A hero is summoned to another world, vanquishes evil, yadda yadda, saves the kingdom and lives happily ever after.

There is no such hero in this story. Just a desperate youth with great ambition and very little to lose.

A zero to hero style story set in a country clearly inspired by modern USA with just as many issues and the minority of mages often pulling strings from the shadows. I am also hoping the whole thing won't turn out edgy enough to cut me. I want to rely on actual good writing rather than cheap powertrip gimmicks.

edit: Please don't mind Zetari's salty review. He is quite literally making up any use of the torture and human experimentation trope and says MC is blank after 4 chapters where he conveniently stops reading just at the start of his first character development.

For extra entertainment, I will be uploading chapters two at a time and compose a relevant poem through the chapter names.

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]