Recaps

Ron developed public transportation, expanded the Magic Cup, and pursued research into how magic power and elements transformed into each other. The arc ended with the tournament approaching its finals as Ilya recognized that Ron’s Elemental Gun was designed for ordinary people.

• Ron demonstrated his public bus to Ilya, then drove the nuns to Chaos City and gathered their feedback.
• Ron recruited guards to bring the buses to Tansang City, while Ilya’s experiments suggested that earth elements could convert into water elements without Elemental Potatoes.
• Ron expanded Magic Cup broadcasts and launched the preliminaries, where Mia won matches and the venue publicly addressed a noble contestant’s attack on a commoner.
• Ron met Lyle, who planned to return to Chaos City after expanding his hotpot business to the Western Frontier.
• Andre III explained how the Empire’s territorial grants and wars had shaped noble power, while Ron continued weighing offers for his future fief.
• Ron assigned Yuna to train the soldiers in Tansang City, then let her try driving the Liya bus, which she accidentally sent backward toward the Prayer Hall.
• Ron established a search for young researchers, received Marquis Wosh’s offer of Belemus City, and reviewed Mia’s progress as she fought for a place in the top 128.
• Ron confronted Soven over his boasts, then learned that Wodesen had defeated Mia three to zero after the knockout draw.
• Ron planned to move the Magic Cup finals to the Grand Martial Arena, and Ilya and Harper reported further evidence that magic power could transform back into elements.
• Ron explained how an Elemental Gun let ordinary people activate and aim magic, and Ilya realized that it was meant for non-mages.

Ron became a Territorial Count and began developing Tansang City while building a networked Phantasmal World and expanding his magical inventions. After Andre III was assassinated, Ron kept his companions safe inside the Flower Shop as Charles considered enrolling his sons in Ron’s private soldiers.

• Ron developed plans to modernize Tansang City, tested Elemental Potatoes, and agreed to supply them for Harper and Ilya’s experiments into composite elements.
• Ron received the title of Territorial Count, chose a territory beside Sunset Forest, and gained the ability to use Spatial Conversion within it.
• Ron tested the Phantasmal Weeping Willow, registered Jolina and Husky as players, and discovered that growing linked willows could merge their Phantasmal Worlds into a network.
• Ron extended the network across long distances with Puppet Fruits and True Person Puppets, then planned to establish it in Chaos City, the Imperial Capital, and Tansang City.
• Andy defeated Wodesen to win the Magic Cup, while Ron introduced a battle-royale game in the Phantasmal World and received the Demon-Devouring Bamboo.
• After learning Andre III had been assassinated, Ron kept his companions in the Flower Shop and gave Sylvie and Nora lifelike Puppet Fruits to use outside.
• Charles’s third son told him that Ron’s private soldiers would recruit healthy men without Battle Qi and train them to use Elemental Guns, prompting Charles to consider taking his sons to enlist.