Starting Today, I'll Become the Emperor?

Arthur, an exhausted engineering student in his thirties, collapses at his desk and suddenly wakes up in a strange medieval fantasy world he doesn't recognize. Yet this world is far crueler than he first expected. Elves, dwarves, orcs and other races share the land alongside humans, and a merciless religious Church hunts entire civilizations as devilish servants of the Abyss. Arthur finds his new identity as the new lord of Border City, a starving settlement of five hundred hopeless souls too poor and too weak to even bury its own dead. Determined to save his people from certain doom, he sets out to turn a dying border city into a thriving one, all while standing against a corrupt nobility, a fanatical, bloodthirsty Church, and the cruel raiders who come every year to strip their hard earned harvest bare. Join Arthur as he forges alliances with the orcs the world calls demons, builds, trades, and fights his way toward a throne no one ever expected him to reach.