Reincarnated as a Castle! (LitRPG, Kingdom Building, Progression)

4. Construction Shop

by inkadmin

Immediately, three distinct sub-shops materialized on the glowing blue interface:

Construction Shop
Item Shop
Castle Core Shop

(Hohhh? This is actually interesting.)

I mentally tapped into the Construction Shop first. The top of the screen lit up with a clean, familiar-looking inventory panel.

Inventory

Points: 10
Stone: 0
Wood: 0
Food: 0

(Aha! Resource bars.)

The sight hit me like a powerful nostalgia bomb. It reminded me of old games I had played when I was a child.

Age of Kingdoms, Heroes of Muscles and Wisdom… or whatever the exact titles were… those classic real-time strategy games where you gather resources, build up your base, recruit units, and conquer enemies.

I figured stone would come from mining nearby rocks or quarrying, and wood from chopping down the endless trees pressing in around my clearing. That part made perfect sense for a castle-building system.

But food?

(What the hell is food supposed to mean now?)

As a castle, I clearly didn’t need to eat anything myself. So… was “Food” intended for any living things that might eventually end up inside me, or was it more like those old RTS games, where you spent food points to summon and maintain an army of minions?

I really, really hoped for the latter. Summoning minions would be absolutely amazing.

But I doubted it would work exactly like that, though.

Maybe there was a hidden instruction manual or beginner tutorial the system could provide… if I asked nicely enough?

So I tried.

(System, do you have any tutorial for me?)

You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

…

However, no matter how politely or desperately I begged, the system completely ignored me.

Well, classic jackass isekai system move, I guess! — drop the protagonist naked into a new world with zero guidance and let them figure everything out through painful trial-and-error and repeated suffering!

It sucked, but whatever. There was nothing I could do about it right now except roll with the punches.

I forced my attention back to the Construction Shop.

There was a clearly labeled sub-tab called Repair. The moment I selected it, the interface zoomed in, highlighting every damaged spot across my structure with faint, pulsing red outlines.