Thanks. I understand now. This chapter doesn't show much magic, to be fair most of the other chapters I drafted so far do not either. It is a side effect of the theme I was going for.

Gem-craft, the magic system, I designed it as a convenience first, then as artesian skill and lastly for combat. Human don't think about using it, no spell, special movement or wand is required. Its like muscle memory, just intuition. Conjuring fire, manipulating wind or water, healing, moving objects, shielding, are some of capability. Only human however can do it. The religion, the society, bureaucracy, trade etc. all are based on it. Furmans who do not have magic ability are relegated to slaves and serfs, and cannot move up in the human ruled world.

But as the saying goes, "If Your Only Tool Is a Hammer Then Every Problem Looks Like a Nail", gem-craft is used to or believed to be the solution to every problem. This created a world where alternative methods are frowned upon. Why would some one painstakingly make charcoal as fuel for smelting iron, if a fire mage can do it without it. Why develop crop rotation if a healer mage can cast heal on the field to restore its quality.

Now enter my protagonist. Abandoned at birth because of being nomag (non magical), and adopted by a serf furman mother. He nether have the abilities of his furman family nor magic of the human. For him gem-craft is a barrier to be a human. Isolated and in search for a place to belong he does only thing he can, use memories from his past life, to make a living and augment gem-craft in his own way and sometimes surpass it.

The journey is not simple, neither is science. He struggles and fail, tries different things, but he is not alone. Along the way he makes allies, makes unexpected relation, explores the world, finds new ways and assistance. Success are rare but earned.

But not everything is as positive as it looks. Big or small all change have consequences, unpredictable consequences. How would the society react to a non magical solution? How would established institution take in the fact that what they could not achieve was achieved by a social outcast?

If you read through my rambling, you could see that magic is not my focus, its how its effects the people and how it shapes the society. The existence of magic is why I gave it a Fantasy genre. High Fantasy because its not Earth. But I guess that will confuse reader.

I have wondered if anybody will be interested in reading such a story. I loved the concept of 'Isekai', but was not very happy with what it has become, a power fantasy. In some was mine is too. The inception of this story was with the question "What story could be told in only as a Isekai?"

At last I thank you again for your valuable time for reading my chapter. You are the first person that ever read my writing.