Western Fantasy: The Demon King Wants Me to Be Her Chief Scientist

Lin Yuan, the leading scientist of the 23rd century, dies in a cowardly attack. When he opens his eyes again, he has become Ascher Evan, the Empire's most useless noble.

With no talent for magic, he is cast out by his family, expelled from the academy, and tricked by his stepmother into going to war as cannon fodder. After being gravely wounded and falling unconscious, he is dragged back to his territory by demon soldiers like a dead dog. The Empire declares him dead, and his family can't even be bothered to ask after him.

But when he opens his eyes in a prisoner camp, a brand-new world unfolds before him.

Blast furnaces, black powder, steam engines, and radio: things dismissed as "useless tricks" in the magical world unleash world-changing power on the impoverished but power-hungry lands of the demons. Starting with making gunpowder by hand to blast open his cell, he gradually earns the demons' trust and lets an unstoppable tide of steel crush the glory of the knights.

And when he discovers the secret of the demon royal blood flowing through his veins, and the Demon King’s cold, dignified face appears before him again and again, the flames of revenge and a new ambition burn in his chest at the same time.

The Empire must be destroyed. His family must pay in blood.

And he will use the power of science to crown Her Majesty the Demon King.