Chapter Summaries

After the Academy’s enrollment system became fully automated, Benjamin finished his work there and prepared to help Clark retrieve Mistress Castillo. He met Clark and Viola at a transit plane, where Viola explained that Azrael and his school had strong reasons to oppose them, though Clark intended to handle Azrael personally.

• Benjamin confirmed that the Academy’s soul sampling, clone cultivation, and Blood Sacrifice Array were operating stably and could run without his supervision.
• Benjamin entrusted the Black Giant Legion’s training to Mount Magma and the Black Giant Priests, left the Tentacle Tree Civilization’s research with Hadar, and relied on the Creation System to refine the Celestial Star Array’s Array Eye.
• Benjamin stepped through a Teleportation Array and met Viola and Clark at a transit plane.
• Viola explained that Azrael was a Senior Level 7 Wizard from one of the Scarlet Brood’s main schools and might advance to Level 8 by joining paths with Mistress Castillo.
• Viola said Azrael’s school would support the union, while rival schools might oppose it, and Clark appeared ready to deal with Azrael himself.

Benjamin, Viola, Clark, Wizard Noren, and Grand Mentor Anton traveled to the Crimson Court to support Clark in a coming factional challenge tied to an inter-faction marriage. They arrived in Crimson Court territory, where Benjamin saw its heavily militarized architecture and wizard units.

• Viola explained that Azrael's faction would likely challenge them rather than start a full-scale war, with Clark facing their Level 7 Wizards and Benjamin and Viola handling the Level 6 Wizards.
• Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton arrived, and Benjamin sensed that both had grown stronger after using the Reflection Prism.
• Viola revealed that she, Clark, and the others were going along to back someone up, surprising Benjamin, who had thought they were only going to marry Mistress off.
• Wizard Noren teleported the group directly into Crimson Court territory with a powerful spatial spell.
• Benjamin observed the Crimson Court's aggressive, war-focused buildings and heavily equipped wizard units.

Benjamin and Viola arrived at the Crimson Court’s Scarlet Brood, where they learned more about the faction’s war-driven pursuit of enemy technology. Castillo welcomed them by playfully inspecting and messing up their hair, then embraced Clark.

• Benjamin observed the Crimson Court’s frontier and heard Viola explain that its wizards prolonged intense wars to extract enemy knowledge and technology.
• Grand Mentor Anton explained how the Crimson Court’s war philosophy let combat-focused wizards gain data and technology through their enemies’ research.
• Benjamin and the others traveled through several Teleportation Arrays and arrived at the living, flesh-built Scarlet Brood.
• Castillo greeted Benjamin and Viola, inspected them, and ruffled their hair despite their protests that they were sixth-rank wizards.
• Castillo and Clark reunited with an embrace, prompting Viola and Benjamin to comment on their closeness.

Benjamin accompanied Clark and Castillo to a High-Rank Wizard gathering, where Azrael challenged Clark to settle their dispute through three duels. Castillo revealed she had already resolved the matter and was eager to watch the battles, leaving the group poised for the contest.

• Benjamin recognized Morin and Aislin as Level 8 Wizards from Castillo’s lineage, and Morin opened a vast spatial portal to the gathering venue.
• Morin led the group into a garden banquet attended by dozens of powerful wizards, where they introduced Noren, Anton, Clark, Viola, Castillo, and Benjamin.
• Azrael approached Clark, acknowledged his partnership with Castillo, and proposed three one-on-one battles between representatives of both sides.
• Castillo told Benjamin that the battles would not change her decision because she had already settled the internal disputes within the Mother Nest.
• Castillo admitted she was excited to watch the rare contest and said she would join the fighting herself if her position allowed it.

Viola fought Gis in the first match between Noren Workshop and Azrael’s side, turning his Law of Decay against her into strength through her Law of Pain. She defeated him with a powerful kick, giving Noren Workshop the first win.

• Wizard Morin started the first match, and Azrael chose his chief disciple Gis to fight for his side.
• Viola volunteered to face Gis, and the duel began with their Law Solidification Domains colliding.
• Gis repeatedly inflicted severe decay injuries on Viola, but she endured and grew stronger as her Law of Pain converted suffering into power.
• Viola revealed that she had been warming up, then overwhelmed Gis with her expanding domain.
• Viola struck Gis with a decisive kick that sent him crashing into a crater, then declared that she had won the first match.

Benjamin faced Rashid in a duel, but used his Time Law to rewind the fight before it could happen. Rashid realized he had already been defeated, and Benjamin left the platform after thanking him for yielding.

• Rashid stepped onto the Duel Platform, and Castillo warned Benjamin that Rashid’s Disintegration Law could destroy matter, spells, and spatial structures.
• Rashid prepared to fight Benjamin’s puppet, but Azrael told him to come down because he had already lost.
• Gis sent Rashid a memory of the battle, showing Benjamin rewinding Rashid’s attacks and even his hidden Great Disintegration spell.
• Rashid understood that Benjamin’s Time Law could return a localized area and its occupants to an earlier state.
• Benjamin withdrew the Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand, thanked Rashid for yielding, and drifted off the platform.

Benjamin stunned the wizards by revealing profound mastery of the Time Law, then Clark and Azrael began a carefully restrained duel. The fight left off as Azrael drew in the power of decay and released a different kind of energy.

• Benjamin reversed time across the Duel Arena, shocking the wizards and changing how they viewed his abilities.
• Clark and Azrael entered the Duel Platform, which expanded and strengthened its defenses for their Level 7 duel.
• Azrael unleashed his Decay Law Solidification Domain and attacked Clark with a barrage of spells.
• Clark calmly dispersed or deflected Azrael’s attacks while keeping his strength restrained, and Benjamin and Viola recognized that the duel was headed toward a draw.
• Azrael’s expression turned colder as he gathered the decay power and released a different fluctuation of energy.

Azrael shattered the Duel Arena’s spatial structure, trapping Clark, Benjamin, Viola, and the Scarlet Brood wizards in the Chaotic Interlayer. As Clark confronted Azrael, a dangerous spatial giant beast formed in the void, forcing both sides to unite against it.

• Azrael’s Decay Law breached the Duel Arena’s Protective Array and tore open its space, sweeping Clark, Benjamin, Viola, and nearby wizards into the Chaotic Interlayer.
• Benjamin identified their location as the threshold between real space and the Reflected Dimension, while Viola warned that drifting toward the Reflected Dimension would be deadly for them.
• Clark suppressed the surrounding chaos with his Law Solidification Domain, anchored the island, and demanded to know Azrael’s purpose, but Azrael insisted the rupture was an accident.
• As the island began shaking and spatial fragments gathered, Clark and Azrael called off their confrontation to face the disturbance forming in the void.
• A colossal transparent beast made of spatial waves emerged from the vortex, and both groups turned to confront it under Clark’s protection.

Azrael identified the creature attacking the wizards as a Spatial Fold Beast that mirrored each opponent’s strength and abilities. The battlefield split into isolated spaces, leaving Benjamin alone against a beast that matched his Triple Dharma Manifestation in size.

• Azrael explained that the Spatial Fold Beast adapted to each opponent and that every wizard would face a separate beast once battle began.
• Benjamin, Clark, and Viola prepared to defend themselves as the Spatial Fold Beast charged at Benjamin.
• The beast shattered Benjamin’s Return to Void Armor’s steady-state field, and the surrounding space divided into isolated battlefields for each wizard.
• A transparent giant claw struck Benjamin’s puppet and shattered its head, triggering his alarm at the beast’s danger.
• Benjamin unleashed the Triple Dharma Manifestation, and the Spatial Fold Beast expanded until it matched the manifestation’s enormous size.

Benjamin fought the Spatial Fold Beast in the chaotic void, adapting to its spatial attacks while enhancing his Dharma Image with Final Ray. He destroyed the beast with a series of increasingly powerful punches, then reflected on the adaptive evolution his Body Tempering Method had achieved.

• Benjamin used God of Light Transformation with Final Ray and fought the Spatial Fold Beast, relying on Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand to rewind their movements.
• Benjamin repeatedly endured the beast’s attacks as Adaptive Evolution strengthened his body, defenses, and connection to his Dharma Image.
• Benjamin allowed the beast to strike his chest, grabbed its claw, and unleashed punches empowered by Echo Bomb’s elemental-stacking logic.
• Benjamin rewound the fight whenever the beast broke free, then crushed its body with a final series of blows and erased its fragments with terminal light.
• Benjamin regretted that the rare creature could not be captured for research, but was pleased that the battle had advanced his adaptive evolution.

After defeating his Spatial Fold Beast, Benjamin learned from Viola how to use the creature’s spatial imprint to enter other wizards’ battles without creating new Fold Beasts. They prepared to provide support and ruled out their mentor Clark’s battlefield, which was beyond their ability to affect.

• Benjamin kept his God of Light Transformation active and wondered whether joining another wizard’s isolated battlefield would create a new Spatial Fold Beast.
• Viola emerged from a spatial rift with an injured Scarlet Brood wizard and told Benjamin she had tested a way to enter other battles safely.
• Viola explained that spreading the dead Spatial Fold Beast’s spatial imprint over one’s body prevented new Fold Beasts from appearing.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye to reproduce the spatial fluctuations, and Viola confirmed his camouflage was sufficient.
• Benjamin and Viola prepared to support the other wizards, but Benjamin excluded Clark’s battlefield because they could not help there.

Benjamin and Viola rescued Scarlet Brood wizards trapped in spatial fragments, crushing the Spatial Fold Beasts that had been hunting them. After saving the last level-six wizard, they left the rescued wizards awestruck and afraid of their strength.

• Benjamin and Viola chose spatial fragments to enter, while the rescued wizard stayed behind to recover.
• Benjamin spotted a badly injured Crimson Court wizard surviving a Spatial Fold Beast's relentless attacks and noted the Crimson Court's strong survival skills.
• Benjamin entered his chosen fragment and killed the Spatial Fold Beast with a single blow from his Dharma Image.
• Benjamin ordered the rescued wizard to record the beast's lingering spatial fluctuations, then carried him back to safety.
• Benjamin and Viola swept through the fragments and rescued Scarlet Brood wizards until Benjamin brought back the last level-six wizard.

Benjamin and Viola debated whether to rescue Clark or Azrael first after saving the trapped Crimson Court wizards. The wizards chose to help rescue Clark because Azrael might turn on them and the spatial fragments were steadily falling into the Reflected Dimension.

• Benjamin found a Level 6 wizard hidden among scattered flesh, observed his regeneration, and brought him to the safe zone as Viola rescued another wizard.
• The rescued wizards discussed the Spatial Fold Beasts while Benjamin and Viola weighed whether to help Clark or Azrael first.
• The Scarlet Brood wizards asked to rescue Clark first, explaining that they feared Azrael might silence them.
• The old wizard revealed that the spatial fragments were falling into the Reflected Dimension, making outside rescue harder the longer they waited.
• Benjamin and Viola agreed to gather everyone’s strength and discuss tactics for rescuing Clark.

Clark, Benjamin, and the wizards fought a gigantic Spatial Fold Beast, with Benjamin destroying its foreclaw and Clark ultimately suppressing it. Clark then swiftly defeated the beast on Azrael’s battlefield, leaving Azrael to recognize the vast gap between them.

• Viola led the wizards into Clark’s space fragment, where their restraint spells briefly distracted the Spatial Fold Beast and Clark pinned it with his Law Solidification Domain.
• Benjamin used Entropy-Increasing Fire to erase the beast’s foreclaw, then was struck by its counterattack and had his Dharma Image smashed apart.
• Clark exploited the opening to devastate the beast, while Viola and the other wizards fled the spreading aftermath with Benjamin.
• The wizards watched Clark finish suppressing the Spatial Fold Beast, and Clark praised Benjamin before Viola shared her method for masking spatial fluctuations.
• Clark entered Azrael’s space fragment and crushed its Spatial Fold Beast almost immediately; Azrael emerged injured and admitted that the gap between him and Clark was enormous.

After returning from the spatial battle, Benjamin and the others saw the Level 8 Wizards dismiss the incident as an accident, while Castillo chose to leave with Clark. Meanwhile, Azrael and two elders retrieved the Death Relic, a rare treasure that could help wizards advance to Level 8.

• Benjamin and the others returned to the garden, where Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton challenged the opposing Level 8 Wizards over the suspicious spatial accident.
• The opposing wizards apologized and offered compensation but maintained that the incident had been an accident, and Wizard Noren let the matter drop.
• Castillo told Morin that she had made up her mind, said goodbye to Aislin, and walked toward Clark.
• Azrael and two Level 8 elders activated a formation in a sealed Scarlet Brood laboratory and pulled a broken mirror-like object out of space.
• Azrael identified the object as the Death Relic, a remnant of a dead Spatial Fold Beast that could help wizards complete Law Fixation and reach Level 8.

Azrael’s lineage obtained the Death Relic after using Viola to lure Spatial Fold Beasts into a trap, though Benjamin unexpectedly changed the plan. Back in Benjamin’s laboratory, the Wizards discovered the magic array had collected a shattered region of the Chaos Interlayer and planned to return using Benjamin’s wreckage as a coordinate marker.

• Azrael explained that his lineage had long sought a Death Relic and had used the Spatial Runes’ collapse to lure the group into the Chaos Interlayer, expecting Viola to defeat the Spatial Fold Beasts.
• Azrael and the other Level 8 Wizards acknowledged that Benjamin had changed their plan, then shut down the magic array after securing the Death Relic.
• A ruined puppet head drifted through an elemental maelstrom, and a faint light flickered in its remaining eye.
• At Benjamin’s laboratory, Benjamin showed Viola, Clark, Wizard Noren, Grand Mentor Anton, and Castillo a recording of the magic array drawing in and compressing a vast battlefield of spatial fragments.
• The group learned that the shattered region was connected to the Spatial Fold Beasts and realized Benjamin’s wreckage could serve as a coordinate marker for a future expedition.
• Wizard Noren said they could use the coordinates to return in a few hundred years, and Grand Mentor Anton eagerly anticipated obtaining Death Relics themselves.

Benjamin and Viola received compensation from the Decay Lineage, then Benjamin checked on the Celestial Star Array and his research team’s latest findings. The Dragon-kin bloodline optimization appeared stable and preserved fertility, though the researchers advised against applying it to the entire population.

• Grand Mentor Anton gave Benjamin and Viola a Space Ring containing compensation from the Decay Lineage, and Clark and Castillo left without taking a share.
• Benjamin and Viola found valuable Crimson Court materials in the ring and agreed to split them evenly.
• Benjamin checked the Celestial Star Array’s progress and confirmed that Sun True Fire and Stellar Force remained the main limits on forging its Array Eyes.
• Benjamin visited the Second Laboratory, where a Black Giant Priest reported that optimized Dragon-kin had reached Level 7 and showed no obvious harmful effects.
• The researchers confirmed that optimized Dragon-kin could reproduce but recommended against optimizing the entire population because higher bloodline levels made reproduction more difficult.

Benjamin reviewed the Dragon-kin and Black Giant research programs, then considered how his recent battle exposed weaknesses in his defenses and spells. He decided to improve his understanding of the Great Dao by spending his surplus Military Merit on Plane Origin and awaited the deliveries.

• Benjamin learned that the Dragon-kin population had surpassed fifteen thousand and promised them first-tier treatment if they reached one hundred thousand.
• Researchers reported that the Black Giants’ Level 7 advancement route had been clarified, and Benjamin ordered them to continue their work.
• Benjamin recognized that his Return to Void Armor and Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light lagged behind because his comprehension of their Great Dao was shallow.
• Benjamin checked his Military Merit and began buying Plane Origin to raise his mastery of laws.
• Benjamin waited eagerly for the Plane Origin deliveries to arrive.

After years of seclusion, Benjamin absorbed the last of his Plane Origin and assessed his greatly improved mastery of laws, Spirit Energy, and Dao-Integration. His discoveries left him wondering how powerful he might become by mastering every law in the Wizard World.

• Benjamin absorbed the final wisp of Plane Origin into his Spirit Sea and found that most of his law mastery bases had risen above twenty points, while the Four Great Elemental Laws reached twelve.
• Benjamin observed that his Space Law had risen only to thirty-five points despite his efforts, then realized Living Planes might naturally combine knowledge across many fields.
• Benjamin considered Wizard Starfall’s work on the Plane Spirit Awakening Technique and recognized that her genius, not merely his Spirit Energy, had driven its development.
• Benjamin discovered that his self-created Spirit Energy Law had reached ten points, strengthening and expanding his Law Solidification Domain.
• Benjamin unfolded his Dharma Image and found it denser and more powerful, while his Dao-Integration trait had also begun improving faster.
• Benjamin wondered how far he could advance by mastering every law in the Wizard World and felt tempted to go shopping.

After decades of research, Benjamin discovered that the Mushroom People had once been far more powerful than he had thought, but attempts to give Dragon-kin their reproductive ability failed. He then conceived a way to give Mushroom People a trace of dragon blood, allowing Dragon-kin to command them through Spiritual Link, and began preparing to test the idea.

• Benjamin concluded that obtaining a Level One Training Agreement was necessary to fund his plan to master all laws, then spent more than a decade reading papers before returning to his research.
• Benjamin found evidence that the Mushroom People had voluntarily reduced their strength from Level 8 to survive a long period of scarce resources.
• Black Giant Priests reported that they had failed to give Dragon-kin the Mushroom People's spore-based reproductive ability.
• Benjamin realized that adding a trace of dragon blood to Mushroom People could let Dragon-kin connect to their Spiritual Link and command their collective army.
• Benjamin decided to test the idea of Dragon-kin leading Dragonblood Mushroom People and began making preparations.