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

Julius' convoy rolled steadily into the ruins of northern Ramie, a stark reminder of the brutal conquest that had unfolded only weeks prior.

Unlike the roads of Parthia or the bustling markets of the Eternal City, these lands bore the weight of devastation.

Where villages once thrived, only charred skeletons of buildings remained.

Smoldering farmland, left untended after its farmers had been killed or fled, stretched endlessly along the horizon.

Ramie's proud northern cities—once formidable bastions of trade and culture—were now little more than half-collapsed shells of their former selves.

The people who remained were haggard, gaunt, their faces lined with both fear and reluctant hope as they watched the royal banners of Romanus approach.

Julius, sitting inside his royal carriage, exhaled slowly as he scanned the desolate landscape.

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