Mid-December, Royal Pamir Academy.
"Astonishing insights! Anvis, you truly are a genius! I never even considered that the mystical properties of gold could be utilized in such a way."
"No worries, progress is mutual, Carl, your points on the relationship between Mangura black goats and ancient reproductive totem worship have inspired me as well."
"That’s what I’ve been saying, goats are indeed better than sheep—"
After the day’s Mysticism class ended, Anvis carried an appropriately polite smile, courteously responding to classmates’ compliments. From time to time, he also distributed well-placed praises, keeping the atmosphere lively and relaxed.
Following the baptism of numerous outstanding performances since his admission.
By now, no students were referring to Anvis as a newcomer anymore; instead, they treated him as a genuine upperclassman.
Although it was just a little over two months since his official admission—
"Of course, if you have any other questions about Mysticism, you are always welcome to discuss them with me."
"Goodbye, Anvis, definitely next time!"
With a smile, Anvis bid farewell to many classmates and returned to his residence, entering the underground secret laboratory.
"Welcome, esteemed Manager Anvis—"
The thick Demon-Repelling Metal gate slowly opened, with the mechanical female voice of Silver echoing around Anvis’s ears.
A month and a half had passed since the start of the original metal separation.
Finally, the progress of elemental separation had reached 99% yesterday.
Today is the day the separation would be completely finished.
"Report the progress of elemental separation."
Standing in front of the huge element stripping device, Anvis stared at the Silver Pyramid’s surface with mysterious Inscriptions flickering, inputting commands into the core of Silver’s mechanical construct.
"Command received—checking... Elemental separation progress: 100%, task completed—would you like to confirm the exportation of the results?"
"Confirm extraction—sort by numbers to different sections, and execute precise packaging maneuvers. Define every 0.5 Paso as a standard portion, and package them in Demon-Repelling Metal sealing boxes.
After packaging, manipulate all the metal particles inside the sealing boxes, merging them to form a complete hemisphere with a radius of three centimeters."
"Command accepted—exportation starting—"
With Anvis’s command issued, the Inscriptions on the surface of the Silver Pyramid lit up once again.
Through complex and incredibly precise external components, portions of separated Curse Metal particles were transported into sealing boxes made of Demon-Repelling Metal.
Then, the specially designed Element Refining Array began to operate. Invisible Magic Effects spread out along the Mithril circuitry, affecting the metal particles in many sealing boxes.
A large number of metal particles instantly began to deform, merging into one another, gradually forming blocks of complete Curse Metal.
"Raw material merging rate: 100%, exportation complete—"
Accompanied by a noise like a pressure chamber releasing air, the massive and precise pyramid mechanism’s main valve, gleaming with a silver-white metallic luster, slowly rose.
Anvis stepped forward, his spiritual power spreading out cautiously, lifting rows of sealing boxes in the Element Export Room,
moving them to a prearranged fully enclosed testing device in the corner of the lab.
He had to be careful, unlike last time, this result included a large amount of two types of high-rank Curse Metals.
If an accident occurs, the high rank curse field inherent to the metal could cause him significant harm.
Once all the curse metal has been transferred, Anvis inputs commands once again.
"Command accepted — seal the chamber doors, begin the testing task —"
The sturdy demon-repelling metal doors of the testing unit close, while some partitions made of special metals turn transparent, allowing Anvis to observe the changes within.
There are a total of eight major categories and thirty-nine different types of cursed metal elements, most of which are stable and cannot be used as weapons.
Anvis’s task is to identify those elements capable of triggering chain reactions.
The detection method is simple — just stack enough of these metal blocks together and observe any changes that occur.
All sealed boxes containing the Gray Iron-1 element are moved into a highly sealed testing chamber.
Under the force field, the lids of two sealed boxes open on their own.
A magic arm made of activated metal stretches out, cautiously lifting the drab metal hemisphere and gently placing it atop another similar metal hemisphere.
Nothing changes when the two hemispheres overlap, so another metal arm extends, targeting the two spheres, its inscriptions glowing faintly.
As the spell controlling the metal takes effect, the two hemispheres merge by themselves, their shape beginning to change like putty, forming a larger complete hemisphere.
The next moment, in the sealed testing chamber of demon-repelling metal, the same steps are continuously repeated.
"Gray Iron-1 element test concluded, combined mass: 2048 Paso, no abnormal magic reactions observed throughout the process..."
"Gray Iron-6 element test concluded, combined mass: 2048 Paso, no abnormal magic reactions observed throughout the process..."
"Testing of all numbered Gray Iron elements completed — no special feedback from any element experiment, determination: conditions unmet —"
"Black Striped Copper - 4 Elements test concluded, combined mass: 2047.9 Paso, no abnormal magic reactions observed throughout the process..."
"Testing of all numbered Black Striped Copper elements completed — no special feedback from any element experiment, determination: conditions unmet..."
"Blood Silver class..."
"Black Edged Copper class..."
In the subsequent one and a half Magic Time, the mundane voice of Silver kept constantly reporting.
But apart from differing element names, the information was entirely the same failure notices.
This pattern of experimental failures continued until the tests reached the Star Blue Silver class, specifically element number 3.
As the activated metal arm mechanically repeated the process, placing a Star Blue Silver-3 cursed metal hemisphere on top of another, an alarm from Silver abruptly went off—
"Warning! Warning! An abnormal curse power outbreak has occurred in the experimental cabin!"
Through the transparent chamber wall, Anvis observed:
When two halves of the hemisphere glittering with specks of starlight overlapped, the surface of the sphere suddenly erupted into a bright blue dazzling light.
At the same time, the Magic Crystal Ball displaying various data from the test cabin showed the activity index of the curse field abruptly spiking upwards, bursting in growth like a rocket!
At the critical moment, following the pre-set experimental program, the activated metal arm instantly extended, splitting the two hemispheres into halves anew.
① One Paso is approximately equivalent to 0.998 kilograms