The story talks about a small village near the boarder between the Clover Kingdom and the Diamond Kingdom. The small village was raided by the Diamond generals, and the magic knights of the Clover Kingdom failed to protect most of the villagers from getting killed (It is not that they failed, but the people who were sent were noble bricks that didn't give a fuck about the lives of those villagers).
The MC of the story was one of those villagers who were fortunate enough to survive, but all his family were killed right in front of his eyes. The noble bricks and the kingdom didn't even compensate the MC for their failure in protecting his family. The MC held a great resentment toward the Diamond generals and the nobles of the Clover Kingdom.
Despite being fortunate to survive the destruction of his village, the MC wasn't as fortunate as others who were able to use magic, the MC was magicless, and had no mana in his body. All the survivors of the incident have integrated into other villages were they were welcome due to their ability to use magic. Meanwhile, the MC couldn't integrate anywhere, he had to beg for food. The MC became a drifter, going from village to village to beg for food, usually bullies by those who are more fortunate than him.
The bullying went too far... The MC was chased out of a certain village and was thrown into a pit that was located in the middle of a desolated land. The MC thought that he was going to die, but he opened his eyes to discover that he is laying on a comfortable bed. He heard a feminine voice talking to him. The feminine voice started talking about what this place is, it is the magic research institute. Long time ago, magic didn't exist in the world, so humans went to technology, but the moment magic appeared, the countries wanted to put magic under its control, so they all came together in an effort to analyze magic and understand it better, in order to control the situation.
Once magic appeared, the crime rate increased, those hypocrites who called themselves "heroes" appeared, so the governments had to find a solution to the issue.
The magic research institute was made to analyze the origins of magic, using the latest technology to create a supercomputer that is able to simulate fractions of reality. Despite the supercomputer's very strong processing power, it required a lot of time to analyze and process magic. Magicless humans went extinct way before the supercomputer could finish its task.
"The one controlling the supercomputer was me, an Artificial Intelligence called Last Hope. My founding father called me Singularity".
The MC who was listening, was shocked and amazed he replied "I can't use magic, I have no magic, does this mean that I am related to the ancient people?".
Singularity went quiet for sometimes as it was calculating the possibilities and then iron belts were wrapped around the MC, and a huge needle entered his arm, extracting blood from his arm as he screams while cursing his fate. In a matter of seconds, Singularity exclaimed with a shocked face appeared on her AI hologram "You share 1 / 16th of the blood of my founding father! That can't be possible, the blood should have been diluted a lot during the last thousands of years...".
Singularity soon started teaching the MC her knowledge about magic. Despite wielding no magic in his body, the MC could control magic that exists outside by analyzing the way it functions. Magic is one and the same, it doesn't change from a person to person, but the way they use it is different. Magic exist in the air, the only thing that the MC needs is to learn how to control the magic that exist in the air, and to copy the way people use it.
Training in the magic research institute until he reached 14 years old, the MC learned most of the theories on how to control magic, now he needs practical experience, thus Singularity packs herself and the supercomputer and compresses the whole institute into a small floating cube. The floating cube floats to the left of the MC. Once the preparation to leave are complete, the MC and Singularity start their journey to perfect Magic Analyzing, and to make the MC the first magicless person to control magic!
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With this you have a backstory...
Goal, it to be a magic emperor so he can abolish the monarchy, thus destroying the power of the king, and then lowering the power and the social standing of nobles to level the playing field for those who are as misfortunate as him. Another goal is to punish those who didn't protect the citizen and ignored their job. The last goal is to take revenge on the Diamond Kingdom.
Ability is to first analyze the magic of the enemy ( takes time ), and then copy it. The MC is not limited to the spells the enemy knows because the MC can't create spells from his imagination, since he knows the cause of effect.
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Hope you enjoyed reading this novel idea. Let me know if you ever use it :3 cuz I wanna read it.