Silas is a mechanical engineer from one world dropped into the body of a disgraced noble in another—a world where magic determines rank and his new body has none. The territory he now technically controls is a wasteland: exhausted soil, crumbling walls, hundreds of people on the edge of starvation. Every neighboring noble is waiting for him to collapse. Then a system activates: each resident who survives earns him a gold coin per day.
The math is simple and the implications are radical. Silas's survival is now tied to the survival of everyone around him, which means engineering solutions—water management, crop rotation, defensive walls built from materials the locals have been ignoring—become both moral and financial imperatives. He has a Tier 7 fighter as an ally and a brain full of knowledge no one in this world knows how to counter. The family that exiled him is already taking note.
