In a scrap-metal heap on the Federation’s remote frontier, the youth Lin Yi makes a living dismantling decommissioned mechs. One day, he accidentally activates a mysterious metal box left behind by his father. Just as an alien’s alloy claws tear through the roof, the dark-red mech Chiyan, rusted for ten years, slowly rises from the scrap heap. This legendary machine, banned for sale by the Federation, uses neural resonance to merge control of the mech with his very bloodline.
From a dismantler with aching fingertips to the owner of a mech cockpit, Lin Yi learns a hard truth in a three-minute fight for his life: his father left him more than an unopened metal box. He also left behind core mech technology capable of overturning everything the world believes. With the Starblade Mercenary Corps’ guns aimed at his cockpit and the Federation’s alarms flashing red warnings of an alien invasion, this youth, who has never even touched an official operating manual, is about to drive Chiyan, with only 3% energy remaining, toward the battlefield that is his to claim, amid sirens and artillery fire.
There are no complicated mech specifications here, only fists against claws in a head-on fight. There are no lofty saviors, only a youth gripping the controls to survive. The moment the emblem on Chiyan’s chest aligns with the pattern on the metal box, an interstellar adventure about the true nature of mechs, a Federation conspiracy, and the truth behind his father’s death roars to life in a dilapidated sheet-metal warehouse in District Three.
