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 said at last, breaking the silence between the two of them.

"The tension, the shift. As if the very air itself knows what is coming. The Pope won't wait long to follow his cardinals recommendation. Once he is assured of Carthages' union to Romanus, our Excommunication is all but assured. He'll defineitly blacklist us with holy mandate, labelling us as Heretics. False Rulers. Perhaps even anti-christs."

Serena across from him exhaled slowly as his words sunk in to her dainty skin.

"And when that Pope speaks, his people will follow."

293 - Excommunicated? Bah!?