Chapter 218: Melting Down
True to her word, after Rainier told her what his team was really working on, Malz showed him what a welding wand looked like.
"See, it doesn’t work directly on the metal. You just feed power in and it makes the fire hot enough for you and at a safe distance." She pointed at the screen of her tablet, which, weirdly enough, showed an angel using his welding torch to cook what appeared to be an artichoke.
Rain hadn’t spent a lot of time watching illusions on his tablet, despite everyone around him being used to it. There was something weird to him about filling his time watching other people do things when he could be doing something himself.
The only thing he could conclude from the illusion - video, as Malz called it - was that Angels did weird things with dangerous equipment sometimes. But now that he knew what to look for, he remembered seeing the strange rods at Iriel’s forge.
As he made ready to leave, Malz called out to him. "Wait a minute. Aren’t you going to show me the mana sauna?"
"Oh. I guess that’s okay," Rain said. "But after I get the welding wand."
A quick stop at the forge and Rain found the tri-pronged wand with its thick, cylindrical profile in a matter of seconds. Now that he knew how to activate it, he did a quick test by charging it with mana and waiting for the little lightning symbol to light up.
Sure enough, when he pushed the button the symbol was on, a tiny spark zapped into existence for the fraction of a second it took to slide his thumb off the button.
"You’ll want eye protection," Malz pointed at a set of goggles that were hanging with masks and the like on wall pegs. "That shit was bright."
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As soon as Malz saw the chamber, she was... not impressed.