Su Ming's Script

Gray Ridge, the goblins' "No. 45" city.

Originally called Rust City, it had been a major steel production center modeled after those built by the dwarves. Although the equipment the goblins had tinkered with looked "much the same" as the dwarves', the steel it produced was as brittle as twigs, cracking apart at the slightest impact.

At first, the goblins passed their steel off as dwarven products and sold it, making a hefty profit in quick cash.

But once the deception was exposed, the market learned its lesson. Method after method for accurately identifying "goblin iron" quickly spread, cutting off the goblins' source of income.

For a long time afterward, "goblin iron" could only languish at the very bottom of the market. People reluctantly chose it only for the worst applications or when swindlers were running scams. It wasn't even considered fit for making farming tools.

But the arrival of the Father God changed everything!

Through a constant stream of divine oracles, the patient Father God tirelessly guided the goblins as they adjusted every detail of their processes, correcting one completely misguided mistake after another. The molten iron pouring from the blast furnaces finally became clear and bright, and it flowed faster with each passing day.

As the quality continued to improve, even the most experienced appraisers could no longer tell the resulting steel apart from dwarven steel.

And that was only the beginning. With the introduction of an entirely new heat-treatment technique, the new No. 45 steel made a qualitative leap in performance. By combining different quenching processes with high- and low-temperature tempering, the goblins could produce derivative grades suited to any application.

And so the goblins rose to the top of the other world's steel industry. Even the Final Bone Mad Machines, who had recently been rising at