Saine ultimately only bought a few ordinary auction items that were neither here nor there.
What drew Saine's attention most was a star map recording the Vimi Starfield and several small starfields around it.
The area covered by the map was very limited and did not involve any Medium Planes.
Yet Saine had a feeling that these interstellar chambers of commerce, whose origins were unknown, were surely connected to Medium Planes or even higher-level planes.
After all, materials such as Hate Spring Water and Joy Spring Water were relatively rare special materials even within Wizard Civilization.
Saine did not believe that a few Low-Level Planes could produce such law-based materials.
Even when Saine left, the auction was still underway.
Using the Faceless Mask, Saine quietly marked the two Level-4 lifeforms that had bid so frequently.
If his condition recovered further, and the Eight-Winged Angel Fumila could be repaired to a certain extent... Saine would not mind pulling off a job!
When Saine left the auction, all the metal materials he had purchased had arrived as well.
After paying the remaining balance, Saine did not linger in Vigis Star City. Instead, he took the metals and the pirate ship to a desolate asteroid beyond the city.
After hollowing out the asteroid by brute force, Saine entered it and immersed himself in his experiments.
The vast quantity of metals purchased from the star city steadily shrank in volume under the calcination and smelting of Saine's Ash Law flames, condensing into Essence of Metal.
The entire refining process lasted more than half a year.
The metals Saine had bought from the star city were ultimately reduced to less than one percent of their original volume.
If those metals had originally only been mid-grade materials,
then the Essence of Metal forged through Saine's