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's command to have another four hundred men join him in his expedition was at first received with quite a bit of difficult skepticism, due to reasons already iterated earlier- i.e.- there was a serious manpower shortage.

Siphoning off so many would seriously weaken the defenses of the manor here, to the point, some officers grimly added that it could even lead to a revolt from within the family, as the opportunistic men sought to take advantage of this brief lull in security.

Of course, they were overblowing things here, as Alexander had made sure to make the Margraves entirely toothless here, but their general alarm was still justified.

If things did not pan out exactly as expected, and Alexander and Remus were somehow captured or worse, well the entire campaign would be lost then and there.

And perhaps even that would be the least of their problems.

Alexander's Response (Part-2)