Breaking Free

Within the high walls, nobles indulge in every excess. In the towns, commoners toil endlessly to make ends meet. Across the wilderness, refugees struggle on the brink of death, drawing their final breath. This world was born unjust!

A young warrior refuses to let fate choke him. He takes up his blade and defiantly raises it to the heavens. If the rules are chains, then let martial might burn them to ashes!

He overthrows the old rules and reshapes the world. Just as victory seems within reach, he catches a glimpse of the true horror: the nobles who wield power from on high are themselves no more than trapped ants and beasts in a cage!

The gods stand outside the cage, looking down with cold disdain, laughing at humanity for being as lowly as ants and mocking all living things for being as foolish as beasts.

But they do not know that when the ants stop biting each other and gather into a flood, when the trapped beasts stop tearing at one another and stand shoulder to shoulder like a mountain, the struggle within the cage will end, and the battle to break out will begin!

When the gods fall and the heavens shatter, the warrior looks up and sees a gaze from even higher, even farther away. It turns out that beyond this cage, there is an even greater cage!

[A world where technology and martial arts coexist. No System, not a wish-fulfillment story, no harem, slow-paced, focused on growth and plot, one female lead]