Recaps

Mu En empowered Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind with the Erdtree’s magic, offering a way to ease famine as unrest and a possible conspiracy threatened the valley. After Yupa arrived with Pejite’s queen and warned of incoming refugees, Nausicaä challenged him to a duel to prove the Erdtree’s power.

• Nausicaä discovered Mu En’s golden tree, and he cleansed the Sea of Corruption around the Valley of the Wind before blessing her.
• Nausicaä used the Law of Regression to help save the forest, while Gol gained a blessing after eating a golden fruit.
• Mu En and Nausicaä accelerated the growth of the valley’s crops, convincing the skeptical farmer Beruto of the Erdtree’s power.
• Mu En proposed a government and reward system to strengthen the valley, while Yiduo secretly passed intelligence to a Tolmekian insect trainer.
• Yupa returned with Eliana, the Queen of Pejite, and Lucian, explaining that Pejite had collapsed amid famine and civil war.
• Nausicaä suspected that hidden agents were trying to provoke the Valley of the Wind into the same kind of collapse, and Yupa warned that armed refugees would threaten its militia.
• Nausicaä introduced Yupa to Mu En and demonstrated the Erdtree’s power, but Yupa declined Mu En’s offer of a blessing until he understood its cost.
• Nausicaä challenged Yupa to a duel, proved her strength, and charged him with a powerful burst of speed after their sword fight turned serious.

Nausicaä and Mu En exposed a plot against the Valley of the Wind, rallied its people through the Festival of Grace, and introduced work points and Blessed warriors. As the valley prepared to trade its crops and strengthen its defenses, refugees arrived at its entrance.

• Nausicaä and Yupa planned the Festival of Grace, but a firebombing at the granaries trapped Pao and injured guards before Nausicaä used the Law of Regression and the Erdtree’s power to save them.
• Yupa captured Yiduo and the other conspirators, while Nausicaä reassured the villagers, fed them, and used the festival to reveal the Erdtree’s healing and abundance.
• Mu En discovered a domain containing a forming Golden Seed, while Nausicaä honored fifty-three villagers and the celebration drew many new believers.
• Mu En made Por captain of a group of Blessed warriors and gave them Order’s Blade, then Yupa trained them in combat.
• Mu En introduced work points that let villagers exchange recorded labor for supplies, while Beruto used the ledger to expose waste and theft.
• Selene found Ohara’s bandits raiding a village and ordered them to leave the Valley of the Wind scorched and in ruins.
• Por and Kamlin remained captain and vice captain after the warriors’ challenge, and Yupa agreed to give them separate sword training.
• Nausicaä and Mito discussed trading blessed crops, then Nausicaä went to meet two refugees who had collapsed outside the valley entrance.

Nausicaä and Mu En defeated Insect Claw, brought the Pejite refugees to the Valley of the Wind, and established their new home there. As the valley expanded its workforce and applied prayers to industry, Mu En began reorganizing the militia and recruiting new Blessed warriors.

• Meila and Meili reached the Valley of the Wind and warned Nausicaä that Insect Claw was threatening the region, then begged her to save their people.
• Nausicaä scouted Insect Claw’s camp, and Por led the Blessed warriors in a night assault that freed the captives and defeated the bandits.
• Nausicaä brought the refugees and prisoners to the valley, where she exposed the sabotage plot, sentenced the conspirators, and used Ohara’s failed escape to demonstrate the Erdtree’s power.
• Mu En and Kamlin organized the refugees’ resettlement around work, training, and food, and the noble protest ended as its members began offering their skills.
• Nausicaä reported that the valley had secured food and welcomed skilled newcomers, while Mu En created a research department for applying prayers to industry.
• Gol and Beiteli helped craftsmen use Order’s Blade and Wrath of Gold to produce a Storm assault rifle, but shortages of metal, gunpowder ingredients, and fuel limited further production.
• Mu En directed Yupa to recruit young farmers into the militia and select soldiers for Blessed training, while ordering better food and less punishing training.

Mu En expanded the Valley of the Wind’s forces and sent teams toward Pejite, the Sea of Corruption, and a joint gathering while Kushana’s assault on Gurak City ended in catastrophe. His Golden Seed crossed into the world of Laputa, where Mu En met Pazu, Sheeta, and Dola’s gang, then chose Valley Town as a place to take root as soldiers began terrorizing its residents.

• Lucian watched Yupa and the Blessed Warriors fight, then decided he wanted to become a blessed warrior too.
• Beruto developed tofu and soybean oil, while Mito opened militia recruitment and Mog joined the recruits’ grueling training.
• Mu En’s followers and craftspeople grew in number, and Mu En developed new combat incantations as the valley planned expeditions and refugee assistance.
• Nausicaä organized parties for Pejite, the Sea of Corruption, and a joint gathering, then left Mito and Eliana to manage the valley.
• Kushana captured Gurak City, where Governor Brenna transformed into a scarlet bloom that killed more than twenty thousand people, and the King of Torumekia used the disaster to expand Kushana’s authority.
• Mu En’s Golden Seed crossed into another world and landed near Pazu and Sheeta, drawing them and Dola’s gang into a mine where a Fallingstar Beast attacked.
• Mu En defeated the Fallingstar Beast, blessed Pazu, Sheeta, and Dola’s gang, and chose Valley Town as a place to take root.
• Military forces and agents invaded Valley Town, robbed residents, and beat those who protested until Duffi returned from the mine with hundreds of miners.