RHE - Chapter 35: Pioneering Cold Forging

Chapter 35: Pioneering Cold Forging

Days passed one after another. Everyday, there would be progress in the refinement of the Hyderabad ores.

Wang Chong did not understand forging, but he believed in the craftsmen Wei Hao brought him. Given their abilities, they should be able to fully satisfy his demands.

Five days later.

“It’s done! We’re about to forge metal ingots!”

The air in the cavern was burning. The perspiring head craftsman suddenly shouted, and his words caught the attention of everyone in the cavern.

Weng!

The moment the furnace opened, four bulky craftsmen almost simultaneously stretched out their tongs into the hot furnace to take out four successfully refined Hyderabad ores, or rather, Wootz steel, and placed it on the metal platform.

“It’s truly incredible!”

“How heavy! To think that a single ore could form such a huge metal ingot, the metallic content of the ore must be incredible!”

“There is a hint of blue in the flames! I have processed ores from decades and came into contact with countless ores, but this is my first time encountering such an ore!”

“Look, just the ingot itself already had the shine of a metal, something which should have taken hundreds of refinement and hammering to achieve. It is truly a miracle!”

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The crowd gathered around the four Wootz steel ingots around the metal platform. Their eyes were widened to the brim and words of amazement spouted from their mouths. When Wang Chong took out the four black metal ores and passed it to them, he didn’t say much about it.

However, given their experience in processing ores, no matter how slow-witted they could be, it was apparent that the ore Wang Chong had given them to process didn’t come from the Central Plains.

It was impossible for the Central Plains to have an ore that could cause the flames of the furnace to glow blue. It was even more impossible for it to have the shine of a metal just after the primary refinement.

They had never seen such a sight in the past several decades of their life.

“No wonder he had me lower

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Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 35: Pioneering Cold Forging

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