I Wield a Copper Hammer to Beat You—If I Don't, I Don't Feel Right-ski?
"So, what exactly did this saber originally look like?"
Shen Le spread the steel saber fragments flat across the table, piecing them together again and again.
After working on them for a while, he picked them up and measured each edge with vernier calipers, recording every figure one by one;
Once he had finished recording them, he fed them into the Scanner to obtain data, then spread them back out on the table and assembled them piece by piece...
Breaking the steel saber fragments down from an indistinguishable clump, lump, pile of who-knew-what into individual pieces was not difficult for him.
An ordinary expert would have needed to cut this lump apart by various means, such as laser cutting or waterjet cutting.
If they had confirmed that it came from a rare Tang Dynasty military weapon, they might even have spared no expense in using more precise and costly methods, such as femtosecond laser cutting or slow-wire EDM cutting.
But in Shen Le's hands, all he needed to do was follow the seams between the fragments shown by the CT scan and extract Metal-element power bit by bit. The fragments would naturally separate...
Clean, eco-friendly, non-polluting, energy-free, and debris-free.
The downside was that, first, only Shen Le could perform it; the skill could not be passed on. Second, the steel saber fragments had originally been crooked and warped, and they were still crooked and warped now...
And no matter how nondestructively he separated them, there was only this tiny amount of material. No matter how capable Shen Le was, he could not piece it into a complete saber. He could not even join any two fragments together:
"This edge is rolled..."
"This blade fragment has clear