Chapter Summaries

Mason brought Edith and Harper to Ron's Wonderful Flower Shop and the neighboring Barbecue Shop, where Edith met Ron and took an interest in his Elemental Cards. The group began playing Dou Dizhu, but Harper and Edith treated the cards as real spells, leaving Ron bewildered.

• Mason invited Edith to barbecue, and Harper tagged along as her self-appointed guardian knight.
• Mason, Edith, and Harper found Ron's Wonderful Flower Shop closed and went into Lyle's Barbecue Shop next door.
• Ron and Lyle stopped playing Go Fish to greet Mason and his companions, and Edith met Ron.
• Harper noticed Ron's Elemental Cards, and Ron explained that they could be used to play games.
• Ron taught Edith and Harper Dou Dizhu, but Harper played cards by reasoning about how their spells combined, and Edith agreed with his magical analysis.

Ron lost a magical version of Dou Dizhu to Harper, then watched Harper and Edith test creative spell tactics against Mason before Lyle brought out the barbecue. Edith and Harper bought Nether Orchids from Ron, and on the way back he spotted a small, ragged figure sneaking food from a trash can; the quest stood at 8/100 orchids sold.

• Ron lost several rounds of Magic Duel to Harper, then gave his seat to Mason as Harper, Edith, and Mason played.
• Harper used unconventional spell combinations and tactics against Mason and Edith until Lyle brought out the barbecue.
• Harper and Edith enjoyed the barbecue, and Edith and Harper each bought a Nether Orchid from Ron.
• Ron noticed a small figure in a tattered robe stealing his leftover lunch from a trash can before it ran away.
• Ron earned 40 gold coins, bringing his Nether Orchid quest progress to 8/100.

Ron sold more Nether Orchids to Mage Academy students, quickly increasing his quest progress and Wealth Points. Curious to finally use magic, he bought the Seed Germination Technique, only to discover it required two costly prerequisite spells.

• Ron decided to save his Wealth Points rather than buy more Cultivation Space or a spell, then continued his daily routine and Nether Orchid cultivation.
• Ron sold Nether Orchids to several Mage customers, raising his quest progress to 22/100 and his Wealth Points to 441.
• Three young men from the Magic Academy bought four Nether Orchids, bringing Ron's Wealth Points to 521.
• Ron exchanged 100 Wealth Points for the Seed Germination Technique and absorbed it from his Inventory.
• Ron learned that casting the Seed Germination Technique required the Dew Technique and Soil Tilling Technique, each priced at 500 Wealth Points, and cursed the system for the expense.

Ron learned that using the Seed Germination Technique required two prerequisite spells he could not afford, then offered barbecue to a wary child he had seen searching through trash. The child accepted the food and water, while Ron returned to his shop without asking questions.

• Ron discovered the Dew Technique and Soil Tilling Technique were prerequisites for the Seed Germination Technique and angrily blamed the Cultivation System for not revealing this sooner.
• Ron closed his shop, bought an extra serving of barbecue, and noticed a small figure rummaging through a trash can in the alley.
• Ron left the barbecue for the child and went back into the shop so the child would feel safe approaching it.
• The hungry child ate the skewers, choked on the seasoning, and accepted a cup of water Ron placed nearby.
• The child thanked Ron, and Ron returned to his study without asking about the child's circumstances.

Nora repaid Ron’s kindness by attacking three men who planned to steal flowers from his shop, defeating them before Ron could intervene. Ron’s temporary mission to drive off the thieves failed, and Nora was left exhausted after the fight.

• Nora overheard a mage apprentice hire three local thugs to steal Nether Orchids from Ron’s flower shop.
• Grateful for the hot roast meat Ron had given her, Nora followed the thieves and decided to stop them.
• Ron received a temporary task to personally defeat the three flower thieves and watched them approach his courtyard.
• Nora ambushed the thieves as they climbed into the yard, knocking all three down before Ron arrived.
• Ron reached the backyard after the fight and saw Nora panting beside the defeated thugs, while the system marked his task failed.

Ron dealt with the thugs who tried to steal flowers from his shop, while Professor Hicks learned that Harper had quickly created a powerful Meditation Potion from the Nether Orchid. Hicks planned to visit Ron’s flower shop the next afternoon to discuss the potion.

• Nora tried to help Ron stop the flower thieves, then left despite her aching knee.
• Ron tied up the three thugs and turned them over to Chaos City’s patrol.
• Edith told Professor Hicks that Harper had made a Meditation Potion that greatly improved most tested mages’ meditation efficiency.
• Hicks ordered Edith to test how long people could safely keep using the potion.
• Hicks arranged to visit Ron’s flower shop the next afternoon with Mason.

Jasper learned that Ron’s Nether Orchid shop had sold more than twenty flowers to mages and went to investigate after hearing that thieves had targeted it. Ron ignored the System’s indecent daily quest and continued studying, unaware that Jasper was taking action on his behalf.

• Holt reported that more than twenty customers, apparently mages from the Magic Academy, had bought Nether Orchids from Ron’s shop.
• Jasper gave Holt 20 gold coins to buy an orchid and planned to have a mage test it before informing Webster.
• A guard told Jasper that three thugs had been caught trying to steal from Ron’s shop and were being held at the courthouse.
• Jasper decided to go to the courthouse and look into the attempted theft.
• Ron rejected the System’s daily quest, studied the Outline of Battle Qi, and meditated without knowing Jasper was investigating the shop.

Ron trained to strengthen himself, harvested Nether Orchids, and spent a relaxed afternoon playing cards and reading at his shop. As he planned how to spend the Wealth Points from his approaching main quest, he suspected the system had priced its prerequisite spells to force him into paying for them, but decided to take life as it came.

• Ron trained in the courtyard, noting that his Battle Qi was growing quickly and that he had advanced to First-Order Mage after only a few days of meditation.
• Thinking of the three thugs who had entered his courtyard, Ron decided that he needed to rely on his own strength to protect himself.
• Ron harvested more than twenty Nether Orchids in his Cultivation Space, bringing his total to over a hundred.
• Ron played Dou Dizhu with Lyle and two employees at the Barbecue Shop before returning to open his shop for the afternoon.
• Ron calculated that completing his main quest would give him enough Wealth Points to buy more Cultivation Space, then grumbled that the system had set the prerequisite spells at 500 Wealth Points each.

Mason told Professor Hicks that Prince Ron had stirred up an Elemental Ocean Vortex when he became a First-Order Mage, leading Hicks to conclude that Andre III had entrusted Ron with the Nether Orchids because of his extraordinary magical talent. Hicks and Mason arrived at Ron’s flower shop, where Hicks saw Ron calmly ignore an angry customer and became even more impressed by his lack of temper.

• Professor Hicks asked Mason what Prince Ron was like, and Mason described him as easygoing and handsome.
• Mason remembered that Ron had stirred up an Elemental Ocean Vortex while advancing to First-Order Mage and told Hicks about it.
• Hicks recalled the headmaster describing his own Magic Tide as a vortex and inferred that Ron had exceptional magical talent.
• Hicks concluded that Andre III had entrusted Ron with the Nether Orchid supply to cultivate his future and told Mason to treat Ron respectfully.
• Hicks and Mason reached Ron’s Wonderful Flower Shop, where an angry customer cursed at Ron before storming out.
• Hicks watched Ron remain relaxed and ignore the customer, then remarked that Ron seemed to have almost no temper.

Ron sold the Magic Academy the shop’s hundred Nether Orchids and began discussing a longer-term partnership with Professor Hicks. Meanwhile, Mason’s promotion report drew academy mages to buy the flowers, and Old White arrived to purchase one after previously mocking Mason.

• Ron welcomed Professor Hicks and agreed to discuss the Magic Academy’s offer to buy Nether Orchids.
• Ron sold the academy all hundred Nether Orchids for 2,000 gold and agreed to discuss a continuing partnership.
• Mason sold Nether Orchids to academy mages who had learned about them through his promotion report.
• Old White entered the shop to buy a Nether Orchid and was embarrassed to find Mason there.

Mason sold Old White a Nether Orchid, while Ron and Professor Hicks reached a preliminary supply agreement between Ron and Disode Magic Academy. Hicks interpreted Ron’s requests as a possible Imperial effort to win over the Academy, unaware that Ron simply wanted protection for his shop and to study magic without using System Shop Wealth Points.

• Mason accepted Old White’s payment and gave him a Nether Orchid without mocking him.
• Ron and Professor Hicks agreed that Ron would supply the Magic Academy with 200 Nether Orchids per month for three months, with payment made in advance.
• Hicks agreed to weekly deliveries, a Magic Academy Supplier Badge for Ron’s shop, and personally teaching Ron water and earth magic.
• Hicks suspected that Andre III had sent Ron to Chaos City to build goodwill with the Academy’s neutral mages.
• Ron remained unaware of Hicks’s suspicions and had requested the badge for protection and lessons to avoid spending Wealth Points.

Holt discovered that the Magic Academy planned to buy Nether Orchids from Ron, while Jasper arrived to apologize and investigate the theft of the flowers. After the patrol team took Professor Hicks and Mason to question a Magic Academy apprentice, Ron checked his quest progress and closed the shop to handle another matter.

• Holt bought a Nether Orchid and overheard Ron and Professor Hicks discuss a contract and a hundred flowers for the Magic Academy.
• Jasper told Ron that the arrested flower thieves had named a Magic Academy apprentice as their mastermind, and Ron left the investigation to Jasper.
• Professor Hicks apologized to Ron and joined Jasper, Mason, and the patrol team on their way to the Magic Academy.
• Ron learned from the System that the promissory note and undelivered Nether Orchids did not yet count toward his Wealth Points.
• Ron sold more Nether Orchids, wrote something down, and closed the shop at five to head into the neighboring alley.

Ron posted a help-wanted notice hoping to hire Nora for his flower shop, while Nora later found the notice but could not read it. The chapter ended with Nora returning to her shack and falling into a wary, light sleep.

• Ron posted a notice seeking two young shop employees and hoped Nora would apply so she could earn money through work.
• Lyle told Ron that the barbecue shop’s revenue had surged after customers praised his seasoning.
• Nora limped to the alley late at night, scavenged a few scraps, and wished she could eat barbecue again.
• Nora noticed Ron’s hiring notice but could understand only a few numbers and words because she could not read.
• Nora returned to her shack, clutched her dagger as she lay down, and woke alert when she heard a rustling sound nearby.

Jasper suspected the Disode Magic Academy had supplied Ron with the Nether Orchid and reported the situation to his captain while planning to investigate Ron. Ron finalized a contract with the academy, completed his quest, and received a new quest to grow a Golden Red Chrysanthemum that could aid battle qi cultivation.

• Jasper heard Holt report that Professor Hicks had cooperated with Ron, then suspected the Magic Academy had provided the Nether Orchid and might be supporting the prince.
• Jasper ordered Holt to keep monitoring Ron's flower shop, increased Holt's reimbursement, and wrote his captain a letter separating facts from speculation.
• Ron trained his qi, signed a revised contract with the Magic Academy representative, and received 4,000 gold coins for 100 Nether Orchids plus an order for 600 more over three months.
• The system announced Ron had completed the Nether Orchid sales quest and triggered an upgrade quest to grow one Golden Red Chrysanthemum.
• Ron learned the chrysanthemum cultivation method and discovered that its flowers could boost battle qi circulation and help condense it.

Ron obtained an exclusive Black Gold Card as a member of the imperial family and deposited his 6,000 gold coins. Back at his shop, he spent 900 Wealth Points on nine square meters of Cultivation Space before entering the Dimensional Space.

• Ron visited the Gold Depository and asked to apply for a gold card with his two payment slips.
• Manager Guy recognized Ron as the Seventh Prince and explained that direct imperial family members qualified for a Black Gold Card and a monthly credit limit.
• Ron received a mana-bonded Black Gold Card and deposited the money from his slips.
• Ron checked the refreshed System Shop and decided to save Wealth Points rather than buy the expensive Miracle of the Goddess of Harvest.
• Ron exchanged 900 Wealth Points for nine square meters of Cultivation Space, then closed the System Panel and opened the door to the Dimensional Space.

Ron grew Golden Red Chrysanthemums, harvested and transplanted them in a way that prevented them from regrowing, and opened his shop with the flowers for sale. He waited for Nora to apply for work, but Jasper arrived instead and saw the Magic Academy badge being hung beside the shop.

• Ron grew a Golden Red Chrysanthemum, completed his upgrade quest, and harvested its seeds and fruit.
• Ron cultivated five more flowers, cut off their blooms before transplanting them into pots, and harvested petals and leaves from the remaining plants.
• Ron opened his shop with five Golden Red Chrysanthemums priced at thirty gold coins each and received a quest to sell five hundred.
• Ron waited for Nora to apply for the job but realized she had not come, unaware that she could not read.
• Magic Academy representatives hung a badge beside Ron's shop sign, and Jasper arrived from the Glorious Mercenary Group and looked grave at the sight.

Jasper visited Ron to report the punishment of the apprentice who had directed the thugs and to propose a regular Nether Orchid order for the Glorious Mercenary Group. They agreed on a monthly supply of one hundred orchids, and Ron began pitching the shop’s other plants.

• Jasper told Ron that the apprentice had received six months in detention, a fifty-gold-coin compensation order, and expulsion from the Academy.
• Ron accepted the purse of fifty gold coins and thanked Jasper for resolving the matter.
• Jasper asked to buy Nether Orchids regularly for the Glorious Mercenary Group’s mages.
• Ron said he could supply about one hundred Nether Orchids a month at the fixed price of twenty gold coins each, with no discount.
• Jasper agreed to the terms and said he would have an agreement drafted for the next day.
• Ron suggested that the shop’s other plants might suit the mercenary group even better and offered to explain them.

Ron introduced the Golden Red Chrysanthemum to Jasper, who bought one to test its effects and arranged for patrols to watch the flower shop. Ron considered how to fulfill his sales quests and find a shop assistant without exposing the shop’s secrets.

• Ron showed Jasper the Golden Red Chrysanthemum and explained that it could invigorate Battle Qi and help warriors form a Battle Qi Vortex.
• Jasper bought one flower for 30 gold coins so the Glorious Mercenary Group could test it.
• Jasper offered to assign guards to Ron’s shop, but Ron asked him to arrange occasional patrols instead.
• Ron’s system recorded progress of 1/500 toward the Golden Red Chrysanthemum sales quest.
• Ron reflected on his bulk sales deals, the need for a shop assistant, and his plan to redeem [Miracle of the Goddess of Harvest] before anyone investigated the shop’s supply.

Ron shared barbecue and a card game with Mason, Harper, and Edith, then discussed potion research and his plans to study at the Magic Academy. After saying goodbye, he brought food to the nearby alley for Nora.

• Ron joined Mason, Harper, and Edith at Lyle's Barbecue Shop, where they ate, played Magic Duel, and chatted.
• Harper explained that Nether Orchid could be used to brew a powerful Meditation Potion, but Ron chose not to get involved in the research.
• Ron told his friends he would study water and earth magic under Professor Hicks at the Magic Academy.
• Edith offered to help Ron with questions about water, earth, and wood magic, while she and Harper traded teasing remarks.
• After dinner, Ron carried another serving of barbecue to a nearby alley, where Nora arrived looking for food.

Ron found Nora scavenging for food and offered her barbecue, then asked her to consider working at his shop. Nora revealed her cat ears to prove she was a half-beast, and Ron’s daily quest prompted him to pet them before she put her hat back on.

• Ron brought Nora barbecue and water, and she saved the five remaining skewers to ration over the next five days.
• Ron explained that his shop was hiring assistants and read the job requirements aloud after learning Nora could not read.
• Nora asked whether the job had any restrictions on race, then removed her hat to reveal her cat ears.
• The system triggered a quest telling Ron to pet Nora’s ears, but he asked why her eyes were pale black instead of pale red.