On Synchronization Assessment Day, Gu Zhao scores the only zero in the entire hall: a 0% synchronization rate with mech spirits. He's declared defective on the spot.
Ten minutes later, Su Wanxing, the city's strongest mech spirit, loses control during forced mechanization. A top-level alarm blares across the academy. Everyone flees to the shelters, but he walks against the crowd and enters the heart of the rampage.
Synchronization rate: 108%.
A mech spirit recognizes only one pilot in its lifetime. That's an ironclad rule written into law. Yet Gu Zhao's "blank frequency" can synchronize with any mech spirit.
The financial clans want to buy him out, the military wants to recruit him, and the academy fights desperately to protect him. Starting with a temporary forty-five-day pact, the zero-score boy and his mech spirits battle from the freshman rankings all the way to the Northern Frontier, then into the depths of the rift--to reclaim what was stolen from both humanity and the mech spirits.
This is the age of mechs and star cores. Mechs, academies, war, tactical battles, and a pact beneath the stars that will redefine the bond between humans and mech spirits.
