Elven cultivators

With the military seal secured, the other issues were much easier to resolve.

The main body of the Yellow Turban Warrior was made of high-quality steel smelted by the dwarves.

Anton originally wanted to use higher-quality refined gold, but ultimately gave up due to cost considerations.

As an alternative, he added frost-patterned silver to the refined steel and then quenched it with the Five Elements True Fire to remove impurities, greatly improving the quality of the material.

During this process, Anton discovered an interesting phenomenon.

Alchemists on the Dawn Continent habitually use magical flames when tempering metals.

Its essence is to catalyze and release elemental energy using a specific rune model to form a continuous and stable high temperature.

Its advantage lies in its strong controllability; alchemists only need to maintain the output of magic power to keep the flame temperature constant for a long time.

However, the drawbacks are equally obvious.

The upper limit of the temperature of magical flames is limited by the spellcaster's magical reserves and the sophistication of the rune model. Moreover, the flames themselves lack spirituality and can only passively soften metals and remove impurities, but cannot actively perceive structural changes within the metals.

The success of the tempering process depends entirely on the alchemist's experience and intuition.

However, the fire tempering laws in the cultivation world are completely different.

When refining metal with spiritual fire, the flame is not merely a tool for high temperature, but rather an extension of the refiner's perception.

When divine sense attaches to the flame, it can penetrate deep into the metal, discern the distribution of every impurity, and force the impurities out inch by inch from the inside out without damaging the metal's toughness and spirituality.

Metals forged by spiritual fire have a dense internal structure like natural crystals, with impurities so low as to be imperceptible, and they also retain a faint trace of the aura of spiritual fire, making them easier to resonate with runes and formations in subsequent refining processes.

This material property is far superior to metals refined by magical flames.

After testing, Anton discovered that the alloy, after being tempered by the Five Elements True Fire, far surpassed ordinary steel in terms of toughness, hardness, energy conductivity, and other aspects.

Its overall properties are not much inferior to those of adamantite, but its cost is far lower.

This is undoubtedly a surprising discovery.

This means that Anton has gained another asset.

If he wanted, he could easily purchase metals from the dwarves, improve their quality with spirit fire essence, and then resell them to them, earning a substantial profit.

However, Anton does not plan to do so for the time being.

If they really wanted to dump their products on Grayrock Fortress and rake in huge profits, rune-equipped gear would suffice.

There's no need to reveal too many cards to Grayrock Fortress at this stage.

Considering the impending war, in addition to crafting Yellow Turban warriors, Andong also specially crafted a batch of defensive talismans for himself, just in case.

When it comes to survival measures, you can never have too many and too much trouble preparing them.

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Silvermoon Forest, training ground.

The morning mist had not yet dissipated, swirling like gauze among the tree canopies.

It was still early, but the open space in the center of the training field was already crowded with people.

The three elders, Cedric, Elena, Darion... almost all the high-ranking members of the Silvermoon Clan were present.

There were also many elves whispering among themselves, their eyes frequently glancing toward the Tree of Eternity, as if waiting for something.

Just yesterday, Darian learned from Roman that Anton planned to test the combat power of the new alchemical golems at the training ground today, so he immediately reported the news to the three elders.

Somehow, the news spread and immediately caused quite a stir in the clan.

Many elves were very curious about this and rushed to the training ground at dawn, eager to see the new puppet that Anton had created.

Even the dwarves were drawn to it.

Dozens of dwarves gathered at the edge of the field, craning their necks to look toward the gate, their faces full of eager anticipation.

Many of them had never even seen Anton before, but upon hearing that they had the chance to meet the legendary elven genius, they immediately rushed over without hesitation.

Hagrid, Knut, and Thorwin, the three dwarf elders, had also arrived and were talking in hushed tones.

"Tolwin, is that young elf named Anton really as powerful as you say?" Hagrid scratched his beard and asked in a muffled voice.

Knut also cast an inquiring glance his way.

They had already heard of Anton's deeds back in Grayrock Fortress.

My first thought was that the old man, Thorvin, had drunk too much strong liquor and was out of his mind, so he was just spreading some hearsay nonsense.

But as more and more detailed intelligence was sent back to Grayrock Fortress, they gradually realized that the rumors were very likely true!

The dwarf elders were immediately awestruck.

Hagrid and Knut's mission in leading their army to aid the Silvermoon Clan was, in part, to gather intelligence about Anton.

"I've said it so many times, believe it or not!"

Torvin rolled his eyes in annoyance, tilted his head back and gulped down a mouthful of wine, then ignored the two of them.

Although he was well aware that what happened to Anton was indeed exaggerated and hard to believe.

Even when he first heard about it, he was full of doubt.

Hagrid and Knut exchanged a glance, smacked their lips, and said nothing more.

On the other side of the open space.

The three elders were also talking in hushed tones.

"Cassian, how much do you know about Anton's creation of new types of puppets?" The First Elder looked at the Third Elder.

The Third Elder shook his head and said with a wry smile, "To be honest, I'm not quite sure either. Apart from taking my notes and application materials, he didn't make any other requests. I almost thought he had given up."

Darian and the others exchanged bewildered glances, their expressions strange.

To be honest, when they heard the news that Anton had created a new type of puppet, they almost thought they had misheard.

From the time Anton expressed his intention to try to create puppets at the meeting, it has been less than two months, and he has already achieved results?

This sounds like a complete fantasy!

Even if Anton's so-called new type of puppet is only at the same level as basic puppets like wooden puppets and stone puppets, which don't even have white-rank combat power and can only be used to move heavy objects, it is still unbelievable enough.

"Eleanor, what kind of puppet do you think Anton will bring?" Roman grinned, putting his arm around Eleanor's shoulder with anticipation. "Hopefully, it'll be the kind that can take a beating."

Eleanor hesitated, then shook her head without saying anything.

Just then, a commotion suddenly broke out in the crowd.

"Here it comes!"

"Anton is here!"

Everyone turned to look, just in time to see Anton walk into the training field.

Surprisingly, there was nothing behind Anton; the so-called new type of puppet was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's the puppet?"

"Didn't you bring it?"

"That can't be right, didn't we agree on a demonstration?"

Whispers rose and fell.

Grimm couldn't contain himself any longer and blurted out, "Anton, where's the puppet? Is it still in the lab and hasn't been moved out yet?"

He made a special trip from the mining area today just to see Anton's new type of puppet and satisfy his curiosity.

Anton was initially surprised to see a sea of ​​heads, but he quickly understood and his expression returned to normal.

Since the rest of the clan will find out sooner or later anyway, I might as well take this opportunity to show it off.