About the book: year / The first steps along the great Path of the Seventeen Steps have been taken. You survived and were able to escape from a terrible enemy, but even the departed warriors whose voices you hear do not know who sent you here and why, endowing you with the power of the long-forgotten Black Snake clan. A strange world in which steam and deadly magic exist side by side is in no hurry to share its secrets. You know only one thing - you can’t stop. And when there are enemies around, there is only one way - up the Steps of the power of the Kshatriya Warrior. One day you will become stronger than all of them, and they will tremble. But you still have to live until that day, Lord.