Watching the blade radiating scorching heat, Zhou Xu tried moving his hand closer. Before he had even gotten all that near, he could already feel the astonishing heat pouring from the blade across the remaining distance.
At the same time, Li Gan, standing nearby, could not help calling out a warning...
"Your Majesty, be careful! You must not touch it with your hand!"
As the head of the Forging Department, Li Gan dealt with all kinds of metal burned red-hot day in and day out.
It was no exaggeration to say that, by now, he only needed one glance to know just how high the temperature of the blade had become.
If anyone touched it, their flesh would be scalded raw in an instant!
At that moment, the blade's intense heat also made Zhou Xu roughly realize that the reason this slash was so much more powerful was not merely because Flame Attack had been added to the attack.
It was also because, when Flame Attack was triggered, roaring flames wrapped around the blade, rapidly raising its temperature. This caused the Crimson Flame Sabre in his hand to effectively take on the properties of a thermal blade, unleashing an astonishingly hot slash!
Zhou Xu shared this idea with Li Gan. After pondering it briefly, Li Gan said...
"Simply relying on the flames' scorching effect shouldn't raise the blade's temperature that quickly. The reason it has this effect is probably that, after the Fire Crystal Stone was added, the metal itself gained a stronger ability to store and absorb heat."
Li Gan had noticed this while forging it, but he had not taken it particularly seriously before.
It was only after Flame Attack appeared, and their emperor brought up this point, that Li Gan mentioned it.
There was no doubt that