Chapter 544

The gods traveled swiftly. Before long, Rune God and Sui Xiong had returned to the Northwest Republic and arrived at Palin's metallurgy research institute.

The so-called "metallurgy research institute" was really just several buildings by the river. Palin and the others lived and studied in one building, conducted small-scale smelting research in another, and later added a blast furnace, along with two water-powered machines beside it.

By the standards of twenty-first-century China on Earth, this "research institute" was pitifully crude. Even in the Third World, it would be hard to find such a backward negative example. But in this world, such an institute was perfectly in line with everyone's understanding of what one should be like. Palin and the other researchers were all quite satisfied with it.

Sui Xiong did not disturb Palin and the others, who were busy with their research. Instead, he took Rune God directly to see the finished product of the new mass-produced armor.

"Look, this is the armor," he said. "I want to add some runes to it and turn it into magical armor—such a huge bare plate, with nothing done to it, nothing painted on it, not even a bit of decoration... it just makes me feel uncomfortable looking at it."

Rune God did not answer immediately. Instead, he carefully examined the armor. It took him quite a while. It was clear that his inspection was extremely thorough: touching it again and again, looking it over repeatedly, occasionally pausing to think, or tapping it lightly and putting his ear close to listen.

At that moment, he did not look like a great immortal god, but rather like a stern and conscientious old dwarven craftsman carefully studying a work unlike anything he had ever seen.

After a long while, he finally set the armor down