Chapter Summaries

Benjamin fought the planetary beast formed by the Godly Armament, analyzed its energy channels, and destroyed it with his God of Light Transformation. He seized the now-silent armor and flew away from the debris of the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s home planet.

• Benjamin dodged the planetary beast’s blows, seized its arm, and struck through its chest, but the creature quickly repaired itself.
• Benjamin fought the beast while the Fate System analyzed its structure and revealed that its attacks were unexpectedly limited and its body depended on a central core.
• After confirming the beast had no further hidden attacks, Benjamin dispersed his Dharma Image and activated his God of Light Transformation.
• Benjamin pierced the beast repeatedly at light speed, severing its energy channels and causing its planetary body to collapse.
• Benjamin exposed the Godly Armament at the center of the collapsing body and gripped it until its energy went out.
• Benjamin flew away carrying the lifeless Godly Armament as the home planet broke apart into a belt of fragments.

Benjamin discovered that the Godly Armaments were deliberately planted extinction devices, then began recovering them and reorganizing the Tentacle Tree Civilization under his forces. After Lu Li revealed that the missing leaders might be hiding in the plane’s core, Benjamin sent concealed Patrollers to search for them.

• Benjamin analyzed Godly Armament 0-001 and realized the weapons had been designed to consume all life and turn entire worlds into weapons.
• Mount Magma and two other Level 7 Black Giants returned with three damaged Godly Armaments, and Benjamin ordered them secured in the Restraint Array.
• Mount Magma gave Benjamin a data crystal listing sixteen known Godly Armament sites, and Benjamin sent recovery teams to each one.
• Benjamin told Lu Li that the Tentacle Tree Civilization would be reorganized under his forces, and Lu Li accepted.
• Lu Li said the missing leaders might have fled through another part of the Plane Barrier or hidden in the plane’s core, and Benjamin ordered the Patrollers to search the core for their life signals.

With Lu Li’s surrender broadcast speeding the Black Giant Legion’s takeover of the Tentacle Tree colonies, Benjamin began rebuilding their administration with Artificial Trees. He investigated an animated test tube whose magic had unexpectedly persisted, then received word from the Patrollers that they had found their target.

• Lu Li broadcast a surrender notice, prompting most Tentacle Tree colonies to lower their defenses as the Black Giant Legion advanced.
• Benjamin’s forces replaced the colonies’ senior administrators with Artificial Trees and screened remaining officials, keeping casualties below five percent.
• Lu Li watched the new administrators arrive and realized Benjamin was rebuilding the Tentacle Tree civilization rather than merely imposing a ceasefire.
• Benjamin examined a quartz test tube whose animation had persisted and developed beyond the spell’s expected effects, noting possible causes for further research.
• The test tube settled comfortably with the Black Giant Priest, showing its growing attachment to him.
• The Patrollers sent Benjamin a message that they had found their target.

The Supreme Governor, Lu Xin, and the Academy Dean fled the Home Planet with hidden teams and supplies, planning to unleash more than a hundred Godly Armaments to distract their enemy. As the weapons awakened on a moon, an unseen force erased the three ships and destroyed every Godly Armament, leaving the enemy’s identity and the fugitives’ fate unclear.

• The Supreme Governor, Lu Xin, and the Academy Dean discussed Lu Li’s surrender and revealed the people, research, and escape information they had secretly brought aboard their ships.
• Lu Xin identified a small moon containing more than a hundred dormant Godly Armaments, and the Academy Dean revealed that the ships carried enough stored life force to activate them.
• The three ships dropped life-force tanks onto the moon, causing its surface to crack and the Godly Armaments to awaken.
• An unknown force erased the three spacecraft and everyone aboard before the ships could jump away.
• An invisible attacker struck from hundreds of spatial angles and destroyed all the awakened Godly Armaments before they could launch an attack.

Benjamin investigated the strangely clean wreckage of the destroyed Godly Armaments, then faced an invisible enemy whose attacks bypassed every defense and pierced his body. As his Dharma Image repeatedly healed from the blows, he realized the battle was evolving his Body Tempering Method.

• Benjamin examined a Godly Armament fragment and concluded that its smooth destruction had not come from any conventional means.
• An invisible attack pierced a Level 7 Black Giant, and the Dao Soldier System teleported him back to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin searched for the enemy with his perception network and All-Purpose Eye but found no trace as two more Black Giants were struck.
• Mount Magma tried to shield his core with layered liquid metal, but the attack pierced it, and the Dao Soldier System removed him from the battlefield.
• The invisible force pierced Benjamin and his Dual Dharma Manifestation repeatedly, while the manifestation healed and Benjamin sensed his Body Tempering Method evolving.

Benjamin deduced that the invisible attacker was a prisoner awakened when the Godly Armaments absorbed too much life force, then developed a way to make it feel pain. Viola used that pain to locate and destroy it, though its true form remained unseen.

• Benjamin realized the Godly Armaments were a cage designed to imprison a being that craved life force, and that the Tentacle Tree Civilization had awakened it by supplying too much.
• Benjamin created witchcraft that matched the Godly Armaments’ life-force absorption process, causing the attacker’s strikes to veer off course and revealing that it could feel pain.
• Benjamin hurt himself to create pain as an anchor, allowing Viola to cross the void and appear beside him.
• Viola traced the pain-smoke to the invisible creature and used her power to force it to react and flee.
• Viola unleashed her full power, destroyed the creature, and lamented that she could not stop it without killing it.

After discovering an invisible enemy in the Tentacle Tree Plane, Benjamin learned from Viola that it was likely a creature from the Reflected Dimension, one of the Wizard Civilization’s three main enemies. He called for expert backup, and Dean Avery Knight agreed to bring people immediately.

• Viola and Benjamin failed to detect the creature after it died, and Viola concluded that it had existed in another dimension.
• Viola explained that the creature likely came from the Reflected Dimension, where the minds of conscious beings cast their thoughts and emotions.
• Viola identified the Multi-Race Alliance, the Sapience Calamity, and the Reflected Dimension as the Wizard Civilization’s three main enemies, though she knew little about the Sapience Calamity.
• Viola explained that disrupting the survival instinct within life force could hurt Reflected Dimension creatures, but finding them was the harder task.
• Benjamin decided to call for backup because many planets in the plane remained unchecked, and he contacted Mentor Clark and Dean Avery Knight.
• Avery Knight agreed to bring people to the Tentacle Tree Plane immediately after Benjamin explained the situation.

Benjamin, Viola, and Dean Avery; Nighte investigated the remains of a Reflection Dimension Creature and learned how such creatures attacked the Main World. After the Level 7 Wizards agreed on how to divide any creatures they found, they split up to search the three-star system.

• Dean Avery; Nighte arrived with four Level 7 Wizards, and Benjamin opened a rift to the three-star system where Viola had killed a Reflection Dimension Creature.
• Serlas used his Perception Law to locate and seal the creature's lingering Dimensional Ripple, which Dean Avery explained was a remnant left in the Main World after its death.
• Dean Avery explained that Reflection Dimension Creatures opened short-lived passages whose pressure differential erased matter, and said their attacks on the Main World had begun hundreds of thousands of years earlier for unknown reasons.
• The Level 7 Wizards agreed that each would receive one Reflection Dimension Creature first, with any excess going to Benjamin and any shortage requiring compensation under Noren Workshop's standards.
• Dean Avery accepted the first sealed remnant, then the Level 7 Wizards formed teams and scattered across the star system to search for more creatures.

Fifty years after the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s surrender, Lu Li reported that his people had completed their resettlement and thanked Benjamin for the better lives they now led. Benjamin then visited a research institute, where Viola and Dean Avery told him they had found what was likely the seventh and final sealed shadow on the Tentacle Tree Plane.

• Lu Li told Benjamin that the final 320 million Tentacle Tree people had been settled in the Seventh Resettlement Zone and integrated into the secondary faith network.
• Lu Li reflected that Benjamin treated the Tentacle Tree Civilization as a useful subordinate rather than a core ally, but said its people had gained safety and a better standard of living.
• Lu Li thanked Benjamin and left the reception room; Benjamin finished reviewing reports and teleported to the Tentacle Tree Plane.
• Viola showed Benjamin a newly captured shadow, the seventh found on the plane, and said she had subdued it with the Law of Pain.
• Dean Avery explained that the search team had scoured the plane and found the shadow inside degenerate matter in a white dwarf, making it likely the last one.

After the planar war, Benjamin learned that it did not count toward his mandatory conscription and accepted a new mission involving a Resistance Army with technology connected to the Reflected Dimension. He returned to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane to prepare his faction and expand its research and defenses.

• Benjamin agreed with Dean Avery and the Level 7 Wizards to conduct a fourth search for any remaining Reflected Dimension creatures.
• Benjamin learned that defensive wars did not count toward his conscription quota, while Dean Avery and the other Level 7 Wizards were still in mandatory rest periods.
• Dean Avery offered Benjamin a mission to stop a Resistance Army that had learned to open small passages to the Reflected Dimension, and Benjamin accepted for the chance to obtain its technology.
• Benjamin teleported to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane to arrange his faction's affairs for the coming decades.
• Benjamin ordered a comprehensive defensive upgrade, containment preparations for dimensional experiments, Mount Magma's addition to the combat order, and the transfer of Tentacle Tree Civilization high-energy physics experts to the Godly Armament research group.

Benjamin learned the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil and confirmed it could reveal information about creatures in the Reflected Dimension. After arranging protections for his planes and accepting a mission to fight a Reflected Dimension-linked Resistance Army, he departed through a teleportation array.

• Benjamin found the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil in the Great Dao Library and spent several months cultivating it.
• Benjamin used the spell to read information from a sealed Reflected Dimension creature, including its dormant state and dimensional data.
• Benjamin asked Viola to watch over the Purgatory Sulfur Plane and arranged for Dean Avery to install preliminary formations on the Tentacle Tree Plane.
• Dean Avery explained that Wizard Broadleaf had summoned help to purge a Resistance Army in a medium-sized plane, offering Reflected Dimension equipment and technical data as rewards.
• Benjamin confirmed the mission details and teleported to the mission coordinates.

Benjamin arrived at the Dragon-kin Plane, where he was assigned to help suppress a small Resistance Army that had learned to open passages to the Reflected Dimension. After learning that the surviving rebels were hiding in the Iron-Spine Mountains, he concealed himself there to wait for an opportunity to find them.

• Wizard Broadleaf told Benjamin to capture Resistance Army members alive when possible and promised him the seized Reflected Dimension research materials.
• Benjamin teleported to the Dragon-kin Plane and learned from its administrative governor that fewer than three thousand rebels remained, most already contained by the Dragon-kin Coalition.
• Benjamin reviewed the rebels’ locations and battle records, then flew to the Iron-Spine Mountains to search for their hidden strongholds.
• Benjamin used the Fate System to observe the plane and decided to wait two days before searching further.
• Benjamin activated Void-Step and vanished into the clouds above the mountains’ core region.

Harta and another dragon-kin traveled through the Iron-Spine Mountains to trade crystals for bloodline potions, arguing over the risks and the loss of the old noble order. Benjamin secretly followed them and concluded that the Resistance Army was largely made up of former elites opposing Wizard Broadleaf’s reforms; the dragon-kin continued toward a destination deeper in the forest.

• Harta dismissed his companion’s concerns about the suspiciously cheap potions and explained that they could deny knowing the trades’ true purpose.
• Harta angrily lamented that his family’s noble status and privileges had been taken away under the new system.
• The bronze-scaled dragon-kin defended the changes, citing stable work, education, medical care, and protection from arbitrary abuse.
• The bronze-scaled dragon-kin warned that new wizards had arrived and urged Harta to stop getting involved after their current job.
• Benjamin followed the pair invisibly and reasoned that the Resistance Army consisted mostly of displaced high-ranking dragon-kin whose goals conflicted with ordinary dragon-kin.
• Benjamin wondered whether the Resistance Army was nearing the end of its work related to the Reflected Dimension as he heard wings beating deeper in the forest.

Benjamin investigated a Dragon-kin Resistance Army supply network, tracing secret trades from a mountain village to a factory supervisor in a colonial town. He identified the supervisor as an important logistics contact and decided to keep following the trail toward the Resistance Army’s central stronghold.

• Harta and his brother traded openly in a hidden mountain village before secretly exchanging energy stones for bloodline evolution potions with a local contact.
• Benjamin watched the village contact for half a month, then followed a new merchant as he collected energy stones from several villages.
• Benjamin reported the village contact’s identifying details through his Magic Network Terminal and continued tracking the merchant out of the Iron-Spine Mountains.
• The merchant entered a colonial town and delivered the energy stones to a portly supervisor in a factory, receiving potions in return.
• Benjamin recognized the supervisor as a key Resistance Army logistics contact and chose not to interrogate him, planning to follow the trail further.

Benjamin traced the iron-gray Dragon-kin from a town supervisor who was secretly supplying purified Energy Stones to the Resistance Army, then discovered the Dragon-kin's hidden elder and learned how badly the wizards had defeated the Dragon-kin leadership. The chapter left Benjamin aware that the Resistance Army's remaining elders feared the wizards as beings beyond their reach.

• Benjamin watched the supervisor give a bag of purified Energy Stones to an iron-gray Dragon-kin and sent the Artificial Humans evidence of their meeting and the supervisor's involvement with the Resistance Army.
• Benjamin followed the iron-gray Dragon-kin to an isolated town marked as a safe zone, then entered his home and discovered a concealed passage leading underground.
• The iron-gray Dragon-kin brought Energy Stones to an elderly Dragon-kin in a cavern covered with ancient magical arrays.
• The elder said the other nine original elders had vanished and explained that ancient bloodline memories had helped them form the Resistance Army.
• The elder told the iron-gray Dragon-kin that Wizard Broadleaf had defeated the Guardian Dragon, once the strongest being on the plane, in three moves.

Benjamin captured the iron-gray Dragon-kin and extracted the secrets of the Judgment Art, discovering that it opened a passage to the Reflected Dimension. He sealed the Dragon-kin and descended into the underground cavern to confront the old Dragon-kin.

• The old Dragon-kin ordered the iron-gray Dragon-kin to leave and live a normal life, but the younger Dragon-kin reluctantly obeyed.
• Benjamin revealed himself as the iron-gray Dragon-kin reached the basement stairs and used psychic force to immobilize and search him.
• Benjamin learned that the Judgment Art opened a passage to the Reflected Dimension and obtained the technique he had sought.
• Benjamin sealed the iron-gray Dragon-kin against escape, sealed his powers, and dragged him down the stairs into the underground cavern.

Benjamin recognized Wizard Broadleaf’s plan to use other wizards to pressure the Dragon-kin Resistance Army and expose hidden powers. He let the Tenth Elder activate a lethal spell array to study it, then evacuated the town before its effects could cause casualties.

• Benjamin concluded that Wizard Broadleaf had hired wizards to reduce losses, frighten the Dragon-kin, and draw out concealed enemies while keeping his own options open.
• Benjamin returned to the karst cave with the captured iron-gray Dragon-kin and confronted the Tenth Elder about the spell array he had prepared.
• Benjamin offered to save the captive’s wife and child, but the Tenth Elder dismissed them as inferior bloodlines and chose to activate the array by sacrificing himself.
• The Tenth Elder’s body was consumed by the spell array as Benjamin recorded its operation and studied its unfamiliar components.
• Benjamin vanished from the cave, located the sleeping residents and people throughout the town, and teleported them all away.

Benjamin and Broadleaf witnessed a bloodline-targeting Sacrificial Light begin to consume the Dragon-kin Plane, while Broadleaf activated defenses that lifted towns into protected Floating Cities. Benjamin uncovered that the Resistance Army had planned to survive the purge and restore the Dragon-kin bloodline caste system.

• Benjamin put the Dragon-kin in his Internal Grotto-Heaven as the mountains cracked, and Broadleaf arrived, praising his knowledge of fate.
• Wizards gathered above the mountains as Sacrificial Light spread, destroying plants and creatures with dragon blood and threatening the Dragon-kin Plane.
• Benjamin used the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to identify the red glow as Sacrificial Light, which turned beings with the Creator's bloodline into nourishment.
• Broadleaf activated dormant magic arrays, raising towns throughout the plane into Floating Cities protected above the spreading red light.
• Benjamin searched the iron-gray Dragon-kin's memories and discovered the Resistance Army planned to survive the purge with a secret art and rebuild a society ruled by high-bloodline Dragon-kin.

Benjamin learned that the Dragon-kin Plane’s terrain formed the shape of an ancient dragon, and Wizard Broadleaf revealed that the red-light array was meant to call the dragon back from the Reflected Dimension. As the array consumed dragon-blooded creatures across the plane, the world began to pulse like a beating heart.

• Benjamin realized the Dragon-kin elders had delayed their resistance until Wizard Broadleaf completed his preparations, then handed him the captured iron-gray Dragon-kin.
• Wizard Broadleaf led Benjamin and the other wizards to the Plane Barrier and showed them that the plane’s terrain formed a curled dragon.
• Wizard Broadleaf explained that an ancient dragon created the Dragon-kin ecosystem and that the red-light array was designed to call it back.
• Wizard Broadleaf asked the wizards to help counter the Reflected Dimension’s power, offering them techniques in return.
• The red light spread across the plane, dissolving dragon-blooded creatures while the Floating Cities remained above it.
• The plane’s crust began to heave in rhythmic pulses, as if a buried heart had started beating.

Wizard Broadleaf evacuated the Floating Cities from the Dragon-kin Plane as it began to rupture. Watching from the Endless Chaotic Void, Benjamin saw an enormous dragon emerge beneath the plane’s crust and realized it had been called back from the Reflected Dimension.

• Wizard Broadleaf activated the plane-level teleportation arrays, sending several hundred Floating Cities away from the Dragon-kin Plane.
• Wizard Broadleaf led the wizards through the Plane Barrier into the Endless Chaotic Void, and Benjamin followed behind them.
• Benjamin used the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to see a vast Reflected Dimension passage opening inside the Dragon-kin Plane and stripping away its surface.
• Benjamin saw a star-sized dragon beneath the crust, which absorbed something from the Reflected Dimension and began to surge with power.
• Benjamin deduced that the dragon had sent its thoughts into the Reflected Dimension and used its dragon-blooded descendants as a safeguard to call them back.
• The dragon awakened as its consciousness returned from the Reflected Dimension.