Chapter 281 - One: Logging In
Gently plucking the seven-stringed harp in his hand, beautiful notes suddenly leapt into the air, like wind spirits dancing gracefully, giving one the urge to soar. The surrounding curtain of air magic slowly dissipated, and of course, outsiders couldn’t sense the change in these spatial magic elements. Still, Komer knew the experiment to control air magic with musical notes that he designed had achieved perfect success.
In fact, this magic curtain was a combination of air magic and perception magic. It was controlled by two factors: touch, where anyone entering its range would instantly cause it to evolve into a prepared attack magic array, and whether it was a mage or a martial arts expert trying to forcefully enter, they would have to break this magic array first.
To protect his most important workshop, Komer deliberately set up a mixed magic array of earth magic and Dark Erosion Magic. Dark Erosion Magic posed a challenge for any mage or paladin. To break through it, unless you were a dark wizard or you possessed exceedingly strong magic strength. As for the earth-based magic, Komer took advantage of the secret room below the room, on one hand, to launch powerful earth attacks, and on the other, to allow the equipment in the invaded room to escape into the underground passages where they were located in record time, thus protecting the equipments and items in the room.
On the workbench still lay the round cylindrical metal tube that had only just begun to take shape. Just processing this metal tube had already cost Komer a great deal of effort. The dark iron tube of the magical metal alloy, mixed with a large amount of other magic power ores, could faintly pulse with sparks of light in the dark. This was from adding Burning Stone, known as the utmost extreme of fire-type magic minerals, to the forging of Usteel, a highly unstable fire magic power ore that should categorize as a non-metal mineral, yet could be incorporated into metal by adopting special forging method to endow its magical characteristics to the metal, significantly enhancing the metal’s fire-type magical properties.
However, incorporating this type of ore into metal was a challenge; both smiths and mages needed to be well-versed in Fire Magic and deeply understand the properties of both metal and this type of fire magic power ore. Almost every source of this natural ore has slightly differing contents of fire magic power, most with a mix of magical properties. For example, some are more inclined towards the Light Series’ Solar Flame, a blend of Light and Fire Magic properties, while others lean towards the Dark Class’s Nether Shadow Flame, a combination of Dark and Fire Magic. If not careful during forging, failing to control the right heat, one could neither embed the highly active fire star magic mineral’s fiery magic power onto the metal nor would prevent the burning of the magic metal. Worse, one could even trigger an outburst of Solar Flame or Nether Shadow Flame, which was extremely dangerous for both the smith and the mage.
It took Maximi’s Smelting Workshop five working days to barely forge the Usteel into a cylindrical shape, then another week to polish the inner walls of the cylinder smooth. The Dwarf craftsmen in the workshop didn’t know what magic metal chimney sent by the Lord’s Mansion for processing was for. If you say it’s a chimney, then using such expensive magic metal seemed too extravagant for Lord. If there were other purposes, this thing didn’t look like any magic equipment or prop. After countless debates over drinks, the Dwarf craftsmen’s concluded that Lord was probably designing some special magic circle requiring this advanced magical instrument beyond ordinary people’s comprehension.