Recaps

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s influence through technology deals, roads, and city redevelopment while new partners and rivals tested his plans. He helped establish a kingdom-wide machinery association, then ended the stretch with an unknown accuser interrupting his private moment with Stille.

• Xu Yi recruited workers and assigned skilled elves and humans to develop tires, then set the dwarves to researching a wind-powered engine and asked Camilla to miniaturize a spell array.
• Vena overheard Rem and Camiro plotting to steal Xinfei research, and Xu Yi arranged for both men to face commercial and magical penalties after exposing their theft of the kettle design.
• Xu Yi sold kettle technology to other guilds under licensing agreements and partnered with Pombelli to supply tires for carriages.
• Xu Yi helped launch toll roads and proposed redevelopment and transit plans for Bunta City, while drawing on the growing use of magic machinery in farming and manufacturing.
• Xu Yi met Kennard, Sophia, and Hank Wilson, rejected Walmart’s demanding supply terms, and proposed that guilds cooperate to negotiate a household machinery marketplace.
• Xu Yi supported highway construction and industrial expansion, while Count Samo worried that Xu Yi’s influence and relentless work could put him in danger.
• More than a hundred guilds established the Magic Machinery Commercial Association and unanimously recommended Xu Yi as president, after which he announced industry standards and further technology sales.
• After Stille returned from Anvilmar City, she took Xu Yi jogging, and they embraced beside the Sandy River before an angry voice threatened him.

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s influence through river and road plans, industrial partnerships, research, and military contracts while managing political and commercial challenges. The arc ended with Xu Yi arriving in Anvilmar City to take the Level Seven Mage examination and meeting Elwin again.

• Xu Yi rescued Smilla Porter from the Sandy River, heard his warning about sediment and flooding, and offered him work and help rebuilding his fleet.
• Xu Yi persuaded Count Samo to investigate the Sandy River and hired Kennard as the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s general manager on probation.
• Great Mage Camilla completed a palm-sized Storm Array and joined the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s Magic Research Institute, drawing new orders and mages to Bunta City.
• Xu Yi negotiated with the Night Song Tribe to expand elf tire production, then secured investment and a majority share in a nonferrous metal mine near the Black Rice Wasteland.
• Xu Yi supported Bunta City’s village relocation project and established research safety standards after Xiuqi’s Sunfire Array experiment damaged a laboratory.
• Xu Yi offered Urgat, Victor, and Mulu a contract to turn their household magic machinery shop into an official Xinfei Product Service Center as the Walmart Household Magic Machinery Mall opened.
• Xu Yi inspected military equipment, agreed to improve it, and arranged new production orders while preparing to negotiate with the Joseph Family.
• Great Mage Camilla told Xu Yi that he could take the Level Seven Mage certification examination in Anvilmar City, where Xu Yi reunited with Elwin, who declined a guild position.

Xu Yi advanced the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s business and political influence while preparing to invest in Stantin and protect its workers. After resisting Luti’s advances, he and Stille became engaged, and he set out to recruit dwarves and elves for the guild’s guards.

• Xu Yi failed to agree with Great Mage Eisenka on sharing new magic-array technologies, but they reached a preliminary deal to build a household magic machinery factory.
• Xu Yi met Newman and Angklu, accepted a proposed Rulson Kingdom machinery order subject to the king’s approval, and agreed to buy Stantin’s mines while Angklu withheld the grand duke’s terms.
• Xu Yi passed the Level Seven Mage examination by demonstrating his lightning magic, then proposed patent-fee systems to President Allen and explained his miniature generator to Great Mage Camilla.
• After Anko Allen injured Aleri and avoided punishment from President Allen, Xu Yi used Anko’s gambling debts to compel him to apologize and ask what Xu Yi wanted.
• Xu Yi finalized cooperation with Marquis Yose on steelmaking and mining, sold cement technology to eight guilds for six million gold coins, and advanced plans for a canal and expanded public transit in Bunta City.
• Xu Yi promised better employee benefits and pensions, planned a trip to Stantin, and decided the Xinfei Merchant Guild needed its own guards to protect its workers in the Black Rice Wasteland.
• Luti tried to seduce Xu Yi, but he left, and Stille accepted his explanation before asking him to marry her, and their engagement was announced and celebrated with gifts.
• Xu Yi asked Chiefs Slubi and Monto to recruit willing dwarves and Elder Elusia to provide elves for the guild’s guards, and both agreed to discuss or arrange their participation.

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s mining, agricultural, and research projects while pursuing relationships with the Moon Shadow Tribe and the Stantin Duchy. The arc ended with Bunta City showcasing its new Civic Square as Xu Yi pushed Count Samo and local leaders to invest in the city’s future.

• Xu Yi and President Reilsa’s caravan fought off a Beastman Independent Legion raid, and Xu Yi resolved to keep pursuing change despite the battle’s bloody cost.
• Xu Yi persuaded Chief Leiming Worrel to consider hiring werewolves under Labor Permits, then traveled with Anise and Angklu to seek ties with the Moon Shadow Tribe and the Stantin Duchy.
• Xu Yi bought three rich Stantin mines for 1,350,000 gold coins, while Angklu challenged him over the deal and later helped him meet Elder Lysania Shadow Song, who sent three young elves to learn about human life.
• Xu Yi returned to Bunta City, welcomed Stille, introduced Liss and Linda to Vivian, and began planning a Xinfei Academy while pursuing mines, military weapons, and a steelworks.
• Xu Yi convinced Count Samo to trial agricultural industrialization in Korol, Kambia, and Mexilan villages, and Cantona began organizing fruit farms and factory work for their residents.
• Xu Yi praised Akali’s Magic Array Resonance Technique, rewarded her and the other researchers, and urged Sanchelli to continue his Magic Delayed-Activation research.
• Count Samo unveiled Bunta City’s newly illuminated Civic Square, and Xu Yi urged Haines to publicize the city and its ambitions.