The 8th prince and the new magic

The continent, Aetherium is known for various nation specializing in magic, technology, holy teachings and alchemy. Among them, the most notable figures were magicians who practice arcane sorcery identical to a priest's divine ability and alchemy, a magical science resembling the natural science used by normal people, because of this being a mage is highest honor for a human and human-like being, unfortunately, only those who born with it can use it, thus people without magic abilities feels extremely helpless. The priest although can use power similar to a mage's spell is completely dependent on god and their faith on god and his religion, thus, limiting the freedom of priests from church, same thing goes for normal people, although they build a varieties of technology to make their life easily, they felt that their creations a pale in comparision a magical items created by alchemy. As the result, some (but not all) mages become arrogant and cocky and looked down on church and ordinary people as inferior species and make fun of them. To counter this, many holy nation and industrial nations were built, yet they were nothing compared to magic nation, fortunately, there are mages who cared for people as well as the kings and nobles who treated everyone normal, however, there are also the royal family and noble family who thought of ordinary people as livestocks and priest as well as other practioner of divine powers as a nuisance, thus, the nations of entire contnent lacked equality and ordinary people and religious people were suffering. However, when there is darkness, there is also light, a boy was born in a small empire named Cerberus empire. His name is David Von Cerberus, the 8th son of the emperor Heinz Von Cerberus, born through his first wife, the empress Eve Von Cerberus, the daughter of a powerful duke of Cerberus whose family specialize in alchemy. The price David, however, was found out to not possessing any magic, which made both emperor and empress sad, afterall, even if both parents are mages, the child born from them carries a chance for not possessing any magic, on other hand, there is a possibility that a child is born as a mage even if both parents are ordinary people, thus, becoming the proginitor of new line of mages. Despite of of being a ordinary human, David recieves the previlege and treatment of being a member of royal family, although he couldn't inherit his father's throne. David's full siblings often ignore him, while his half siblings and stepmothers make fun of him, however, he remain unfazed despite of all of this, after all, he is no ordinary boy. "Sigh, I can't believe that they think I couldn't do anything just because I don't have no magic.... no.... I DO possess magic, it is just however different from one the people of this world uses, as it use the knowledge of my past world, in fact, I even taught this magic to all the servents who are in my side and also lacked the abity of use the regular magic", David thought. Yes, that's right David is no ordinary boy, he is a transmigrator, he was a great scientist named Alex White, he made various technology that not only made people's life easier but also advanced the world's civilization by leaps and bound, sadly he met in a car accident and died, he thought everything is over, but he never thought he would be reborn in another world, something that only happens in anime, comic and novel. At first he was indeed sad that he couldn't use magic and thus he is just an ordinary boy, until he discovered a new magic accidently, when his habbit of meditating from his past life kicked in. Although a boby, he retained his habit to calm his mind through breathing exercise and meditation when no one is looking, when he did meditate, he saw a hallucination of space and celestial bodies and myterious light fragments which is definately not stars, after he regain conciousness he thought what was that. He wonder if this has anything to do with magic, he then put all his focus on palm and he generated a small emberv of fire, thus, confirming that he has somehow gained access to magic, he was overjoyed that he is no longer a ordinary person but a magician, he then practiced it in secret. When David is 5 years old he engrossed himself in books, learning about magic, he learns that magic is something one is born with and one has access to it since birth, magic is casted through pure imagination as magic is known to subvert the natural law of the world, bending to a mage's will, and thus, creating a phenomenon which couldn't occur naturally and doesn't make sense according to science. This however make David confused as his magic work according to his scientific knowledge as well as the fact that his magic become active after he meditate for first time in his current life and is not something he possessed by birth, he also noticed, that a normal magic use mana to directly interfere with natural law but his mana is working like a wild card, converting into chemical elements or compound as well as different forces and energy, like fire, magnetism, gravity, etc., he also possess ability similar to that of a superpowers from superhero films. David concluded that his magic follows the law of nature rather than defying it, and thus, his magic is more scientific in nature, at first he thought he this is due to him not originally from this world, which could explain his powers being different from others, however, this was proved to be incorrect when, David after becoming 8 years old, out of curiousity about his unique magic and possibity about it could be used by others, told his private maid Alice, to meditate, and just like him she also seen similar hallucination like him, after this, he ordered alice to cast her power using the same method as him, she succeeded in casting the spell, Alice was overjoyed that she can finally use magic while David was overjoyed that he discovered a new type of magic, although he don't know why meditation trigger the awakening of this new magic yet, still to confirm, he told his other servents specifically the ones with no magic to do the same, and they too succeeded in doing so, except for few of them. He also noticed, that speed of servent becoming a mage is different, some become one quickly while other took some time to become one, while some failed to become one, this caused to David to experiment his new magic a little more. When he become 10 years old, he finally realised why, after doing some blood test using the methods of his former world, he found out that while all who does not possess old magic, has the aptitude to wield this new magic, they also need a particular compatibity with this new powers, he also found the reason why meditation trigger the awakening of this magic, in order to master old magic one must constantly defy natural laws, to strengthen themselves as for practitioner of old magic natural laws are like shackles they have to break, on other hand, in order to master new magic he invented, one must become one with nature and does not defy it, meditation is one such practices where one absorbs the natural energy of the world to fuse with natural law itself, the knowledge of science and its application in technology and in new magic is another such practices where one embrace the nature law to use the magic properly as it is dependent on natural laws, making new magic more difficult than old magic but also equally rewarding as it consumes less mana and much more efficient than old magic, in fact, to practitioner of his new magic, natural law isn't a shackle but a nature that they have to manupulate to their own advantage. David even discovered that old magic work according to spirtual knowledge and its strength is dependent on mage's spiritual strength and willpower while the new magic he invented work according to scientific knowledge and its strength is dependentn one mage's mental strength and intelligence instead of spiritual strength and willpower. When, David finally become 12 years, he discovered that due to the old and new magic have opposite needs, due one defying the nature and other following it, the two magic counteract each other as former weaken the natural law that latter rely on as well as the latter technically reinforcing the natural law while relying on it which weaken the influence of former, making to make incompatible with each other as they could potentailly sabotage each other's performance, he also found that one magic could get penalty or bonus effect depending on how lower or greater the strength the magic has towards the other. Finally, after reached the age of 14, David named his new magic as white magic and called its practitioner including himself whte mage, due to white magic follow the natural law, while he renamed old magic as black magic and called its practioner including his family members as black mages due to black magic subverting the natural law. One day, after him naming his new magic and renaming the old magic his personal maid Alice came to his room, when David was experimenting with white magic. "Pardon me your highness, but his magesty has summoned everyone in the royal family to throne room", Alice informed, "I wonder what father summoned everone for, could it some kind of meeting?", David thought and got ready to go to the throne room.

To be continued.....