Jerald dumped six additional boulders beside Shang, shocking him quite a bit.
When Jerald had asked if Shang knew how much ore he would get for the corpses, his concerns hadn't been for nothing.
That was a lot of ore!
Shang put all the ore into his inner world and talked a bit longer with Jerald.
Then, he left for the Caves. His armor would need another two weeks to be completed.
The next two weeks, nothing of note happened, and Shang got his armor. It looked just like the last one and was even a bit better. Now, it could block two Spells of an Early High Mage, which was better than being able to block three Spells from an Initial High Mage.
Thus, another long period of isolated training commenced.
About four years later, some piece of interesting news came to Shang.
George had advanced to the True Path Stage again, and this time, his Path was very good!
It was about as good as Mervin's, which was incredible!