Recaps

Wang Shui entered SAO, learned to fight and survive by developing skills the ordinary way, and joined Shino while helping her grow stronger. After the first-floor boss raid, he partnered with Akihiko Kayaba to limit the threat posed by NPC industrialization, leaving him with administrator privileges and a role in shaping the game.

• Wang Shui entered SAO as Satō Itsuki, survived Kayaba’s death-game announcement, and began learning sword skills through practice with Instructor Seventh Brother.
• Wang Shui hunted and gathered in the forest, met Kirito, and helped defeat Man-Eating Dog Ken before giving Kirito the powerful Violent Execution ring.
• Wang Shui mined for days in Tolbana, then rescued Shino from players who had attacked her teammates and offered to help her become strong.
• Wang Shui trained and hunted with Shino, and they attended the briefing for the first-floor boss raid as Kibaou and Agil argued over the beta testers.
• Wang Shui joined the raid against Illfang, whose final-phase weapon differed from the strategy guide, and helped interrupt the boss as Kirito, Asuna, and the others fought it.
• Kirito defeated the Kobold Lord and claimed the Coat of Midnight, then called himself a Beater to draw the other players’ anger away from the beta testers.
• Wang Shui helped Shino make black powder and discussed his industrial plans with Akihiko Kayaba, who warned him to stop the experiment.
• Wang Shui warned Kayaba that NPC industrialization could threaten the players and the game, then agreed to help constrain it and received administrator privileges.

Wang Shui left SAO, delivered supplies to Silvia at Rusty Sword Fortress, and brought her back as a probe under his control. In the fantasy world, he built an agricultural and logistics enterprise with Silvia’s help, then headed east as a State Alchemist to involve himself in events in Ishval.

• Wang Shui completed his SAO mission, transferred The World Seed, and returned with new skills and rewards.
• Wang Shui delivered supplies to Rusty Sword Fortress, where Silvia’s hunting group imprisoned him and the enemy besieged the fortress.
• Wang Shui fought through the battle, rescued White Cat, and copied Silvia’s soul data into his biological brain after her fall.
• Wang Shui returned to Iron Edge City, left Brother Hei’s employment, and accepted Old Moran’s silver pocket watch and request to attend an alchemy gathering.
• Wang Shui entered Resembool, connected Silvia to his mind so she could control his body, and began working as an engineer while developing machinery and agriculture.
• Wang Shui expanded wheat production, negotiated sales with Hawkbali, and planned logistics and underground rail infrastructure with Silvia’s assistance.
• Wang Shui and Hohenheim developed the food factory project, and Wang Shui promised to support Trisha and her sons when Hohenheim left.
• Wang Shui became the Mirror Alchemy Master and traveled toward Ishval after drawing the Dwarf in the Flask’s interest with his human-transmutation research.