At nineteen, the genius He Mingyue was making plans for the future with a diploma from a top-tier university in hand when a drunk-driving accident crushed all his ambitions.
When he opened his eyes again, he was a lowly “mute” at the bottom of a dungeon in another world: he couldn't speak the language, had no money, and had even been branded a “magic null,” unable to sense even the most basic mana.
Yet he could see “elemental spirits”...
These elemental sprites, invisible to ordinary people, showed him a strangely powerful affinity.
One multicolored elemental spirit led him into a secret chamber where the spirits of fallen mages were imprisoned, forcing him to sign a death pact:
Return with power within three years and break open the prison!
Survive? He chose to “tunnel out”!
Unable to meditate, he used his blade as a pen and boulders as scrolls, turning the lost art of “nested magic rune engraving” into a weapon!
Elemental spirits were his early-warning radar, energy lenses, and, above all, “amplifiers” for magic devices.
Others relied on talent to cast spells. He fought with “handcrafted technology”!
This world shut him out of the gates of magic,
so he made his etched marks into spears and elemental spirits into shields,
tunneling through the walls of another world beneath the gaze of the gods!
