Once the Truth-Speaking spell was activated, the attribute panel of the Source Crystal before him immediately unfolded in front of Zhou Xu...
Name: Source Crystal
Description: A special energy crystal formed naturally. The crystal's unique texture allows it to convert absorbed Natural Energy into attribute-less energy and store it within itself. It also possesses excellent compatibility. During the Old Civilization Era, it was one of the commonly used crystals required to manufacture many kinds of equipment and machinery.
Reading this description, Zhou Xu's eyes immediately lit up.
[A Source Crystal? Isn't this thing a lower-grade substitute for mithril?!]
Why were special metals important? Because special metals could often store energy. By adding special metals during the smelting of an alloy, they could transfer this property to the successfully smelted alloy.
That way, the alloy would possess the basic conditions needed to inscribe enchanted runes and turn it into Enchanted Equipment.
Of course, special crystals like Sharp Crystal had rather poor energy-storage properties. If one relied entirely on the small amount of energy-storage capacity provided by Sharp Crystal to make an Enchanted Weapon, it could basically only sustain the simplest and most basic enchantments, and their effects often would not last long.
To improve this property, they needed to add some metals specifically meant for storing energy while smelting the metal.
The most typical example was mithril!
Mithril could not only greatly increase energy storage, but also improve the efficiency of energy conversion and circulation, thereby reducing consumption and enhancing the effects of enchantments.
That was what made mithril so powerful—but at the same time, mithril was also incredibly scarce!
At present, their Great Zhou did indeed have a Mithril Island overseas, which could produce some mithril, but the output was pitifully small.
Mithril production was unstable. For the miners responsible