Hilichurls Conquer Teyvat: Starting with Boiling Water

I, Li Wei, chief engineer at Huaxia Heavy Industries, woke up one day as the weakest hilichurl in Teyvat. With the Knights of Favonius hunting me down, the Myriad Worlds Technology System activates! Flesh is frail, but machines can ascend! While other hilichurls wave wooden clubs, my tribe has already started mass-producing high-pressure steam crossbow cannons. While other monsters still rely on brute force, my engineering corps uses steel cables and hydraulic devices to hold the rampaging Stormterror in place!

Knights of Favonius? We'll show them the times have changed with a tide of steel and volley fire! Liyue's Archons? Our ironclad ships and elemental railguns will establish a new order across the Sea of Clouds! Tsaritsa of Snezhnaya? Your Delusions twist life, but my army of mechs will carve out a future for the hilichurls! When my Titan mechs march on Celestia, I present the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles with the blueprint for my Ideal City: "Does this new civilization, free from curses and hunger, deserve to replace your old order?"

This is the road to an industrial revolution for the hilichurls. With steel and fire, they will blast open a path to ascension and the divine throne for their cursed people!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.