Yellow Rubber Shoes, Cropped Pants, and Liu Haizhu, the Close-Combat Mage

Back in 1982, Liu Haizhu, an honest man from a shipyard, had hoped for a quiet life. Instead, street thugs framed him, and he couldn't even protect Zhou Meng, the factory beauty he loved.

At his lowest point, he unexpectedly awakened the Strongest Mage System!

But as he looked at his bulging muscles and the massive wrench in his grease-stained hand, Liu Haizhu fell into thought.

A mage is a mage, then. Brother Zhu's magic is all about physically sending people to the afterlife!

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've mastered Silence: knock the villain out with one wrench swing and make him shut up the physical way!"

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've mastered Fireball: casually slap a red-hot briquette in the villain's face!"

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, you've cast a large-scale crowd-control spell: storm the scrapyard alone and scare the piss out of all fifty thugs!"

Yellow rubber boots, cropped pants, and a mighty six-sided staff (a big wrench) in hand!

From that day on, Pingyuan City's streets had one less helpless punching bag and one more "melee mage" who made the criminal underworld tremble at his name.

He took down local gangsters and kicked unscrupulous merchants to the curb, hammering out his own heavy-industry business empire with nothing but a wrench!

Years later, faced with the admiration of his wife, Zhou Meng, the trillion-yuan tycoon blushed and stammered, "Meng... Mengmeng, I'm really a refined mage. They all just fell over by themselves!"