Empire Falls: My Mercenary Era

Traveling back to the last years of the Holy Empire, Ivan Sol has only one goal - to survive. There is no golden finger, no natural power, just a dying boy and a hundred or so desperadoes who may betray him at any time. Rogue bandits, orcs, imperial cavalry, greedy nobles—everyone on this war-scorched continent wants to step over their corpses. Ivan chose to step back first. It takes sixty breaths to reload a dwarven firegun? Then click on the sixty-first breath to climb over the wall. Orcs in Blackridge Mountain are smarter than ordinary orcs? Then let it be clever but be misled by cleverness. The Imperial Tax Collector wants to negotiate? Sorry, I have the final say on the loot list. From a defeated army in the wasteland to a flag that refused to fall on the wall of Iron Oak Castle. From being hunted prey to a force that makes the elector send envoys to win over him. When "Blood Wolf" Cao'val's Iron Claw Legion came to the city, when the civil war between the seven elector princes dragged the entire continent into the abyss—— Ivan pulled out the long knife that accompanied him out of the pile of dead people. "Remember, this is our territory." Low magic + military + political strategy, a retired special forces soldier's hard-core rise in the chaotic world of Western fantasy.