A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 576 Iron Beast

Grace was making samples on the side, while Jiang Shuzhou was creating new flesh and blood creatures.

For him, all of this was already second nature.

It's no surprise that Jiang Shuzhou could create new legends one after another, let alone a flesh and blood creature that produces mage metal.

If production relied entirely on Grace's handcrafting, even if she worked herself to death, Jiang Shuzhou would never replace the floating city's external armor with mage metal.

Therefore, having Grace produce it was just a side effect, mainly serving as a sample so that the newly formed flesh and blood creatures could judge whether the mage metal they produced was defective based on the provided sample.

If it's a defective product, Jiang Shuzhou naturally won't use it himself; he plans to sell it at a high price to recoup his costs.

Jiang Shuzhou's philosophy has always been to keep the good stuff for himself and sell the inferior stuff at a high price. After all, he invented the product himself, and he decides whether it works well or not. Moreover, the mage metal is very hard, so even the inferior product is stronger than refined gold.

Of course, if Jiang Shuzhou dared to sell them, it was because he already had a way to counter them. He would specially treat the substandard export goods and plant a backup plan on them. Once activated, their sturdy properties would disappear, replaced by an extremely fragile outer shell.

If someone were to use this to deal with Jiang Shuzhou, that would be quite interesting.

With just one spell from Jiang Shuzhou, the mage metal would revert to its original fragile state, like a cookie, crumbling at the slightest touch.

In addition, Jiang Shuzhou implemented secrecy measures: if anyone attempted to research the manufacturing method of mage metal, the mage metal would self-annihilate.

After all, protecting intellectual property rights is everyone's responsibility. This thing is Jiang Shuzhou's future cash cow, and it can't be copied by others.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, a month had gone by.

For a legend like Jiang Shuzhou, a month is not a long time, but it is the time Jiang Shuzhou needed solely to create the Iron Beast.

This is already quite long.

The main reason is that Jiang Shuzhou originally intended to design it as a functional flesh-and-blood organism that could not be moved on the production line, but sometimes, when inspiration strikes, he can't help but let it happen.

Thus, it took Jiang Shuzhou a full month to create the Iron Beast.

"roar!"

A tremendous roar resounded, and on the dark side of the floating city, in that eerie land filled with flesh and blood creatures, another colossal beast appeared.

The behemoth was a thousand meters tall and resembled an extremely ugly ape, except that it had no hair and its body was covered with countless proliferating tumors, making it look particularly terrifying. On its back was a can of molten iron, which was an unformed mage metal.

Theoretically, this creature is capable of mining adamantite and mithril on its own, and producing mage metals.

At the same time, it is also inlaid with countless armors, which are currently ordinary refined gold, but Jiang Shuzhou will upgrade them to mage metal in the future.

At the same time, it now also has the ability to turn life into metal, an ability borrowed from Tessame's metal-like artifact.

Of course, in theory, the Ironforge can convert large amounts of ordinary metal into adamantite and mithril through its innate ability, but the efficiency needs to be improved, since direct conversion would be a loss anyway.

These will all need to be optimized by Jiang Shuzhou later.

The reason Jiang Shuzhou left the pass was simple: he was out of money.

There was no other way, after all, Jiang Shuzhou not only had to build Denuozhi's floating city, but also repair the damage to his own floating city, as well as the large amount of resources needed for the experiments.

Although Jiang Shuzhou earns a lot, he also spends a lot.

But there's no need to worry, because someone will be coming to deliver the money soon.

It was still his old friend Wojnarowski. This guy had become Jiang Shuzhou's go-to person for selling stolen goods. After all, he was rich and had no taste for anything, wanting and accepting anything, even doing business with people from all sides.

Jiang Shuzhou liked this kind of businessman. Whether it was exchanging unused resources for usable ones now, or going on to farm gold coins later, Jiang Shuzhou felt no burden at all.

"Boss, I'm here again!"

Inside the palace of the floating city, Vol'jin looked around with curiosity.

The hall was deserted and empty, except for rows of puppets.

Seeing this, Wojnir curled her lip. Every time she came to Jiang Shuzhou's place, she saw a scene like that of an ascetic. Apart from being a bit magnificent, this residence did not show that it was the place where a person who controlled half of the main plane and was even listed as the number one enemy by the gods lived.

If it were anyone else, they would probably be partying every night by now. It's only these mages who have turned the palace into a laboratory.

However, Woking didn't feel there was anything wrong with that. At least these clients were simple; they just wanted useful resources, and as long as the money was right, everything was negotiable.

Unlike some deities, there are no additional conditions.

"Little Wo, how have you been?"

Now that things had come to this, Jiang Shuzhou was too lazy to pretend anymore and simply called Woking by his name.

Woking's lips twitched at this, and he then prepared to raise the price for Jiang Shuzhou when he wanted to buy resources.

Given the current tense situation, it's normal that some goods are difficult to obtain.

"Hey, isn't this our respected Boss Jiang? I heard you've made a fortune lately, so I've come here to serve you and help you speed up the flow of resources."

Woking's words were so grand and righteous that they almost made Jiang Shuzhou laugh in anger.

"Alright, alright, stop with the useless talk, come on, take a look at this."

Jiang Shuzhou prepared to get straight to the point, and then he took out a piece of amorphous black-gold liquid.

The liquid was mage metal. Due to its special properties, once it was shaped, it was difficult to reshape it. Moreover, doing so would reduce Jiang Shuzhou's sales. After all, if a piece of mage metal could be recycled, the consumption would be much less.

In order to plan for disposal, this export model of Mage Metal is designed to be scrapped entirely once the damage reaches a certain level.

These were all designed so that Jiang Shuzhou could sell as much mage metal as possible.

"This is……"

Woking looked at Jiang Shuzhou with some confusion.

Jiang Shuzhou remained silent, then waved his hand, and the clump of liquid mage metal instantly transformed into a steel plate.

"It looks so good."

After saying that, Jiang Shuzhou casually threw a spell over. In order to demonstrate its power, Jiang Shuzhou's spell was naturally quite powerful.

With a loud boom, even the laws of nature were disrupted for a moment, but when the smoke cleared, there was not a single scratch on the metal in front of Vol'jin.

"this……"

Upon seeing this, Vol'jin knew that this was something He absolutely had to obtain.