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 echo of iron-shod boots filled the palace corridors, ringing sharp and steady like the beating of a war drum.

The Praetorian Guard moved with military precision, their ranks disciplined and unyielding as they swept through the palace.

At their head was Commander Leman Berta, his golden-plumed helmet marking him as the commander of the palace defenses.

His emerald-green cloak billowed behind him as he strode through the marble halls, his piercing eyes scanning every shadow, every corner, every detail out of place.

But Berta wasn't the type to leave a stone unturned.

Not in his palace.

The moonlight filtered through the high windows, casting long streaks of silver across the polished floors.

Behind him marched ten of his finest guards, their curved scuta shields and polished spears gleaming even in the dim light.

255 - Chasing Rats