"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." - Oscar Wilde (I'm a Civ IV addict) Hello! Please recommend me novels in which either the MC starts as a commoner then becomes a noble and rises in rank, or is a noble from the start and rises through ranks. Would love it if it also has politics, city building and management. I've read: Doom Lord Realist Hero Smartphone Etc.
sorry man even tho its R18 this one will fulfill ur requirements... Oukoku e Tsuzuku Michi the MC goes from slave to Count or Viscount(still going).... has a fief....and plenty of military achievements
If I remember it right, he's pursuing the loose woman in the forest (?) Sorry, but I'm not entirely comfortable with my MC having a slut of an interest.
He's a legendary blacksmith his character in the beginning was pretty unlikable but latest chapters there's a huge character development that happened