Recaps

Viscount Rost recognized that better food storage, transport, and processing could expand food supplies, while Rost Territory’s experts discussed plans for automated sheep farms with the Shepherd Pope. The Shepherd Church offered its expertise, and the Pope was stunned by the proposed system’s capabilities.

• Viscount Rost realized that food storage and transportation devices, along with food processing, could reduce shortages and price swings as the population grew.
• The Shepherd Church’s banquet showcased mutton and sheep-milk products to livestream viewers and ended at dusk.
• After the banquet, the Shepherd Pope offered the Rost Territory experts experienced shepherds and technical books to support their work.
• The livestock farm project leader explained that the planned sheep farm would automate cleaning and feeding, collect wool and milk, and detect disease.
• The project leader added that Rost Territory planned to grow forage grass near the farm, leaving the Shepherd Pope astonished.

The Shepherd Pope learned how Rost Territory’s planting and harvesting methods could greatly expand sheep farming, and he offered the Shepherd Church’s grasslands for experiments. Viscount Rost then discovered that household and warehouse Frozen Magitech Devices were already in production, though transporting them remained unsolved.

• Magitech experts explained to the Shepherd Pope how specialized forage grass, automated irrigation, and harvesting machines could increase production while reducing labor.
• The Shepherd Pope approved testing the methods for sheep and offered the Shepherd Church’s grasslands for the work.
• Viscount Rost contacted the Wild Mage and described his ideas for preserving food.
• The Wild Mage revealed that household and warehouse Frozen Magitech Devices had already been tested, entered production, and reached about half the households in the territory.
• The Wild Mage said transporting the devices remained a challenge because insulation runes would affect vehicle size and range.

Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage discussed ways to preserve food and asked the Technology God Church researchers for ideas. Researchers suggested heat, fermentation, drying, and excluding air, and the Wild Mage proposed testing an airless sealed bag made from tire material.

• Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage agreed to seek ideas from the Technology God Church researchers' Group Chat about processing food to make it last longer.
• A researcher proposed that boiling, fermenting, drying, and processing milk into products could extend food's shelf life.
• Another researcher reported that food stored in a space isolated from outside air stayed fresh for months.
• The Wild Mage suggested making a bag from the material used for Magitech Vehicle tires, removing the air with a Magitech Device, and sealing it to test whether air caused food to spoil.

Viscount Rost proposed a research institution to develop better food-preservation methods, and many Technology God Church researchers joined after recognizing the commercial opportunity. The Magitech Vehicle convoy then set off on the wilderness-crossing second stage of its journey, promising viewers a route through Orc lands and grasslands.

• Viscount Rost explained food-loss figures and proposed experimenting with preservation methods, prompting Technology God Church researchers to sign up for the institution.
• The Magitech Vehicle convoy prepared to leave the Dawn Kingdom's Westlands main city and travel along the border toward the Southlands and Graycastle Empire.
• The Shepherd Pope offered each convoy member a sheep when they next visited, while the convoy leader joked that a successful crossing might lead to a journey around the continent.
• The convoy departed as viewers debated whether the vehicles could cross wilderness and whether Orcs might threaten them.
• The convoy leader revealed that the route followed the former heartland of the Tiele Chiefdom, where viewers would see many Orcs and vast grasslands.

The convoy’s route revealed that it would pass through the former Tiele Chiefdom, now controlled by the Dawn Kingdom, prompting viewers to discuss the Orcs and the territory. Newsbird Megan planned to use the livestream’s audience to build fear and then surprise them with the region’s transformation under the Technology God Church.

• The livestream revealed that the convoy would travel through the former Tiele Chiefdom territory seized by Countess Lucina Herick, and viewers debated the Orcs and the region’s future.
• Viewers learned that Orcs had long raided Human settlements, while nobles considered whether Dawn Kingdom control could protect them from future invasions.
• At the World Economic News Agency in Rost Territory, an editor-in-chief questioned the exaggerated claims about the Tiele Chiefdom.
• Newsbird Megan explained that the public discussion benefited Rost Territory, the Technology God Church, and the Agency by drawing attention to the region.
• Newsbird Megan planned to make viewers expect a savage land, then show them the renewed Orc settlement and civilized community after the convoy crossed Eagle's Nest Canyon.

A convoy entered Eagle's Nest Canyon and livestreamed its history as a brutal Human-Orc battlefield, then found the grasslands beyond unexpectedly peaceful. When the convoy leader approached a Minotaur herding cattle to ask for directions, the Orc revealed he had already been watching their livestream.

• The convoy leader described the war at Eagle's Nest Canyon, including the War God's resurrection miracle and the Humans' defense, using an account from Countess Lucina.
• The Magitech Vehicle convoy entered the canyon, and the livestream audience discussed its strategic terrain and the danger Orcs once posed.
• The convoy emerged onto peaceful grassland where cattle and sheep grazed and an Orc herded them.
• The convoy leader recognized the herder as a powerful Minotaur, ignored the audience's warnings, and drove over to offer jerky and ask for directions.
• The Minotaur revealed the Magic Net behind his back and told the convoy leader, "I'm watching your livestream."

A Minotaur told a caravan leader and livestream viewers how Commander Lucina had introduced the Magic Net, farming, and Magitech Devices to the Orcs of the former Tiele Chiefdom. The chapter ended with viewers realizing that settled farming had made the Orcs easier to govern.

• The Minotaur revealed that he used the Magic Net, surprising the caravan leader and the livestream viewers.
• The Minotaur explained that Orcs who graduated from Commander Lucina's school received a Magic Net Ring, grain, and salt.
• The caravan leader asked whether Commander Lucina had changed life in the region, and the Minotaur described her teaching the Orcs to farm and providing Magitech Devices.
• The Minotaur explained that farming crops suited to the land had helped the Orcs shift from nomadic herding to settled farming and livestock raising.
• The livestream viewers realized that settled communities and Magic Net access made the Orcs easier to manage, and they praised Wolf General Lucina's governance.

A livestream showed how the Technology God Church had transformed the grasslands, while Wolf General Lucina prepared an army of Tech Battle Priests to counterattack the White Walkers. The chapter ended with Lucina learning that people watching the grasslands were trying to find her.

• The convoy leader and livestream viewers marveled at the peaceful Orcs and Gray Elves and the changes brought by the Technology God Church and Wolf General Lucina.
• Media coverage spread across the Magic Net, but viewers learned that Lucina was in the Northlands rather than on the grasslands.
• Wolf General Lucina inspected the Warrior Troops 2.0 exoskeleton as Tech Battle Priests gathered at her territory near the Watcher's Wall.
• Lucina learned that a little over 1,800 Tech Battle Priests had arrived and ordered the army to wait for the remaining forces before counterattacking the White Walkers.
• A servant told Lucina that people watching the grasslands were searching for her, and she wondered who they were.

Wolf General Lucina responded to rumors about her disappearance by preparing a live-broadcast expedition against the White Walkers near Watcher's Wall. With Roger's support, her Tech Battle Priests and heavy Magitech forces advanced through the breach as the world watched.

• Wolf General Lucina learned that people on the Magic Net were speculating about her whereabouts and planning an attack on the Orc Kingdom.
• Wolf General Lucina decided to draw attention away from the rumors by broadcasting her expedition against the White Walkers.
• Magitech trucks delivered military equipment to her territory, where 8,000 Tech Battle Priests gathered.
• Roger endorsed the live broadcast and ordered it promoted so people could see the Tech Battle Priests' strength.
• Wolf General Lucina ordered her army to advance toward the breach near Watcher's Wall, and the forces opened fire as the broadcast showed their assault.

Wolf General Lucina’s forces used flames to draw out the White Walkers, then destroyed them with a charged pillar of light and entered the Forbidden Land. After a hidden White Walker emerged beneath the soil and was killed, Lucina warned that the monsters were developing rudimentary intelligence.

• Flames filled the breach in Watcher's Wall as White Walkers charged through, while the Battle Priests remained protected inside Warrior Troops 2.0.
• A turret fired a pillar of light that erased the flames, the monsters, and a large area beyond the gate.
• Wolf General Lucina ordered the forces into the Forbidden Land and directed the Royal Mage Association's earth mages to repair Watcher's Wall.
• A half-destroyed White Walker crawled out of the soil and charged toward the mages, but several Battle Priests shot it apart.
• Wolf General Lucina warned that White Walkers could hide and might be growing more intelligent, and ordered the forces to watch their surroundings.

The Tech Battle Priests used overwhelming firepower to destroy the White Walkers, revealing how much the Technology God Church’s military had advanced. The Graycastle Emperor considered binding his empire closer to the Church, while the Tiele chiefs feared that Wolf General’s forces could overwhelm them.

• The Tech Battle Priests adapted to the White Walkers by using massed magical bombardments before finishing off survivors.
• Witnesses marveled at the Technology God Church’s combat power and wondered whether Wolf General could conquer the Tiele Chiefdom.
• The Graycastle Emperor realized the Church’s forces had grown far beyond what he had expected and considered drawing his people closer to its faith.
• The Tiele chiefs watched the battle through the Magic Net and feared that Redleaf Forest could not stop Wolf General’s army.
• The Tiele chiefs abandoned confidence in reclaiming their lost territory and worried that challenging Wolf General would invite devastating revenge.

The Technology God Church deployed Detection Devices and Automatic Defense Weapons around the Watcher's Wall, astonishing onlookers with their ability to spot and attack enemies without human intervention. As White Walkers gathered near the stronghold, Wolf General Lucina warned her forces to stay alert and prepared to learn whether intelligent White Walkers were directing the army.

• Technology Priests assembled Detection Devices that projected nearby terrain and enemy movements, making White Walkers easier to target.
• Wolf General Lucina activated the Automatic Defense Weapons and arranged for priests to rest in shifts while the turrets supported the defense.
• The turrets automatically struck detected White Walkers, prompting viewers and nobles to recognize their potential for defending territories and seek to buy them.
• Wolf General Lucina recalled that some White Walkers might be developing intelligence and considered whether they were gathering under direction or by instinct.
• As White Walkers converged on the stronghold, Wolf General Lucina ordered everyone to stay alert and watch their routes and attacks for signs of intelligence.

Wolf General Lucina ordered the Technology God Church to use Blazing Prairie against the advancing White Walkers, demonstrating that Rost Territory’s magitech devices could unleash Legendary magic. Intelligent White Walkers watched the attack and discussed how to drive the perceived invaders from their land.

• Wolf General Lucina weighed whether the White Walkers acted on instinct or had Wisdom, then ordered the priests to fire Blazing Prairie.
• The Blazing Prairie shell burst overhead, unleashing a vast blaze that burned White Walkers across the wilderness.
• Livestream viewers marveled at the magitech weapon, while Legendary Mages looked unsettled by its power.
• Several intelligent White Walkers watched from a distant hill and discussed how to eliminate the Technology priests they considered invaders.

The Graycastle Emperor and his ministers watched the Technology God Church destroy the White Walkers with Magitech weapons and debated the threat Rost Territory posed. “Odd Coin” Ayr argued that the wars would strengthen Rost Territory’s economy and complete its transition to Magitech Industrialization.

• The Graycastle Emperor summoned his ministers to watch the war and assess the Technology God Church after its Magitech Cannons wiped out the detected White Walkers.
• The Minister of Finance argued that Viscount Rost had no desire for war and suggested the Graycastle Empire could peacefully buy or manufacture Magitech equipment.
• A general warned that weapons sales and profit could lead others to start wars, and the Graycastle Emperor said the Technology God Church was training troops before entering the Tulip Kingdom.
• A minister questioned what Rost Territory would do if war drained its money and supplies, leaving the ministers unable to answer.
• “Odd Coin” Ayr said the wars would bring Rost Territory more money and workers, and predicted that its two regions would complete their transition to Magitech Industrialization.

Odd Coin Ayr explained how Viscount Rost used weapon production, refugee labor, housing loans, and consumer industries to create a self-expanding economic cycle. Graycastle Empire’s ministers asked how to respond, and Ayr proposed building a similar cycle around infrastructure construction.

• Odd Coin Ayr explained that weapon production brought refugees to Rost Territory, where work and housing loans turned them into workers and consumers.
• Ayr described how refugee spending would expand other industries and generate more income for Viscount Rost through profits and taxes.
• Graycastle Empire’s leaders realized that cheap surplus goods from Rost Territory could undermine other nations’ industries and send even more people toward Rost’s lands.
• A minister asked Odd Coin Ayr what Graycastle Empire should do, and Ayr proposed using infrastructure construction as the anchor for Magitech Industrialization reform.
• Ayr urged the empire to mobilize labor and resources, help participants earn money, and use Great Dragon Bank to draw future income into a self-expanding infrastructure cycle.

The Technology God Church’s war on the Magic Net frightened rulers across the world, who considered making it their state religion rather than changing their societies. Viscount Rost and his secretary discussed why nobles clung to the status quo and concluded that distant threats would not persuade them for long.

• The Technology God Church’s mass-produced Magitech Weapons and their Legendary-level power caused kingdoms to fear that they could not resist the church if it attacked.
• Viscount Rost watched the livestream and realized that many nations wanted to embrace the Technology God Church as a faith while leaving their way of life unchanged.
• Rost’s secretary explained that nobles feared losing their inherited privileges and saw little personal benefit in industrial change.
• Rost asked whether revealing the dangers facing the Tulip Kingdom might change the nobles’ minds, but his secretary predicted they would soon return to their old ways.
• Rost agreed that only a threat close enough to shake their foundations would make the nobles change, and he rested before returning to his work.

Viscount Rost found that the Technology God Church’s victory had made investors fear its growing power, causing most stocks to fall while Rost Territory Group Company surged. As he weighed whether to reveal the truth about the Tulip Kingdom, he realized he could adjust his strategy to raise more funds through the stock market.

• Viscount Rost worried that nobles had embraced technology as a religion without adopting Magitech Industry, and he considered how to spread industrialization into their regions.
• Viscount Rost checked the Stock Market and saw Rost Territory Group Company rise toward thirty gold coins per share while most other companies’ stocks fell.
• Viscount Rost read investors’ fears that the Technology God Church might target companies and countries, and he understood why its growing power had unsettled the market.
• Viscount Rost considered revealing the Tulip Kingdom’s affairs to stabilize confidence but worried that the news might deepen public despair.
• Viscount Rost saw that investors could not afford his company’s shares and realized he could adjust his strategy to raise more funds through the stock market.

Viscount Rost proposed splitting shares into more units to lower their price and make them easier to trade. Nidhogg considered whether Great Dragon Express should do the same as he weighed the benefits of broader investment against the risk of losing the stock’s stability.

• Viscount Rost realized that splitting shares into ten units would lower their price from nearly thirty gold coins to about three without changing their total value.
• Viscount Rost contacted the Dragons, and Nidhogg agreed to consider the proposal after Rost prepared a detailed plan for shareholders.
• Nidhogg rejected Rost’s offer to buy Great Dragon Express shares, saying he expected the company to benefit from a new Magitech Vehicle Factory and an Ultra-High-Speed Rail Train.
• Nidhogg envisioned Dragon-staffed logistics hubs linking rail and vehicle deliveries across the continent.
• Viscount Rost warned Nidhogg that splitting Great Dragon Express shares could attract ordinary investors and raise the price at first, but might reduce the company’s long-term stability.
• Viscount Rost closed the Magic Net and began studying which of his own industries might benefit from share splits.

Viscount Rost split the shares of Rost Territory Group Company and Southlands Development Company, making them affordable to more investors and sending Rost Territory Group’s market capitalization soaring. The magitech convoy entered the Southlands, where its leader filmed roads and towering Golden Ear Grain said to yield 1,600 jin per mu, a claim that astonished nobles.

• Viscount Rost split each company’s shares into one hundred, reducing Rost Territory Group Company’s share price from thirty gold coins to 0.3 gold coins.
• Newsbird Megan and people among the public explained the stock split, and Rost Territory Group Company’s share price rose to 0.5 gold coins as its market capitalization reached two hundred million gold coins.
• People watched the Technology God Church’s Battle Priests annihilate enemies beyond Watcher's Wall and learned that charging facilities, a Magic Energy Network, and aerial deliveries supplied their weapons and equipment.
• The magitech convoy entered the Southlands and filmed its extensive roads and dense Golden Ear Grain growing along them.
• The convoy leader wondered whether Golden Ear Grain could yield 1,600 jin per mu, prompting nobles to express disbelief.

The convoy leader’s account of Golden Ear Grain and agricultural magitech reignited interest across the Magic Net, while intelligent White Walkers reported the outsiders’ overwhelming weapons to their king. The White Walker King decided to investigate personally as the outsiders tested a new flamethrower against the White Walker horde.

• The convoy leader’s recorded claims about super crops and harvesting machines spread across the Magic Net and revived public interest in the convoy.
• Several intelligent White Walkers told their king that outsiders had entered their territory, destroyed and repaired part of the great wall, and slaughtered their forces with seemingly inexhaustible weapons.
• The White Walker King rejected their plan to gather a massive force for a surprise attack, then said he would go see the outsiders himself.
• The outsiders’ New-Model Flamethrower burned savage White Walkers to ash, and one observer noted its sustained battlefield power.

Wolf General Lucina watched Magitech Devices devastate the White Walkers and warned that intelligent ones might pose a greater threat. Meanwhile, Viscount Rost prepared a large-scale harvest demonstration as a convoy crossed the Southlands, leaving him ready to welcome it with harvesters, aerial mages, and reporters in place.

• Wolf General Lucina praised the new Magitech Devices and said Rost Territory’s Portable Flamethrowers would help begin a counterattack.
• Wolf General Lucina warned her adjutants that some White Walkers possessed intelligence, though Magic Net viewers doubted the claim and focused on the weapons.
• The Magitech Vehicle convoy crossed into the Southlands, where viewers marveled at vast fields of Golden Ear Grain and discussed the role of Magitech Agricultural Machinery.
• Viscount Rost asked about the harvesters, and his secretary reported that one thousand machines were ready to harvest five hundred thousand mu in a day.
• Viscount Rost confirmed that flying mages and World Economic News Agency reporters were ready, then ordered everyone to prepare to welcome the convoy.

Viscount Rost welcomed the Magitech Vehicle convoy and discussed how quickly its vehicles could carry people and grain across the Dawn Kingdom. With the convoy eager to see the Golden Ear Grain harvest, the Agriculture Church began preparing to harvest an acre and measure its yield.

• The convoy leader told Viscount Rost that Magitech Vehicles had cut a journey of several thousand li to just over twenty days and estimated that a drive to the capital could take as little as a day and a night.
• Viscount Rost led the convoy through the Southlands and explained that the Golden Ear Grain had been planted widely with the Agriculture Church.
• The convoy leader urged Viscount Rost not to delay the harvest on their account, and Viscount Rost agreed to begin harvesting shortly and combine the welcome banquet with the harvest celebration.
• Viscount Rost proposed harvesting an acre first to check the yield, and the Agriculture Church priests began preparing under their archbishop's command.

Roger and the Magic Goddess watched Viscount Rost’s livestream as Golden Ear Grain was harvested to prove its yield to the people of the Southlands. The tally reached one thousand jin with only about half the field harvested, leaving the Agriculture Archbishop speechless and the promised sixteen hundred jin per mu within reach.

• Roger explained that people resisted new crops and praised Viscount Rost’s plan to promote Golden Ear Grain through the livestream.
• The Magic Goddess noted that hundreds of gods were watching and hoped the harvest would go smoothly.
• The Agriculture Church’s workers harvested Golden Ear Grain and weighed the crop as the crowd watched.
• The scale reached one hundred, then three hundred, then five hundred jin, surpassing the yield of most fields.
• The Agriculture Archbishop trembled with relief as the harvest continued and the total reached one thousand jin with about half the field still standing.

Viscount Rost and the Agriculture Archbishop oversaw a livestreamed harvest that showed Golden Ear Grain yielding 2,173 jin per mu, then 1,749 jin after processing. As viewers reeled at the results, enormous Magitech Harvesters appeared in the convoy’s territory.

• Agricultural priests harvested a marked mu of Golden Ear Grain and measured a total yield of 2,173 jin.
• Viscount Rost explained that the fertile Southlands soil, careful cultivation, and Nature God’s potions had raised the crop’s yield above its 1,600-jin baseline.
• Viscount Rost asked the Agriculture Archbishop to use divine arts to dehusk and dry the grain, and the processed harvest weighed 1,749 jin.
• The livestream showed numerous Magitech Harvesters in the convoy’s territory, larger and more numerous than the models commonly available elsewhere.

Rost Territory demonstrated harvesters working alongside Magitech Trucks, revealing how quickly the new grain could be harvested and collected. Watching the demonstration, the head of the Emerson Family realized that vastly increased production could flood the market and drive grain prices down.

• The harvesters advanced in sequence, processing the grain and spraying it into the Magitech Trucks following behind them.
• At Viscount Rost’s signal, a mage carried the livestream camera into the air, showing the vast golden fields and the harvesters racing across them.
• Viewers marveled at the scale of Rost’s harvest and the machinery’s efficiency, with some fearing the Technology God Church would overturn the world’s existing order.
• At the Emerson Family castle, the heir proposed buying Agricultural Magitech Machinery and planting the new grain variety to increase production.
• The Emerson Family head warned that a harvest several times larger could exceed demand, trigger price competition, and leave unsold grain to rot.