The mind and soul of a man from our time—a common rank-and-file soldier of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lyokha Kireev—end up in the body of a dying young aristocrat in a reality where Sword and Magic rule. A human from Earth is not a hero, not a progressor, not the Chosen One, and has no special advantages over the people of the Kama-Nio world—except one: he thinks faster and adapts brilliantly to the new circumstances. Without trying to rewrite or radically change the surrounding world order, he blends into a society unfamiliar to him, gains enemies, friends, and patrons, strives to learn something new, uncover the secrets of ancient empires, and become a person who can independently determine his fate.
Duels. Fights. Living dead. Mutants. War. All of this will come. But for someone it’s adventures, and for the refreshed imperial count Urkvarth Roikho—once a typical ordinary person—this is an integral part of life that he would like to live by his own reasoning…
Welcome to the Osvter Empire, a vast state on three continents, in decline and where not everything is as simple as it might seem at first glance—and humans and non-humans, despite all their differences and variety, are so much like you and me!