I never thought I'll be going through with this until the latest chapter. To be honest, I was planning on giving up on this right from when the mc got regressed to another body and the story goes with 80% plot and only 20% action. The plot all revolves around politics. Everything just went intriguing in the part where the mc finally achieved his second step of his plan. Is it the second step? The world building is very easy to adapt to since the content being added is slowly being introduced unlike other titles that just bombard you with shit.
Story starts with mc as the magic emperor in captivity. Apparently although there a title, birth right is still serves as a higher status. With mc being a commoner who rose to emperor due to his magic capability, there are still some who opposes him and even look down on him despite his very high status.
Also this is amazing as the magic realism is very well blended in. Commoners will be unable to read and war clans despite having a faction in equal to other nation are still illiterate when it comes to common knowledge, decency and most of all literacy (reading and writing). This idea is very well incorporated in the story.
Back to the story, while mc is being planned to be executed, a dear friend of his rescued him. This part got me confused but so far I understood most of it. Mc was rescued using means of time travel. Mc was supposed to go back in time, about a few days or months before. Instead, mc got regresses to a very far off time, 20 years or so, I think? And also, mc got regressed to a new body. same name but a different person.
Using the new person, a bastard son of a border count/margrave, mc is first belittled. But mc have all the common knowledge of a noble he once had and so, using his cunning mc device a plan to rose to the rank and got claim the margrave land to his own. all the while gaining allies, getting in advance the food product that will top the market and from being a bastard son to a viscount.
This all happened not without events. There were those who wanted to claim the lands themselves, mc made sure to deal with them, with blood and brilliancy. There are also the emperor's children mc had to be wary about, the neighboring country they had to deal with and other forces that wanted to push for mc's slavery and taking the land to their own. Mc dealt with all of them with great knowledge.
So far, mc had to use his own magic for a very few occasions. I'm at chapter 50, and so far I think there's less than 10 times mc had to use his magic vs others. This also include himself flexing. But as I said, the majority of the story will be the plot, which is the politics and the schemes. Everything is very intriguing and interesting that despite me wanting to read action genre, this had me kept on scrolling/reading.
After mc finally manage to get the land, as a bastard son of the previous land owner, the empire had mc tasked of paying a very high tribute. Mc uses his knowledge to amass fortune for the payment.
Currently, mc is helping a neighboring land which is almost similar to mc. The land has a cruel owner and one of the close relative wants to be placed in power. mc was able to help, since he is able to gain a solid ally due to this.
Mc also found out the reason why the empire is keeping a close warch on the borderlands, this is due to the magic stone veins or some sort. Mc confronts the captured imperial officer for a bit of questioning. chapter 61. these imperial officer tried to have mc assassinated but due to little authority have compared to them, instead of hasty execution, the imperial officers are being kept for a thorough investigation which will be coming from the empire. There are different factions in the empire, so understand that so far.
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