A Leap Year, One Day Less

A solo traveler is destined to be assimilated by the world. Unless... the world pushes him to the edge of a cliff. Li Xia becomes Caron, entering a world of swords and magic with the mindset of a physics major. He intends to live a peaceful life as a healer in this other world, until he discovers that the underlying code of this world is riddled with bugs—someone has stolen the world's time to become a god, and someone, driven by greed, has stitched souls together into a calamity called the 'Demon King.' When the illusion of happiness shatters, and the silhouette of his beloved fades into the electric light of a gravitational anomaly, Caron sets down his scalpel and picks up a hammer. He will use science to analyze magic, theory to awaken the masses, and institutions to oppose divine authority. This is a game spanning nine volumes: from a slave uprising in a border town to the dawn of a republic in a commercial federation; from a thief forgotten by time to millions of ordinary people unwilling to be mere cogs. In the end, on that cursed land, he will tell that living cog, and the world: Gods do not exist, but humans have choices. Even in the face of a world-ending demon king, we will never hand our fate to the divine, even if that divine is a dream we created ourselves. — Description from novelcodex.org