FerriticMatrix

Waking up inside the ruins of an orphanage, Alexander finds himself chained and sold to slavery.
A modern metallurgist, trapped in ancient times, watch as he tries to play with the cards fate dealt him.
He will make plate armor, invent paper, build roads, teach governance and many more, as he tries to carve a place for himself.
But how can such things not attract jealous eyes?
The naval superpower- Cantagena,
The unstoppable army of- Exolas, 
The superpower of the east- Adhania,
The mercantile confederation- Sybarsis, 
The religious fanatics- Iyizarid, 
And the ever-present- Barbarians of the Barren Forrest,
All want something from each other.
In this ocean of sharks, follow a small carp as it struggles to leap through the dragon gate and establish a dynasty to outlast them all.

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Herald of Steel

Alexander was not aware of the salt inside some of the leader's hearts, not that he would have cared anyway even if he knew.


He had somewhat predicted this, but he had already eaten it, and there was no way he was gonna spit it out.


So, what if some of them were a bit sour in heart?


What could the leaders realistically do to him anyway?


Done with delivering the unpleasant report, Alexander felt he should give some good news as he then shuffled some parchment over and commented, "On a cheerier note, our food situation seems to have improved. It's now quite good."


"Hmm, let's see," Alexander confirmed the numbers on the parchment and said, "We have managed to collect about four hundred tons of horse meat from roughly two thousand dead horses. That should be enough to last four-five weeks."


Food and Route