the book binder novel

My “Worthless” Clock Binder Skill Is Actually Overpowered

Synopsis — The Clockwork Outcast Kael Veyron was once called a once-in-a-century genius. From a young age, he could understand ancient magical machinery that even veteran artificers failed to repair. The Arcane Forge Union believed he would someday become the greatest creator in the empire. But everything changed during the Divine Calling Ceremony. At seventeen years old, Kael received the profession: Clock Binder. A profession mocked as useless. In a world where people are forbidden from working outside the profession granted by the Goddess, Kael’s future as a legendary artificer was destroyed overnight. Even so, Kael refused to give up. Using the abilities of a Clock Binder, he devoted himself to restoring magical relics and maintaining ancient devices. Though looked down upon, he continued contributing faithfully to the Forge Union. Until the day he was betrayed. Declared unnecessary by the guild master, Kael was publicly expelled from the very organization he had served for years. Homeless and abandoned, Kael’s despair deepened when he accidentally uncovered the crimes of a corrupt imperial officer who planned to assault Miranda Lior — the younger sister of a local alchemist. Unable to trust the authorities, Kael attempted to stop the attack himself. Instead, he was framed. Arrested as the criminal, falsely accused of attempted assault, and abandoned by the very people he tried to protect, Kael was sentenced to the empire’s cruelest punishment: Exile to the Abyss Frontier. A lawless land filled with condemned adventurers and monstrous dungeons. Among the prisoners, Kael became the lowest of the low. Rumors spread by his own sister — the famous prodigy alchemist Lena Veyron — painted him as a useless fraud. Bullied and abused by fellow adventurers, Kael was eventually thrown into the deepest chasm of the deadliest dungeon in the frontier. A place no human had ever returned from. There, starving and alone in the darkness, Kael desperately wished he could stop his own “body clock” from consuming him with hunger. And then— Time stopped. In that moment, Kael realized the true power of the Clock Binder profession. Anything recognized as a “clock” could be manipulated. Biological clocks. Magic clocks. Aging. Movement. Even fate itself. Awakening an ability beyond human understanding, Kael survived the impossible depths of the abyss and returned stronger than anyone could imagine. The empire that abandoned him would soon learn the truth. The “useless” profession they mocked… Was an authority capable of controlling the very laws of the world. And while Kael rises to become an SSS-Class adventurer feared across the continent— Those who betrayed him begin to fall one by one.