Death iron and dark mithril

He'd followed most of Treevor's work with the vision of death, but the tendrils of mana were just a blur to him. Athos made a mental note to ask Treevor to teach him that spell later.

"That's just the first step. We still have to know if it's possible to corrupt metals the same way you do with wooden weapons. Wood was part of a living being at least while metal is totally inorganic after all." Treevor spoke, but still excitedly hoped that Athos would succeed.

Athos didn't dare use a precious material like mithril in an experiment, so he mentally ordered a skeleton to bring some iron ingots from the forges. A skeleton arrived a few minutes later with and brought the iron ingots before leaving.

"Cheaper and with less power. Hopefully, it should be easier to test." Athos spoke and the two agreed with him. Athos took an iron ingot in each hand, flowing his own corrupted mana into the first and flowing corrupted world energy into the second.