While his father managed his palace, he concentrated on mining the platinum and silver in the south. His partner left their child to protect, and he didn't want to disappoint her. He misses her so much. At night, he stayed in the spacecraft, talking to their child.
At last, when the ore was sufficient to last for a decade, they stopped. He worked alone; only Kael's robots were with him when he dug the mountain. With their equipment, the work was faster than human labor.
He instructed Kahlo and Goral to recruit more soldiers when he was gone, which they did. He dispatched thousands of warriors under Kahlo's command to the northern border. His father-in-law wrote to him that his mate had returned to the northern fortress. He was so excited that he gathered Goral's warriors and started their journey to the north.