I Use Code to Decipher Magic

In the cyberpunk metropolis of Zhongzhou in 2077, Lin Zhao, founder and CEO of the tech giant Skydome Group, is hailed as “the man closest to God.” He built the world’s largest immersive virtual world, the Metaverse, with his own hands. Yet on the eve of a final technological breakthrough, he is betrayed by his most trusted partner and dies in a carefully staged “accident.”

Death is not the end, however. Lin Zhao discovers that he has been reborn in a world extremely similar to Zhongzhou, but whose technology has taken a radically different path: Obsidian City. There is no electricity or internet here. The city runs on a mysterious energy known as “mana.” What races through the streets are not hovercars, but “mana-powered motorcycles” inscribed with wind arrays. And what lights the city are not neon signs, but ever-glowing “luminous stones.”

Even more astonishing, he has been reborn in the body of a good-for-nothing young master who has just been disowned by his family. Yet, by an unexpected twist, a mysterious entity called the Source Code System has bound itself to him. This creation from the pinnacle of technology in his previous life can actually decode this world’s magical phenomena into the data and code he knows so well!

Facing this whole new world, Lin Zhao smiles.

In his previous life, he used code to build a virtual empire.

This time, he will use code to decipher and master the entire magical world, building an unprecedented empire of “magitech” and crushing beneath his feet everyone who once looked up to him, betrayed him, or looked down on him.

A dimension-shattering assault on the way two worlds understand reality begins now.