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

"My lord, Lord Nyantim reports that his losses are too great. So he is pulling back his forces." Finally unable to bear the losses, the commander of the slingers decided to pull his men back and sent a herald to Faruq to relay that.


A key point of notice here would be how Lord Nyantim had not asked for permission from Faruq before doing this, which was in much contrast to Alexander's command structure where his word reigned supreme.


But that was natural as Faruq's army had a much looser hierarchy than Alexander's.


And it was here the coalition's drawbacks started to show itself.


"Dammit!" Faruq gritted his teeth and cursed hearing this, but limited himself to only that.


Because he did not have jurisdiction over those forces, and so could only accept their withdrawal, even if he thought it was unreasonable. 


Though in fairness, the slingers had truly suffered badly, losing close to 300 of their men, or about 7% of their total force being dead or wounded.


An Uneasy Stalemate (Part-2)