Recaps

Claire cut taxes, rebuilt the military camp, and strengthened her magic and knights with methods gained through trade. After exposing Doctor Moses’s abuses and confronting Baron Eugene, she confiscated the clinic and treated Yuna’s mother with penicillin.

• Claire traded healing potions with Monroe for revolvers and bullets, then used a revolver to shoot Dean after dismissing him as Knight Captain.
• Claire abolished most taxes, reduced the collection schedule, and rejected the nobles’ demand to restore the old levies by demonstrating her revolver’s power.
• Claire reorganized the military camp, recruited youths including Kellan, and made training free while ordering Hant to build a loyal knight squad.
• Claire traded a glass cup with Chen Han for cultivation manuals, studied the Mage Mental Power Circulation Method, and advanced to Intermediate Mage.
• Claire gave Hant a Battle Qi method that let him break through to Silver Knight, then entrusted him with teaching the methods secretly to the knights.
• Claire let Melly help at the manor, where she befriended Yuna, and taught Yuna and the maids to prepare several new dishes.
• Claire discovered that Doctor Moses had been treating Yuna’s mother with harmful methods, exposed his abuses before the townspeople, and had the clinic sealed and confiscated.
• Claire returned to the manor with Yuna and her mother, prepared penicillin, and gave Yuna time off to care for her mother while Baron Eugene watched resentfully.

Claire consolidated her rule by punishing corrupt officials and nobles, then used the recovered wealth to rebuild Nafu City and establish schools and a hospital. She left Rona secure in her role as the city’s doctor as a merchant convoy approached.

• Claire exposed Doctor Moses’s harmful treatments, and the crowd welcomed her promise to build a better life in Griffin Barony.
• Claire appointed Robin Tax Official, uncovered the nobles’ corruption, and survived an assassin sent against her.
• Claire tricked the nobles into donating their wealth, then had Hant kill Frank and recover the stolen funds.
• Claire used the money to start Work Relief, rebuild Nafu City, open schools and a hospital, and raise wages.
• Claire upgraded her trade panel, traded with Lan Zhao for a pet-bonding method, and received a Water Cloud Beast egg.
• Claire bought the Minotaurs and Rona, offered the Minotaurs paid work, and hired Rona as the city’s physician.
• Claire promoted education and public health, while Rona treated patients and became known as the mute doctor.
• Claire stopped Pastor Oma from undermining the hospital, secured his agreement to support it, and reassured Rona before a merchant convoy neared Nafu City.

Claire built a profitable salt business, strengthened Nafu City, and expanded her plans to provide work for its residents. In the royal capital, she secured a partnership with Sophia and introduced her to MSG, while their discussions opened the possibility of further connections.

• Shane arrived in Nafu City, and Claire sold him Iodized Salt and advised him to market it as a luxury product.
• Hant and the knights defeated Big Beard’s bandits, and Claire executed the captured men before ordering patrols and a Salt Factory.
• Claire completed the factory machinery, treated the injured Rona, and led an expedition that subdued the Gale Wolf pack and its king, Fenrir.
• Claire brought Fenrir and the pack into her service, trained the knights to fight from wolfback, and planned a dried-squid business to provide work for women in the barony.
• Shane reported strong profits from Iodized Salt, and Claire developed new price tiers and packaging while promoting dried squid and MSG.
• Claire encouraged residents to set up stalls in Nafu City’s new market, and the market grew as citizens saw the benefit of selling there.
• Claire traveled to the royal capital, where she humiliated a mustached baron who had bought royal-exclusive Snow Salt to impress a great noble.
• Shane introduced Claire to Sophia, who offered her wealth and power, then agreed to sell Iodized Salt under the Nafu City shop’s name and considered a Magic Academy connection.

Claire recruited Isaac and Teklin to develop a magic weapon and improve Nafu City’s industries, while building ties with Sophia and Sirian in the royal capital. After returning to Nafu City, Claire welcomed the Water Cloud Beast and began investigating why the rivers supplying her territory had dried up.

• Claire rescued Sirian, who used the handgun she gave him to fight the Razor Society and later returned to pledge his service.
• Claire joined the Magic Academy, recruited Isaac to build a Magic Airship, and worked with him and Teklin to create a powerful Magic Weapon.
• Claire persuaded Sophia to help free Isaac and proposed a scheme to sell her stock of Nightmare Flowers through a manufactured market boom.
• Claire returned to Nafu City with Isaac, Teklin, and other recruits, then tested Martin’s Nether Spirit Lamp and glimpsed the Spirit World.
• The Water Cloud Beast hatched and chose Claire, who then worked with Isaac and Teklin to upgrade the city’s salt and MSG production machines.
• Claire trained the Gale Wolves against the Dragon Blood Colt, then learned that rivers across several villages had dried up.
• The Water Cloud Beast made rain over the farmland, while Claire traced the rivers upstream toward Count Grein’s Barony and sent knights to investigate.