About the book: 2011 / Many times Sergei Odintsov read in books about people who end up in other worlds. And I never thought that I could be in their place. But it so happened that a simple trip to pick mushrooms led him to the world of patchwork states. Where the Middle Ages met new technologies. Here swords ring and shots sound. Technician magicians walk along the roads in search of new adepts. And even a lunar base was built, which, however, has long been abandoned. But Sergei Odintsov has to find out all this, but for now he is a pawn in someone else’s game. He will go from a gladiator slave to a barbarian sovereign, capable of uniting patchwork states into a single Empire, and returning lost knowledge and former greatness…