"All done."
Rui's voice of relief hung in the air.
The light of the evening sun illuminated him and the empty land around him that stretched as far as the eye could see. Nothing remained, save for the remains of the foundations of great buildings that used to cover the entire cityscape. He had removed the dead, saved the living, and emptied out the rubble from city to city, creating a blank canvas upon which anything could be drawn once more.
A part of him looked forward to what kind of civilization would be built upon this emptied land. Technological acquisition and development had outpaced the bedrock of civilization. Many cities and towns in the Kandrian Empire were still built from wood and stone despite the great technological leaps that had occurred in the past five years.
