Chapter 487: The Crucial Point! Lion City! (1/2)

Chapter 487: The Crucial Point! Lion City!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

In the center of the smithy was a massive, windowless room. Its walls were made from iron and were three feet thick. Each of the walls had been inscribed with layers of defensive inscriptions that made them extremely sturdy.

This was where the Zhang Clan stored its weapons.

Wang Chong's Wootz Steel swords were stored inside.

Wang Chong walked in, picked a Wootz Steel sword embryo out of the pile, and began to carefully inspect it. The safehouse had no windows, but it did have several bright pearls embedded in the ceiling to give light.

The warm light of these pearls allowed him to see the fluid lines on the Wootz Steel sword. Although it still had not gone through the quenching and the last few steps, the sword embryo itself was already very aesthetically pleasing.

The smiths of the Zhang Clan truly are excellent!

Though Wang Chong said nothing as he examined the sword embryo, he mentally gave his nod of approval.

A thousand Wootz Steel swords was no minor affair, and he had even required that they be forged in a very short amount of time. His greatest concern was that the Zhang Clan might skimp on their work.

But his inspection revealed that the Zhang Clan truly had treated this matter seriously.

Each of the sword embryos he inspected had gone through countless temperings and taken a great deal of effort to create. The Zhang Clan's smiths had cherished this precious forging material far more than Wang Chong had imagined.

After examining them all, Wang Chong began to get a feel for their weight. Finally, he nodded his head.

”Not bad!”

These Wootz Steel sword embryos felt heavy in his hand, indicating that they were all pure Wootz Steel. Every Wootz Steel sword had to pass through his hands, so he was extremely familiar with the weight of Wootz Steel.

Wootz Steel could not be mixed with other metals. Otherwise, the weapon would be ruined!

”Send these weapons over to my side. And send the rest over once you finish them!” Wang Chong said as he put down a sword embryo.

Wang Chong now felt completely at ease about leaving this matter to the Zhang Clan.

After leaving the Zhang Clan's smithy, Wang Chong rode to the cave outside the city. It didn't take long before a stream of Wootz Steel sword embryos began to be delivered into the cave.

As time slowly passed, Wang Chong completely forgot about the outside world, as all of his focus was placed on forging the Wootz Steel swords.

Batch after batch of Wootz Steel swords passed through Wang Chong's hands and out of the cave. They were sent to Deflecting Blade Mountain, where they were placed together with the Meteoric Metal armor forged by the other clans and distributed to the True Martial realm experts recruited from the great clans.

Quality, and not quantity, was more important in a soldier. Through these armaments, the one-thousand-man division of elite soldiers that Wang Chong anticipated was slowly beginning to take shape.

Time was short, and while Wang Chong was completely cut off from the outside world, his entire being focused on forging Wootz Steel swords, the outside world was being overturned.

The war in the southwest had shaken the entire empire, troubling the minds of millions. Every day, more news was coming from the southwest.

More and more details began to be revealed about the defeat in the southwest, and the more that was known, the more troubled the people were.

And several days later, a letter arrived from the front lines, jolting the entire capital.

More than half a month after Xianyu Zhongtong set off with his 180,000 elites, the Imperial Court finally received a letter from Xianyu Zhongtong.

This was a letter requesting reinforcements!

The letter said that the supplies in 'Lion City' wouldn't be able to last for too long and would be exhausted after a little more time, and so the Imperial Court was being asked to speedily deliver supplies.

Xianyu Zhongtong's seal had been stamped at the end..

This letter let the people know for the first time that 80,000 soldiers from the Annan Protectorate still remained out of the initial 180,000, and that this army was taking shelter in a place called Lion City. After many days and nights of worry, this news was assuredly a great comfort.