Wandmaker of the Ruined World

When a global blackout wipes out electricity overnight, shut-in inventor Kenshi Oori finds his carefully isolated life in the mountains of Okutama turned upside down. A mechanical genius who prefers machines to people, Kenshi once made a quiet living crafting intricate devices and anime weapons from his workshop. But when a meteor crashes into his garden during the outage, he carves it into a wand just to pass the time—only to discover that the meteors which destroyed the world's power grids hav...

Houkai Sekai no Mahouzue Shokunin began as a web novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou and has been published in print by Kadokawa.