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Chapter 11: The Cloudless Storm

Planet Skyfire, Skyfire City, Skyfire Avenue, Zeus’ Jewelry Store

Lan Jue sat upon the sofa, quietly looking at the black metal box in front of hi the passwords Chu Cheng had given hiance, would never have thought to open the box He’d have presented it to his eain if this were three years ago, he also would have absolutely refused the assignment, since the owner and his brother had a relationship

Now he had to see what the box contained He had to knohat he owed his brother for

Placing a hand atop the box a beae of a keyboard hanging in the air In the saan

Lan Jue did not input the password during his first atteh he was unaware the three-line code was needed within that raphic keyboard, his eyes betrayed deep consideration

A minute passed quickly, and it see down

Ten…

Lan Jue stirred, his fingers stretching forth They weren’t thick, and his hands were ser

Ten fingers began to flutter, as though they were caressing the skin of a lover The naked eye was incapable of discerning where his fingertips pressed The three-line code, cole action, appeared upon the Cipher Box’s sraphic keyboard dispersed, and two sides of thelayer by layer as the interior rose to reveal the goods within

On Skyfire Avenue, Lan Jue was known as the Jewel Master – he was no stranger to the exquisite and masterful But when he spied the contents of the box, the corners of hisaloud, he said “A-Cheng, hoill I ever be able to repay this favor?”

Within the box a pale gold piece of , fifteen centih the object was e onlooker ht think it pretty, but Lan Jue knew precisely what it was No wonder it was protected by password and convoy No wonder they hired a Chief-Ranked Mecha-Pilot and Sixth Level Adept What they carried…

Refined Technetium!

Technetium is the byproduct of uranium fission from nuclear reactors It is a metal that does not exist in nature, and can also be created by heating aen gas at 500 to 600 degrees Celsius, then using electrolysis in a sulfuric acid solution to extract the metal It /cm3 It’s characteristics are sih temperatures technetium oxidizes to form Technetium Heptoxide (Tc2O7) It has a half-life of 213 X 10 years It can be used a standard beta-emitter A small amount (around 5 X 10can greatly reduce corrosion Technetiu with the molybdenum alloys, are also superconductive materials It can only be produced in s 2,800 New Era Dollars per gram

In addition, refined Technetiualactic compression One kilo of crude Technetiurarated into any alloy, infusing it with two unique characteristics; self-repair, and energy ah the special properties emitted by Technetiuy, it is capable of producing and aies by a factor of three to five The purer the refined Technetiureater it’s resulting power and aram of refined Technetium can endow ten kilos of metal with the capability of self-repair Once melted and cast, only very specific types of destructive force could render it powerless – but it would never lose it’s shape The lump of refined Technetiuhedthis element to the body of a Mech, would render it capable of repairing itself while si it’s survivability and power exponentially