Fate Codex: Building an Army from Scrap

[Western Fantasy + System + Character Development + Transmigration + Xianxia Fantasy + More Than Mindless Wish Fulfillment]

After transmigrating into the body of a down-on-his-luck border baron, Ron Veld finds himself with nothing but a drafty old castle and debts he can never repay.

The pressure is getting to him.

That is, until he activates the battered “Fate Compendium,” which lets him see everyone’s potential.

An auditor? A short-lived opportunist. A merchants’ guild representative? A ratlike middleman. The castle steward? A greedy traitor.

His golden finger is powerful, but everyone he can recruit is written off as useless.

A frail young mage expelled from the academy, who turns out to be an elemental resonator?

A numb, silent boy in an orc slave market, whose potential is that of a lost war-song priest?

A dwarf apprentice constantly berated by his master for being stupid, who is actually born to be a magic engineer?

Even the pickpocket from the slums who stole his purse is destined to become the continent’s queen of intelligence.

Everyone laughs at Ron, calling him a lord who “collects junk.”

He only smiles and says nothing.

The old nobility monopolize bloodlines? The Church controls all avenues of training?

No matter. You don’t want them, so I’ll take them.

The geniuses you’ve buried, I’ll nurture.

Starting from a decrepit, drafty border castle, Ron and his team of “useless” misfits are ready to teach this rotten, bloodline-obsessed world a lesson.