Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 938 Forging

The indenter is usually made of diamond, because diamond is the hardest object in nature, except for some strange carbon crystals.

There is everything in the Jinyiwei's alchemy room, including a hardness meter.

He took the golden pill out of the vise and placed it on the hardness tester.

This hardness tester looks a bit like a microscope. Both have a table and a column on top that you need to approach from top to bottom. The difference is that when using a microscope, the teacher will tell you "Don't press it! If you press it again, the lens will break! The lens is very expensive!"; while the hardness tester is to press down from here.

There is a disc pointer on the back of the hardness tester to accurately read the hardness.

[Wait.] Apollonia suddenly reminded, [Is the hardness of this thing]

She didn't finish her words, but Shangluo had already guessed it - what to do if this thing is harder than diamond.

"Maybe. I'll give it a try. I have to try it first, because your hardness broke the equipment before."

[Then blame me! You were the one who wanted to hit me! ]

"Anyway, I've learned a lesson this time. It's OK in the New World, but if it exploded in the center of the world, it would probably be all over the news."

[What if the hardness is really higher than diamond? 】

"Then I really have to be more careful. This shows that the divine metal is true. Its hardness has reached the extraordinary level. Then I have to reconsider the treatment plan."

Shangluo pressed the button of the hardness tester - and then, he heard a crisp "bang" sound. The crushed diamond indenter flew out directly.

"Fuck, it's really harder than diamond!"

【What should we do? 】

"What should I do?"

The two asked the same question in unison.

"Tsk." Shang Luo smacked his lips. "Since this is not a conventional thing at all, I won't use conventional means to operate it."

He walked out directly with the golden elixir in his hand - this extraordinary object was harder than the hardest substance in nature, so it was obviously unnecessary to use a vise to operate it.

"By the way, let me ask first." He turned around and asked Phaethon, "You don't know the technical questions, so I won't ask. But I'll still ask from a magical perspective - what is the purpose of this process?"

"That's right," Phaethon replied. "It's mainly ritualistic - which means it's very important. Because this is magic, ritual is equivalent to a process and must be performed. The principle of this ritual is that all the substances that make up the ideas are originally composed of ether. The ether does not exist in this world, but only exists in the world of ideas. If you want to bring it into this world and shape it into the way you need it, you need to perform a ritual."

"So you want to give it a hammer?"

"The specific ceremony is very complicated, almost like delivering a baby. I have simplified it for you here, simplifying all the steps into just one process: 'hammering' - so you must ask me if it only takes 'hammering'. My answer is 'yes, just hammering'. But to be more specific, you have to hammer it."

"Because I have to be the one to consecrate it, otherwise there will be no soul, right?"

"That's a very appropriate answer." Phaethon nodded. "This part requires your spirituality to participate. Your spirituality needs to represent this world and give recognition to the etheric creations in it. Unintelligent objects cannot take on this responsibility. That's why I said before that you have to hammer the 100,000 heavenly soldiers one by one. This thing can't be automatic."

"Okay." Shangluo nodded, "I roughly understand. It's just a consecration ceremony."

He placed the sword pill on the grass outside, squatted down, and swung his hammer hard -

There was a clang.

[What happened?] Apollonia quickly jumped out and asked, and Phaethon also came over.

"Something's wrong, it seems like nothing happened - something is going to happen, right?"

"That's for sure." Phaethon replied, "The birth of extraordinary things must be accompanied by images, and at the same time you must give it recognition, so that it can be recognized by the material world as an etheric creation, and thus be 'consecrated'. The recognition is given by you, so you must be aware of it yourself. If you don't feel it, it means you have not succeeded." "Let me see what's going on." He moved the hammer away -

[Ah, how did it fall into the ground? Dig it out quickly.]

"Why are you talking like you're playing marbles?"

[It's like I've really played marbles before! I don't think there's anything wrong with this ritual, you really just hit it into the ground and then you have to pull it out.]

"I'll try something else." He took the sword pill to the concrete ground beside the road and hammered at the concrete ground.

"It's over." He could feel it without even picking it up. Because the hammer had already touched the ground, the entire sword pill was hammered into the concrete.

"Is this thing so hard?" Phaethon also came over.

"The diamonds are all crushed. How hard can you imagine? What should we do?"

[Oh, right.] Apollonia thought, [Isn't this just like cracking an egg? If you can't find something suitable to crack the eggshell, then just use two eggs to crack it.]

"That makes sense." Shang Luo nodded, "You're not that stupid. A smart IQ can occasionally give you the upper hand."

Phaethon took another sword pill from the house and placed it under the previous one.

"Are you holding it or am I holding it?"

"I'll take it myself. I know my own hands and I won't hit them. But the same may not be true for yours."

The sword pills were neither too big nor too small, just enough for Shangluo to hold two of them in his hands, one above and one below. He placed the sword pills firmly and hammered them hard -

There was a clang.

[Wow! The hammer below went into the ground! ]

Shangluo did not stop, but continued to hammer. The golden elixir hammered into the ground sank deeper and deeper, and even the second one was about to sink in.

Shangluo threw the hammer to the ground:
"So the vise is really important! A fitter without a vise is like a driver without a car! Do you understand what I mean? The vise is really important!"

[The one in there? ]

"The concrete floor is in such a state. Please don't let me try to sharpen the vise inside. The high-end products bought by Jinyiwei seem to be quite expensive. It seems that we have to use extraordinary means today."

He took out the hunter's skinning knife directly from the package.

The power of a true divine weapon cannot be analyzed by Shangluo at his current level of power.

Shangluo put the hunting knife underneath and hit it hard -

[It’s done!] Apollonia said in amazement.

"Did it work?" Phaethon, who was standing next to him, could not see anything because Shang Luo remained in that position. "How did you see that?"

[I feel something pouring in from Shangluo. The consecration was successful!]

"It's physical strength. Or something else." When Shang Luo raised the hammer again, his eyes were filled with astonishment. "It's unbelievable that I would feel tired. It's as if some power has flowed into me."

Above the skinning knife, the light of the sword pill contained everything in the universe, and the whole body was filled with an aura of high spirits.

(End of this chapter)