Chapter Summaries

At David’s wedding, Benjamin reunited with Augusta and learned that the lavish banquet was a power struggle within the Colmar Family, with guests choosing sides after David’s rise to Level 6. Benjamin and Augusta judged the political maneuvering boring and watched the celebration together in silence.

• Benjamin asked Augusta why she had come to the banquet, and she explained that she was strolling with her grandfather, Wizard Augusta.
• Benjamin greeted his martial uncle, Wizard Augusta, who praised Benjamin for his achievements and told him to enjoy the wedding.
• Augusta explained that the Colmar Family’s older Level 6 Wizards were vying for influence and that guests had come to choose sides after David’s advancement.
• Benjamin realized the Embryonic Aptitude Enhancement Technology he had given David could become part of the family’s resource negotiations.
• Benjamin and Augusta called the power struggle boring, clinked glasses of fruit juice, and watched the banquet in silence.

Benjamin attended David and Irene’s wedding, where he examined the Colmar Family’s factions and saw that David’s advancement had shifted their balance of power. As the guests gathered, Benjamin concluded that he would crush the opposing branch when negotiations began.

• David found Benjamin standing with Augusta and said Benjamin’s presence alone was enough to help him.
• Benjamin counted eleven Level 6 Wizards wearing the Colmar Family emblem, including the family head’s allies and their powerful partners.
• David explained that the family head’s branch had once been outnumbered, but David and Irene’s advancement gave it a seven-to-six advantage.
• Benjamin judged the assembled Wizards too weak to interest him and decided to crush the opposing branch during the negotiations.

At David’s wedding, a rival Colmar Family branch brought three hired Level 6 Wizards to intimidate his guests. Benjamin overwhelmed them with his aura, delivered David a wedding gift, and left the hired wizards fleeing; the rival branch’s plans were left in disarray.

• Three Level 6 Wizards from the rival Colmar branch prepared to pressure David’s guests, hiring a slime-shaped wizard, a lightning-elementalized wizard, and a berserker-dressed wizard.
• The rival branch entered the banquet hall with its hired wizards, who unleashed their auras toward David’s side.
• Benjamin released his aura and immobilized the guests, crushing the three hired wizards’ resistance as he walked past them.
• Benjamin gave David a Recording Crystal as a wedding gift, then returned to Augusta and withdrew his aura.
• The three hired wizards returned their payment and left through a teleportation array, refusing to continue the job.

Benjamin’s victory at the wedding banquet secured his branch’s advantage, while a conversation with Augusta Wizard challenged Benjamin’s judgments about other Wizards’ paths. Augusta Wizard’s guidance broadened Benjamin’s perspective and deepened his Dao-Integration state, leaving him grateful to his Martial Uncle.

• Benjamin returned to Augusta’s side after forcing the opposing branch’s outside helpers to retreat, giving his branch a decisive advantage in the upcoming negotiations.
• Augusta Wizard approached Benjamin and asked what he thought of the Level 6 Wizards gathered in the banquet hall.
• Benjamin said he understood their choices but believed their path was wrong, and Augusta Wizard compared their situation with Clark’s unconventional all-laws path.
• Augusta Wizard explained that retired Level 6 Wizards supported Wizard Civilization by managing territories, training apprentices, and maintaining its daily operations.
• Benjamin recognized that he had judged others by his own standards, and his Dao-Integration state grew more stable as he gained a broader understanding of the world.
• Benjamin bowed and thanked Augusta Wizard for his guidance.

After Augusta helped Benjamin understand why battlefield sixth-level wizards were far stronger than the published average, Benjamin realized he had mistaken elite fighters for ordinary ones. At David and Irene’s wedding, his gift of technology that could reliably raise a descendant’s aptitude to level ten astonished the guests and earned the Colmar Family’s gratitude.

• Augusta left after witnessing Benjamin’s immediate improvement, and her explanation changed how he viewed the retired sixth-level wizards at the banquet.
• Benjamin recognized that public sixth-level benchmarks reflected the broad population, while the wizards he had fought were battlefield elites.
• David revealed Benjamin’s gift: a technology that could raise an embryo’s soul and elemental affinity aptitude to level ten.
• The guests reacted with shock and envy, and the Colmar patriarch urged David to put away the Recording Crystal.
• David thanked Benjamin and embraced him, while Irene and the Colmar patriarch expressed their gratitude.

After leaving the Colmar Family wedding, Benjamin returned to his laboratory and calculated how the aptitude enhancement technology he had gifted could fund the Creation System. Purchase inquiries soon arrived, and he offered to sell the complete version as negotiations began.

• Benjamin arranged another meeting with Augusta, said goodbye to David, and teleported back to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin reviewed the wedding and concluded that selling the gifted technology could provide the initial construction funds for the Creation System.
• Benjamin assessed the technology's market, targeting low- and mid-tier wizard families and estimating a lasting income comparable to his Liquid Adamantine sales.
• Purchase inquiries began appearing on Benjamin's Magic Network Terminal almost as soon as he returned to the laboratory.
• A wizard asked whether Benjamin would sell the technology, and Benjamin replied that the complete version was available at a negotiable price.

After the Creation System came online, Benjamin weighed whether to delay his Level 6 breakthrough so he could fight more planar wars and earn resources. Bert Vera Augusta told him she was setting out alone to conquer a plane as her final test before Level 6, and her challenge prompted Benjamin to decide to fight another war; Viola then called him.

• Benjamin watched the Creation System activate and confirmed that his control over the Spirit Energy Law had reached one hundred percent, leaving him ready to break through to Level 6.
• Benjamin weighed advancing immediately against taking more planar warfare missions first to earn Military Merit and cover his debts and construction costs.
• Bert Vera Augusta told Benjamin that Wizard Augusta had given her an independent plane to conquer alone, and she planned to use the challenge to prepare for Level 6.
• Benjamin wished Bert Vera success, and they agreed to meet again after she conquered the plane.
• Benjamin decided to fight another planar war and started to check for missions, but Viola's communication request arrived first.

Viola asked Benjamin to lead an army in conquering a plane she intended to make the foundation of her Wizard Tower. Benjamin accepted the contract and began mobilizing the Tentacle Tree Civilization, leaving the Dragon-kin out of the war.

• Viola told Benjamin she had found a plane without any detected Level Six life and needed an army to occupy it while preserving its ecosystem.
• Viola explained that she wanted the plane as a permanent base for her research, production, and resource cultivation.
• Benjamin agreed to provide an army for five billion low-level Military Merit and a copy of the plane’s knowledge; Viola set the departure for one month later.
• After the call ended, Benjamin ruled out the destructive Black Giant Legion and chose the Tentacle Tree Civilization for the occupation campaign.
• Benjamin ordered all active Tentacle Tree legions to assemble and prepare for the Plane Conquest War, while deciding to keep the small Dragon-kin population out of the fighting.

Viola and Benjamin opened a passage from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane to a quiet, undeveloped plane, preparing the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s fleet to begin an expedition. Viola confirmed the destination was suitable for establishing a Wizard Tower and told Benjamin that her barrier breach would let his forces enter.

• A fleet of more than ten thousand Tentacle Tree Civilization warships assembled at the edge of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, accompanied by Black Giant Priests.
• Viola arrived in battle attire, joined Benjamin in the main control room, and prepared to shift the plane toward her calculated coordinates.
• Viola used her Law Solidification Domain to lock the navigation coordinates while Benjamin activated the plane-scale formation and raised the Elemental Pool’s output.
• Benjamin tore open a massive rift in the Plane Barrier, revealing a quiet, green plane with no visible defenses.
• Viola approved of the destination and told Benjamin that his forces could enter once she opened the Plane Barrier on the other side.

Benjamin and Viola approached the young Purgatory Sulfur Plane, where Viola sensed an unexpected discovery beneath its barrier. As Octopus-folk guards oversaw Plant-folk harvesting life energy, they spotted two unidentified creatures breaking through the Plane Barrier.

• Viola synchronized the Law of Pain with the Plane Barrier to enter the plane quietly while Benjamin analyzed its structure.
• Viola sensed something beneath the barrier and shared her view with Benjamin, revealing Plant-folk collecting life energy under Octopus-folk supervision.
• Two Octopus-folk guards complained about their assignment and the Plant-folk's slow work as they watched over the harvest.
• An alarmed Octopus-folk rushed from the outpost and warned the guards that two unidentified creatures were breaking through the Plane Barrier.

Two End Apostles appeared outside the Plane Barrier, terrifying the Plant-folk and triggering the Octopus-folk’s full military response. As the fleet prepared to engage, one Apostle rapidly grew larger and raised its fist to strike the barrier.

• Two immense figures appeared beyond the Plane Barrier, causing the Plant-folk and Octopus-folk to freeze in fear.
• A technician reported that the two hostile units were End Apostles and ordered all personnel to prepare for battle.
• Three octopus-faced guards raced toward their transport ship as hundreds of warships and thousands of Octopus-folk warriors mobilized.
• The commander aboard the Iron Curtain received estimates that the targets were Level Six and Level Five.
• The second target rapidly increased in size, warped the surrounding space, and raised its fist as the commander ordered his forces to engage.

Benjamin and Viola discovered that a plane was occupied by the Multi-Race Alliance and decided to attack its outpost for valuable information. Benjamin forced open the Plane Barrier, but the fleet's massive synchronized barrage blasted him back out.

• Benjamin and Viola found octopus-folk warships enslaving the plane's Plant-folk and identified the fleet as part of the Multi-Race Alliance.
• Viola proposed attacking the outpost to capture its soldiers and obtain headquarters coordinates, with retreat as their fallback.
• Viola told Benjamin to open the Plane Barrier, and he used his Dual Dharma Manifestation to tear a continent-wide fissure through it.
• The octopus-folk commander ordered over ten thousand warships to fire on Benjamin as he entered the plane.
• The fleet's combined barrage struck Benjamin and blasted him bodily back out of the Plane Barrier.

Benjamin endured the Octopus-folk fleet’s attacks while forcing his way through the plane barrier, and his Body Tempering Method rapidly adapted to their weapons. The hidden level 7 and level 8 defenders remained concealed as he continued opening the rift.

• Viola laughed at Benjamin after a concentrated energy beam tore through his body, and Benjamin identified it as highly compressed energy from the fleet.
• Benjamin sensed tens of thousands of level 6 forces, over a hundred level 7 lifeforms, and eight level 8 lifeforms inside the plane; Viola chose to continue fighting.
• Benjamin rebuilt his Dual Dharma Manifestation and forced his way into the plane, while the Octopus-folk commander ordered the fleet to attack with space-annihilation missiles.
• The fleet struck Benjamin with a singularity oscillation cannon, dissociation force fields, and other weapons, but his defenses recovered and adapted to each attack.
• The Octopus-folk operators feared that Benjamin was an End Apostle as their weapons failed to stop him from widening the rift.
• Benjamin continued pressing through the barrier, planning to let the concealed defenders reveal themselves when the plane was opened.

Benjamin and Viola used his apparent assault on the Plane Barrier to distract the Octopus-folk while Viola infiltrated the Plane Origin and disrupted their control of it. With the threat of the plane's self-destruction checked, Benjamin entered the plane and revealed his true power inside the enemy fleet.

• Benjamin endured the Octopus-folk fleet's attacks while his Dharma Image appeared to force its way through the Plane Barrier.
• A hidden Level Eight Octopus-folk launched a nearly instantaneous transparent-thread attack, and Viola dissolved it with her Law of Pain Solidification Domain.
• Viola revealed that she had infiltrated part of the Plane Origin and seized enough authority to prevent the Octopus-folk from triggering the plane's self-destruction.
• Benjamin dispelled his enormous Dharma Image, entered the plane through the rift, and unfolded it again in the center of the Octopus-folk fleet.
• The fleet's detectors registered Benjamin's energy rising toward Level Seven as the commander aboard the flagship Iron Curtain stared at the golden giant in alarm.

Benjamin brought Nest and the Black Giant Legion into the battle against the Octopus-folk fleet, turning the fighting against their forces. The Octopus-folk commander and seven other Level Eight warriors moved to attack Benjamin, but Viola appeared to block them.

• The Octopus-folk commander ordered his troops to abandon long-range fire and charge Benjamin in close combat.
• Benjamin released Nest and deployed the Black Giant Legion from his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• The Black Giants used Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light to break through the Octopus-folk formation and destroy warships.
• Nest absorbed the Octopus-folk attacks and held the front line, but could not damage the enemy itself.
• Eight Level Eight Octopus-folk, including the commander, lunged toward Benjamin, and Viola appeared before him with the Law of Pain.

Viola fought eight Level 8 Octopus-folk and grew stronger by absorbing their attacks and the commander’s fear, while the Nest and Black Giant Legion battled the Octopus-folk main force. Benjamin remained locked in a running fight against more than fifty Level 7 pursuers, unable to escape but still surviving their attacks.

• Eight Level 8 Octopus-folk coordinated their attacks against Viola, but her Law Solidification Domain absorbed and converted their energy into strength.
• Viola appeared behind one Octopus-folk and struck it with a spear of pain, then expanded her domain to overwhelm the group.
• The Octopus-folk commander recalled witnessing End Apostles capture his civilization’s Level 9 ancestor, and his fear and despair further empowered Viola.
• The Black Giant Legion used its Return to Void Armor and Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light to suppress the Octopus-folk Level 6 forces, while the Nest shielded Benjamin.
• Benjamin fled more than fifty Level 7 Octopus-folk, dodging attacks as his armor and Body Tempering Method helped him endure their fire.

Benjamin fought through the Octopus-folk fleet while studying its coordinated armor, weapons, and physiology for weaknesses. After days of evading more than fifty level-seven pursuers, he unveiled two new spells that disabled their armor and triggered an overwhelming response of physical disgust, leaving the battle at a turning point.

• Benjamin breached the Octopus-folk fleet’s perimeter, destroyed a frigate with a punch and Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light, and killed several warriors caught in the blast.
• Benjamin scanned the Octopus-folk’s armor, warships, and nervous systems, discovering their reliance on coordinated formations and the vulnerability of their ships’ energy accumulation.
• Benjamin evaded the fleet’s attacks and used data from a captured Octopus-folk corpse to develop two targeted spells with the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror and his Entropy Brain talent.
• After several days of pursuit, Benjamin turned to face more than fifty level-seven Octopus-folk and released a spell that stripped their armor coatings and disabled their shields and weapons.
• Benjamin cast a second spell that triggered intense physical disgust in the Octopus-folk, making some lose focus and curl up with their tentacles drooping.

Benjamin examined the devastated battlefield and discovered that the Plant-folk were intelligent colonies of tiny organisms whose bodies could imitate other lifeforms and produce life energy as basic metabolism. He preserved samples to help them recover, then learned that scouts had found an Octopus-folk factory that appeared to be their core facility on the plane.

• Viola took the eight unconscious Level Eight Octopus-folk for interrogation while Benjamin and the Black Giants began securing the plane.
• Benjamin surveyed the battlefield’s destruction and found that the fighting had killed many Plant-folk beneath the combat zone.
• Benjamin scanned a Plant-folk corpse and discovered its body was a collective of tiny, independently thinking organisms linked by neural connections.
• Benjamin determined that Plant-folk could adapt their forms by copying neural templates and that their valuable life energy was a byproduct of colony metabolism.
• Benjamin collected active neural ganglion samples to preserve the Plant-folk and considered relocating them to suitable planets.
• A Black Giant Priest reported that scouts had discovered what appeared to be the Octopus-folk’s core factory on the plane.

Benjamin led the Black Giant Priests into a captured factory and found an instrument that produced energy despite having no detectable energy source. He ordered the instrument and its supply chain dismantled and sent to the main laboratory’s highest-level sealed zone.

• Benjamin’s Level Six Black Giants destroyed the remaining self-regulating cannons and their silos around the factory.
• Benjamin reshaped the factory’s metal gate with Alchemy and entered after scanning the facility’s layout.
• Benjamin collected rare alloys and other finished materials from the production lines in his Internal Grotto-Heaven.
• Benjamin activated an unmarked instrument and watched it power an energy supply device without any detectable external input.
• Benjamin ordered Level Six priests to model and dismantle the instrument and its entire energy supply chain for secure transport to the main laboratory.

Benjamin discovered that an inconspicuous instrument carried by the Octopus-folk was a Level 9 creation, while Viola’s estimate of the vast Wizard Civilization forces on the main battlefield revealed the scale of the war. The chapter leaves Benjamin and Viola confronting the possibility that the Multi-Race Alliance has far more Level 9 beings and creations than they had believed.

• Viola reported that the Octopus-folk were a small unit and that interrogation had revealed the coordinates of a heavily defended Multi-Race Alliance stronghold.
• Benjamin showed Viola the dark-gray instrument, and she identified it as a Level 9 creation capable of creating something from nothing.
• Viola stopped mourning the instrument’s loss and considered Benjamin’s suggestion that the Multi-Race Alliance might possess many Level 9 lifeforms.
• Viola estimated that the Four Great Factions had over fifty million Level 8 Wizards and that more than twenty million could be deployed to the main battlefield.
• Viola explained that two Level 9 Wizard-led legions were fighting the Multi-Race Alliance, leading Benjamin to infer that the Alliance had many Level 9 beings and treated Level 9 creations as standard equipment.