Blacksmithing Is Child’s Play for a Dark Mage - Chapter 27

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Chapter 27
Still, if I left them alone, Madness would accumulate and drive them to wild acts.
I had to extract the Madness once a day to keep them docile.
Tay decided that later, as his level rose, he’d research ways to fully restore these broken minds.
If he delved deep enough into Mental Erosion Blackmagic—one of the Blackmagic schools—he might find an answer.
In any case.
While using these four as Madness batteries, Tay had to gather materials to craft an item for auto-producing the Twisted Bone Spear of Finger Sacrifice using the extracted Madness.
Of course, these weren’t ordinary things.
Expensive precious metals.
And various objects that seemed cursed in every way.
Thus, a new item was crafted.
“Behold! From now on, this beauty will churn out bone spears for me automatically!”
It was a massive arm and hand woven together from various bones.
Except for being constructed from bone, it looked like a robot arm you’d see in a twenty-first century Earth factory.
Pure grotesqueness incarnate!
Automated Item Crafting Apparatus – Human Bone –
Quality: High
Grade: Magical.
An automated machine refined by Madness and Blackmagic.
Materials: Human bone.
Function: Auto-crafts items of magical grade or lower that the Madness Artisan possesses.
Function: Generates Mental Erosion (moderate) Wave.
The downside being that brutal Mental Erosion (moderate) penalty!
“A thoroughly mad contraption, if I may say so. Contractor, what in the world is your Bloodline Ability……? Or—does it have something to do with an Outer God?”
An Outer God!
That term referred to gods from other dimensions outside this world—ranging from extremely dangerous and vile to gentle and helpful.
Demons were also beings from other dimensions, but strictly speaking, they belonged to a connected dimension.
Namely.
The Middle World, where humans and intelligent races dwell.
Hell, where demons and monsters live.
Then Heaven—the realm of good gods and neutral deities and their retinues—and the Spirit Realm, the world of spirits.
Beyond that lay the Phantom Realm, making these five worlds essentially bound together like a single package.
Everything beyond these five worlds was called the Outer Dimension.
“I don’t know either. As you say, it could be power from an Outer God.”
‘No. It’s definitely Outer God power. My Hunter ability from Earth had unclear origins to begin with, after all.’
“But how do you intend to use this? Producing such potent Mental Erosion…… It seems nobody but you and I could even approach it.”
“I’ll use the Undead. Once I stock up materials, it produces them on its own. And I can have the Undead bring out the finished products.”
“Ah, indeed. Remarkable cunning, Contractor. The Mental Erosion effect wouldn’t work on spirits already dead…….”
“Exactly.”
Tay laughed softly.
“Time to sell these things like mad.”
* * *
Using the newly crafted automation apparatus, Tay produced bone spears three times faster than before.
And every single one sold out.
Demand so far exceeded supply that he couldn’t meet it.
“Probably because it’s Blackmagic mixed with Curse-type effects?”
“You track it to the end, right? The cost is a broken finger? That’s insane value for money! Just have a slave throw it!”
“A slave has ten fingers, so you can throw it ten times! This is absolutely incredible!”
The sort of reasoning demons would applaud!
Merchants and mercenaries who actually put that idea into practice and profited handsomely!
Which is why sales exploded beyond all expectation.
Harundel was a sprawling city with an enormous floating population.
The spears sold not just among land-based mercenaries, but proliferated wildly at sea as well.
Why?
Because it demonstrated absolutely insane performance—tracking prey even into the ocean depths and piercing monsters to death.
“When a mermaid gets hit with one, they spit blood and die right there!”
“On hard-shelled creatures, just cast Reinforcement Magic once before throwing and it absolutely wrecks them!”
Indeed.
The bone spears could receive additional Reinforcement Magic.
Simply applying Class 1 Reinforcement Magic caused the destructive power to skyrocket!
It’s an object that’s completely impossible to evade.
Only blocking it is possible.
Because of that, it sold incredibly well.
They say you row when the tide comes in.
“A decision to save the nation. I’m raising the price!”
“You’re insane, Contractor.”
Tay raised the price.
From five Goldmanta silver coins to one gold coin—doubling it!
It still sold well.
Even though consumables at one gold coin represented a fairly steep price, they were moving in extraordinary volumes.
Moreover, since production had been automated, the items continued to be manufactured even when Tay wasn’t present.
Feed in animal scraps and inject a touch of Madness energy—
And money duplicates itself!
As a result.
Tay earned an enormous fortune and was able to purchase vast quantities of second-class Blackmagic grimoires.
* * *
“Contractor, your Bloodline Ability is certainly that of an Outer God.”
“Seems like it.”
Tay looked over the list of Blackmagic spells he had newly learned and mastered.
Skeleton Trap / Soul Suppression / Clinging Flame Radiation / Pain Curse Wave / Decay / Undead Enhancement / Blackmagic Bestowal / Mental Erosion (Fear) Wave / Mental Erosion (Confusion) Wave / Mental Erosion (Madness) Wave / Undead Creation (Specter) / Wraith Vessel
All second-class Blackmagic.
If first-class targets a single individual, second-class and above possess the power to inflict damage on roughly three to four people at once.
That’s why Clinging Flame Radiation exists—the superior version of Clinging Flame.
Literally radiating flames from one’s hand, these flames cling like first-class Blackmagic and continue burning the opponent without extinguishing.
It had become an area-of-effect attack.
And now Tay could inscribe Blackmagic into objects to create Blackmagic items.
Thanks to the second-class Blackmagic Bestowal spell.
This grants the ability to inscribe first-class Blackmagic into objects, enabling the creation of first-class Blackmagic items.
Of course, thanks to the Madness Artisan skill, Tay had been making items one way or another, but that was a Hunter System occupational ability, not something a Blackmage strictly needs to craft.
For example.
Undead Dominion, a first-class Blackmagic spell.
Inscribe it into a staff? Naturally, the number of Undead one can control increases.
Those shop-brand Blackmagic staffs Tay had been carrying around—they amplified the potency of Blackmagic, didn’t they?
Of course, there’s a difference between those and what Tay could create.
Those primarily boosted Curses or the raw power of Blackmagic itself.
“Acquiring spells simply by reading a book is impossible unless one was born to a Bloodline blessed by a god of magic, or is a transcendent species like a dragon. However, for you to possess that kind of Bloodline Ability would be far too weak.”
“That’s sound reasoning. I’ve been suspecting it might be an Outer God-class ability myself.”
At Tay’s response, Asu’s eyes narrowed.
“Hmm. I smell deception. You’re hiding something, aren’t you?”
“Well, well. We’re not the type to bare our souls to each other, are we? Contract or not, let’s keep each other’s secrets.”
“Very well. I won’t pry further.”
“Good. Since you’ve learned Blackmagic now, shall we settle accounts? Lant!”
“Yes, Tay.”
The current slave Lant—formerly a high-ranking noblewoman’s daughter, now a Blackmage—answered from beside him.
“How much liquid capital do I have right now? Gold coins only.”
“Eight thousand and ninety-five Goldmanta gold coins are on deposit.”
“Quite the haul.”
‘In Korean currency, that’d be… roughly eight billion won? It’s hard to believe that’s what I’ve earned in less than two months.’
Especially since this figure remained after procuring additional slaves—it truly was an astonishing sum.
“So. What do you intend to do now, Contractor?”
“Time to go Level Up again soon.”
“Level Up, meaning… that ability where you gain karma through slaughter and grow stronger. Certainly. Your Bloodline Ability is definitely that of an Outer God.”
“Who said it wasn’t? So why ask? You already knew roughly that it was about time for me to Level Up anyway, didn’t you?”
“I was merely confirming. Besides, now that you’ve reached second-class, the abilities permitted to me have also expanded.”
“Ooh. Ability unlock! You can use new Blackmagic now?”
“Essentially, yes.”
“I’m looking forward to it. I always welcome free Blackmagic!”
As the two exchanged their banter.
Lant quietly opened her mouth.
“Tay. Would it be alright if I offered an opinion?”
Tay and Asu’s banter came to a halt. Then Tay turned his gaze toward Lant.
“So you’ve decided now is the right moment?”
Lant.
The slave girl Tay had purchased.
Remarkably intelligent, demonstrating considerable genius in Blackmagic, and possessed of a refined education.
Though the Curse remained unresolved—requiring him to drain her Madness every few days.
Even so, she was an invaluable asset and worker.
Until now, she had never initiated conversation with Tay.
She always waited for orders to move, and her responses held nothing personal.
One might say she had resigned herself to her current state, but that wasn’t how Tay saw it.
She was waiting for the right moment.
That was what Tay thought as he watched Lant.
The girl regarded Lant in silence.
“Very well. Speak.”
“Yes, Tay. Please consider forming a faction with the funds you’ve accumulated so far.”
“That’s an unexpected suggestion. Why?”
“Because there will be those who seek to attack you, Tay.”
“Because of the wealth I’ve suddenly amassed?”
The Blackmagic Blacksmith is Too Easy
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