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 roots had already taken hold and a good system was in place to reinforce the trunk.

Now, now was the time for the branches to spread, spread across the continent as if it was the mythical world tree itself.

The Shadow Network—once a mere means of national defense against exterior nations attempted influence and subterfuge—had matured.

What had begun as palace infiltration drills, and 'attempted' assassination to graduate competent agents, had evolved into something far greater.

The men and women who once struggled to sneak past a handful of guards now vanished into the night like wraiths, slipping past enemy lines, collecting whispers in the dark, and leaving behind nothing but unease in their wake.

Now, they were ready for the next step.

The Tree was growing.

Julius stood at the head of a dimly lit chamber deep within the heart of Romanus, a place that did not exist on any official record.

258 - Spreading The Canopy