Became a Mechromancer - Chapter 100

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Chapter 100.
The Peak
The elderly man across from Jang Moon-seo responded dismissively to his words.
Tch, honestly.
“Is joining our family really something worthy of such contempt?”
“So buying this was all just an excuse.”
Lim Doo-ho looked toward where Jang Moon-seo was pointing.
What lay on the workbench was none other than mithril.
And at that—
‘It’s the mithril I refined myself.’
Had he come to buy mithril, only to end up bickering with his master?
Just then, Jang Moon-seo yanked the mithril toward himself.
That’s enough, that’s enough!
“I won’t sell it because it’s filthy. Get out!”
The elderly man chuckled softly, then casually slipped the mithril that Jang Moon-seo had pulled toward him into his own subspace.
“If I bought it, then it’s sold. What do you mean you won’t sell it?”
“You bastard!”
“Moon-seo, you fool. Would I have come here just to buy some mithril? I came wondering if my old friend was at least making enough to put food on the table.”
Lim Doo-ho furrowed his brow.
‘Seo Woo-jin?’
Where had he heard that name before?
He studied the elderly man who had introduced himself as Seo Woo-jin once more, carefully.
The old man had a lean frame and long white hair neatly tied back.
Gasp!
Only then did he realize who this person was.
‘Seo Woo-jin, the patriarch of the Seo Jin Family, one of the Five Major Hunter Families?’
At that moment, Seo Woo-jin turned to look at Lim Doo-ho and waved his hand dismissively.
Boy.
“Today is a day of rest, so come back another time.”
Before those words even finished, Jang Moon-seo erupted again.
“How dare you tell someone else’s disciple to come and go! You’re the one who should leave!”
“…Disciple?”
In that instant.
Seo Woo-jin was standing before Lim Doo-ho.
“Hmm….”
He scanned Lim Doo-ho from head to toe.
Flinch!
Startled, Lim Doo-ho reflexively stepped back, and Hawkeye’s voice echoed in his mind.
-Your speed is on par with mine.
Doo-ho was startled once more by the unexpected remark.
‘Hawkeye acknowledged it for the first time.’
Just as Jang Moon-seo was about to burst out in anger, Seo Woo-jin had already returned to his original position.
At that movement—as if he’d teleported—Doo-ho swallowed hard.
‘Is this what a leader of the Five Major Hunter Families looks like?’
The difference in caliber was undeniable.
No, he wasn’t even in a position to evaluate such a person.
Then Seo Woo-jin let out a hollow laugh.
“Wasn’t it hard for you to even scrape by on your own?”
“…?”
“Moon-seo, you’ve abandoned all your disciples.”
Jang Moon-seo’s eyebrows twitched, his pride clearly wounded.
Had this bastard lost his mind?
“Being worked to the bone by you lot meant I had no reason to spend money. Thanks to that, I’ve been living quite well off the savings I accumulated back then, you fool!”
Gurgle, gurgle.
Of all times, Jang Moon-seo’s stomach growled loudly.
Silence fell over the Workshop.
Jang Moon-seo’s face flushed red.
Just as Seo Woo-jin was about to provoke him further with a smirk, Doo-ho interjected.
Um, well….
“Master, I brought the rice cake soup you mentioned. Would you like to have some?”
He said it deliberately.
Jang Moon-seo then cleared his throat and answered tactfully.
Ah, yes!
“Right, right. Let’s eat it while it’s hot.”
Doo-ho cleared off a small table beside the workbench.
He retrieved a large pot from the Garage. When he lifted the lid, steam billowed up.
Gulp.
Jang Moon-seo swallowed his saliva and turned to look at Seo Woo-jin.
“Why are you still here? Aren’t you leaving?”
“….”
Seo Woo-jin naturally pulled up a chair and sat down.
When Doo-ho hesitated, Seo Woo-jin spoke.
“My friend’s disciple. Occasions like this taste better when everyone gathers around to eat together, you know.”
“Ah, yes.”
Doo-ho quickly fetched another bowl, and Jang Moon-seo frowned.
“Such shameless audacity.”
“…That’s called good humor. Besides, there’s far too much for just the two of us.”
The three of them sat awkwardly around the table.
Slurp, slurp.
Seo Woo-jin devoured his food with the voracious appetite of a vacuum cleaner.
He glanced sideways at the bowl placed before Jang Moon-seo.
“Why does yours look like there’s more?”
“What shameless behavior.”
Jang Moon-seo, having said this, gestured with his chin toward Lim Doo-ho.
“A disciple should look after his master, not a guest.”
Lim Doo-ho blinked.
‘What? I gave them the same amount.’
Lim Doo-ho quickly extended his hand.
“There’s more, so let me serve you some.”
Seo Woo-jin regarded Lim Doo-ho intently.
Tsk.
“Moon-seo, you bastard.”
“What?”
“You’re lucky to have a disciple who brings you rice cake soup from New Year’s.”
Jang Moon-seo spoke bluntly as he took a spoonful of the soup.
“You wretch, wandering around unable to even get rice cake soup—what kind of master are you?”
“What are you saying? I came out trying not to age, but I’m ending up a year older here anyway.”
Lim Doo-ho asked carefully.
“Would you like me to make you some coffee?”
“Is it instant?”
“Ah, instant is a bit… well…”
As Lim Doo-ho scratched his head, Jang Moon-seo answered.
“Go ahead and make it.”
“Yeah, let’s have some instant coffee for a change.”
Lim Doo-ho quickly rose and brought back instant coffee in a paper cup.
Seo Woo-jin sipped his coffee and looked at Lim Doo-ho.
“By the way, Moon-seo.”
“What else are you going on about?”
“…Hasn’t his skill declined?”
“What?”
Lim Doo-ho was more surprised than Jang Moon-seo.
He felt such a remark was impolite, even between friends.
“I mean the mithril refining. I was honestly shocked. You’ve aged, sure, but…”
Lim Doo-ho quickly interjected.
“Actually, that mithril refining was my first attempt…”
The corners of Seo Woo-jin’s mouth lifted.
Seeing this, Jang Moon-seo realized his mistake.
But before that, Seo Woo-jin asked Lim Doo-ho.
“First? Disciple, do you mean your very first attempt, literally?”
“Well… I suppose so?”
Jang Moon-seo squeezed his eyes shut.
‘…I’ve been outmaneuvered.’
Even Jang Moon-seo had needed multiple attempts before succeeding in mithril refinement.
Yet this brat had accomplished it on the first try.
Seo Woo-jin’s gaze shifted.
‘Now I understand why Moon-seo was reluctant to let him go.’
He had been determined to bring Jang Moon-seo away by any means, but now he’d glimpsed a talent that might outshine his own disciple.
Seo Woo-jin leaned forward and asked.
“Won’t you give me your contact information?”
Just as Jang Moon-seo was about to explode in anger, Doo-ho subtly raised his smart watch.
In that fleeting moment, calculating precisely what the Five Major Hunter Families despised most.
『Hunter Management Bureau Reboot Center
Lim Doo-ho, Deputy Chief』
As expected, Seo Woo-jin’s expression hardened.
“Are you out of your mind? Your disciple works for the government’s lapdog organization!”
“Whatever choice my disciple makes is none of your concern.”
Seo Woo-jin rose from his seat, seeing nothing more worth his time.
He paused as he opened the Workshop’s middle gate.
“Yu Seo-ha, dead on the 69th floor of the Abyss, would be delighted to see the state you’re in!”
Crash!
Jang Moon-seo struck the table.
Channeling mana, flames coiled around Jang Moon-seo’s hand.
Doo-ho flinched in surprise.
‘I’ve never seen Master like this before….’
Jang Moon-seo spoke, igniting sparks of fire.
“Don’t you ever come back here again.”
Yet Seo Woo-jin glanced at Doo-ho once more.
“Sulking, are you… I’ll be back anyway.”
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.
.
Seo Woo-jin exited the Workshop and climbed into his car.
“Yang Secretary.”
“Yes.”
“Look into a boy named Lim Doo-ho at the Hunter Management Bureau.”
Yang Secretary acknowledged and contacted someone.
* * *
Back inside the Workshop.
Jang Moon-seo was catching his breath.
“Master, are you alright?”
“…I’ve shown you quite an unseemly sight.”
“Not at all. It was my lack of consideration that was the problem.”
Jang Moon-seo smiled softly.
“That rice cake soup was truly delicious.”
He meant it sincerely.
After all, it was the first warm meal he’d felt in a long time.
Lim Doo-ho scratched his cheek as he replied.
“I’ll bring something different next time.”
“Your words alone are thanks enough.”
Just as the conversation was beginning to feel somewhat awkward, Jang Moon-seo changed the subject.
“That fake video? I saw it.”
“…You did?”
“Everyone was saying it was a forgery.”
Jang Moon-seo spoke matter-of-factly, looking at Lim Doo-ho.
“Well done.”
Lim Doo-ho felt inexplicably embarrassed.
More than that, though.
‘How did he know when I was wearing a mask?’
Perhaps sensing Lim Doo-ho’s thoughts, Jang Moon-seo pointed to his hand.
“I’ve seen countless times the particular way you prepare yourself before using telekinesis. How could I not recognize it?”
Ah….
I see.
Lim Doo-ho scratched the back of his neck and retrieved something from the Garage. It was several chunks of Hero-grade Echometal.
“It’s not quite a New Year’s gift, but I thought you might appreciate it.”
“Where did this come from?”
“From the robot in that problematic fake video.”
Jang Moon-seo looked at Lim Doo-ho for a moment.
Then.
Puhahahaha!
He burst into hearty laughter.
Tears streamed down his face as he laughed.
Blind resources that China couldn’t ask to be returned.
“I’ll put it to good use.”
Then Jang Moon-seo entered something on his smart watch.
A deposit notification appeared on Lim Doo-ho’s smart watch. It was the amount from the mithril he’d sold earlier.
But.
“Master, didn’t you say before that I’d only receive 400 million if I sold it properly?”
And indeed, 500 million was displayed on the screen.
Jang Moon-seo grinned wickedly.
“You can overcharge that guy from earlier without any guilt.”
Puhahahaha! Haha….
As Jang Moon-seo laughed heartily, I couldn’t help but join in.
* * *
A week had already passed since I started working at the Hunter Management Bureau.
The rumors about the masked vigilante were beginning to die down little by little. Of course, debates about the truth of that day’s footage still raged on.
I didn’t care.
‘Even if it were revealed to be me, it would only make my current life more inconvenient.’
Na Manager seemed busy from the start of the new year. He was constantly being called upstairs by his superiors whenever he came to work.
‘It looks like he’s really pushing forward with the green stone shielding agent project.’
I had already completed the design of automated machinery to be used in the shielding agent process through the design pod.
I hadn’t forgotten to file the patent application either.
‘Once it’s decided, I can start then.’
Lost in such thoughts, I was searching intently on my smartwatch during lunch break.
‘Old notebooks are hard to find….’
They occasionally appear among retro collectors.
What’s this.
They’re not selling—just showing them off.
When I sent DMs saying I wanted to buy, most responses were refusals.
Screech.
That’s when Park Gyu-tae pushed his chair over with his feet and approached.
“Deputy, do you have a hobby of collecting antiques?”
“Ah, I need one that actually works properly… but it’s hard to find.”
“A notebook?”
Snap!
Park Deputy tilted his head in confusion, then snapped his fingers.
“Wait. I think I’ve seen one of those.”
“Really?”
“When I went down to the Underground Storage looking for green stones, there was a box of old electronic devices in the corner.”
My eyes widened.
“There were notebooks in there?”
“I think so? And it looked like there were more than just one or two.”
I went straight to Ham Bong-sik.
“Manager.”
“Oh, Deputy.”
“Could I take a look at some of the parts in the Underground Storage?”
“Which ones?”
“Notebooks and things like that.”
Ham Bong-sik nodded casually.
“Take whatever you need. That stuff down there is a disposal problem anyway.”
The moment approval came through, Lim Doo-ho descended directly into the Underground Storage.
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.
.
As I opened the storage door, the stale smell of dust rushed in.
Along the wall, boxes containing old electronic devices were stacked in layers.
‘This should be around where Park Deputy showed me.’
Ah, found it!
Between the boxes piled in the corner, spherical laptops were stacked abundantly.
At that moment.
Bom-i’s round eyes perched on my shoulder widened like buns.
Master.
-Isn’t this place a veritable treasure trove, ribbit!
“You said it.”
As I answered, Soulbot flowed out in multiple streams from behind me.
Soon Soulbot began inspecting the laptops while enveloping them.
Three laptops selected that way.
Of course, the rest seemed like they could be utilized for parts procurement as well.
When Lim Doo-ho tried to enter the Garage and work on them himself.
Master.
-If you put them in the Garage, I’ll customize and use them myself, ribbit.
“…You’d prefer that?”
-It’s more convenient that way, ribbit.
Lim Doo-ho placed the laptops in the Garage and left the storage.
Pat pat.
I brushed the dust from my body.
‘Finally got all the gifts sorted.’
Then my gaze turned toward the discarded Androids piled in one corner of the storage.
The dust-covered Androids felt slightly eerie at that moment.
Lim Doo-ho reached out his hand.
Soulbot flowing from my fingertips wrapped around the Android’s arm.
Whoosh.
Silver powder seeped through the joint gaps, tracing across the circuit board and electronic pathways.
My eyes grew serious.
‘If I just replace this part, it should operate.’
Soulbot substituted part of the circuit, engraving a mana circuit into the framework.
I retrieved a small mana stone from the Garage.
When Soulbot connected the mana circuit and mana stone, the Android’s arm trembled.
Whirrrr.
As I focused, the discarded Android’s fingers curled according to my will.
“Done!”
A peculiar sense of accomplishment washed over me.
Though it had been difficult, I’d managed to adjust exactly what I wanted.
I refocused, this time my wrist rotated smoothly as my fingers curled with fluid grace.
“…I did it myself, but it’s really amazing.”
At first, it was just a power I’d grasped to survive. But the stronger I became, the more I grew to love this profession.
Of course, luck had been on my side too.
Macromanser….
‘If I grow stronger.’
Would I be able to properly command the Androids even in the Abyss?
As that thought crossed my mind, my heart raced with peculiar excitement.
What once seemed like an absurd fantasy now felt possible.
‘Could I even command an army of robots?’
In that moment, I wanted to know where the limits of the Macromanser profession truly lay.
I wanted to reach the very peak.
‘But if I reach the peak, will I be able to see Seo Woo-jin’s movements from a few days ago?’
As if answering Lim Doo-ho’s curiosity, Hawkeye responded.
-The Macromanser will be faster.
Lim Doo-ho nodded.
Then….
“I need to descend deeper into the Abyss.”
I became a Macromanser
Author｜
Gungang E
Published｜
February 25, 2026
Publisher｜
Talesyx
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