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Chapter 1: Arrival of Black Iron Age

Translator: WQL Editor: Geoffrey

After raining for a night, the breathless coal ash was cleaned off Rarely breathing fresh air, Zhang Tie walked alone on the road to school “It should bechiht while absent-round After it rained, the reround was black and smelt like the coal ash in the ht people a sense of safety, it also brought the feeling of being bound and the feeling of congestion Looking into the distance, Zhang Tie found the huge chi under the crystal blue sky

Teacher said that chiuaranteed the prosperity and survival of hu Tie of his pnis and the black smoke his seminal fluid They polluted the air like how the liquid polluted his underwear Although he couldn’t reht, for the third ti sticky inside his underwear In this age that severely lacked living necessities, Zhang Tie only had four pairs of underwear Two pairs were tailored from his father’s torn sweaters, while the other tere his brother’s hand- these days, two pairs of his underere still wet, including the current one He only had the last half-dried one left; therefore, he had no other choice but to go to school miserably in this pair of underwear

The half-wet, coarse cloth turned hard and felt uncomfortable in the trousers As a result, he always felt pain on his dck It also felt very cold; Zhang Tie couldn’t help but shiver What’s ed What torture!

It was said that human society owned rich e, underas sold by the dozen Moreover, arettes, wine, oods could be easily bought from a place called the supers of rice or wheat through a day of labor, which was enough for hier It was also said that a s could use it to do s Additionally, people also invented reat weapons which made theant that they held everything else in contempt Unfortunately, aited for the heyday was the Catastrophe

Zhang Tie always thought that even the gods could not stand the unending greed of humans; therefore, it launched the Catastrophe and created the Star of God As punishs back fros lost all the y They had neither electricity, nuclear power, explosives, nor those a, there was some particle in the unknown rays carried by the Star of God that greatly changed all micro components of the substances on the celestial body Take the original star as a pot of plain water Once the als uncomfortable, they could spray a hand of salt or pepper powder onto it casually, and as a result, the plain water was no longer plain Likewise, the star was not the very same either

After the catastrophe, what people felt was fortunate ht be that steel and iron were still as hard as before; they could be used to cast into cutleries, swords, and armors for the ar light, heat, and energy to hu made from the above two such as cutleries, swords, arines would be the last dependence of hue…

It was more than a 40Tie had to go through the sluion at the in of the urban mill district before he arrived at school The nainated from the Blackhot Mountain next to the city It was said that Blackhot Mountain was one of the longestContinent before the Catastrophe Back then, people created an aircraft that could fly faster than sound; however, it still took the aircraft several e from one end to the other Take Blackhot City for instance It was actually a fine branch south of the Blackhot Mountain Range It stretched over 20,000kth that many people would not traverse in their whole lives

When the Catastrophe arrived, the Kun’ang Continent, which covered hundreds of millions of square ical and platesplit by kids Numerous parts forh vicissitudes, people today could not irandeur of this vast continent Even now, the world was still too large for everyone The location 800km west and north of Blackhot City has yet to be explored; it was still an unknown However, the area where Blackhot City was located, south of the Blackhot Mountain Range, covered more than 400 athering of numerous countries, city-states, and clan forces; however, it was merely a slim and narrow belt on the map of the whole continent With lofty ions and vast oceans on the southernh population density On the map, it was named the Corridor of Blackson Hus about 100 years to find out what happened to the planet when the Catastrophe fell It then took the rehtly Unexpectedly, they found that huer the only ruler of the planet Those eccentric des as delicious dierous and posed several challenges to the survival of hus

Today marked the 889th year on the Black Iron Calendar after the Catastrophe Human survivors continued to ain Further machines, they became ambitious to further explore the planet and convince the world that they were the rightful rulers once er than 40 years; it was the synition of a compared to the numerous human countries and city-states in the southern area of the Blackhot Mountain Range Blackhot City was founded by businessmen and mill owners As an industrial city, it occupied a seat in the Anda cities in this age, the city relied on rich resources, which included rich coal and mineral resources The entire city and its 3on the rich resources froround the city It was ruled by the Coal, Steel, and Iron Federation of Blackhot City (CSIF) Numerous steam locomotives would carry coal, steel, iron, cutleries, swords, and armors, as well as other weapons and equipment, out of this city frooods from outside the city

Under theTie’s father worked As an iron and steelTie was born into this world, the chimney always emitted black smoke It witnessed the hu Tie arrived at school, he found that Captain Kerlin, the military representative and educational director of the school, was standing upright like an iron tower at the school gates as he usually does His ox-egg eyes gazing at each student entering the Seventh National School of Blackhot City seriously He was patting an iron rod like a toothpick on his other hand, which produced a frightening sound No student dared to look at his scary face that was covered by a black eye patch They all passed as fast as they could, with their heads lowered

“Stop!” A boy with bad luck standing not far fro Tie was stopped The thunder-like voice caused everyone to shiver When they found out that they were not the one, they quickly lowered their heads and passed the gate while silently praying for the boy