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?

The Eternal City swallowed us in celebration, but the moment the palace doors closed behind me, the silence returned.


Not the stillness of a conquered capital.


The silence of an empire holding its breath.


I exhaled as I entered my private study—its marble floors polished to a mirror sheen, its windows overlooking the domes and aqueducts of Latinium, and its great central desk buried under mountains of parchment.


How had I forgotten what this looked like?


This…This was the true battlefield of an emperor.


And from the looks of things, the frontlines were already on fire.


A dozen files lay opened by my secretaries for immediate viewing. 


Instead, I rested both palms on the desk and let the overwhelming scope of it wash over me.


Chapter 406 - 401 - The Emperors Desk Is A Battlefield