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

Regarding the doubts Alexander had about the intel Lord Theony provided to him, they were quickly erased.

It made no sense because predicting what Alexander would do with it was so hard.

And even if they could, much of the information here was so precious, that the reward would not outweigh the loss.

As for suspecting the veracity of all the information, well fortunately, Alexander had a secondary source to verify many of them- Lord Ponticus's collection.

And for the ones he could find a match, both sides showed the same picture.

So Alexander had reasonable confidence to believe the unverified ones were also true.

And it was from them that Alexander learned some things more precious than nuggets of pure gold.

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