Everything is just beginning.
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Early spring of Aus Calendar 1054, the delayed sunlight finally melted the frozen soil outside Thunder City.
The smoke of civil war has just dissipated, and the air still retains a hint of bloody chill, but the moist land has begun to emit the breath of new life, waiting for hardworking farmers to sow seeds.
However, arriving here even before the farmers was Prince Colin, who returned to Thunder City with Edward from Glanton Castle.
At this moment, two iron rails laid on sleepers crossed the freshly thawed land like ugly scars, cutting through furrowed fields.
This is the newly planned industrial area on the outskirts of Thunder City, but most factories have yet to start construction. The only creation visible on the horizon is a black monster made of steel and brass, lying at the end of the rails.
A giant chimney on top of it billows black smoke and White Mist above the heated boiler.
