'Huh...this is utter crap.'
When Zhen Liu returned to the forge room, after reassuring the Kaijin and sending them on their way, of course, he immediately beelined to the bodies of cursed metals he had made for the god fragments and realized...they were crappy.
No, that wasn't a strong enough word; they were shit.
Relying solely on material composition, Zhen Liu could tell that these bodies he had made were the equivalent of Gold-tiered aether treasures, aka, the kind of thing that medium-sized kingdoms would gladly go to war over in order to empower their royal families.
Now, technically speaking, these freshly forged bodies would've been enough to fulfill his obligation to the god fragments. For all intents and purposes, he could literally go ahead and bestow upon them these new forms and have them deal with Smoking Mirror posthaste. However, doing this would go against Zhen Liu's newly acquired standards.
