary Force’s covert approach was interrupted when it collided with a returning Giant Spirit Realm fleet in the Chaotic Void, forcing both sides into battle. Benjamin’s Patrollers destroyed enemy mothership launch ports, but reinforcements continued pouring in from the Giant Spirit Realm as the fighting intensified.

• The Ship Plane collided with a returning Giant Spirit Realm fleet in the Chaotic Void, and both forces opened fire.
• Dickson ordered the wizards to annihilate the fleet and clear their route, sending their armies out from the Ship Plane.
• The Ship Plane’s main cannons destroyed a Giant Spirit Realm fortress, and war colossi and behemoths clashed as wizards attacked with coordinated spells.
• Headquarters assigned Benjamin an area to break through, and he sent more than a thousand Patrollers to destroy the enemy motherships’ launch ports.
• The Giant Spirit Realm fleet continued fighting despite heavy losses as reinforcements arrived from its homeland.

Benjamin supported the wizard army’s advance with his Great Light Manifestation, then sent his Black Giants to break through the Giant Spirit Realm’s final defense line. The breach let the wizards surge toward the planar barrier, while Benjamin recovered the Black Giants’ cores for reconstruction.

• Benjamin analyzed Giant Spirit Realm creatures and tuned his Rune Artifacts to its planar laws.
• Benjamin deployed the Great Light Manifestation, drawing nearby wizards and their forces into a coordinated push that broke through another layer of defenses.
• The wizard army stalled at the Giant Spirit Realm’s heavily fortified energy hub as fresh defenders overwhelmed its expendable troops.
• Benjamin sent five hundred Black Giants charging into the defense line; they absorbed its fire, used Temporal Disorder to break through, and self-destructed inside the energy hub.
• The explosion tore open the defense line, and the wizards poured through the breach toward the planar barrier.
• Benjamin retrieved the cores of the self-destructed Black Giants into his Internal Space for reconstruction.

Benjamin’s Wizard Legion briefly broke through the Giant Spirit Realm’s defenses, but enemy reinforcements threatened to overwhelm the vanguard. Benjamin bought Starbreaker Balthazar time to tear open the planar barrier, leaving the high-level Wizards to take over the assault.

• The Giant Spirit Realm quickly refilled the breach made by Benjamin’s forces and counterattacked, pushing the Wizard vanguard toward the Chaotic Void.
• Starbreaker Balthazar asked Benjamin how long he could hold back reinforcements while Balthazar tore open the barrier, and Benjamin promised three breaths.
• Balthazar erased the enemy forces ahead with a single strike and began preparing to breach the planar barrier.
• Benjamin unleashed tens of thousands of Patroller Cannon Fodder units, whose chain-reaction explosions halted the advancing reinforcements.
• Benjamin and the other Wizards withdrew as Balthazar tore a thousand-mile rift in the planar barrier, opening the way for the high-level Wizards.

Benjamin assessed the heavy losses from the battle to breach the Giant Spirit Realm and watched Balthazar hold the shrinking passage open while the realm's forces attacked him. The chapter left Balthazar trapped in a defensive position as another Level 6 Wizard arrived at the breach.

• Benjamin checked his reserves and found his foundations intact, but at least a thousand Formal Wizards had died in the battle.
• Benjamin saw Balthazar inside the Giant Spirit Realm, holding open the breach while fleets, constructs, Level 6 enemies, and a Level 7 lifeform converged on him.
• Balthazar fought off waves of attacks but could not move from his position, since his body was keeping the passage from closing.
• Another Level 6 Wizard arrived at the breach after completing the arrangements for his Law Solidification Domain.

Balthazar and another Rank Six wizard held the breach into the Giant Spirit Realm while Benjamin’s battered vanguard defended against converging enemy fleets. As native Rank Seven defenders threatened to overwhelm them, reinforcements arrived, bringing the number of Rank Six wizards at the breach to six and turning the pressure back on the Giant Spirit Realm.

• A newly arrived Rank Six wizard joined Balthazar in holding open the passage while they waited for reinforcements.
• Benjamin received a warning that enemy forces were approaching from the flanks and rear, then rallied his exhausted survivors to defend the vanguard.
• Balthazar killed a Rank Six native mechanical-puppet operator and destroyed thousands of nearby enemies with his sound-based power.
• A Rank Seven mechanical puppet attacked Balthazar, but he damaged it badly before three more Rank Seven auras approached.
• A colossal shadow giant forced its way through the breach and addressed Balthazar, while more Rank Six wizards followed until six had gathered.
• Balthazar saw the reinforcements unsettle the natives and warned them that it was their turn to run.

Wizard Dickson’s Fate School abilities helped the Wizard Civilization avoid a dangerous landing and stabilize its assault on the Giant Spirit Realm. After Dickson fixed the barrier passage in place, the invading Wizards subdued the Realm’s Level 7 defenders and held the breach while awaiting reinforcements.

• Melister, Dickson, and Oboloth reviewed the battle and concluded that encountering the Giant Spirit Realm’s returning fleet had spared them from a dangerous original landing plan.
• Four Level 6 Wizards held off the Realm’s defenders while two others widened and stabilized the barrier fissure, even as five Level 7 Natives joined the fight.
• Oboloth erased a dead Wizard and the Natives retrieving his body to prevent the enemy from obtaining information.
• Dickson reinforced the fissure with Fate and space runes, making the passage stable and easing the pressure on Balthazar and the other Level 6 Wizards.
• The Wizards subdued the Giant Spirit Realm’s Level 7 defenders and sent them to the rear, prompting the Native forces to retreat and regroup.
• Dickson and the six Level 6 Wizards held the breach instead of advancing, awaiting the arrival of the follow-up army.

Benjamin and the wizards arrived in the Giant Spirit Realm, where its natives confronted them and demanded their surrender. Dickson rejected their ultimatum and ordered the Wizard Legion to wipe them out.

• Two floating fortresses from the ship Plane descended into the Giant Spirit Realm with Benjamin and the wizards aboard.
• Benjamin saw the realm's metallic skyscraper city and the vast native army assembled beyond it.
• Dozens of powerful mechanical puppets flew forward alone, and Dickson went out to meet them.
• The natives praised Korg, called the wizards inferior, and demanded that they submit or be destroyed.
• Dickson calmly ordered the Wizard Legion to wipe out the enemy.

Dickson ordered the Giant Spirit Realm forces destroyed, and the wizards overwhelmed their Level 7 opponents before the two armies began a massive battle. Benjamin’s squad fought through enemy legions as his powerful Great Light Manifestation barrage annihilated one force, and the squad reorganized around him as it continued toward the metal city.

• Dickson ordered the wizards to wipe out the Giant Spirit Realm forces, whose opening attack the twelve Level 6 Wizards completely absorbed and deflected.
• Balthazar and the other wizards counterattacked, using their laws and witchcraft to drive back the more than fifty Level 7 powerhouses.
• The wizard and Giant Spirit Realm armies launched an all-out assault, and Benjamin’s squad descended toward the metal city while fighting through an intercepting legion.
• Benjamin used his Great Light Manifestation array to vaporize a large Giant Spirit Realm legion in a single barrage.
• The Level 5 Wizard and the squad shifted formation to protect Benjamin at its center, then continued their descent toward the city.