Chapter 396: Secret to Building Stronger Walls

Joo Joowon suddenly understood.

So he wanted to earn a little more money?

Looking at Kang Taewoo's eyes, which had already changed from ordinary beady eyes into the sparkling star pshaped eyes that anime characters often had when acting cute, Joo Joowon could not help twitching the corner of his mouth.

"You're the professional here. What do you think?"

Kang Taewoo answered honestly, "If you don't have any particular requirements for the height of the city walls, Lord, then the timber we have now is already enough."

Even he had not expected the trees on this mountain to be of such good quality.

One had to understand that even when someone with a logging secondary profession chopped down trees, there would still be a certain amount of material loss.

Not every tree was suitable for use as a building material. Some trees were simply rotten wood, which had no purpose other than being used as firewood.

Therefore, when the trees were compressed into units of timber, although the system did not directly remove the unusable wood, it would still "purify" the material.

This purification process effectively prevented problems such as cracking, dampness, and insect damage when the timber was used as a building material.

Therefore, even two large trees of the same age and similar appearance could yield different units of timber because of subtle differences in sunlight, humidity, and other environmental factors.

Since all the trees on this mountain were ordinary trees, Kang Taewoo had originally assumed that there definitely would not be enough timber.

Although timber was not worth much in the game world, no matter how you looked at it, it was still a purified material. It possessed the most basic ability to carry energy and had passed the game's most fundamental standards of certification.

In certain low-level game worlds, even this basic timber was valuable enough to be treated like a treasure, with only the noblest of nobles being allowed to use it.

Therefore, in some game worlds, it was even possible to spend a great deal of effort chopping down an entire tree only to obtain a single unit of timber.

By comparison, the quality of the trees on this mountain was somewhat unexpected. Most of them could directly meet the system's minimum standards, and surprisingly, they barely needed any purification at all.

Joo Joowon's ideal city wall height was at least three meters. However, he genuinely had no idea how high the timber from this mountain could allow him to build the walls. Hearing Kang Taewoo's answer, he could not help asking, "How high can we build the city walls with the timber we have now?"

Kang Taewoo replied, "We can still make them at least 0.5 meters high."

Joo Joowon: "..."

That was a height he could step over with a single stride. What could it possibly defend against?

The city walls in the game also had to follow basic rules. If someone could simply step over a wall, there was no need to tear it down. They could just jump over it and launch an attack from inside.

Although his main purpose was indeed to use the walls to enclose land for his territory, he had never intended to build something that served no purpose other than looking decorative.

That would be taking the money he had spent far too lightly.

The moment Kang Taewoo saw that Joo Joowon was dissatisfied, his heart immediately leaped with joy.

Haha! His chance to make money had arrived!

"My lord, you don't seem very satisfied. How high would you like the city walls to be? Don't worry! I can definitely chop down enough trees to provide all the timber you need!"

If he had not still been holding a plate, Kang Taewoo would have wanted nothing more than to unzip himself and show Joo Joowon the cotton stuffing inside his body to prove that he was definitely not making things up.

"This isn't a matter of what I want," Joo Joowon said, feeling somewhat troubled as well. He explained the situation with the Earth Fire to Kang Taewoo.

It would be fine if only a small amount of outside timber was mixed in. However, if too much of it was added, then even if the resulting city walls were tall and imposing, all that construction would be a waste if the Earth Fire could not be used on them.

Hearing this, Kang Taewoo stiffened slightly. He had not expected there to be this additional complication.

Kang Taewoo racked his brains, unwilling to miss this opportunity to earn some extra money. In the end, he still refused to give up and said, "Lord, please don't worry just yet. Could I speak with the one guarding the city? Perhaps there might still be a way to resolve this problem!"

Joo Joowon did not think he was particularly worried. If anything, Kang Taewoo seemed to care much more about this issue than he did.

It was not as though Joo Joowon had never considered the problem of the city walls being too low. If all else failed, he could simply build a foundation first and make do with that for the time being.

At least for the ants, city walls of this height were already enormous.

As long as there were no problems with the two most important functions, enclosing land and allowing the Earth Fire to monitor the surrounding area, then Joo Joowon could temporarily give up on his other requirements.

He could still distinguish which functions he needed most at the moment.

However, since Kang Taewoo had put it that way, Joo Joowon had no reason to refuse. He took Kang Taewoo over to meet the Earth Fire.

After Joo Joowon released it, the Earth Fire had not gone anywhere. It had remained inside the candle flame, sleeping the entire time.

He had no idea what method it had used, but it had greatly slowed down the rate at which the candle burned. Even now, after all this time, half of the candle was still left unburned.