“Roads of the Empire” is a science-fiction novel by Kater Wei, the first book in the cycle “Two Thousand Years from the Second Creation of the World.” The genre is action sci-fi with “otherworlders” (isekai).
He—Artemiy Kotov—is an eleven-year-old orphan. He has already managed to end up in a parallel world once, surviving only by miracle, and he was even adopted and taken in for training by experienced survival fighters. But fate wanted more: it threw the boy into a new parallel world—one completely different, where a long-collapsed civilization lives, filled with post-nuclear mutants and people who thrive on medievalism mixed with fragments of the past. To adapt, survive, and find a way to return home is the only thing he dreamed of. But the Gods love strong spirits—and they are also азартни, and their jokes are cruel.