[quote=@Crimmy]
The sociopolitical, economic and technological consequences of that revelation are insane.

Can we just assume that world history still turned out the same instead? Except with magic? Because the amount of things that would have been utterly changed is beyond my brain's ability to process.
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Roughly the same, yes.

[quote=@Silvan Haven]
Unless simply having a magitech weapon renders you bulletproof (which would also mean swordproof) and/or those magitech guns use none of the user's own mana a normal gun is still an effective weapon.

I know that normal guns are usually totally useless in anime, but that's only because the people who use them learned to shoot at the same place Stormtroopers did and the writers need some way to make it so that only the main cast can save the day.

I'm not expecting one shot kills here (metaphoricaly speaking.) It just doesn't make sense to me that extremely effective weapons suddenly become absolutely and hopelessly outclassed in every way once magic enters the picture.
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There's a decent amount of Ritual Technology that does render you bulletproof and requiring other ritual technology to actually deal with it. Keep in mind it was initially made to fight monsters... And some of them are contracts with gods.

Not only do a lot of modern guns flat-out not exist an have magitech alternatives to them instead, magitech would still outclass them if they did exist.

[quote=@Crimmy]
Important. Do we have instant noodles that cook instantly with magic?
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I don't know if that's quite a [i]necessary[/i] advancement.