The world had always been silent in ways humans could not hear.
That changed forty-three years ago before 2070(current timeline of this world is 3070), when Dr. Aiden Crowell's lab in New Veyla detected what they called mana resonance a faint, invisible field that surrounded every living thing. At first, it was nothing more than a scientific curiosity, a strange energy that behaved like neither light nor sound.
In the first decade after its discovery, scientists treated mana like a new branch of physics. They built crude instruments that could measure it, then clumsy machines that could push it into motion. The results were unimpressive a flicker of light, a burst of heat, a puff of wind. But those small miracles were enough to ignite the world's imagination.
Then after that came the Resonance Breakthrough. It's a breakthrough event of human or living beings as a awaken.
Dr. Faye Moritz, a neuroscientist, found that mana responded not only to machinery, but to the brain's electrical signals and with heart also. Volunteers with strong mental focus could influence mana directly through thought. He and some well known scientists did experiments. After so many experiments he succeeded and that first person has able to shaped the air into a thin spiral of flame without touching a single tool. They called him the First Mage. The Mage King. They found that after awakening, mana was stored in a tiny part of the human heart.
From that moment, the floodgates opened.
Research shifted from building machines to training minds. Scientists discovered that mana could be stabilized through mental "patterns" visualizations and emotional anchors that shaped it into consistent effects. These patterns became the foundation of spells. At first they were cumbersome, memorized like formulas in a textbook. But as training methods evolved, schools began to teach them alongside mathematics and language.
Governments, corporations, and militaries competed to create their own "spell libraries" codified sets of mana patterns sold, licensed, and guarded like precious technology. The most powerful institutions installed Mana Interface devices into their soldiers and researchers, enhancing control and precision.
But magic did not stay locked in the hands of the powerful for long.
Two decades ago, an anonymous group leaked thousands of spell formulas onto the open net. Overnight, what was once rare became public. Street mages and corporate battlemancers alike drew from the same ocean. The world changed again.
Today, magic is as common as electricity. The rich refine it with neural chips and stabilizers; the poor learn it in back-alley training dens. Some follow the safe, government-approved casting methods. Others invent wild, unstable patterns of their own.
And yet, despite all this progress, scientists admit there is still more unknown than known. For every spell in the library, there are a thousand that have never been imagined. Somewhere out there, someone is always dreaming up the next impossible thing and with mana, dreams can burn cities or heal the dying.