Technical prowess that crushes all opposition, playing the pig to eat the tiger, public face-slapping, and everyone around him jumping to wild conclusions.
Lin Yuan, an aerospace chief engineer who builds rockets by hand, wakes up as a useless illegitimate son in a world of swords and magic.
With his magic circuits destroyed, his family dumps him in a mine to die. But to him, “magic” is just an absurdly inefficient form of energy conversion.
Combustion chambers, nozzle design, fluid mechanics... When he engraves the principles of rocket engines into magic circuits, this world that reveres asceticism and prayer gets its first glimpse of what “instant casting” means.
Starting with a Ring of First Flame, he plans to rewrite the entire system of magic into something that can be calculated, replicated, and mass-produced.
The nobles call him a heretic, the Church wants to burn him alive, and neighboring countries want to steal his designs.
Lin Yuan has just one question: When I send the throne into the sky, will any of you still be standing?
