Orngebeard

After becoming #1 in the world after playing a grand strategy game as the most difficult faction on immortal level difficulty, MC receives an invitation to compete in an even more challenging game which takes the MC into the world of the game itself, but as it's weakest lord who will die two days later that appears only as a cutscene in the tutorial as first of many deaths to rock the continent until only one survives to proclaim a new eternal empire.

Can the MC use his game knowledge to successfully survive his impending doom, and rise from the ashes to reclaim the glory he'd won before?

Imperator: Resurrection of an Empire

The sun dipped low over the hilltop fortress the Romanus legion had created, casting long shadows across the battlefield below that really only served to create a no-mans land between the attacking and defending sides.

General-King Julius stood on the summit, his armor dulled by weeks of dust, blood and the need to preserve what water they had.

The siege had turned their once-proud rudimentary fortress defences into a ragged shell, its defensive wooden was chipped and its entryways reinforced with hastily nailed planks across a dug out trench forming a drawbridge of sorts.

And yet, the Romanus banner still fluttered defiantly in the wind visible to all for miles around.

Beyond the romanus defences, the Greecian levy army sprawled in a state of disarray within their expansive siege camp.

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