After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1665

Chapter 1665: Metallic Pair?

The experimentation with this metal was mostly with alloys or in combining them with other materials. So for the past couple of weeks she had been in the armory factory borrowing their workshop and their furnaces.

The findings they had so far needed a bit more trial and error to be able to use them.

To Lin, they had to be used first before she could count it as a discovery in the first place, so there was no hint of excessive pride in her body right now.

This was because she believed that she—other than the fact that they discovered it—hadn’t accomplished anything related to this metal yet.

Creating alloys with the metal had been done several times by now. This was how she got to certain conclusions, but its behavior for larger applications was really different. For example, heating it up at certain temperatures would definitely cause it to behave differently, with even more variances than other metals.

To determine more, she needed either a Class C weaponsmith or a metal user. Fortunately, Alterra was one of the few towns where they did not lack such a level of expertise.

She turned to see Oslo there, playing with a metal in his hand. She blinked. "You’re still here?" she couldn’t help but ask, a bit surprised. It had been a few hours since he was here, and she didn’t ask anything else of him. She had assumed he had left a long time ago.

At this, Oslo leaned forward a bit, sparkling as always. "Like alloys, we are stronger together, don’t you think?"

Lin made a face, using her palm to push his face back. "Stop being cheesy."

"Anyway," he said, standing up. "You seem stuck."

"A bit," she admitted without shame. "Help me."

Oslo’s eyes brightened hearing this. If anyone else was there, they’d be blinded by his smile. Sadly, Lin seemed to be made of metal herself, merely reflecting his light without a care for it.

"You can manage criel now, right?" she asked.

Oslo nodded. It was only a bit... but it should be enough, right? 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Right?

Nope. He was wrong.

A few hours later, Oslo was pale as his stamina was consumed, but with very little success for Lin.

The goal was to successfully merge the few types of metal, including steel with criel to create a weapon superior—and more stable—to their current steel one.

Granted, steel was still a very, very, good weapon at their level, but who’d say no to an upgrade?

The two of them tried and tried until they were drenched in sweat, but it still didn’t work.

"Sigh, theoretically it should work—but theory has a way of not working in this world." Lin was very regretful, but not entirely surprised either.

Why? Because of aether—the most mysterious element. It was incredibly unpredictable, too. It felt like a wrench in all scientists’ plans after they got to this world.

It was like a new, annoying variable in a math equation, where adjusting one minor variable could change it, making a mess out of the entire equation instead.

A few minutes later, Brenda and her father arrived. They also called in the best blacksmith they had, including Hardy—the person who taught many of them how to handle Iron properly.¹

They failed many, many times. Fortunately, metals were reusable, so there was no wastage except for their energy, which was also debatable because they did improve a little every time.

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