Setting the scene…
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The Chain of Kings
A betrayed military strategist travels across 20 distinct provinces of a unified continent to dismantle a corrupt empire. Driven by cold logic, physics, chemistry, and military logistics rather than magic, he uses economic sabotage,…
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Previously
…As he slipped away into the deepening twilight, leaving behind the anxious hum of a province teetering on the brink of economic paralysis, Valerius felt not triumph, but a quiet, grim satisfaction. The empire, built on the illusion of invincibility, was beginning to reveal its true fragility. Its foundations were not stone and steel, but the smooth, predictable flow of commerce. And he, Silas Vane, was the unseen force that was disrupting that flow, unraveling the threads of its prosperity, and preparing to watch it all collapse from within. The Silk Road had found its end, at least here, in Province G, and the capital would soon feel the chill of its absence.