Chapter Summaries

Ang traveled to Pat City to register his new territory and learned that it bordered the dangerous Beastlands. He accepted appointment as the Beastlands Defense Officer, acquired equipment for a fifty-man unit, and left with a warning about the bandits he would face.

• Ang traveled alone to Pat City while Aida and Aisha returned to River Bay City to resign from their jobs and arrange their family’s move.
• Ang entered the House of Representatives and learned from Baron Allen that his territory bordered the Beastlands, a lawless frontier under Imperial jurisdiction.
• Baron Allen offered Ang the role of Beastlands Defense Officer, and Ang accepted command of an Imperial defense unit of fifty men.
• Ang collected fifty sets of standard weapons and armor from the House’s warehouse, storing them in his Magic Waist Pouch.
• Baron Allen told Ang over lunch about Pat City’s power structure and warned that skilled Beastlands bandit leaders would likely oppose development of his territory.

Ang learned about Pat City's history and the Beastlands' unstable frontier from Baron Allen, then surveyed his new territory and planned how to develop it. He chose a site for his residence and resolved to recruit refugees, build an agricultural and industrial base, and establish connections in Pat City.

• Baron Allen told Ang that the Pat Family had acquired a small plane and that Pat City stood between the Beastlands and Tanaster Province's border.
• Ang drove Old Man's Joy through his territory, assessed its dry soil and short growing season, and identified five rivers and tidal flats as potential water resources.
• Ang found no notable minerals or other resources and chose elevated ground near the water as the site of his residence.
• Ang decided to recruit refugees, grant households farmland, and exempt them from taxes during early reclamation.
• Ang planned to develop agriculture alongside potion production and an Enchanted Armament Workshop, using trade with Pat City to secure income and support.

Ang recruited craftsmen in Pat City to develop his barren territory between the city and the Beastlands. After securing a construction team, supplies, and provisions, he led them to the territory, where the first building materials arrived.

• Ang went to Pat City’s eastern market and, after displaying his Noble Emblem, attracted a group of craftsmen seeking work.
• Ang showed carpenter Dusha his town-planning blueprint and offered twelve Copper Wacks per day, food, lodging, and possible bonuses for the work.
• Dusha recruited more workers, bringing the team to forty, and Ang signed employment agreements and appointed Dusha to manage the construction crew.
• Ang arranged for stone, timber, cooks, grain, and other supplies, then traveled with the workers to his territory in eight carriages.
• The craftsmen admired the territory, and the first shipment of building materials arrived as Ang encouraged the team to begin building together.

Ang used his magical supplies and abilities to organize the Construction Site, win the craftsmen’s confidence, and lay out plans for a growing settlement. The workers began building under Dusha’s direction, and Ang named the new territory North Wind Territory.

• Ang supplied the craftsmen with equipment from his Magic Waist Pouch, then flew to Pat City to buy tents and retrieve Old Man Joy.
• Dusha organized the workers to build a kitchen and shelter, while Ang promised them tents and fresh food for their work.
• Ang showed Dusha a blueprint for the baronial residence and grid-planned roads, prioritizing a route to Pat City.
• Ang named the settlement North Wind Territory and instructed the cooks to prepare filling meals as more workers arrived.
• The craftsmen shared a meal around the bonfires, and the cooks offered relatives who could help prepare food.

Ang expanded construction in the North Wind Territory by recruiting workers and refugees, completing dormitories, and advancing the road to Pat City. After returning to River Bay City to bring his family and arrange for more refugees to join, he returned with Aisha and planned to form a guard unit.

• Ang approved Dusha's boundary markers and sent him to Pat City with money to recruit workers and refugees for the North Wind Territory.
• The craftsmen completed the dormitories, then began building the road to Pat City as construction materials and new workers arrived.
• Dusha returned with more than twenty craftsmen and refugees, and Ang assigned him to manage recruitment and settle the newcomers.
• Ang surveyed the territory's borders, then flew to River Bay City and told his parents he had come to bring them to the North Wind Territory.
• Ang asked Aida to recruit willing refugees and arrange safe transport, while he and Aisha bought winter supplies for the territory.
• Ang returned with Aisha, showed her the developing settlement, and said he would form a guard unit once their parents and Aida arrived.

Ang expanded construction and refugee recruitment in the North Wind Territory, laying out a planned road network and arranging new sources of workers. The territory continued to grow as merchants and nobles took notice of his efforts.

• Ang showed Aisha and Dusha his plan for a grid of roads centered on the baron's residence and set a goal to finish the southern main road before winter.
• Aida arrived with more than thirty refugees, and Ang offered a mercenary captain payment for detailed intelligence about the Beastlands instead of hiring long-term guards.
• Ang housed his parents and Aida in the dormitories while Aisha took charge of assigning and reassuring the new refugees.
• Ang’s construction orders boosted Pat City’s trade, and Baron Allen discussed the young lord’s boldness with other nobles.
• Ang traveled between Pat City and River Bay City to recruit refugees, offering them travel assistance and paying carriage companies to transport willing people safely.
• Refugees arrived in successive groups, joining the North Wind Territory’s construction teams as carriage companies agreed to keep cooperating.

Ang organized North Wind Territory’s growing population and planned orderly construction while seeking more craftsmen. As the baron’s residence began to take shape, he carved a magic shield array beneath its foundation to protect it.

• Aisha reported that North Wind Territory had registered 841 residents, and Ang instructed her to keep records of all newcomers and prepare an orderly village with homes, markets, warehouses, and schools.
• Ang sent Dusha to buy tents and winter clothes, then tasked him with recruiting craftsmen from towns between Pat City and River Bay City at 12 Copper Wack per day.
• After the southern road was completed and the workforce grew to more than 150, Ang divided the craftsmen between building his residence and residents’ homes.
• Ang explained that the baron’s residence would include his family home and territory offices, then began carving a magic shield array into its foundation.

Ang expanded the North Wind Territory by recruiting craftsmen, arranging affordable homes for residents, and planning further infrastructure as winter arrived. With over two thousand people in the territory, he set a goal of completing one thousand residences before spring and rebuked Aida for complaining about construction work.

• Dusha recruited more than seventy craftsmen, and Ang welcomed him and his wife as official residents of the North Wind Territory.
• Ang reassigned craftsmen to build residences and offered residents homes they could pay for through work while the territory covered their food costs.
• After the baron's manor was completed and winter arrived, Aisha reported that the territory held over two thousand people in 804 households.
• Ang learned that about 240 residences were complete and told Dusha to reach a goal of one thousand before spring, then planned a reservoir after construction.
• Aida complained about laboring at the construction site, but Ang rebuked him for shirking responsibility, and Aida promised to work harder.

Ang oversaw North Wind Territory’s winter housing boom, learned that barbarians and elusive beasts were present in the Beastlands, and attended Baron Allen’s ball with Aisha to strengthen ties with Pat City’s nobles. After returning, he put Aida in charge of identifying candidates for a fifty-person defense force to be formed after winter.

• Ang kept construction moving through the winter, while his parents recuperated at the baron’s residence and nearly five hundred homes were built for residents.
• A mercenary captain reported Green Wolves, wild cattle, and traces of barbarians in the Beastlands, and Ang paid him ten Magic Crystals for the survey.
• Ang and the residents celebrated Blessing Day, and the territory’s rapid growth drew attention and invitations from Pat City’s nobles.
• Ang and Aisha attended Baron Allen’s ball, where Ang met Baron MacGhee, Baron Farabe, and other nobles and learned about their struggles to preserve inherited titles.
• On the journey home, Ang explained noble gatherings to Aisha, who found the ball novel at first but ultimately tedious.
• Ang asked Aida to observe suitable young residents and select candidates for a defense force of fifty people after winter, emphasizing that character mattered more than ability.

Ang planned North Wind Territory’s housing construction and Guard Team, then traveled to Pat City to find a magic furnace and special ores while searching for a way to help his ailing father. He left Baron Allen’s residence intending to visit the Mage Association and the Heart of Stone merchant company.

• Ang assigned Dusha to finish the territory’s homes, asked Aisha to assess residents’ satisfaction, and directed Aida to organize adult men for the Guard Team.
• Ang ordered a barracks and training ground planned and had the craftsmen prioritize building a Tall Tower for a future loudspeaker.
• Ang’s father’s health worsened despite Healing Potions and the Holy Light Technique, so Ang decided to seek help in Pat City.
• Baron Allen directed Ang to the Mage Association for a magic furnace and recommended the Heart of Stone merchant company for his ore needs.
• Ang thanked Baron Allen and planned to visit the Mage Association first, followed by the Heart of Stone merchant company.

Ang visited the Pat City Mage Association to order two magical furnaces and joined the association. After touring the Mage Tower and speaking with President Aden, he learned about its members, rules, and local sources for resources.

• Ang met President Aden at the Mage Tower and ordered one large and one small magical furnace for 1,600 magic crystals, paying in advance for delivery in about three months.
• Aden invited Ang to join the Pat City Mage Association, and Ang accepted in exchange for access to its resources and a monthly salary of one magic crystal.
• Aden showed Ang the five-floor tower and explained that the association had five official members, though only Aden and Nathan regularly worked there.
• Ang learned that association members had to report before leaving Pat City and could be summoned during emergencies involving the Black Magic Society.
• Aden shared his water-magic experience with Ang, then advised him to seek specialized herbs through merchants and suggested Heart of Stone for ore or Tan'anster City for broader supplies.

Ang purchased ore and other supplies in Pat City, then established a provisional Guard Team in North Wind Territory. The chapter ended with eighty recruits preparing to begin training.

• Ang met Baron Fiad at Heart of Stone and bought the available black iron ore and ordinary iron ore for North Wind Territory.
• Ang visited other trading houses to purchase charcoal and auxiliary materials, which the merchants promised to deliver within one or two days.
• Ang invited eligible men to volunteer for the North Wind Territory Guard Team, and more than twenty declined to join.
• Ang and Aisha tested the volunteers and selected eighty men as provisional members.
• Aisha announced the Guard Team’s duties and pay, and Ang explained that membership carried a responsibility to protect the territory.
• Ang had Aisha arrange a training plan for the provisional Guard Team.

Ang organized North Wind Territory’s eighty reserve members into a disciplined Guard Team and secured more equipment through Baron Allen. Their dinner ended with Allen agreeing to supply the territory with horses for patrols.

• Aisha briefed the reserve members on Guard Team duties and recorded their abilities, while Ang divided them into eight squads and appointed Aida chief instructor with Bruno, Sanchez, Walder, and Slock as deputies.
• Ang promised the Guard Team a monthly Holy Light Technique bath, and Aisha announced the reward to enthusiastic cheers from the members.
• Ang requested additional equipment from Allen, who agreed to provide fifty more sets and accepted Ang’s invitation to dinner.
• At dinner, Ang and Allen discussed the territory’s needs, and Allen agreed to sell Ang twenty-Gold-Wack nags from his horse farm and arrange their delivery.

Ang equipped the North Wind Territory’s guards with horses and oversaw new infrastructure as winter gave way to spring. With the residences and military camp finished, he asked Aisha to recruit her former classmates to staff potion production and enchanting workshops.

• Baron Allen delivered one hundred horses, saddles, and experienced grooms, and Ang ordered stables built beside the military camp.
• Ang assigned the horses to the guards and told them to learn riding and horse care, while Aida promised to help train them.
• Heart of Stone’s convoy delivered iron ore and black iron ore, and the Tall Tower beside the office building was completed.
• Aisha reported that the territory’s residences and military camp were finished, and Ang asked about her former classmates from River Bay City Mage Academy.
• Ang explained his plans for potion production and enchanting workshops, then asked Aisha to recruit her classmates to work in the North Wind Territory.
• Aisha agreed to contact her classmates and tell them about the jobs, housing, and benefits Ang offered.

Ang led the North Wind Territory's newly organized guard force on its first official mission to drive a Green Wolf pack back into the Beastlands. The guards defeated the wolves through disciplined teamwork and stopped short of pursuing them.

• Ang established regular promotion challenges and an annual assessment with a Healing Potion as the prize, raising the guards' morale.
• After learning that Green Wolves were ravaging the region, Ang ordered all fifty full guards to deploy while the reserves stayed behind to defend the territory.
• Ang led the guards into the northern Beastlands, received scouts' reports, and planned to lure the wolves into an ambush.
• When the guards encountered more than a hundred wolves, Ang gathered the teams and commanders, rejected a mounted charge, and ordered the guards to fight on foot in formation.
• The guards held their formation against the wolves' attacks, while Ang used his bow to interrupt magical Green Wolves and the second team joined the battle.
• The guards drove the pack into a narrow valley and forced it to retreat; Ang ordered his force not to pursue and told them to clear the battlefield.

Ang’s team defeated Green Wolves, then discovered Tawa Village and learned that more than ten isolated villages struggled to survive in the Beastlands. After giving the villagers food, Ang left to locate the other villages and ordered his scouts to prioritize their safety as the wolf pack scattered.

• Bruno reported that the team had killed forty-one Green Wolves, and Ang confirmed that one was a magical beast before rewarding the guard who struck the final blow.
• Ang taught the guards how to skin the magical beast wolf, then led the team onward through the Beastlands.
• Ang met the impoverished villagers of Tawa Village and learned about their poor farmland, scarce food, and the other hidden settlements nearby.
• Ang gave Tawa Village two wolf carcasses and promised to protect its people while he gathered information about the villages.
• Bruno reported that the Green Wolf pack had scattered, and Ang ordered the scouts to locate the villages and ensure their safety instead of pursuing the wolves.

Ang inspected the Beastlands, found fourteen villages whose residents lived in extreme poverty, and decided to relocate them to the North Wind Territory before winter. After returning, he saw the territory’s farming and irrigation projects progressing and discussed its future development with Aisha.

• Ang and his guards distributed food while inspecting impoverished Beastlands villages, recording fourteen settlements with nearly a thousand residents in need of help.
• Ang proposed relocating the villagers to the North Wind Territory, and Bruno and the guards pledged to help.
• Ang surveyed a valley near the Northern Barbarian Lands and identified it as a possible site for future defensive works.
• Ang returned to the North Wind Territory and saw workers expanding farmland, irrigation channels, and a reservoir.
• Ang told Aisha about the villages and planned to move their residents before summer; his father reported that barley had been planted and the territory was reclaiming land.
• Aisha gave Ang letters from former classmates who were interested in visiting, and Ang looked ahead to the territory’s continued development.

Ang oversaw the completion of an underground workshop in the North Wind Territory and installed the magic furnaces delivered by the Mage Association. After the ventilation array worked successfully and the furnaces produced high-purity Magic Black Iron ingots, Ang hosted Mage Arthur and his team at a banquet.

• Nathan delivered Aden’s message that the magic furnace was ready, and Ang arranged for it to be sent to the North Wind Territory.
• Ang inspected the underground workshop Dusha had built and approved its layout and ventilation provisions.
• Ang engraved the runes and activated the workshop’s ventilation array.
• Arthur and the Mage Association team delivered and installed two furnaces beneath the ventilation shaft.
• Ang started the furnaces, and the ventilation array dispersed the heat as they produced high-purity Magic Black Iron ingots.
• Ang invited Arthur and his team to a banquet after confirming the furnaces worked properly.

Ang secured a letter of introduction to a duke in Tan'anster as a possible source of magical herbs, then established North Wind Territory's potion workshop while continuing to face an ore shortage. He decided to seek resources in River Bay City and set out there with Aisha.

• At a banquet, Ang told Arthur he wanted magical herbs to start a potion-making industry, and Arthur gave him a letter introducing him to a duke in Tan'anster.
• Ang presented magic crystals to Arthur and the other Mage Association members as they departed, then learned they were hurrying to catch an airship from River Bay City.
• Ang oversaw the construction of a potion workshop, installing its equipment and inscribing magic arrays to regulate its temperature and humidity.
• Aisha proposed building a reservoir to use streams in the western mountains, and Ang approved planning it before the autumn rains.
• Still unable to secure a reliable ore supply from Pat City, Ang arranged territorial affairs and left for River Bay City with Aisha.

Ang and Aisha searched River Bay City for materials for his Enchanted Armament and visited the shop where Aisha once worked. Ang found the shop lacked the rare ores he needed, while Aisha reconnected with her bullied classmate Merlin and told her about Ang's position as lord of North Wind Territory and an enchanter.

• Ang and Aisha arrived in River Bay City and began their search for ore after sharing breakfast in the old district.
• Ang and Aisha visited several magical-material shops, but none carried the ores Ang needed.
• Ang and Aisha entered Aisha's former workplace and found the manager berating Merlin, Aisha's classmate.
• Ang questioned the manager about rare ores and large quantities of common materials, but the shop could not provide them; he bought materials for basic enchanted items instead.
• Aisha spoke with Merlin, who said she endured the manager's treatment because the shop paid better, and told her that Ang was a lord and an enchanter.