Chapter 85 Curio <TOC> Chapter 87 Blade of Annihilation
Translator: SumTLMan
Shen Luoyan placed the Star-Sunk Iron into the graphite crucible, which was obtained from the repair institute and could withstand up to 3600 degrees Celsius. It was sufficient for melting the Star-Sunk Iron.
Her released high-temperature beam continuously shone on the Star-Sunk Iron block.
After absorbing a large amount of heat, the Star-Sunk Iron gradually became red-hot.
The red-hot Star-Sunk Iron flowed out like sweat, finally melting into liquid.
Shen Luoyan continued to shine the beam, maintaining the temperature in the crucible, and poured the iron liquid into the mold.
She first wanted to make the Star-Sunk Iron into grinding slices and grind the Sacred Silver into fine powder particles.
Although Sacred Silver was relatively soft, it was much more resilient than ordinary steel, and ordinary metal grinding discs could not grind it into powder.
She installed the grinding disc on the previously assembled lathe and closed the iron shell to prevent the Sacred Silver powder from scattering.
Sacred Silver was much more expensive than gold of the same weight.
She rubbed her brow and used her psychic energy to manipulate the gears to rotate.
The grinding machine immediately made a harsh metal grinding noise. Even though Star-Sunk Iron was much more resilient than Sacred Silver, grinding was not easy.
“What kind of weapon do you need?” Shen Luoyan asked.
For a warrior, the shape of the weapon, center of gravity, and cutting angle are very important. Some schools will pass down a certain special weapon shape to match the secret martial arts in the school.
“Just the original blade shape, but the blade should be longer, about 1.2 meters, so it can withstand heavy two-handed swords. The weight should be over 20 kg, preferably around 30 kg,” Li Mu said after thinking for a moment.
The weight of the knife is very important. If it is too light, it will be difficult to chop into the bodies of those with strong defenses, and it will be blocked by their tough tendons and bones halfway.
Shen Luoyan took out a notebook and drew a rough sketch with a pencil, calculating the various dimensions of the long knife.
She chose a 25° cutting angle. Although Star-Sunk Iron was extremely resilient, the impact force applied to the weapon during a battle between awakened beings could even exceed 100 tons.
If the cutting angle is too small, although the blade face of the long knife is sharp enough, it is likely to break directly in battle.
A thick enough knife ridge can also absorb the impact of the collision and increase the weight of the knife body.
As for the problem of not being sharp enough, it is easy to solve. The strong energy cultivation of the awakening system makes it almost indestructible, and the ability to destroy and cut is much more useful than the simple blade.
It took about three hours for Shen Luoyan to grind all of the about 5 kg of Sacred Silver into fine powder.
Grinding the Star-Sunk Iron block with Star-Sunk Iron grinding slices was even more difficult because of the Star-Sunk Iron. She spent over ten hours, with several rests, to grind enough Star-Sunk Iron powder.
She drank a sip of the Sun Spring, regained her spirit, and then started the next step.
She weighed the powder accurately and mixed it evenly in the mixer according to the formula.
She accurately weighed the powder, mixed it evenly in the mixer according to the formula ratio, and poured the evenly mixed metal powder into the crucible. Shen Luoyan took a deep breath and instantly released a scorching psychic energy beam with her highest power.
The destructive beam was transformed into extremely high thermal energy, and even the graphite crucible with a high melting point was roasted red-hot.
The metal powder in the crucible was burned to death by high temperature.
She poked the graphite rod and picked out a fine wire as thin as hair from the crucible, turning all of the metal powder into sacred silver, Star Sunk Iron alloy wire.
She checked all of the metal wires, confirmed that the yield was good, and took a two-hour break to regain her spirit and continue her work.
Directly using metal powder for sintering will have the disadvantage of insufficient fatigue resistance, and it is more likely to have looseness, porosity, and unmelted defects. These defects are very likely to cause the weapon to break directly during high-intensity battles.
So Shen Luoyan chose to first make an alloy wire, then weave and sinter it with high-temperature beams to make weapons.
In this way, the integrated weapon has not only excellent toughness and anti-seismic ability beyond the alloy itself, but also excellent anti-high temperature ability and high efficiency of psychic energy conduction due to its specific weaving structure. Even if ordinary steel is used, it can produce weapons with excellent performance, not to mention directly forging with psychic metal.
The manufacture of such weapons requires high-power laser emitters, and the parameters of the weaving must be altered based on the shape of the weapon during production.
Before the great catastrophe, only large research institutions had the conditions to manufacture such weapons in small batches, and even after the catastrophe, even advanced awakeners highly valued weapons forged in this manner.
All the alloy wires were wound around seven spinning rods, and Shen Luoyan rapidly wove them together on a rotating spell-blood iron plate by manipulating them with psychic energy.
The spinning rods spun, and the delicate alloy wires were woven and twisted in intricate patterns. Shen Luoyan continuously used her high-temperature psychic energy beam to fuse them together.
She replaced the industrial control computer with her own thoughts and achieved functions similar to those of various large equipment in the laboratory through her own efforts.
Amidst the buzzing sound of the spinning rods, Shen Luoyan spent more than an hour and forged a small piece of a knife handle.
She wiped the sweat off her forehead and was ready to continue working when she noticed that Li Mu and the other person were looking at her with inhuman eyes.
“What’s wrong?”
“Are you really human, not a robot disguised as a human?”
After looking at the dull-surface knife handle, Li Mu said.
“The Shen clan has a secret meditation technique that can peel off part of their own thoughts to serve as an operational unit for fast floating-point operations. I can now perform 10 billion operations, which will take about 12.8 seconds.”
Shen Luoyan continued to fuse the metal wires.
“A measure of the strength of a control system awakener is the speed of floating-point operations. The faster the operation speed, the more flexible and precise the control machinery is. When I assist you in combat using the mechanical arm, it is through high-speed operations that I control the mechanical arm in coordination with the movement of your arm muscles within milliseconds. Otherwise, a slow-reacting mechanical arm would be an obstacle.”
Li Mu hugged his shoulders and then glanced at Li Mei who was peeling an orange:
“It seems I’m not suitable to be a control system awakener.”
“I don’t think there’s anything to be envious of this ability,” Shen Luoyan said as she fused the metal wires with her flying fingers.
“If possible, I would rather not have this ability so that I wouldn’t have to work endlessly in the laboratory making various things for them in the dark.”