[History] [Rome] [Battle] [Superpowers] [Mild wish fulfillment]
This is the story of the last emperor of the Roman Empire, who transmigrates into the past to save his embattled empire.
In 1453, Constantine XI fell in battle at the Gate of St. Romanus. His soul, however, caught the favor of a mysterious goddess and traveled 258 years into the past, where he was reborn as the fifteen-year-old Vales Palaiologos.
The Byzantine Empire was in turmoil after Alexios III's usurpation, and the Fourth Crusade's sack of Constantinople was just nine years away.
Armed with memories of the future, the boy struggles to survive amid Venetian merchant houses, Turkic mercenary bands, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. He improves the formula for Greek fire, builds a Phoenix Fleet, and creates a modern army, hoping to turn the empire's fate around. Yet every attempt to change history triggers violent upheavals in the timeline: historical events are disrupted, rearranged, or brought forward, and even the unexpected can occur, all accompanied by severe side effects.
At the turn of the century, the ancient Roman Empire stands on the precipice of destruction. Can Constantine XI, the “Last Roman,” save the empire and let the Purple Phoenix rise from the ashes once more?
Recent exam preparation, updated from time to time Legend has it that when the city fell, the last emperor Constantine XI did not die for his country, but was taken away by an angel, hidden in a cave, and turned into a marble statue. When Rome regained Constantinople, he would return like lightning. The priests of Hagia Sophia also retreated into the walls, and when the Orthodox Church regained Constantinople, they would come out to continue worshiping.