Last of the three

"And that's… copper done…"

Slumping down to the stones of the street, Theo breathed out a long sigh.

Even though all he did was figure out the best way to place the biggest possible number of miners on the relatively smaller vein, he only managed to place a total of nine of them.

'Well, iron is more useful than copper anyway… Or such would be the case if not for my need for bullets.'

While the output of nine copper miners would suffice for Theo's needs for now, for the plans that were already hatching in his mind…?

For that, he would most likely have to venture out and seek another vein of the ore.

For now, however, Theo continued to just sit around, watching how the black smoke emerged from the smokestacks of the miners as they spat out more and more ore onto the belts, only for those to combine and then head directly for the smelter down the line.