The Sovereign of Ash & Cogs

In the clockwork abyss of Aethelgard, humanity is reduced to fuel, and souls are weighed in gears. Jay was once designated as "Trash-Tier Prototype C-Zero"—a disposable biological vessel meant to be drained dry by the machine-clergy. But when the parasitic system breaks, the discarded scrap-collector awakens as an Independent Sovereign, blessed with the power to rewrite reality's code. With a crimson shadow at his fingertips and a ledger of blood to settle, Jay doesn't just want to survive the machine gods—he intends to tear the world-engine apart, gear by bleeding gear. ​The cage is broken. Let the harvest begin.