The things The Forgotten had brought out truly surprised everyone present.
In the case beside Zhao Yuan lay an irregular black crystal, sealed behind a specialized protective cover and faintly emitting a fluorescent glow.
"Hiss... Such a heavy Rust Fog presence. Is this raw ore your people mined?"
Wen Shengkui frowned and spoke in a low voice.
In fact, there was no need for him to point it out. Any Ascendant present could sense it.
After all, Ascendants drew their abilities from Rust Fog, so they naturally possessed a certain affinity with related objects.
"Yes, this ore was mined within our settlement."
Shen Qin nodded and explained, "According to our measurements, its Rust Fog content is roughly between forty-five and sixty percent."
That figure was astonishingly high.
Because of the limitations of flight technology, people found it difficult to directly access the Rust Fog in the sky and could only study and analyze it through indirect means.
The most common methods were extracting contaminated seawater or storing occasional rainfall and snowfall.
But those methods were hardly without danger, especially during rain or snow. The Iron Rain that fell after passing through the Rust Fog still appeared clear, yet it was highly contaminating. If it landed on someone's skin, it could cause redness and pain at best; at worst, it could rot the flesh or even kill them outright.
Even though the city had protective measures in place, they could not achieve complete isolation. Every time such weather struck, cleaning up the aftermath alone was a considerable headache.
Fortunately, Night Sin City enjoyed springlike weather year-round, and abnormal conditions were rare. But precisely because of that, whenever they did occur, everyone saw them as a disaster.
What was more, while this method was simple, the proportion of Rust Fog that could