Used as a sacrifice by his own parents to save his twin brother, Ezra Ashenlocke awakens to a nightmare known as the Trial of Steel.

A child-soldier operation that started with one command.

“Assemble your guns. Kill or be killed.” 

He realizes this is no test. . .

It’s a massacre.

But unlike the others, Ezra gains the ability to see fragments of memories from a life lived in another world. The life of a weapons engineer, a hardened soldier who spent years designing tools of war in a different world from his. 

Those memories—the only path for his new body to turn from prey into predator.

Now, Ezra must use everything he has learned, and everything he will learn to survive the trial and the dangers waiting far beyond it. 

In the land known as the Country of Alchemy, Britannia he begins his path to master the art of Gun Alchemy.

He did not even spare her a glance, he only listened.


Gunfire burst into the quiet Maze again.


The bullets collided mid-air, sparks flashing between them before falling uselessly to the ground.


Pamela slowly turned her head to the right.


There stood Vera, holding a revolver loosely in one hand. Smoke curled slowly from the muzzle as the scent of gunpowder spread into the air.


The moment she saw her, a visible relief appeared on her pale face.


Ezra finally glanced at Vera for a moment.


Then he looked back at Pamela and fired again, but this time Vera moved.


She stepped forward in a single clean motion, appearing directly in front of Pamela.


A slim long sword flashed out from her hand.


The blade intercepted the incoming bullets, deflecting them aside with several quick metallic sounds.


Chapter 67 - The Favor That Stayed the Gun