"Move it, move it! Find somewhere big enough for the experiment!"
After Li Qinwu briefly explained the ring's function to the Iron Skull Archmagos, the Archmagos immediately pushed him to hurry up and find a large area for testing.
According to him, Adamantium was a substance dispersed within ordinary metals. It could be found inside any metal known to man.
Generally speaking, though, it was easier to find an Adamantium Ore vein beneath the planet's crust and refine it directly from there.
Refining and forging Adamantium was extremely difficult. First, a mine shaft had to be dug deep into the crust to tap directly into the planet's magma.
If a stable Adamantium vein was found, thirty to forty percent of the erupted magma would consist of Adamantium.
After obtaining high-purity Adamantium Ore, the other impurities had to be removed and the Adamantium softened. This process required high temperatures and immense pressure—the work of a Planetary Forge.
Once liquid Adamantium was obtained, the pressure of the Planetary Forge had to be controlled to press the Adamantium into different shapes inside the furnace, then let it cool bit by bit.
As the heat decreased, the molecules within the Adamantium would slowly solidify. Extreme pressure had to be maintained throughout this process, or the Adamantium might deform, expand, or shrink.
The entire cooling process took several days, which was why Imperium Adamantium products were so incredibly valuable.
An immensely massive Planetary Forge could forge only one component at a time.
To make another component, the Planetary Forge's parameters had to be changed. It was extraordinarily troublesome, and production capacity was abysmally low.
For example, an Astartes Terminator Armour contained more than a thousand Adamantium framework components. Even excluding components of identical specifications, its parameters would still need to be changed more than three