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 winter rains had only just faded from the flagstones of Arelate when the imperial messengers arrived, bearing a summons sealed with Constantine's personal ring. The city was busy with the hum of new ambition-shipbuilders swarmed the waterfront, forging hulls for the Classis Germanica, while ironmongers pounded out chain and mail as if beating war into the very air. Legionaries drilled on the fields west of the Rhône, the thunder of their shields rolling like a storm over the city's tiled roofs. Into this atmosphere rode Bassianus, Caesar by the emperor's own favor, believing his star was on the rise.


Chapter 42 - Pretext of Blood