Dragonblood Alchemist

Adrian Vane, the empire's finest alchemical prodigy and the creator of dragon blood alchemy, was betrayed and killed by his own protege, Sebastian Kraven. His spirit now lives inside A.V.001, a discarded Class F iron golem found in his abandoned workshop, where he discovers he can channel alchemy straight through its frame without any transmutation array. Hiding in a desolate scrapyard for three years, he rebuilds his golem body from salvaged parts while planning to infiltrate the Imperial Alchemy Association and take revenge on Kraven. His hideout is discovered by Lena Holloway, an expelled academy dropout scraping together a living, and the two form an unlikely partnership that will soon take them into the empire's academy.