Recaps

Xu Yi returned to Anvilmar City and learned that Stille and the others had gone to the New Moon Grand Theater. Great Mage Eisenka arrived with a modified Mana Sedan, revealed its powerful Fire-Type engine, and drove it toward pedestrians while preventing Xu Yi from gathering mana; the chapter ended as Eisenka pressed another button.

• Xu Yi reached the residence and learned that Stille had gone shopping with Anise and the others, planning to meet him at the New Moon Grand Theater.
• Xu Yi recalled how Stille had funded the theater herself through the New Moon Merchant Guild and loans from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce.
• Great Mage Eisenka arrived and asked Xu Yi about his plans for Mana Sedan racing and the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Fire-Type Mana Engine.
• Eisenka invited Xu Yi to ride in his modified Pure Black Mana Sedan, and Xu Yi agreed after noticing its unusual controls.
• Eisenka activated the Fire-Type engine, sent the car speeding through a busy street, and disrupted Xu Yi's mana as they approached a pedestrian.
• Eisenka pressed another button on the console just as the Mana Sedan was about to hit someone.

Xu Yi criticized Great Mage Eisenka’s Mana Flying Car as unsafe, too costly, and too difficult to mass-produce. He refused a formal Xinfei Merchant Guild partnership but offered to help Eisenka personally, leaving the project’s development dependent on their proposed arrangement.

• Great Mage Eisenka took Xu Yi in the Mana Flying Car on a flight from Anvilmar City, and Xu Yi reprimanded him for risking pedestrians’ safety.
• Xu Yi argued that the car’s high cost and complex eighth-level flight array made mass production impractical, while Eisenka acknowledged that only three advanced mages had learned to inscribe it.
• After landing west of the city, Eisenka invited the Xinfei Merchant Guild to join his development project in exchange for a share of future profits.
• Xu Yi rejected the guild partnership, saying the project offered no worthwhile returns, but offered to provide Eisenka with free technical support personally if Eisenka shared the car’s technical information and secured patents.
• Eisenka asked why Xu Yi preferred to work with him personally, and Xu Yi replied that he had no confidence in the Mana Flying Car’s future returns.

Xu Yi agreed to help Great Mage Eisenka develop the Mana Flying Car, then joined Stille and Anise at the New Moon Grand Theater, where Stille explained why she could accept Xu Yi taking Anise as another partner. As Stille pointed toward the stage and mentioned another woman who wanted to marry him, Xu Yi recognized that a new complication awaited.

• Great Mage Eisenka accepted Xu Yi's offer to cooperate with him personally on the Mana Flying Car project, and Xu Yi decided to mention Eisenka's flight over Anvilmar City to Servini.
• Xu Yi struggled to enter the New Moon Grand Theater and found Stille in an upper-level private box.
• Anise kissed Xu Yi, and Stille teased him by showing him Elder Elusia's book about unions between elves and humans.
• Stille told Xu Yi that she minded sharing him but could accept Anise because she considered her family and trusted her.
• Stille pointed to a woman onstage who also wanted to marry Xu Yi, and Xu Yi turned to see who she was.

While watching Avir perform at the New Moon Grand Theater, Xu Yi learned that Stille had located several Beastman tribes and an Elf tribe in the Rulson Kingdom, as well as made contact with its Dwarves. The chapter left Xu Yi planning a trip to negotiate with the other races and arrange a Rulson Kingdom performance for the New Moon Song and Dance Troupe.

• Avir sang onstage, and Xu Yi praised her voice and the new interpretations she had added to her singing.
• Stille told Xu Yi she had contacted six Beastman tribes and discovered the Azshara Tribe of Elves in the Rulson Kingdom.
• Stille explained that the six Beastman tribes were open to cooperation, while the Azshara Tribe remained wary of the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
• Stille reported that Dwarves in the Rulson Kingdom had responded positively to her outreach, and Xu Yi considered traveling there with Elf elders and Dwarf leaders to negotiate with the races.
• Stille told Xu Yi that the Rulson Kingdom's ambassador had sought an invitation for the New Moon Song and Dance Troupe, and Avir's performance ended to thunderous applause.

Xu Yi negotiated with Servini over joint Magic Crystal refining factories and mining rights, while advising Great Mage Eisenka on the kingdom’s magic flying vehicle. He also recruited hundreds of mages for the Xinfei Merchant Guild, then was astonished and delighted when Great Mage Camilla and Great Mage Truchi arrived in Anvilmar City for an unexpected reason.

• Xu Yi and Servini provisionally agreed to share the technology for refining first- and second-grade high-concentration Magic Crystals in exchange for fifty-year mining rights to five Magic Crystal Mines.
• Xu Yi gave Great Mage Eisenka advice that reduced the magic flying vehicle’s startup energy consumption by at least thirty percent.
• The Xinfei Merchant Guild sent more than a thousand mages to the annual qualification examinations and recruited 261 certified mages, while making preliminary agreements with more than five hundred others.
• Great Mage Camilla and Great Mage Truchi arrived in Anvilmar City after the examinations, surprising Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi learned that the two Great Mages had come for an unexpected reason that left him astonished and overjoyed.

Great Mage Camilla demonstrated her new mastery of spatial laws to Xu Yi, revealing that she could imprison a cubic region of space and control what happened within it. She planned to seek official recognition at the Mages' Guild Headquarters, while Great Mage Truchi began to believe the Xinfei Merchant Guild's research methods could help him advance too.

• Great Mage Camilla formed a cube of space that Xu Yi's mana could not enter, then explained that her spatial law, Imprisonment, let her control objects and time within it.
• Xu Yi celebrated Camilla's breakthrough and its potential to protect the Xinfei Merchant Guild, but Great Mage Truchi cautioned that the Mages' Guild Headquarters still had to recognize her as an Archmage.
• Camilla said she and Truchi had come to Anvilmar City to visit the headquarters and consult other Archmages.
• Camilla credited her rapid progress to research at the Xinfei Merchant Guild Magic Research Institute, and Truchi said Xu Yi's precise, data-based approach had deepened his own understanding of magic.
• Truchi resolved that he could advance like Camilla and suspected that joining the Xinfei Merchant Guild might make it possible.

After learning that Grand Duke Wellen and the Sark Kingdom had besieged the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s main base, Xu Yi returned to the border and vowed revenge for the guild’s losses. Avita gave him intelligence on Wellen’s forces and supply depots, and Xu Yi began the counterattack.

• Xu Yi learned that Grand Duke Wellen had retaken the ceded territory, seized the guild’s military magic machinery, and surrounded its main base with help from a Sark Kingdom fleet.
• Hart reported that the guild’s base remained secure, though the roads and sea routes were blockaded.
• Avita brought rescued Xinfei Farm workers to Xu Yi, who promised to avenge those killed and compensate survivors for their losses.
• Xu Yi arranged for the survivors to be escorted to Black Rice City, where guild factories would temporarily shelter them.
• Avita showed Xu Yi a map marking Count Wellen’s forces and suspected military supply depots, and Xu Yi announced the counterattack.

Grand Duke Wellen and General Colerel struggled to contain the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s counterattacks, especially its Mana Airship, while waiting for mage reinforcements. General Colerel considered why Xu Yi had not asked the Lampari Kingdom’s West-Garrison Army to invade Wellen’s territory.

• Grand Duke Wellen demanded that General Colerel secure enough reinforcements from the Sark Kingdom as explosions sounded nearby.
• General Colerel recalled how the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s two hundred guards had worn down Wellen’s forces and how the First Fleet had failed to approach the guild’s coast.
• General Colerel saw the Mana Airship retreat after attacking Wellen’s supply depots and military camps, and admitted that neither he nor Wellen could stop it.
• General Colerel remembered that the Cheetah Legion’s invasion of the Black Rice Wasteland had been halted by the guild’s fortified defenses and the Lampari Kingdom’s West-Garrison Army.
• General Colerel wondered why Xu Yi had not asked the West-Garrison Army to invade Grand Duke Wellen’s territory.

Xu Yi reassured President Cruz that the Xinfei Merchant Guild could defend itself with advanced military magic machinery and superior intelligence. He armed the Amli Merchant Guild guards and sailed the Wingspan toward the Sark fleet, leaving the impending confrontation at sea.

• Xu Yi explained that his latest military magic machinery and raids on Grand Duke Wellen's armories had left the besieging forces at a disadvantage.
• Xu Yi refused to seek Queen Servini's help, saying he wanted the Xinfei Merchant Guild to resolve the crisis with its own strength.
• Xu Yi gave the Amli Merchant Guild guards a thousand magic rocket launchers as payment for their support.
• Avita reported that the Sark Kingdom's fleet was about twenty kilometers northwest of the Wingspan.
• Xu Yi ordered Nevall to take the Wingspan northwest at full speed toward the Sark fleet.

Xu Yi defeated Grand Duke Wellen and the other lords, then established the Stantin Duchy Congress instead of taking the title of Grand Duke. As he reflected on the lives lost and resolved to keep control of his own fate, he achieved a breakthrough in magic.

• The Wingspan destroyed a Sark Kingdom First Fleet squadron, and Xu Yi used space magic to drive off the surviving mages.
• The Wingspan defeated General Colerel's main fleet, ending the blockade, and Xu Yi's forces broke Grand Duke Wellen's siege and drove him into hiding.
• Xu Yi's private guard defeated two neighboring lords, then seven more, before routing a united forty-thousand-strong army with only five thousand guards.
• Xu Yi took control of the Stantin Duchy but rejected the title of Grand Duke, establishing the Stantin Duchy Congress and naming Count Angklu its chairman.
• Xu Yi reflected on the lives lost in the conflict, resolved never to leave his fate in others' hands, and achieved a breakthrough as the leaves outside rippled.

Kennard brought Candel Empire ambassador Raiden Hakane through the Stantin Duchy on Slu Road, where Hakane admired the road and Xinfei Merchant Guild’s facilities. After testing a Small Mana Dryer, Hakane ordered a hundred and revealed that Candel Empire nobles were interested in the guild’s products, giving the guild a chance to enter the empire’s market.

• Raiden Hakane admired the elevated Slu Road and said he wanted the Candel Empire to build an even grander one.
• Kennard explained that the Xinfei Merchant Guild had equipped the route with streetlamps to welcome visitors.
• Kennard and Raiden Hakane stopped at a Magic Recharging Station, where Hakane marveled at its clean restroom and automatic fixtures.
• Kennard demonstrated a Small Mana Dryer, and Raiden Hakane ordered a hundred for himself.
• Kennard reflected that Hakane had agreed to the visit because Candel Empire nobles wanted information about and had ordered Xinfei products.

Kennard explained the automatic water supply system to Ambassador Hakane as they traveled through the Dreammist Forest, then stopped to help an injured man. After elves and an emergency crew treated and transported the man, Hakane was left wondering about the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s ties with the elves and its emergency communications device.

• Kennard explained that the automatic water supply system used pipes, a Magic-Powered Water Pump, filtration facilities, and a water tower to deliver clean water.
• Kennard spotted an injured man beside the road, stopped the Mana Sedan, and told the driver to call the emergency center.
• Kennard fired a signal, and two elves arrived to examine and treat the injured man with healing magic.
• An emergency crew arrived in a modified Medium Passenger Magic Locomotive, loaded the man onto a stretcher, and took him away.
• Kennard told Hakane that the emergency centers treated patients and charged fees, and that he had put the injured man's costs on his account.
• Hakane wondered how the guild communicated with the emergency center so quickly and how close the guild had become to the elves.

Ambassador Hakane traveled with Kennard through a district of tall buildings and bustling streets, marveling at the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s wealth and the peaceful coexistence of different races. After learning the local traffic-light rules, he headed to the Motor Racing Track, where President Xu awaited him.

• Ambassador Hakane learned that the Xinfei Merchant Guild had funded seventeen tall buildings, each costing about four hundred thousand gold coins to construct.
• Ambassador Hakane saw humans, dwarves, elves, and orcs living and working together peacefully in the busy district.
• Kennard’s mana sedan stopped at a red light, and Kennard explained that traffic had to stop on red and move on green.
• The traffic light turned green, and Kennard’s mana sedan turned left toward the Motor Racing Track.
• Kennard told Ambassador Hakane that President Xu was waiting to welcome him and watch a motor race together.

Kennard brought Ambassador Hakane to a huge viewing arena, where he reunited with Xu Yi and discussed roads, transport, and the Candel Empire’s interest in Xinfei’s magic machinery. Xu Yi’s effortless use of Space Magic amid the crowd left Hakane suspecting that he was a Great Mage.

• Kennard took Ambassador Hakane to a large arena outside the town, where Xu Yi greeted him and invited him to watch a competition.
• Xu Yi offered Hakane a new Advanced Mana Sedan with off-road capability, and Hakane gladly accepted before worrying about the poor roads back to Wimbledon.
• Hakane explained that the Candel Empire’s ruler wanted to see the benefits of road construction before approving a route through three countries, and Xu Yi directed him to the Amli Merchant Guild.
• Hakane began to tell Xu Yi that the emperor was interested in Xinfei’s Military Magic Machinery, but a loud report and the crowd’s cheering interrupted them.
• Xu Yi spoke clearly to Hakane over the uproar, leading Hakane to suspect that Xu Yi had mastered Space Magic as a Great Mage.

Xu Yi prepared for an important ceremony after meeting with Ambassador Hakane, and Anise cured his hangover with an elf mental spell. Before leaving with Freya, he told Liss and Linda that he had applied to Congress to end their slave status, leaving them overwhelmed with hope and joy.

• Xu Yi told Stille that Ambassador Hakane’s visit had gone well and that Candel merchants were likely to pursue deals for household magic machinery, while he had downplayed the guild’s military machinery.
• Stille woke Xu Yi before the ceremony, and Anise used the elf Mind-Concentrating Spell to ease his hangover headache.
• Xu Yi agreed to take Freya to the ceremony so she could attend more of the guild’s important events.
• Xu Yi told Liss and Linda that he had formally asked Congress to revoke their slave status and arranged for extra servants to take over their work during their pregnancies.
• Liss and Linda wept with joy as Xu Yi left the manor with Freya.

Xu Yi and the Xinfei Merchant Guild celebrated the maiden voyage of their first deep-sea fleet, bound for the Rulson Kingdom with a large shipment of magic machinery. After the ships departed, Newman delivered King Trutz’s request for greater investment, especially in military magic machinery, leaving Xu Yi to consider the kingdom’s ambitions.

• Xu Yi opened the fleet’s launch ceremony, where Newman spoke for the Rulson Kingdom and Nevall pledged to command the fleet well.
• Nevall took command of the Wingspan, the Sunrise, and the Goddess of Victory Iris as the three Mana-Powered Ships left Xinfei Port for Nixi City.
• Xu Yi admitted to Newman that he feared unpredictable dangers at sea, while Newman trusted the ships and suggested they were equipped to deter pirates.
• Newman told Xu Yi that King Trutz wanted the Xinfei Merchant Guild to expand its investment in the Rulson Kingdom beyond its existing thirty-seven factories.
• Xu Yi said the guild planned to invest over two million additional gold coins and had agreements with twenty-six merchant guilds, but Newman insisted the kingdom wanted cooperation in military magic machinery.

Xu Yi refused Newman’s request to transfer all military magic machinery technology, explaining that the Rulson Kingdom lacked the industrial base to manufacture it and recommending that it buy equipment instead. Newman agreed to report the proposal to King Trutz, while Xu Yi worried that the Sark Kingdom might seek military magic machinery through secret means; Teresa then appeared at his door, looking deeply sorrowful.

• Xu Yi rejected Newman’s request for the Xinfei Merchant Guild to transfer all military magic machinery technology and said the Rulson Kingdom could not manufacture it yet.
• Newman revealed that King Trutz wanted the technology mainly to maintain a balance with the Lampari Kingdom, whose army had recently driven the Sark Kingdom’s Greedy Legion from the Murto Mountain Ranges.
• Xu Yi urged Newman to recommend buying military magic machinery directly from the guild, and Newman agreed to report the proposal to King Trutz before discussing the guild’s investment in the Rulson Kingdom.
• After Newman left, Xu Yi considered how neighboring countries were acquiring military magic machinery and concluded that the Sark Kingdom might try to obtain it secretly.
• Teresa appeared in Xu Yi’s doorway with a deeply sorrowful expression.

Teresa revealed to Xu Yi that she had fled the Sark Kingdom more than three years earlier and concealed her origins ever since. She showed him a newspaper reporting her family’s execution, then told him that the condemned Viscount Dorokaran was her father.

• Teresa arrived in tears and clung to Xu Yi, who promised to listen and help her.
• Teresa explained that she had fled more than two thousand kilometers from the Sark Kingdom before Xu Yi rescued her in Bunta City.
• Xu Yi reassured Teresa that he would not judge her for being from the Sark Kingdom.
• Teresa gave Xu Yi a copy of the Lampari Weekly and directed him to a report about Viscount Dorokaran’s family being sentenced to execution.
• Teresa told Xu Yi that Viscount Dorokaran was her father.

Teresa told Xu Yi that her family had been executed for treason and that she had lost her last hope of learning why her father sent her away. Later, Great Mage Camilla and Elder Lysania arrived after a Mana Sedan race, and Xu Yi asked Camilla about invitations to celebrations in her honor.

• Teresa told Xu Yi that Viscount Dolankaro had sent her away to protect her, but his trusted retainer died helping her escape after their contact betrayed them.
• Teresa learned from the Lampari Weekly that her family had been executed for treason, and she confided her grief to Xu Yi before leaving.
• Xu Yi decided that Vivian and Avita should give Teresa more support.
• Great Mage Camilla and Elder Lysania arrived at Xu Yi's Manor, arguing over who had won their race after Lysania's Mana Sedan suffered a starting problem.
• Xu Yi repaired the loose mana wire in Lysania's Mana Sedan and stopped the two from racing again in the dark.
• Xu Yi asked Camilla whether she would attend celebrations arranged by the Lampari Kingdom's Mage Association and Kingdom Parliament, and her expression darkened.

Xu Yi learned that Archmage Camilla had again refused to attend the Lampari Kingdom’s ceremony, then arranged to visit the Azshara Tribe with Elder Lysania. Their conversation turned to Anise’s relationship with Xu Yi, leaving him embarrassed as Elder Lysania offered to demonstrate elven mating.

• Archmage Camilla refused to attend the Lampari Kingdom’s ceremony celebrating her rise to Archmage, and Xu Yi considered explaining her reasons to Servini.
• Elder Lysania told Xu Yi that elves had once had many Grand Archmages but that she had no news of any current Archmages.
• Xu Yi asked whether the Azshara Tribe might have Archmages, and Elder Lysania offered to accompany him to the Rulson Kingdom next month.
• Elder Lysania found Anise hiding and asked why she was afraid of her; Anise admitted she was nervous about consummating her relationship with Xu Yi.
• Elder Lysania urged Anise to take that step and offered Xu Yi a personal demonstration, while Xu Yi stopped Anise from repeating her words aloud and declined the offer.

Newman left without securing a commitment on military magic machinery, while Ambassador Hakane departed pleased with a profitable household-magic-machinery deal. Xu Yi then watched Akali and her researchers test a rudimentary mana output network, which had yet to respond.

• Newman left dissatisfied after Xu Yi offered no clear timeline for transferring military magic machinery to the Rulson Kingdom.
• Ambassador Hakane left satisfied after agreeing to buy more than thirty thousand units of household magic machinery for resale in the Candel Empire.
• Xu Yi assessed the benefits of civilian-magic-machinery cooperation with the Rulson Kingdom and the potential of entering the Candel Empire market.
• Xu Yi asked Akali whether the mana output network test had produced a response, and she insisted the experiment should not have failed.
• Akali flew to a distant platform to investigate while her researchers told Xu Yi they had conducted at least a thousand experiments on long-distance mana transmission and network layouts.

Akali revealed that she had ignored a known materials problem because Avita had restricted research spending, prompting Xu Yi to authorize up to a hundred thousand gold coins to fix it. The Mana Transmission Terminal successfully powered several household machines, while Xu Yi considered how the network could draw more people into his private fief.

• Akali explained that heat had warped the magic array material and admitted she had known about the issue but avoided replacing it to save research costs under Avita's orders.
• Xu Yi rebuked Akali for compromising research quality and authorized up to a hundred thousand gold coins to solve the materials problem.
• Akali admitted she had used the issue to ask for additional funding, and Xu Yi warned her to spend the money only on the problem.
• Akali activated the Wooden Platform, and the distant Mana Supply Station transmitted mana that powered the Magic Fan, Magic Air Conditioner, Magic-Powered Stove, and other machines.
• Xu Yi observed that the machines ran differently on transmitted mana and considered the network's potential to connect households to the Xinfei Merchant Guild's system.
• Xu Yi noted that his Automatic Water Supply System had helped grow his private fief's population from about two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand in less than a year.

Xu Yi arrived in Bunta City with a new Magic Air Conditioner production line that would let the city manufacture the machines independently. On the way, he questioned Count Rivell about the Sark Kingdom’s attack on orc tribes in the Black Rice Wasteland and condemned the West-Garrison Army’s failure to prevent it.

• A convoy delivered semi-automatic lathes for a Bunta City-owned Magic Air Conditioner production line, marking a step toward the Lampari Kingdom’s independent magic industry.
• Xu Yi joined Count Rivell at a welcoming ceremony, and they discussed Bunta City’s growth and the guild’s decision to hand over the production line.
• Count Rivell asked Xu Yi about the Black Rice Wasteland, and Xu Yi said the attacked orc tribes were being reassured and resettled.
• Xu Yi challenged Count Rivell over how Sark troops had crossed the border and slaughtered people in five orc tribes despite the West-Garrison Army and defensive fortifications.
• Count Rivell said the attack had been sudden and carried out by small elite forces, while Xu Yi suspected the kingdom had left the wasteland exposed because it treated it as a buffer zone.

Xu Yi wondered why the Sark Kingdom had attacked the orc tribes, then discussed the Lampari Kingdom’s growing wealth and road improvements with Count Reeves. Reeves delivered Queen Servini’s private invitation for Xu Yi to visit Anvilmar City, leaving Xu Yi with complicated feelings.

• Xu Yi considered whether the Sark Kingdom’s attack on the orc tribes was meant to test the West-Garrison Army’s defenses, but doubted it could now invade the Lampari Kingdom successfully.
• Xu Yi noticed the damaged Falling Rain Highway and learned from Count Rivell that ore trucks had ruined it and that the city planned to widen it to eight lanes.
• Count Reeves told Xu Yi that Queen Servini planned to build thirteen roads and repair or widen thirty-nine more, but the kingdom needed cement for the work.
• Xu Yi agreed to establish cement processing plants in the Lampari Kingdom and asked Reeves to tell Servini that he remained committed to helping develop its magic industry.
• Count Reeves gave Xu Yi Servini’s private letter inviting him to Anvilmar City for tea, and Xu Yi felt conflicted as he thought of her.

Xu Yi saw that rival Magic Fan manufacturers were gaining market share through their own innovations and invited six guilds to meet in Anvilmar City. After finding the restaurant’s parking area full, he met President Rige and hinted that he had come to offer the guilds benefits, leaving Rige uncertain about Xu Yi’s intentions.

• Xu Yi reviewed sales figures showing that Xinfei Magic Fans had gained sales but lost market share as the Lampari Kingdom’s economy and rival manufacturers’ technology improved.
• Xu Yi drove his Mana Sedan to a restaurant in Anvilmar City, found its parking area full, and gave his car to an attendant to park elsewhere.
• Fallein introduced Xu Yi to Passaro Rige, and Xu Yi praised the Rige Merchant Guild’s Automatic Start-Stop Technology.
• President Rige asked why Xu Yi had invited six Magic Fan manufacturers, and Xu Yi said he wanted to discuss their distinctive technologies.
• Xu Yi reassured President Rige that he would not harm the guilds and had come to bring them benefits, though Rige remained uneasy.