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

Months Later – The Holy See of the Principality of Christendom

The great hall of the Papal Palace was silent, save for the hushed whispers of priests and nobles who had gathered to bear witness to the momentous occasion. At the far end of the chamber, upon a throne of gold and ivory, His Holiness, Pope Peter III, regarded the assembly with solemn eyes.

At his right hand stood Cardinal Matthaeus, his red robes immaculate, his expression a mask of divine judgment. He had waited long for this moment.

The exodus had been total.

282 - The Cardinals Result