Chapter Summaries

Benjamin completed his final preparations for the Coordination War, strengthening his body and Return to Void Armor before acquiring an Anti-Magic Disk. He gathered his ammunition and ordered his forces to assemble, leaving them poised to march to war.

• Benjamin focused his remaining resources on deepening his Return to Void Artistic Conception and pushing his physical strength to its limits.
• Benjamin spent 200,000 Advanced Military Merit on a Level 7 Anti-Magic Disk and stored it in his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• Benjamin transferred millions of Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light plaques into his Internal Grotto-Heaven’s ammunition reserve.
• Benjamin ordered all combat units of Level 5 and above to assemble at Temporary Assembly Point Seven and march to war.
• Across the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, powerful forces answered Benjamin’s call and began gathering at the designated location.

Benjamin assembled the Black Giants’ strongest forces for the coming Coordination War and traveled to Noren Academy No. 147 for a meeting of its conscripted wizards. He joined the gathered high-level wizards and waited with Viola for the Dean to arrive.

• Benjamin selected eight hundred Black Giant Priests, one million Level 5 Black Giant warriors, and nearly ten thousand Level 6 Black Giants, led by Mount Magma and Rock Hammer, for the war.
• Benjamin sent the Black Giant army into his Internal Grotto-Heaven and left priests and Level 4 Black Giants behind to maintain and defend the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin traveled to Noren Academy No. 147 in response to the highest-priority assembly order and entered its packed conference hall.
• Benjamin greeted David, Seraphina, and other former cohort members, then took the seat beside Viola in the front row.
• Viola told Benjamin that the assembled wizards were waiting for the Dean, and they turned their attention toward the closed door.

Benjamin met several high-level wizards eager to buy Imaginary Element and gave them his contact information, while warning that his supply was limited. Avery Knight opened the meeting by confirming that Noren Workshop faced an absolute disadvantage against the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence.

• Mira Silverleaf and Oleg Startrace recognized Benjamin and asked to buy Imaginary Element for their research.
• Other nearby wizards joined the requests, and Benjamin explained that limited production meant orders would be filled according to sequence and available stock.
• Benjamin shared his Magic Network Terminal number so the wizards could place orders through him.
• Avery Knight began the meeting and reported that the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence had recruited formal wizards of Level 3 and above.
• Avery announced that Noren Workshop was at an absolute disadvantage in troop strength and assessed combat power.

Noren Workshop outlined its plan to delay the Tower of Silence and the Chaos Cult despite their overwhelming numerical advantage, then teleported Benjamin and the other wizards to the ship Plane. There, David reunited with Benjamin and reacted with disbelief at his rank.

• Dean Avery announced that Noren Workshop's priority was to stall the enemy and buy time.
• A military staff officer reported that the combined hostile forces outnumbered Noren Workshop and had far more high-level wizards.
• Several Level 6 Wizards explained the war preparations, and the conference ended.
• Viola told Benjamin that the newly installed teleportation arrays were an express route they had rushed to build.
• The array sent Benjamin to the ship Plane, where he recognized the controlled environment.
• David and his companions found Benjamin, and David asked whether he had damaged his brain.

Benjamin reunited with old classmates, who worried that his rapid advancement had outpaced his knowledge, but he reassured them that his Law mastery was built through research. At the battlefield staging area, Clark revealed that Angelo had died in a previous plane war, and Benjamin refocused on the imminent conflict.

• Rex, Seraphina, Anya, and David questioned Benjamin about his rapid rise to Level 5, and he admitted his knowledge had not fully caught up.
• Benjamin assured David and the others that he had built his Law mastery through his own research rather than relying on Plane Origin.
• Benjamin and his old classmates exchanged farewells as the group teleportation sent them to separate assignments.
• Benjamin arrived with Clark and Viola at the Ship Plane's staging area, where wizards prepared for war beside a stabilized rift to the battlefield.
• Benjamin asked where Angelo was, and Clark told him that Angelo had died after encountering a hidden Level 7 native lifeform in a previous plane development war.
• Viola recovered from the news, and Benjamin turned his attention to the coming battle and acknowledged that death might take anyone, including him.

Benjamin and millions of wizards prepared to enter a spatial rift and fight another wizard, while he confronted his nervous excitement and equipped his hidden Wizard Artifacts. As Mentor Clark announced that battle would begin as soon as they entered, the assembled forces activated their defenses and enhancements.

• Benjamin recognized that he was nervous and excited at the prospect of fighting another wizard.
• Benjamin noticed that the millions of wizards gathered on the ship Plane were also tense as they awaited battle.
• Viola asked whether Benjamin planned to fight in his plain robe, and he revealed and fitted Wizard Artifacts beneath it.
• Mentor Clark told Benjamin and Viola to check their defenses because battle would begin when they entered the rift.
• Millions of wizards activated spells, shields, and enhancements, covering the formation in layers of light.

Benjamin joined the wizard legion’s assault on the abandoned plane, where he was struck by an unknown attack immediately after crossing the rift. His defenses failed, and he spun uncontrollably toward the dead ground.

• Benjamin cast Return to Void Armor, layered shields, and enhancement spells as the war wizards prepared to attack.
• Wizard Noren and Anton Buchanan entered the spatial rift first, followed by successive formations of the wizard legion.
• Clark led Benjamin, Viola, and their formation through the rift into a barren plane with little elemental energy.
• Benjamin’s defenses detected an invisible attack; his shields failed, and Return to Void Armor shattered before an unknown barrier around him blocked the strike.
• The attack’s aftershock disrupted the elemental environment, knocked Benjamin’s levitation out of control, and sent him tumbling toward the ground.

Benjamin survived a powerful curse aimed at Noren Workshop’s young wizards, and his protective treasure sent the curse’s poison back to its caster. As the battle’s first round of curses ended, Clark and Dionysius reviewed the casualties and found that both sides had lost roughly half their targeted high-potential wizards.

• Benjamin realized a powerful curse had targeted him and watched other young wizards fall or resist similar attacks.
• Benjamin’s Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier consumed half its reserves and sent poison and Killing Intent back along the curse connection.
• Clark watched Benjamin survive without intervening, while Dionysius and a Level 6 Wizard praised his protective treasure.
• Dionysius reported that the first wave released 3,742 curses with an 89.3 percent hit rate, and the Tower of Silence intercepted far fewer attacks than the Chaos Cult.
• Clark and Dionysius assessed that both sides had lost roughly half of their targeted high-potential wizards, giving Noren Workshop a slight advantage despite the apparent even exchange.

Dionysius Spencer reported that the Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence had corrupted the region’s Fate Lines, leaving fate magic unusable by either side. As four Level 8 Wizards clashed in the distance, Clark and the wizards rapidly built a fortified steel stronghold to prepare for the approaching enemy army.

• Dionysius Spencer told Clark that the enemy had contaminated the Fate Lines, making fate magic unstable across the abandoned plane.
• Four Level 8 Wizards began clashing in the distance, and their pressure forced most lower-level wizards to the ground.
• Dionysius Spencer ordered the wizards to construct defenses while Lord Noren and Lord Buchanan engaged the enemy’s strongest combatants.
• Clark reshaped the ground into a steel fortress, and Benjamin reinforced its structure with seven specially treated metals.
• The Alchemy, Rune, and Elemental Department wizards finished a rune-covered fortress as enemy spell arrays began activating on the horizon.

The Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence launched curses against Noren Workshop, but a counterattack injured their curse wizards and weakened their Fate Wizards. Mordiggian judged the exchange a draw and ordered the joint army to advance on Noren Workshop’s landing zone.

• The Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence split their thousand-wizard vanguard into perimeter guards, Fate Wizards, and curse wizards.
• Three hundred curse wizards launched 3,120 curses at Noren Workshop’s geniuses, but the curse targeting Benjamin triggered a devastating backlash against its Level 7 caster and the linked curse formation.
• Mordiggian reviewed the results and found that only half the curses had hit, while more than forty curse wizards and one Level 7 wizard had been injured.
• The Fate Interference Group’s clash left three Level 7 Fate Wizards weakened, though they contaminated Noren Workshop’s Fate Lines.
• Mordiggian ordered the joint army of more than 1.7 million wizards to advance on Noren Workshop’s landing zone.

Noren Workshop prepared its fortified defenses as a vastly larger enemy army approached, and Benjamin deployed his Black Giant Legion outside Fortress No. 7. The chapter ended with the giants’ arrival intimidating the other wizards’ cannon fodder units.

• Hundreds of Noren Workshop wizards reinforced Fortress No. 7 while Vanguard Army units laid traps and spread reconnaissance devices across the wasteland.
• A frontline scout reported that an enemy force of 1.5 to 1.8 million wizards would reach the first trap line in forty-seven minutes, outnumbering Noren Workshop’s forces.
• Dionysius Spencer ordered the defenders to take positions, activate the fortress arrays, retreat the Vanguard Army, and release their cannon fodder units.
• Benjamin learned from Viola that Clark was regarded as Noren Workshop’s strongest individual genius because his unique research could not be replicated.
• Benjamin summoned one million Level 5 Black Giants, ten thousand Level 6 Black Giants, and seven hundred Level 6 Black Giant Priests from his Internal Grotto-Heaven.

At Fortress No. 7, Clark responded to the approaching Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence forces by creating an immense shadow legion. Benjamin watched as Clark's army appeared, leaving the gathered wizards stunned by his strength.

• Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Leaders to direct their clans and coordinate with the other Cannon Fodder Legions.
• Viola brought Benjamin to an observation window, where thirty-three high-level wizards watched the enemy forces approach Fortress No. 7.
• Dionysus urged Clark to show the enemy the bearing of Noren Workshop's greatest genius, and Clark said he would make up their missing combat power.
• Clark drew in the surrounding light and formed a vast legion of shadow warriors, assassins, wyverns, and more than ten thousand Level 8 Shadow Lords.
• Benjamin calculated the shadow legion's strength and stared at Clark in disbelief.

Benjamin and Viola witnessed the Shadow Legion’s immense power before Noren Workshop’s vanguard returned to Fortress No. 7 under pursuit by the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence. As the rearguard crossed into the fortress defense zone, the defenders completed charging their cannons and began firing.

• Benjamin realized Clark had mass-produced over a hundred million modified creatures, including Level 8 Shadow Legion soldiers, and Viola suggested Clark’s personal strength might exceed what he showed.
• The fortress alarm sounded as Noren Workshop’s vanguard appeared on the horizon, pursued by forces from the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence.
• Viola and Benjamin rushed to the command center, where the tactical commander ordered the fortress defenses to prepare for interception.
• Benjamin took control of twelve Superheavy elemental Disintegration Cannons and saw the pursuing forces attack Noren Workshop’s rearguard with curses and annihilating energy.
• Noren Workshop’s rearguard crossed the defensive line, and the cannons finished charging as the commander ordered them to fire.

Benjamin unleashed the fortress cannons, and their Light River devastated the pursuing forces before revealing Noren Workshop’s defensive deployment. Mordiggian ordered the first wave of the Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence’s cannon fodder to attack the fortresses.

• Benjamin connected his consciousness to the control cores of twelve cannons and ordered them to fire at the enemy’s densest concentration.
• The fortress cannons combined their beams into a three-kilometer-wide Light River that destroyed pursuing wizards and carved a vast trench across the battlefield.
• The Light River’s blast stopped the pursuit and revealed Noren Workshop’s fortresses, partially connected defense array, Cannon Fodder Legion, and Shadow Army.
• Mordiggian assessed the fortresses’ defensive array and ordered the Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence to release their cannon fodder for a first-wave assault.
• Hundreds of millions of cannon fodder units charged toward the trench and Noren Workshop’s waiting defensive line.

The Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence launched a vast cannon-fodder assault on Noren Workshop’s fortified line, whose defenders opened controlled gaps and fought the attackers in confined killing zones. As the defensive line held and the high-level battle remained undecided, Benjamin prepared a superheavy cannon shot at an enemy force gathering behind the front.

• Tens of billions of Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence units attacked Noren Workshop’s linked fortress barrier, while its disintegration cannons cut down the advancing waves.
• Dionysius Spencer ordered several gaps opened in the barrier so Noren Workshop’s cannon fodder could engage the enemies inside the defensive line.
• Black Giants, Shadow Warriors, and other defenders fought the intruders in the gaps as fortress artillery supported them, and the line held.
• Benjamin connected his consciousness to Turret No. 3 and locked onto roughly thirty thousand Level 4 Chaos Cult units assembling behind the battlefield.
• The superheavy cannon drew and compressed elemental energy for its disintegration shot, while Benjamin operated it under the Wizards’ rotation system.

Benjamin used the artillery battle to rapidly strengthen his spiritual power by repeatedly firing Turret No. 3, exhausting himself, and drinking recovery potions. As he surveyed the battlefield, Noren Workshop appeared to be holding a slight advantage, while Clark faced an enormous force assembled to kill him.

• Benjamin fired Turret No. 3 at a swarm of beetles, then used a Holy Soul Echo Elixir to recover his spiritual power in seconds.
• Benjamin repeated the firing-and-recovery cycle, shortening the interval between shots until he nearly matched the turret’s charging rate.
• Wizards in the control room noticed Benjamin’s rapid firing and rising spiritual power, and realized he was growing stronger as he fought.
• By his thirtieth shot, Benjamin could observe the wider battle and saw Clark’s shadow army helping Noren Workshop maintain a slight advantage.
• Benjamin watched Clark face more than 130 Level 7 Wizards and over 2,000 Level 6 Wizards who had been assembled to kill or severely wound him.

Clark effortlessly suppressed a vast force of Level 6 and Level 7 Wizards, leaving the besiegers too terrified to continue attacking. Benjamin watched the display, then turned his focus back to his own battle and strengthened his spiritual power while the fortress line continued firing.

• Clark used a silver thread to cut through the defenses, bodies, and souls of seventeen Level 7 Wizards, while its residual force killed more than a hundred Level 6 Wizards.
• Clark erased the attacks of more than fifty Level 7 Wizards and dismantled the formation cannon assembled by three hundred Level 6 Wizards.
• Clark challenged the remaining besiegers, but more than a hundred Level 7 Wizards and over two thousand Level 6 Wizards were too afraid to advance.
• Benjamin watched Clark's feat through Fortress No. 7's detection formation and recognized his mentor's extraordinary strength.
• Benjamin refocused on the battle, raised his spiritual power from mid-Level 5 to high-Level 5, and continued operating the turret as both sides' forces kept fighting.

Mordiggian’s coordinated barrage began to strain Clark’s computing power, but he saw that Noren Workshop’s defenses were growing stronger even as the siege continued. He began retracing the battle’s key moments to understand why the attack was failing.

• Mordiggian organized more than a hundred Level 7 Wizards and nearly two thousand Level 6 Wizards into rotating attack waves to overwhelm Clark.
• Clark stood calmly as attacks vanished around him, though silver-white data flickered in his eyes under the barrage.
• Mordiggian believed the continuous attacks had suppressed Clark after more than a hundred Level 6 Wizards died.
• Mordiggian inspected the lower battlefield and saw Noren Workshop’s defensive arrays growing stronger as its Logistics Department reinforced the fortifications during combat.
• Mordiggian realized the defenders’ capacity was still rising and began reviewing the battle’s key moments.

After Noren Workshop’s defenses turned the delayed assault into a costly war of attrition, Mordiggian ordered a retreat. Clark seized the opening to annihilate Mordiggian, and the enemy forces withdrew as Noren Workshop secured victory in the first battle of the Coordination War.

• Mordiggian judged the assault lost after the Coalition’s forces suffered heavy losses and ordered them to evacuate.
• Clark exploited a brief lapse in the Wizards’ attacks, broke through their assault, and appeared before Mordiggian.
• Clark touched Mordiggian’s brow and erased him from existence, though he recognized that a resurrection artifact might bring him back outside this war.
• A peak Level 7 Wizard from the Tower of Silence assumed command and led the Coalition of the Chaos Cult and the Tower of Silence in an orderly retreat.
• Dionysius Spencer ordered Noren Workshop’s forces not to pursue and to consolidate their defenses and treat the wounded.
• Benjamin realized that Noren Workshop had won the opening battle as the enemy withdrew from Fortress No. 7.

After the Wizards repelled the Chaos Cult and Tower of Silence, Benjamin and Viola learned that Clark studied every Law. They followed him through the fortress, eager to learn how he could master new Laws so quickly.

• Benjamin recovered from the battle while Level 3 Wizards repaired and reinforced the fortresses, and Viola joined him, thrilled by the fight against the two Level 6 Wizards.
• Benjamin and Viola watched Clark among the Level 7 Wizards and speculated about the Law behind his strength until Clark appeared and told them he studied all Laws.
• Benjamin realized Clark was pursuing a path like that of a humanoid Living Plane and understood how he had countered so many different Laws in battle.
• Benjamin and Viola caught up with Clark, who explained that he learned new Laws by recognizing how familiar fundamental Laws were combined.
• Benjamin and Viola asked whether they could learn from Clark as the three continued deeper into the fortress complex.