The Runic Alchemist - Chapter 755: Processing the Metal Called Blazur

Chapter 755: Processing the Metal Called Blazur

The light blue metal’s melting point was somewhere around 370–380 degrees Celsius. The remains of the lizard beast were burned to charred remains at nearly 200 degrees. After some experimenting—melting it in an invisible box and trying to refine it—Damian had more or less figured out the method to do it on a large scale.

Damian used the waygate and came back to the Sanctuary. He picked up as much silver as she had collected and then told Evrin what he was going to do, and then started the process. Outside the northern city gate, Damian used the new metal, combined with 10% silver and 15% steel, to build a working refinery for this new source of metal.

Only the frame of the huge building was made of this alloy—he didn’t have enough to waste. For the rest, he either used the best earth spells to make the walls with added layers or wood to fix it all in place and form strong walls. He had to keep the length of the whole building over 200 meters and the height around 120 meters. The massive beast should be able to fit in this.

Once the large factory was done, Damian started making the main tools that would be used to separate the beast from the metal and refine and reshape the final product.

He started from outside the factory, where he built a platform that was around a hundred meters in length and 60 meters in width. It was right in front of the factory, which had no front gate—to lock it, Damian had just added his invisible shield spell in the support beams. So one side of the factory was completely open.

This platform had a side control panel in which Damian had added a few spells that could be activated with a flip of a switch. The first of these was a spell that would release mana threads and connect to a spatial storage device placed at the center of the platform, overloading the runic circle to change it from an ’only accessed by consciousness’ section into an ’always open’

This was more like short-circuiting the runic circle—the spatial storage wouldn’t work afterwards, and it only worked with spatial storages that were accessible by all. The inheritance section would be difficult to change on the spot. Well, expenses were part of the production.

The other spell that the panel had was the weight-reducing spell. It would only be effective for 20 minutes, though; those had to be enough for the workers to lift it and put it inside the factory, where another such platform was made on one side.

It was all just a part of the factory-making trial—he wouldn’t put civilians to work without making sure everything worked perfectly and was 90% safe.

The light blue metal alloy (referred to hereafter as Blazur Alloy: Blue + Lizard) platform inside the factory was different from the outside one. This one was purely made of this alloy, unlike the outside one, in which only the 3-meter upper layer was Blazur Alloy. The reason for doing that was because he needed to put more spells on this platform.

Once the lightweight mech-lizard was carried inside and settled upon this platform, the panel control could flip a switch and activate an invisible box spell that would cover the whole platform. Then, there was a series of separate groups of switches that would activate the vacuum-creating process using wormholes and water added with wind spells. The wormholes were big strips instead of one whole rectangle so the beast would remain unaffected.

The extra water was designed to get absorbed in an always-active spatial storage—so once filled, it could be emptied and reused—like a convenient recycle bin. The water had many uses for the city once purified.

Once the no-air vacuum was created, another switch would activate eight big, intense fire runes—three on one side of the invisible box, three on the other, and two at the front and back. The flames were powerful, but the intensity was not enough for it to reach a temperature above 250–260 degrees Celsius. The flames did not need oxygen to burn, just mana—it was more costly, but it worked in Damian’s favor this time, with more flesh melting off than being turned to charred remains. Still, a little solidified, organic, brittle flesh remained.

The fire switch would also activate wind-wormholes placed at the top of the invisible box to take all the gases and smoke released from the beast’s organic body and exhaust it out of the factory. The half-roof of the factory Damian had made with air-shield spells added to the Blazur Alloy frame allowed the wormhole to open without restrictions.

Once this process ended, the fire would be deactivated and the metal would be left to cool for a while. Damian had included an air-conditioning spell in the platform too, for speeding this process. It wasn’t freezing cold, but still enough to cool the blue metal in ten to fifteen minutes.

Once it cooled enough, the vacuum system would be used again—this time simply to wash off any big pieces of the organic remains.

Afterward would come the manual labor of scraping off any brittle organic remains that were still in there—cleaning the remaining metal as well as they could. Once it was cleaned and ready, the workers could activate the invisible box again and turn on the switch that would release an intensely high-pressure water jet from the platform, from all directions, to cut the metal into smaller pieces.

Another switch would make the pre-cut metal pieces lightweight again. The workers could place it in the giant crucible Damian had made and turn on multiple fire spells to increase the temperature beyond 400 degrees. The metal would melt and could be collected with a sloped crucible or draining system. The silver and steel could be mixed in to make the alloy and shape it into ingots.

It wasn’t a hundred percent pure, but it would still be more than enough as a common construction material. Runic spell inscription was pretty solid in this alloy. With this, he wouldn’t have to replace most things every few months. At least a year of spells and more could easily be endured with this alloy—and even more if the spells were fewer and usage low.

Damian kept everything as it was—without his liquid mana, everything was just metal anyway. A crowd had gathered outside, but this was not for them, so Damian didn’t say anything and simply flew back to the Sanctum. His assistants had found a few places that had iron and other metals or ores. Damian planned to collect that too, but for now, focusing on this one dungeon was his goal. He needed the blue metal to quickly build some necessary things like waygates, the ocean dungeon platforms, and some necessary Sanctum buildings.

After returning, Damian once again entered Evrin’s office and told her he needed workers who could do simple work for him—no requirement other than age. The pay was far better than most labour work in the city. Damian needed more than one factory, but for now, he wanted to see if it worked as he had planned for a while. For a few days, he had planned to show the workers himself how the various systems worked, and then see if people could do it on their own. Other than the scraping-off process, he just needed people to manage the control panels and push the giant beast after making it lightweight. He would also need some people with basic blacksmith knowledge to look after the ingot-making system.

Damian also visited Einar in the stone keep while having lunch and told her his long-time plan of retrieving as many mecha-lizards from this one dungeon as possible. She suggested sending a few capable teams first to make a perfect plan for reaching level 17 with minimum loss of soldiers. Knowing the boss monster’s weaknesses would make it much easier.

“We have found plenty of things about these civilizations, Lord Keeper. All reports we have already read once. Do you want us to make our deductions and write reports on that?” Seraphina asked as Damian entered his office and seated himself at his desk.

“No, there is no need for that,” Damian replied. “But do tell me your impression of all these dungeon civilizations—and what knowledge we can derive from it.”

The five people looked at each other, and no one spoke up immediately. The meeting of the House of Lords had only lasted till lunch, so Hester was also free to join them. Finally, Seraphina answered,

“If studied further, there is a possibility of learning the language, which could come with chanting knowledge.”

Damian nodded. “That’s possible, but we have enough weapons and firepower. I was talking about the knowledge of their lifestyle, customs—their stories. Something humanity could learn, so we won’t follow behind in their footsteps anytime soon.” Damian said, and noticed Celestine, Velen, and Agatha’s eyes widening.