Recaps

Xu Yi secured royal support and mineral compensation for Xinfei Merchant Guild’s farmland machinery while expanding production, recruitment, and new products. The arc left him overseeing a booming Magic Desk Lamp business as Servini arrived with bad news.

• Xu Yi passed the Level Five Examination after defeating examiner Allen, then negotiated with King Cains to supply farmland machinery in exchange for two iron mines and three Magic Crystal Mines.
• Xu Yi recruited nine mages, organized the dwarves to expand machinery production, and promised Anise he would visit her tribe about its drying river.
• Xu Yi and Avita found that powdered Glowgrass could still glow, while Anise and Vivian combined their design skills to create an attractive, functional Magic Lamp.
• Great Mage Camilla agreed to direct the Magic Tower to help Xu Yi develop Magic Power Forging Machine Tools for faster farmland machinery production.
• Xu Yi explained his wage policy to Servini and proposed labor permits that would let the guild’s dwarf workers live and work in the kingdom.
• Xu Yi sold cement production exclusively to the Lamuli Merchant Guild for two years and proposed a temporary solution to Anise’s tribe’s water shortage.
• Xu Yi hired Anise as a designer after she agreed to join his guild in exchange for his help, while the Magic Desk Lamp became a major commercial success.
• Servini told Xu Yi that Bunta City’s art masters had condemned the lamp’s mass production, then said she had come to deliver bad news.

Xu Yi secured a mine, expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s partnerships and workforce, and advanced plans for new settlements and factories. As powerful merchants and nobles threatened the guild’s position, Gordon Eisenka proposed a joint research partnership, which Xu Yi accepted despite suspecting his motives.

• Xu Yi used a loan from the Chimera Chamber of Commerce to win one iron mine at auction, while Fuller Morgan secured the other for the Falkor Merchant Guild.
• Xu Yi arranged year-end bonuses for his workers, visited the dwarves, and promised support for better homes and a larger settlement.
• Xu Yi and Anise helped the Night Song Tribe obtain water, then agreed that the guild would repair the river while the elves developed resin materials for it.
• Xu Yi agreed to open a Xinfei factory and after-sales center in Karma City, and Heinz volunteered to manage the new operation.
• The king gave preliminary approval for Xu Yi to lease land, while Xu Yi sold drilling machines to Morgan and recruited five young mages into the research institute.
• Xu Yi learned that parliament had rejected a patent bill that could protect magic research, and Servini warned him that powerful guilds threatened Xinfei.
• Xu Yi planned roads and projects across the guild’s leased land, then welcomed Gordon Eisenka, who proposed jointly owned research and a partnership that Xu Yi accepted.

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s business, revealed Anise as an elf ambassador, and faced Baron Billier’s attempt to drive the guild from Stark territory. After relocating to Sankton Manor and accepting military machinery work, Xu Yi examined new alloy and plastic samples brought by Anise.

• Xu Yi launched the Automatic Magic Rice Cooker, announced his relationship with Stille, and accepted the farmers’ proposal to manufacture harvester components.
• Servini revealed she was the Princess Royal, then left to persuade nobles to adopt Farmland Magic Machinery as the guild’s machinery drew growing demand.
• Xu Yi and Count Samo introduced Anise as an elf ambassador, and Anise asked Bunta City’s residents to treat her normally.
• Xu Yi discovered the factory lacked precise measuring tools for its planned automatic machine, then resolved to create standards and technical references for his engineers.
• Baron Billier demanded one hundred thousand gold coins in annual rent, so Xu Yi decided to relocate the guild from Stark territory.
• Xu Yi moved the guild’s factories and equipment to Sankton Manor, while Count Samo pressed him to develop military machinery and materials.
• Servini asked Xu Yi to develop a magic machine tool for producing military equipment, and Baron Samo made Billier abandon his compensation demand.
• Anise returned with alloy samples and plastic from the Night Song Tribe, and Xu Yi identified promising properties in both materials.

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild through new products, worker training, industrial partnerships, and highway projects while helping the kingdom build up its military production. The arc leaves him pursuing faster carriage travel and reassuring Anise as she struggles to adapt to life among humans.

• Xu Yi celebrated the Magic Research Institute’s breakthroughs in remote magic transmission and gradual magic input, rewarded its researchers, and appointed Avita director.
• Xu Yi established a repayable assistance fund for guild employees and explained his production standards to rival guild presidents, persuading most to leave the Magic Fan industry.
• Servini told Xu Yi that the kingdom needed more farm machinery and offered him mines directly, while Xu Yi secured a major order for fifty thousand suits of armor.
• Xu Yi launched the Small Merchant Guild Support Plan, recruited component makers, and welcomed thirteen scholarship graduates into the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
• Xu Yi and President Cruz opened the Falling Rain Highway, prompting President Pombelli to plan a highway from Bunta City to Sartan City.
• Xu Yi expanded Falling Rain Valley’s industrial base, ordered alloy steel for the military, and asked Elder Elusia to train the Night Song Tribe after their defective casings threatened future work.
• Ankato introduced the affordable Magic Icebox, and Xu Yi publicly welcomed one hundred Night Song Tribe elves as guild workers.
• Xu Yi agreed to help establish a kingdom-controlled military factory and build roads around Bunta City, then proposed durable wheels and axles to President Pombelli before returning home to Anise’s badly cooked dinner.