Recaps

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild's operations, married Stille, and delegated daily management to Kennard while supporting new employment arrangements for nonhumans. Count Samo prepared to leave Bunta City as Earl Stark approached, leaving the guild relocating to Falling Rain Valley amid political pressure and new research breakthroughs.

• Xu Yi established a separate Dwarf Guards Corps, opened the joint Worrel Nonferrous Metals Mine, and finalized factory investments in the Stantin Duchy.
• Xu Yi launched bicycles, accepted Kennard's advice against expanding their production, and learned that Count Samo would be replaced by Earl Maniel Stark.
• Xu Yi married Stille, who began helping nonhuman workers negotiate employment and later secured authorization for the New Moon Merchant Guild to represent 1,276 workers.
• Servini warned Xu Yi about Earl Stark and delivered orders demanding the Magic-Powered Stone Thrower technology without compensation, which Xu Yi agreed to surrender.
• Xu Yi appointed Kennard chief executive officer and withdrew from daily management, while Elder Elusia planned a Night Song Tribe plastic processing factory in Falling Rain Valley.
• Xu Yi recruited Hart and five hundred elite soldiers into the guild's Guards Corps with salaries, benefits, and pensions.
• Xu Yi funded Avita's Magic Crystal standardization research after examining her remote transmission breakthrough and named Great Mage Camilla's iron-liquefying invention the Transformer Array.
• Xu Yi prepared to relocate research and production to Falling Rain Valley and heard suppliers' shipping concerns, while Count Samo publicly urged continued support for the guild before Earl Stark's arrival.

Xu Yi weathered Earl Stark’s pressure as merchants and production moved out of Bunta City, while he secured Falling Rain Valley as his fief and expanded trade and military machinery projects. The arc left him hosting Princess Caroline in Falling Star Manor as he prepared to discuss cooperation with the Drake Duchy.

• Earl Stark challenged Xu Yi over his dual identity as a noble and merchant, while Xu Yi defended his work and learned the Nobles’ Council was considering whether he could keep both identities.
• Xu Yi withdrew the Xinfei Merchant Guild from the Commercial Association, and President Cruz and other guild leaders followed as Earl Stark’s policies drove merchants away from Bunta City.
• Xu Yi shifted production to Falling Rain Valley, offered the Night Song Tribe’s factory temporary affiliation with his guild, and learned that the kingdom had granted him the valley as a private fief after promoting him to viscount.
• The Northern Garrison drove the Greedy Wolf Legion out of the Murto range with new weapons and giant machines, while Sark commanders traced its equipment to the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
• Earl Stark’s effort to reclaim leased farmland provoked farmers and merchant guilds, while Xu Yi welcomed new businesses and workers to the growing Falling Rain Valley.
• Xu Yi advanced plans for magic machinery and trade with Newman, introduced the Magic House, and helped Delier secure her first plastic-product order and meet Bunta City’s merchants.
• At Earl Stark’s banquet, Xu Yi proposed a large road-building and house-building opportunity to President Cruz, encouraged President Vincent to invest in textile factories, and discussed gradual cooperation with the Drake Duchy.
• Xu Yi accepted Earl Stark’s demand to inspect Bunta City’s farmland machinery but insisted the manor pay for additional units, then welcomed Princess Caroline to Falling Star Manor to discuss cooperation.

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s reach into the Stantin Duchy while navigating Bunta City’s policies, local labor conflicts, and new alliances. The arc ended with Elder Lysania agreeing to cooperate on a rubber-processing factory and offering Xu Yi another way to increase his magical power.

• Xu Yi appointed Anise director of the Design Institute and discussed expanding toward the Drake Duchy with Kennard, while Princess Caroline proposed cooperation through Sewell City and its iron mines.
• Earl Stark resumed Bunta City’s redevelopment and promoted a record grain harvest, prompting Xu Yi to arrange for Korol Village farmers to move to the Stantin Duchy and establish a plastic factory with the Night Song Tribe.
• Xu Yi and three merchant guild presidents sent a convoy into the wasteland, where their guards used stone throwers and repeating crossbows to defeat thousands of beastmen and secure the guilds’ new base.
• Servini asked Lampari the Thirteenth to grant the Xinfei Merchant Guild free trade rights, but he refused, while the Commerce Office later granted those rights to the guild and others.
• Xu Yi wagered with Earl Stark that two thousand farmers could grow two hundred thousand tonnes of rice on one hundred thousand hectares, and he recruited farming households for the Stantin Duchy.
• Xu Yi and Cantona began developing the leased land, but a clash between Bunta City farmers and local workers halted work, so Xu Yi ordered the local workers reassigned and negotiated with Patriarch Wellen for rubber collection and estate improvements.
• Xu Yi and President Cruz planned roads and a passenger route between Bunta City and Wellen City, while Anise and Delier negotiated with Elder Lysania to establish a rubber-processing factory for the Moon Shadow Tribe.
• Elder Lysania agreed to Xu Yi’s factory arrangement, said she trusted him alone, and offered to personally compensate him in the elven way after rejecting his offer to treat the costs as an investment.

Xu Yi expanded Bunta City’s agricultural and transport industries as the Xinfei Merchant Guild introduced magic locomotives and buses. After rival guilds placed large orders, he discovered Xinfei’s technology had leaked, while Avita unveiled a flying magic airship model.

• President Allen and the Great Mages discussed mages’ growing interest in paid work, and Great Mage Camilla credited array research with advancing her magic.
• Great Mage Camilla agreed to discuss President Allen’s proposal for the Mages’ Guild to place members in magic machinery research with Xu Yi.
• President Allen bought Alex’s copied research notes and urged a young mage to develop technology independent of Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi inspected a prototype wind-type magic engine, helped Great Mage Camilla improve her welding work, and asked Avita to help write a book on mana standardization.
• Xu Yi persuaded Earl Stark to support agricultural development, and fertilizer helped Bunta City achieve a large wheat harvest before Earl Stark left to become City Lord of Loren City.
• Xu Yi showed Presidents Pombelli and Cruz the magic locomotive and proposed a logistics partnership, while Meikadu learned about bus service and earned Xu Yi’s recommendation to Feilson.
• Xu Yi rejected immediate locomotive sales to several guild presidents but promised public sales within three months, and President Morgan placed an order.
• Kennard showed Xu Yi evidence that Anko Mana Merchant Guild products copied Xinfei technology, prompting Xu Yi to order a quiet investigation and tighter security.
• Avita accidentally kissed Xu Yi while showing him her floating magic airship model, which she controlled remotely with a Wind-Riding Array.