Recaps

Xu Yi expanded the magic machinery industry while Bunta City faced an influx of newcomers, road accidents, and political hostility. After Lampari the Thirteenth died and Prince Eric’s forces prepared for conflict, Xu Yi found Servini grieving and asked whether she had cried.

• Xu Yi offered Servini’s guards equipment on credit and discussed how Bunta City’s growing magic machinery industry could spread across the kingdom.
• Servini and Xu Yi gathered merchant guilds to plan for the growing number of newcomers, including vocational training, public services, and expanded commerce.
• Kowach suspended parts supplies to Xinfei, while Xu Yi secured new machine-tool orders and learned that orc attacks were hurting the guilds’ Black Rice Wasteland base.
• Stille gave birth to Xu Yi’s daughter, and Xu Yi declared that she alone would inherit his noble title while the guild presidency would go to its most capable leader.
• Prince Eric prepared his Northern Garrison for war without Xinfei military machinery, while Li Nuer and Aiwei Ruoang considered using Xinfei household products to study its technology.
• After Baron Billier crashed into Servini’s Mana Sedan, Xu Yi urged traffic regulations, then destroyed Peral’s car and told Billier he had lost his driving license for five years.
• Xu Yi oversaw research into protective armor, vehicle safety, airships, and a new engine as Great Mage Camilla advanced Fire-Type Mana Engine research.
• Lampari the Thirteenth named Servini the best heir and died after drinking medicine, while Li Nuer held back from pursuing the Northern Garrison and Xu Yi found Servini grieving.

As King Eric’s policies squeeze the Xinfei Merchant Guild in the Lampari Kingdom, Xu Yi shifts its production and research elsewhere while building ties in the Stantin Duchy and the Black Rice Wasteland. The arc ends with the guild profitable but facing new tariffs, political pressure, and a growing threat from the Sark Kingdom’s involvement with the orcs.

• Servini backed Eric’s accession and withdrew from public life, while Bunta City prospered even as Xu Yi warned her that new taxes and labor unrest were damaging its businesses.
• King Eric’s administration pressured the Xinfei Merchant Guild to share its technology and restrict its trade, so Xu Yi negotiated trade privileges in exchange for technology transfers and began moving operations beyond the kingdom.
• Xu Yi relocated research and production, recruited Great Mage Truchi, and used an aerial map to explain Karasga Island’s strategic value and his plans for the Black Rice Wasteland.
• At a bicycle race, the Xinfei Merchant Guild demonstrated its new Multi-Speed Road Bicycle as Anjette bicycles failed, and Heinz immediately terminated the guild’s technology-sharing partnership with Virole Anjette.
• Servini proposed an industrial base on her fief and joined Xu Yi’s operation against the orcs, which began with armored vehicles and guards entering the Black Rice Wasteland.
• The Xinfei Merchant Guild closed its factories across six kingdom cities under a production ban, while workers suffered and the guild expanded in the Black Rice Wasteland and Stantin Duchy.
• Hart found that armed orcs carried a sword from the Sark Kingdom, and Xu Yi ordered him to investigate their alliance and notify the Lampari Kingdom Western Garrison Legion.
• Xu Yi rejected Count Wellen’s request for military technology, then learned that the guild had earned over one million gold coins in net profit even as new import tariffs threatened its sales.

As the Lampari Kingdom’s policies drove workers and guilds away from Bunta City, the Xinfei Merchant Guild expanded abroad, gained its own fief, and developed new machinery and ships. Xu Yi strengthened his ties with elves and received an offer from Commander Landis to trade military equipment for mines in the Sark Kingdom.

• Lampari workers and orcs arrived in Amplistown, where the Xinfei Merchant Guild hired local workers and Xu Yi negotiated a joint venture and mining rights with the Milando Duchy.
• The City Lord’s Manor ended its transit subsidy, forcing the Feilson Carriage Company to withdraw, while refugees told Servini about forced factory labor and abuse in noble fiefs.
• The ten designated merchant guilds pressured rivals to surrender stakes and technology, and workers and businesses fled Bunta City as its economy declined.
• Servini opened her merchant guild and factories with Xu Yi’s support, while Xu Yi had Avita develop a new airship array and negotiated a private fief with Lord Wellen.
• The Bunta City guards killed a worker while enforcing a ban on Xinfei harvesters, prompting cities across the kingdom to boycott the ten designated guilds and challenge the Magic Industry Administration.
• King Eric allowed Duke Stark to pursue a purge of nobles, while Xu Yi gained his own fief in Stantin and formed a private guard as the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s sales grew.
• Xu Yi launched a steel Mana-Powered Ship and agreed to build Leslie a warship, while Duke Stark’s crackdown on nobles brought the kingdom close to civil war.
• Lord Wellen and Viscount Angklu used Xinfei military machinery to expand their territories, and Xu Yi learned the elves’ meditation method before discussing their guild partnerships.
• Commander Landis told Xu Yi that the West-Garrison Army could buy military machinery, then offered mines in the Sark Kingdom as payment.

Xu Yi expanded Xinfei’s influence in the Rulson Kingdom while supporting Servini after she learned the truth about her father’s death. Eric’s death brought Duke Stark to power as regent, and Servini returned to oppose him as Xu Yi strengthened her guards.

• Xu Yi rejected Admiral Landis’s invasion plan and agreed to equip the West-Garrison Army in exchange for its support in the Black Rice Wasteland and Stantin Duchy.
• Servini closed her merchant guild, discovered Steward Derma’s confession that Eric had helped kill Lampari the Thirteenth, and concealed Jiawen, Derma’s surviving family member.
• Xu Yi secured the Rulson Kingdom’s cooperation on factories, training, harbor expansion, and tariff concessions, while King Trutz promised wider support for Xinfei.
• Xu Yi returned to Bunta City, where Xiao Bangna tried to arrest him for treason, but Servini arrived with cavalry and took him away.
• Xu Yi discussed aging household machinery and new mana airship designs with Avita, who described the benefits of high-concentration magic crystals.
• Elder Lysania negotiated Moon Shadow Tribe support for the Slu Road and proposed using specially cultivated plants instead of a raised roadbed.
• Servini told Xu Yi that Eric had killed their father, then agreed to stay at his fief before Mluoke reported Eric’s death.
• Servini returned to Lampari to investigate Eric’s death and oppose Duke Stark’s regency, while Xu Yi equipped her five thousand guards with military magic machinery and weapons.