Recaps

Roger and Viscount Rost used abundant new crops, commercial platforms, and futures trading to accelerate industrial growth and reshape markets. As steel prices soared and Golden City prepared for expansion, nobles coordinated to profit from the boom while Viscount Rost worried about a future crash.

• Roger reassured the Agriculture Goddess and the Nature God that surplus grain could be used for other foods, livestock, and brewing, while Viscount Rost promoted Golden Ear Grain and machinery as his company’s harvest sent its stock soaring.
• Viscount Rost sold his shares as Southlands Development Company announced a vast harvest, then bought them back after the stock and grain prices plunged, earning a major profit and outlining plans for surplus grain.
• Viscount Rost proposed developing Dragon Island and industrializing the Southlands, while Tech Battle Priests cleared White Walkers and Apprentice persuaded Wild Mage to propose aerial forces and a Sky Fortress.
• Roger planned a Magic Net shopping platform and explained how investment, jobs, and wider markets could circulate wealth, while Viscount Rost used the Golden Merchants' Guild to buy land as prices fell.
• The Emerson Family chose to hold and expand its land, while the Golden Merchants' Guild continued acquiring property and Taobao Mall, bulk trading, and futures trading launched on the Magic Net.
• Merchants, churches, and nobles considered how to use the new commerce tools, while Roger created a Futures Market in Golden City and discussed possible forms of currency with the Magic Goddess.
• Magic Net users studied futures prices and trading, and Wool Ryan identified risks such as factory failure and failed delivery as steel futures drew growing attention.
• Viscount Rost secured a three-year steel supply contract with Foster Mining Company as prices rose, then watched Golden City approve new housing and inns while nobles coordinated to stockpile steel futures and push prices higher.

Viscount Rost steered nobles into Steel Futures with the help of public hype, while he prepared Credit Currency and a crash that would transfer their assets. After the launch of Magitech Vehicles, he triggered the collapse, leaving heavily indebted nobles with unsellable contracts and blaming Johnny the Actuary.

• The Clarkson Family invested heavily in Steel Futures, while Viscount Rost and Nidhogg prepared to use nobles’ defaults and mortgaged assets to support Credit Currency.
• As Steel Futures surged, Enron Mining listed on the Dragon Stock Exchange, and Viscount Rost used new regulations and public warnings to push investors toward the futures market.
• Viscount Rost demonstrated the fast-growing Changbai Pigs, and Johnny the Actuary used the farms’ steel needs to argue that steel demand and prices would keep rising.
• Nobles borrowed hundreds of millions of gold coins from the Great Dragon Bank to buy Steel Futures, while Roger said their losses would help reshape the world.
• The Rost Territory convoy crossed Graycastle and reached Golden City, where Viscount Rost launched Magitech Vehicles at prices that fueled speculation about future steel demand.
• When Steel Futures sell orders began accumulating, Viscount Rost sold contracts below the market price, triggering a steep drop and panic among indebted nobles.
• Foster Mining Company offered to repurchase futures at their original prices after fulfilling existing orders, while nobles blamed Johnny the Actuary and negotiated desperate sales.
• Johnny the Actuary fled under an assumed name, and the Clarkson Family head learned that Foster Mining Company’s buyback offer had expired as Steel Futures collapsed.

Viscount Rost turned a collapsed steel market into an opportunity to launch an ultra-high-speed rail network and open Rost Academy. The railway company went public to enormous demand, while churches, nobles, and rulers moved to secure a place in Rost Territory’s growing influence.

• Nobles and Church representatives searched for the missing Johnny the Actuary as steel prices and Enron Mining’s fortunes collapsed, while Nidhogg revealed the Dragons had profited heavily from futures trading.
• Nidhogg set Great Dragon Bank land rents at 10%, prompting nobles to abandon mortgaged holdings until the Bank controlled nearly half the land in human territory.
• Viscount Rost bought almost all Steel Futures before unveiling the rail system, whose speed, capacity, and planned routes convinced influential figures to cooperate on building a continental network.
• Viscount Rost announced Rost Academy and its colleges, drawing eager applicants and prompting churches, the Graycastle Emperor, and the Clarkson Family to consider sending students.
• Viscount Rost presented plans for a 38,000-kilometer railway network, its corporate structure, and its financing, then established the Rail Transit General Company.
• Visitors to Rost Territory saw its expanding Magitech industry and experimental Single-Soldier Aircraft as Rost Academy completed its interviews.
• The Rail Transit General Company raised five hundred million gold coins before its public listing, and the Dragons disclosed that they had subscribed for 280 million shares.
• The Shepherd Pope and Wool Ryan prepared to invest in the railway company, whose share price rose from 0.5 to 1.2 gold coins at market opening.

Viscount Rost expanded trade and magitech while preparing for threats in the Tulip Kingdom, and his new aircraft began attacking White Walkers. He secured a trade agreement with Graycastle and ended the stretch proposing a mass medical program to help ordinary people survive illness.

• Viscount Rost launched a major rail project, recruited local labor, and expanded commercial ties with the Fairy Folk through Kels Ramqi.
• Apprentice and Viscount Rost tested the Single-Soldier Aircraft, named it Dragon Rider Type-1, and began preparing an air force.
• Viscount Rost recruited former Griffin Knights and Giant Eagle Knights as pilots, while Nidhogg arranged for Dragon-Speech Runes to be shared with Rost Academy.
• Margaret led more than fifty Dragon Knight Type-1 Aircraft across the Watcher’s Wall, where they bombed White Walkers and destroyed their gathering point.
• Viscount Rost told the Gray Fortress Emperor about the danger in the Tulip Kingdom, then negotiated a trade agreement that opened Graycastle to investment and land purchases.
• Viscount Rost gathered healers and proposed mass-producing Holy Water, Druid Potions, and herbal medicines with funding from his companies.
• Viscount Rost proposed training barefoot doctors with a practical medical guidebook and recruiting them through medical families, healing churches, short courses, and self-study.