Arakesh remained to sit near the entrance to the smelter; he enjoyed peace, a sunny day, a warm breeze. In his head, he made plans for how it would be more profitable for him to use the Gift for their mountain gorge. Such luck is not often! Now they are mountaineers who had access to the most influential merchant in the entire region of the kingdom of the CAO! It cost a lot! He could ask for protection for 10 years from nomad raids! No one would be able to break the word given by Dara. He could ask for food, and for 10 years no one would starve! He could ask, and for 10 years their goods would be from the mountains, sold at the best bazaars of the whole kingdom without paying duties! But it was all a trifle, he Arakesh, was able to make obliged to himself, to all the mountains of Light, the shadow assistant of the king! In addition, Arakesh quickly realized that this Dara was not so simple as he had invited and so cherished this young Han. He was from the Tang Empire. This means that even this cunning scoundrel could find patrons for himself, and maybe even deceive them.
Now their valley was safe for 10 years!
A blacksmith - he took mixtures from various jugs and showed them to Li-Ban.
"Look, this is lime, and the spar is a turquoise crystal, ground almost to dust! And here is copper, you see pieces of silicon here!
And here are the shells of shells from the lake, the skeleton of fish, here are pieces of bronze, a little cobalt, here is silver. And here is salt (magnesium sulfate), arsenic. "
"And here is the most valuable thing!" the blacksmith pointed to a few small sticks of purple, like stones falling from the sky. We call celestial stones (meteorites). They make the best and most powerful weapon "!