World Conquest Speedrun

Kisuke was a professional 4X strategist — eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate — until a car accident killed him at twenty-four. He woke up as a seven-year-old bastard prince in the Kingdom of Valdoria, and it took him about ten minutes to realize where he actually was: the setting of *The Age of Heroes*, a game he’d sunk 8,472 hours into. He knows this world better than he ever knew his own. Every hidden dungeon, every NPC who turns ally or enemy, every war-triggering event, every legendary item and exactly where it’s buried — all of it is sitting in his head, thirty years before any of it is supposed to matter. Because in thirty years, Summoning Portals will tear open across the continent, and thousands of “Players” will pour through — heroes from another world with overpowered builds, infinite respawns, and the mindset of people farming XP rather than fighting for their lives. They aren’t villains, exactly. They just don’t know, or care, that every kingdom they steamroll for loot was somebody’s entire world. Kings fall in days. Single players wipe out armies. Nobody born on this side of the screen gets a happy ending — not in the version of history Kisuke watched play out from a keyboard. Except he isn’t just anyone born on this side of the screen anymore. He’s someone who already knows how the story ends, given a thirty-year head start to make sure it ends differently. Under the name this world gave him — Damian Vorn — he sets three goals: unify the continent before the Players arrive, build an empire strong enough to survive the chaos they’ll bring, and find a way to close the Portals for good, or, failing that, make sure the Players never become the threat they were in his memory of the game. The problem is that he’s seven years old, illegitimate, and stands seventeenth in line behind a king’s worth of trueborn siblings who will spend the next three decades finding every possible reason to make sure he never grows up to matter at all. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: World Conquest Speedrun — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠