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The Expansion
by Michael Sisa
I'm absolutely charmed by these books.
The Arch Magus, at the height of an age of magic, knowledge and wisdom. Dies surrounded by his students. Only he doesn't die, he wakes up in the body of a young duke who seemingly died. (and thus got resurrected).
It reminds me a lot of the isekai genre within anime and manga, just other than someone from earth you have someone from a magical place being transported elsewhere.
It's the same realm tho, the arch magus finds out, he's 1500 years in the future. A future where the legends of his students can still be found in the history book but where, at one point, a lot of said knowledge is lost.
The body he now resides in, has been banished to a small village. Starving and on the brink of being forgotten by all, the now duke uses his forgotten knowledge to transform the village into a bustling place. With plans to expand and enrich his people.
It's one of those typical stories where he has all this unknown knowledge, and powers beyond anyones imagination and he uses that to put himself in a better position and help the people around him.
Which means it's all very heavily on the whole wish-fulfillment. However, I've read 2 books as I'm writing this and it's a very clean story. Usually these sorts of things end up as a harem and there is no sign of that happening here.
There are bigger things in the background. A dying king wanting an heir to the throne and makes it into a competiton. War brewing on the horizon. But the new duke just wants his village to florish.
So it's slife-of-life, with wish-fullfillment, and overall just a whimsical tale of all the forgotten knowledge that this realm has somehow forgotten.
There are darker aspects of the story, there is slaves that is common (tho not in his village). There are beastmen being eaten, which is pretty morbid considering they're intelligent and can communicate with the humans. There is small scenes which tells us how slaves are being abused.
But not *in his village*, so I get the feeling if it happened in his village he'd put a stop to it.
The Arch Magus, at the height of an age of magic, knowledge and wisdom. Dies surrounded by his students. Only he doesn't die, he wakes up in the body of a young duke who seemingly died. (and thus got resurrected).
It reminds me a lot of the isekai genre within anime and manga, just other than someone from earth you have someone from a magical place being transported elsewhere.
It's the same realm tho, the arch magus finds out, he's 1500 years in the future. A future where the legends of his students can still be found in the history book but where, at one point, a lot of said knowledge is lost.
The body he now resides in, has been banished to a small village. Starving and on the brink of being forgotten by all, the now duke uses his forgotten knowledge to transform the village into a bustling place. With plans to expand and enrich his people.
It's one of those typical stories where he has all this unknown knowledge, and powers beyond anyones imagination and he uses that to put himself in a better position and help the people around him.
Which means it's all very heavily on the whole wish-fulfillment. However, I've read 2 books as I'm writing this and it's a very clean story. Usually these sorts of things end up as a harem and there is no sign of that happening here.
There are bigger things in the background. A dying king wanting an heir to the throne and makes it into a competiton. War brewing on the horizon. But the new duke just wants his village to florish.
So it's slife-of-life, with wish-fullfillment, and overall just a whimsical tale of all the forgotten knowledge that this realm has somehow forgotten.
There are darker aspects of the story, there is slaves that is common (tho not in his village). There are beastmen being eaten, which is pretty morbid considering they're intelligent and can communicate with the humans. There is small scenes which tells us how slaves are being abused.
But not *in his village*, so I get the feeling if it happened in his village he'd put a stop to it.