Agan and Aziz were both helping out in Edward's forge, while Heller was there as well, examining the thing Zhang Tie had asked Edward to forge. When they saw Zhang Tie arrive, the three hurried over to greet him.
"Fortress Master, I have to say, the thing you asked Edward to forge is simply... simply astonishing..." Heller considered his words, glanced once more at the item Zhang Tie had had Edward make, and finally found an appropriate description.
That thing truly was astonishing—at the very least, it was something never seen before.
If even a pair of golden locks weighing twelve hundred tons apiece could not astonish someone, then nothing in this world ever would.
You read that correctly. What Zhang Tie had asked Edward to forge was a pair of golden locks weighing twelve hundred tons.
In appearance, the golden locks were no different from the iron locks and stone locks ordinary people used to train their strength, except that they had been enlarged many times over. There were two locks in total, each weighing six hundred tons, for a combined weight of twelve hundred tons.
At that moment, beneath the surging earthfire of the forge, the pair of golden locks gleamed brilliantly, carrying the intoxicating aura of gold.
Gold had an extremely high density. One cubic meter of gold weighed 19.32 tons. A twelve-hundred-ton barbell therefore amounted to less than 62.112 cubic meters of gold. Split between two golden locks, each lock had a volume of just over thirty-one cubic meters. If shaped into a cube, each would be an enormous object roughly 3.15 meters long, wide, and high.
Unlike ordinary iron locks and stone locks, which had only one handle, these two golden locks had handles everywhere. Recessed grips that could be held from every direction covered