Recaps

After Andre III’s apparent decline and Soven’s staged-looking assassination, Ron strengthened his defenses while expanding his businesses and Tansang City. He learned that Soven’s attacker had meant to muddy the waters, and the Fourth Prince prepared to return to the Imperial Capital.

• Ron visited Andre III with Mia and Soven, found him prematurely aged and withdrawn, and left without learning what had happened to him.
• Ilya discovered that Demon-Devouring Bamboo powder worked as a broadly useful magical material, so Ron expanded its cultivation to reduce the cost of mass-produced goods.
• Ron’s buses began operating in Tansang City, while his factories created jobs and his private soldiers received Elemental Guns for training under Yuna.
• Ron trained with Yuna and Nora in Phantasmal World, which he kept restricted to trusted users while tensions in the Imperial Capital remained high.
• Ron visited the supposedly wounded Soven and learned that the attacker had displayed an obvious beastman aura but had only staged an assault to muddy the waters.
• The Fourth Prince in the south prepared to return to the Imperial Capital.

Old Charles buried the family’s only Scale Leaf of the Divine Tree as Ron’s new elemental research mission was completed. Ilya revealed a magic array that stably converted magic power into elements, leaving Ron to ask what the discovery could be used for.

• The second and third sons of old Charles trained with Elemental Guns, earned their first wages, and returned home to tell their family about the work.
• Old Charles secretly buried the family’s Scale Leaf of the Divine Tree in their farmland and prayed over it.
• After the fourth prince was killed and the Orc Race was blamed, tensions between the Human Empire and the Orc Race escalated, and Ron attended his elder brother’s funeral.
• The system notified Ron that the mission had been completed and assigned him a new mission to plant Silver Iron Pine.
• Edith brought Ron to Ilya’s laboratory, where Ilya demonstrated a magic array that converted magic power into the six basic elements.
• Ilya said she had derived the array from patterns Prince Ron had provided, and Ron asked what the array could be used for.

Ron and Ilya developed and successfully tested a prototype elemental station using materials grown in Ron’s Cultivation Space, while political tensions escalated after the Second Prince was assassinated. By early June, the Human Empire and the orcs were preparing for possible war as Ron continued expanding Tansang City.

• Ron grew a Silver Iron Pine, discovered its ore-producing properties, and found that Parasitic Wood could not pierce its trunk.
• The system gave Ron a quest to construct an elemental station capable of supplying a city, and Ilya began developing one with his researchers.
• The First Prince and Second Prince arrived in the Imperial Capital, but the Second Prince was later assassinated in an attack blamed on the beastfolk.
• Ilya and the researchers activated a prototype elemental station that converted elements into mana and transmitted it to a reaction zone, though it could not yet supply a city.
• General Moen led troops toward the Northern Frontier pass, and the orcs formed the Orc Royal Court in response to the Human Empire’s military preparations.
• Tansang City expanded its streets, buildings, factories, and bus service, while its private army repelled a small beast tide and Silver Iron Pines revived abandoned mines.

Ron expanded Tansang City’s magical industries and Phantasmal World while investigating wheat grown from a Divine Tree scale leaf. The chapter ended with Andre III naming Eli Andre as his successor, set to ascend as Andre IV on July 1.

• Old Charles’s sons showed him the Water Condenser and refrigerator they had received from the private army camp, then the family discovered wheat grown from a Divine Tree scale leaf had reached enormous heights.
• Ron met Andre III after the second prince’s funeral and noticed the emperor looked healthier but watched him with suspicion.
• Ron continued developing Tansang City’s factories and elemental station, while Phantasmal World gained clubs, online games, and a news feature.
• Ron inspected old Charles’s transformed wheat field, ordered the crop harvested with compensation, and arranged further experiments using Divine Tree scale leaves.
• Andre III announced that Eli Andre would become Andre IV and ascend the throne on July 1, shocking the Imperial Capital.

Ron completed the elemental station in Tansang City, planted a Worldly Lotus, and discovered that the System’s Goddess of Harvest skin was Heveste herself, manifested in the world. Heveste revealed that Andre, the Human Empire’s founding emperor and God of War’s god-chosen one, had been occupying his descendants’ bodies, leaving Ron alarmed for Mia at the palace.

• Ilya told Ron that Tansang City’s elemental stations were ready, and Ron ordered the workers to activate them, lighting the city’s streetlamps and completing his mission.
• Ron tasked Guy with laying magic-power cables for public refrigerators and Water Condensers, then planted a Worldly Lotus in the Cultivation Space.
• The Goddess of Harvest skin became physical, entered the Cultivation Space, and ate the Worldly Lotus fruit before introducing herself as Heveste.
• Heveste told Ron that she had created the System with divine power, while its quests and functions had been generated from his thoughts and its faith power came from his ventures.
• Heveste explained that Andre, the founding emperor and God of War’s former god-chosen one, had survived by occupying his descendants’ bodies, and Ron feared Mia might be in danger at the palace.

Ron rescued Mia and Soven from Emperor Andre’s ritual to possess the Eldest Prince Eli, while Heveste intervened and defeated Andre. With the leading heirs dead, Ron and Soven turned to Mia as the remaining candidate to become Andre IV.

• Heveste revealed that Emperor Andre planned to use Eli as his next vessel and Mia and Soven as bloodline essence to stabilize the transfer.
• Andre III lured Mia and Soven into an underground palace, where they discovered Eli bound inside a blood ritual and learned that the emperor’s soul was not Andre III’s.
• Ron summoned Heveste’s aid, and she destroyed the magic array and pulled Mia and Soven to safety before Andre could complete the ritual.
• Heveste confronted Emperor Andre, and a colossal tree rose from the palace as she used his life force to fuel its growth.
• Ron brought Mia and Soven toward the palace, then asked whether either wanted to become Andre IV; Soven refused, and both pointed to Mia.

The author explained why Plant Revolution ended after more than 800,000 words and reviewed the writing choices that caused its pacing and plot structure to falter. The author thanked readers and the editor, then planned to prepare a new book and possibly write side stories.

• The author reported the book’s length and readership, thanked Starry Night and the readers, and admitted to giving Plant Revolution a rushed ending.
• The author said inspiration for a new book and difficulty controlling Plant Revolution’s expanding plot led to the decision to end it.
• The author reviewed the opening and early chapters, noting that the transmigration setup and first flower-selling quest took too long to reach the main story.
• The author described how multiple side plots and parallel storylines made the middle of the novel feel bloated and difficult to manage.
• The author summarized lessons about prioritizing the main plot, sustaining conflict, and building stronger characterizations.
• The author said they would prepare a new book and might publish side stories for the female characters.