Another World: Building an Empire from Zero（Kingdom Building；Military；LitRPG；Ruthless MC；Isekai）
novel
The 450th year of the Dark Age. Deep winter. Humanity is losing the war. To the brutal, green-skinned Orcs, humans are nothing more than slaves and livestock. Soren, a former Special Forces drill instructor in his past life, wakes up in the body of a lowly recruit in the Silver Moon Kingdom’s Red Moon Knights. His current situation? Abandoned at the very edge of the frontline: The Misty Swamp. It’s a death trap of toxic miasma, treacherous bogs, and magical beasts. His only assets are twenty-five demoralized, half-starved recruits. His enemy? The Orcish Alliance—a hundred-thousand-strong horde backed by shamanic magic and heavy siege engines. To make matters worse, the kingdom’s corrupt nobles are secretly colluding with the enemy, and his so-called allies are just waiting to stab him in the back. It is an absolute dead-end. A guaranteed game over. But then Soren awakens the [Warlord System]. Stripping away the naive, outdated chivalry of this era, he introduces this brutal fantasy world to something far more terrifying: modern Special Forces physical conditioning, ironclad discipline, and asymmetric warfare. No troops? He recruits rebellious peasants, wrongfully exiled criminals, gladiators on death row, and even the vassal Goblins that the Orcs use as emergency rations. Under his banner, they are forged into warriors. No gear or logistics? Night raids, poison, and ambushes become his bread and butter. He hijacks the Orcs' supply lines, builds his own foundries, and cultivat