"Was it successful?"
"Has the Flame Hammer been enhanced, Your Majesty?"
All the Dwarf council members craned their necks in anticipation. To the artifact itself, a single enhancement's light was not particularly dazzling. They couldn't discern the effects from a distance; only the artifact's owner, who had wielded the Flame Hammer for many years, the Dwarf King Visergg, could truly tell.
Visergg lifted the blazing hammer in his hands. It radiated a warmth that felt familiar, yet somehow different. The King of the Dwarves unfurled his cloak and removed his shirt, exposing his skin to the air. Steam rose from his rock-like muscles as the power within his body ignited completely.
"It has indeed become stronger, by roughly one-fifth," he said.
The Dwarves erupted in excitement. That was one-fifth of an artifact's power!