Marching in Mechanical Armor

“The guardian of the Eternal Night Ruins is the ‘Star Core Gatekeeper’ in the eyes of the Alliance, and a ‘blasphemer’ to the Mechanical Order. Then, one day, Nie Guhong was swallowed by a torrent of star cores deep in the mines. When he opened his eyes again, he heard the ‘heartbeat’ of machinery:

‘The damaged thruster says it yearns for a star core.’

‘The decommissioned reactor says it wants to burn once more.’

As the starship fleet points its guns at the ruins and the Mechanical Order’s ‘divine punishment mecha’ crushes the defenses, Nie Guhong stands amid a sea of flames, violet lightning from a star core’s fission coiling around his fingertips. “The Mechanical Age of the Gods you’ve searched for a thousand years? Heh, sorry, but my Stellar Furnace is the spark of a new order.”

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.