Chapter 2322: Forging


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    As everyone watched curiously, Sam carefully forged the Umbryxium.


    After heating the pieces sufficiently, he started hammering them out in the shape of theponents that he has designed. The shape and basic measures like length and width are all the same. However, the thickness of theseponents that he beat out of the Umbryxium didn''t match the design he drew.


    Which made everyone even more curious.


    Another peculiar thing they observed is that, after aponent is shaped out and had just enough heat that its malleability is very close to its cold usual state, Sam ced his hand over it and used his metal element along with his maniption ability.


    Nobody knew what exactly he was doing like that.


    Since the metal itself is very malleable and easy to beat into shape, he managed to finish theponents very quickly. Heid all of them on the table in their positions. Now, he needs to work on each weapon separately.


    The first thing he went after is the long sword.


    That could probably be the easiest and fastest thing that he could do at the moment.


    He already ced a metal in the furnace. It is also a rare metal. As for why no one had any reaction like they did when he used the Umbryxium? Because this metal with all its rarity looks like amon iron ore.


    The color, texture and even some of the reactions it has toe of themon tests are all the same as regr iron ore. However, this metal is called Soul Steel.


    Forming this ore is extremely difficult and it is mostly avable in the areas where death energy is rampant and a lot of specters reside. The formation of the soul steel as an ore is the same as an iron ore.


    However, during the early stages if the surroundings of that area are filled with specters, and if those specters failed to get away from there and their soul energy dissipates in to the surroundings, then the ore in its infancy will absorb this energy.


    So, most of the time this appears in the battlefields from long long ago. That is the only clear sign to find out the location of the metal. There are no other clues or tricks.


    This is also one of the findings of the Dusk. Not just one or two, they found dozens of mines over the realms. It seems spreading far and wide had its own advantages.


    He started forging the soul steel. He made two think des out of it. The des are of course of same length and width as his original design. Just like how he made a thin de out of Umbryxium, he made it with this as well.


    After those des are ready, he ced them in a furnace of much lower temperature, meanwhile he heated the Umbryxium de to a certain extent. After the soul steel des and Umbryxium des reached the desired temperature, he took them.


    He sandwiched the Umbryxium with the Soul steel and beat them together. After they became one de, he heated it once again before cing his hand on it and using his metal element in that heated state.


    After the de including its tang are done, he made it levitate to cool down. Just to make sure it doesn''te into contact with anything else until it is ready for its final treatment.


    With the remaining soul steel, made a fewponents of the crossbow and a bunch of bolts. Next for the main body of the crossbow, he took out some rhino gold. He made it into powdered state, created some moulds in which he ced the thin Umbryxium body and then filled the rest with the rhino gold powder.


    The Rhino gold is known for its heat resistance, cold resistance, deformation, etc.


    And the crossbow he designed is one the knight could wear on his arm. With the way he designed it he can attach it smoothly on the arm guard.


    Once he put the mould in the furnace and made it solifiy together, the main part is ready. He also made these levitate around him.


    Now, the shield, he took some more rhino gold and made twoyers with it. He sandwiched the Umbryxium in between these twoyers, simr to how he did with the sword. Once again, he did his metal element thing.


    Even though Sam appeared like he is moving fast, it has been three hours by the time he is done with it. He is sweating all over, and panting slightly. His arm muscles are aching a bit as well. However, rtively, he is way ahead of the rest of thepetitors.


    Even though all of them started forging, some of them are still correcting their own design ws which they didn''t think of earlier as they forged.


    Meanwhile, Sam took another rare metal.


    This one is rarer than the above two. The void stone metal. This metal... Sam didn''t obtain from the Dusk rather, this is what he exploited from the Academy realm''s students as part of the ransom. The specialty of this metal is that it can only be obtained in two ces.


    One is from the special meteorites thatnded on some and the other is the core of a dying.


    Sam has yet toe across either of them.


    This one has very unique properties. The shock absorption in particr is off the chartspared to any other metal he ever came across. If not for the fact Sam held the heir of one of thergest ns in the Noble league as his hostage, he wouldn''t have been able to use it. Looking at the void stone metal in Sam''s hands, a huge fervor went through the crowd.


    Sam even took off the outer robe and stood there bare chested as he started banging the metal. The Void stone metal is also hard to forge and the more it is closer to the stic state (A state from which the metal doesn''t undergo any deformation without breaking), it is the hardest it could ever be.


    To reach that stic state, he needs to ce this at the utmost stress.


    He cannot just use other tricks like he did with the Rhino gold and Soul Steel.


    Once again, he made two thinyers of eachponent of the armor. This one is also ck color, so the threeyers of the ckponents are forged together.


    He once again did his metal element thing with theseponents as well.


    If the first fewponents took three hours, this armor alone took almost four. Luckily, he didn''t add many minorponents or someplicated designs, otherwise who knows how


    long it will


    take.


    There is still around seven hours before midnight.


    Sam hovered them around in the air as he waited them all to cool down. Once they he is done, he ced them all on the wooden table in their positions. Now, is the final step.


    Even though Sam''s forging process is refined and did really good, theponents are not looking that great at the moment.


    The sandwiched metals are looking a bit odd with varying textures.


    And, even though theyers he made were very thing,bined together they didn''t look


    that refined and even had an appearance of being a bit bulky.


    With a wave of his hand, Sam removed all four legs of the table and made itnd on then/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    ground gently.


    He then sat on the ground facing theponents. With a wave of his hand, several space jades appeared in front of him.


    He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. His body started glowing with a golden re while the metalponents started levitating just a couple of inches above the table.


    They still had a decent distance between each of them and wouldn''t interfere with each


    other''s process.


    The golden light around Sam intensified as he condensed it. It is the light element and with extreme concentration it can generate enough heat to rival any me that they could obtain


    here.


    At the same time, a streak of blood flew out of each space jade he ced. The blood is unusually thicker and denser than the normal blood of any kind. Each streak also had different


    tone and texture.


    Soon, the metalponents heated up to the level Sam required it to.


    He then started moving the streaks to them. Each streak split into multiple smaller streaks


    and the blood soon wrapped around each metal.


    The armorponents were all wrapped with one type of metal, the sword has one type, the bolts of a different type and the crossbow body and the shield are of different type.


    Each blood has its own characteristics.


    With the intense heat the blood started evaporating, but there is a continuous supply of iting from the space jades and wrapping around theponents.


    That is at least what everyone else could see from his actions. However, behind the scenes there is something else happening. Something no one could see or guess. Along with the light element, Sam is using his metal element as well and it is on the blood. While the blood is heated, he is concentrating to separate the blood iron from. That heated blood iron is being forcefully speed through theseponents. They are


    merging and bonding with theyers. With the added heat and Sam''s maniption, all of it is


    turning into one alloy.


    Each blood is extracted from different species, giving the resultant blood iron unique


    characteristics.


    Even until the hour before midnight, Sam just sat there and kept on doing what he was doing. Meanwhile, the rest forged their sets, and are doing the finishing touches.