Chapter Summaries

After fifty years of research, Benjamin received an invitation to an academic conference hosted by the Void Architecture Institute and the Anti-Entropy Alliance. He decided to attend, accepting the conference’s security guarantees while planning to refuse private invitations afterward.

• Benjamin realized fifty years had passed since Viola last mentioned Mentor Clark and Madam Castillo’s wedding, which was still delayed by their research.
• Felix delivered an invitation to a joint academic conference and explained that Benjamin had been invited because his Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol inspired technology that helped solve a nano-architecture stability problem.
• Felix warned Benjamin that private invitations after the conference could involve risky cooperation and that Wizards might publicly challenge his research.
• Benjamin decided to attend the conference, decline any private invitations, and arrange his experiments in advance.

Benjamin prepared an updated presentation on the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol for an academic exchange conference, while Mentor Clark warned him about Black Wizards who preyed on travelers in border transit zones. Organizers from both the Void Architecture Institute and the Anti-Entropy Alliance took an interest in Benjamin and anticipated that his work would draw both attention and opposition.

• Benjamin organized his old research archives and planned to improve the Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol before the conference.
• Viola noticed Benjamin’s invitation gave him only three years to prepare, much less than the usual ten, and warned that the conference might be troubled.
• Mentor Clark warned Benjamin that Black Wizards hunted valuable targets in public transit zones, especially along the border between the two major powers.
• After Clark left, Viola joked that he was using special training to oppress her, and Benjamin teased her about being lazy.
• A young witch at the Void Architecture Institute recognized Benjamin as the protocol’s author and learned that derivative technology had helped break a major research bottleneck.
• An Anti-Entropy Alliance intelligence officer reviewed Benjamin’s record, including the Blood Sacrifice Method, and looked forward to seeing what he would present.

Benjamin traveled through the Star Ring Federation’s junction points toward a meeting site near the Public Star Region, enjoying the local sights and food along the way. Before he left the last junction point, a hotel owner warned him about the dangers and black wizards ahead, and Benjamin stepped onto the transmission array.

• Benjamin reviewed his route to the meeting site and prepared to cross into the more dangerous Public Star Region.
• A Level 6 hotel owner warned Benjamin that the Public Star Region lacked protection and harbored black wizards, remnants of defeated forces, alien creatures, and incursions from the Reflected Dimension.
• The owner explained that groups of Level 5 black wizards preyed on newly advanced Level 6 wizards, and Benjamin thanked him for the warning.
• Benjamin paid his bill, walked through the lively junction point while observing its stalls, and stepped onto the transmission array.

Benjamin entered a prepared hunting ground and survived a coordinated ambush by more than a dozen black wizards using a puppet body. He recognized the Innkeeper among the attackers and confronted him about their earlier conversation.

• Black wizards redirected Benjamin’s teleportation into a sealed wasteland and destroyed the puppet body with a coordinated attack.
• One wizard realized the body was a puppet, and Benjamin’s scattered remains reassembled into a complete body.
• Benjamin determined that the black wizards had tampered with the teleportation network and cut the wasteland off from the outside world.
• Benjamin used the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to identify the gray-robed Innkeeper among the attackers.
• Benjamin reminded the Innkeeper that he had warned him about black wizards and asked why he was one himself.

Benjamin exposed the innkeeper as the leader of a Black Wizard organization and learned how its members used robbery to accumulate power. After defeating them and repairing the altered teleportation array, he departed for his destination.

• Benjamin used the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to reveal that many Black Wizards had reached Level 6 and deduced how their organization recruited and preyed on Wizards.
• Benjamin identified the innkeeper, prompting the Black Wizards to attack him to prevent him from reporting their identities to the Star Ring Federation Military Department.
• Benjamin absorbed the Black Wizards’ coordinated attacks with the Return to Void Armor and cut them down with the Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light.
• The Black Wizards unleashed their transformed powers, but Benjamin summoned the Triple Dharma Manifestation and crushed them and the wasteland beneath its finger.
• Benjamin inspected the teleportation array, reversed the altered coordinates, and stepped into its silver-white light.

Benjamin arrived at a heavily militarized junction point in the Strife Starfield and discovered that its alien residents feared Wizard Civilization as a calamity. After reviewing the region’s dangers, he chose a route through the Shattered Bone Corridor, believing its Reflected Dimension infiltration node would protect him from other threats.

• Benjamin repelled the spiritual probes targeting him and surveyed the junction point, learning that humans ruled over the alien races there.
• Benjamin saw the alien residents flee from his Wizard Robe, then entered a restaurant and ordered food while its owner trembled.
• Benjamin checked the Magic Network Terminal and found warnings about the Strife Starfield, including missing Level Six wizards and dangerous infiltration nodes.
• Benjamin selected a route through the Shattered Bone Corridor, deciding its thousand-year-old Reflected Dimension node could serve as a natural barrier.

Benjamin discovered that the poison in his meal was a concealed toxin designed to target the soul and trace the link to his true body, then followed the attack’s trail to a group of dark wizards. He killed the attackers but found their ties to whoever was behind the plot had been erased, and left determined to uncover more when they struck again.

• Benjamin analyzed the rare poison as it melted his puppet body and discovered that it was seeping toward his soul through the connection to his true body.
• Benjamin restored his puppet with the Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand, paid the restaurant owner, and killed a level-seven snakefolk who had watched the incident.
• Benjamin used the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil, Fate System, and Fate Law to trace the snakefolk’s karma to a hidden secret chamber.
• Benjamin trapped the dark wizards in the chamber and learned that their fate connections to the mastermind had been deliberately erased.
• Benjamin destroyed the dark wizards with Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light and left through a teleportation array, expecting the next attack to reveal more clues.

Benjamin traveled through the Strife Starfield, trading powerful Magic Potions for rare materials while investigating who had arranged the attacks against him. He concluded that the culprit was likely connected to the Academic Exchange Conference and set a trap at the Shattered Bone Corridor, where the chapter ends as he awaits their response.

• Benjamin exchanged a soul-enhancing Magic Potion for Void-Phase Silver Crystal and other rare materials at supply stations, discovering how valuable his potions were to small wizard forces.
• Benjamin deduced that the enemy had access to a Level 7 Fate Wizard but knew little about his abilities, suggesting they had only recently decided to target him.
• Benjamin linked the timing of the attacks to news that he would attend the Academic Exchange Conference and suspected the person behind them was also attending.
• Benjamin considered that many people with financial interests in his technologies could be suspects, while acknowledging that the Black Wizards' earlier attacks might have been a deliberate smokescreen.
• Benjamin chose the Shattered Bone Corridor, a Reflected Dimension infiltration zone, as a place to draw out the enemy, and his vessel arrived there.

Benjamin crossed the Shattered Bone Corridor, using his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to navigate its spatial hazards. He discovered a suspicious battle between a Turan Merchant Guild transport ship and three pirate-flagged assault ships, then flew toward the conflict to investigate.

• Benjamin bought an updated map at the last supply point and set out through the Shattered Bone Corridor.
• Benjamin used his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to see spatial folds and dimensional rifts, then safely navigated around them.
• Benjamin detected a battle and concealed his presence as he approached the fighting ships.
• Benjamin noticed that the pirate assault ships were unusually new and that the battle seemed like a clumsy setup.
• Benjamin adjusted the Wizard Robe on the puppet's body and flew toward the battlefield to see whether the apparent trap was aimed at him.

Benjamin intervened when pirates besieged a transport ship, then learned the dispute centered on a smuggled Reflection Prism and prepared to leave it to them. Before he could withdraw, a sudden change erupted.

• The giant-snail crew despaired as the pirates weakened the transport ship’s shields and blocked its communications and spatial travel.
• Benjamin arrived and froze every attack with his dark-golden Law Solidification Domain, prompting the pirate ships to disarm.
• The tripe elder asked Benjamin to let the pirates take the Reflection Prism, which he said was in the transport ship’s second cargo hold.
• The captain denied knowing about the prism, but the elder revealed that its dimensional radiation explained the hold’s triple Phantom Alloy partitions.
• Benjamin concluded the dispute was unrelated to his duties and decided to continue his journey, but a sudden change interrupted him.

The snail captain devoured his offspring, crew, and transport ship to become a gigantic level-seven creature, while the Tripe attackers and the Multi-Race Alliance reinforcements revealed their opposing ambush plans. Benjamin realized he had wandered into their confrontation and asked whether he could leave, leaving both sides bewildered.

• The snail captain ate his hatchlings to raise his level, then swallowed his crew and transport ship while protecting the sealed cargo hold.
• Three Tripe creatures emerged from the pirate fleet, and the snail captain summoned powerful reinforcements through a spatial jump.
• The Tripe leader and the silver-armored creature accused each other of setting a trap over the Reflection Prism and threatened to kill the opposing side.
• Benjamin understood that both factions had been trying to lure out and destroy each other's forces, and realized he was standing in the middle of their battlefield.
• Benjamin politely asked both sides whether he could leave, and they stared at him in confusion.

Benjamin fought the Multi-Race Alliance and Tripe after they refused to let him leave, revealing enough power to repel both Level 8 Lifeforms in their first clash. He restored his damaged Dharma Manifestation and used a time-reversal ability to keep the Level 7 fighters out of the battle, while the three strongest combatants continued fighting.

• The silver-armored leader and Tripe decided to kill Benjamin to protect their secret and seize the cargo.
• Benjamin summoned his Triple Dharma Manifestation and strengthened it with God of Light Transformation.
• The silver-armored being and Tripe attacked Benjamin together, but his counterstrike sent them flying and wounded them.
• Benjamin used Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand to restore his Dharma Manifestation's arms and return the Level 7 Lifeforms to their earlier positions.
• The Level 7 fighters realized they could not enter the battlefield as Benjamin, the silver-armored being, and Tripe resumed their fierce clash.

Benjamin fought the silver-armored creature and the tripe-like creature as their shaky alliance collapsed into a three-way brawl. After the tripe-like creature opened the Reflected Dimension passage with the Reflection Prism and erased the silver-armored Level Eight, Benjamin remained unharmed by the holy relic.

• Benjamin fought the silver-armored creature and the tripe-like creature, whose attacks repeatedly targeted each other as well as him.
• A stray blast tore open the snail captain's cargo hold, exposing the sealed Reflection Prism.
• The tripe-like creature used blood-red chains to delay Benjamin and the silver-armored creature while the prism opened a passage to the Reflected Dimension, erasing the nearby Multi-Race Alliance members.
• The tripe-like creature seized the Reflection Prism and activated it against Benjamin and the silver-armored creature, completely erasing the Level Eight being.
• The tripe-like creature activated the holy relic against Benjamin, but his Dharma Image remained unharmed.

Benjamin tested the Reflection Prism’s dimensional passages and found they could not harm him, then used his Silence Form to erase the Tripe creature that attacked him. The remaining Tripe creatures fled with the prism as Benjamin turned his attention toward them.

• The Tripe creature repeatedly opened passages to the Reflected Dimension, but their dimensional disparity failed to affect Benjamin’s Dharma Image.
• Benjamin stalled the Tripe creature while preparing the Silence Form, igniting a small tuft of Entropy-Increasing Fire on his fingertip.
• The Tripe creature threw the Reflection Prism to its kin and charged Benjamin in a self-destructive attack to help them escape.
• Benjamin touched the Tripe creature with the gray flame, erasing its body, soul, energy, and fundamental information into chaos.
• Benjamin extinguished the flame and watched the remaining Tripe creatures flee with the Reflection Prism.

Benjamin learned that the Reflection Prism held a complete record of its creator’s advancement to Level 9, making it a prize that could attract powerful Wizards. He concealed his possession of it, erased traces of the battle, and left the region with the prism.

• Benjamin searched the souls of the two surviving tripe creatures and learned that the Reflection Prism was a Level 9 creation that could open a passage to the Reflected Dimension.
• Benjamin discovered that the prism preserved the tripe race’s Level 9 ancestor’s complete record of advancement, explaining why the Multi-Race Alliance had attacked to seize it.
• Benjamin killed the two tripe creatures and took the Reflection Prism, deciding that news of his possession of it could not spread.
• Benjamin used the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil, the Fate System, and the Causal Shadow Tracing Technique to hide his fate and erase information about the treasure.
• Benjamin spent several days burying the region in a chaotic void storm, then departed with the enormous prism.

Benjamin sealed the Reflection Prism and sent it to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane for safekeeping, then used Coordinate Reset to relocate far from the Shattered Bone Corridor. The incomplete technique triggered a spatial storm inside his Pocket Dimension, badly damaging it and destroying equipment in his Automatic Factory.

• Benjamin detected the Reflection Prism's signal and used a level-nine energy source to disrupt it before sealing both objects in a sphere.
• Benjamin stored the sealed sphere in his Pocket Dimension and sent it to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, ordering the Black Giant Priest to guard it.
• Benjamin decided to break his connection to the Shattered Bone Corridor and used Coordinate Reset to reappear more than a star system away.
• Benjamin's incomplete Mustard Seed Dao-Containing True Body Art caused a spatial storm that tore through his Pocket Dimension and wrecked part of his Automatic Factory.
• Benjamin realized the Pocket Dimension had been damaged because his coordinate shifts still transmitted spatial and elemental effects from reality.

Benjamin crossed the Shattered Bone Corridor by repeatedly using Coordinate Reset, tempering his true form and Pocket Dimension against spatial storms. After restoring the ruined Pocket Dimension and discovering that much of its new resistance remained, he emerged in disguise and headed toward a junction point.

• Benjamin endured repeated spatial storms inside his Pocket Dimension, allowing the Body Tempering Method and Inner Circulation to strengthen his world and true form.
• Benjamin crossed the Shattered Bone Corridor in less than a day, then hid in especially violent spatial turbulence and recalled his outer puppet.
• Benjamin inspected the shattered Pocket Dimension and found that its protected incense altar and core experimental area had survived.
• Benjamin used the Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand to restore the Pocket Dimension and found that some of its spatial resistance and his body's adaptations remained.
• Benjamin waited nearly another day, put on a gray-black Wizard Robe, and flew toward the junction point.

Benjamin used a concealed route through public junctions to make his pursuers believe he had traveled along Route Two, then arrived at the Void Architecture Institute for the academic exchange meeting. The black-robed wizard called off the ambush as Benjamin checked in with Vilen, while warning that the Institute’s senior figures posed the greater danger.

• Benjamin paid for teleportation at a public junction and continued along Route Two, leaving records intended to convince investigators that the Shattered Bone Corridor had been a decoy.
• An Elf servant told the black-robed wizard that Benjamin had been recorded at a Route Two junction, and the wizard recognized that Benjamin had outmaneuvered the ambush.
• The black-robed wizard decided not to transfer the forces waiting at the Shattered Bone Corridor’s exits and ordered everyone to withdraw.
• Benjamin arrived at a large junction near the Void Architecture Institute and admired its layered Spatial Stability Array and carefully designed buildings.
• Benjamin presented his invitation at the central hall, where the Alchemy Puppet verified it and summoned Vilen.
• Vilen introduced himself as the academic exchange meeting’s reception director and led Benjamin toward his prepared residence and laboratory.

Vilen escorted Benjamin to the Academic Exchange Conference venue, where Benjamin learned that his research had made him famous among the Federation’s academics. After teleporting to the conference city, he recognized renowned space expert Wizard Savien and looked forward to the event.

• Vilen told Benjamin that academics were eager to meet him because his papers and Blood Sacrifice Method had sparked heated discussion.
• Vilen verified Benjamin’s invitation and explained that the Academic Exchange Committee used the teleportation array to protect participants.
• Benjamin reflected on how the committee’s protections had limited the force behind the two assassination attempts against him.
• Vilen and Benjamin traveled through the Inter-plane Teleportation Array to a city filled with arriving wizards and academic activity.
• Vilen identified Wizard Savien, whom Benjamin recognized as the author of several space-related textbooks he had studied.

Benjamin arrived at the academic exchange conference, settled into a fully equipped experimental residence, and met Wizard Savien at dinner. Savien praised Benjamin’s Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol and explained how it had improved spatial experiments.

• Vilen guided Benjamin through the conference grounds, where automated constructs maintained the facilities and diverse rare plants thrived together.
• Vilen registered Benjamin, gave him conference materials, and showed him the independent experimental residence prepared for high-ranking participants.
• Benjamin reviewed the attendee list, rested, and later went to a restaurant, where he ordered institute specialties and Moonlight Flower Tea.
• Wizard Savien approached Benjamin, introduced himself, and said Benjamin’s Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Protocol had solved a major problem in maintaining spatial experimental environments.
• Benjamin told Savien that his textbooks had helped him and said he was honored that the protocol had been useful.