Power Armor Sacrifice Rebellion

The Mech Sacrifice System runs on a simple exchange: feed it five Level 1 mechs and the user gets strength enough to tear apart a Level 2 with bare hands. Ash Lane wakes up with it after being dropped into a world where everything is decided by armored combat. He enrolls at Valen Academy expecting to make something of himself there. Instead his fiancee ends the engagement in public, his own family closes ranks against him, and his mother is dragged into it and shamed in front of people who used to defer to her. Ash has been keeping the system and what it has already given him to himself. Protecting her means giving that up. He calls out Finn Lane and takes him apart in front of the academy, which settles the immediate question and opens several larger ones about where a nobody got that kind of power. From there he starts moving through the academy rankings and the families behind them.