I Rule Rome with a God-Tier AI - Chapter 128: The Price of Loyalty

... etwork, a far more noisy and conventional political crisis was brewing in the Senate. The new factions he had created, the volatile new pieces he had placed on the Roman chessboard, were making their first moves, and their ambitions threatened to collide with explosive force.

The issue, on its surface, was a trivial one, a tedious border dispute between the northern provinces of Pannonia and Noricum. A newly discovered vein of iron ore had been found in a remote, mountainous region along ...