A Comeback: Building Industry in a World of Magic

Name: A Comeback: Building Industry in a World of Magic
Author: Master, Please Don't Kill Me

逆袭：我在魔法世界搞工业

by Master, Please Don't Kill Me (师尊别杀我)

Status: Completed
Length: 97k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: European Fantasy
Updated: 6mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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This is a world where magic reigns supreme. Those with magical power stand above everyone else, while those without it are reduced to livestock. Lin En transmigrates here with not a trace of magic, and from the start, he's left to await his death in a prison dungeon.

But in the depths of despair, he meets Ai La, who is just as desperate: the daughter of the Blackstone Lord, a magical prodigy stricken with a terminal illness. They strike a deal: she gets him out, and he gives her power.

From then on, the glow of a steel furnace lights up the darkness in an abandoned tunnel beneath the Blackstone mines. Drawing on his knowledge of materials science from his previous life, Lin En starts with steelmaking and gradually kindles the flames of the Industrial Revolution. Gunpowder, firearms, cement, telegraphs... One after another, technologies unheard of in this magical world are born.

For the first time, laborers gain the power to stand against mages, and farmers see hope of changing their fate. When the mage armies descend, they are met with volleys of gunfire, rocket barrages, and armor-piercing rounds.

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