Silas Reyne, a 29-year-old mechanical engineer, falls from one world into another and awakens in the body of an exiled noble with zero magic. His new domain is a ruined border territory where hundreds of people are starving and every noble expects him to fail. Then a mysterious system appears: every resident earns Silas one gold coin a day. With his engineering knowledge, a Tier 7 griffin-blood fighter named Ember, and a fortune that grows only when his people survive, Silas sets out to rebuild the wasteland from the ground up. In a world where magic decides who rules, Silas has found another kind of power, built from steel, fire, and people who finally have something worth defending. But the family that cast him out is already watching.