Hopes was a student majoring in mineral processing at the New Oriental Comprehensive Technical School now. In the next few years, he would learn a lot of things. He would learn about different minerals, learn various methods to decide mineral grades, and eventually become an expert who could select fine products from a large number of ores.
There were over a dozen students like him. Most of them were dwarfs, and the others were humans and Half-Orcs. But he was the only Half-Orc that was not from the Republic of Northwest.
The other Half-Orcs were very young. They were born and raised in the Republic, so they were curious about the scenery outside the Republic and were full of yearning for the vast, grassy homeland of the Half-Orcs. When talking with Hopes, they expressed their desire to go to the grassland to visit those ancient places more than once. They wanted to find the footprints of their ancestors to see how they actually had lived.
