A BIOLOGIST SECOND LIFE : REFORMING FAILED MAGIC WITH SCIENCE
Renoir von Astrea is perfectly content with mediocrity. Having worked himself to an early grave in a past life as a hyper-focused modern biochemist, his only goal in this new world of swords and sorcery is to secure a stress-free, deeply unremarkable retirement. At the prestigious Astria Royal Academy, he plays his part flawlessly—a clumsy, unnoticeable "C-student" who intentionally botches his alchemy exams and feigns terror at the slightest hint of conflict. He has already analyzed the world's flawed, wasteful magic system and engineered a single, absolute tool for total erasure; he has no need for further academic prestige.
But the rotting core of the kingdom refuses to let him rest.
Beneath the sunlit ignorance of the high nobility lies *The Consensus for Evolving Humanity*, a cross-kingdom cartel of radical aristocrats driving a horrific agenda. Viewing humanity as biologically inferior to the apex Beast-Kin nations, the Consensus systematically kidnaps disposable outcasts, forcing volatile monster cores into their bodies to build a compliant, mutated vanguard.
When Renoir stumbles upon a ruined facility and saves Emilia Claire—a discarded noble daughter dying from a catastrophic core rejection—his quiet life changes forever. Treating her condition not with faith or standard magic, but with precise bio-engineering, he designs an organic filtering node that stabilizes her lethal new traits. Soon, eleven rescued outcasts unite under his hidden sanctuary, forming the Silver Veil . A shadow faction dedicated to dismantling the Consensus from the roots up.
As a brutal, three-way shadow war erupts between the corrupt nobility, the proud Beast-Kin borders, and this mysterious new vanguard, the Crown Prince launches a frantic witch hunt within the academy walls. Meanwhile, the architect behind the continent's sudden revolution simply sits at the back of the classroom, quietly managing a secret network while pretending to fail his homework.