Recaps

Ron explained that he wanted to arm his future private soldiers in Tansang City and urged Ilya to develop an assembly line that could mass-produce magic arrays. Ilya agreed to study his idea, leaving the possibility of ordinary workers helping inscribe arrays as a new direction for her research.

• Ron told Ilya that he planned to become a territorial count and needed weapons to protect Tansang City from small beast tides.
• Ron asked Ilya to prepare materials for an Elemental Gun while they continued work on the second bus.
• Ron proposed using magic arrays to automate bus production so ordinary people could manufacture products at scale.
• Ilya objected that ordinary people could not learn to inscribe magic arrays, and Ron suggested creating a dedicated array that inscribed one type of array in batches.
• Ilya understood Ron's proposal and agreed to study the possibility of mass-producing arrays such as the Gale Array and Sound Storage Array.

Ron oversaw the Disi bus’s final preparations while Ilya built an Elemental Gun powered by Elemental Potatoes stored in interchangeable Mana Cases. The gun promised nearly continuous fire, though the long-term effects of cutting up the potatoes remained uncertain.

• After dinner, Ron had Edith record the Disi’s bus announcements and told her she could try driving once she finished.
• Ilya began constructing an Elemental Gun, using magic arrays and a trigger mechanism that let ordinary people fire spells.
• Ron explained his Mana Case design, which stored mana in pieces of Elemental Potatoes and could be swapped out while another case recharged.
• Ilya said Elemental Potatoes showed no apparent loss of effectiveness when cut, but the earliest batch had been tested for only a little over two months.

Ron tested how long Elemental Potatoes lasted in the accelerated Cultivation Space and discussed possible upgrades to the Elemental Gun with Ilya. Edith learned to drive the Disi bus and enjoyed it enough to ask Ron to keep it.

• Ron accelerated time around a water-element Elemental Potato and found that it took roughly five or six years to rot and lose its stored elements.
• Ron realized the Cultivation Space could speed up experiments, but only plants could enter it.
• Ilya asked whether the Elemental Gun could use different offensive magic arrays, and Ron suggested expanding the knob mechanism to magic turrets for ordinary people.
• Ron worried that weapons usable by ordinary people might eventually conflict with human and elf racial interests.
• Ron taught Edith to drive the Disi bus, and she cautiously drove it around the private experimental zone before asking to keep it.

Ron planned how to develop Tansang City, weighing the need for better transportation and more magic-array mages against the risks of expanding spatial access. He compared a detailed map of the surrounding area with Tansang City's economic records, leaving the city’s next steps under consideration.

• Ron reassured Nora that buying umbrellas for spectators and contestants was worthwhile even if few were returned.
• Ron used Water Control to shield Nora from the rain and brought her back to the Flower Shop.
• Ron studied a map of the Empire and decided that cargo trucks were a priority while railways and trains remained undecided.
• Ron wrote that he needed more mages skilled in magic arrays and noted Imperial City Magic Academy and Disode Magic Academy as potential sources.
• Ron examined a detailed map of Tansang City’s surroundings alongside the economic summary Guy had compiled, then sighed.

Ron planned how to develop Tansang City’s agriculture, factories, and transportation after becoming its territorial count. He left the maps and plans unfinished when Nora told him she was heading back to the bedroom.

• Ron considered expanding Everchanging Radish cultivation and planting crops, and planned for Ilya to make staffs that civilians could use to help with the work.
• Ron divided the surrounding wasteland into areas for agriculture, Everchanging Radish cultivation, and factories, while noting possible farming machines and the costs of magical equipment.
• Ron mapped out bus routes and considered widening streets and adding sidewalks and traffic lights before Liya and Disi entered service.
• Ron reflected on how he had become responsible for city planning and decided to treat improving the city as a pastime.
• Nora told Ron she had finished washing up and was going back to the bedroom.

Ron spent the night with Nora, then went to the eastern Divine Tree to check on the Scale Leaves and reflect on how the tree had changed the Church of the Goddess of Harvest and Chaos City. The Divine Tree’s influence continued to grow, drawing believers and raising property prices across the surrounding district.

• Ron noticed Nora was still awake, spoke with her, and later entered meditation after she fell asleep.
• Ron played Legendary Kill with Husky, then let him leave with Jolina to go shopping.
• Ron traveled to the eastern Divine Tree, whose Scale Leaves had become a valuable source of healing and income for the Church of the Goddess of Harvest.
• Ron learned that the Divine Tree had attracted new believers to Chaos City and driven up housing prices in the eastern districts.
• Ron arrived at the Divine Tree and recalled that the assassin who had tried to kill him had indirectly helped the local residents.

Ron collected Divine Tree Scale Leaves for experiments and learned that Charles, an elderly farmer from Tansang City, had traveled to pray for a better harvest and protection from beast tides. After reflecting on the Harvest Goddess Church’s aid to ordinary people, Ron headed to the breeding base on the outskirts to visit the site of the War of the Gods Cup.

• Ron prayed before the Divine Tree, then watched believers purchase Scale Leaves under rules limiting the number they could buy and requiring registration.
• Charles carefully paid one hundred copper coins for a Scale Leaf, tucked it inside his shirt, and left the Prayer House delighted.
• Ron collected half of the Scale Leaves gathered at the Prayer House to give to mages arriving in Chaos City for further experiments.
• A missionary told Ron that Charles was a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Tansang City who had traveled to pray for a better harvest and relief from beast tides.
• Ron decided to visit the outskirts site where Sylvie would hold the War of the Gods Cup and left by carriage.

Ron visited the breeding base and learned that Sylvie had placed in the middle of the War of the Gods Cup because the nuns had quietly helped her. He then headed to the private experimental area to inspect the completed Elemental Gun, a magic-casting staff that ordinary people could use without magic power.

• Ron told Yuna that the promised staff had been made, while Yuna reminded him that he still owed her a faster, lighter car.
• Yuna teased Ron about his relationship with Nora and wanting to hold her great-grandnephew before he pushed Yuna back into the shadows.
• Ron visited the Prayer House and discovered that Sylvie had earned a middle-tier score in the War of the Gods Cup because the nuns had given her face.
• Ron inspected the expanded breeding base and planned to test Ilya's ordinary-user Plant Growth Technique staffs in Chaos City before introducing them in Tansang City.
• Ron left for the private experimental area to inspect the completed Elemental Gun.

Ron introduced Yuna to the Elemental Gun and taught her how to use it, then asked her to practice and develop a training regimen for his future soldiers. Yuna became absorbed in shooting, while Ron planned to give the other guns to himself and Nora; the author also noted that Volume Two would end after Ron received Tansang City.

• Ron gave Yuna an Elemental Gun and demonstrated how to load, aim, and fire it.
• Yuna fired a Burst Spell that destroyed a target more than thirty meters away, then tested the gun’s power and accuracy.
• Ron asked Yuna to practice with the Elemental Gun and prepare a training regimen for his private soldiers.
• Yuna grew increasingly absorbed in firing the gun, and Ron took her back to the Flower Shop for lunch.
• Ron planned to keep one Elemental Gun and give the remaining one to Nora for self-defense.
• The author said Volume Two would end after Ron received his title of count and Tansang City as his territory.

Ron rehearsed the ceremony for his upcoming title of Count while factions tried to learn which territory he would choose. He confirmed his plans for Tansang City and imagined turning it into a modern, well-equipped city.

• Ron confirmed the sixteen contestants advancing to the Magic Cup points round-robin, then went to the royal palace to rehearse the ceremony for his title of Count.
• On the carriage ride back, Yuna discussed Ron’s choice of Tansang City and teased him about trying her new liquor.
• Ron explained that he wanted to use his plants and inventions to develop Tansang City while keeping strategically valuable plants out of the market.
• Ron described plans for clean water, refrigerators, orderly roads, tall buildings, and elevators as he imagined making Tansang City better than the Imperial Capital.

Ron experimented in the Cultivation Space and determined how Elemental Potatoes stored and depleted their elemental energy. He considered new businesses to fund Tansang City, but discovered that expensive mana-transmitting materials made his elemental station idea impractical.

• Ron noticed luxurious carriages driven by dwarves and guessed that diplomatic delegations had arrived in the Imperial Capital.
• Ron conducted experiments in the Cultivation Space and concluded that Elemental Potatoes could last for years unused, depleted with continuous use, and recover when rested.
• Ron considered how to prevent Elemental Potatoes from causing trouble if they circulated widely, while deciding that their potential uses mattered more to him.
• Ron listed possible plant-based businesses, including tea houses, spas, figurines, cinemas, and elemental stations, as ways to raise money for Tansang City.
• Ron learned that the high cost of materials capable of transmitting mana prevented him from building an elemental station.

Ilya read Professor Simmons’s paper proposing that lightning elements could exist in special environments, and she and Harper realized Elemental Potatoes might help them create such conditions. The researchers prepared to test the idea, with Ron offering to supply as many potatoes as they needed.

• Edith brought Ilya research papers, including Professor Simmons’s study on the possible existence of lightning elements.
• Ilya read the paper’s account of experiments in thunderclouds and summoned Harper and Prince Ron to discuss its findings.
• Harper explained that an environment with two elements at the right concentration and ratio might produce composite elements, and proposed using Ron’s Elemental Potatoes to create one.
• Harper suggested that composite elements might explain elemental conversion during composite magic, prompting Ilya to share his excitement about further research.
• Ron agreed to provide enough Elemental Potatoes for their experiments.

As Ron prepared for his coming rule over Tansang City, he oversaw experiments and production plans while the Magic Cup and hotpot expansion continued. On April 15, the day of his conferment as a territorial count arrived.

• Ron supplied Elemental Potatoes to the private experimental zone, where Harper led experiments into magic power and elements while Ilya analyzed data.
• Lyle reported that hotpot restaurants across the Western Frontier were nearly ready, with openings planned in every major city by April 20.
• Ron and Ilya developed products and plans for future assembly lines, including Elemental Guns and construction devices, as Ron considered the challenges of governing Tansang City.
• The Magic Cup’s round-robin matches drew growing crowds and fans, while Ron remained focused on making new devices with Ilya.
• Time reached April 15, the day Ron was to be granted the title of Count of the Territory.

Ron attended the Imperial ceremony and received the title of Territorial Count, choosing a neglected strip of land beside Sunset Forest rather than territory associated with any faction. The system granted him a spatial-teleportation title effect and announced that he had completed the hotpot restaurant side quest.

• Nora accompanied Ron to the palace for his conferment ceremony, where Mia and Irene joined her among the guests.
• Noble representatives speculated about Ron's factional allegiance while Nora considered greeting the visiting diplomatic delegations about the Magic Cup.
• Andre III delivered a speech, and Ron completed the ceremony's rituals before choosing a narrow blank region beside Sunset Forest as his territory.
• Andre III pinned the medal on Ron, making him a Territorial Count of the Human Empire.
• The system gave Ron the ability to use Spatial Conversion within his territory and announced that he had completed [Make the Hotpot Restaurant Sweep the Entire Empire], rewarding him with a Phantasmal Weeping Willow.

The author explained the novel’s inspiration, its shift from a flower-shop story to magical adaptations of modern games and activities, and the challenges and plans that followed. The author confirmed Nora as the only female lead for now and asked readers whether the story should have one heroine or a harem.

• The author said Food Supplier inspired the original small-shop concept, which became a story about a flower shop selling special plants.
• After struggling to make the plants compelling as the main attraction, the author shifted the central plot toward magically adapted games and other ideas from the protagonist’s original world.
• The author acknowledged that the changed direction disappointed readers who expected the story to stay focused on the flower shop, and said the later outline made a return to that plot impossible.
• The author outlined two possible endings: concluding after the third volume or continuing with later volumes about the Empire and other races.
• The author confirmed Nora as the only female lead so far and asked readers whether to keep a single heroine or add more.

After the Magic Cup round-robin ended and its finals drew widespread attention, Ron finished handling Tansang City's affairs and tested the spatial-transfer ability granted by his count title. He then entered the Dimensional Plane to investigate the Phantasmal Weeping Willow, whose effects remained unknown.

• Andy, Betty, Wodesen, and Luo Wei'er secured the top four spots and advanced to the Magic Cup finals as Magic Duel spread across the empire.
• Ron completed the handover of Tansang City and inspected his System Panel after finishing a side quest tied to a hotpot restaurant opening in the Western Frontier.
• Ron demonstrated his count title's spatial transfer to Yuna by traveling to Boke Town and appearing behind her, explaining that he could move only himself within his territory.
• Ron returned to the Flower Shop branch, sent Yuna home, and entered the Dimensional Plane to test the Phantasmal Weeping Willow.

Ron transplanted the Phantasmal Weeping Willow from the Cultivation Space into his flower shop so he could touch its branches and enter its Phantasmal World. After his spiritual sense arrived in the empty world, the willow’s spiritual sense entered him and gave him access rights.

• Ron planted the Phantasmal Weeping Willow in the Cultivation Space, then realized he could not physically touch its branches there.
• Ron transplanted the willow into his flower shop, where Husky and the employees initially reacted with alarm.
• With Yuna nearby for protection, Ron grasped a willow branch and sent a copy of his consciousness into the Phantasmal World.
• Ron entered the blank world and watched the Phantasmal Weeping Willow’s green spiritual sense enter his head, granting him access rights.

Ron explored the Phantasmal World’s creation and control abilities, then built a basic player system and registered Jolina and Husky. Their tests revealed that the world required users to hold a living Phantasmal Weeping Willow branch to enter, so Ron headed to the Dimensional Plane to grow another tree and test whether separate trees could connect.

• Ron recreated a house from his memories in the Phantasmal World, then erased it and summoned Jolina to test the world.
• Ron granted Jolina authorization to create scenery and manage her own panel, making her the world’s first registered player.
• Ron registered Husky as the second player, added a Friends function, and had Jolina and Husky connect their accounts.
• Jolina and Husky pointed out that entering the world required holding a willow branch, limiting it to nearby users.
• Ron tried using a severed branch, but it did not work, so he entered the Dimensional Plane to grow another Phantasmal Weeping Willow.

Ron discovered that second development let Phantasmal Weeping Willows merge their separate Phantasmal Worlds into a connected network. As he imagined spreading the network across the Human Empire, a message from the willow’s spiritual perception greeted him.

• Ron found that a newly grown Phantasmal Weeping Willow created a separate Phantasmal World, then considered using it to make virtual games.
• Ron planted Parasitic Wood in a Phantasmal Weeping Willow, and its second development greatly lengthened and thickened its branches.
• Ron tested the developed willow and found that neither a severed branch nor pairing it with an undeveloped willow connected the Phantasmal Worlds.
• Ron developed a second Phantasmal Weeping Willow and found that the two willows’ Phantasmal Worlds had merged, allowing them to link into a network.
• Ron envisioned establishing Flower Shops as internet cafés throughout the Human Empire, then received a greeting from the Phantasmal Weeping Willow’s spiritual perception.

Ron discovered that the Phantasmal Weeping Willow’s spiritual sense could communicate with him and found a way to use a Puppet Fruit to create a portable connection to the Phantasmal World. He confirmed the device worked across Chaos City, then planned to test whether a real-person version Puppet Fruit could extend its reach between cities.

• Ron found that the Phantasmal Weeping Willow’s spiritual sense could only send simple signals, and considered cultivating its intelligence to manage the Phantasmal World.
• Ron touched an ordinary Puppet Fruit to a willow branch, turning it into a chibi Phantasmal Weeping Willow that could connect him to the Phantasmal World away from the main tree.
• Ron carried the puppet to the Imperial Capital, where the distant main tree could no longer connect to it.
• Ron tested the puppet from Chaos City toward the outskirts and found it remained connected until he was nearly in the wilderness.
• Ron considered using a real-person version Puppet Fruit to connect the Phantasmal World across greater distances.

Ron tested how the True Person Puppet extended the Phantasmal World’s reach and discovered that connecting two puppet avatars could fuse separate worlds. He planned to build an otherworldly internet, beginning with Chaos City, the Imperial Capital, and Tansang City.

• Ron tested the True Person Puppet near Tansang City and found that it extended the Phantasmal World’s connection range and gave nearby chibi puppets a signal for roughly five hundred meters.
• Ron carried the True Person Puppet to Boke Town and found that it could connect to the Phantasmal Weeping Willow in Tansang City across more than twenty kilometers.
• Ron opened a Flower Shop branch in Boke Town and transplanted another Phantasmal Weeping Willow there.
• Ron tied the branches of two True Person Dolls together in an area covered by both willows and confirmed that the two Phantasmal Worlds fused into one.
• Ron decided to establish the internet gradually, starting in Chaos City, the Imperial Capital, and Tansang City.

The Magic Cup finals began at the Grand Martial Arena, where Mimic Grass amplified the tournament’s spectacle for the packed audience. Andy and Wodesen won their semifinals and advanced to the final, while Ron continued pondering his plans for the Phantasmal World.

• Ron watched the Magic Cup finals begin as the four contestants entered the arena and drew their semifinal opponents.
• Andy faced Betty, recovered from early mistakes, and won 3–1 to advance to the final.
• Wodesen faced Luo Wei'er, capitalized on his opponent’s shaken composure, and swept him 3–0.
• Andy and Wodesen advanced to the final showdown.

Ron had Gil gather material documenting Tansang City's construction and tested a new Phantasmal World game based on collecting Elemental Cards and surviving a shrinking danger zone. After the afternoon matches resumed, Luo Wei'er took third place, and the final began with Andy facing Wodesen.

• Ron instructed Gil to send a team to Tansang City to record its construction, and Gil personally led the team there.
• Ron visited the Phantasmal World, checked the arena communications staff, and met with his friends in Ron's Fan Club.
• Ron introduced a battle-royale game in a virtual Imperial Capital, where players collected Elemental Cards and Elemental Stones, fought with magic, and avoided corrosive mist as the safe zone shrank.
• Yuna, Mia, and the others tested the game, and Ron gave them permission to search for bugs.
• Luo Wei'er defeated Betty three to one to claim third place, then joined Betty and Mia as a commentator.
• Andy and Wodesen entered the arena, and the final began amid an excited crowd.

Andy defeated Wodesen in the Magic Cup final, and Ron completed his mission to obtain the Demon-Devouring Bamboo and began expanding his businesses and research. As Magic Battle Halls opened across the Empire, news arrived that Andre III had been assassinated and foreign diplomatic delegations were under control.

• Andy defeated Wodesen, who raised Andy's hand to announce his victory before the arena crowd.
• Ron received the Demon-Devouring Bamboo, grew a stalk, and tested its ability to absorb magic power and produce magic crystals.
• Ron changed the System Panel to a mature woman's voice, then arranged for Nora to manage the Magic Battle Hall's expansion and for Ilya to research the new bamboo.
• Ron and his associates expanded their factories, breeding base, card-game plans, and transportation projects as Magic Battle Halls opened across the land.
• News reached Ron that Andre III had been assassinated by a suspected foreigner, and the diplomatic delegations in the Imperial Capital were placed under control.

After the attack on Andre III, Ron kept his companions safe inside the Flower Shop by giving Sylvie and Nora lifelike Puppet Fruits to use outside. Meanwhile, Ron’s recruitment of ordinary men into Tansang City’s private soldiers gained interest, and Charles decided to take two of his sons to investigate joining.

• After palace guards told Ron that Andre III was recovering and receiving no visitors, Ron agreed to have Sylvie stay with him for protection and asked her to report any new information.
• Ron gave Sylvie and Nora lifelike Puppet Fruits, which let them control copies of themselves while their real bodies remained in the Flower Shop.
• Ron and his companions stayed inside the shop and used puppets for errands while they played games, enjoyed the spa, and visited the Phantasmal World.
• Charles’s third son returned home and explained that Ron’s private soldiers would accept healthy men without Battle Qi and train them to use Elemental Guns.
• After hearing about the pay, provisions, and Golden Red Chrysanthemums offered to recruits, Charles decided to take his second and third sons into the city to confirm the details.