Chapter Summaries

Benjamin’s True-Delusion Breaking Pupil revealed the rune structures underlying the Plane Barrier and the people around him. The Fate Wizard opened a rift by disrupting the barrier’s rune network, triggering disasters inside the plane, and captured a creature he judged unremarkable.

• Benjamin discovered that his heightened vision let him see runes sustaining the Plane Barrier and resonating with the wizards’ Rings of Truth.
• Benjamin studied the complex runes on Clark and the Fate Wizard, suspecting the Fate Wizard’s linked structure revealed the truth behind law fixation.
• The Fate Wizard touched a critical rune on the Plane Barrier, setting off a chain reaction that opened a rift.
• The rune disruption caused disasters across the plane, and a multi-armed creature emerged to confront the intruders.
• The Fate Wizard restrained and examined the creature, then tossed it to the group as an ordinary specimen with nothing worth studying.

Benjamin, Viola, and Augusta entered the Central World and found its multi-armed inhabitants unexpectedly weak and primitive. While exploring alone, Benjamin discovered that the world’s plants and landscape had far more complex runic patterns than its creatures, leaving him baffled by the plane’s nature.

• The Fate Wizard and the other High-Rank Wizards examined a captured multi-armed creature and found it unremarkable, while Benjamin sensed its body could collapse if key runes were disrupted.
• Benjamin, Viola, and Bert Vera Augusta descended through the breach into the Central World and were confronted by a group of multi-armed creatures.
• Benjamin destroyed the level-five leader and dozens of level-four creatures with a casual wave, and Viola and Augusta confirmed that the plane seemed to lack powerful beings.
• Benjamin and his companions split up to explore, and Benjamin found a vast plain of primitive settlements with no signs of advanced technology or a runic network.
• Benjamin discovered that the runic patterns of the land, air, and plants were more complex than those of the inhabitants, though the plants appeared ordinary when he examined them.

Benjamin studied a tribe of ostrich-like creatures and compared their rune structures with those of nearby plants, strengthening his suspicion that the Central World's animals and plants had different origins. As the Plane Barrier breach widened and three Plane Wizards began entering the world, he headed back to meet Viola and Augusta.

• Benjamin found a tribe of ostrich-like creatures whose primitive society and lost powers suggested they had come from elsewhere.
• Benjamin used the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to identify a crucial rune in one creature and caused it to die by altering that rune.
• Benjamin found that nearby plants had unusually stable and complete rune structures, unlike the chaotic structures of animals.
• Benjamin noticed the Plane Barrier breach had grown large enough for three Plane Wizards to enter the Central World.
• Benjamin contacted Viola, learned that she and Augusta were also returning, and went to their original arrival point.

The wizards found signs that the plane’s plants had been artificially designed and preserved, raising the possibility that the vast world was a laboratory. As Wizard Number One arrived, Benjamin sensed Incense Poison and noticed the world’s runes converging on an anomaly, which the Fate Wizard identified as his test subject.

• Benjamin told the other wizards that the plane seemed to contain only primitive settlements and few powerful creatures, while Viola and Augusta reported finding nothing useful.
• Benjamin and Mentor Castillo concluded that the plants’ unnaturally streamlined genetic sequences indicated they were artificial and might have been kept in a laboratory state.
• The Fate Wizard showed little concern about the possibility of a laboratory, while Benjamin considered why his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil had reached its highest level.
• Wizard Number One entered the plane, shaking it violently and causing widespread natural disasters.
• Benjamin sensed Incense Poison in one direction as runes began converging there, and the Fate Wizard also detected a fate fluctuation.
• After Wizard Number One fully arrived, the anomaly intensified, and the Fate Wizard identified it as the test subject he had seen through fate.

The wizards discovered that the plane was part of an injured Level 9 lifeform, whose unconscious body was drawing the world toward its core and devouring its inhabitants. The Fate Wizard led the three Plane Wizards and the others toward the core to investigate the force that kept the Level 9 being wounded.

• As the group followed the Fate Wizard, the plane contracted toward its center and a Level 9 aura erupted from below, which the Fate Wizard identified as coming from an injured Level 9 lifeform.
• Benjamin recognized the aura’s weakness and realized that the mental attack in the region had bypassed defenses but was only a suggestive force he could resist.
• Benjamin used his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to see plants assimilating runes, devouring nearby creatures, and moving with the soil toward the central point.
• The wizards concluded that the plane and its runic plants were unconscious creations of the sleeping Level 9 lifeform, which was absorbing power while healing.
• The Fate Wizard called the three Plane Wizards to approach the core as Wizard Starfall prepared to record their combat data, and the group flew toward the lightning-shrouded region.

Benjamin watched the Fate Wizard and three Plane Wizards battle the Level 9 Lifeform, learning how law fixation restricted its ability to reshape reality. The fight continued as Benjamin gained valuable insight into Level 8 and Level 9 powers.

• The Level 9 Lifeform awakened and began drawing in the plane’s elemental power.
• The Fate Wizard used law fixation to block the creature from freely changing the world around it.
• Plane Wizard Number One attacked, then the other two Plane Wizards struck from the side and sent the Level 9 Lifeform flying.
• The Level 9 Lifeform retaliated with attacks formed from the surrounding runes, but the Fate Wizard fixed more of them while the Plane Wizards wounded it.
• The Level 9 Lifeform rapidly healed by redefining its damaged body, and the two sides continued clashing.
• Benjamin studied the battle and laughed as he realized how much it had taught him about reaching Level 8.

As the Level 9 Lifeform’s devouring intensified, countless lifeforms rushed toward the wizards, and Benjamin discovered that their core runes were converging on the same structure as the entity’s. He realized the Level 9 Lifeform had influenced an entire world cluster, while Castillo warned that the creatures were instinctively trying to return to its main body.

• Augusta warned Benjamin and the other wizards that a mass of lifeforms was charging toward them through the Endless Chaotic Void.
• Benjamin examined the approaching creatures and saw that their core runes were becoming increasingly alike despite their different races and forms.
• Castillo explained that the creatures seemed driven by an instinct to return, and Benjamin recognized that their runes connected them to the Level 9 Lifeform.
• The Level 9 Lifeform’s clash with the three Plane Wizards sent out another devastating shockwave, destroying many of the creatures before they reached the wizards.
• Benjamin realized that the Level 9 Lifeform’s influence extended across the world cluster and began considering what that meant.

Benjamin and the other wizards captured creatures linked to a Level 9 Lifeform while three Plane Wizards fought it under the Fate Wizard’s law fixation. The Fate Wizard told Wizard Starfall that the Wizard Civilization was stretched thin across several conflicts, and Benjamin saw the Level 9 Lifeform weakening toward defeat.

• Benjamin and the other wizards sealed charging creatures as individual specimens, wary that gathering them together might let the Level 9 Lifeform use them.
• The three Plane Wizards coordinated attacks that drove the Level 9 Lifeform back, while the Fate Wizard maintained law fixation and Wizard Starfall recorded the battle.
• Wizard Starfall praised the Plane Wizards’ combat strength, and the Fate Wizard said their technology could strengthen the Wizard Civilization’s forces on the main battlefield.
• The Fate Wizard privately told Wizard Starfall that the Wizard Civilization was stretched thin against the Reflected Dimension, the Sapience Calamity, and the Multi-Race Alliance, prompting the Elite Combat Unit plan.
• Benjamin observed that the Plane Wizards’ relentless attacks prevented the Level 9 Lifeform from building power, and he concluded that its defeat and death were near.

After the Level 9 Lifeform was sealed, Benjamin studied the initial fusion of the Jack Plane into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane while his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil regressed to normal. He warned Jack to prepare for possible trouble ahead and encouraged him to grow stronger, then left once the follow-up work was arranged.

• The Fate Wizard sealed the unconscious Level 9 Lifeform, and the wizards began handling the operation's aftermath.
• Benjamin and Jack toured the ruined city as Black Giants laid a Magic Array to merge the Jack Plane into the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
• Benjamin explained plane fusion and used his enhanced True-Delusion Breaking Pupil to study the array's principles and activation.
• Benjamin's True-Delusion Breaking Pupil returned to its normal level after the array began operating, but he retained enough observations for later study.
• Benjamin warned Jack that trouble might come and urged him to improve his strength and knowledge quickly.
• Benjamin reassured Jack that he could become a great help, then left after confirming the fusion arrangements with the Black Giant Priest.

After returning to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, Benjamin organized the wealth of resources and knowledge he had gained and arranged for their gradual integration and study. He concluded that obtaining the Level One Training Agreement was essential to advancing his Spirit Energy Law, preparing for the approaching war, and gaining the support and standing he needed.

• Benjamin arranged for his subordinates and systems to manage the nearly ten thousand planes taken from the Spirit Race and supply materials for the Celestial Star Array.
• Benjamin reviewed the Spirit Race’s accumulated knowledge, the ruins’ technologies, and his True-Delusion Breaking Pupil observations, estimating that absorbing them would take thousands of years.
• Benjamin decided that he needed the Level One Training Agreement because the Spirit Energy Law could no longer advance substantially through adding subsystems alone.
• Benjamin reasoned that the agreement would provide the resources, research opportunities, guidance, and status needed to strengthen himself before the approaching war.
• Benjamin also recognized that supporting the Wizard Civilization’s overall strength before the war was another reason to pursue the agreement.

Benjamin began research into combining the Immortal Cultivation System’s method of harnessing the Power of Heaven and Earth with the Information Plane’s entropy reduction cycle. He aimed to develop a technique that would let wizards draw on surrounding energy more efficiently, potentially strengthening the entire Wizard Civilization.

• Benjamin decided that a technology which could strengthen the Wizard Civilization and help him obtain a Level One Training Agreement deserved priority.
• Benjamin brought up the Entropy Reduction Cycle Technique, the Immortal Cultivation System’s documents on harnessing the Power of Heaven and Earth, and data gathered with the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil.
• Benjamin identified a shared principle: both technologies used a limited amount of personal power to guide scattered external energy into a more orderly, usable form.
• Benjamin began matching the two technologies’ structures and working backward from the mature cultivation technique to develop the entropy reduction cycle.
• Benjamin recognized that if he could distill and spread the resulting technology, it could let wizards wield more power with their existing energy reserves and transform the Wizard Civilization.

Benjamin struggled to make Ascension Force work as a universal technique, discovering that its energy cycle needed to adapt to the laws and elements of different planes. Viola delivered her latest research on Infinite Energy and warned him that the approaching war made his slow personal growth a concern, but Benjamin said he would continue his research while maintaining his cultivation.

• Benjamin reviewed another failed Ascension Force experiment and traced its instability to incompatibility between the cycle structure and external energy.
• Benjamin concluded that the technique needed a way to assess and adapt to incoming energy, but a separate solution for every law would undermine his goal of creating a widely usable foundation.
• Viola visited Benjamin with her hundred-year research report on the Level 9 Creation Infinite Energy, and Benjamin found its findings useful to his work.
• Viola urged Benjamin to change his approach because war was drawing closer and his personal strength had not improved as expected.
• Benjamin reassured Viola that he had continued cultivating and would not abandon his research, and Viola left hoping to hear good news at her next report.

Benjamin successfully stabilized the ascension-force circulation structure and tested it on several servant races. He then recruited Jack, his newly promoted Level 5 Wizard disciple, to test whether it worked for wizards.

• Benjamin used knowledge preserved from his experience in the Central World to complete the circulation structure and confirmed that it operated stably.
• Benjamin summoned Black Giant Priests, Tentacle Tree researchers, and plant-folk to test the technology with their different power systems.
• The summoned researchers completed their tests, and Benjamin concluded that he still needed samples from wizards of different schools and specializations.
• Jack arrived with his completed assignments and experimental records, having reached Level 5 Wizard.
• Benjamin verified Jack’s work and ordered him onto the experimental platform, and Jack reluctantly obeyed.

Benjamin tested ascension force technology with Jack, whose ability to draw on external elements increased dramatically. He then assigned Jack a solo trial to conquer a plane so he could gather the final accumulation needed to advance to level six, and promised to teach him the technology.

• Benjamin activated the ascension force array while Jack cast a spell, and Jack found he could mobilize far more external elements without increasing his own power.
• Benjamin stabilized the experiment, explained the technology’s effect, and said it still required further testing before widespread use.
• Jack realized the breakthrough could help Benjamin gain influence and resources, then Benjamin told him to prepare for advancement to level six.
• Benjamin showed Jack a map and assigned him to conquer the plane alone as his advancement trial and gift.
• Benjamin promised to teach Jack ascension force technology, and Jack eagerly vowed to complete the trial.

Benjamin completed testing the Ascension Force and submitted its technical documentation to the Star Ring Federation for review. The review brought him before several familiar researchers and the mysterious John, whom Benjamin recognized as the Fourth Seat, one of the Wizard Civilization’s Level 9 Wizards.

• High-Rank Wizards finished testing the Ascension Force and urged Benjamin to sell access, but he said he would submit the technology for formal review first.
• Clark and Mentor Castillo confirmed the tests had met their targets, and Viola excitedly celebrated Benjamin’s chance to obtain a Level One Training Agreement.
• Benjamin submitted the Ascension Force documentation through his Magic Network Terminal, and Felix invited him to a special review meeting.
• Benjamin entered a data-world meeting with Felix, Savien, Bastian, Morna, and a concealed figure who introduced himself as John.
• Benjamin recognized John as the Fourth Seat, one of the Wizard Civilization’s nine Level 9 Wizards and a supreme arbiter of the Star Track Tribunal.

Benjamin presented the ascension force to the Fourth Seat and three senior Level 8 Wizards, who quickly recognized its extraordinary combat potential. The review left them considering how a widely usable power multiplier could let a skilled Level 8 Wizard challenge a Level 9 lifeform before it finished gathering power.

• Benjamin struggled to stay calm when the Fourth Seat introduced himself, while Savien, Bastian, and Morna also nervously tried to appear composed.
• The Fourth Seat began the review and had everyone examine the documentation for Benjamin’s ascension force.
• Savien analyzed the technology’s energy utilization and law adaptation, then exclaimed in shock at what he found.
• Bastian and Morna calculated the ascension force’s potential and recognized that it could multiply a wizard’s existing combat power by as much as five times.
• Savien realized that a Level 8 Wizard who mastered the technology could potentially suppress a Level 9 lifeform before it finished gathering power.

Benjamin’s ascension force technology impressed Savien, Bastian, and Morna with its potential to strengthen Level 8 Wizards and change the Wizard Civilization’s high-level combat power. The Fourth Seat revealed that he had altered fate to bring Benjamin’s future breakthrough into the present because the technology would be needed in a coming war, leaving Benjamin worried about how dire the conflict would become.

• Savien, Bastian, and Morna recognized that the ascension force could let Level 8 Wizards challenge Level 9 Life and transform the Wizard Civilization’s combat strength.
• Benjamin cautioned them that the technology remained imperfect and that its potential against Level 9 Life was not a guaranteed victory.
• The Fourth Seat thanked Benjamin for his research, then apologized for intervening in his fate thread.
• The Fourth Seat explained that he had brought forward Benjamin’s breakthrough because the ascension force would become crucial after a future war began.
• Benjamin realized the Wizard Civilization must face a grave situation in that war and asked the Fourth Seat whether its outcome was already so dire.

Benjamin’s Ascension Force passed its review and qualified for a level one training agreement, earning praise from the Fourth Seat and the three Space School masters. As the technology and news of Benjamin’s achievement spread through the Wizard Civilization, he prepared to use the coming resources to refine the Spirit Energy Law.

• The Fourth Seat explained that the enemy was not especially powerful, apologized for interfering with Benjamin’s fate, and promised to bear all resulting backlash himself.
• Savien, Bastian, and Morna approved the Ascension Force for a level one training agreement and celebrated Benjamin’s achievement.
• Felix announced that the technology had passed its technical assessment, and the Fourth Seat confirmed that it qualified for the agreement.
• The Fourth Seat and the three masters departed, and Benjamin returned to the laboratory, where Clark, Castillo, and Viola congratulated him.
• The Four Great Factions began sharing the Ascension Force’s theory and research results, and Benjamin’s level one agreement became a source of excitement across the Noren Workshop and Wizard Civilization.

Benjamin explored the Level One Training Agreement’s extensive resource system and learned that Felix would serve as his dedicated liaison. After Benjamin asked for help pursuing mastery of all laws, Felix recommended research materials, specialized resources, and leading scholars he could meet.

• Benjamin opened the resource purchasing interface and discovered that his allowance appeared unlimited and gave him access to rare materials, advanced knowledge, and special resources.
• Felix contacted Benjamin to congratulate him and explained that he would assist with resource applications, research coordination, and scheduling guidance from High-Rank Wizards.
• Benjamin told Felix that he intended to master all laws and asked for advice based on his current situation.
• Felix recommended foundational studies of laws and their relationships, specialized materials and laboratory access, and meetings with prominent researchers.

Benjamin learned that the Star Ring Federation would rapidly spread Ascension Force throughout the Wizard Civilization, suggesting a major war would begin within a hundred years. Felix offered to use authorized personnel-allocation adjustments to protect wizards Benjamin cared about, leaving Benjamin astonished by the administrative privileges of his Level One Training Agreement.

• Benjamin asked Felix to prioritize research materials and Plane Origins that would help him master more laws, while he postponed deciding whom to invite for appointments.
• Felix told Benjamin that the Third Seat had ordered the Four Great Artificial Intelligences to spread Ascension Force throughout the Wizard Civilization within a hundred years.
• Benjamin connected the deadline to the coming war and worried that his mentor Clark, Mentor Castillo, and senior Viola might not survive it.
• Felix offered to adjust conscription schedules, assignments, and deployments within the rules to reduce danger for wizards Benjamin valued.
• Benjamin realized the Level One Training Agreement granted him access to some Star Ring Federation administrative privileges and reacted with disbelief.