The Other Effect

Sergey, a former psychologist and now a programmer, wakes up in an unfamiliar world and finds elves, magic, and mysterious forests all around him. Here, civilization is fading, and its inhabitants have no idea about the nature of their own power. To survive, Sergey needs cool-headedness, caution, and an artifact found among ancient ruins—"the Artifact of Unity." However, the artifact works in its own way, awakening in Sergey’s mind the consciousness of an engineer from a vanished race, whose technological level the local population perceives as magic. Their alliance becomes a unique symbiosis: the logic of survival of a modern-day person intertwines with the cold intellect of an alien from another dimension. But Sergey is not the only owner of such abilities—behind him, a goblin shaman is hunting him, having hidden similar knowledge for many years. Now the hero’s task is not only to survive, but to figure it out...