In the year 102 of the New Era, the old civilization has collapsed. Electronics are gone, and source energy permeates all things.
On the Dragon Sparrow Continent, qi wielders shatter stone with a punch, artificers forge war machines, and symbiotes are sentenced to death.
Shen Zhou, a transmigrator with a zero-level mind pool, repairs steam pipes in the poorest alley of Fengqi City.
Then he discovers he can “see” other people’s emotions.
Then he discovers he can “weave” emotions into metal.
An ordinary wrench, infused with twenty years of a craftsperson’s focus, gives its user precise intuition. Even rusted bolts come loose at a touch.
A plain short sword, infused with bloodlust gathered on the battlefield, triples the kill rate of a qi-gathering warrior who wields it.
A pair of copper bracers, infused with the essence of fear, suppresses the source-energy fluctuations around the wearer, calming a rampaging symbiote on the spot.
From a back-alley repair shop to the gray market’s exclusive supplier, then to an unofficial enchantment consultant for the Shattered Edge Battalion, Shen Zhou becomes the hidden hand reshaping Fengqi City’s balance of power.
“You think he just fixes wrenches?”
“He’s fixing the lifeblood of the entire city.”
Steam pipes are the city’s veins. He knows better than anyone which pipe leads to whose basement.
Enchanted tools are his pawns. Every wrench he sends out lays another line in his information network.
And the man hiding in the Allied Army, his body covered in dark gray cracks...
He is the one variable Shen Zhou cannot calculate.
“I don’t need a mind pool.” Shen Zhou tightens the bolt in his hand and looks up with a smile.
“Every screw in this city will speak for me.”
