This Fiction contains heavy violence. Illustrations, gore, torture, and Slow pacing for world-building. And maybe, possibly a Harem... Because it is an LN for a Webtoon, some scenes are spelled out. (Formally ArcanePunk!)

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In a world of Magic and Machinery, Jack Knight is an unassuming orphan with no future goals or plans that finds himself caught between a life-altering decision.

Join the military and fight the demon hordes or sell his soul to a Corpo and become a corporate wagie. Both options having zero appeal to a shut-in like Jack.

Thanks to the high-cost of living and his sister's medical expenses, Jack has never given much thought to what he'd want to do with life, always living paycheck to paycheck, scrounging just enough to keep the lights on.

However, In a strange turn of events that nearly kills him, a woman presents him with a third option.

Awaken and become her instrument of revenge. Or die bleeding within the debris of his home.

Luckily, he chooses the former. Which kicks off a strange adventure of blood, magic, and conspiracies as the Alliance of Free Cities tears itself apart looking for what they believe to be the key to unfathomable power.

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