Taming the Perfect Miner

She crept forward quietly and pushed the brush aside.

About a few dozen yards away, beneath an ironwood tree, a powerfully built creature was busy with something.

It was a bipedal ape, standing close to six and a half feet tall, its muscles thick and pronounced. What stood out most were its arms—they gleamed with a metallic, jet-black sheen. It was gripping a massive rock, slamming it over and ove