Railway (5)

Whirrr! Rustle, thump.

Mechanical noises and the sound of the train rang busily across North Korea's smoke-filled, desolate land.

Immediately after the battle ended, I began collecting the spoils of war.

I set the train's automatic collector to work at full capacity, sent all the drones and the golem down to the ground, and began picking up every mana stone and material scattered around us.

After grinding up the army that had filled the horizon, the surrounding area was practically a field of mana stones.

"Phew... That took a while."

It took quite some time just to move the train across the wide plain and collect the materials.

Still, seeing the countless mana stones piling up in the storage in real time made me feel rather proud.

This haul was about as much as what I would have obtained from clearing a dungeon ten times.

After finishing the collection and returning to the train's cab, I quietly looked up at the sky...