After two full months of repeated attempts and exploration, burning through money with the efficiency of an incinerator, and throwing over ten million into the project, Ji Jue had finally taken a solid, reliable... first step in his research on Type Nine Chun Jun!
Now that he had gone through so much trouble to complete the prototype, verify the technology, and confirm that every process worked, it was time to find a budget, assemble a project team, put it into practice, and prepare for production!
For most artisans, this was where the torment truly began.
Budgets were hard to secure, projects were hard to launch, research was hard, keeping things running was hard, and producing results was even harder—hard, hard, hard... If anything went even slightly wrong along the way, the investors would lose their shirts, dragging Embers' already lackluster reputation down another notch.
That was what bottomless pits were like.
Throw tens of millions into one, and not even a sound came back.
Ji Jue did not need financiers. His own enterprises were enough to keep the Workshop running, but now that he was trying to establish such a massive project, he still found himself stretched thin.
Especially since Chun Jun, the final product, would be for his own use. A sword born from self-nature and self-spirit could not be wielded by anyone else. He could only bear the profits and losses himself and solve the problem on his own.
There were also huge shortages in the many materials required for the Blessing.
Though he had gained plenty of friendships and materials at the Wasteland Sea Rally Race, none of them were suitable. Waste Ruins lineage Dust Crystals could be used for Red Firmament or Zhanlu, but their properties were too abundant and stable. They would instead become shackles