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Waking up inside the ruins of an orphanage, Alexander finds himself chained and sold to slavery.
A modern metallurgist, trapped in ancient times, watch as he tries to play with the cards fate dealt him.
He will make plate armor, invent paper, build roads, teach governance and many more, as he tries to carve a place for himself.
But how can such things not attract jealous eyes?
The naval superpower- Cantagena,
The unstoppable army of- Exolas, 
The superpower of the east- Adhania,
The mercantile confederation- Sybarsis, 
The religious fanatics- Iyizarid, 
And the ever-present- Barbarians of the Barren Forrest,
All want something from each other.
In this ocean of sharks, follow a small carp as it struggles to leap through the dragon gate and establish a dynasty to outlast them all.

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To make it easier, I imagine the geography of this story like:

1. Thesos, Like the area in eastern Europe and western Asia (Middle East), Greece and its surroundings.

2. Cantagena, Idk, maybe like a city-country in Greece?

3. Sycania, I'm assuming it's something like the Mongolian horse archers or cataphracts.

4. Exolas, Like Sparta or sum? I think Sparta is not Country, so Idk.

5. Adhania, This name sounds like an Arabic name and from the description, in this chap, it is located in the east so I assume that this is an Arab country.

6. Tibias, Hmmm.. Sounds like the Lake Tiberias in Jerusalem, Palestine/Israel. So this must be a Middle Eastern country.

This is just an assumption to make it easier for me to read this story, please correct me if I'm wrong. 

Compared to Tyranny of Steel, this novel is a masterpiece. Harem is better, MC is better, world building is better, history knowledge is better, everything is better! Author keep it up!!! I don’t mind the NTR, only insecure men care. 

You were surprisingly close.
Thesos is like the Hellenistic world.
Cantagena- Athens
Exolas- Sparta
Adhania- Persia
Tibias- No equivalency
Sycaria is not important

Beware of mild spoilers. ( But nothing too serious)

1. Thesos- A region inhabited by an ethnic group called Thesians. The region is littered with hundreds of various-sized city-states. The two most prominent and powerful ones are Cantagena and Exolas, who share no love for each other.

2. Cantagena- A city-state heading the Cantagenan alliance. Used to be the overlord of Thesos, before being officially overthrown by Exolas in the War of Flowers. Cultural and economical capital of the Thesian world.

3. Sycania- A mid-sized city-state famed in Thesos for possessing the finest cavalry.

3. Exolas- The current hegemon of Thesos and the leader of the Exolas alliance. A city-state that spends its time only going to war, preparing to go to war, or training for war. It's dependent on its sister states for most of its civilian needs like clothes, timber, metal, etc, and doesn't have an economy to speak of.

4. Adhania- Neighbours of the Exolas alliance to the east. Considered the strongest nation of the east, its relation with Exolas is surprisingly good. Supports and finances Exolas to suppress the Cantagenans.

5. Tibias- A rich, fertile peninsula, south of Adhania. Mortal enemies of Adhania, who covets its rich mines to the south and fertile banks to the east. Friend of convenience of Cantagena.

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The story is getting worse as the time goes by. 

Here are the idiotic things i have read so far.

On the spot finger printing and checking without magnifying glass.. now thats got to be one of the most inefficient way to validate a person identity trying to enter and secured area.

The Author just spent 13 chapters explaining how his brothel works. 

Author would sometimes spend 3 - 4 chapters on sexy time but spends 1 chapter on a battles that supposed to have happened in days.

So far its amaizing. Just read 11 chapters and got me hooked up already. In the beginning Im confused about the countries whose enemy whose, maybe you can make a glosary or something. Im also curious how can a metalurgist good at medic and war strategic. Anyway just keep the momentun author, its promising already.

The story starts promising but with an extremely bad pace, 80 ch. for only two days and then a week in 10 ch. making an inconsistency in pacing. Also the mc in the zanza development arc is contrary to the first arc, just wanting to change everything to modern standards forgetting he is in older times and as he already explained first he has to adapt, but this doesn't happen. Also the interest for him creating a competitive market of modern times is ridiculous, considering he has a monopoly of goods that are groundbreaking, thus he don't need that competitive prices.In general the story is good with interesting concepts such as the army scheme and world building but the mc cannot manage to get a defined personality: does he want to conquer, develop economy, protect himself or let debauchery consume him, is he a good person, is he bad, neutral. It isn't clear what he wants or what he is so the mc becomes a character with inconsistencies that damage the plot and development of secondary characters.

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it was a 5 star novel in first but now it gets worst because the author keeps waisting time explaing every detail for so many chapters . It feels like the story stopped moving, also the mc is a beta submissive to women he gets insulted in his face every time he just does nothing ... so yeah i dropped it .

the story is fine but the details of intercourses are very detailed but the battles aren't..  its just weak spot here they solve it themselves and done win.
but when it involves intercourses it's literally detailed to the point that it's even showed as a custom in parts of the kingdom.

Such an incredible novel. The world is so amazing that i feel completely immersed in it. One of the absolute best in this site.

I promise you wont regret reading this.

150 chapters and only 6 days have passed this is too slow and unrealistic.. there´s too many little details that the more you read the more you realize that there´s actually nothing happening, also the author gives little foreshadows that are extremely annoying.

Really great the first couple hundred chapters but it eventually turns from bad to worse. I'm not sure if the writer/author has been changed or if he has no more motivation in his book but it's starting to get milked. long unnecessary descriptions, Stuff that gets pulled into multiple chapters and as of late more POV changes going up to 6 chapters long about unimportant background characters.

The way he writes about morality and stuff also greatly changes which makes me believe the author/writer changed. All in all its massive drop in quality. I've stopped supporting his work, I'm no longer paying coins to read.

The mc makes many stupid and illogical decisions, especially later on when he decides to treat slaves better than he treats normal people. Also gives 50% of his business where he did all the work to a slave, again, completely illogical decision.(ch.208)

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Updating my review because I'm really not enjoying where the novel is going in the latest chapters.

Bro as a bengali i am proud of you and it's really a cool novel loved it so far 💗

the story was pretty good up until the sale. it's like Alex suddenly became an idiot and lost his IQ and was super easy to get seduced. it's actually so frustrating. the same thing has been happening over and over with Linda, and it's kinda dumb how normally he can see his way out of traps when he can't see such a simple trap. Linda in my honest opinion has no character development and no motive. should have just made her the real villian innstead or randomly putting in political struggles with no real meaning.

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This is it. The author had to have put crack cocaine in this book with how good it is. The intrigue, use of suspense, worldbuilding, schemes e.t.c everything about this book is done well; I even dare say this book is better than tyranny of steel, that’s how good it is. I highly recommend it any prospective readers. 

If Menes losses again, Alexander should replace this black general.. All he does it lose big battles. 

Why bring cavalry when you just want to play hide and seek in the Hills? This Menes is so inept as a commander / general.

I love this Kingdom building web novel. The world building and character development is amazing and realistic. A MC can’t just use his modern knowledge to quickly create a kingdom, create fire arms and take over the world. I love how creating a blast furnace create political and economic problems. I love how religion plays a major role in creating “common sense” / describing what’s right or wrong. I love how the Mc makes mistakes and isn’t perfect. Like winning every war.  Throughout the  novel, the MC is also depicted as an intelligent and lustful man. However, woman can be dangerous. I’m glad that the author recently address this situation. Perhaps, now the Mc will become acute when facing woman.  This novel is amazing. Slowly building up the technology latter and adding new reforms. I love it. 


IMHO, this is the one of the best novel about kingdom building and war I've ever read. Currently, I've already read all available chapters. I wish author continue such breathtaking novel. Good luck everyone!

Herald of Steel

Table of contents

Volume 1 :Struggles Of Alexander

Chapter 1 - Glossary (Mild spoilers)