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

The bad blood between Lapitus and Petrino was an open secret to most of the high-level officers.

They did not exactly know all the details, for instance, Petrino forcefully taking Ladt Felicia was kept strictly under wraps by both sides, but Petrino did make his dislike for Lapitus no secret.

He very publicly hated Lapitus for snatching the post that should have belonged to him.

He hated him for the trust his father had in him, jealous that he was not given even a hundredth of it.

And he hated Lapitus because he could see his father always looked at Lapitus, like the son he always wished he had.

It was also one of the big reasons why Lord Ponticus had even married his daughter to Lapitus in the first place.

And all this subsequently worked to make Petrino go green with envy, feeling that if Lapitus had not existed, all the glory, honor and adoration would belong to him.

Lapitus and Petrino (Part-1)