Recaps

Velin collected three Seven-Colored Life Flowers from the cave beneath Lake of Star Prayer and gave one to Kyle, promising it could help him break through to Silver. After preparing development plans and inspecting his territory, Velin assembled his forces to depart for the border between Cadro Province and Xylos Province.

• Velin secretly dove into the lake, harvested three mature Seven-Colored Life Flowers, and reserved one for Kyle.
• Velin sparred with Kyle, tested his progress, and gave him advice on improving his combat skills.
• Velin gave Kyle a Seven-Colored Life Flower and said Kyle had earned the chance through his loyalty.
• Velin spent two days writing development and contingency plans for his territory before explaining them to its town mayors.
• Velin inspected local estates and businesses, visited Lady Anastasia, and secretly probed Priest Lavia.
• Velin prepared to lead soldiers, knights, Kyle, Imogen, Greg, and auxiliary militiamen to the border between Cadro Province and Xylos Province.

Velin arrived at Baxia Camp with his troops and met Madmonchi, who assigned him to the logistics department for the coming war. After learning about the legion’s factions and speaking with Flora, Velin heard his Third Uncle Bamund call for him outside the tent.

• Velin reached Baxia Camp on December 26 with more than eight hundred soldiers and set up camp in the logistics area.
• Madmonchi praised Velin’s troops and assigned him to escort supplies with the Logistics Unit, where Flora and Layla would also serve.
• Madmonchi explained the Sailop Legion’s three factions and warned Velin that the full-scale offensive would begin in January.
• Flora told Velin she rarely saw Bamund because he was stationed at the Seventeenth Legion’s restricted military stronghold.
• Bamund called to Velin from outside the tent, and Velin went out to welcome him.

Velin reunited with Bamund, who gave him a Magic Protection Device and agreed to meet the family members serving in the Sailop Legion on January 10th. The next morning, Velin set out with Kyle to find Baron Olcott’s encampment.

• Bamund warmly greeted Velin and Flora in Velin’s tent, and praised Velin for becoming a Baron.
• Bamund gave Velin a Magic Protection Device that could withstand Gold-grade attacks.
• Bamund agreed to meet the family members in the Sailop Legion on January 10th.
• Velin gave the Magic Protection Device to Flora, explaining that he did not need it to protect himself.
• The next morning, Velin and Kyle crossed the camp and asked a noble for directions to Baron Olcott’s encampment.
• Velin and Kyle headed northeast toward Baron Olcott’s encampment in the Sixth Legion.

Velin visited his uncle Olcott’s camp, discussed family connections and military service, and arranged a banquet to bring their relatives together. At the banquet, Bamund took charge while Velin stepped back and let the elders reconnect.

• Velin visited Olcott’s camp, where he spoke with an officer whose grandfather had died helping open the family’s territory.
• Olcott welcomed Velin, and they discussed Velin’s assignment to the Logistics Unit and the value of making connections there.
• Velin asked Olcott to notify Edgar and Brian about a family gathering planned for January 10th, after telling him that Bamund had become Deputy Legion Commander of the Seventeenth Legion.
• Velin spent the following months teaching Kyle to Train Troops with three hundred Auxiliary Soldiers, while Edgar and Brian arrived and briefly met with him and Olcott.
• Velin hosted the January 10th banquet and asked Bamund to manage it; Bamund greeted the assembled relatives and took the seat of honor as Velin sat quietly below Aunt Flora.

Bamund reunited with his relatives at a banquet, while Velin saw how skillfully his uncle drew the family closer. After the Sailop Legion deployed, Velin took command of the Thirteenth Transport Battalion and began inspecting the noble-born conscripts assigned to it.

• Bamund reminisced with Olcott, Kadeqi, and Flora, advised Brian, and offered Edgar help as they celebrated together.
• Velin was impressed by Bamund's efforts to learn about his relatives and strengthen their bonds.
• Ten days later, the Sailop Legion departed Baxia Great Camp, and Velin was appointed commander of the Thirteenth Transport Battalion, responsible for supplying the Sixth Legion alongside the Fourteenth.
• Velin ordered Kyle to count the noble-born among his assigned troops, and Kyle gathered more than sixty youths.
• Velin questioned Kuk Doslan and learned that the Doslan Baron Family had provided five Bronze professionals, fifty regular soldiers, and three hundred and fifty auxiliary soldiers.

Velin reorganized the 3,200 men under his command and ordered Imogen and Greg to make them disciplined soldiers within ten days. He learned that his first supply mission to the Sixth Legion would be in twenty-eight days, then heard about an auction fifty kilometers west of Baxia Camp.

• Velin let the nobles retain command of their men while Kyle reorganized the troops into three brigades and appointed banner officers.
• Velin reviewed and signed Kyle’s roster, declared his orders absolute, and warned the troops that retreat or disobedience would be punished by execution.
• Velin ordered Imogen and Greg to train the 3,200 men for ten days, focusing on discipline and obedience.
• Velin visited the Logistics Camp, where Flora complained about her duties and Layla delivered pastries before Velin asked about his battalion’s first mission.
• Layla told Velin that his Thirteenth Transport Battalion would deliver supplies to the Sixth Legion in twenty-eight days and mentioned an auction west of Baxia Camp.

Velin learned that the military operation would last for years and saw a commercial camp spring up beside Baxia Great Camp, where merchants sold goods including half-elf prisoners of war. He claimed a plot of land and had his knights build a courtyard, preparing to establish a presence in the camp.

• Flora and Layla told Velin that the military operation could last eight years as the kingdom rotated troops ahead of a future war with the dwarves.
• Velin left his aunt’s workstation with Kyle and rode with six knights to inspect the commercial camp near Baxia Great Camp.
• Velin saw merchants selling half-elf captives from the war between the Kingdom of Kuber and the Isle Half-elf Kingdom, and explained to Kyle why the trade was legally tolerated.
• Velin chose land on the northwest side of the camp and ordered his knights to claim it by building a fence and house.
• Velin and his knights cut timber and built a three-hundred-square-meter courtyard around their banner.

Velin secured a commercial plot, met the mysterious noble Krell, and returned to Baxia Great Camp to resume his duties. By February 26th, a convoy of fifty Kakalos giant beasts was loaded with supplies for transport.

• Velin ordered Kyle to leave guards at the plot and arrange for Raimondo to send a caravan with goods.
• Krell joined Velin and his men by the fire, and Velin deduced that Krell came from the Royal Capital by his accent and cloud silk scarf.
• Velin and Krell shared Kyle's soup before Krell left to report to the front, promising to discover Velin's identity later.
• Velin returned to Baxia Great Camp, left two knights to guard the plot, and resumed observing his troops' training while continuing his druid training.
• On February 26th, fifty Kakalos giant beasts were loaded with food, weapons, potions, holy water, and clothing.

Velin led the Thirteenth Transport Battalion through the Graylight Wasteland on its first supply mission, where Guga’s forces ambushed the camp at night. Velin halted the Lizardmen’s attempt to burn the supplies and charged into battle, leaving the fight underway.

• Velin led the 3,200-man Thirteenth Transport Battalion toward the Sixth Legion, keeping the troops alert as they crossed the Graylight Wasteland.
• Guga gathered Goblins, Kobolds, and Lizardmen to attack the transport battalion and burn its rations, targeting the giant beasts carrying supplies.
• At around two in the morning, Guga sent Goblins and Kobolds against the Left Wing while Lizardmen moved toward the Right Wing.
• Imogen ordered the archers to fire, and Greg organized the soldiers’ shield wall to hold off the charging monsters.
• Velin sensed the approaching Lizardmen and killed their leading Silver Low-Tier warrior with a thrown spear.
• Velin ordered Kyle to hold the Right Wing, then drew his sword and charged the Lizardmen.

Velin’s transport battalion fought off repeated Monster Clan attacks and reached the Sixth Legion’s camp with supplies, including urgently needed medical supplies. There, Velin found his injured cousin Brian, who survived a dangerous attack thanks to Adrian.

• Velin killed Lizardman Warriors during an ambush, but the deputy captain escaped by using a clansman to deflect Velin’s thrown Spear.
• Guga’s forces abandoned their Goblin cannon fodder and retreated, while Velin ordered the dead collected and the transport battalion to continue onward.
• After further attacks on the road, Kyle reported that the Sixth Legion’s camp was only twenty kilometers away.
• Velin arrived at the camp and learned that a monster attack had broken through its Left Wing and destroyed its medical supplies, so the legion urgently unloaded the supplies from his shipment.
• Velin found Brian with his right arm injured, and Adrian gave him an Ice Blue Potion; Brian said Adrian had saved him from a Gnoll.

Velin sold Brian Ice Blue Magic Potion and learned about the heavy casualties and expected timeline of the campaign. After Brian and Velin made an informal bet over who would become a Viscount first, the Thirteenth Transport Battalion set out for Baxia Great Camp.

• Brian bought two hundred bottles of Ice Blue Magic Potion from Velin, and Adrian advised Velin to charge higher prices to outside customers.
• Brian told Velin that Olcott's force had suffered ten percent casualties and Edgar's fifteen percent, while the first phase of the campaign was expected to last about half a year.
• Velin and Brian made an informal bet over who would become a Viscount first.
• Adrian told Brian that Velin had raised a Silver Knight from scratch, prompting Brian to give up competing and watch Velin's rise instead.
• Velin visited Olcott and Edgar and arranged to sell them six hundred bottles of Ice Blue Magic Potion.
• On the morning of the third day, the Thirteenth Transport Battalion began its return to Baxia Great Camp.

Velin returned safely to Baxia Great Camp after completing his first transport mission, then learned how devastating the front-line supply routes had become. He prepared his battalion for harder missions while refusing additional recruits and arranging urgent supplies.

• Guga dismissed reports of a Human Transport Team from the Sixth Legion and ordered his troops not to attack it.
• Velin's convoy reached Baxia Great Camp with 3,500 of its original 4,000 men after defeating a Goblin force and its Lizardman fighters along the way.
• Velin completed the mission paperwork with Flora, who told him the Third Transport Battalion had suffered sixty percent casualties on its latest run.
• Velin told Flora that the Sixth Legion had been attacked and its camp breached, but declined her offer to replace him on transport duty.
• Velin ordered Kyle to schedule three days of rest, increase training afterward, request weapons and Ice Blue Potions from Belder, and promote the potion at twelve Gold Coins per bottle.

Velin received news of three Mutated Griffin Eggs and learned that Moonwater Manor had produced Glowing Wine, which could repair hidden injuries. After sharing the wine with Flora, he left her feeling restored and reassured her about their close relationship.

• Velin decided to write his father a coded letter about the distant Mutated Moonlight Flower and learned that three Mutated Griffin Eggs would arrive at Baxia Great Camp in two months.
• Belder sent Velin supplies, letters, and twenty bottles of Glowing Wine, while Roccus's letter reported that Moonwater Manor had produced 120 bottles.
• Velin drank a bottle of Glowing Wine, recovered from its intoxicating effects, and gave Kyle instructions for distributing wine and handling the supplies.
• Velin brought Glowing Wine to Flora, who drank a cup and became dizzy before recovering from the wine's effects.
• Flora realized the Glowing Wine had repaired hidden injuries, thanked Velin, and accepted his reassurance that she did not need to feel guilty about their relationship.

Velin’s second transport mission began as Guga prepared a large monster force to ambush the convoy and faced pressure from the half-dragon Nurul. When the convoy changed its route and failed to appear, Guga grew desperate and attacked one of his own warriors.

• Velin returned to the garrison and prepared for the second transport mission, which set out from Baxia Great Camp on April 15th.
• The half-dragon warrior Nurul demanded results from Guga, took his magic crystals, and gave him a month and an advanced berserk black Magic Potion to destroy a human convoy.
• Guga mobilized his growing forces and set traps, while Velin’s transport team received new directions and took a route that bypassed the planned ambush.
• After waiting days for the convoy, Guga became exhausted and feared being made the proto-form of a dark war beast.
• When a lizard warrior suggested Guga rest nearby, Guga attacked and tore out the warrior’s heart as the others backed away.

Guga’s monster army broke apart after his Lizard Warriors turned against one another. Velin reunited with Krell at the Sixth Legion’s camp, learned about a secret exchange-student deal, and ended the chapter awaiting Lord Olcott and an unfamiliar nobleman.

• Guga killed the turncoat Lizard Warrior, then left with trusted subordinates as the remaining Lizard Warriors dispersed with their own followers.
• Velin arrived at the Sixth Legion’s encampment and delivered Ice Blue Potion and Glowing Wine to his relatives.
• Velin reunited with Krell, who explained that he was serving as the Sixth Legion’s inspector and revealed plans to send exchange students to four legions in exchange for discounted Floating Battleships.
• Velin and Krell shared wine and stories late into the night, and Kyle helped Velin return to camp.
• Kyle reported that Lord Olcott had arrived with an unfamiliar nobleman, and Velin ordered them admitted.

Velin sold Algenon Barrit a thousand Ice Blue Magic Potions and accepted a leisure manor, then returned from his transport assignment. After decoding Velin’s warning about a Blessed Moonlight Flower, Angus traveled to Duke Moravia and secured Klarins’s reluctant agreement to investigate it.

• Velin offered Algenon Barrit a thousand Ice Blue Magic Potions at a discount, accepted a leisure manor from him, and signed the order.
• Velin told Kyle they would leave the day after tomorrow, then returned to camp half a month later and completed his second transport assignment.
• Angus decoded Velin’s letter about a Blessed Moonlight Flower in a cavern near the border and set off for West River Province.
• Angus reached Duke Moravia’s territory and told Duke Moravia about the flower.
• Duke Moravia summoned Klarins and forced him to agree to take on the task.

Duke of Moravia sent Klarins to retrieve the Blessed Moonlight Flowers, then trapped Angus in the Mage Tower’s trials and arranged for him to visit the Star Scar Pool. Klarins stole the flowers and escaped unnoticed, while Velin disguised himself to inspect the commercial camp and look for bargains.

• Duke of Moravia sent Klarins through a Spatial Channel and captured Angus in another, instructing the tower spirit to take him to the Star Scar Pool after he cleared the trials.
• Klarins traveled through the Shadow World, scouted the area, and found a hidden hollow containing eighty-seven Blessed Moonlight Flowers.
• Klarins uprooted and stored all the flowers, then departed without being noticed, though Amros briefly sensed something might be wrong.
• Troops returned to Baxia Great Camp as the first phase of military operations approached its end, and the commercial camp grew busy.
• Velin visited the commercial camp with Kyle, identified the Hax Family's stall, and had Kyle disguise him before they went out.

Velin bought three mutated griffin eggs from a blind-box shop and returned with them to the Baxia Great Camp. After another supply mission brought him back to the Sixth Legion, he met Krell, who discussed the war’s approaching first-stage end and their future assignments.

• Velin and Kyle bought five blind boxes from Shop No. 23, while Toma Hax laughed that Velin had purchased three bad eggs.
• Velin returned to his shop, learned that nobles were eagerly buying the ice blue potion, and gave Kyle two boxes to open, which contained an ordinary pearl and a poetry book.
• Velin revealed that his remaining three boxes contained mutated griffin eggs and brought them back to the Baxia Great Camp that afternoon.
• Two days later, the Thirteenth Transport Battalion departed on another mission, and half a month later it reached the Sixth Legion camp.
• Velin met Krell, who said frontline troops would withdraw in early July and second-line troops in mid-July, and explained that he would likely remain in his post handling Axi Magic Kingdom exchange students.

Velin attended a private banquet hosted by his uncle Olcott, where he met Cassius Lowick and learned that Brian had been arranged to marry Count Miledo’s third daughter. Viscount Moncas spoke of Kadlo Province’s expected victories and three new Viscounts as the banquet began.

• After drinking with Krell, Velin slept through the night and woke with a hangover the next day.
• A messenger invited Velin to Olcott’s private banquet, and Velin accepted.
• At the banquet, Brian introduced Velin to Cassius Lowick, eldest son of Viscount Moncas Lowick.
• Brian told Velin and Cassius that he had been promised in marriage to Count Miledo’s third daughter, and Velin tried to console him.
• Viscount Moncas addressed the nobles, predicting a phased victory and three new Viscounts for Kadlo Province.

Velin warned Krell and Alva about a possible Evil God threat in Baxia Great Camp, prompting Alva to arrange an investigation. When Velin tried to tell his Third Uncle Bamund what he knew, a divine sweep exposed the danger and the camp came under attack.

• After returning to Baxia Great Camp, Velin suspended the Thirteenth Transport Battalion’s training and grew alarmed by news of a curse-masking threat in the camp.
• Velin asked Krell and Alva how people deceived by an Evil God could be identified, but withheld the source of his concern.
• Alva told Krell he would ask his teacher to investigate Baxia Great Camp, while Krell’s Soul Skill had revealed nothing unusual about Velin.
• Velin invited Bamund to his tent and began warning him about the danger in the camp.
• A divine light swept through Baxia Great Camp, revealing fleeing Spirits of Curse, and Bamund and other powerful people destroyed more than a hundred of them.

Bishop Camille exposed and purged Evil God influence among the aristocrats at the Baxia Great Camp, and Velin narrowly avoided becoming a vessel. The investigation then targeted the Hax Family, whose collapse pleased Velin and left Burbon considering whether he could save Amond’s branch.

• Bishop Camille detected Evil God influence across the camp, and more than a hundred aristocrats died as their heads exploded; guards took the remaining afflicted nobles into custody.
• Bamund asked Velin whether he had known about the conspiracy, and Velin admitted that he had; Bamund reassured him that they were family and promised not to pry.
• Over the next half month, the Church and kingdom punished aristocrats with alignment deviations, while the Hax Family faced investigation after sixty percent of its scions in the Sailop Legion showed alignment issues.
• Velin celebrated the Hax Family’s downfall with Kyle and explained that its members had already been placed under house arrest to prevent them from evading the investigation.
• The Eleventh Magic Legion and Seventeenth Legion suppressed Amond Hax’s Second Legion, and Burbon later visited the detained Amond to offer to separate his direct lineage if possible.
• Amond told Burbon that the Hax Family was difficult to save and warned that the powerful Ex Family would push for harsher punishment.

Velin earned 2.5 Battle Merit for the Thirteenth Transport Battalion’s missions and attended Madmonk’s gathering to learn about recommending promising lower-ranking nobles to the Sixteenth Silver Knight Order. After Kyle selected twenty candidates, Velin hosted them and offered to recommend them for junior officer positions.

• Amond accepted responsibility for his family’s actions, and Burborn promised to protect Amond’s branch before leaving.
• Velin became acquainted with Bishop Camille’s disciple Alva, then learned his Battle Merit total had reached 4.5.
• Kyle explained that Madmonk’s gathering would connect patrons with promising lower-ranking nobles, and Velin asked Kyle, Imogen, and Greg to identify candidates.
• Velin attended Madmonk’s masked banquet, where Madmonk offered rewards to attendees who recommended promising talents to the Sixteenth Silver Knight Order.
• Kyle gave Velin a list of twenty promising noble children, and Velin invited them to a banquet.
• Velin told the twenty candidates he would recommend them to the 16th Knight Order for reserve junior officer positions.

Velin returned to Star Prayer Town, reviewed its development into Star Prayer City, and watched three Mutated Griffin Eggs hatch into ugly, featherless chicks before they transformed into majestic blue-and-white griffins a week later. He arranged for the cubs to be raised and began reconsidering the administration of his expanding territory.

• Velin returned home with a little over six hundred soldiers and heard Belder explain Star Prayer City's three districts and their development.
• Velin placed the three Mutated Griffin Eggs in Ice Blue Magic Potion, and Kyle questioned whether the mutation had gone wrong when translucent shells revealed ordinary-looking newborn chicks.
• The eggs cracked open, and Velin ordered Kyle to raise the featherless griffin chicks while he worried that they had turned out badly.
• A week later, the cubs had grown snow-white feathers with blue feathers on their heads and wings, and Velin ordered a small house built and special care provided for them.
• Velin declared that the cubs would support his future Aerial Knight Order, then turned to administrative affairs and reconsidered the divisions of Andrew's rapidly expanding territory.

Velin inspected Qixing Territory’s newly opened land and established Blue Gauze Town as its third town, charging Andrew with developing it into a northern hub. After returning to his routine, Velin received the first harvest of Green Vine Sap and visited Aljettah to discuss the trees’ long maturation time.

• Velin and Andrew explored the newly opened territory and found Blue Gauze Lake, where Velin agreed to establish a town and relocate the Luo Niu Camel ranch.
• Andrew named the new settlement Blue Gauze Town, and Velin divided the territory between Star Prayer Town, Blue Gauze Town, and the Buffer Pioneer Zone.
• Velin told Andrew to develop Blue Gauze Town into a hub connecting Star Prayer Town to the northern regions within two years.
• Landov delivered the first sixteen jin of Green Vine Sap and reported that the five saplings could take twenty-five to thirty years to mature.
• Velin took Landov to the Adventurer's Tavern to meet Aljettah after considering whether the Druid could help accelerate the Green Vine Trees' growth.

Velin arranged for Aljettah to experiment with processing Green Vine Sap into thread, then received invitations to his uncles’ promotion banquet and chose who would represent his territory in exhibition duels. He left two places for Belder and the other twelve subordinates to decide among themselves, while Orlando prepared his brother Hebrew to attend.

• Velin showed Aljettah Green Vine Sap, and Aljettah agreed to try processing it into thread in exchange for some of the sap.
• Belder gave Velin invitations from Lords Olcott and Edgar to a banquet in Gute Territory on November 1st.
• Velin chose Orlando and Hebrew for one exhibition-duel place and left the other two places for Belder and the twelve subordinates to decide within three days.
• Velin explained to Kyle that he wanted to honor his longtime followers while giving Orlando and Hebrew a public stage, and Kyle vowed to remain by his side.
• Orlando caught Hebrew as he tried to flee and scolded him for neglecting his studies.