<h4>Chapter 549: Chapter 89</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio <strong>Editor: </strong>Nyoi-Bo Studio


    Sui Xiong valued friendship very much. Since he had decided to be friends with the dwarfs, he would no longer treat them as business partners.


    So he invited the Rune God with a smile, “Would you like to visit my factory? I just built it.”


    The Rune God was certainly interested in that. The Void Mask had always been mysterious, but he had never done something blindly. Since he had introduced the factory so proudly, there must be something special about it.


    Thus, they went to the newly built factory and looked around carefully.


    “It’s wonderful!” The Rune God had been a master of mining, smelting and forging before he became a god, so he found the advantages of the factory at once. “Though these means, the best iron ore can be selected. Then when ites to iron making, the quality of the steel will be very good!”


    “That’s right,” Sui Xiongughed and said. “Generally speaking, to make high-quality equipment, we need good steel, and that certainly needs high-quality iron ore. Before the process of iron making, those experienced miners and cksmiths should carefully select the best ore to make good iron and then forge good equipment. But through my mineral processing factory, the selected iron ore is absolutely the best, and it takes very little time to do it. That is equivalent to having a group of top workers helping me to select the better ore, and with the st furnace, we will get the best steel!”


    “Of course!” The Rune God nodded, and his eyes turned bright. “The best steeles from the best iron ore!”


    “With all due respect, the quality of iron ore in your Republic of Northwest is still not good enough. Although this processing method is used, the final product is still slightly brittle, isn’t it? You have to find ways to reprocess it, right?” the Rune God smiled and asked. “But if the iron ore from our Mountain of Broken Clouds is used, you will get the best ore in the world and then be able to make the best iron in the world!”


    Sui Xiong was surprised at that. He had never paid attention to the quality of iron ore.


    So he simply took the Rune God to Palin to find out more about that.


    Sui Xiong and the Rune God did not hide who they were. Learning that the famous Rune God wasing, Palin and the craftsmen were very excited, especially several dwarf craftsmen. If there was wine next to them, they would surely have a good drink to celebrate.


    When the Rune God spoke of his spection, Palin and the craftsmen nodded with praise.


    “You’re right! In the past, the iron produced in our four towns has been somewhat brittle and so has the iron produced with the new machine this time. But we did a small experiment to mix various things into the hot iron and finally found a solution to the problem,” Palin said. “Generally speaking, as long as several special minerals are added and melted in the hot iron in certain proportions, the hot iron will be purified and the final steel won’t be brittle anymore.”


    The Rune God nodded slightly and did not ask questions like what minerals were used, what the proportion was and how to add them, etc.


    As a craftsman, he knew the rule of this industry and respected it very much. Since this technology was invented by Palin and his friends through hard work, it was supposed to be their secret. If he wanted to know it, he should pay enough to exchange for it.


    Moreover, he did not need this technology at all. The iron ore that the dwarfs got from the Mountain of Broken Clouds was much better in quality than that from the Ashes Woods, so there was no need to purify it like this.


    Then they went to see the smelting of the st furnace.


    The finely selected, top-grade iron ore and various carefully calcted ingredients were put into the st furnace, and then it was ignited and sted. With the help of magic, the heat of the leftover coke was fully exerted, and soon, the furnace’s temperature rose to a very high level.


    The mortals couldn’t see through the furnace wall, so Palin and others had to use magic to observe what was going on in the furnace, but Sui Xiong and the Rune God could directly see with their eyes. They saw that the iron ore was gradually melting, and the impurities and those added ingredients werebined together and then turned into a foam-like g, floating on the hot iron.


    Palin had to dump the g out when it umted to a certain amount of g, so it was inevitable for some hot iron to be wasted in the process. However, every time the g was removed, the hot iron became purer.


    Finally, when Palin thought it was ok, he stopped heating. He poured the pure-enough hot iron into the prepared trough. Then the red-hot iron soon cooled down, turned into dark red hot steel, and eventually became a slightly rougher steel te.


    This kind of steel te needed to be polished smoothly before stamping. In order to demonstrate the whole process to the Rune God in a short time, Palin just used the steel te that he had made before.


    The solid steel te was firmly fixed on the base, and then the chain was moved by flowing water to lift the hammer slowly. The hammer would then fall down heavily.


    After a loud bang, the steel te turned into the shape of the main part of the breastte.


    “That’s how it works!” The Rune God fully understood. “Technically speaking, it is not so difficult to learn, but the most precious part is the concept and idea behind it!”


    The Rune God then asked curiously, “Who invented this method to use the power of the flowing water to lift a heavy hammer and stamp the steel te directly into the shape of a breastte?”


    “His Majesty, the Void Mask, of course,” Palin answered.


    The Rune God smiled. He was not particrly surprised at that. No matter what the Void Mask did, the Rune God would not be surprised at all.


    Having seen the wonderful mineral processing factory just now, the Rune God had known that Sui Xiong was a master of crafting. Then what was so strange about a master who could invent a mineral processing machine to make a hydraulic press?


    The main part of the breastte consisted of several pieces of armor tes on the chest and back. As for the supporting shoulder protectors, they were also made by this hydraulic press, but that could not be demonstrated today; the hydraulic press needed to be specially adjusted to make different armor tes.


    Palin usually adjusted the hydraulic press once a few days and produced a lot of armor tes at a time. If the quality of the armor te was good, they would be assembled into armor. If the quality was not good, they would be sent to another smaller st furnace to heat up into hot iron, and then they would be processed into steel tes again.


    That had already been aplete process, so Sui Xiong did not intend to make any changes to it.


    After looking at how to make armor te with the hydraulic press, they finally came to the armor assembly workshop. Several experienced craftsmen and some young workers were busy here. Some armor tes and other materials for assembling were piled up here, and there were also some finished products.


    Each of these finished products was as in as Sui Xiong had seen before. However, these pieces of armor were neatly disyed, sending out a naturally cool atmosphere that made people feel respected.


    “This is the most important thing in the country!” The Rune God looked at the armor in neat rows and looked back at the series of st furnaces as well as the factory. He couldn’t help but praise with admiration, “This is really the most important thing in the country!”