The Magic Returns to Zero, the Machine Ascends, I Choose to Shut Down

Magic is dying, machinery is ascending. Ordinary people are just the middle class being eliminated. Kay was originally a mechanical maintenance apprentice in an abandoned border town. During a clearing operation, the Magic Empire and the Mechanical Federation arrived at the same time, and the town was wiped out overnight. He fled into the wasteland with his broken mechanical prosthesis. The only thing left behind was his father's relic - a pocket watch that could not be classified. This pocket watch can temporarily resonate with magic and machinery. Because of this, Kay became the target of both camps. Escape, survive, trade, transform. In the wasteland, he exchanged repairs for resources, exchanged danger for strength, and pieced together his own combat system step by step. As the strength increases, the truth gradually emerges: The Magic Empire's "Eternal Night Project" attempts to freeze the world, The Mechanical Federation will start the "unification engine" that formats all life. When everyone forced him to choose a side, But Kay decided to take a more dangerous path—— Neither returning to the stagnant age of magic, Nor is it heading towards a soulless mechanical future. This is a story of growing up in the wasteland, mechas and magical wreckage. Starting as a maintenance apprentice, An ordinary person trying to press the shutdown button for the world.