The first stage of a Blacksmithing process is the Purification Stage, and the second stage is the Melting Stage.

The Purification Stage was the stage where the grade of the weapon was heavily determined, because if th metals were not properly purified, the finished weapon would not be as powerful as it was meant to be.

The purification stage was also the most delicate stage because a single mistake by a blacksmith could ruin the metal.

The next stage was the Melting Stage, and it was also an extremely important stage and it could also be an extremely dangerous stage.

Depending on the metals that were being used, the Melting Stage could become an extremely dangerous stage.

And one should definitely expect the Melting Stage Corey was about to perform to be an extremely dangerous stage.

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As Corey directed the purified metals into the furnace, the golden eternal flames burned brightly and the temperature of the Forge jumped instantly.

Hot billows of smoke blasted from the furnace, but Corey was prepared for this.

The runes on the ground around the furnace lit up, and a spherical barrier appeared around the furnace, preventing the dense and extremely hot smoke from escaping beyond the furnace.

Anna who was far away had a curious and awed expression when she saw this, and Corey pointed at her.

The runes around her feet lit up, and then another spherical barrier appeared around her.

"Stay there. It won't be safe from now on."

Corey's voice drifted into Anna's ears, and she nodded with a slightly dazed expression.

Meanwhile, Corey shifted all his focus back to the furnace.

The heat inside the furnace was so hot that it could even melt the bones of an immortal, and that meant it was extremely dangerous to Corey.

Corey approached the side of the furnace, and directly beside the barrier was a crystal ball.

The crystal ball had nine tubes running through it as it floated mid-air. These tubes were connected to the furnace, and the moment Corey placed his hand on the crystal, he used Arcane Elemental Runeweaving to weave the nine elements into the crystal in the form of runes.

The crystal emitted a multicoloured light, and each tube had an element moving through it and flowing into the furnace.

Meanwhile, the metals in the furnace melted simultaneously despite the fact that they should not have been able to.

The main reason was because of Divine's Eternal Flame and the furnace Corey created. Through his Eyes of Omniscience, Corey could see how the metals were being melted by the relentless attack of the Eternal Flame.

The Starsteel liquified into silver-white syrup. The Devourer Ore became a dark, pulsing sludge. The Soulweave Crystal curled into vapor before condensing into an iridescent liquid.

The others also experience their changes, and this process did not take minutes but over six hours.

In these six hours, the melted metals merged, or to be more precise, they fought not to all the time.

But Corey was constantly using the nine elements to stabilise the reaction that was ongoing in the furnace.

It was an extremely dangerous and difficult feat, and as time went on and the metals were almost fused together, the rattling of the furnace became more and violent.

Corey had been using the nine elements to control the flow of mana inside the furnace, but it was getting more and more difficult.

The flow of mana inside the furnace was chaotic, rebellious, and unwilling to be one. The nine elements Corey had been pouring into the furnace were similar to negotiators and pacifiers, but the metals no longer wanted to negotiate. They no longer wanted to be pacified.

They wanted war!

They wanted to battle!

They wanted to resist!

And so they did.

The Starsteel rejected the Soulweave Crystal. The Devourer Ore resisted the Dragonscale Iron.

Everything fought everything!

And it was getting out of hand.

However, despite the violent and extremely loud rattling of the furnace that even shook the Forge and caused Anna to have a fearful expression, Corey's expression was utterly calm.

"Seems I'll have to use it."

Corey waved his hand, and then a black metallic rock the size of his head appeared above his hand.

This familiar black metallic rock was what used to seal the Omni-Weapon Infinity Crystal back in the Shattered Dimension of the Old Ones.

It was an extremely strange rock that was also very precious. Anything that could be used to seal an Infinity Crystal was definitely beyond their universe.

Corey had experimented a lot of times on the rock- both in simulation room of his Perceptual Nexus Repository and in the real world.

But even after everything he did, he was never able to fully understand the metallic rock.

Heck, he could even purify it in the slightest, and he couldn't even burn it despite using Dreamfire and every other flame he could conjure.

Corey planned on keeping the metallic rock until he reached a realm where he knew how to use it and he also had the power to smelt it.

But he met Divine and his Eternal Flame.

After borrowing Divine's Eternal Flame, Corey chipped off a part of the black metallic rock, and then he used the Eternal Flame to burn it.

To his immense surprise back then, the black metallic rock actually melted. Corey later got to know that Divine's Eternal Flame could burn nearly all matters and anything.

It was extremely unique in a way he couldn't grasp.

Corey observed the black metallic ore with a calculating glint of madness, and then he snapped his fingers a few moments later.

More metals appeared in the air.

Phantom Alloy. Aurorite. Phaseglass. Origin Steel. Abyssal Morrow Metal. Nethersteel. Mimeshard Crystal.

And many other metals, crystals, and ores floated around Corey.

Corey glanced at each and everyone of them, and then he flicked his finger and they began to enter the burning furnace one after the other.

If any Blacksmith were to see this, their eyes would bulge out in fear, but Corey had none.

How could he use only eight materials in the creation of his unique weapon?

And he had not even gotten to the most important and truly dangerous part yet.

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