Chapter Summaries

Benjamin finalized the modified Patroller design and ordered mass production of the first five hundred units to establish a reconnaissance network. He tested his new Temporary Animation Technique on laboratory equipment, discovered that its creations lacked judgment and obeyed no one, and left the lab sealed while he went to inspect an arriving world fragment.

• Benjamin verified that all eight modified Patrollers met his specifications, then ordered the Incubation Pool to produce five hundred and put Patrollers first in the military factories’ production queues.
• Benjamin used the Temporary Animation Technique to animate the laboratory equipment, but the objects ran wild, played among themselves, and resisted being put away.
• Benjamin restrained the animated objects with mental power and tidied the laboratory, identifying limited intelligence, poor loyalty, and the need to revoke animation as problems to address.
• A Black Giant Priest told Benjamin that the ordered world fragment had arrived, and Benjamin left to inspect it after ordering the Black Giants to seal and guard the laboratory.
• The animated test tube attacked the Black Giant Priest as he activated the laboratory’s sealing array and followed Benjamin.

Benjamin inspected a newly acquired World Fragment and prepared it to safely store dangerous strange samples. A sudden plane-wide warning revealed that the Purgatory Sulfur Plane had been invaded, though the attacker remained unknown.

• Benjamin examined the World Fragment at No. 2 Material Receiving Station, confirmed its Plane Origin and internal laws were intact, and ordered a detailed survey.
• Benjamin decided to use the independent fragment as a secure storage site for strange samples and instructed the Black Giant Priest to enforce strict transfer checks and prepare isolation measures.
• Benjamin requested plans for safe passages and isolated zones, but a violent shock rippled through the Incense Divinity Path.
• Benjamin traced the warning arrays' information and confirmed that the Purgatory Sulfur Plane had been invaded.

Benjamin detected a fleet of over a thousand alien warships approaching the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and recognized an opportunity to seize its technology and locate its parent civilization. He assembled his Black Giant forces but chose to let the fleet enter before attacking, aiming to capture every ship and crew member.

• Benjamin's alert array detected an unfamiliar fleet of over a thousand warships approaching the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, including three capital ships with Level Six energy fluctuations.
• Benjamin assessed the fleet as a potential source of technology, resources, and information about an undiscovered civilization, while recognizing the risks of unknown capabilities and escape or data destruction.
• The Black Giant Legion teleported thousands of combat units, including elite Black Giants equipped with Return to Void Armor and Wizard Artifacts, to the receiving station.
• Benjamin stopped the assembled forces from deploying immediately and ordered them to let the approaching fleet enter first.

A Tentacle Tree fleet discovered the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and prepared to conquer its supposedly primitive inhabitants. Black Giants emerged to confront the fleet, while their leader followed the priest’s instructions to collect combat data and disguise their coordination as bestial behavior.

• The Tentacle Tree commander assessed the planet as a primitive target and ordered the fleet into close orbit for a rapid invasion.
• The fleet detected a swarm of Black Giants leaving the planet and advancing through the Void without ships.
• The commander ordered the vanguard to intercept the Black Giants and probe them with thirty percent firepower.
• The Black Giant leader identified the fleet’s strength and told his companions to gather combat data without frightening the enemy away.
• The Black Giants roared and charged forward, pretending to behave like beasts.

The Black Giants attacked a fleet of more than a thousand warships, testing its defenses before the fleet’s main cannons appeared to destroy the last survivors. The leader and his fighters revived at an altar through the Dao Soldier System, and he gave the Black Giant Priest a recording of the battle, concluding that the enemy were primitives.

• Deep Root detected the Black Giants charging, and the fleet commander ordered the warships to fire their first volley.
• The Black Giants battered the fleet’s combined shields while the commander rotated in heavy ships and ordered further bombardments.
• The Black Giants intensified their attacks, so the commander fired the main cannons of three Level Six main ships, seemingly wiping out the remaining fighters.
• The Black Giant leader awoke beside the altar, where the Dao Soldier System had restored him and the other fallen Black Giants.
• The leader handed the Black Giant Priest a Recording Crystal and called the fleet’s civilization primitive.

The Tentacle Tree Civilization fleet reached the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s barrier and began using its world-breaking technology, believing the enemy’s resistance had nearly collapsed. Hidden within the plane, Benjamin watched the fleet and judged that his plan to lure it closer had succeeded.

• The commander assessed the fleet’s losses and concluded that the Black Giants’ attacks were weakening, while warning his adjutant not to underestimate the enemy.
• The Tentacle Tree fleet approached the Plane Barrier, and the commander ordered the entire fleet to activate its world penetration procedure.
• The warships synchronized their energy vortices and sent resonance waves against the barrier, making it ripple and shaking the surrounding elements.
• Benjamin observed the fleet from the main altar through his Void-Step state and reviewed intelligence gathered by the Black Giants.
• Benjamin approved of his carefully calibrated enemy-luring plan because the fleet had taken acceptable losses and continued toward the trap.

Benjamin let the invading fleet breach the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s barrier, then infiltrated its flagship and crippled it while stealing its data. He stopped time across the entire fleet, including the reserve ships outside the plane.

• Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Priest to weaken the Plane Barrier and open a passage for the enemy fleet.
• The fleet entered the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, believing the barrier had failed under its attack.
• Benjamin used Void-Step to enter the flagship Deep Root, disabled its defenses, and copied its records and technological data.
• Deep Root lost power and began falling before the other ships could react.
• Benjamin stopped time across the invading and reserve fleets, then emerged in his thousand-meter Dharma Image.

After defeating the Tentacle Tree fleet, Benjamin dismantled and studied its ships, then interrogated the captured officers. The fleet’s supreme commander, Valak, surrendered, and Benjamin began processing the prisoners and analyzing their civilization’s database.

• Benjamin reflected on how wizards used individual mastery of knowledge to defeat civilizations whose technology they could not understand.
• Benjamin ordered the Black Giants to dismantle the frozen warships while the Nest hauled in the fleet left outside the plane.
• Benjamin copied the ships’ databases and discovered the Tentacle Tree Civilization had powerful quantum-entanglement communications and extensive self-destruction systems.
• Benjamin brought the captured officers to his laboratory, where he froze an officer who attacked him and asked the others to choose whether to cooperate.
• Valak surrendered unconditionally, and Benjamin ordered the prisoners classified and screened before returning to analyze their database.

Valak and the surviving Tentacle Trees were transported to a transformed world where Black Giants provided them with home-planet-like air, food, and matter-printing machines. Realizing the captors had read the fleet’s database and learned Halowen’s coordinates, Valak feared he had exposed his home planet to a civilization beyond their understanding.

• Valak watched Black Giants carry away an officer frozen in midair, then followed a Black Giant Priest through a corridor guarded by beings whose energy readings exceeded his instruments’ limits.
• The Black Giant Priest brought Valak and the other captives through a teleportation array to a sunlit plain, where Valak recognized the surroundings as part of the same world.
• When Valak warned that the air was unsuitable, the priest removed his life-support system, and Valak discovered the air had been transformed to match the spring atmosphere of Halowen.
• Valak organized the captives and ordered them to form up, check the wounded and equipment, and prepare a camp before nightfall.
• The priest demonstrated a biological feeding device and a matter printer, and Valak used the printer to create a bowl of soup from his childhood home.
• Valak realized the captors had read the fleet’s database and knew Halowen’s coordinates, leaving him convinced that his actions had put his home planet in danger.

Benjamin prepared a ten-billion-strong Black Giant legion to attack a Level Six civilization but needed a Level Six wizard to guide the teleportation through the Plane Origin. He recruited Viola with a copy of the captured civilization’s knowledge, and they prepared to set off immediately.

• Benjamin reviewed the captured Level Six civilization’s data and learned that ten billion elite Black Giants, led by the Level Seven Black Giant King Mount Magma, had assembled.
• Benjamin realized he needed a Level Six wizard fused with the Plane Origin to navigate the legion to the enemy’s coordinates, but he had not completed the Law Solidification Ritual.
• Benjamin contacted Viola and brought her to his laboratory, where he explained how he had captured the enemy fleet and obtained its Home Planet coordinates.
• Viola described how much time and effort wizard expeditions normally required, then laughed at Benjamin’s extraordinary luck and chased him around the laboratory.
• Benjamin offered Viola a copy of the captured civilization’s complete knowledge system as payment, and she accepted.
• Benjamin and Viola agreed to set off immediately.

Benjamin and Viola activated the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s plane-scale formation and opened a passage to a plane belonging to the Tentacle Tree Civilization. Benjamin began tearing through its Plane Barrier, triggering an invasion alarm at a border monitoring station.

• Benjamin transferred control of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s Plane Origin to Viola, who fused it with her Law Solidification Domain.
• Benjamin and Viola charged the plane-scale formation with energy and Vow Power, then opened a spatial fissure to the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s blue plane.
• Benjamin rejected Viola’s offer to dismantle the Plane Barrier and used the Incense Divinity Path and Fate System to locate its weak points.
• Benjamin manifested his thousand-meter true form and began forcing apart the Plane Barrier, opening a small crack.
• An old tree at a Tentacle Tree Civilization border monitoring station detected the breach and alerted headquarters to an attack by an unknown force.

Benjamin used the Nest to shield his breach in the Plane Barrier from the Frontier Fleet, then awakened Dual Dharma Manifestation and widened the opening into a stable passage. With the ten-billion-strong Black Giant Legion assembled, Mount Magma led the army’s charge through the breach.

• The Frontier Fleet jumped to Benjamin’s location and opened fire, but the Nest absorbed and converted the attacks into growth.
• Benjamin widened the crack in the Plane Barrier and awakened a five-hundred-kilometer Dharma Image through Dual Dharma Manifestation.
• Viola watched Benjamin’s colossal Dharma Image from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and remarked on his progress after three hundred years in seclusion.
• The Frontier Fleet’s commander ordered the ultimate weapon charged as the Nest grew into an impregnable barrier.
• Benjamin’s Dharma Image pried open the Plane Barrier and stabilized a passage hundreds of kilometers wide.
• Mount Magma roared, and the ten-billion-strong Black Giant Legion charged toward the passage.

Benjamin's Black Giant Legion overwhelmed the Tentacle Tree Civilization's Frontier Fleet, while Mount Magma survived its planet-destroying weapon without injury. As the civilization's much larger Main Fleet arrived, Benjamin ordered Mount Magma to crush the remaining resistance and demonstrate their strength.

• The Black Giant vanguard shrugged off the Frontier Fleet's barrage, shattered its linked shields, and rapidly healed the superficial wounds caused by suicide attacks.
• The Frontier Fleet commander ordered the surviving ships to jump to the flagship's coordinates and guide the Border Army's ultimate weapon onto the fissure.
• Mount Magma charged into the planet-destroying beam and emerged completely unharmed, while Benjamin assessed it as a standard Level 7 attack.
• The Tentacle Tree Civilization's Main Fleet began arriving through spatial jumps as Benjamin finished stabilizing the plane barrier and entered the civilization's space.
• Benjamin told Mount Magma to crush the Main Fleet's resistance, and Mount Magma agreed.

Benjamin’s Black Giant Legion overwhelmed the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s Main Fleet with a regenerating assault, while the Nest absorbed superweapon fire and wreckage. After learning that the civilization had no Plane Lord or Plane Origin Fusion Technology, Benjamin ordered the fleet annihilated but let some fleeing ships escape to warn the next defensive line.

• The Tentacle Tree Main Fleet opened fire on the Black Giant Legion, but the Black Giants absorbed most of the barrage and smashed through the warships.
• Dying Black Giants were teleported to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane’s Resurrection Altar, repaired, and sent back into battle as the Legion grew stronger by absorbing energy and wreckage.
• The Nest blocked superweapon beams and consumed the resulting energy and nearby warship debris, expanding as the battle continued.
• Benjamin captured high-ranking Tentacle Tree officers and extracted their memories, discovering that their civilization had no Plane Origin Fusion Technology and no Plane Lord.
• Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Legion to annihilate the fleet except for a small number of warships, and told it to let fleeing ships escape and spread warning of the threat.

The Tentacle Tree Civilization mobilized its forces against Benjamin’s invasion, but its trillion-warship fleet was annihilated almost immediately. After assessing the civilization’s weakness and vast territory, Benjamin ordered the Black Giants to split into small squads and conquer its non-core planets.

• The Supreme Governor ordered the Tentacle Tree Civilization to assemble its fleets and attack the Black Giants after learning the invaders were exceptionally powerful.
• The Tentacle Tree Civilization’s trillion-warship fleet jumped to the enemy’s position, where its communications and formations were swiftly wiped out.
• The Supreme Governor ordered every army recalled and strategic weapons activated, but learned that deployment would take at least two days.
• Benjamin surveyed the wreckage as the nest devoured it, while the Black Giant Legion regrouped and gained millions of Level 6 fighters and three additional Level 7 giants.
• Benjamin concluded that the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s forces were too weak to threaten him and ordered the Black Giants to split into groups of five to conquer non-core planets.

Daryl and four Level 5 Black Giants attacked the Three Leaves star system, where the Tentacle Tree Civilization had mobilized its defenses. After destroying the stellar energy harvesters and the main colony world's orbital defenses, Daryl left his teammates to attack the other worlds.

• Daryl arrived at Three Leaves with four Level 5 Black Giants as the colonies raised their alert and deployed their fleets and defenses.
• The stellar orbital cannons fired at Daryl, but he absorbed their blasts without injury and destroyed the Energy Harvesting Devices with a shockwave.
• Daryl assigned Asher and Emerson to the inner planet and Everett and Perry to the outer moon, then descended toward the main colony world.
• The garrison fleet failed to stop the Black Giants as they split off toward their targets.
• Daryl endured the main world's attacks and destroyed more than a thousand orbital defense platforms with a single elemental shockwave.

Daryl announced the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s defeat and accepted the surrender of its main colonial planet, while Asher and Emerson reported that the inner planets had also surrendered. Benjamin’s forces subdued a redirected fleet with the Nest, and a Black Giant squad reported a special discovery that Benjamin decided to investigate.

• Daryl broadcast the terms of submission across the planet and described the civilization’s military defeat, prompting its forces to attack him unsuccessfully.
• The Colonial Governor rejected Supreme Command’s order to hold out and sent Daryl a surrender agreement.
• Daryl received reports from Asher and Emerson that the inner planets had surrendered, while Everett and Perry reported a special situation on the outer satellites.
• Benjamin let the Nest disable and absorb the redirected Tentacle Tree fleet instead of destroying it with spatial distortion.
• A Black Giant squad reported a special discovery, and Benjamin decided to go see it in person.

Benjamin investigated an anomaly beneath the atmosphere of a gas giant in the Three Leaves Star System and found a humanoid armor with a Level Seven defensive barrier. He recognized its technology as the source the Tentacle Tree Civilization had copied, then ordered his forces to investigate before touching it.

• Alaric told Benjamin that the anomaly was confined to the gas giant and that his forces had found a construct near its core.
• Benjamin followed Alaric into the gas giant and discovered a hundred-meter humanoid armor drawing energy from the planet's core.
• Alaric confirmed that the armor was made for humanoid organisms and remained in an unmanned standby state.
• Benjamin recognized that the Tentacle Tree Civilization's technology was copied and degraded from the armor, then stopped the Black Giant Priests from retrieving it.
• Benjamin ordered Alaric and the Black Giant Priests to check for connections between the armor and its surroundings before dismantling anything.
• Benjamin entered a nearby research facility and found that its technology exceeded the Tentacle Tree Civilization's current standard.

Benjamin uncovered the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s Godly Armament research and learned that the armor had given them technologies far beyond their natural development. He took control of the protected zone and its altered jellyfish inhabitants, while the mystery of the ancient civilization behind the armaments remained open.

• Benjamin used the Causal Shadow Tracing Technique and the Fate System to recover traces from the destroyed research institute, learning that the Tentacle Trees had found multiple Godly Armaments across different star systems.
• Benjamin concluded that the Tentacle Trees had reverse-engineered their shields, weapons, and spatial technology from the armaments, and that their research core had been hidden inside the gas giant.
• Benjamin visited the protected zone and identified its unintelligent jellyfish-like Natives as likely guardians whose intelligence genes had been deliberately suppressed by the Tentacle Trees.
• Benjamin ordered Alaric to reinforce the zone, gather genetic data and samples, preserve the habitat, and treat the surrendered Tentacle Tree soldiers as prisoners.
• Benjamin concluded that the Godly Armaments came from a vast, ancient civilization and decided to adjust the next phase of his plan.

Benjamin abandoned gradual conquest to seize the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s Godly Armament research, then attacked its Home Planet and confronted Lu Xin’s awakened 0-001. After the weapon transformed the planet into a colossal beast, Benjamin was knocked back but prepared to charge again.

• Benjamin split his forces to attack four vital Tentacle Tree Civilization worlds and prioritized capturing Godly Armament information.
• Benjamin reached the Home Planet and annihilated its assembled Main Fleet with the Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light.
• Lu Xin revealed Godly Armament 0-001 and said nerve toxin had been released to sacrifice the planet’s population and awaken it.
• 0-001 consumed the Home Planet’s biomass and reshaped the world into a gigantic planetary beast that attacked Benjamin.
• Benjamin met the beast’s punch with his Dual Dharma Manifestation, was driven through a dwarf planet, and charged back after his Body Tempering Method adapted.