Chapter Summaries

Benjamin’s All-Purpose Eye accelerated his research into the Divine Power Faith Network, but a sharp decline in Mortal Aura threatened his potion supply and plans for a Level 7 Large Elemental Pool. He decided to leave Eloria and join a planar war to find a new civilization, and Clark agreed to arrange a suitable target.

• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye to make rapid progress researching the Divine Power Faith Network.
• Benjamin discovered that Mortal Aura production had fallen so low that he could no longer gather enough for two bottles of Mortal Dust Potion each month.
• Benjamin concluded that wizard rule had transformed the Golden Garden’s society and weakened the conditions that produced Mortal Aura.
• Benjamin decided to seek a new, uncontrolled society by starting another planar war.
• Benjamin told Mentor Clark he would go to war, and Clark offered to arrange a target through Noren Workshop.

Benjamin learned that he needed to register to join a plane war, and Viola took him to a registration point at the junction of three wizard factions. There, wizards recognized that he had constructed the All-Purpose Eye himself and eagerly crowded around him.

• Benjamin learned that he had missed the Academy’s usual plane-war campaigns and needed to register as a volunteer wizard.
• Viola explained the registration process and offered to take Benjamin to a plane-war site at the border junction of Noren Workshop, the Tower of Silence, and the Chaos Cult.
• Benjamin and Viola traveled through several cross-plane teleportations to a vast fragment of space floating in the void.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye to inspect the area, and nearby wizards recognized the observation method.
• A group of wizards crowded around Benjamin after discovering that he had constructed the All-Purpose Eye himself, while Viola tried to shield him from them.

Benjamin learned that his All-Purpose Eye model had attracted researchers from the Tower of Silence, then toured the junction point with Viola and registered for Plane War missions. He left with a Magic Network Terminal that would notify him when missions were issued.

• Wizards from the Tower of Silence crowded around Benjamin to exchange communication serial numbers and discuss his All-Purpose Eye model, while Viola explained their interest and warned him to avoid the Chaos Cult.
• Viola explained that high-level wizards from the three factions had built the junction point, which had become a Floating Market filled with shops, unusual goods, and spatially distorted streets.
• Viola led Benjamin to the joint administrative center, where they registered for Plane War missions by submitting their information and specialties.
• Benjamin browsed the market, discovered that goods were bought with Military Merit, and chose not to spend his points.
• The otherworldly registration clerk gave Benjamin and Viola identity tokens containing Magic Network Terminals, which would deliver mission notices and provide access to the factions' networks.

Benjamin received a Substitute Doll from Mentor Clark, which could revive him using a specially prepared spare body if he died. Clark completed the replica body and allowed Benjamin to store it in his private laboratory before the expedition.

• Benjamin returned to the Golden Garden to prepare for the expedition, then answered Mentor Clark's summons to Noren Academy.
• Clark asked Benjamin for bodily materials and mental power, then gave him a Substitute Doll that could guide his life essence back after death if a spare body was available.
• Clark revealed that his own mentor had made the doll and expected Benjamin to provide ten more tubes of Mortal Dust Potion.
• The next day, Clark showed Benjamin a completed replica body preserved in an Incubator.
• Benjamin asked to store the spare body in Clark's private laboratory, and Clark agreed to hide it in a concealed compartment behind several layers of restrictions.

Benjamin and Viola gathered with thousands of wizards for a campaign, and Viola explained how rented planes carried armies through the Chaotic Void. The expedition’s Level 5 and Level 6 leaders arrived, leaving Benjamin keenly aware of the overwhelming power of high-level wizards.

• Benjamin checked the Golden Garden, contacted Viola, and met her at the junction point after receiving the assembly notice.
• Viola warned Benjamin to distrust wizards from the Tower of Silence and the Chaos Cult, and the two waited as forces from three factions assembled.
• Viola explained that planes crossed the Chaotic Void as warships and described the dangers of the void and the role of Plane Barriers.
• An immense barren war plane appeared above the junction point, and tens of thousands of wizards gathered to board it for the campaign.
• Three Level 5 Wizards and the expedition’s Level 6 Wizard descended from the plane, and Benjamin felt their formidable presence.

Benjamin joined a Wizard expedition aboard a plane that Augustine transported through the Chaotic Void, witnessing the power of high-level Wizards firsthand. After the Wizards prepared for an invasion, Viola explained that their scant intelligence came from observing the target plane and sensing its two Level 6 lifeforms from afar.

• Augustine of the Tower of Silence ordered the participating Wizards to board the Desolate Plane and depart.
• Benjamin and Viola landed on the plane, and Augustine connected it to the Plane Origin and sent it sailing through space.
• Benjamin observed Wizards deploying Biochemical Beasts and Golems as an advance force while he and Viola prepared for their Logistics Department duties.
• Benjamin checked the Magic Network Terminal and found only that the target plane had two Level 6 lifeforms and unusually active Fire and Water Elements.
• Viola explained that the intelligence came from external observation and that Level 6 lifeforms resonated with the Plane Origin, making them detectable from the Chaotic Void.

Benjamin and Viola arrived at the Frostfire Plane, where their presence tore open the sky above a world divided between fire and ice. Mistaking the incoming wizards for an invasion by their ancient enemies, the Lava Giant king Kalamus and Snow Monster king Agron both mobilized their armies for war.

• Viola explained that wizards who posted missions at junction points intended to conquer orderly-rule planes and make them their Wizard Towers.
• The plane shook as a breach opened in its barrier, and Viola announced that the wizards had arrived at their destination.
• The chapter introduced the Frostfire Plane, its Blazing Sun Realm and Frost Dark Realm, and the rival Lava Giant and Snow Monster civilizations locked in a stalemate.
• A guard alerted Kalamus to the enormous rift and the object in the sky, and the king summoned his Prophet to interpret the omen.
• The Prophet confirmed an ancient prophecy of enemies descending from the sky, so Kalamus ordered his legions to assemble at the Junction Mountains.
• Agron heard of the sky anomaly and likewise called the Snow Monster clans to arms, with both kings mistaking the incoming force for an attack by their sworn foes.

The wizards fought their way into the Frostfire Plane, overcoming the native armies long enough to secure a landing point. Benjamin and Viola began building the invasion’s outpost as the planar war began.

• The Chaotic Void’s distorted time allowed Kalamus and Agron to assemble their forces before the wizards arrived, and their flying legions attacked the plane ship.
• Wizard Augustine sent the wizards’ cannon-fodder armies into battle, and after days of fighting they wore down the natives’ aerial forces and advanced toward the Frostfire Plane.
• Kalamus and Agron attacked the wizard front, but Master Elwin held them back until the wizards secured a landing point.
• Master Elwin retreated after fighting both monster kings, and Kalamus and Agron withdrew with their battered armies.
• Wizard Augustine ordered the camp defenses and energy furnaces built, and Viola assigned Benjamin to construct the core energy matrix.

Benjamin and Viola observed how the wizards’ invasion strategy exploited the hostility between the Lava Giants and Snow Monsters, while Benjamin analyzed unusual resources from the plane. The chapter ended with Benjamin realizing that Logistics Department wizards were rare across wizard factions, unlike at Noren Workshop.

• Benjamin and Viola concluded that Master Elwin’s apparent defeat had been intended to exhaust the two Native powerhouses and keep the opposing races from fully uniting.
• Master Elwin sent an urgent notice stating that he had truly been overwhelmed by the combined attack of two Level 6 Natives, prompting the wizards to recognize the plane’s likely wealth of resources.
• The wizards established a fortified camp as the fighting diminished, and Benjamin analyzed Blazing Light Grass, which could form a fire-resistant membrane.
• Benjamin discovered that Iceburst Crystal erupted destructively when exposed to intense heat, and Tower of Silence wizards took the material to use as a casting resource.
• Viola explained that Logistics Department wizards were scarce in most factions, and Benjamin recognized that the camp’s nearly empty research area reflected their small numbers.

Benjamin analyzed a captured Lava Giant and uncovered its physiology, abilities, and vulnerabilities. He sent commanders a tactical report recommending combined low-temperature and physical attacks, along with high-frequency sonic waves.

• Benjamin was assigned to study captured Lava Giants because the Logistics Department lacked manpower.
• Benjamin used the All-Purpose Eye and Alchemy to examine a bound Lava Giant and found its rock skin could self-repair, its lava served as living tissue, and its body could digest minerals and breathe.
• Benjamin discovered that Lava Giants could sense heat, elemental energy, low-frequency vibrations, and underground tremors, and that they were powerful, fire-immune fighters.
• Benjamin found that prolonged heat let Lava Giants shift into a regenerating liquid-lava form, while extreme cold slowed their movement and regeneration by rigidifying their outer bodies.
• Benjamin wrote and uploaded a tactical report recommending low-temperature attacks followed by physical strikes, and noting that suffocation spells and high-frequency sonic waves could also hinder Lava Giants.

Benjamin collected battlefield Killing Intent and deathly aura with his Qi-Gathering Gourd while wizards around him salvaged materials from the landing battle. He learned that his reports had helped low-level wizards capture Lava Giants alive, making him a respected biologist in camp.

• Benjamin went to the battlefield and used his Qi-Gathering Gourd to absorb the lingering Killing Intent and deathly aura.
• Low-level wizards praised Benjamin for his reports and credited his advice with helping them counter Lava Giants.
• Benjamin reflected that wizards had successfully used suffocation techniques and High-Frequency Sonic Waves to immobilize Lava Giants.
• The wizards valued those methods because they let them capture living Lava Giants for study, servitude, and trade.
• Benjamin recognized that more advanced researchers would eventually surpass his findings, but he was glad his work had helped others.

The Lava Giants and Snow Monsters launched a massive assault on the Wizard Camp, where the battle turned against the wizards after the Lava Giants activated three strategic volcanoes. As Kalamos celebrated their advantage, he sensed a terrifying force gathering beneath the spatial rift at the battlefield’s center.

• Kalamos and Agron led enormous Lava Giant and Snow Monster armies in an assault on the Wizard Camp, and Augustine ordered the camp to prepare for battle.
• The wizards’ Golems and biochemical beasts clashed with the monster armies while Combat Department wizards supported them from behind the defensive line, leaving the front deadlocked.
• The Lava Giants redirected magma through underground earth veins to charge three volcanoes, which fired crimson beams into the battlefield.
• The beams unleashed extreme heat and underground lava, devastating the Snow Monsters and wizard forces while empowering the Lava Giants and forcing the wizard line back several kilometers.
• Kalamos ordered his subordinates to keep charging the volcanoes, then sensed a terrifying force gathering beneath the spatial rift and demanded to know what it was.

A targeted destructive spell developed by Master Elwin annihilated nearly ten million Lava Giants on the Frostfire Plane, turning the wizard expedition’s desperate defense into a rout of the Native armies. As the Snow Monsters and surviving Lava Giants fled, Viola told Benjamin that the war had entered its second stage.

• Benjamin watched the besieged wizards’ battle line falter as Lava Giants and Snow Monsters overwhelmed their limited forces.
• A colossal cannon on the Wizard "Ship" Plane fired a beam formulated to dismantle the Lava Giants’ elemental structure.
• The beam left the other beings and terrain unharmed but annihilated nearly ten million Lava Giants within seconds.
• Augustine ordered the combat wizards and cannon fodder to advance, and the wizards routed the remaining Native armies.
• Kalamus and Agron retreated in shock, while Viola told Benjamin that the war had entered its second stage.

After the wizards’ devastating attack routed the Frostfire Plane’s defenders, Benjamin and Viola led a squad in pursuit. When thousands of Lava Giants turned to fight, Benjamin’s Floating Cannons and sonic spells suppressed them, but the enemy focused its attacks on him and engulfed him in fire.

• Augustine ordered the wizards to pursue the fleeing Lava Giants and Snow Monsters and collect war materials and living specimens.
• Viola led a temporary squad into enemy territory, where a Level 4 Lava Giant general rallied several thousand Lava Giants to counterattack.
• Viola engaged the general while Ashe, Locke, and the other wizards fought the remaining Lava Giants.
• Benjamin used six Autonomous Floating Cannons and repeated High-Frequency Sonic Wave spells to suppress thousands of Lava Giants.
• The Lava Giants concentrated their attacks on Benjamin, and their barrage swallowed him.

Benjamin used defensive Rune Artifacts and wide-area High-Frequency Sonic Waves to withstand the Lava Giants’ attacks and help the wizards win the battle. After Viola awarded him the largest share of the spoils, the remaining wizards argued over how to divide what was left.

• Benjamin survived the Lava Giants’ concentrated attacks with layered defenses from Rune Artifacts while suppressing enemies with High-Frequency Sonic Waves.
• Viola and the other wizards kept powerful Lava Giants occupied as Benjamin drew enemy fire, allowing them to defeat or capture several thousand foes.
• Viola severely wounded and suppressed the Level 4 Lava Giant commander, and the wizards turned their attention to Benjamin as the battle’s greatest contributor.
• Viola awarded Benjamin most of the Level 2 Lava Giants and some Level 1 corpses, and he stored his share in his Space Expansion Bag.
• The remaining wizards argued over the division of the other captives and corpses, criticizing one another’s contributions as tensions rose.

Benjamin discovered that wizards generated Mortal Aura when conflict over resources stirred their emotions, then traded Lava Giants for living Snow Monsters at the Wizard Camp. An urgent mission called for him to help simplify destructive wizardry against both kinds of creatures, led by Master Elwin and the familiar Roland Vannar.

• Benjamin sensed Mortal Aura gathering from wizards arguing over spoils and realized that competition for resources awakened their suppressed emotions.
• Benjamin left the battlefield, returned to the Wizard Camp, and traded living Lava Giants and research materials for living Snow Monsters.
• Benjamin began examining a Snow Monster in his temporary laboratory.
• The Magic Network Terminal announced missions to simplify Lava Annihilation and Frost Soul Disintegration for combat wizards.
• Benjamin recognized Roland Vannar, one of the mission leaders, as a wizard he had met at the junction point.

After a year of deadlocked warfare on the Frostfire Plane, Benjamin completed most of his wizardry assignments as he and Viola learned that victories in the Natives’ wars shifted the boundary between their realms. The discovery left the wizards eager to exploit the two races’ stubborn resistance and potentially acquire knowledge held by their leaders.

• Benjamin completed his year-long work adapting targeted destructive wizardries and began modifying Level 1 Lava Annihilation into a nonlethal suppression spell.
• Benjamin and Viola discussed the Natives’ relentless attacks, their rapid reproduction, and the heavy workload the battles created for the Logistics Department.
• A Logistics Department wizard discovered that the Lava Giants and Snow Monsters fought because victory shifted the boundary between the Blazing Sun Realm and the Frost Dark Realm.
• Viola suggested the two races’ leaders could influence elemental Plane projections, and Benjamin realized Wizard Augustine could gain valuable knowledge from the Level 6 monster kings.
• Benjamin and Viola examined survey data showing that the boundary could extend more than eighty percent into either race’s territory and welcomed the Natives’ continued resistance.

Benjamin left the camp to search the Blazing Sun Realm for Mortal Aura and tracked a Lava Giant scouting party to its hidden settlement. After bypassing the settlement’s energy barrier by tunneling through solid rock, he infiltrated the Lava Giants’ cavern and faced a vast population inside.

• Benjamin quietly left the Wizard Camp and flew toward the Blazing Sun Realm to search for Mortal Aura.
• At an abandoned Lava Giant town, Benjamin used his Floating Cannons and Rune Artifact to destroy a scouting party of more than a hundred Level 1 Lava Giants and three Level 2 Lava Giants.
• Benjamin searched a Level 2 Lava Giant’s soul and learned that the Lava Giants hid deep underground in lava veins.
• Benjamin followed the memories to a volcanic crater, entered the lava, and located the settlement’s energy-barrier entrance.
• Unable to break the barrier without alerting the Lava Giants, Benjamin used Alchemy to tunnel over a kilometer through rock and hardened magma beside it.
• Benjamin emerged inside a vast underground cavern filled with Lava Giants and sealed the tunnel behind him.

Benjamin hid near a Lava Giant stronghold to collect Mortal Aura, but discovered that none came from the giants. He emerged to attack the gathering point, aiming to capture its leader and learn the location of a larger settlement.

• Benjamin concealed himself underground and observed the Lava Giant stronghold while considering how their Mortal Aura might affect Mortal Dust Potion.
• Benjamin discovered that his Talisman Seal collected Mortal Aura from nearby wizards but none from the Lava Giants, so he suspected their stronghold might not count as a true society.
• Benjamin decided to question the stronghold’s leader for the coordinates of a larger gathering point and revealed himself to draw the Lava Giants out.
• Benjamin attacked with his Great Light Manifestation array, six Autonomous Floating Cannons, and high-frequency sonic magic, blasting apart the first group of giants.
• Benjamin redirected the Great Light Manifestation toward a second group of Lava Giants as they began to gather.

Benjamin killed a Lava Giant leader and learned the location of a secret advanced gathering point, then teamed up with three wizards to infiltrate it. They discovered a hidden underground plantation where the Lava Giants grew plants as livestock feed.

• Benjamin defeated the Lava Giants, used Soul Search on their leader, and learned how to enter a secret gathering point that might contain Level 3 Lava Giants.
• Benjamin encountered a hunting party of one Level 2 Wizard and two Level 1 Wizards, and they agreed to cooperate after exchanging intelligence about their shared target.
• The four wizards followed a scout through a hidden cave and traveled through lava veins to reach the gathering point.
• The wizards emerged into a vast underground plantation illuminated by an artificial energy sphere, where the Lava Giants grew special plants as livestock feed.