Wrath of the Emblem

Wrath of the Emblem is a science-fiction web novel by Jin Xunzhe (pen name, also known as goldseeker), serialized on Qidian.com from December 2011 and completed in July 2012, totaling about 1.38 million characters. It belongs to the "ancient martial arts mecha" genre, blending magic, mecha, battlefield, exploration, leveling up, farming, and conquest into one. The story is set in a future world. This world has nine magical elements: arcane, fire, water, wind, earth, light, darkness, space, and soul. Those who can cast spells are called "emblem bearers"; they connect a ring seal engraved with their family emblem to a magic array and control magical mecha in battle. The Golden Alliance holds ninety percent of humanity's wealth and builds its rule on magnificent battle cities; seizing these cities is the mission of the emblem bearers. The protagonist, Qing Hong, trades the wrath of the mad lion in his heart for a special magical agency and masters a tenth magical attribute, "spirit," whose core is to rewrite all ugliness and injustice in the world through "modification." Starting as a low-level emblem bearer, he navigates the surface world covered by the Devil's Forest and contends with various beasts and powerful factions, fighting monsters, leveling up, seizing treasures, defending cities, and slaying dragons all the way, until he finally launches a revolt of commoners against the powerful. The book revolves around a "battle doomed to fail," writing of rising against adversity and a hero who never admits defeat.