Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1600

Chapter 1600 - Four Floors (Part 2)

"What do you mean?" Solus asked.

"The "make up" you put on his face was magical paint that your mother had crafted. It was resistant to time, fire, and even darkness magic. Without a proper counterspell, Threin would have remained like that for years."

Solus half laughed and half cried as those words triggered more memories of her spending time with her father while his face was still painted. In none of those fragments he seemed angry or annoyed.

Every time Threin looked at the baby girl, a big smile would always appear on his face.

It took Solus a while to regain her cool, yet no one said anything. They patiently waited until she managed to pull herself together and led them inside the tower.

"We are going to start from the lower floors and walk our way up." Solus said. "The deepest underground level will make Lith very happy."

She opened a thick wooden door that led to one of the oddest places that everyone had ever seen.

The room was completely empty and consisted solely of a stone sidewalk that ran along the walls, forming a ring that had a high railing along its external edge.

The railing allowed people to look down into the magma boiling right under their feet without the risk of falling down.

"Is this what I think it is?" Lith asked while looking at the lava with Life Vision.

"Yup. Welcome to the tower's metal mine!" Solus said with the first big smile ever since she had dreamed about Threin.

"This doesn't look like a mine at all." Friya knocked at the solid stone wall around them finding no trace of precious materials nor of any place where Lith could grow his own metal veins like it happened for the crystal mine.

"That's because you are looking in the wrong direction." Salaark said. "Try looking down with Life Vision."

Friya and Tista did as instructed, discovering that not only did the magma spun as if stirred by a giant invisible ladle, but it was also filled to the brim with the world energy coming from below.

"How do we use it, exactly?" Lith asked.

"The same as the crystal mine. Just throw every piece of metal you have into the magma. The heat will melt and purify them from common impurities while the world energy will seep through their liquified form, refining it." Solus said.

"What about Orichalcum? It's just silver with traces of Adamant and the temperature is high enough to vaporize it." He said.

"That's the best part." Solus replied. "The enchantments in this room make so that the silver vapor from the Orichalcum will condense into liquid and merge with the Adamant again.

"With each cycle, the silver component will be tempered, rearranging its structure thanks to the absorbed world energy until the Orichalcum turns into Adamant."

"What?" Lith, Friya, and even Salaark said in unison.

"You heard me. If we throw silver in the well, it will slowly turn into Orichalcum, then into Adamant, and then into Davross. It works just like a real mine, just better faster, and it works even on already mined materials." Solus said, puffing her chest out with pride.