Recaps

Xu Yi and Servini pushed Bunta City’s industry, agriculture, and transport forward while the Xinfei Merchant Guild expanded its research and production plans. The arc ended with Avita nearing a solution to the mine’s unstable Magic Crystals and Sophia preparing to seek work at Xinfei.

• Xu Yi approved Avita’s airship project for Level Two Priority and asked her to protect the guild’s secrets while preparing for a Magic Crystal factory.
• Xu Yi confronted Amulode about the Night Song Plastic Processing Factory’s workload and isolation, then learned that Stille was pregnant.
• Servini took over as Bunta City’s City Lord and sought Xu Yi’s support as the city reopened and began pursuing joint agricultural and commercial development.
• Meikadu bought a Medium Mana Bus and arranged a rental-business agreement, while Xu Yi and Servini began planning safety rules for Magic Locomotives.
• Ankato toured Xinfei’s nonferrous metals factory and offered the Feidu Merchant Guild technology to complete its magic fan and kettle production lines.
• Servini approved a revised industrial district plan, and Xu Yi considered expanding household magic machinery production and sharing technology with other guilds.
• Xu Yi reassured Stille about her pregnancy, encouraged migration and agricultural development, and helped Cantona explore preserved fruit juice as a new business.
• Canby showed Xu Yi an automatic magic machine tool whose precise cutting and bending arrays had been developed by Sanchelli and his team.
• Avita led a survey of a Magic Crystal Mine near Plana Village and found that its crystals became unstable after extraction, requiring costly protection by a magic array.
• Avita and Akali discussed standardized crystals and a group visit to Stille, while Teresa asked Avita for magic-array documents and Sophia decided to seek work at Xinfei.

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s partnerships, technology transfers, and mage recruitment while navigating political and commercial risks in Anvilmar City. The arc ended as he entered the Level Eight Mage examination and faced an unidentified mage who challenged his credentials.

• Xu Yi agreed to consider Walmart’s order for five hundred Cargo Magic Locomotives and asked Kennard to handle the supply while keeping the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s development independent.
• Xu Yi raised Great Mage Camilla’s salary to ten thousand gold coins, and Mick joined Xinfei after earning junior machining certifications.
• Xu Yi won Archmage Thorne’s notes and bought the Deep Blue Sea necklace for 350,000 gold coins, then secured favorable advertising terms with Anvilmar’s newspapers.
• Xu Yi met Murna Lifao to discuss buying the Lifao family’s research materials, while Alex secretly sold research materials to a middle-aged man.
• Xu Yi announced technology transfers to seventy-six merchant guilds and negotiated with Great Mage Truchi, who asked Xinfei to invest in Karasga Island.
• Xu Yi refused to sell military magic machinery to the Stantin Duchy and inspected a Magic-Powered Stone Thrower captured from the Sark Kingdom as Major Maikongli raised concerns about its origins.
• Xu Yi pursued investment in the Sihak Kingdom and proposed using newspapers and charity performances to introduce the New Moon Song and Dance Troupe to the public after nobles mistreated its performers.
• More than five hundred mages joined Xinfei after visiting Falling Rain Valley, and Xu Yi entered the Level Eight Mage examination, where an unidentified mage questioned why he was taking it.

Xu Yi’s convoy faced political hostility and a deadly ambush before he negotiated investments and industrial plans in Bateru City and Sewell City. Meanwhile, Servini weighed her growing ambitions against Bunta City’s needs, then confronted villagers whose displacement and lost jobs had turned them against her policies.

• Xu Yi proved his strength as a Level Eight Mage, recruited Bukales with an offer to research rare earth, and discovered Laimart City was blocking the guild’s magic locomotives.
• Xu Yi’s convoy camped outside Laimart City, fought off a Greedy Wolf Legion ambush with magic weapons, and sent prisoners to Princess Royal Servini.
• Count Longley welcomed Xu Yi and showed him how Bateru City’s impoverished villagers lived, then invited the guild to invest in the city.
• Lampari the Thirteenth sent the Kingdom Garrison Corps Third Army to Sewell City, proposed granting crown-heir status to Eric, Servini, and Durant, and directed officials to help the Xinfei Merchant Guild expand abroad.
• Xu Yi arranged plans for cement, steel, and arms production in Sewell City, offered weapons to its City Guard, and discussed the political and security risks with Count Samo and Princess Caroline.
• Princess Caroline sought engineering magic machinery technology for the Drake Duchy, while Xu Yi refused to sell steelmaking technology and proposed investing in a new steelworks with Count Samo.
• Servini toured Bunta City, saw how its policies and businesses were improving residents’ lives, and concluded that becoming Queen would let her support Xu Yi and transform the kingdom.
• Servini followed a man protesting on a bus to a housing complex, learned that displaced villagers had lost their compensation jobs, and announced a vocational training school to address the shortage of qualified workers.

Xu Yi strengthened the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s reach while political conflict escalated around Prince Eric and the Nobles’ Council. The arc ended with Xu Yi arranging armed protection and asking Servini what equipment she wanted for her five-thousand-strong Private Guard.

• Xu Yi learned that Servini had turned a farmers’ protest into a push for workforce training, while Lampari the Thirteenth heard Leslie warn that Eric’s coming war would cost soldiers their lives.
• Xu Yi built ties in Sewell City through a joint factory, transport and investment deals, while Princess Caroline exchanged mining rights for engineering machinery techniques and said goodbye to him.
• Leslie defied the Stark Family by proposing a factory with Xu Yi, and Xu Yi faced the Nobles’ Council, which stripped him of his title before the king immediately made him a baron and then a viscount.
• Xu Yi returned to Bunta City, welcomed the successful Mana-Powered Ship tests, and brought thirty-five Orc Tribe girls back while promising to seek a path to their independence.
• Xu Yi discussed Bateru City investment and a Fief Guards Corps with Cruz and Servini, then resolved a road collision involving Old Man Sakeqi and welcomed Avita’s parents to Bunta City.
• Ankato welcomed Cantona at Xinfei Farm, while Hart delivered weapons and equipment to Angklu, who paid by signing over permanent mining rights to his iron and Magic Crystal Mines.
• The Xinfei Merchant Guild reported more than ten million gold coins in annual profit, and Xu Yi asked Servini what weapons and equipment she wanted for her five-thousand-strong Private Guard.