Miles looked at the materials in front of him. There were many metals from Portal World and Earth. There was also a big work table with different apparatuses. These were required materials to create alloy weapons.
It has been a few weeks since Rayen moved in. After making sure Rayen was okay, Miles returned to the Portal World and hunted monsters to raise some funds. After all, craftsmanship was an expensive occupation and the cores he sold weren't enough as he predicted.
He killed many monsters and sold the cores he didn’t require. Those he could use, such as piercing, poison, and a few more useful elements he could forge to an arrow, kept in his stock.
He already had all the required knowledge to start his career, but he was lacking hands-on experience, which he was intended to get in the next few days.
“Alright, I worked hard in the last few weeks and raised more than 700 million UD. The work table cost me almost more than that, and I had to dry all my stash. It is now or never.
The first step is melting the materials. That is the easiest step.” Miles looked at the table and started the fire. The reason why the worktable was so expensive was because of the damn fire. The metals from Portal World were a lot more resistant than Earthen Metals. Making them too hard to melt, but this table had a special fuel making the fire real hot.
As far as Miles knew the fuel was special, could only be extracted from fire serpents, and could be found in every circle of Portal World. The higher the tier of the monster, the hotter the flames were. Just the gallon of damn fuel cost him 300 million. At least it would last him a few months, so Miles wasn’t dejected that much.
Miles started the fire and scaled the metals. To create the alloy, he had to put in the required amount and then mix them. If he didn’t put them according to the formula, the alloy wouldn’t be accurate, and might break apart without merging and would waste the materials. Of course, he could try to create his own alloys but that would cost too much money, so he wasn’t willing to try just yet.
He melted the silver-looking metal from Portal World called Troll Silver because there would always be trolls around the mines of these silvers. Trolls would feed on them to get stronger. They also had silver pupil-less eyes, with great sight.
After silver formed into liquid, he added other metals. There were a few Portal World metals Miles used to create this alloy. It was one of the strongest that could be formed from Grunt-Rank alloys, and he didn’t want to create anything weaker.
When all metals melted and formed a rainbow-colored liquid, Miles left it at the side with a moderate fire keeping it in liquid form. Then started to melt Earthen metals. They would be merged later on to create the strongest metals. Of course, to melt the Earthen metals, Miles had to reduce the temperature. After all, metals on Earth were a lot weaker than Portal World metals and could be melted by regular fires.
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After finishing melting Earthen metals, he didn’t mix them immediately. The key part was their amalgamation. After all, these metals weren’t from the same source. There were still natural elements in Portal World humans failed to discover and understand. It was like the iron element and the gold element could be merged after understanding, but without knowing, one could only merge them through sheer luck.
But this was the magical part. By mixing both worlds’ metals with the help of monster cores, which originated from a third world, these metals could be mixed seamlessly. But the hardest part of the creation was also mixing them with the monster cores.
Monster cores couldn’t be melted without the energy of the same element. That was the key part. Without water elemental energy, the water elemental core couldn’t be melted no matter how hot the fire was.
After some point, the overheated core would self-explode and ruin every material used with the work table. If a craftsman is lucky, he wouldn’t die. But with the influence of the same elemental energy, the core would start to get softer and milder, after it melted to liquid, it would merge with other metals and contemplate them perfectly.
What Miles was lacking, a person with the said element. He had a friend with Poison Element and would invite it if he didn’t find the Elemental Minerals in the cave. But now he had miraculous Elemental Minerals, he didn’t need to involve anyone else at all.
Elemental Minerals were so expensive for a reason. A small piece of it could melt the monster cores. Miles had a whole chunk of the mineral that could melt at least several dozen elemental cores. Every core could produce at least a dozen arrows, which means, with one poison elemental mineral, Miles could create at worst a thousand arrows. It might seem small, but Miles paid millions for arrows weaker than what he was creating. After all, the person who created the arrows he bought from, only made them in passing and was selling them all at the same price.
Any arrow Miles would create would sell for at least twice of that price on the market. With special elements, the price could go all the way up to three times. Selling hundreds of them would make 100 to 200 Million income. After deducting the cost, raw profit would be more than 50 million.
This was with a single elemental mineral! Of course, using elemental minerals was wasting heavenly material since Miles was using it to melt Grunt-Rank cores, and he as well as could melt almost all tier cores, but he was willing to use them for himself. The cave in the Endless Mountain was filled with them anyway.
After placing a small piece of elemental mineral on the core, with the help of fire, the core started to melt. It was like a poisonous liquid in the boiler. Miles then added all the other melted metals to the green one and started to stir it. The rainbow-colored liquid, quickly turned into green as if melted poison core was swallowing all the others. It didn’t lose its shade at all.
When all the other liquids were mixed with green, Miles stopped stirring and raised the boiler to pour the liquid into the mold. Molds were handmade by Miles to fit his requirements. He made the arrows bigger, so they would be stronger with more punch on the impact. Liquid filled two rows of half a dozen mold and Miles waited for them to cool then harden. The hardest part was over, and Miles successfully created his first batch of arrows.
Unlike armor or swords, arrows didn’t need to be hammered or sharpened. It was sharp since the mold was meant to be, and it was enough to be used as arrows. Since Miles had no experience in hammering, he started with arrows.
“I actually made it. If I sell 5 arrows in every batch, I can make up for my loss.” Miles was tempted but decided otherwise. He could always make more money, but arrows were his livelihood.
“Good, now I can create more,” Miles said and walked to the boiler once again.