In an empire forged by blood and strategy, Constantine is reborn—a mind from another world in the body of Rome’s most ruthless emperor. Haunted by ancient secrets and armed with knowledge centuries ahead of his time, he will stop at nothing to remake the world in his image.

From the burning streets of Rome to the rising towers of Constantinople, Constantine’s ambitions grow with every conquest: new machines thunder to life, old gods stir beneath the stones, and magic awakens in the shadows. Enemies plot, lovers tempt, and empires rise and fall as the rules of reality itself begin to change.

In a world where one man dares to rewrite fate, who will rule when dawn breaks over a new Rome?

The new roads radiating out from Constantinople cut through the empire like veins of iron, binding together territories both ancient and new. Their stones gleamed in the morning sun, still damp from the night's rain, and every mile built was a mark of will upon the living world. Beyond the walls, work crews toiled-Romans, Greeks, Thracians, traders from the desert, freedmen and slaves alike-hauling stone and iron, sweating beneath banners marked with the double eagle of the empire. Overseers walked among them, counting every block, timing every cart. The empire did not wait for those who lagged behind.


Chapter 77 - New Roads, Old Shadows