Chapter Summaries

Wang Shui revived Silvia as a digital life-form in a probe, but her repeated awakenings revealed the limits and costs of the technology. As they approached Iron Edge City, Wang Shui decided to end his digital contract with Brother Hei rather than return to their former arrangement.

• Silvia awakened as a probe and learned she was the thirty-sixth copy, with memories backed up from her original body's death.
• Wang Shui admitted that he had lied about the soul transcription and explained that the Mind Lock gave him complete control over Silvia.
• Silvia read the records of her previous breakdowns and shut down the probe to be alone.
• Wang Shui reflected on how risking his life had changed his relationship with Brother Hei and considered refusing to return to work for him.
• As Iron Edge City appeared on the map, Wang Shui sent a request to terminate his digital contract.

After leaving White Cat with the armored vehicle in exchange for 200 silver coins, Wang Shui searched for a fantasy world where he could train. Old Moran gave him a pocket watch that unlocked an unknown fantasy world in return for attending an alchemy gathering on his behalf.

• Wang Shui agreed to let White Cat keep the armored vehicle and asked for 200 silver coins to be repaid later.
• Wang Shui sold battlefield resources at the mission square and received over thirty thousand Dream Points.
• Wang Shui visited Moran Bookstore and told Old Moran he felt lost after leaving Brother Hei's employment.
• Old Moran said he was leaving the city and gave Wang Shui a silver pocket watch that opened an unknown fantasy world.
• Old Moran asked Wang Shui to attend a grand gathering in the alchemy community in someone else's place, and Wang Shui considered the offer.

Wang Shui entered the world of Amestris, learned that his main quest was to obtain 32.76 kilograms of the Sage’s Stone, and traveled to Resembool to seek work and land. After renting a map of the outskirts, he set out to inspect available plots.

• Wang Shui received the Philosopher’s Stone quest and questioned Silvia about why the Dream System needed explorers to investigate fantasy worlds.
• Wang Shui explained to Silvia that he knew the fictional world’s background but disliked its author’s prejudices, while still intending to gain power there.
• Wang Shui entered Resembool, introduced himself at a tavern as Sil Via, and asked about local work, housing, and land prices.
• Wang Shui went to the town’s administrative center, rented a map showing plots for sale, and headed out to inspect them.

Wang Shui discussed his habits and need for self-discipline with Silvia, then gave her a way to control his body so she could train him. The chapter ended with Silvia testing his body and judging it extremely weak.

• Wang Shui returned to the hotel after spending the evening chatting with people at a tavern, then began writing and sketching in a notebook.
• Silvia criticized Wang Shui for wasting time and urged him to improve, while Wang Shui admitted that interacting with people helped preserve his sense of self.
• Wang Shui agreed that he needed someone to push him, and Silvia proposed taking control of his body to exercise him when he felt lazy.
• Wang Shui used [Mind Lock] and an alchemical array to connect Silvia to his mind, then patched a missing interface so she could control his body.
• Silvia took control of Wang Shui's body, tested its movement, and told him it was extremely weak compared with the body she had once used.

Wang Shui used alchemy to build a powered exoskeleton and an armored vehicle at his home near Resembool, explaining how both drew on energy from the earth's crust. Silvia inspected the vehicle and asked if she could drive it.

• Wang Shui settled into life in Resembool, working as a freelance engineer while studying and training with Silvia.
• Wang Shui transmuted a mechanical exoskeleton and explained how he adapted it to use the world's alchemical energy.
• Wang Shui spent two hours modifying a transmutation circle and materials to create a Desert Cat Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
• Silvia examined the vehicle's rough interior and limited power system, then asked Wang Shui if she could drive.

Wang Shui showed Hohenheim his experiments using accelerated plant growth and air-derived starch to address hunger, then asked to learn Alkahestry and improve his Alchemy. Hohenheim questioned whether Wang Shui’s goal of ending hunger could ever be achieved.

• Wang Shui visited Hohenheim and demonstrated how he accelerated wheat growth, explaining that the process damaged the soil.
• Wang Shui reused the plant matter and water to grow another wheat crop, then said accelerated growth was his first plan to solve food shortages.
• Wang Shui unrolled a scroll of interconnected Transmutation Circles and used it to turn carbon dioxide from the air into starch, exhausting himself in the process.
• Wang Shui asked Hohenheim to teach him Alkahestry and offer guidance on Alchemy so he could develop a more powerful and stable way to grow crops.
• Hohenheim said that ending hunger was almost impossible because food supplies and population would keep chasing each other and war would continue.

Wang Shui reviewed the limits of his underground wheat factory and pushed it into emergency production to raise capital for expansion. He and Silvia discussed using the grain sale to fund a logistics company and secure loans, while Silvia’s network let her return to Wang Shui from a warehouse ten kilometers away.

• Wang Shui inspected the grain factory and confirmed it could normally produce about 300 tonnes of wheat annually, far short of the country’s needs and his business ambitions.
• Wang Shui switched the factory to maximum production, compressing growth to four hours to produce 270 tonnes of wheat before the equipment and dragon veins needed to rest.
• Wang Shui used a crystal coin to enable remote Alkahestry, and Silvia returned her consciousness from her mechanical body at Resembool No. 1 Warehouse Station.
• Wang Shui explained that he would sell roughly 400 tonnes of wheat for about 220,000, then use the money to buy a small logistics company and obtain a bank loan for expanding production.
• Silvia asked about Wang Shui’s financial plans, and he said finance depended on hard power and could become difficult to escape.

Wang Shui sold wheat to Hawkbali and continued developing his industrial operation around a remote base in the Crater region. He launched new construction and network projects, then ended the day facing another combat-training session with Silvia.

• Wang Shui negotiated a wheat sale with Hawkbali, settling on 570 per unit and promising to supply more than ten times as much after the next harvest.
• Wang Shui explained to Silvia that his Crater base was positioned for concealment, energy, and transport access while remaining outside the Nationwide Transmutation Circle.
• Wang Shui ordered 200 construct robots to begin an underground railway project and directed future grain shipments to an aboveground warehouse for distribution through South City.
• Wang Shui activated the Crater intelligent computer, scheduled a stratospheric loitering drone, and used remote alchemy to create a high-power mobile base station for the drone.
• Silvia insisted Wang Shui continue combat training, and he failed to talk his way out of their evening fight.

Wang Shui trained with Silvia and spent two years living and working alongside her, while his group expanded its business and planted a listening array in a rival company. The chapter left Wang Shui reviewing the group’s collection and production figures as its reach continued to grow.

• Silvia demonstrated the complete Moon Goddess Slash through Wang Shui’s body, then taught him the abilities of her former Moon’s Penumbra class.
• Over the second year, Silvia reflected on her past and came to appreciate her ordinary life and friendship with Wang Shui.
• Wang Shui and Silvia sent a tiny biomimetic spider into a company, where it installed an alchemy array before Wang Shui remotely destroyed it.
• Wang Shui reviewed the group’s agricultural collections and production figures with Dashan.

Wang Shui continued developing his alchemy research and business while Hohenheim prepared to leave his family to investigate human life and death. After helping Hohenheim depart, Wang Shui turned his attention to the military and traveled east toward Ishval.

• Wang Shui and Hohenheim discussed the food factory project, and Hohenheim praised Wang Shui's plan to share its mature technology with the world.
• Five years later, Hohenheim left Trisha and their young sons, and Wang Shui gave him an alchemy-powered car and promised to help look after his family.
• Wang Shui reassured Trisha that she could rely on his businesses and let the boys study in Hohenheim's cleared-out study.
• Wang Shui explained to Silvia that events were beginning and decided it was time to get involved.
• Wang Shui, now a State Alchemist known as the Mirror Alchemy Master, traveled east toward Ishval after cultivating the Dwarf in the Flask's interest in his research into human transmutation.