I Became a Mythical Knight King

Chapter 30: Yoo Seong Castle (2)

The scenery of Yoo Seong Castle was generally peaceful.

In fact, since the facilities consisted only of barracks, a dining hall, toilets, and a blacksmith’s shop, everyone seemed to have nothing much to do, so they were either resting in the barracks, resting under trees, resting by the waterway, or anyway, just resting somewhere whether sitting, standing, or lying down.

Of course, during this time, it seemed like some work was being done at the blacksmith’s shop, but it wasn’t notably active work that would draw attention.

Because of this, Yoo Seong didn’t spend much time looking at Yoo Seong Castle, but Rene was different.

She found it interesting just to look at it, and once she started watching, she would stare at it not just for 10 or 20 minutes, but sometimes for hours at a time.

Anyway, Yoo Seong Castle was a place where mostly everyone was just resting in their comfortable spots, either sitting, standing, or lying down.

But today was different.

Because the soldiers were holding a modest feast, gathered around a large campfire lit in front of the dining hall square.

“It must be a celebration, right?”

“Since it’s a night of victory.”

However, the food wasn’t particularly lavish.

It was just large cups of alcohol and what appeared to be their usual small side dishes.

‘Could this be a supply issue?’

Come to think of it, where do they get their regular meals from anyway?

While wondering about this, when carelessly selecting the dining hall, there were new options that hadn’t been seen before.

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[Meat Supply: 3pt]

[Beer Supply: 3pt]

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“New options? What are they? What kind are they?”

When Rene asked with sparkling eyes, it was impossible not to answer.

“Um, adding alcohol and meat?”

“Wow. Alcohol and meat. Um…3pt each? Right?”

“Yes.”

Being a smart magician, Rene had long since mastered Arabic numerals.

She seemed to be able to distinguish Korean to some extent even though she hadn’t been taught it.

‘Would she learn quickly if taught?’

Since she’s so smart, it seems like she would learn quickly.

But Yoo Seong’s idle thoughts didn’t continue for long.

After hearing about the addition of alcohol and meat, Rene stared intently at Yoo Seong Castle before turning desperate eyes toward Yoo Seong.

Please supply. Please supply. Please supply.

Although she didn’t say a word, it felt like Rene’s desperate voice could be heard.

“Alright, let’s supply them.”

Six points was enough to add three elite cavalry units, but it wasn’t like he desperately needed the 6 points.

‘There’s also the matter of morale.’

After such a big victory, shouldn’t Camelot’s soldiers get to enjoy themselves too?

“Thank you. Thank you.”

Rene smiled brightly and then looked at Yoo Seong Castle with an expectant face, and Yoo Seong smiled slightly before investing the points.

Then boxes marked with meat and alcohol were added to the dining hall, and Jimmy, who was on cooking duty, opened his eyes wide and started shouting something loudly.

“Oh.”

“Wow.”

The soldiers gathered around the dining hall and started jumping and cheering.

The deformed soldiers with three-head-height proportions were very cute, and while Kate among the soldiers wasn’t jumping, she celebrated along with them, cheering.

For a moment, Yoo Seong burst out laughing, imagining Kate – that is, life-sized Kate – cheering while looking at the alcohol and meat.

And then came the added whole roasted pigs and chickens.

The soldiers holding cartoon-like meat and large cups of alcohol gathered together for a toast.

“Wow, their faces are red.”

Perhaps because of the alcohol, the soldiers’ faces started turning bright red.

Some soldiers were staggering, and some were singing.

While examining each soldier one by one, Rene suddenly raised her voice.

“Ah, she’s dancing. Sister Kate is dancing!”

It was just as Rene said.

Kate, with her face flushed red, was dancing happily in front of the campfire.

Being a three-head-height character, her expression was limited to ^ㅁ^, and the dance couldn’t be distinguished beyond just shaking her body, but anyway, the soldiers’ reactions were amazing.

“Almost like an idol.”

Like an idol singer performing at a military base, you could say.

‘Come to think of it, this is a military base after all.’

Yoo Seong chuckled softly and suddenly became curious about Vanadain and Diana, so started carefully examining Yoo Seong Castle.

“Yoo Seong?”

“I’m looking for Diana and Vanadain.”

“Oh, now that you mention it, we can’t see either of them.”

Where could they be?

After searching hard, they could find Diana and Vanadain sitting side by side under a large tree in a secluded spot.

They were eating meat and drinking alcohol, but somehow it felt like they were isolated – no, more like they were isolating themselves from everyone else.

‘Come to think of it, they’ve seemed particularly close from before.’

What kind of relationship could they have?

What were the chances of it being that kind of relationship that immediately came to mind?

Rene seemed to have similar thoughts as she smiled mischievously, but then suddenly burst out laughing.

This was because Jimmy, who was watching Diana and Vanadain from a distance, gave a thumbs up with a very warm smile (^_^).

“This is fun. Everyone looks happy.”

“They do. Everyone looks like they’re enjoying themselves.”

Smiling again at the happiness of 6pt, Yoo Seong straightened up and said to Rene.

“Alright, Rene. Shall we continue with adding facilities?”

They needed to invest in facilities anyway to add new troop types.

At Yoo Seong’s words, Rene nodded with sparkling eyes.

“Yes, Successor. Quickly.”

“Alright.”

The current budget was 70 points remaining after completing troop reinforcement and adding the blacksmith effect.

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[Add Bathhouse: 10pt]

[Barracks Level Up: Bathhouse addition is required.]

[Dining Hall Level Up: 10pt]

[Blacksmith Level Up: 10pt]

[Training Ground: Barracks Lv2 is required. / ??? is required. / Pioneer Level 2 is required.]

[Metal Refinery: Blacksmith Lv2 is required. / Training Ground is required. / ??? is required. / Pioneer Level 2 is required.]

[Swordsmanship Hall: ??? is required. / Pioneer Level 2 is required.]

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Looking at the text that appeared, Yoo Seong furrowed his brow.

While he understood that there were prerequisites needed to build the training ground, metal refinery, and swordsmanship hall, most of these prerequisites were things he was seeing for the first time.

‘No, first of all, what’s with these ???’

And pioneer level?

“Successor?”

When Rene asked as if wondering what was wrong, Yoo Seong quickly read out the options.

Then Rene, like Yoo Seong, furrowed her brow and tilted her head.

“Hmm…then how about proceeding with the prerequisites we know about first?”

It was a reasonable suggestion.

In that case, the first thing that needed to be done was leveling up the barracks, which was necessary for building the training ground.

“And for that, we need to build a bathhouse first, I guess.”

“Can’t be helped.”

But contrary to her words, Rene was smiling brightly.

That was because adding a bathhouse was her long-cherished wish(?).

“Then let’s install the bathhouse first.”

“Yes, Yoo Seong.”

When Yoo Seong added the bathhouse, a large tent appeared near the waterway.

Then Kate and the soldiers rushed over to look inside the tent, and while the soldiers just went “Ooh~” in appreciation, the drunk Kate alone jumped up and down with great joy.

“Hmm, it’s just a large bathtub but it is a bathhouse after all.”

Perhaps because it was level 1, the facility was quite simple, but seeing Kate so happy made Yoo Seong feel warm inside.

‘Come to think of it, the gender ratio is completely skewed.’

While there were a few female soldiers mixed among the troops, most were male, creating a gender ratio difference of almost 10 to 1.

‘Well, they’ll figure it out themselves.’

The men’s bath seems about three times larger than the women’s bath anyway.

After adding the bathhouse, Yoo Seong invested 10 points to raise the barracks level.

Then the barracks tent changed to feel slightly more luxurious, and looking inside, private rooms for officers had been created.

‘It’s just adding partitions, but better than nothing.’

Although the regular infantry soldiers looked slightly dejected, since Kate and all the other soldiers were happy, it didn’t seem like there would be any problems.

‘The real issue might be what comes next.’

Although they had created Barracks Lv2, the conditions for building the training ground still weren’t clearly revealed.

After thinking for a moment, Yoo Seong also raised the blacksmith to Lv2.

This was done to fulfill the conditions for the metal refinery while also addressing the Kobold God’s divine artifact issue, as it was a facility that needed leveling up anyway being the most important facility for troop enhancement.

“Wow, the blacksmith got bigger too.”

Fergus and Melissa, who had been enjoying meat and alcohol among the soldiers, suddenly ran to the enlarged blacksmith shop and cheered loudly in joy.

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[The blacksmith’s level has increased.]

[Blacksmith effects have been added for each troop type.]

[Blacksmith’s enhancement function has been added.]

—

“Oh.”

Interesting yet dangerous-smelling functions were added but that wasn’t all that changed.

—

[Minimum facility requirements in the castle have been met.]

[You can now attempt to pioneer Yoo Seong Castle.]

[An invitation to Yoo Seong Castle has been issued.]

[Direct visit is required for pioneering Yoo Seong Castle.]

—

Yoo Seong’s eyes widened at the suddenly appearing sentences.

Pioneering the castle.

The things needed to raise the pioneer level.

And the castle invitation.

The moment Yoo Seong recognized this, a new light window appeared showing a white invitation.

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[Invitation: You can visit Yoo Seong Castle.]

[Time needed to charge invitation: 71 hours 59 minutes 45 seconds.]

—

Using the invitation would allow direct access to Yoo Seong Castle.

It was an interesting development.

Moreover, the text saying that a direct visit was required for pioneering made Yoo Seong’s heart flutter.

‘Pioneer. Why pioneer?’

The reason why the term pioneer was used instead of castle construction or development.

Yoo Seong looked around Yoo Seong Castle, and suddenly realized.

The walls of Yoo Seong Castle were not complete.

Rather than being a closed square fortress, it was L-shaped with only the north and east sides walled, while the west and south sides remained open.

Then what could be there in the west and south?

What would be added when pioneering other areas within the castle?

“Yoo Seong? What is it? Is it something good?”

Rene, who had been waiting patiently, finally couldn’t hold back and asked Yoo Seong, and Yoo Seong pointed to the invitation and said.

“It’s an invitation. If we use that, we can enter Yoo Seong Castle.”

“Really?”

Perhaps because of the alcohol, Rene reacted more strongly than usual, and Yoo Seong smiled slightly before explaining his deductions as well.

What’s visible now isn’t all of Yoo Seong Castle.

When pioneering the unseen areas, they might be able to add new facilities or obtain relics or treasures.

At Yoo Seong’s explanation, Rene became even more excited but soon bit her lip in disappointment.

It would take another 3 days for the invitation to finish charging.

“Ugh, it’s too long.”

“It is quite long.”

Yoo Seong also wore a regretful expression next to Rene, who was stomping her feet as if she didn’t know what to do with her excitement.

But just then, there was someone approaching Yoo Seong and Rene from a distance.