Chapter Summaries

Benjamin attended Clark and Castillo’s wedding, where the couple exchanged bracelets they had made from an old promise. After the ceremony, Augusta told Benjamin that the Lineage had preliminary results from research on the Mushroom People and the primitive plane, and they agreed to discuss them later.

• Benjamin studied a newly cultivated Mushroom Person and reflected on his research into the laws and technology he needed to advance.
• Viola met Benjamin at the Teleportation Array and hurried him to Clark and Castillo’s wedding.
• Benjamin and Viola joined the guests at the ornamental plane’s garden venue, where Benjamin admired its living lawn and spoke with Augusta about the Lineage’s preliminary research results.
• Clark and Castillo exchanged vows before Wizard Noren and Wizard Morin, then transformed their old bracelets into Wizard Artifacts and put them on each other.
• The guests applauded, and the wedding banquet began as Benjamin found a quiet spot and laughed beneath the starry sky.

Benjamin learned that the Mushroom People's Origin Plane lay in a region of space so chaotic that reaching it normally could take over ten million years. Augusta proposed sending concealed Media through the unstable coordinates to contact local beings and persuade them to open a portal, and Benjamin became interested in using the tactic.

• Augusta gave Benjamin the preliminary coordinate calculations, which showed that many planes were connecting and causing severe spatial distortion.
• Augusta warned that the region was in the chaotic stage before a Plane Cluster formed, making a safe journey impossible and the instability likely to last over ten million years.
• Augusta proposed sending large numbers of Media through the coordinates so some could reach the target planes and guide local beings into opening portals.
• Benjamin recognized the method as similar to the Destruction Demon God's attempt to enter Noren Plane 147 through a summoned portal.
• Augusta offered to deploy Media for Benjamin and explained that they should be sturdy, stable, concealed, and initially capable of transmitting only consciousness.

Benjamin studied the Great Dao and the Wizard World’s elemental laws, then spent several hundred years refining his spells. The chapter ended with him testing the strengthened Return to Void Armor and confirming that it could withstand a massive barrage.

• Benjamin realized that Li-Fire represented energy release and that his spells needed to be deepened through the Wizard World’s laws.
• Benjamin revised his research plan to focus on the wind and fire elements, while also laying a foundation in water and earth.
• Several hundred years later, Benjamin ordered the Black Giant Legion to test his Return to Void Armor in a remote starfield.
• The Black Giant Legion unleashed increasingly powerful attacks, but the armor returned them to nothingness without harming Benjamin.
• Benjamin concluded that the simplified armor could withstand the frontal bombardment of many ordinary Level 7 Wizards.

Benjamin tested a new spell derived from the Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light and discovered it could erase matter by disrupting its elemental connections, though it lasted only milliseconds. As he considered using talismans to release it, he gained an elusive insight that advanced his Spirit Energy Law and steadied his Dao-Integration Realm.

• Benjamin tested the modified Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light on reinforced meteorites and erased every target in its path.
• Benjamin identified the new spell as the Great Annihilation Divine Light, whose power could destroy matter and even tear through reinforced space.
• Benjamin realized the spell's unstable nature limited its range and prevented it from being stored in a Wizard Artifact.
• Benjamin concluded that a disposable Rune Artifact would function much like an ordinary talisman for releasing the spell.
• Benjamin reflected that he had returned to the simplest forms of Wizard Artifacts and talismans, then gained an elusive insight that advanced his Spirit Energy Law and steadied his Dao-Integration Realm.

Benjamin investigated why the Dragon-kin had exhausted their resources and discovered that the Dragonblood Mushroom Legion had grown far stronger than expected by absorbing power from the Celestial Star Array’s Array Eye. He ordered the Dragon-kin chief to expand the legion to ten billion Level 6 units and promised the Dragon-kin Clan early Level 1 Servant Civilization status if they succeeded.

• Benjamin concluded that he could not test the upper limits of the Return to Void Armor and Great Annihilation Divine Light without an Elite Level 7 Formation, then returned to studying the Four Great Elemental Laws.
• Decades later, a Black Giant Priest told Benjamin that the Dragon-kin had exhausted the resources assigned to the Dragonblood Mushroom Legion, so Benjamin traveled to their planet to investigate.
• The Dragon-kin chief reported that the legion contained about one hundred million selected Mushroom People, including nearly ten million Level 6 units and one hundred thousand Level 7 units.
• Benjamin learned that the Mushroom People had grown by absorbing the power released by the Celestial Star Array’s Array Eye, and that the chief had suppressed any Level 8 individuals.
• Benjamin transferred more resources and ordered the Dragon-kin chief to expand the legion to ten billion, all at Level 6 or higher, promising early Level 1 Servant Civilization status if they delivered results.

Several years later, Benjamin attended an emergency meeting at Noren Academy 1 about a Wonder in the Endless Chaotic Void. Wizard Noren announced that it would intersect with Noren Workshop’s sphere of influence in about 120 years and that the Workshop would send investigation teams to examine it.

• Benjamin received an official summons from Noren Workshop and teleported to Noren Academy 1, where he found many High-Rank Wizards gathered.
• Benjamin met Viola, who reminded him that Dean Avery Knight had warned of the Wonder hundreds of years earlier and urged wizards to prepare for its approach.
• Benjamin and Viola entered the main conference hall, where thousands of wizards assembled and awaited the meeting.
• Wizard Noren announced that the Wonder would intersect with Noren Workshop’s sphere of influence in approximately 120 years.
• Wizard Noren said the Workshop could not yet determine the Wonder’s nature and would form several investigation teams to examine it.

Wizard Noren selected Benjamin for the First Investigation Team, assigning him to analyze spatial structures and anomalies around the disaster's outer region. Benjamin joined four Elite Level 7 specialists, and Chloe led the assembled team toward their mission.

• Wizard Noren explained the investigation teams' goals and began naming their members.
• Wizard Noren assigned Benjamin to the First Investigation Team to assess spatial stability and record anomalies.
• Benjamin realized his selection likely came from Savien, Bastian, and Morna's endorsements of his spatial expertise.
• Benjamin met Chloe Nasha, Ed Danka, Tori Merlin, and Elma, the team's elemental, rune, temporal, and fate specialists.
• Chloe confirmed the team was ready and led them out.

Chloe led Benjamin and three other Elite Level 7 Wizards through the Endless Chaotic Void toward the Wonder. After nearly five months, they reached their destination and saw an enormous sphere floating beyond a spatial storm.

• The five wizards left Noren Workshop's sphere of influence and relied on Chloe to find a safe route through the void.
• Benjamin used repeated Void-Step casts to catch up with the others and keep pace as they increased their speed.
• The group traveled through the Endless Chaotic Void for nearly five months with Chloe leading the way.
• Chloe circled around a spatial storm and announced they had arrived.
• Benjamin crossed the storm and saw an enormous sphere floating in the distance.

Benjamin and the Level 7 Wizards investigated a colossal Wonder that absorbed chaotic elements and elemental storms across an influence exceeding a hundred light-years. Chloe assigned Benjamin to analyze its spatial structure, and he began scanning it with his full range of powers.

• Benjamin and Edgar observed that the Wonder’s dense, shifting sphere slowed and absorbed everything that entered it.
• A devastating elemental storm drifted into the Wonder and vanished without a ripple.
• Elma used Fate Law to estimate that the Wonder’s influence extended over a hundred light-years.
• Tori warned the group not to approach, and Chloe ordered them to remain at the perimeter while gathering data.
• Chloe tasked Benjamin with modeling the Wonder’s spatial structure, and he began analyzing its fluctuations with his magical abilities.

Benjamin and the other four wizards entered the Wonder, endured its crushing elemental pressure, and followed spatial distortions toward its core. They discovered a vast mass of solidified elements that Elma identified as a Singularity.

• Edgar linked the five wizards’ law solidification domains with a rune array to reinforce their defenses.
• The five crossed into the Wonder, where dense, inert elements placed enormous pressure on them and weakened their combat power.
• Benjamin sensed that spatial distortions were flowing in one direction and used Void-Step to carry the group along them.
• Tori detected that time was slowing inside the Wonder, so he adjusted the group’s perception and bodily flow of time to match Noren Workshop’s baseline.
• The five reached a core where frenzied elements had been compressed into an immense shell of solidified elements.
• Elma recognized the mass of absolute darkness as a Singularity.

Elma identified the cosmic phenomenon as an incomplete Singularity, and the wizards’ investigation revealed it was an Elemental Black Hole that consumed the elements themselves. Benjamin used his Void String spell to glimpse inside and discovered that the elemental ocean’s precise flow was artificial.

• Elma explained that she had seen the starting point of fate threads inside the incomplete Singularity, and Chloe ordered the wizards to investigate it from outside.
• Edgar, Chloe, and the others concluded that the phenomenon was an Elemental Black Hole with a half-light-year-wide Event Horizon that could consume elements, bodies, and souls.
• Benjamin proposed using his Void String spell and True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to observe inside, while Edgar notified the Workshop and Tori prepared a Space-Time Anchor.
• Benjamin manifested his true body, opened a microscopic channel through the Event Horizon, and recorded information about the elemental ocean inside.
• Benjamin saw that the elemental ocean’s flow followed precise, unnatural logic and concluded that the Elemental Black Hole was artificial.

Benjamin and the others discovered that the Elemental Black Hole was an artificial device and developed a way to enter it. They reached its core and found the Singularity hovering above a rune-covered altar.

• Benjamin showed Chloe, Edgar, Tori, and Elma that the Elemental Black Hole's currents followed designed patterns, and they agreed to investigate it as an artificial device.
• The five gathered and analyzed data at the black hole's outer edge until Chloe and Edgar identified a stable structure that could disguise them as elements belonging inside it.
• Edgar and the others built a magic array that concealed their signatures, allowing the group to cross the Event Horizon and travel toward the core.
• The group followed increasingly orderly elemental currents through the black hole until Chloe spotted a silver-gray altar ahead.
• Elma identified the impossible, imperceptible object floating above the altar as the Singularity, saying she had found the starting point of fate there.

Benjamin and the other four wizards found the Mechanical Altar’s control node, but their attempt to disable it triggered an automatic defense that disintegrated the group. Benjamin survived by escaping into his puppet body and contacted Wizard Noren, warning that the altar’s gravity fluctuations were summoning something from the Endless Chaotic Void.

• Edgar found the altar’s elemental gravity control node, and Chloe ordered him to try shutting it down while the others stabilized the surrounding space and elemental currents.
• As Edgar disrupted the control circuits, Elma foresaw danger and warned everyone to run; Edgar then realized damage inside the altar had activated its automatic defense.
• The altar released elemental gravity that shattered the wizards’ Law Solidification Domains and disintegrated Tori, Elma, Chloe, and Edgar, while Benjamin escaped into his puppet body.
• Benjamin repaired his damaged Internal Grotto-Heaven and told Wizard Noren that the altar was broadcasting gravity fluctuations to draw something toward the Wonder.
• Wizard Noren said it would take about a minute to reach the nearest stable coordinate, while Benjamin warned that another arrival might reach the altar first.

Benjamin summoned the Black Giant, Dragon-kin, and Dragonblood Mushroom legions to face a technological civilization's fleet of Level 8 warships. His Great Annihilation Divine Light destroyed the fleet's vanguard, but endless enemy reinforcements overwhelmed the battlefield, leaving Benjamin to endure concentrated fire and keep fighting.

• Benjamin opened the passage to his Internal Grotto-Heaven and summoned the Black Giant, Dragon-kin, and Dragonblood Mushroom legions from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• More than a thousand silver-gray Level 8 warships and their escort mechas emerged, and both sides immediately began a large-scale battle.
• The Dragonblood Mushroom Legion attacked, but the fleet's Level 8 cannon fire inflicted massive casualties on the Mushroom People and Black Giants.
• Benjamin unfolded his Triple Dharma Manifestation, activated the Return to Void Armor and God of Light Transformation, and erased the enemy vanguard with Great Annihilation Divine Light.
• Thousands of enemy warships arrived and concentrated their fire on Benjamin as both sides continued pouring reinforcements into the expanding battlefield.
• Benjamin steadied himself under the bombardment, opened his passage wider to send more troops into the fight, and charged forward again.

Benjamin fought an overwhelming Level 8 mechanical legion while his allies’ lines were driven back and his strength dwindled. Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan arrived, erased the attacking machines, and told Benjamin to rest as they took over the battle.

• Benjamin endured the mechanical legion’s cannon fire and destroyed a firepower node with Great Annihilation Divine Light, but the enemy spread out and continued pressing him.
• The Black Giant Legion and Dragonblood Mushroom People fought to hold the line, suffering heavy losses as the battlefront retreated.
• Benjamin used Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand to restore the Mushroom People and himself, but a Space-Time Anchor blocked further use of the technique.
• Benjamin’s Dharma Manifestation crumbled under another barrage, and he neared collapse before sensing someone approaching.
• Wizard Noren arrived and erased a volley and the mechanical units across several million kilometers in fifty-three seconds.
• Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan joined Noren, destroyed the mechs fighting Benjamin’s forces, and told Benjamin to rest while they handled the enemy.

Benjamin recovered enough to observe Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan take control of the battlefield with contrasting combat styles. As enemy reinforcements continued to arrive, Benjamin confirmed that his earlier opponents had only been the vanguard.

• Benjamin repaired his grotto-heaven and transmission system enough to keep fighting, then watched the battle from a fractured rock.
• Grand Mentor Anton Buchanan tore through warships and mecha, shrugging off their attacks with his law fixation and destroying them through sheer force.
• Wizard Noren shifted between complex spells to overcome the enemy’s countermeasures and decimated their forces.
• Benjamin concluded that high-rank wizards relied on overwhelming power because intricate techniques lost their effectiveness against powerful opponents.
• Enemy reinforcements continued to arrive, confirming to Benjamin that the force he had fought earlier was only the vanguard.

Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton destroyed the invading mechanical fleet, but its dying captain summoned the President, a Level 9 mechanical being. Noren called three more Level 8 Wizards to join them, and the President faced a group of powerful wizards who had surrounded Level 9 beings before.

• Wizard Noren wiped out the approaching mechanical forces and gave Benjamin a captured robot to study.
• The Wonder’s elemental ocean turned against the encircling fleet, and Grand Mentor Anton returned with a mechanical captain’s head.
• Benjamin realized the captain and the enemy mechs had once been living beings transformed into machines.
• The dying captain invoked the President, who appeared above the Elemental Black Hole and erased the captain for failing his mission.
• The President called the wizards valuable research subjects, while Wizard Noren welcomed the challenge and summoned three more Level 8 Wizards.
• The President dismissed the wizards as uncivilized natives, and Benjamin recalled that wizards had surrounded and killed Level 9 beings before.

Benjamin was overwhelmed by the President’s Level 9 power and was sent back to Noren Academy, where he waited with the resurrected wizards for news. Wizard Noren and the reinforcements returned damaged but pleased after the battle, and the three Level 8 Wizards left to handle the spoils.

• The President revealed his full power and clashed with Wizard Noren and the others, leaving Benjamin unable to withstand the battle’s pressure.
• A gentle force pulled Benjamin away from the battle and returned him to Noren Academy’s teleportation plaza.
• Benjamin reunited with Chloe, Edgar, Tori, and Elma, and told them that Wizard Noren and Grand Mentor Anton were fighting a Level 9 Mechanical Lifeform called the President.
• The four Level 7 Wizards waited with Benjamin for news while discussing their research on the Elemental Black Hole.
• Wizard Noren, Grand Mentor Anton, and the three Level 8 Wizards returned with injuries and apparent success in the battle.
• The three Level 8 Wizards left to deal with the spoils and prepare a shared laboratory.

After the mission, Wizard Noren rewarded Benjamin and the investigation team and offered them discounted Substitute Dolls. Grand Mentor Anton gave Benjamin the Level 9 Mechanical Altar, which Benjamin lent to the team for research in exchange for their findings, inspiring him to share more research materials with specialists.

• Wizard Noren awarded Benjamin and the four investigation team members ten billion advanced military merit each and offered discounted, priority orders for Substitute Dolls.
• Benjamin reserved a Substitute Doll, and Grand Mentor Anton secretly handed him a sealed sphere containing the Mechanical Altar.
• The Level 7 Wizards gathered around the altar, and Benjamin agreed to lend it to them in exchange for copies of every technological breakthrough they made.
• Benjamin considered sharing his Level 9 infinite energy and other research materials with specialists to speed up his research and gain technical documentation.

Benjamin brought a Level 8 robot and mechanical fragments to Hadar and the Plant-folk researcher, asking them to study the technology and develop their own path. He then arranged for Viola to research the Level 9 Creation he had taken from the Octopus-folk, and they agreed on a time for her to collect it.

• Benjamin scanned the Level 8 robot, gathered mechanical fragments and Level 7 technical materials, and brought them to the Second Laboratory.
• Benjamin asked Hadar and the Plant-folk researcher to study the Level 8 technology and produce innovations after absorbing it.
• Benjamin decided to rent out the Level 9 Creation seized from the Octopus-folk and contacted Viola for a researcher recommendation.
• Viola volunteered to research the Level 9 Creation herself and argued that the arrangement would benefit both her and Benjamin.
• Benjamin agreed to Viola's offer, and they arranged a time for her to collect the Creation.