The devouring is more common than you might think, and it's part of the reason for high child mortality amongst commoners
Commoners have as much magic as a lay noble and if laynobles didn't have magical items they'd survive without getting the devouring
The arch nobles are obsessed with having children with high mana and have thus unknowingly caused a misunderstanding---- having sex with someone with a drastically different amount of mana isn't an effective form of birth control.
Science works more or less the same. Light is still a wave, gravity still pulls things down, the earth still revolves around the sun - magic is the only thing that's different and sometimes interferes with these basic facts in ways you wouldn't usually expect.
This is another universe with an extra law of nature, with stars and planets that all possess magic-- If urano made a space ship that travels at light speed there'd still be no way for her to get back to japan.
The archdukes are like medieval kings--- they can form alliances and go to war with each other without anyone's permission
The library at the temple is small, with three or four small/normal sized book shelves. All the books inside it are hand copied parchment bound with leather.
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Ascendance of a Bookworm fanfic (High Priest Ferdinand's birthday)
FanfictionAscendance of a Bookworm fanfic. These stories fit in with the established canon of the light novels as of part 3 volume 4, and take place within the timeline of the previous volumes. The first story is set in the four days between Spring Blessing a...
