13- Advancements

It's been another 2 years and I am now 16 years old. Our village is finally starting to get the steam engine implemented into our daily lives. We made a street cleaner to help clean the roads with me. I don't like the street cleaner because of how much pollution it spews into the air. Whenever your near it, you can smell the smoke and it gets hard to breathe. Late at night when it goes by your house it gets really loud and wakes you up. Hopefully some time soon we can go past the steam engine.

Lizzie it's time to get up! I've got stuff to do today and I dont want you just laying in bed all day.

I got up and left the house, I needed to get Coben and Aj up. They were going to help me today.

Hey Coben and Aj come one let's go, we dont have l day.

We're up dont worry, we're just getting ready for the job today. I really cant believe you guys haven't done anything with it yet.

Well I'm the only one who really does any hard work in the village, and since I've been building and cleaning most of the time, I never got the chance to do this till now. Steam engines have their purpose at least. Shall we go?

Yeah! Let's get going, Coben is already there so. Hes picking the best spot to start.

Oh that's good. He was always the smart one when it came to this kind of stuff.

On the way to the spot we talked about how far the village had come. We had built another 500 houses in the past 2 years. The population of the village is now almost 10 thousand. I'm proud of what we've done. It just shows that when you have a goal in mind you can do anything.

Finally we are here. The great mountains that protect our village. Cant believe I've never actually been this close.

You know now that I realize it Dakota, I've been on the other side of the mountains for years before I came here. The other side is just a barren wasteland with many small villages across the land.

Really that's quite interesting. I've only known this village. I havent seen another one around here at all. Well how about we start mining?

The three of us mined all day and made it about 20 feet into the mountain. We found plenty of valuable ores: copper, gold, coal, and iron. With this stuff we could make stronger buildings and more advanced technology.

Today was an great day dont you think? We found so many valuable stuff that can be used to advance the village.

Yeah we did! All this stuff was found relatively early in the mountain as well. Just imagine what we will find deeper in.

I know right, it would be so awesome when we have a full blown mine. Wait I have an idea, I'll meet you guys back at the village, I gotta tell the chief.

I ran back to the village with some of the ore in hand. I had a great idea for taking down Shadowfrost before I even need to fight him. He wont go down but his city will seem worse than ours.

Chief, I have and idea!