Recaps

Xu Yi supported Servini’s victory in the Lampari Kingdom’s civil war while defending and expanding the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s territory and industrial operations. After extending his maritime ambitions and repelling an attack on Black Rice Port, he pursued stronger defenses and offered to recruit Moon Shadow Tribe warriors.

• Xu Yi supplied Servini with military magic machinery on credit, and she defeated Duke Stark’s forces and became queen.
• Xu Yi refused Count Wellen’s demands, defeated his invading army, and secured nearly six hundred square kilometers and its inhabitants through a ceasefire.
• Queen Servini lifted the bans on the Xinfei Merchant Guild, and Xu Yi reopened its Bunta City Product Service Center while offering limited machine tool technology transfers.
• Xu Yi expanded factories and recruited workers, and Sanchelli earned the guild’s first first-level reward for his Fully Automatic Pre-Controlled Magic-Powered Lathe.
• Xu Yi sailed aboard the Wingspan to Karasga Island and offered Smilton military equipment and smaller vessels to secure nearby islands and waters.
• Nevall led Xinfei guards against orc attackers at Black Rice Port, and Xu Yi brought evidence of Sark Kingdom involvement to the West-Garrison Army.
• Xu Yi sought stronger defenses for the Black Rice Wasteland and defended his plans to expand the Guards Corps despite Kennard’s financial concerns.
• Xu Yi inspected Elder Lysania’s plant roadbed, opposed giving the Moon Shadow Tribe power to sever the road, and offered to recruit one thousand of its warriors into his Private Guard.

Xu Yi expanded Xinfei’s influence through military alliances, industrial projects, and deals with rulers while confronting an assassination attempt and settling his relationship with Anise. The arc left him urging Servini to build a kingdom-controlled energy system and establish the first Magic Recharging Station.

• Xu Yi revealed the Fire-Type Mana Engine and discussed its potential to make magic locomotives far faster, while Servini negotiated a twenty-year purchase of a hundred Mana Airships in exchange for Xinfei’s authority over parts of the West-Garrison Army.
• The West-Garrison Army and merchant guilds fortified the Black Rice Wasteland, while Xu Yi accepted new fiefs from the Grand Duke of Stantin as Count Wellen expanded his territory and power.
• Rena ambushed Xu Yi and Stille, but Great Mage Camilla stopped him, and Xu Yi tested the Guard Corps’ weapons on him before offering him a job instead of death.
• Count Wellen defeated the Grand Duke of Stantin and became Grand Duke Wellen, then agreed with Angklu to pursue stability and development with Xu Yi’s help.
• Xu Yi chose Anise as his elven companion, and Elder Elusia accepted his proposals to reform the Night Song Tribe’s factory and consider expanding production.
• Xu Yi organized Bunta City’s bicycle competition and agreed to help Princess Caroline repair the Drake Duchy’s faulty magic machinery, then set plans to bring its factories under Xinfei standards.
• Great Mage Camilla tested the Fire-Type Mana Engine, while Xu Yi discussed gradual technical development with Princess Caroline and prepared to continue engine research with the two Great Mages.
• Xu Yi urged Servini to abolish city entry taxes, proposed developing Bateru City’s hot springs, and asked her to support standardized magic crystals and a jointly established Magic Recharging Station.

Xu Yi strengthened the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s position through military victories, diplomacy, and new technology while confronting questions of trust, family, and the kingdom’s obligations. The stretch ends with him gathering rival Magic Fan manufacturers to discuss their technologies and promising them benefits.

• Xu Yi rejected a partnership on Great Mage Eisenka’s Mana Flying Car but offered personal technical support in exchange for its technical information and patent protection.
• Xu Yi met Stille at the New Moon Grand Theater, where she shared news of outreach to Beastman tribes, Elves, and Dwarves and Avir performed for the audience.
• Xu Yi provisionally agreed with Servini to exchange magic crystal refining technology for mining rights, while Great Mage Camilla demonstrated her breakthrough in spatial magic.
• After Grand Duke Wellen seized Xinfei’s military machinery and blockaded its base, Xu Yi organized a counterattack, defeated Wellen’s forces and allies, and established the Stantin Duchy Congress instead of becoming Grand Duke.
• Kennard showed Ambassador Hakane the guild’s roads, public services, and mixed communities, and Xu Yi welcomed him to a motor race and offered him an advanced Mana Sedan.
• Xu Yi launched three Mana-Powered Ships for the Rulson Kingdom, refused to transfer military magic machinery technology, and later comforted Teresa after she learned her family had been executed.
• Akali and Xu Yi successfully tested a mana output network after fixing warped array material, while Xu Yi agreed to support the Lampari Kingdom’s industrial development and road construction.
• Xu Yi invited six Magic Fan manufacturers to discuss their distinctive technologies and assured President Rige that he intended to bring the guilds benefits.

Xu Yi expanded the Xinfei Merchant Guild’s overseas reach, recruited Lumi, and pushed through a painful restructuring as the guild faced labor and market challenges. The arc ended with new ties to the Sark Kingdom and plans to make Lumi a public figure who might draw other gnomes out of hiding.

• Xu Yi secured preliminary cooperation agreements with six magic fan guilds, offered Allain Noah an after-sales service job, and left Anvilmar City with Betty and Caro after Servini formalized a partnership with Xinfei.
• Nevall’s fleet defeated Regsal’s pirate attack, then negotiated with the Thunderclap Pirate Group for a maritime supply base before Xu Yi and Elder Lysania sought out the Azshara Tribe.
• Xu Yi reunited with Lumi, hired her to research mana-powered ships, and agreed to help her search for the gnomes who had sailed west.
• Xu Yi ordered the dismissal of all workers who joined a strike over pay and benefits, prompting rival guilds to hire the dismissed workers and causing Xinfei’s orders and revenues to fall.
• Xu Yi directed Kennard to pursue cooperation with the Norton and Rekaf Duchies while maintaining Xinfei’s control of military magic machinery, as Xinfei-backed factories and construction projects spread into the Norton Duchy.
• Xu Yi offered Leslie Stark a place in the Xinfei Merchant Guild Guard Corps’ armed fleet and arranged for the Lampari Kingdom’s trade deal with the Sark Kingdom to give Xinfei mining rights to two mines.
• Xu Yi gave Alex another chance as captain of the second transport fleet, then encouraged Lumi to appear publicly in hopes of attracting other gnomes.