Sergey was an engineer and knew mechanisms well—right up until the moment he died while working on another order.
He awoke in the body of a village blacksmith’s apprentice. No money, no connections, and a very unpleasant prospect: to get another round of beatings for someone else’s mistakes.
It seems like an ordinary medieval world. Except the locals are terrified of ancient ruins, and technologies have long been declared the legacy of the cursed. The Church forbids approaching the remains of a fallen civilization, and stories about ancient machines have long since turned into terrifying fairy tales—but only for locals.
Because Sergey understands all too well the value of forgotten knowledge. And when, among heaps of ancient junk, he finds a damaged golem, the hero decides to try to restore it.