Chapter 42: The Knight’s Barracks and Chocolate
The princess and I had started the construction for the building that would become the barracks of the knight's order that was on its way to End Town.
With the help of her "magic assimilation" skill, we were able to make the entrance hall in less than an hour. It wasn't finished, but we had the base for it.
My plan was to build the frame of the entire barracks first, then we could fill everything up with magic. That way, if we made a mistake, we wouldn't have to take down entire walls that could potentially make the others collapse.
From the entrance in the south, we built a long hall that formed a square, leaving a large open area in the center. That was going to be the training grounds for the knights, and the hall that went around it would be the main passage to any other rooms.
On the west side of the training grounds, we built the frame for the room that would become the kitchen and storage. It was a pretty large room, but we thought it would be better if they had extra space anyways.
On the east side, we built the frame for the office and the armory. The office room was pretty large, enough to fit at least 10 desks for the knights that had to do paperwork. Besides that, we also built another separate office for the commander to use.
The armory was a bit smaller in size, but the princess said it was about the same size as the one in the barracks at the capital, so we left it like that.
To the north of the training grounds, we built the dormitories for the knights.
They were supposed to be 30 in total, counting Thomas and Harvey, which was something to keep in mind.
At first, I thought about making an individual room for each, but the princess told me otherwise. Apparently, in the knight's barracks from the other cities, the dormitory was either a large room filled with bunk beds, or were separate rooms where at least 4 knights could fit.
In the end, we ended up building the frame for 10 different rooms. They were big enough to fit two bunk beds each, so even if they somehow managed to get new recruits into their order, they would have a place to sleep in the barracks.