Chapter Summaries

Benjamin watched Golden port grow complacent as local nobles withheld supplies from the Orcs and foreign nobles sank into poverty. When the Orcs launched a coordinated attack and their allies opened the city gates from within, the city descended into chaos, and Orc warriors broke into Benjamin’s villa.

• Old Gray told Benjamin that Orcs were clashing with forces at the border while local nobles planned to withhold promised supplies.
• At a private banquet, local nobles dismissed the Orc threat, while displaced foreign nobles struggled to survive and Golden port’s defenses grew lax.
• Benjamin sensed the attack beginning, and an explosion blasted open the western city wall as Orcs poured into Golden port.
• Displaced foreign nobles and their soldiers opened other gates from within, allowing Orcs to attack the city and destroy its command headquarters.
• The Orcs pressed into the wealthy district, where nobles and hired retainers briefly resisted before the attackers surrounded them.
• Benjamin darkened Dawn Mansion as Orc warriors and human collaborators smashed through its front gate and charged inside.

Benjamin defended the villa from the Orcs and rebel soldiers, killing every invader who entered the grounds. As more Orcs rushed toward him from the burning city, he hoped to find stronger subjects for his experiments.

• Benjamin killed the Orc vanguard and fought through the Orcs and private soldiers who had stormed the villa.
• Benjamin mounted a fleeing Berserk War Pig, killed it, and used its rider to smash into another Orc.
• Benjamin confronted a larger force in the garden and killed its Orc officer with a crushing kick and a broken neck.
• Benjamin hunted down the remaining invaders until none survived inside or outside the villa.
• Benjamin looked toward the burning Golden Port as an unending stream of Orcs rushed toward him.

Benjamin captured three Orc generals after stopping their raid on Golden Port, intending to prolong the war between Orcs and humans. The surviving nobles realized the city could not be defended and began preparing to flee, while Benjamin expected them to seek his help again.

• Benjamin stood over the bodies of the Orc and human soldiers and sent the three captured Orc generals into his manor as test subjects.
• Benjamin reflected that he wanted the Orcs and humans to keep fighting and exhausting each other, while his concealment array hid the manor from detection.
• Surviving nobles approached Dawn Mansion, saw the corpses and Benjamin, and praised him for saving them.
• Benjamin told the nobles to pack and leave, and they recognized that Golden Port could not withstand another Orc attack.
• The nobles rushed to gather valuables and prepare carriages, while Benjamin expected them to return to him for help.

Benjamin accepted the nobles’ offer to escort their families from Golden port to the Royal Capital, using Jack’s identity to make his presence seem legitimate and gain access to the capital’s religious network. He demanded command of the party, rights to unclaimed spoils, and a royal commendation before they set out ahead of the Orc army.

• Count Reinhardt, Baron Fabio, and General Brandon asked Benjamin to escort their families to the Royal Capital and offered wealth, treasures, and influence in return.
• Benjamin agreed, seeing the escort mission as a chance to legitimize Jack’s identity and study the Divine Power Faith Network.
• Benjamin demanded supreme authority over the travelers, all unclaimed spoils along the route, and a royal commendation upon reaching the capital.
• The nobles accepted Benjamin’s conditions and said they were ready to depart before the main Orc force arrived.

Benjamin led Golden Port’s nobles toward the Royal Capital, ordering them to abandon most of their belongings and keep the convoy moving. When Orc wolf cavalry attacked, he slaughtered the entire squad alone, then ordered the shaken survivors to continue onward.

• Benjamin ordered the nobles to take only essential supplies and leave Golden Port before the Orcs could attack again.
• Count Reinhardt relayed Benjamin’s commands, and the nobles formed a carriage convoy that traveled toward the Royal Capital.
• Orc wolf cavalry ambushed the convoy on a stretch of hills, throwing the nobles and guards into panic.
• Benjamin charged into the wolf riders and killed all of the Orcs and war wolves in barely a dozen seconds.
• Benjamin ordered the convoy to continue, and the guards quickly restored order and set the carriages moving.

Benjamin led the nobles through the wilderness while they feared being targeted by their own relatives after reaching the Royal Capital. A mercenary brought news that a wizard named David had been killed in a battle against several kingdoms, leaving Benjamin uncertain whether the famous wizard was truly dead.

• Count Reinhardt, Baron Fabio, and General Brandon worried that relatives in the Royal Capital might arrange their deaths to seize their titles, estates, and authority.
• Benjamin monitored the nobles’ fear and suspicion with the Eye of Investigation and sent mercenaries to gather intelligence from nearby villages.
• A mercenary captain reported that Orc forces were gathering in towns north of the Royal Capital and might launch an offensive soon.
• The captain repeated a rumor that several kingdoms had killed the powerful wizard David after a devastating battle, and that David’s vengeful spirit had cursed some of his enemies.
• Benjamin connected the rumor to David’s changing contribution-board rank and wondered whether the Level 10 wizard had really died; he decided to seek more information in the Royal Capital.

Benjamin led the exhausted survivors of Golden port toward Orsay, where assassins sent by the nobles’ relatives attacked them. After Benjamin killed an ambushing giant python and an elite Orc squad, the group discovered a human-written route map and suspected a traitor was among them, while Benjamin secretly smiled at the evidence.

• The convoy reached Orsay, but Benjamin kept most of the nobles and guards outside while a small group entered the city to buy supplies.
• Assassins attacked the nobles at the city gate, and Benjamin killed them before using Soul Search to learn that their relatives in the Royal Capital had ordered the ambush.
• Count Reinhardt refused to enter another city, so the nobles returned to the convoy and continued toward the Royal Capital.
• A giant python burst from a marsh and lunged at a carriage, but Benjamin killed it by tearing its head apart.
• Orcs ambushed the convoy with arrows and attacked the nobles’ carriages, but Benjamin slaughtered the entire elite squad.
• General Brandon found a human-written parchment showing the convoy’s route and carriage identifiers, prompting Count Reinhardt to declare that a traitor was among them; Benjamin secretly smiled at the scroll.

Benjamin arrived in Eloria City with the surviving nobles, who praised his deeds to protect themselves and gain royal favor. King Ottorek III suspected Benjamin was an Orc spy but appointed him Special Advisor to watch him, while Benjamin welcomed the role as part of his plan to pass as someone from this world.

• Count Reinhardt, Baron Fabio, and General Brandon reached Eloria City with Benjamin and thanked him while presenting him with a chest of gold and gems.
• Count Reinhardt and the other nobles met at his estate and agreed to report Benjamin's supposed heroic deeds to the king for protection.
• Ottorek III and the chief minister suspected Benjamin was an Orc spy and decided to keep him free in the capital to draw out other agents.
• Benjamin received the title of Special Advisor, an estate, and limited access to public records, then gave the minister a bag of gold coins.
• Benjamin concluded that the king's suspicion helped his plan to disguise himself as someone from this world.

Benjamin used divination to find a way around the royal palace’s surveillance and secretly began assembling something in his residence. At a royal banquet, he sensed three unusually powerful members of the foreign delegations and noticed the arrival of the Sage’s disciple.

• Benjamin used copper coins and divination to identify a blind spot in the watchers’ attention at his residence.
• Benjamin created an illusion in the study to fool the watchers, then secretly arranged materials and began assembling an unknown device.
• Several days later, Benjamin attended a royal banquet welcoming the Orc, Elf, and Dwarf delegations and gathered information from the guests.
• Benjamin sensed unusual auras around an Elf woman, an Orc warrior, and a Dwarf woman, but chose not to divine their origins.
• Benjamin noticed the Sage’s disciple at the banquet and returned to mingling with the guests.

Benjamin tested his spatial teleportation device and used it to continue his experiments in a concealed laboratory in Golden port. Summoned to the palace council hall, he observed negotiations that descended into hostility while Ottorek III used his presence as a political ploy.

• Benjamin teleported to his Golden port laboratory, checked that the captured Orc generals were still alive, and ordered the magic puppet to give them nutrients.
• Benjamin examined the concealment formations hiding his estate among Golden port's ruins, then continued his research there over the following days.
• A palace messenger summoned Benjamin to observe negotiations, and Benjamin returned by teleportation to his Royal Capital estate before going to the council hall.
• Ottorek III told his chief minister that Benjamin's presence would unsettle the Orc delegation and might expose useful intelligence.
• The human and Orc delegations argued over compensation and conquered cities, while Seraphina insulted both sides and the Dwarves remained drunk and silent.
• Benjamin watched the delegation leaders and sensed that something was wrong as the negotiations grew more hostile.

Benjamin explored Eloria City and discovered concealed Wizard runes scattered throughout the capital, forming a network that gathered energy toward the church district. He also met Reis, the Sage’s disciple, and sensed an unexpected threat from him.

• Benjamin left the estate to explore the Royal Capital after being barred from observing the delegation negotiations.
• Benjamin sensed traces of a concealed Wizard runic formation beneath an old well and began searching the city for more nodes.
• Benjamin watched Reis heal a child and win the crowd’s praise, while sensing a faint threat from the Sage’s disciple.
• Benjamin found more runic traces around the capital and mapped their connections as parts of a vast energy-gathering formation.
• Benjamin returned to his estate and concluded that the rune network directed energy toward the church district.

Benjamin attended a Royal Capital banquet, where he learned about growing war fervor and noticed Miss Mary’s powerful calming influence. Back at his residence, he traced hidden runes to three linked arrays and realized four Noren Workshop wizards were working toward a shared goal, prompting him to join them.

• Benjamin examined the rune placements and decided their power could help him achieve his own goal.
• At the banquet, Benjamin reunited with Count Reinhardt, Baron Fabio, and General Brandon, who discussed Miss Mary’s influence and the Royal Capital’s rising anxiety over the war.
• The nobles described Kaiden’s fiery speeches against the wizards and the resulting surge in public and military fervor; Benjamin suspected Kaiden was a wizard in disguise.
• After returning home, Benjamin connected the hidden runes and found they formed three linked magic arrays converging on the Royal Capital’s faith nexus.
• Benjamin decided to assist the other Noren Workshop wizards, then discovered mismatched runes suggesting a fourth wizard was involved.

Benjamin secretly adjusted two of the Royal Capital’s three magic arrays, then prepared to activate them as the city readied for war against the foreign demons. In the sewers, he encountered four other wizards who had gathered for the same purpose.

• The king and the High Priest forged an alliance between humans and Orcs, while the Elven Kingdom signed a non-aggression pact and pledged aid.
• Benjamin located the three magic arrays and secretly corrected flaws in the eastern and northern arrays, while noticing another wizard nearby.
• Benjamin inspected the southern array, found no changes necessary, and burned his map after confirming his preparations were complete.
• Benjamin entered the sewers that night to activate the arrays and detected several witchcraft energies.
• Benjamin waited in hiding as four figures converged on him through the sewers.

Benjamin met Anya, Seraphina, Kaelen, and Rex in the sewers beneath Eloria's Royal Capital and discovered they were all working to affect the gods through mortal faith. His plan to contaminate the Divine Power Faith Network was far more extreme than their efforts, but they agreed to proceed together.

• Benjamin approached four disguised wizards in the sewers and revealed his identity to Anya, who recognized him as the former top contribution ranker.
• Anya, Seraphina, Kaelen, and Rex removed their disguises, and the five realized they had independently been working against the gods of the Eloria Plane.
• The others objected that Benjamin's plan to contaminate faith was reckless compared with their more cautious schemes to stir negative emotions among mortal races.
• Benjamin explained that even a momentary distraction among the gods could let the high-ranking wizards outside the plane seize them without risking the plane's destruction.
• As the five headed toward the magic formation nodes, Anya and the others explained their plans and agreed to follow Benjamin's altered formations.

Benjamin and four fellow wizards contaminated the Royal Capital’s faith network by activating their formations and injecting five different agents into its core. They escaped before the authorities arrived, leaving the contamination to remain hidden until the gods drew on the corrupted faith during a future battle.

• Benjamin and the others followed Rex through the sewers beneath the church district to the core shared by their three formations.
• The five wizards positioned themselves around the core and activated the formations, redirecting the Royal Capital’s Power of Faith toward it.
• Benjamin injected Mortal Aura into the network while Seraphina, Kaelen, Anya, and Rex added Dust of Delusion, Orcish chaos, Seeds of Decay, and Logical Paradox Runes.
• The contaminated energy spread through the church district, triggering a violent tremor, strange light, and alarms as guards and priests converged.
• Benjamin led the group into the sewers to escape, while he planned for the corruption to strike the gods when they later replenished their power from the faith network.

Benjamin and his companions escaped Eloria City as several high-rank wizards fought the gods and sealed them away. The Wizard Camp declared the trial mission complete and ordered all apprentices to return for evaluation.

• Benjamin and his companions escaped the chaotic Royal Capital without encountering resistance and reached the forest beyond it.
• A rift opened in the planar barrier, and several high-rank wizard phantoms emerged as the gods descended to confront them.
• The wizards overwhelmed the gods, sealed every god and Angel, and departed through the rift.
• The planar rift healed, and Benjamin received a message from the Wizard Camp ordering the apprentices to return for contribution evaluations.

Benjamin and his companions returned to Wizard Camp and discovered David ranked second in contributions, while the chaos in Eloria City revealed that David had secretly allied with the Sage to eliminate the plane’s leaders. David promised to transform Eloria’s people into citizens of Wizard Civilization, leaving the fate of the devastated plane in his hands.

• Benjamin, Seraphina, Kaelen, Anya, and Rex returned to Wizard Camp and saw the new contribution rankings, with Benjamin first and David second.
• The group wondered how David had earned so many contributions, and Seraphina said the mission reports would explain it later.
• In Eloria City, Kaiden learned the assessment had ended early, then killed a squad of guards when they threatened her and left after revealing herself as Bert Vera Augusta.
• David revealed his identity to the Sage in the ruined assembly hall, where the leaders of Eloria’s many races had been killed.
• David told the Sage that his mentor would use human modification potions to gradually transform Eloria’s humans into citizens of Wizard Civilization, honoring their agreement.

David and Sage secured the Eloria Plane's submission by killing its mortal leaders, while Benjamin remained in the conquered plane to study its faith network. David asked Benjamin to shelter selected native beings in exchange for his research notes, and Benjamin agreed.

• David and Sage secretly killed the Eloria Plane's mortal leaders, leaving the Royal Capital unable to organize a response after Benjamin and the others escaped.
• Sage recalled David's appeal to protect the plane's living beings and explained why he had chosen to support the decapitation plan.
• Mentor Clark praised Benjamin's performance, encouraged him to study the faith network, and left with the other mentors.
• Benjamin stayed at Wizard Camp, recorded his research on Mortal Aura, talisman Seals, and the Divine Power Faith Network, and organized the materials he had collected.
• David offered his research notes in exchange for Benjamin settling Sage-approved native intelligent beings in his future territory, and Benjamin accepted.

After the planar war, Benjamin spent his free time researching the Eloria Plane’s energy network, improving his wizardry models and Rune Artifact. When David offered him territory in the plane, Benjamin chose Golden port as his first base and arranged to receive its people and supplies there.

• Benjamin studied the Divine Power Faith Network and concluded that an efficient energy transmission system came before faith and the birth of gods.
• Over several months, Benjamin researched the Eloria Plane’s residual energy network and integrated what he learned into his wizardry system.
• Benjamin optimized his three Wizardry Models three times, improving their range, intensity, and spiritual-power efficiency.
• Benjamin tested a new Rune Artifact prototype and found that his research had more than doubled its energy conversion efficiency and burst intensity.
• David told Benjamin that the Eloria Plane’s main areas had been cleared and offered him land according to his contribution.
• Benjamin chose Golden port as his first territory and asked David to send the people and notes there, along with enhancement potions in batches.

Benjamin claimed the ruins of Golden port and prepared to rebuild the region as a vast garden and research ground. He settled tens of thousands of modified new residents there and left them to begin construction.

• Benjamin secured ownership of Golden port, returned to his preserved manor, and used Rune Artifacts to clear and purify the surrounding ruins.
• Benjamin purchased survival supplies and tools, then arranged for David to bring tens of thousands of selected and preliminarily modified people to the region.
• David explained the residents’ modifications, handed Benjamin his research notes, and departed.
• Benjamin provided the newcomers with temporary housing, food, and water, then ordered the healthy laborers to transform Golden port into an enormous garden.
• Benjamin showed the workers a blueprint of gardens, rivers, grasslands, and research facilities, then left the craftsmen to organize the work.