Reborn as a Demon King: Lord of the Godforsaken Land

The Golden Age has crumbled to dust. The gods have fallen, leaving behind endless calamities that tear the world apart: the Divine Calamity. Zhang Yu opened his eyes and found himself a Demon King. Before him lay Boneboil City, cursed by frozen soil, drained of magic, and strewn with starving corpses. What? Hell difficulty from the start? No problem! I’ve got nine years of compulsory education under my belt, and I’m a master of math, physics, chemistry, and biology! Underfloor heating magic replaces firewood, rune arrays purify the soil, and steam engines roar as they drive iron behemoths! Farming? Infrastructure? Climbing the tech tree? Sorry, industrialization is the way to go in the wasteland! But trouble keeps coming: Greedy slave traders want to fleece him? Zhang Yu sneers. “Dead men don’t spread rumors.” An exiled kingdom princess brings the Church’s shadow of pursuit? Zhang Yu muses. “The enemy of my enemy… might make a useful weapon.” The arrogant Church of Holy Light brands him a blasphemous heretic? Zhang Yu looks at the muskets newly mounted on the city walls. “It’s time for the world to change.” When the blindfolded Demon Lord holds a musket, with an iron tide roaring behind him; When crops grow from barren frozen soil, and warm smoke rises from the castle’s underfloor heating; When the Church of Holy Light realizes that the “blasphemer” they’re hunting is using powers beyond their comprehension to build an impregnable iron demon city in the land abandoned by the gods… Zhang Yu stands atop the city wall and surveys the realm he built with his own hands. “Who says a Demon King can only destroy?” [Western fantasy + farming + infrastructure + political intrigue + passion. See how a modern soul uses technology and magic to write an unconventional Demon King’s legend in another world’s wasteland!]