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 had barely begun to rise when a royal envoy arrived at the palace gates, bearing the seal of Carthage—the once-great kingdom that had fallen to the Ramie conquerors.

Julius recognized the symbol immediately.

The last ruler of a fallen kingdom, living in exile within the Romanus port city of Nova Carthago.

She had requested an audience, and Julius was not one to ignore a woman with nothing left to lose, especially not one who had helped him with his own recent war in the Greecian Peninsula.

As he entered the throne room, she stood waiting, a regal figure draped in a flowing crimson gown, her golden hair braided intricately down her back.

Though exile had robbed her of a throne, it had not taken her pride as she always viewed herself to be the Queen of her people living in exile while also a hopeful candidate for the position of the 2nd Empress to rule on Julius's left hand side.

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