BOOM!
The thunderous roar of the thrusters echoed across the heavens as a vast shadow slowly descended from the clouds, like a soaring giant, approaching the earth bit by bit.
It hovered above the sea surface.
A Moose-Class Cargo Airship, nearly half the size of New Spring, hovered over the Prosperity, blotting out the stars and moonlight. Blazing searchlights shone down brutally, like pillars of light from the heavens, looking down over the surroundings.
On the deck, indicator lights were waved by workers who had been lowered in advance. After correcting the deviation and locking onto the position, an enormous container was soon lowered slowly.
It landed precisely on the pre-cleared deck, then swiftly came apart, revealing the colossal creature beneath layers upon layers of protection: a Xihe Type 4th Generation Central Melting Furnace the size of a villa.
Even without installation or any accompanying equipment, the massive central melting furnace stood more than ten meters tall. The silent gray-black megastructure emitted neither flame nor light, yet merely approaching it allowed one to sense the pure aura of Embers within.
The most high-end central melting furnace available on the market, once prohibitively expensive, now stood before Ji Jue. Yet unexpectedly, he felt none of the excitement and exhilaration he had imagined in the past.
Quite the opposite... he felt a kind of calm indifference.
"For now, this will do."
He patted the furnace's body and sighed softly.
With a slight operation of Deus Ex Machina, the inspection was swiftly completed amid the flow of Spiritual Substance. There were no flaws or damage; every parameter was exactly as the association had guaranteed, without the slightest discrepancy—precise to an outrageous degree.
The importance of a furnace to an Artisan went without saying.
It was even more important than blades were to The