Starting on the Gallows, Watch Me Raise a Tsundere Mage

[Transmigrate to a Western fantasy world + medieval lord + farming and infrastructure + no System + art-school reject + golden-ratio magic circles + political intrigue + serf uprising]

Lin Yuan, a burned-out art-school graduate who failed his exams, opens his eyes to find he has transmigrated into Lorne, the leader of a rebel serf uprising.

From the start, he’s hanging from a gallows, left to bake in the sun and wind for three whole days.

Everyone is waiting for him to die, but who could have guessed he’d turn the whole situation around with nothing but a silver tongue?

Lorne glances at the magic circle passed down for generations by noble mages and laughs:

The composition is unbalanced! The proportions are a disaster! The golden-ratio point is way off. No wonder the magic keeps getting stuck!

The golden-ratio point is wrong? Fix it!

The lines aren’t smooth enough? Fix them!

The spatial perspective is off? Fix it!

While everyone else struggles to find a talent for elusive magic, he turns magic into mathematical geometry!

By rebuilding magic circles according to the golden ratio, apprentices with no magic can raise Saint-tier shields, and ordinary people can cast forbidden spells!

The Aether royal family, warring nobles, the Frost Empire, and the Church all clash for power. Lorne dances on the edge of a knife, playing both sides with masterful political schemes!

He uses royal military funds to build infrastructure, reaps benefits from the warring nobles, and gets the Church’s scriptures for free to upgrade his magic circles!

Every faction thinks he’s a pawn they can control, never realizing this seemingly harmless serf only wants to keep his head down and grow stronger in secret!

Watch as Lorne puts on an act and outmaneuvers them.

From a dying serf on the gallows, he rises to become a lord who can shape the fate of the world.

Noble: “How dare a commoner rebel?”

Lorne: “Try eating a magic cannonball first!”