I Transmigrated, So Why Not Build a Mecha by Hand?

One moment, Su Nan was staying up late playing games in his rented room, still seething after catching his girlfriend cheating with her boss.

The next, he opened his eyes to find himself in the body of another Su Nan, a failed mecha academy applicant living in a Blue Star slum in the year 3099.

In this world, cyberpunk cities rise from the nuclear-war wasteland, and humanity’s fate is ruled by mecha aptitude scores.

The original owner had an aptitude of just 17 points, nowhere near the minimum of 30 required to pilot a mecha. He was also deep in debt to loan sharks, with his family on the verge of being sold to a black-market laboratory.

At the brink of despair, Su Nan spotted a familiar interface floating before him: the very same panel from the dark fantasy game he’d been playing before he died.

The three ultimate skills, [Gather], [Synthesize], and [Craft], had transmigrated with him.

While everyone else painstakingly trained their aptitude with gene-enhancing drugs, he could get stronger by killing monsters and looting gear:

Kill mutant beasts, harvest their flesh, and synthesize all kinds of blood-and-vitality supplements!

Dismantle abandoned mechas, extract materials, and build new ones to send his synchronization rate soaring!

While academy prodigies showed off their latest mechas, Su Nan cobbled together a Ghostwalker from junkyard parts.

Piloting his bizarre-looking, homemade mecha, he crushed every genius in his path.

The nobles demanded furiously, “Where did you get those skills and that mecha?!”

At its heart, this is a story about:

A corporate drone with a game cheat in a post-apocalyptic mecha age,

rising from a “temporary sanitation worker” to the “ruler of the stars”

in a hard-core, technology-driven tale of turning the tables.

When the final battle came and the myriad races invaded, humanity’s fleets were driven back at every turn.

Deep in space, behind Su Nan appeared the endless steel tide summoned by the panel’s ultimate skill.

Seated on his mecha throne, he broadcast to the entire universe:

“Sorry, I may have gone a little overboard with the cheats.”