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 continued its journey south, leaving behind the once-devastated lands of Ramie, now reborn under Romanus' rule.

The air grew warmer, the scent of sea salt mingling with the breeze as they entered the more fertile and undisturbed regions that lay beyond the scars of war.

Unlike the battle-ravaged north, southern Ramie had remained largely untouched by direct conflict.

These lands had only been attacked by the Parthian Romanus legionaires who broke off from the Carthaginian liberation army to harrass the southern lands and prevent the sending of reinforcements to the north, their rulers either switching allegiances or fleeing before the legions arrived after the fall of the capital, and the death of their king.

While their people had once feared the banners of Romanus, now they watched from the roadsides with quiet curiosity—and, in many cases, open admiration.

274 - The Road To Carthage