The war is lost. The empire is dead. Human techno-sorcery clashed with the High Magic of the elves—and suffered a crushing defeat. The empire’s armies are broken, cities lie in ruins, and the surviving remnants flee the continent. As they cover the evacuation, the last spear of steam-magic golems—the knights—takes on an unequal fight, led by the First and the Last knight of the empire…
The main character (a gifted so-called knight) is a pilot of a steam-magic golem. He dies in battle and is transported to the past, to the time when he’s still learning to become a knight. Before the chain of wars and disasters that led to humanity’s defeat, only a few years remain.