The weakest mage in the Academy just discovered the most powerful workshop in the world.

Milo Mooney was perfectly happy repairing clocks until a trace of mana in his blood saw him dragged into the Mage Academy and graded at the lowest possible rank. Unable to cast a single spell, Milo is looked down on by his classmates, ignored by his teachers, and sent into the forbidden lower halls with a broom.

That is where he discovers the Workshop.

Hidden beneath the Academy is an ancient dwarven forge filled with lost technology, powerful blueprints, and the means to construct an army of golems. The mages above have spent centuries tearing machine cores from dwarven creations to fuel their own power.

Milo might be the first human who understands what those cores were actually made for.

With deadly dungeons standing between him and graduation, Milo decides to build the team no one else would give him. There's Tania, a shamelessly flirtatious infiltrator armed with hidden blades; Selma, a towering blonde powerhouse who can smash monsters into paste; and Mila, a shy sharpshooter with an explosive talent for destruction.

They are beautiful. Fiercely loyal. Completely lethal.

And far more interested in their handsome engineer than Milo is prepared to handle.

Conquered dungeons unlock new designs. Recovered cores expand the Workshop. With every upgrade, Milo grows closer to the Primethe heart of the dwarves' lost empire and the source of technologies the Mage Republic would start a war to acquire.

If the Mage Court discovers Milo's secret, they will seize the Workshop, rip the cores from his women, and reduce them to lifeless parts.

Except Milo is beginning to suspect they were never lifeless to begin with.

They laugh. They desire. They love. Sometimes, they even seem to remember things no machine should know.

Maybe Milo isn't building new women.

But you'll have to read to find out just what these so-called golems really are.

Craft awesome gear. Conquer deadly dungeons. Build the perfect cohort. And uncover the secret the dwarves carried into extinction.