Magic is the programming language of the world. But in a fantasy world, nobody has ever heard about programming. That is, nobody except Aurea. Formerly known as Aurora, she was reborn with all the knowledge she brought from Earth.

She spent the 40 years of her previous life studying society, science, programming, hermetism, mythology, and alchemy. She died financially broke and emotionally broken, but all her accumulated knowledge and her nerdiness are about to pay off.

She starts her life as the daughter of a slave, set against impossible odds from the beginning. But if incantations work as a programming language, then she knows exactly what to do to turn the tables. Words and syntax were the bread and butter of her former life, and material components look more like APIs and plugins.

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Update Schedule is according to my time, which means Brazil Time (GMT -03). I wouldn’t be able to keep track of all time zones and the ever-floating Summer Saving Times and stuff, so you can either calculate it to your time zone or just get used to it, because it won’t be changing for some time (I hope never, actually). From October onwards, I'll be posting one chapter per week, on Fridays.

Once per week:
Friday, 04 PM (BRT, which is GMT -03)

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What NOT to expect in this novel:
- Explicit sex content
- Depiction of slavery in any “good side” or “positive light.” Slavery is Evil, period.
- The MC to enter a straight relationship
- Harem
- NTR
- Any form of race superiority or inferiority discourse
- Sexism
- Random banter about food or entire chapters dedicated to food (I mean, I love food as much as anyone else; I’m just too tired of every single isekai novel having entire chapters describing food)

What TO expect in this novel:
- A slow-burn story
- Brain beats brawn
- Action scenes, though they aren’t the first focus
- The MC may enter romantic relationships, but they take more of a backstage role
- People trying to live healthy polyamorous relationships. They might succeed or fail, but the important thing is that this isn’t about one person taking center stage and everyone else worshipping them
- Sex might be mentioned or implied, but never more than that
- Sometimes the characters might use strong language
- Sadism
- No, really. Sadism. Aurea might be originally a 40-year-old from Earth, but a child's brain is a child's brain and very susceptible to trauma. The roughness of the environment of her upbringing might warp her personality a bit. This isn’t to say that she will be down a villainess path. She will just have some pleasure in making evil people suffer. Think of Yae Miko in her character demo, “Anecdote of a Divine Kitsune Guuji,” which you can find on YouTube. It’s that kind of “ludic sadism.”

To be honest, I never really understood patriotism. Maybe it's the fact that I was always a foreigner in every place I lived in, and even within my own country I was always seen as a foreigner. Or maybe the fact that my dad was an anarchist.


In any case, nations make sense only if you see them as accidents from history.


This city here is only part of country A, and the other on the other side of the river is part of country B because when both fought their independence wars, the first lost while the second won.


And it's only because of that that my passport had the Brazilian stamp on it. Otherwise, it would've been a completely different country.


That's why the idea of having an attachment to a country feels so outlandish to me. Almost alien.


So I have no attachment to this country, and I honestly feel like an alien here. Probably because I actually am, in the strict sense, even though I'm indwelling a native body.


Chapter 119 - Chapter 119 - Where the heart belongs to