Building an Underground City, Starting with Mining

[Western Fantasy]+ [Slow Burn]+ [Dungeon]+ [Online Game]

In 2037, AI technology breaks through its bottleneck and sweeps the globe, plunging the world into a brutal winter of unemployment.

Jiang Yi is among the last graduates of a hands-on mechanical engineering program. He’s unemployed the moment he graduates, and the manufacturing skills he once took pride in are rendered completely obsolete by AI robots.

At his lowest point, he receives a lucrative offer from a mysterious game studio and enters a fantasy world of swords and magic.

The hands-on skills worth nothing in the real world prove invaluable here. He mines ore, hauls bricks, and learns blacksmithing at his own pace, never expecting to awaken the hidden class of Dungeon Builder.

While other adventurers and players are still worrying about experience points, he quietly takes over an abandoned dungeon.

And so, the atmosphere on this continent slowly spirals out of control...

“Captain, the briefing said this was a beginner-level goblin nest. Why is there a crossfire zone?”

“Get down! Is that goblin carrying a machine gun?”

“Help! The treasure chest is alive. Is it a monster that reloads automatically?”

Sitting in the deepest part of the dungeon, Jiang Yi watches the experience points on his status screen shoot up and falls into thought:

Is this dungeon a little too devious?