u/Ok_Alternative_303

What if there were a magic Academy story where magic was replaced with technology instead.

Hey everyone!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been working on a concept for a series and wanted to show it here to see what people think.

The core idea is basically a magic academy story but with zero actual magic. Everything that would normally be fantasy magic is swapped out for science and technology.

The school setup is a bit different from the standard high school. In this world there’s no middle school or college. Kids go through a two-year startup elementary school enter high school around age 7 and graduate when they’re 16. Then they go off to university at 18. Because of this high schools are massive institutions with hundreds of specialized departments and majors instead of just general classes.

The main department my story follows is the Science and Weapons Department. There are tons of other science-focused majors but this is where most of the main plot goes down.

Here’s where it gets fun: the students actually fight using the tech they build. The two big concepts in the world are LHD and Point O device that are the main and there is something called "magic constructs" and it is used pretty much everywhere. (which despite the name are purely technological devices).

The power system works a lot like a fantasy setup.

Unofficially these combat students call themselves "Tech Blazers." Some don't. They aren't real soldiers or official fighters and most of them don't even realize just how dangerously strong they actually are. They’ve developed their own whole culture and combat roles and ways of doing things.

A lot of their roles line up with classic fantasy classes just grounded in sci-fi tech:

- **Enchanting Specter:** A super versatile wildcard role that can handle a massive variety of tech though it’s notoriously hard to master.

- **Alluring Spectrum:** The chemistry and fluid dynamics track. They work with strange compounds liquid metals and chemical reactions. Basically the sci-fi version of an alchemist.

- **Edgerunners:** Blade and cutting-technology specialists. They’re your classic swordsmen or fighters.

- **Neon Automata:** Specialists in automatons and other related technology. They’re basically summoners but with tech instead of magical creatures.

- **Lorentz Skiff:** Electromagnetic field specialists who work with magnetic phenomena and other unusual electromagnetic applications. There are is a another scientists with the Lorentz last name Who invented a new field of electromagnetism so the name has a bit of a weird history. It's not just the real-life Lorentz. Also, funnyly enough, escape doesn't mean a small boat in my series. It means a huge fucking boat. Yeah, time changes a lot of stuff because the time in my series, or the date, is 255080

- **Trailblazer:** They specialize in guns and other projectiles and light-related weapons.

- **Luminal Flow:** They mostly specialize in light and related technologies. These guys are also extremely powerful.

- **Ti Heart:** They mostly work with larger combat units especially mechs around 8 meters and above including those exceeding 12 meters.

- **Neo Aerospace:** They mostly work with aerospace and high-speed vehicles.

- **SteelX:** They mostly specialize in ground-based vehicles and other related technology.

- **H4CK3R:** This is an acronym-based role and it doesn't literally mean hacker. They handle various support tasks and can work on the front lines too. Hacking is one possible skill but not everyone in this role has it.

- **Alluring Ties:** They work with medicine and biology including nanomachine medicine healing cybernetics and other support technologies. The name comes from the idea that nothing is more alluring than life itself.

- **Desire's End:** They mostly work with the brain and human neural abilities and AI. The name comes from the idea that humans have desires while AI and other non-human systems don't necessarily have them.

There are a bunch of other tracks too covering different scientific disciplines and technologies.

The tech is pretty high-level but I wouldn't call it dark cyberpunk. The vibe is more light sci-fi with many story arcs and most of them leaning into action and adventure rather than being super gritty or depressing.

Except The AI Overseer Arc that one pretty dark.

Anyway the arcs are.

1.The New Daylight

  1. Spectral Shards and Love

3.The Superhumans

  1. (Unnamed)

  2. (Unnamed)

  3. (Unnamed)

  4. Tesseract and Tsukimi SLC

  5. Steller Artifacts and NA-NO

  6. Helena's First SLC (really small)

  7. Prepared for University.

  8. The AI Overseer.

  9. (Unnamed)

Soo Basically I want to take everything people love about fantasy magic academies like the specialized combat roles and cool school culture and hype fights and completely rebuild it around technology.

So does a sci-fi setting with fantasy-style roles sound like something you'd read or do you feel like taking out magic loses the charm? What parts stand out to you and what would you want to know more about? Any ideas for a name.

also I want to blunt reply is this Bullshit. Cause i spent a lot time creating the world and characters

Also the year is 255080 in the novel.

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u/Ok_Alternative_303 — 6 days ago

Hey I am a new writer and my first language isn't English so I need a bit of help

I have tried to make few stories but three of them failed because I lost the interest and worldbuilding necessary to make them because they don't have a proper plot line and the universe doesn't make sense. and this time I have tried something new but it's still having problem

This is a fantasy story, but it’s kind of an awkward fantasy. Instead of the usual reincarnation things.where a guy from the current timeline gets reincarnated into another world.

this guy is a scientist from Earth, around the year 250,550. He is reincarnated into a world where magic exists. but he himself doesn’t have any magical power. He also doesn’t get reincarnated as an adult. He is born as a baby. When he turns three he suddenly gets all of his memories from his previous life back.

He wakes up and realizes that he is in an orphanage. After remembering his old life, he decides that his main goal is to somehow create a Phase Gate so he can go back to his original world.

He spends a huge amount of time working on science and eventually creates something called SLC. It’s basically a type of city, but more like a giant research city. it is underground. and the whole place is focused on research and making science and technology more advanced. He spends years working to trying to make a Phase Gate.

But he fails to make it. After working for so long he decides to go out. He realizes that he doesn’t want to spend his whole life working like a machine just to get back to his old world.

He wants to actually go outside to have some fun like the normal isakai monster hunting stuffs. and experience the world he was reincarnated into. So he leaves SLC and starts traveling. The story is mostly focused on his everyday life and his journey. His students.

And He slowly learns more about the world. meets more people and races and starts wondering how it works.

Then at ch5 he ends up becoming a magic instructor at a magic academy. Which is kind of funny because he has literally no mana. On the mana category he is basically zero. There’s nothing there. He can’t use magic unlike everyone else.

And there’s another weird thing about him. He isn’t even technically the same species as the humans in that world. Biologically he is a Homo sapiens. The humans in this world are different from him . even though they look the same. So he’s basically a completely different kind of human from the perspective of biology. I mean is 2.8% more different from human in that world.

So the story is basically about a scientist from Earth who gets reincarnated into a magical world as a baby gets his memories back when he’s three. spends years building an underground research city because he wants to create a Phase Gate back to Earth fails at doing that and eventually decides to stop working all the time and just live his life.

And somehow, this guy with absolutely zero mana ends up becoming a magic instructor.

Now the problem is how can I explain that he wants to leave his SLC because that place is just a like sanctuary for him.

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u/Ok_Alternative_303 — 28 days ago