Chapter 18: New Targets
"This is... a lot bigger than I expected," I muttered, staring up at the towering building in front of me.
Two days had passed since I defeated Ragnar and became the new King, and I hadn't spent much time resting and enjoying my new prestige.
There was work to be done.
Firstly, I had gone back to find Chippy, returning to find a literal wooden mansion sitting in the middle of the forest.
The demonic chipmunk hadn't been happy to learn that I was repositioning to a more secure location, that being the top of the mountain, but I assured him that the mansion could act as a guard post.
Before I had returned to the mountain with Chippy, I had decided to test out [King's Aura] and [King's Command] a bit more. I spent a few hours looking for more demonic chipmunks, and I was very pleased with the result.
While the descriptions of both skills were rather vague as to how effective they would be, since it varied greatly depending on the 'creatures nearby,' through testing I had narrowed down just what that meant.
It seemed that both the level of the creature, as well as their actual species, played a factor. For the demonic chipmunks, who were mostly under level 10 and a generally weak species, they had submitted and become my [Subordinate] near instantly.
And so, Chippy, along with his newly formed 'Chipmunk Platoon,' had torn down thousands of trees on the upper half of the mountain to build my new base of operations.
In front of me, a wooden mansion that would've cost literal billions of dollars towered over the surrounding barren land.
It was at least twenty stories tall and stretched literal miles in each direction, resulting in pillars of wood acting as support as it stretched over the side of the mountain.