It was a wondrous age when alchemists took off their robes to teach at prestigious academies, mages openly summoned elemental spirits with their wands to entertain the public, and engineers used ingenious contraptions to clear London's fog with enormous airships.
In this nineteenth-century, steampunk London, there was no boundary between reality and the supernatural. Magic and science coexisted.
Fiona gazed up at the mechanical crystal drifting slowly across the sky, wiped her face, picked up a wrench, and opened a little mechanical repair shop in an era where everything was different from the nineteenth century she knew.
That was, until a strange customer came knocking.
"Hello, Miss. The truth is, I'm a hero, and my airship is about to set off to defeat the Demon King," said the young nobleman, famous throughout London society, whose handsome face graced the headlines every day.
"Please join my team as our engineer!"
"Ah, at last, the door to a new world is about to..." The engineer girl had been in this world for eighteen years and had never heard of such a strange thing as a Demon King. Her heart leaped with excitement. Then... she slammed the door shut, right in front of the young man's handsome nose.
A socially anxious tech nerd going on an adventure with a flashy nobleman like that?
Never in a million years!!!
"But you're already my accomplice, Miss."
The flashy noble mage smiled.
Seriously, why is a great noble like you wanted by both Scotland Yard and the London Mage Tower?
Fiona trembled as she held the wanted poster in both hands.
The engineer girl was forced aboard what was supposedly the world's most advanced airship, while the culprit grinned brightly. "Come with me, Miss Rand. We who chase the impossible are destined to become the stars of this age."
"Shut up, you fugitive!"
Theme: Humanity's drive to advance should come from its own exploration of the world.
