The liquid metal hit the face of the star-iron anvil with a sound like a lightning strike.
HISS-KRAAAACK!
A blinding torrent of molten Core-Mantle Orichalcum and Celestial Star-Lead cascaded from the tilted lip of the crucible.
The two cosmic metals didn’t mix.
The Orichalcum pooled as a brilliant, boiling river of ruby-gold, streaming twelve hundred degrees of fierce world-size heat.
Above it, the Star-Lead flowed like heavy, midnight-blue liquid silver, icy and dark, drinking the light from the surrounding air.
The moment the two liquids touched upon the cold face of the anvil, their deepest natures clashed wildly.
Orichalcum was born in the tightly packed heat of the world-size core. It wanted to expand, push, and erupt like a volcano.
