The Star of Metal had fallen to him.
Weight, structure, ductility, toughness, and strength.
Crystallization, melting, corrosion, fracturing, and Forging.
In that instant, Allen felt as though he had been cast into an endless cosmic furnace.
Crimson molten metal flowed within the magma—scalding and ferocious. Various elements collided, separated, and fused in the extreme heat, forming countless metallic structures.
Beneath the earth's crust, countless metal ores slumbering deep underground slowly crystallized under the crushing weight of billions of tons of rock. Microscopic mineral particles bonded, aligned, and deposited under the immense geothermal pressure and temperature. It took millions, or even tens of millions of years of waiting, just to condense into a single metallic vein within the strata.
A mortal's iron sword rusted in the rain, chipped upon impact, and softened in the flames.
