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

Lord Parker watched Lord Bernard struggle to come up with a plan with a complicated feeling in his heart.

This was because he knew he was being unfair to the man.

How could a single man hope to achieve something when so many of them could not?

But he also knew it had to be done. Lord Bernard had to fail here.

And the reason why he needed to do it was all because of Alexander, because of the hostage situation that he had created.

To fully understand the thought process of Lord Parker here, one had to go back a bit.

Go back to when the late Lord Margraves had appointed Lord Bernard as the head of the family's forces.

The shrewd old man turned was not blind to the back handed dealing Lord Bernard had used to get his post.

But despite being aware of it, he largely let it slide.

Because the old lord actually approved of the act.

Lord Parker's Retaliation (Part-3)