King's Rule: Creating the Strongest Kingdom With My Broken Talent-Chapter 10: Relocation

"King’s Rule. If there is a cavern in the western mountains within 10 kilometres of distance, I will drop this iron block in the west. If not, I will drop it in the south."

[King’s Rule Created]

[Difficulty: E]

’E-, huh?’

It seems dropping a block wasn’t hard. It was as easy as carrying someone and moving like a monkey through the forest.

Vesh’s hand moved.

’Please, let there be a safe cavern in the west.’

Vesh wanted to live inside a cavern while also building stuff outside. Since there were not many people, a cavern was enough.

The secret cavern he rescued Viana from was larger than a football field.

If he found another one like that, it would be enough.

His hand moved.

Arga and Rovina’s eyes widened.

Thud!

The block dropped in the west!

[King’s Rule Executed.]

"Wait, we have to be properly sure." Vesh picked up the block.

"King’s Rule. If the cavern is known to other people, I will drop it to the west. If the cavern is known to only beasts. I will drop it to the east. If the cavern is known to neither beasts nor humans, I will drop it to the south."

Everyone waited with bated breath.

Vesh’s hand moved.

’Please drop it in the south. I want a real secret cavern this time.’

The block fell.

"Datum," Arga muttered.

The Block fell in the south!

Viana was confused. ’What is he doing?’

"This is quite amazing." Rovina blinked. "Given the fact that you can awaken other talents with your King’s Rule, we can trust this result."

"Awaken other talents?" Viana looked at Vesh. "You can do that?"

"Indeed." Vesh nodded, a reassured smile hanging on his face. "So now, we have a confirmed safe way out of this. We’ll erase our trails leading to the new place and build a solid defence there. We will also build a tunnel leading far away from the cavern as an emergency exit, so we can escape in case we are attacked."

"Haha, our lord had indeed thought it through." Arga laughed with a jolly.

"Seems like it." Rovina smiled. "Sorry for doubting you."

"Not at all." Vesh shook his head and chuckled. "I hope you stay like that. It’d be helpful to second-guess decisions for the sake of cautiousness."

"By the way, you became powerful." Arga’s eyes glinted. "Your Seed Force is higher than ours now."

"Oh, that, haha. I awakened an awesome talent that can let me increase my Seed Force based on the pure magic energy in the surroundings." Vesh grinned. "And one more thing, didn’t I tell you about a surprise?"

"Yes. What is it?" Arga blinked.

Vesh stretched both of his hands and closed them into a fist side by side.

"Watch."

Vesh slowly opened his palms, and right as both palms opened fully, he transported Kaeli from his life nexus to his palms. She was awake and wanted to come out anyway.

"Meet Kaeli."

"Meow!"

The black fur-ball meowed in a cheery sound and flew from his hand towards his head and sat down before looking curiously at Rovina and Arga, and then Kayan, who was sleeping nearby.

"Meow~"

"How cute. And she seems to have interesting talents." Rovina blinked. Her eyes glinted curiously as she sensed darkness-related magic, but it was way more profound than hers. ’High-ranking talents.’

"Meow!"

"Eh? She looks like she can understand our words." Arga raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Meow, meow!" Kaeli nodded and jumped from Vesh’s head before landing on Viana’s head.

Viana lifted her hand and gently scratched behind Kaeli’s ear. "Hello, cutie."

"Meoow~"

"She likes you." Vesh chuckled. "Anyway, you rest here and play with Kaeli, and I’ll start collecting the walls and towers. Since the cavern is in the west, our new place won’t be far from this river anyway."

...

Vesh also informed the rest of the people about relocating.

The food was prepared ten minutes later, so everyone began eating together.

Fish, rabbits, turtles, some fruits, and other plant stuff that Rovina identified and brought here.

"We also have a D-rank Forest Rock Bear’s meat. Arga, you can skin it at our new place. Its hide can be used to make armour."

Everyone finished eating after roughly twenty minutes.

Vesh stored the Grinder and Sawmill at last as he got enough to build three Cottage Houses and one Tailor.

And then he used the King’s Rule.

’King’s Rule. I lead the people of my kingdom safely towards the secret cavern in the west and deal with troubles on the way properly. If there’s a threat to my or any life in my group, this rule will break in indication of that.’ 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

[King’s Rule Created.]

And so, the whole group began walking with Vesh and Rovina in the front, and Arga and Kayan behind, while the rest of the people safely walked in the middle.

Vesh didn’t know the exact distance to the cavern, but it was within 10 kilometres.

Rovina observed the surroundings for any valuable plant-like while moving, as Vesh wanted to gather as much stuff as possible before using his King’s Rule to create a cure for their illness.

In the end, it took four hours to reach the secret cavern with two rest breaks on the way for people who needed to stop to rest.

During the breaks, Vesh and Kayan went hunting together.

Vesh also improved his C-rank swordsman talent, reaching 10 stars in its potential, and increased his Seed Force to 1749.

Hunting several big animals and D-rank monsters also provided him with hide to make clothes and meat to eat.

The new location was near the mountain base, with a valley nearby as well.

The surprising thing was that they didn’t need to worry about water here because there was a big natural lake just two hundred meters away, and also a river around six hundred meters away.

The cavern was also huge, bigger than a football field.

Vesh first placed three Cottage Houses inside the cavern, and then began building Walls and two entry gates outside around his new territory.

After placing watch towers, Vesh looked at the Furnace blueprint.

[Furnace]

[Rank: D]

[Job: 2 people]

[Cost: 100 Wood Blocks, 100 Stone Blocks]

[Available Production]

—Iron/Bronze/Silver/Gold Ingots.

’Alright, I can make Iron Ingots right away.’

Since he had enough wood and stone, he constructed the Furnace and taught the simple mechanism to two other people.