All‑Master Who Regressed to Bronze - Chapter 112

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All Master Who Regressed to Bronze Episode 112

As people commonly say, living in this world means you’re bound to meet all kinds of people.

There are those who get angry out of nowhere.

And there are those who quietly help others.

But if you ask about the type of person you should be most careful of, everyone would have to point to one particular kind.

[I’m someone who came to help you.]

Those who claim to be your ally and say they’ve come to benefit you.

Because most of these people are neither allies nor here to benefit you, but rather come to cause you harm.

Though they seem like characters who would frequently appear in maple leaf stories, such people existed plenty in reality too.

“Uh, um…”

“…Sigh.”

Naturally, this wasn’t any different even for orcs who came from dimensions other than Earth.

Seeing this type of existence before their eyes – someone they might encounter at least once in life through some means – they could feel an instinctive rejection rising in their heads even while living lives as miners close to slaves.

But Shin Hyeok didn’t mind.

“Here are health recovery potions. And these are nutrition capsules. You don’t seem to be in very good condition, so please take them first.”

“Oh…”

“Can we really eat these?”

“They’re not poisoned, are they?”

Whether they trusted him or not, Shin Hyeok took out health recovery potions and nutrition capsules from his inventory and offered them to the orc miners.

Naturally, both were items made by Hyo-rin, so their effects were top-notch.

However, since their suspicion was great after being enslaved by the dwarves, none of them ate immediately.

“If I wanted to kill you, why would I waste poison? Poison is too precious.”

“Ah.”

“Thank you!”

Of course, their suspicion melted away like snow at Shin Hyeok’s single comment.

When he could kill them with one spear thrust or sword strike, there was no reason to wastefully use poison that could even kill players.

Realizing their minds had grown dull from living as slaves for so long, the orc miners gave bitter smiles, then gathered one by one to pick up a potion and capsule each and devoured them.

“Kreheeek!”

“Y-you tricked us!”

As expected, there’s never anyone normal among those who come claiming to help!”

“Kraaaak!”

“Ah. Right. Those were made by Hyo-rin…”

Then they glared at Shin Hyeok with faces full of pain and let out screams.

Only then remembering that those potions and capsules were items made by Hyo-rin, Shin Hyeok pressed his forehead.

“Those just taste bad, so just take them.”

“Uh…”

“We’re really fine…?”

“Ahem, thank you.”

The orc miners who had been going wild from the taste that was worse than poison felt vitality flowing through their bodies that had been heavy like waterlogged cotton, rather than experiencing any problems even after time passed, and scratched the backs of their heads with embarrassed faces while eating the remaining potions and capsules.

After confirming that the orc miners who had been skin and bones had become somewhat human-looking, Shin Hyeok finally asked them about the things he was curious about.

“Where is this place?”

“It’s the Sacheolseok Mine.”

“Sacheol! You can obtain sacheol here?”

“Yes, and very high-quality ones come out too. Quality so good that the dwarves go crazy for them.”

“Ho, that’s not bad. Sacheol isn’t bad at all.”

Hearing that sacheol came from the underground mine, Shin Hyeok nodded with a satisfied smile.

Sacheol (Death Iron).

Iron imbued with the energy of death, it was a unique grade material item.

Since it was imbued with the energy of death, it was good material used when crafting equipment for undead summons or equipment used by players with jobs like necromancers or death knights.

Of course, undead, necromancers, and death knights were close to non-mainstream, so it wasn’t used much, but sacheol’s true value lay in dealing with various energies.

It had special effects particularly against sacred power.

The death energy contained in sacheol was antagonistic to sacred power, so there was an effect where the two would mutually annihilate.

Therefore, it was used when making equipment specifically for countering sacred power.

Of course, besides sacred power, it also had the ability to disrupt the concentration of energies like mana and magic, so it was material frequently used in various places, making its value by no means small.

‘Can I obtain large quantities of sacheol here? Just this alone wouldn’t be bad.’

As a reward obtainable excluding the clear rewards of the hidden stage, large quantities of sacheol would be satisfying enough compensation for Shin Hyeok too.

However, Shin Hyeok wasn’t just intoxicated by the immediate benefits.

“The reason the Sacheolseok Mine is located underground in the ravine. You know it, right?”

“…Phew, how could we not know? The mine being built here in the first place was because of that very reason.”

“Ah, I understand.”

The most important reason.

Why a mine that could continuously extract sacheol of quality that even dwarves would covet was located below the ravine.

When he asked the orc miner who seemed to be the most senior about this reason, Shin Hyeok immediately nodded at the response.

Because he felt he could understand the reason without hearing more.

Of course-

-? Someone to explain?

-Ah~ I totally understood

-Ah, so that’s what it was?

-I see, I see~

-? Am I the only one who doesn’t understand?

-Nonsense. Can’t you tell just by looking? He’s just pretending to know.

-Ah.

The viewers watching this broadcast had no idea about the reason.

There were only those pretending to know and those showing they didn’t know.

Watching this and smiling, Shin Hyeok resolved the viewers’ curiosity.

“Sacheol doesn’t just form naturally. Well, iron and gold don’t just form naturally either… Anyway, sacheol is different from other minerals. Because sacheol is a mineral that grows by feeding on death.”

-It feeds on death? I can also feed well on my parents’ backs

-Mineral-like bastard

-I am Iron rank though.

-Sigh, because of bastards like that, we need to make Stone rank below Iron… It’s sad to be grouped as the same Iron.

-If you’re Iron rank too, doesn’t that mean you have some defect? Hmm, if you’re human, you can’t be Iron rank… What, like having three fingers?

-Fucking bastard.

A mineral that grows by feeding on death.

It was an explanation about sacheol, but there weren’t many viewers who immediately understood upon hearing it.

Since Shin Hyeok didn’t even think they would understand right away, he immediately added supplementary explanation.

“Now then, to receive a stable supply of sacheol that grows by feeding on death, what would you need to do?”

-Offer the three-fingered Iron rank who leeches off parents’ backs as sacrifice?

-You bastard!!!

-Wait, but isn’t the gist of this similar? Offering someone as sacrifice?

-Ah! I totally got it!

-Yeah yeah, you totally got it.

-No, I really got it! This mine is below the ravine!

-…Ah, so that’s why.

As the supplementary explanation continued, viewers who finally understood began appearing one by one.

To receive a stable supply of sacheol that grows by feeding on death, they had to stably supply death, which becomes sacheol’s food.

And the Sacheolseok Mine was located below the ravine.

In other words-

“That’s right. The death energies generated when we kill and get killed in the game: ravine flowed directly into the Sacheolseok Mine and became nutrients.”

-…Fuck, so that’s why I was asking about my top laner’s parents’ well-being in the ravine!

-No wonder our jungler came to gank top less! It was to kill me and turn me into sacheol!

-Damn system lackeys! There was a reason why I, a gentle, pure, pitiful, handsome guy (mom-certified), go insane the moment I enter the ravine when I’m fine everywhere else!

-That concludes the statements from the psychopaths obsessed with the ravine

-But it is kind of creepy. To think that the energy generated when I die goes to the mine below the ravine and becomes minerals…

-For real, for real, for real, shouldn’t this be punished under some law or something?

-Don’t? Know?

The structure where deaths occurring in the ravine head to the mine and transform into iron ore.

The hidden truth of the ravine.

The viewers who had taken the red pill fired off chats filled with bewilderment and absurdity.

Amidst the frantically rising chat list, Shin Hyeok took his eyes off the chat window and looked at the Orc Miner.

“Is this mine connected to Ironforge?”

“…!!! How do you know that…”

“The dwarf did tell me… but I knew about it beforehand too.”

“…Surprising. That’s correct. This is a workshop managed by Ironforge. They invaded the indigenous dimension’s league and created countless workshops like this, and this is one of them.”

“Tsk, the insidiousness of those higher dimension bastards really…”

“You know about higher dimensions too?”

“I know quite a lot of things.”

Shin Hyeok, who had roughly known that the Sacheolseok Mine was somewhat connected to Ironforge but never imagined it would be a directly managed workshop, hardened his face and clicked his tongue.

‘Just like with the Colosseum, and now with this Sacheolseok Mine too… Those higher dimension bastards have stuck their straws everywhere. They’re really thorough in their exploitation. Trash-like bastards.’

Having already experienced the Colosseum where Tarkan was present, Shin Hyeok didn’t view the Sacheolseok Mine’s affairs favorably either.

If the Colosseum was a place that exploited talent from other dimensions and cut off promising individuals, then conversely, the Sacheolseok Mine was like a parasite that sucked up resources from other dimensions.

Both were actions he disliked, and Shin Hyeok was disgusted by the behavior of higher dimensions that committed such acts without hesitation.

Of course, separate from that, the value of this Sacheolseok Mine was not small.

“Is it possible for me to obtain ownership of the mine?”

“Hmm, the mine’s ownership belongs to the general manager of this place. It would be possible if you defeated him, but… it would be difficult.”

That’s why Shin Hyeok wanted to obtain it for himself.

He could naturally obtain it by clearing the Hidden Stage, but having experienced many cases where he had to run around personally to earn rewards, Shin Hyeok asked about ways to obtain ownership.

However, the answer to that was unsatisfactory.

He learned who owned the mine and that he could obtain ownership by catching that person, but the Orc Miner shook his head with a dark expression.

The moment Shin Hyeok felt puzzled that he would say such a thing despite seeing him fight with his own eyes.

“The stupid orc has eyes for seeing the truth. Of course there’s no way this Thunder Hammer would be defeated.”

“…Who are you.”

At the suddenly heard voice, Shin Hyeok hardened his face and turned his head toward where the voice came from.

Even though he had been focused on conversing with the Orc Miner, the fact that he missed the presence before hearing the voice made Shin Hyeok feel that his opponent was no ordinary being.

“A lowly human dares to intrude into someone else’s workshop and then demands an introduction from the owner. How utterly shameless. Did you think you could detect me with your inferior detection?”

“Thinking about how you moved around sweating cold sweat trying to avoid my mana detection makes me laugh.”

“…How dare you!”

The dwarf who had sensed Shin Hyeok’s mana detection and appeared at this location while evading it.

The dwarf, who was the general manager of the Sacheolseok Mine, shouted in fiery anger at Shin Hyeok’s mockery.

“I am different from lowly species like you!”

“Well, you are short, ugly, and have bad proportions. You’re definitely different.”

“…How dare you insult me, Thunder Hammer, a High Dwarf who has officially received a naturalization proposal from Ironforge!”

“…Hooh.”

And at his opponent’s words, the corners of Shin Hyeok’s mouth rose.

“Ironforge and a High Dwarf. This is perfect?”

Ironforge and High Dwarf.

Even having just one would make for a delicious target for revenge, but combined into one, they became an exquisite delicacy.

“Good, let’s fight first. Heukcheonryeobo.”

“…!”

Crackle!

To thoroughly chew and swallow such a delicacy, Shin Hyeok charged toward Thunder Hammer while wrapping his entire body in black lightning.

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