Modern World
Autor: -Mana has been a part of this world for as long as mankind can remember. They've adapted, learned, and improved their lives with it. Now, let me ask you, dear reader, how do you think their world developed over time? Would they also focus on the mana and the physics of their world? How far could they have gone? Well, the answer is simple.
Author: -It's the year 2000 (a popular choice for people born between 2000-2010, to lie to the almighty Google about their age) after humanity changed the globally accepted calendar to a new one, where instead of counting down the years, you count from 0 and move on to 1, 2, and so on, just like how we did it. They've recently advanced in electroengineering, their technology is equivalent to our 2020 tech.
"Ugh... this is shit..." thought a recently turned adult male with long black hair and dark eyes. His eyes look lifeless as if he's tired of existing. Who would blame him really, after all, "roughly 0.0000000125% of people don't have mana, hah... who am I kidding, that is, because I'm the only one..."
Chikao: -"I can't even enter a university, because they require mana... Well, they are our building blocks I guess... Ah, Chikao, you pathetic fool..."
Author: -Well, dear reader, I doubt you're surprised, truthfully, which university would accept someone of low intelligence who can't even study in our world? However... by our standards, if Chikao were to magically appear in our world, he would be...
Chikao: -"Wooow... Another perfect score, shit... if only that was enough to get into a university"
Our average-looking main character is lying on a couch like a formerly drunk man who's got a hangover from a previous night. Torn, messy clothes lay on the floor, well, not laying on the floor, more like, laying on each other, making a giant mountain that has yet to be climbed.
Playing on his phone, while still looking like an alcoholic, Chikao scrolled past a lot of videos mindlessly: "Moch fight between Overgrown Destruction Giant and Frost Witch", "Unrivaled Dragon Slayer demolishing a small town in a single hit!!", "The Job of a Researcher", "The Rise and Fall of Great Dominator", "Galaxy Eater finally caught!! An amazing showcase of Stargazer's abilities", "Government making a new system for those with low mana", "How to fight", "Unsighted advances to the next stage"...
Thanks to the sudden urge of wanting to do something. Lazy Chikao gets up and goes outside. "Ah, the sun is too bright..." He thought while squinting, his dark circles clearly visible under his very obviously strained eyes, from being in front of a screen for a long time.
"Ugh, going down from the 4th floor is such a drag," He thought. After reaching the 1st floor and exiting the building, he saw a scene that was quite usual for them but would be more than unnatural for us. Some people fly around with different means, some use the air itself, some use fire, water, and so on as propulsion, some use brooms, and some even use giant animals, one guy even flies by, standing on a small bird, it's clearly twice as small compared to the guy's shoe, how is it possible? I dunno, you tell me...
There's a chase going on at the moment, right in front of Chikao's eyes. One such criminal, who suddenly appeared in front of Chikao, quickly grabbed him, breaking Chikao's bones in the process, after all, he has no mana.
???: -"Stroheim, let the boy go"
Stroheim: -"If you dare to come near me, I'll kill him!" While saying it, he glanced at our main character, but to his shock, he was already dead.
Stroheim: -"Shit!" He dropped the boy and attacked the pursuer, charging a giant ball made out of water at the pursuer.
Stroheim: -"Die, Blood Maiden!"
Blood Maiden: -"This is your grave" The beauty, with short greyish hair and light blue eyes opens a wound on her hand, now, with 2 open wounds, on both of her hands, she creates a sword in one of her hands.
Stroheim shoots the ball, and suddenly, Blood Maiden aims at the giant water ball coming towards her with her other hand and shoots a ball made out of her blood, which pierces the water ball, turning it into blood, with this, she also controlled the giant blood ball that was made out of water just a moment ago. She shoots it towards the criminal and it hits.
Blood Maiden: -"The criminal is down! Capture him!"
The police swarm the place and arrest the criminal. While she walks to Chikao.
Blood Maiden: -"May you rest in peace..."
Chikao: -"Cough... Cough... Ughh..."
Blood Maiden: -"Oh..."
The blood maiden quickly princess carries him to a hospital.
A day later, Chikao wakes up in the hospital.
???: -"Oh, you're awake"
Chikao: -"Where am I...?"
Dr. Hoshi: -"I'm Dr. Hoshi, I helped treat your injuries"
Chikao: -"..."
Dr. Hoshi: -"It was especially hard since I wasn't able to locate your Radix in the brain with the sensor. When you were first brought here by the 9th-class mage, I thought you were dead when they first brought you here, I couldn't sense your mana. It's so strange you're alive without your Radix."
Chikao: -"Haha, well, doctor, I am."
Dr. Hoshi: -"Well, you can get going now, the hospital provided a new pair of clothes, since yours were torn."
Chikao: -"Thank you"
After this, Chikao went home, late at night, holding a can of Pepsi. He dropped on his couch opened his heart out and cried with all his might. The world is harsh, when you don't have the necessary qualities needed to survive...