Rebirth Online World

King of Kings (KoK)

(Author note: the idea comes from city building games, such as civilization, command and conquer, settler, and many more. Morata city building fancies me but I want something more! Haha. Please enjoy. Btw the last release was 4.8k words and I was stuck writing it for 5 hours on the road. enjoy)

(Ps; someone is asking the raw link to this? I’m sorry but this is my original story so there is no link to the raw lol… my writing style is heavily influenced by Japanese light novel so it wasn’t your fault for thinking it a translation series..)

(PS: recently, some kind soul has been sending me a gift from outside of the country… however Indonesia tax and duty bureau kindly impose $125 tax on me if I want to take the item… is there and other kind soul out there that will help me to take out the gift? T_T)

Chapter 3 – population boom

“R-Rachel…”

“Y-Yes?”

“I’m sorry but I can’t take your arms up on marriage.”

“But, why?”

“As you know, we’re just starting to settle down. I was worried that it would break my concentration since my mind will be focused on you.”

[Yes, that is a good excuse] Rhea thought to himself. Rachel seemed to accepted that and said with a sad tone in her voice.

“If that’s what you think, then I will gladly accept your decision. But if we have successfully settled down in this place, you must come and make a grand proposal. You have to promise me.”

Rachel then stuck out her pinky which Rhea responded with his own pinky. Their fingers entwined together as a promise was made.

*Ding*

Rhea never imagined that it will turn out to be a quest. Honestly Rhea experience in love is almost zero. He always spent his time playing 『King of Kings』. He doesn’t have any girl friend and at school he always keeps his schoolmates as acquaintances only. Right now, he doesn’t even know how he feels about Rachel. More importantly as he said, he has a matter of building this place into a better one.

『King of Kings』 have one year grace period before the monsters of the demon lord army to swarm out under the hard mode. Six months on Nightmare mode and if his guess is true, he only have three months before the Impossible mode release the demon lord army. He need to act as quickly as possible as he can in the mean time.

After getting a kiss on the check from Rachel before leaving her shack, Rhea firmed his resolve. He needs to act quickly if he wants to protect Rachel from the demon lord army. Rhea has played the 『King of Kings』 on Nightmare modes many times. As it said, in six months, it was really hard to build a strong city with defense line and army to defend against the demon lord force.

The demon lord force also didn’t go all out from the beginning. At first the army will start to lower productivity by spreading fear among the citizens. Reducing trade route with other city due to the danger on the road. Finally, conquering city and take control over them with the demon lord army main force.

He might be able to do the defending part but his quest requested him to defeat the demon lord. Even all his history playing 『King of Kings』, he only ever defeated the demon lord once with the cooperation of 11 other players online. Now, he is alone and with increased difficulties he needs to act carefully and do it fast.

Finally Rhea noticed one thing. In 『King of Kings』, villagers are able to gathered resources even when it is night time. Why should he stop now? His body isn’t even tired, so he gets back to his shack, makes a simple torch, using tree branch and the grass and lit it. It wasn’t great but it was enough to see 5m forward.

That night, Rhea harvested 45 grasses before he feel tired and go to sleep. In total his resources are now 80 grasses.

In the morning, Rhea was woken up by a tasty smell. He opened his eyes and saw Rachel cooking.

“Good morning Rachel…”

Rhea said with a sleepy tone.

“Good morning. I’ve cook some breakfast. It’s a sautéed fish with mushroom. I gathered the mushroom from the forest. They are fresh and it should taste good.”

Rhea sat on the chair and Rachel served him the food not long after. He grabbed a fork and have a taste of the food.

“Yummy!”

Rhea immediately awake when he has a taste of the sautéed fish with mushroom.

Rachel with a smile sits across him and eats her breakfast too.

“I’m glad you like it darling.”

Rhea immediately frozen when he heard that.

[What did she said? Darling?]

“What’s the matter darling? Is there’s something wrong with the food?”

“N-N-no, the food is delicious. I just want to know what you are doing this early in my house. But looking at it closer, I should be asking, what am I doing in your house?”

Rhea immediately tried to figure out what is happening.

“Don’t you remember that last night you come to my shack and ask me to move in with you?”

………..

Rhea minds flew a few hours earlier. He was tired and wanted to sleep. However to not waste time, he immediately builds 4 shack using 80 grasses that he has. He shouted in joy after he finished and headed to his shack.

………..

“Rachel, I don’t remember asking you to move in with me.”

“I-I-Is that so? You must have been mistaken. Please remember.”

[Somehow she was fidgeting while looking at me.]

………….

[After I entered my shack, I was lying down on the grass bed, and I remember someone knocks on my door again. When I opened it, Rachel is there.]

………..

“I remember you come to my shack late at night.”

“T-Then…”

Clearly, she was nervous by now.

………..

Rachel then said shyly: “Rhea, I’ve been thinking. Even if we’re not married yet, can I live with you?”

Rhea heard that and feels as if someone throws a bucket full of cold water at him.

“W-W-What did you say?”

“It’s alright… we’re not going to do any other strange things *cough*although I’m alright if you do that*cough*… we’re just living together so the shack that I use can take on another villager.”

Rhea was standing there don’t know what to say when Rachel closed her eyes, with one hand flying towards his head said: “Awh, how can you act shy in a moment like this, you are so cute.”

However her hands actually hit Rhea head harder than she intended. It caused Rhea to nods his head forward before looking at her again with dizzy eyes and passed out. Rhea also saw a floating window before he lost his consciousness.

[H-How is this possible?]

Rhea was dumbfounded, he doesn’t know what to do. Instantly as if realizing that he has remembered the event from last night, Rachel kneeled down in front of him.

“Sorry, it was my fault for hitting you however I didn’t mean to do that. Please, forgive me.”

Her clear blue eyes start to get watery as tears coming out from the edges of her eyes.

Seeing a girl crying in front of him isn’t something he could tolerate. What’s more the rice has been turned into a gruel, there’s nothing he can do anymore.

“Rachel… that’s alright… I’m not mad at you…”

“R-really?”

“Yes, I know that you won’t cause any harm to me.”

“Darling, thank you for understanding me.”

“But…”

“What is it darling?”

“Calling me darling might be a little too much. Please don’t do that.”

“Alright honey!”

With a bright smile that write over the storm on her face, she stands up cheerfully.

“Ah, I remember honey, there’s something important I have to tell you. The resource center couldn’t hold anymore grass. Can you do something?”

“Eh? What do you mean? It can hold 100 grasses. How can it full when no one is cutting grass?”

“If you want to know, I suggest you come out.”

…………..

Rhea comes out from his shack and he was shocked. There are a lot of people buzzing around. There is only an answer to this. The shacks that he build last night.

The four shacks he build with the one where Rachel used to live, all is resided by families of four. In other words, his camp just received 5 men, 5 woman and 10 children.

“T-This is amazing!”

When playing 『King of Kings』, Rhea never know the significance of gaining one additional villager. Seeing it with his own eyes, he finally realized how amazing it was to gained new residents.

A man with a suit that looked like a merchant come and gives his greetings.

“Good morning sir, I’m Kolderin and this is my family. I saw your camp is located in a nice region. Please let me stay in this place.”

Another man with a good built come to greet Rhea.

“Good morning sir, my name is Chris, my family is looking a better place to live and I stumbled into your place, please allow me to stay in this place.”

This time, a bald middle aged man comes forward to him.

“Atta boy, I’ve always been looking for a place to live my live in peace. My name is Bold, although I’m not that young anymore, if you’re willing to let me stay, I’ll do anything to return the favor. And my child is soon going to be an adult; they will help you in the future too.”

A man with brown beard and hair covering his head like a bear come towards Rhea.

“My name is Bowen. If you let me and my family stay, I can help you with wood gathering. I’m a lumberman in my previous village.”

The last one is a normal man: “My name is Billy. I’m willing to do anything if you let me and my family stay. Living in the city has been hard lately so we’re looking a place to have a fresh start.”

Rhea greeted them with a big smile and said: “Of course all of you can stay here. Please, help the inexperienced me to built a better place.”

Just like that, the villagers are all accepted into the camp. Using the 100 grasses, Rhea immediately build a sawmill. It took three hours to finished so in the mean time there’s nothing else to do except for gathering more grass, building more houses and gathering fishes. He also didn’t forget to expand the area of resource center.

The women are gathering mushroom and wild fruits in the forest with Rachel. The children are helping all of them with reduced efficiency. However, they are all doing it with a smile on their face.

[It may be tiring for them although they are NPC. I even feel tired. However I can’t stop yet.]

As when he was thinking like that, a window popped out.

At the same time, the sawmill has been successfully built.

Once again, Rhea realized the usefulness of having skilled worker. He assigns Billy, Bowen, and Chris as lumberman due to their well built. Bold and Kolderin is responsible for catching fish. While Rhea and the children will gather more grass. Right now, Rhea focus is adding more population and gathering more resources.

The grass gathering efficiency is around 10 grass / hour. Fishes are 6 fishes/ hour and wood are 20 woods / 3 hour for now with the number of people working on them.

Rhea is building more simple shack as soon as he has 20 grasses. He is also waiting to have more resources to build fishing lodge ( 5 grass , 5 fishes, and 30 woods) that will add fishing efficiency, fishing net upgrade, and simple boat. Simple wooden storage (5 grass, 5 fishes, and 50 woods) that will add 300 resources storage. Also a simple farm (20 grass, 10 fishes, and 50 woods) to add more food variety and simple kitchen (10 grass, 10 fishes, 40 woods) to process it. But the thing that he need to build urgently is a simple bath house (20 grass, 20 fishes, 20 woods).

Rhea aimed to increase population as fast as possible, gathering more resources and upgraded the camp as soon as possible. The worker, naturally take rest for lunch and stopped when it was getting dark. Rhea couldn’t force them to work nonstop as it will make them unhappy and reduced their efficiency. For now, Rhea won’t be able to see the happiness rate of the villager. He needs to wait until the settlement was at least at the village level to see them. Before that, he doesn’t want to let the happiness drop below 70%. When happiness dropped below that number, working efficiency will be lowered and people may even leave your place. For now, he will just let it flow naturally.

By the end of the day, the number of population increased again along with the number of simple shacks and a simple bath house along with a fishing lodge has been finished.

Chapter 4 – Founding a village.

“Uhm, Rachel… you can sleep on the bed. I’ll sleep on the floor.”

“Honey, do you hate me?”

“N-n-no! It isn’t like what you think.”

“Then, please sleep besides me.”

That night, Rhea barely rest. He was nervous and embarrassed. After all this is his first experience sleeping with the opposite gender although she was an NPC.

The third day comes and Rhea examined his camp. The building is proceeding as expected. The only thing that is missing here is the fast forward button that is available in normal 『King of Kings』 game play option.

Right now, he is assigning new villager to the task and get himself free from hard labor works. He is carefully calculating on the things he need to build.

Simple wooden storage, simple farm, and simple kitchen, Rhea successfully finished building them by the time the sun is setting down.

〔Congratulations! Your place of living has been upgraded as a base.〕

Population: 52

Skilled worker:

– cook: 1

– lumberman: 1

The effect of a base, 3% reduction in building time, 3% added to fishing efficiency, 3% added efficiency to woodcutting.

〔Congratulations! Your place of living has met the requirement to be upgraded as a village.〕

A village is a place where people gathered together. They believed that they will be able to live in prosperity inside the village. To upgrade your base to a village, you have to stay for 7 day. The effect of a village, 5% reduction in building time, 5% added to fishing efficiency, 5% added efficiency to woodcutting, 5% added efficiency to farming.

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Rhea realized, the 『King of Kings』 haven’t showed its true difficulty yet. Gathering resources and increasing population, everybody can do that. What’s come after is the deciding factor whether you are qualified to be a good ruler or not.

When the base is acknowledged as a village, happiness attributes will appear next to the settlement status. If the happiness falls down, the people will become unhappy, have reduced efficiency and some even may leave the village. The people also will start to make request to improve their living condition.

Making a firm foundation for the village which will be promoted as a city, by climbing up the ladder, one day, the settlement can be considered as a capital city. If that’s not hard enough, with bigger land, will come bigger responsibility. Officials will need to be assigned, nobility will start to appear, struggle for bigger influence and politics for domestic affair will need to be attended while starting diplomacy with other cities. Forming alliance, setting up trade route, 『King of Kings』 is famous for its simple yet complex possibility.

Rhea is also start to think at how he will develop his village. Becoming an agricultural village that focused on harvest to be traded? Mine minerals and focused on metal works? Setting up trade routes with other cities or creating an army to invade and take over the land? All of them have their own merits and achievements. While the old 『King of Kings』 can be cleared once you’ve gathered enough gold and resources; or befriend all nations; or conquered all territory; but right now his quest is to defeat the demon lord.

The best choice is to be a village that focused on adventurer. A village which its residents works as monster hunter. An army can be made by training villagers in barracks, archery range, stable, but infantry, archers, or horse archers or knights will also required metal works to make their armor and their battle power against monster are inferior too monster hunter.

An adventurers could be upgraded to a monster hunter. Monster hunter is an expert in fighting against monster but they aren’t good in battle against another human. Therefore a village made of monster hunter can be easily defeated by another city but defends well against the demon lord army. Although the demon lord army will come six months later, but it wasn’t a short time. At that point, Rhea should already establish his village, turn it into a city, built a city wall and castle for better defense, setting up trade route, securing resources, there’s a lot of things that he need to do.

Right now, it’s better to focus on the task on hand.

After completing the simple wooden storage, he finally unlock quarry. He will need to find a place to set his quarry and collected as much stone as possible. He hold himself from changing the simple shack to simple wood house, because he wanted to upgrade it directly to stone house which has better sanitation and happiness rate for the people. The price 20 grass, 20 fishes, and 100 woods may take a while to gather but due to the new population, it is gathered in half a day however the effect can only be seen tomorrow since the quarry need 12 hours to be built. The stone quarry also located 4km from the base. That means it will take time to bring the resources. In the mean time he is building more shacks to increase the population.

Since he is using grass for the shack, he has a spare wood. He wanted to wait for stone to make paved road that increased travelling time by 50% but since he need to do things quickly, he made simple road using 1 wood per 5×5 meter which will increased travelling time by 20%. So by the time the quarry is finished, the stone could be transported faster. Once his village is established, he could set up market and stable that could create horse carriage but it will takes 7 days to establish the village. By making the simple road, it will make things much easier for him later on. By the end of the day, he could only finished 30% of the road since they lacked woods.

His village gathering efficiency right now is around 40 grass / hour. Fishes are 12 fishes/ hour and wood are 100 woods / 3 hour. The farm will start to produce 100 crops/ day starting tomorrow. It was sufficient to support the population.

However Rhea forgetting one thing. Throughout the day, he keep on building simple shacks to increase the population and at the end of the day, he used all the remaining grass to build more shacks. Shacks that are made in the night will have its residents coming in the next morning. Rhea calculated well but forgetting more populations will need more food to consume. Each villager will need three meals a day. That means he needs to prepare three times the amount of the food. The farm may start to produce 100 corps starting tomorrow and it was enough if combined with the fishes, but he didn’t count the upcoming residents.

“We need more food!”

“We want food!”

In the morning, Rhea could clearly heard people shouting in front of his shack. He immediately wakes up and saw Rachel still sleeping. Even though he has been sleeping in the same bed with her for days, he is still startled when seeing her inside his bed.

[Ah, I have a more urgent matter to attend.]

Rhea who is staying there examining Rachel face immediately goes out.

“Rhea-san, there’s a problem.”

“Rhea-san, we might not have enough food.”

“Rhea-san I think it is better to kick out the newcomer.”

Rhea finally noticed his mistakes. He immediately opened the settlement status.

When playing 『King of Kings』, Rhea never has to worry about this kind of things. Since the food that the villager consumes will be calculated by the system. Besides the number of food resources, there will be a number signaling how much food will be consumed by the residents. The system also helped to remind the player when they’re trying to build a building, what kind of effects it will have to the resources, since some building like granary, taverns, barracks, and forge will continuously using resources.

“Everyone, let’s change your work for today and focused on catching fish.”

It was an emergency measure but effective. However by doing that, Rhea has lost half a day with the development progress. It wasn’t a bad experience since Rhea learned about this early on. If it is happened when his town is big enough, a small riot may occur and reducing safety and happiness rating of the town. He once again learned that this is 『King of Kings』 but at the same time not the 『King of Kings』 that he knows.

Finally a week has passed. In this time, Rhea always calculated his resource income and usage to make sure the same thing never happened again.

The fishing lodge now has a fishing boat with upgraded nets to improve fishing efficiency.

The sawmill upgraded to a bigger sawmill that increase 30% cutting speed.

The farm now produced 500 crops/day with different varieties.

However the most important things are that his base already started to gathered stone resources.

When the village is established, he will immediately upgrading the shacks into stone houses.

Rhea smiled seeing a new window appeared in front of him. What he used to achieve in 10 minutes, now needs 10 day to be accomplished.

Rhea has been waiting for this. He can’t wait to build the new facilities to make the people live easier. But the thing that he has been waiting for is the village chief house. By building it, he is now able to assign people a special role in the village, receiving report from the villages, this is the starting point where he needs to handle domestic affair.

The village chief house also unlocks the opportunity to produce settler. Five village settlements in the area are required to turn the village into a city.

Rhea placed the village chief house in the middle of the village. His house is automatically moved to this place and giving one empty house for new residents. He already has plan in mind to upgrade the shacks into stone house, making paved road for increased travelling speed, there’s so much thing that Rhea need to do.

(PS: recently, some kind soul has been sending me a gift from outside of the country… however Indonesia tax and duty bureau kindly impose $125 tax on me if I want to take the item… is there and other kind soul out there that will help me to take out the gift? T_T)

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