Recaps

Arrow prepared for his journey across the Dark Plain, survived its dangers, and uncovered the Ghost Orchids’ human-fed growth at the Bu’en Family garden. After Morton brought him to the confined Ian, Arrow found Ian’s room in disarray and identified the torn plans as a Wind Element Armor design.

• Arrow relocated refugees and craftsmen to Lan'er Village, planned new firearms, and began arranging a concealed laboratory with the tree spirit.
• Arrow learned about the Fernando Wizard Family’s power struggle, then sought a Dark Plain map and joined Farrell for information about the region.
• Arrow formed a preliminary Wind Magic Power Core, bought adventuring supplies, and crossed the Death Swamp, where he fought crocodiles and escaped poisonous mist.
• Arrow hallucinated himself leading the West Suppressing Army against White-Clothed Barbarian Soldiers, then discovered that Ghost Orchids’ pollen had caused the vision.
• Arrow reached the Bu’en Family garden, where he learned the Garden Guards had used human lives to ripen the Ghost Orchids and resisted the orchids’ influence as it drove him toward violence.
• Morton apologized for the garden incident, agreed to compensate Arrow with thirty-six mature Ghost Orchids, and brought him to the Bu’en Family residence to investigate Ian’s confinement.
• Arrow entered Ian’s room, found a frightened maid beside a pool of blood, and identified Ian’s shredded design papers as plans for a Wind Element Armor.

Arro uncovered how Morton had manipulated Ian and Arro’s own thoughts, then sought help from Oak Tree Granny to preserve the Ghost Orchids as protective seeds. He left for the Dark Plain, where he fought a group near Forest Island and defeated the mercenary Anabe, who had once belonged to the Manticore Tail School.

• Ian accused Arro of owing compensation for his losses, but Arro refused to hand over the Heating Platform and showed him how the Wind Element Armor drew on Arrow Garner’s movements.
• Arro learned that Morton had taken Ian’s armor and suspected Morton planned to murder their father, but Morton’s influence clouded Arro’s judgment during their meeting.
• After recognizing how Morton had manipulated his thoughts, Arro resolved to investigate him and connected the Ghost Orchids to the altered state of his consciousness.
• Arro borrowed money from Shopkeeper Harvey and learned from Dylan that grain shortages and neighboring lords’ boycott had left the Viscount Territory facing a crisis.
• Oak Tree Granny found Abyssal aura in the Ghost Orchids and explained that Arro had contracted all thirty-six as Magic Pets, which could protect him but also influence his mind.
• Oak Tree Granny turned the Ghost Orchids into acorn-shell seeds and made them into prayer beads that preserved Arro’s connection to them.
• Arro hunted Water Ghosts on the Dark Plain, then escaped an attack near Forest Island before fighting the Old Mercenary who blamed him for exposing the camp.
• Arro defeated the Old Mercenary without injuring him, and the man identified himself as Anabe, a former member of the Manticore Tail School.

Arro defeated Morton, confronted the Demon Hunters over their obligations, and began building an academy in Lan’er Village. Anabe tested Arro’s new Qi Blood Rampage training, became vice dean, and raised questions about events on the Dark Plain.

• Arro showed Anabe his appointment as master of Corey Viscounty and persuaded him to gather Life Force-rich materials for reasonable compensation.
• Arro ambushed and killed Morton, took his notes on Dominate Humans, then disguised himself and returned to his territory with supplies for his base.
• Arro confronted Anabe, Edgar, and Francis about their secret use of him, demanded half a year of unpaid service from Edgar and Francis, and proposed founding his own academy with the Manticore School as a branch.
• After Deputy Steward Vinod died under suspicious circumstances, Arro suspected the Viscountess and developed Dunjia and Flame Fist as new martial moves.
• Arro organized the academy in Lan’er Village, assigned Holly to report on her mouse experiments, and tested Wind Dragon Armor by fighting it himself.
• Arro explored Oak Tree Granny’s cave, sealed the recovering Demonic Sprite, and prepared to guard the treant Underground Base while the Fernando Wizard Family attacked the Korda Family’s castle.
• Arro refined Wind Dragon Armor to train Qi Blood Rampage, then invited Anabe to test it after Rett left to deal with Water Ghosts.
• Anabe completed the training, praised New Qi Blood Rampage, accepted the role of academy vice dean, and told Arro that two families had investigated him before raising events on the Dark Plain.

Arrow established the Cat School as a refuge and academy while balancing the ambitions of nearby families against the needs of his territory. As recruitment and funding problems emerged, he explored practical solutions and Anabe began adapting Qi Blood Rampage into a method for students.

• Anabe asked Arrow to preserve the stalemate between the Fernando Wizard Family and the Minor Families, and Arrow agreed to act as a deterrent while keeping his independence.
• Arrow named the school Cat School, arranged for Minor Families to settle near Lan’er Village, and began organizing teachers and student recruitment.
• Arrow refused Elena Taylor’s marriage alliance and gifts, then appointed Ian Boone Dean of Academic Affairs for a one-month trial.
• Arrow set up classes and recruitment, but objected when Anabe signed more than four hundred refugees to ten-year labor contracts and exempted students who tested into fourth grade.
• Arrow rejected Dylan’s warning that the territory could not afford to feed hundreds of students and sought ways to make the Academy support itself, including producing salt for sale.
• Ian offered to split the Bu’en Family’s supplies with Arrow in exchange for keeping the family out of his territory, while Arrow considered using Ian’s Alchemy Table to create an arcade.
• Anabe rearranged the movements of Qi Blood Rampage, and Arrow saw that the method could train students and direct Life Force for combat.
• Arrow declined to develop Anabe’s method himself, but praised Anabe for identifying its potential benefits and practical limits.