Steam Throne: Starting from Inheriting the Empty Shell Merchant Guild

"After countless hours of deduction, we've finally found the only one who can save the world!" "Great! Where is he now?" "Manchester, running a trading company." "That world-renowned pioneering city? No wonder, he must be working tirelessly for the fate of humanity!" "No... his main business is fleecing various powerful forces, and incidentally, recruiting their elite talent as employees, then fleecing even more." "Huh?"... This is the Victorian era, a time of unprecedented prosperity for steam civilization. Difference engines transmit divine whispers, heraldic magic and mobile armor intertwine across this land. The Holy Flame Church, the Mystic Society, the Clock Tower, the Golden Dawn, the End-Man Association... various powerful forces engage in open and covert struggles, vying for the lost legacy of the divine age. Rean arrives in Manchester, to uncover his brother's...