Recaps

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s trade, technology, and military reach while the Candel Empire obstructed its plans and attacked its fleet. The empire began to recognize the guild’s influence, while Heinz retired and Xu Yi summoned Alex.

• Hafra and Nethers sold high-quality Lampari clothes in Lalu City, but Duchess Windsor’s authorities arrested them and Prado, confiscated their goods, and shut down Prado’s shop.
• Xu Yi and Servini planned to send Lampari guilds to invest in the Candel Empire, while Xu Yi arranged an expedition fleet and visited Anise and their newborn son among the elves.
• Xu Yi gave the Moon Shadow Tribe military machinery technology, agreed to send guards against the Spirit Tortoise Legion, and expanded the guild’s investments, trade routes, and Guard Corps.
• The Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps drove back the Spirit Tortoise Legion, alarming Sark Kingdom officials, who saw that the guild’s weapons outmatched their own and that the guild was gaining access to Sark’s western coast.
• As the blockade devastated the Rulson Kingdom, Xu Yi promised aid and sent a fleet carrying workers and supplies, but Commander Lewis’s Candel Empire Navy surrounded it and demanded a search.
• Xu Yi ordered Aldrich to reject the navy’s demands, and Aldrich’s fleet fought back, routing the Candel Empire Navy and forcing Emperor de Boer XVII to confront the guild’s growing power.
• Heinz retired as vice president and left with Rhea, while Xu Yi summoned Twisti and asked her to bring Alex to him.

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s trade, factories, and influence while confronting challenges from the Mages’ Guild and rival magic industries. The Stansome industrial base began construction, trade spread through the Candel Empire, and Xu Yi turned his attention to communications and Freya’s future.

• Xu Yi set a one-hundred-million-gold-coin profit target after Kennard reported the guild’s record annual earnings.
• Hogan and Nevall brought the fleet’s cargo to Stansome, prompting the guild to rush replacement machinery north and begin planning an industrial base.
• Xu Yi offered the Rulson Kingdom farmland machinery technology and considered an elven partnership while studying the Azshara Tribe’s account of the elves’ decline.
• Xu Yi rejected the Mages’ Guild’s demand to control magic patents and showed that it had failed to protect the guild from infringement.
• After the Sark Kingdom unveiled its Mana Cannons, Hogan negotiated with northern beastman tribes and secured workers for the Stansome base, whose construction began in spring.
• The Xinfei Merchant Guild and the Candel Empire Navy opened southern ports and expanded trade, while Duke Windsor reconsidered his ban on guild goods after seeing its effects on his province.
• Xu Yi expanded exports and helped other merchant guilds establish factories in the Candel Empire, then considered new routes, regional bases, and communication networks.
• Xu Yi took a week off with his children, and after Freya said she wanted to become a president, he began teaching her.

Xu Yi opened the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s military magic machinery sales to countries willing to develop their industries, while the Lampari Kingdom defeated the Sark Kingdom and expanded its influence. As Xinfei spread across the continent, its conflict with the Mages’ Guild escalated, leaving Xu Yi warned that archmages might retaliate personally.

• Nielsen discovered that Naiden had bribed Viscount Wilbur, but Wilbur later asked him to arrange a sale of Xinfei military machinery to the Odor Duchy.
• Captain Aver’s squad used Mana Armored Vehicles and reconnaissance to raid Sark supply depots, and the Northern Garrison’s campaign forced the Sark Kingdom to cede seven cities and pay reparations.
• Ms. Fivenn secured Sark researchers for Xinfei, and Xu Yi announced that the guild would sell military machinery to all countries while requiring them to build their industrial foundations first.
• The Mages’ Guild Headquarters attacked Xinfei’s employment of low-rank mages, prompting Luther and other mages to withdraw and form the Mage Association, which Xinfei supported with training and jobs.
• Xu Yi established the guild’s military base on Giant Deer Island and expanded its business through agreements with provinces in the Candel Empire.
• The New Moon Merchant Guild broadcast the Mages’ Guild’s final warning, while Ferguson saw Xinfei products and businesses spreading through Sky City.
• The Mages’ Guild called for a boycott and urged mages to leave the Mage Association, but low-rank mages remained with it as Archmage Camilla warned Xu Yi that archmages might attack Xinfei out of personal spite.

The Xinfei Merchant Guild retaliated against attacks by the Mages’ Guild and the Mana Magical Kingdom, using its military machinery to defeat powerful mages and expose the strength of its forces. As Xu Yi expanded the guild’s research and recruitment, Levin Harsoko and Sarandur Clay arrived seeking revenge, and Xu Yi trapped Levin in unstable mana space.

• The Xinfei Merchant Guild expanded its industrial partnership with the Venice Duchy, whose military machinery helped it conquer the Samarant Duchy.
• After attacks on its fleets and a caravan, the guild sent its Guard Corps to Laroul and used Mana Airships and cannons to destroy the bandits’ hideout.
• The Guard Corps defeated Great Mage Glofin’s forces at sea, and the guild publicly demanded an explanation from the Mana Magical Kingdom.
• The Xinfei Merchant Guild invaded the Mana Magical Kingdom and routed its Glory Legion, killing four Great Mages and hundreds of high-ranking mages.
• Xu Yi used data analysis to train first-level mages to cast stronger, more consistent Fireball Spells, while Avita prepared a powerful mana network at the Main Base.
• The guild recruited more mages and expanded its workforce as newcomers arrived at the Main Base seeking jobs and research positions.
• Levin Harsoko and Sarandur Clay attacked the Main Base, destroying a steelworks before challenging Xu Yi and Archmage Camilla to separate duels.
• Xu Yi lured Levin Harsoko to deserted mountains and coordinated a hidden barrage, Thunder Serpent Frenzy, and mana-space interference.
• Levin Harsoko became trapped inside a sphere of unstable mana space, and a sudden explosion struck him as he tried to escape.