I'm glad this is getting picked up again. I read it a long time ago, liked it, and put it in my favorites. Then forgot about it and wondered what this thing in my recently updated was. And then I remembered it when I started reading it again.
I like underdog stories, and this feels like a good one. I'm looking forward to it. My only qualm is that I kind of like the older MC aesthetic, and I kind of hope he doesn't end up looking like the picture on the cover. Washing your face and getting a shave doesn't knock 20 years off of you. He looks older in his flashback as a gladiator. Hopefully that's actually not him, but somebody in the court. Or it's a stylized render of him. Otherwise, it's going to be kind of weird to see him looking younger as time goes on. We have enough pretty boys and shotas.