I am the Secateur, the killer of worlds, pruning the unnecessary branches of the Tree of Realities. Behind us are hundreds of lives in the bodies of doubles, ahead is a new one, in a world with global warming, infected with magic and torn apart by the game of empires. My copy here is the heir of impoverished landowners who never developed his magical skill. A fan of Japanese culture who was expelled from school and almost lost his last serfs. Luckily, I will change the life of this loser. And, most likely, I will destroy the world. But first, I’ll climb higher in the government service.

What will happen: Clans and secret societies | Uber-ized serfdom | Abundance of unapproachable noblewomen | Multiple worlds and travel between them | Artifact smuggling | Inhabited Russian Antarctica and Greenland | Competition and self-improvement | Geographical nerdiness | UPD Adequate GlavGer (not imbecile)

Author's notes: More boyarism than Japanese. A world based on the stories “Photos of Black Women”, “Elevators”, “The Hunt for the Giant Bandicoot”, see the collection “Icosahedron”. Cover by Max Olin. Beta reading - V. Rukavichnikova.