I’ll Upend the World by Building Mecha

In the year 217 of the Psionic Era, the mechanical and psionic factions had been locked in opposition for a century. Civilization was fractured, social classes rigidly entrenched, and the lower classes of the rusted districts struggled through hardship.

The mechanic Ryan had endured a difficult life since childhood, making ends meet by repairing battered mechs. The mystery surrounding his parents' strange deaths never left his mind. During an assignment in the field, he stumbled upon an ancient civilization's soul core, ten thousand years old, in an abandoned mine. From then on, he unlocked lost mechanical arts and mastered the fusion of psionics and machinery.

The soul core's discovery attracted covetous eyes from every side: the military-industrial forces of the Iron Anvil city-state, the Silverglow psionic dynasty, and the Ether remnants who had lain dormant for a thousand years all made their move. His adoptive father had a hidden past, his brother-in-arms fell into the quagmire of power and turned extreme, and the noble girl Alicia, who had been tracking the soul core, went from rival to lover, bound to him through life and death.

When the world-ending crisis arrived, Ryan refused to repeat the mistakes of the extremists. Using the soul core as his guide and his mech as his blade, he broke a thousand years of opposition and forged a new path where machinery and psionics could coexist in balance amid the ruins.

⚠️ Not a mindless power fantasy | Hardcore machinery | Psionic fantasy | War epic