Star Iron, building an empire starting with game development

Before the Unknown Forest

"System, are you sure all those elves are in this forest? I don't think they're that big," Xing asked, looking at the size of the forest in front of her.

"What you're seeing is only a small portion of the total area, like an advance force, so it doesn't feel like much to you," the system responded.

“Are there any like this? Okay.” Xing thought for a moment, then turned to the Kriegs and gave them the order to open the half-elf prison carts and leave.

"Leave a few soldiers behind and wait for the elves to take them in before you leave. As for the potential conflict, each soldier should carry a single thermobaric bomb; if anything goes wrong, just self-destruct," Xing said to a Krieg soldier.

"..." The soldier didn't respond, but simply saluted and jogged away.

"Whoosh~" A sound came from the forest. Xing looked behind him, turned around, shook his head, and left.

"Whoosh!" An hour later, more than a dozen elves appeared silently in front of the convoy, and several elves directly seized the weapons of the Krieg soldiers and forcibly controlled them with magic.

“Release them once we’re gone,” said one of the higher-ranking elves, looking at the Krieg soldiers who had been forcibly subdued.

"Understood," the other elves echoed.

"Captain, all the children have been rescued, including those poor half-elves," an elf said.

"Humans are always so forgetful of what they've learned. Let's retreat," the elf captain said, frowning, before leading everyone away. But...

"Boom!" An explosion came from behind them. The elves immediately went on alert and then saw that the humans outside the forest were committing suicide one by one.

"All for Her Majesty the Empress! Bang! Bang!" Two Krieg soldiers shouted, firing at each other face to face, and both fell to the ground...

“These humans…” The elf captain frowned, but still waved for the others to take the children away before returning to the location where the vehicle had been abandoned.

"Empress~" The elven captain pondered the meaning of those words. After all, although the elven empire's intelligence was not as extensive as that of humans, it still possessed a great deal of information.

"It seems that only the Augusta Empire among humans is ruled by an empress, but the soldiers in that country don't wear the same uniforms, and their weapons are wrong too." The elf picked up the Lucius 98 laser rifle that had fallen to the ground and examined everything about the weapon until he heard footsteps behind him.

"..." The elf immediately put down his weapon, turned around, drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and then saw five humans dressed in the same clothes as the soldiers on the ground walking over. The only difference was that they had a red cross-shaped armband on their left arm.

The Krieg medics silently approached the elves, standing thirty meters away. After staring intently at the elves through their gas masks for a few seconds, they drew their daggers and went to the fallen Krieg soldiers, beginning to collect their clothes and weapons…

"..." Watching the humans who, instead of collecting the bodies, stripped them of their clothes and took their weapons, then gathered the corpses together and burned them with magical artifacts, the elf frowned and slowly retreated back into the forest.

The Krieg medics ignored the elf's plight. Knowing through the system network that their comrade was dead, they silently carried out their mission. They remained there until the body was cremated to ashes, then left…

…………

"Those Krieg soldiers committed suicide," the system suddenly said.

"What's going on?" Xing was stunned for a moment.

"They were immobilized by the elves' magic, and subconsciously felt that they had let you down. Since they could only move after the elves left, and they couldn't enter the forest, they committed suicide," the system said.

“I remember Krieg wasn’t good at doing that?” Xing thought for a moment and said.

"Who knows? After all, while our council's Krieg and the Krieg from the original world are both silent and capable fighters, who knows what their personalities might be thinking?" the system said.

"Tsk~ Maybe I should bombard the empire at home sometime in the future," Xing said unhappily.

"Let's not talk about that anymore. Do you want to know some good news about you?" the system asked.

"What good news could there be?" Xing asked, seemingly unconcerned.

"Do you still remember your game Arknights?" the system asked.

"Terra Ark? Of course I remember. I went through several main story missions and spent a lot of money to buy Amiya's new outfit." Xing said, as if remembering something.

"What do you mean by that? Don't tell me Amiya is in this world."

"Yes~ Your entire Rhodes Island appeared in this world for unknown reasons, and because they are all demi-humans, they are discriminated against by humans, and the beastmen also look down on them," the system said.

"After all, in this world, Amiya and the others are just hybrids of humans and other races to all races, and they are beings that are discriminated against and driven away by all races."

"Although various demi-humans have gathered together and established a nation, they are neither strong nor weak, so the various races in this world have not paid much attention to the demi-human race and have allowed them to develop on their own," the system said.

"Shouldn't demi-humans be the product of the union between various races and humans? How can they be so discriminatory?" Xing expressed her confusion.

"It can only be said that in this world, the various races and humans fought to the death, and the demi-humans born from the union of various races and human women either became slaves forever without freedom, or were expelled from the territories of their respective races," the system said.

"Didn't the elves take in those half-elves?" Xing asked, puzzled.

"Because the elves are ostensibly an empire, but they have long since declined, which is why they are accepting half-elves," the system said.

"Where are they, no, I mean Rhodes Island, right now?" The energy in Xing's hand fluctuated continuously.

"Over there in the land of demi-humans, as for why, it's probably because they're all demi-humans, right? Also, here are the coordinates over there." The system sent a coordinate to Xing.

"Whoosh~" A portal appeared in front of Xing, who couldn't wait to step inside.

"..." General Krieg watched the departing Empress and silently issued the order to continue advancing and search for uninhabited lands to establish an advance base for the Empire.

…………

Demi-human Kingdom - Unknown Area

Rhodes Island, a massive land-based aircraft carrier is advancing across this vast land.

"Amiya, it's time for you to rest. I'll take over." Huang said as he walked into the central control room.

“Okay, Sister Huang.” Amiya nodded obediently, got up and left the control room to return to her room.

"Amiya... um, Blaze, how are you feeling?" When Kal'tsit walked into the control room and saw Blaze, she immediately asked about Blaze's health.

"That's good. Since coming to this world, I feel like I have less and less Originium in my body," Huang replied.

"But still, take care of your health. If the Doctor returns, she won't want any of her family members to be missing." Ever since they were almost in contact with that merged universe but were thrown into an unknown world for various reasons, Kal'tsit, or rather everyone on Rhodes Island, has had special memories of the game Arknights and information about the Doctor in their minds...

"Amiya has already gone to sleep. Kal'tsit, you should go too. After all, the Doctor really likes you in the game," Blaze said with a smile.

“I will go, but not now. After all, the differences in this land could easily cause us to lose everything.”