The Architect's War: Book I

“Science is the Magic of the Stubborn.” For the Dreamers who are tired of fighting. And for the Architect in the mirror, who proved that you don't need a sword to slay a monster, and you don't need to be a god to build a heaven. Elias didn’t ask to save the world. He was a twenty-year-old engineering student who just wanted to pass his finals. Instead, he was summoned to the volcanic wasteland of Balkasa by the Demon Queen Lilith with a single, humiliating command: "Seduce the Hero, break her spirit, and hand me the world." But Elias looked at the war-torn continent, the starving demons, and the totalitarian Empire, and decided the script needed a rewrite. Armed with nothing but a hoodie, a bag of coal dust, and a dangerous knowledge of germ theory, Elias refuses to play the villain. Instead of fighting the Hero, Sophya Kleos, he radicalizes her. Instead of serving the Demon Queen, he negotiates a hostile takeover of her heart. Now, caught between a touch-starved Paladin who wants to protect him and a bored Goddess who wants to own him, Elias has to pull off the impossible: Industrialize Hell. Unionize the monsters. And defeat a Holy Crusade without shedding a drop of blood. The Church has magic. The Demons have claws. Elias has a calculator and a plan.