Recaps

Xu Yi withdrew the Xinfei Merchant Guild from the Mana Magical Kingdom and stopped intervening in Sains Continent’s conflicts while expanding the guild’s operations on the Demoncloud Continent. His research into ancient ruins revealed an Abyssal Demon array, and after nearly a year away he returned as the Candel Emperor awaited his response to the war.

• Xu Yi explained that he would no longer force change on the Sains Continent, and the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s withdrawal left the Mana Magical Kingdom facing economic collapse and unrest.
• Xu Yi arranged a new mana core warhead test and moved research to an island, while the Mana Magical Kingdom’s shortages and protests worsened.
• Xu Yi sold ships to President Cruz and departed for the Demoncloud Continent, where Akali was testing high-altitude signal beacons with help from dragons.
• Xu Yi investigated a strange pillar on an island and sent researchers to study it, then expanded the guild’s territory and infrastructure on the Demoncloud Continent while recruiting native workers.
• Xu Yi supported Gamo and the Fire Dragon Tribe, but news of the Candel Empire’s invasion led him to reaffirm that the guild would not interfere in Sains Continent wars.
• Akali’s team mapped thirty-seven ruins and found that they formed part of an incomplete magic array, with seven more sites apparently hidden underwater.
• Xu Yi entered an underwater dome that opened at his touch, and Akali identified its central pillar as the core of an Abyssal Demon array for traveling to another world.
• After helping Akali with the ruins, Xu Yi returned to the Sains Continent, and the Candel Emperor wondered how he would respond to the empire’s war against the Mana Magical Kingdom.

Xu Yi stepped back from the Xinfei Merchant Guild as Freya led it through political conflict, technological advances, and the launch of a satellite. He turned his attention to space and the Demoncloud Continent, where he began negotiations with the Goblins after surrounding their city.

• Xu Yi resigned as Xinfei Merchant Guild president and proposed a technology foundation, while Freya took over the guild.
• A town’s mass blackout raised fears about Xinfei machinery, but Freya’s investigations and the guild’s evidence suggested the incident had been staged.
• The Candel Empire and the Xinfei Merchant Guild settled the White Meng Mine attack and agreed to jointly investigate the Qidanlu Town incident.
• Xu Yi helped launch a rocket that carried a recording device above the atmosphere, and its footage of the planet from space astonished viewers.
• Xu Yi stepped away from the guild and the Sains Continent, while Cassandra revealed that she had flown through space and agreed to collect data for the guild.
• Stille retired from public life as the New Moon Merchant Guild spread its programs, travel increased, and the Sains Continent’s magic industry continued to advance.
• Xu Yi rejected calls to storm Goblin King City and instead proposed employing Goblins to help develop the Demoncloud Continent.
• Xu Yi entered the surrounded Goblin King City under his Mana Shield and asked whether the shriveled goblin brought to him was the Goblin king.

Xu Yi and the Xinfei Merchant Guild expanded their space research while wars and uprisings reshaped the continent. The arc ended with Lampari forces breaking through General Dardaniel’s defenses as the Candel Empire’s future turned toward a federal system.

• Xu Yi helped Akali investigate the Abyssal ruins, and Cassandra’s activation of matching lunar pillars transported her back from Alice.
• Xu Yi used Life’s Praise to briefly restore Heinz, then confronted street racing and worker abuses before Heinz died.
• Xu Yi explained the space program to the Candel Emperor as continental wars spread, while the guild brought millions of goblins under its control for work on the Demoncloud Continent.
• Freya warned Prince Raymond that Lampari risked falling behind in aviation, and Servini abdicated before visiting Xu Yi and discussing their estrangement.
• Great Mage Le Mans settled on the Demoncloud Continent, where he reunited with Zeborto after workers’ unrest forced Zeborto and his family to flee the Candel Empire.
• Xu Yi traveled to Alice with Cassandra, investigated a second teleportation array, and sent a Mana Signal Generator through it to test its unknown destination.
• As the Candel Empire collapsed under invasions and uprisings, Freya considered how to respond, while the emperor sought the guild’s support for a proposed federal nation.
• Lampari forces defeated Malo troops in Kamal Province and established an autonomous territory, while the Xinfei Merchant Guild prepared to support a new Candel government.
• Malo General Dardaniel’s supplies and weapons failed him, and Lampari missiles destroyed his camp’s protective shield, allowing Count Lian Ke to order an assault.