Michael began to implement Mithril into the Nation, gathering each citizen once again to ask them what kind of weapon or tool they would want to be made.
They were all incredibly surprised by this, after all, it hadn’t been that long since Michael evolved them each one by one. Even though he didn’t look tired, the citizens knew that doing that for too long must have taken a lot out of him.
But still, Michael kept going.
Since he was the only one who could make Mithril for now, he took it upon himself to personally craft a Mithril tool or weapon for his citizens.
This endeared him to his citizens more, vowing themselves to work even harder to repay all the things that Michael had given them.
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The group of Engineers led by Kong each chose a tool that suited their jobs best. Some chose a regular ruler, some chose a hard hat, and some chose a pencil so that they could easily take it anywhere they went.
The farmers wanted rakes, shovels, and scythes, while most of the dwarves wanted hammers and anvils.
As everyone got their hands on a Mithril artifact, they found that their productivity had gone up by at least twice more than before! The spells they cast to mold concrete into roads or to plant seeds in a field became much easier than before even without improving their spells at all. They just had to hold the Mithril Artifact in their hands and it would improve their skills tremendously.
Because of this, there was more beer produced daily, there were more houses built every week, and everyone could finally get an air conditioner and a refrigerator in their own homes!
With the combination of their evolution, their new skills, and their new Mithril artifact, everyone had become so adept at their jobs that they improved their work in every single aspect, wasting less time and resources while producing greater results.
Michael was even able to assign them new work without overworking them.
He spent about a week designing and creating a pocket watch, which was powered by the miniature Unity Mithril.
The dwarves and the other blacksmiths marveled at the circular, golden pocket watch in their hands and could only wonder how Michael could create such an intricate piece despite being so small.
Everyone was already used to the Town Clock, so having a personal one in the palm of their hands sounded like a great improvement in their daily life. They no longer had to peek out of their windows to look at the clock tower in the middle of the Nation, they could just look at their pocket watches!
He instructed Kong to create another factory, with this one specifically made for producing pocket watches.
He was planning on selling the pocket watch and the automobile at the same time.
Michael hoped that unveiling and introducing these innovative and novel products into the human market would allow them to gain a lot of traction in the Queens region.
He and Castelle had been planning on expanding the Reborn business into the Queens region for a long time now. The only thing preventing them from doing it earlier was that the Kings region and the Queens region were separated by a very dangerous mountain range.
This prevented them from transporting a lot of their bigger and heftier products to the rest of the country.
But now that they had attained the cooperation of the Dwarven Kingdom, they could simply use their place to bypass the mountain range and reach the Queens region without any problem.
And since they were planning on creating a railway system to connect to the Dwarven Kingdom, the transportation of their products would become so much easier than before.
Michael could finally bring the plumbing system, the automobile, and concrete to the Queens region!
So right now, Michael was stockpiling a lot of products in their nation that would someday be transported to the Queens region to be sold.
As for the magic artifact, Michale was still debating on when he should unveil it to the world. At the very least, he wouldn’t want to unveil it before the dwarves learn to make Mithril by themselves.
If he introduced the Mithril artifact so soon, then he would be forced to work on it by himself since he was the only one who could make it.
Once the dwarves and the blacksmiths of this Nation were able to efficiently manufacture large amounts of Mithril, only then would he pay a visit to his old friend Seberus Augindore. As the Tower Master, he must be knowledgeable enough to know the value of the Mithril artifacts.
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And so, the days passed and everyone was hard at work.
The Trolls worked on the railway system, laying down the trackway and making sure that they led straight to the Dwarven Kingdom.
The production-type Mankeys and Satyrs worked parallel to the trolls, working on creating the concrete road connecting the two territories.
The Centaurs made a temporary guard house alongside the railway and the road, making sure that construction was going well and there weren’t any complications happening.
Michael also created a walkie-talkie for them so that they would still be able to communicate so far away from the Nation. Of course, it was powered by the Unity Mithril, so it didn’t run out of battery.
Meanwhile, the dwarves like Thrain who evolved into Ancient Dwarves, worked hard on practicing their creation of Mithril.
The factories creating the Reborn company products were also hard at work, producing loads and loads of units to be transferred and sold by Castelle.
The engineers worked hard on upgrading the Steam Turbine to produce more electricity. After it was done, then they could finally connect it to the Dwarven Kingdom and provide them with power.
Several hundred feet above the Steam Turbine, gray clouds were soaking up all the smoke being produced by the generator and the factories.
The Mutated Bacteria Cloud seedling that the Dwarven King gave him was growing slowly, feeding on smoke, and slowly producing more elemental mana for the entire territory.
Everything was going well within the Nation of Reborn.
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A few months later, Michael’s 11th birthday had finally come.
This meant that he had officially been in the Parched Lands for one year!
