The Kind of Evil

Chapter 198 - 198: Vanadis 8.

Rasmus looked at the wagons in front of the foundry to smelt the ores, but he wasn't planning to smelt them yet. He unloaded all the ores on the ground, and that attracted everyone's attention, including Javi and the others. Javi and Carrion helped Rasmus and Aris unload the ores, wondering why Rasmus had bought tons of ores that would be enough to make hundreds of swords and armor.

After they unloaded all the raw ores, Rasmus walked to the smithy and borrowed the grinding stones from the blacksmith and porcelain plates. He used the streak test on each raw ore to see the powders it had left behind in the porcelain. It was a common method that everyone already knew, and then Aris, Javi, Carrion, and Daryus did the same thing to help him.

They separated the raw ores from their color under Rasmus's order, and it took a while for them to finally group them based on colors. Hematite and Vanadinite had a dark brown color, Coal, Magnetite, Titanomagnetite, and Graphite had a black color, Molybdenite had a dark silver color, and lastly, Chromite had a dark gray color.

Rasmus told Daryus and Carrion about the different colors of the powders which distinguish what kind of ore it was. It was a bit hard to distinguish from the powders the ores produced on the porcelain, but thanks to Rasmus and Javi's knowledge about ores, they could help the others to separate which was Iron and which was Carbon.

"What about these? It has a crystal on it," Carrion showed the dark brown ore in his hand with small crystals on it.

"That's the one that I'm looking for. It's called Vanadinite," Rasmus looked at the ore in Carrion's hand. "I need you and Daryus to find ores like that from the pile," he pointed at the dark brown ore pile.

Daryus and Carrion nodded and immediately went to the pile to find a similar ore to what Carrion held in his hand. Aris and Javi already knew their tasks and separated which was to make iron and carbon. Rasmus on the other hand was focused on

Aris raised her brows and grabbed the handful of Vanadium. When she put enough pressure to crush a steel, she was shocked by how soft it was and broke easily. She looked at Rasmus with doubt because it didn't feel like a great material to make a sword, but she didn't say a word and began to crush all the materials into fine powders with her ability.

Nobody knew about Powder Metallurgy which wasn't surprising that everyone found the whole process unnecessary. Powder Metallurgy was an advanced technique that made the final product had high hardness, wear resistance, and toughness.

After each bucket was filled with different metals, Rasmus began to scale them on the scaler. He precisely put 80% powdered iron, 2,3% powdered Carbon, 8% powdered Vanadium, 4,8% powdered Chromium, and finally 1,8% powdered Molybdenum for each kilogram since it was easier to calculate.

Once Rasmus carefully mixed all the materials evenly in a small bucket, he put them in the furnace and created a vacuum space to prevent oxygen from going in. He heated the mixed material until it solidified with various methods like sintering. Everyone watched his craftmanship from up close, and they didn't know how good he was, but Rasmus wasn't good at making swords which he would let Aris handle in the final process.

"It's done..." Rasmus pulled out the hardened Vanadis 8 plate from the furnace. "Now, we just need to let it cool on its own..." he sighed as he removed the gloves.

"Is it my turn now?" Aris raised her brows and looked at Rasmus covered in sweat.

"Once it's cooled off, yes, it's all yours," Rasmus smiled as he nodded.

"Finally," Aris smiled as she observed the plate from up close.