Genius Blacksmith’s Game - Chapter 101
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The Genius Blacksmith’s Game
The Genius Blacksmith’s Game
Nobility (3)
Nobility (3)
Before departing from the Ares Church papal office.
Hyeon-su sent a reply to Barad.
The contents of the reply were simple.
‘I will depart immediately for Goyard Kingdom with Saint Aria and the holy knights. Since you said the saint will offer prayers, please do not worry too much.’
The full explanation could wait until later.
Whoosh—
After releasing the hawk, Hyeon-su looked at Aria and the holy knights who had finished their preparations.
[Holy Knight Cocoon Lv.323]
[Holy Knight Jenel Lv.331]
Their levels were so high it made his heart race.
He could truly understand just how remarkable Saint Aria was.
Also, the Ares Church, concerned about Aria’s recent kidnapping and the Calamity Church losing the Fifth Calamity, had assigned the top 10 holy knights of Ares to accompany them.
And the holy knights mounted on horses wore tattered robes.
When Hyeon-su looked puzzled, Aria explained.
“Our every movement becomes the subject of gossip, so the holy knights and I often act like wanderers when going out.”
At those words, Hyeon-su nodded.
They began riding their horses and a reply arrived.
[Currently, someone called Marquis Lookburg and eight nobles want to meet you. Furthermore…]
Barad explained the entire current situation.
‘His Majesty Barad’s position?’
This was something that would anger Hyeon-su as well. There was an even more shocking story.
The story that assassins had infiltrated there.
When he explained to Aria, she said.
“A powerful entrance would be good. That’s what His Majesty Barad needs right now.”
Hyeon-su understood those words.
The reason Barad wasn’t immediately purging the assassins.
Regarding that powerful entrance, he wondered if it would be possible.
‘Even so, I’m still only in the 200 level range…’
Something flashed through his mind.
He took it out from his inventory.
It was the brown coat dropped by the Fifth Calamity Jack.
Surprisingly, the coat resembled a modern-style coat.
It might look like just a piece of cloth, but this coat possessed tremendous power.
(Calamity’s Coat)
Grade: Unique
Durability: 9,000/9,000
Defense: 403
Restriction: Level 200 or higher
Special Abilities:
·Charisma increased by 30.
·Active Skill Calamity’s Majesty.
·Active Skill Calamity’s Command.
·Passive Skill Calamity’s Command.
·Passive Skill Instant Death.
·When wearing additional Calamity artifacts, all effects increase by 5%.
Description: An artifact closest to legendary, symbolizing the Fifth Calamity Jack.
An artifact closest to legendary.
‘I guess each of the Calamities has one of these artifacts?’
He could infer this from the artifact’s description.
Looking at those effects, Hyeon-su was amazed.
‘With this…’
He could make a powerful entrance. Hyeon-su immediately equipped the brown coat.
While riding their horses, rain began to fall.
Swoooosh—
Cutting through the rainwater, they were able to reach Goyard Kingdom.
Walking through the corridor and entering, Hyeon-su immediately activated it.
[Calamity’s Majesty]
[Strange phenomena occur as if a calamity is approaching, emanating a strong sense of intimidation.]
[As an effect, black currents scatter from your feet with each step.]
[Status ailment Fear is applied.]
Hyeon-su walked in with the strongest appearance possible.
Looking at the eight nobles threatening Barad as if they were insignificant beings.
And standing at the entrance, he warned them before entering further inside.
He counted down from the center.
“One.”
Brock, the vice-captain of the Red Dragon Corps who was hiding, couldn’t help but feel bewildered.
[Assassin Brock Lv.299]
“Two.”
How could this unknown person see through their identities?
However, what was strange was that an assassin’s instincts told him this person was weak.
Brock changed his thinking.
‘We can’t kill Barad.’
Then he would kill the nobles in this place and the man in front.
Before the word “three” ended, the assassins who received Brock’s signal moved like lightning.
‘Success…!’
Brock felt ecstatic as he thrust his dagger toward Hyeon-su’s neck.
The distance between the dagger and neck was 3cm.
At that moment.
[Calamity’s Command]
[Calamity’s Command controls everything in the vicinity with telekinesis.]
[Too powerful to move.]
[Lasts for 6 seconds.]
Brock could only roll his eyes.
With those eyes, he looked around.
The assassins targeting the nobles, and other members targeting the man in front, were all suspended in mid-air as if caught in frozen time.
The man watching him with chilling eyes lowered his raised arm.
Swoosh-!
Brock’s eyes saw brilliant swords engraved with the name ‘Ares’ slashing down.
Having lost one arm, Brock could see the members being cut in half instantly before finally losing consciousness.
As Hyeon-su passed by the fallen Brock, Barad could be seen nodding invisibly to others.
And so it began. The plan we had devised together.
“Why did you have to come?”
“My benefactor. Since it was Hyeon-su’s words, I had no choice but to come.”
The nobles step back at Saint Aria’s affectionate gaze.
Marquis Lookburg looks at Barad, Hyeon-su, and Aria with wavering eyes.
And one of the nobles says something he shouldn’t have.
“Th-thank you for saving us.”
Lookburg’s face crumpled miserably. He had given them an opening.
Sword King Barad rose to his feet.
“I see, Hyeon-su. You have saved the eight greatest nobles of the kingdom. You all must feel tremendous gratitude toward my dear friend.”
Barad’s eyes became sharp as a hawk’s.
Under that contemplative gaze, Lookburg slowly bowed his head in acknowledgment.
“I too feel great gratitude toward that man.”
“Is that so?”
Sword King Barad gained strength. He spoke in a cold tone.
“Come to think of it, recently in the territory you govern, there have been too many harsh incidents…”
Finally, Barad had created justification.
Now the people would side with Barad.
That’s why he could now do what he had been unable to do for so long.
“How about you and the nobles here try to make the Araham territory prosper?”
Araham territory.
Located at the furthest frontier of Goyad Kingdom, it was a territory practically abandoned due to barren land and monsters swarming the area.
A place where residents had been steadily fleeing to find new homes for 20 years.
The reason for sending them there was simple.
They were being demoted.
From the most luxurious and magnificent territory to the most worthless place where they could be attacked and killed at any time.
“We accept your command.”
Marquis Lookburg and the nobles no longer had the strength to defy him.
And Barad looked at Hyeon-su with an excited expression.
‘He was merely one among dozens I had in mind.’
Someone good to have as a friend, a single wish that it would be so.
He was making that wish come true.
Finally, what Barad had planned was about to be realized.
***
A notification came to Hyeon-su.
[Sword King Barad’s dream is being realized.]
[This originated from your fingertips.]
[You take one step closer to him.]
Hyeon-su wore a puzzled expression, and Barad spoke.
“Let it be known to all the people.”
Barad’s gaze looks at Hyeon-su as if he were proud.
“That today, in this place, one man saved eight nobles and Sword King Barad. And that he will also save Bell.”
[The story of one man spreads among all the people.]
[It is the story of the one who saved Sword King Barad, eight nobles, and Bell.]
[The people speak of his story.]
[Bards create songs about him.]
[The people show infinite favor toward you who saved the king, nobles, and Bell.]
[You gain 500 Fame.]
[You gain 100 Charisma.]
“Hyeon-su, kneel.”
Hyeon-su wore a puzzled expression. He didn’t know about the dream Barad had harbored.
He simply knelt according to his words.
Following him, Aria and the paladins went outside.
Everyone from Goyad Kingdom in that place knelt like Hyeon-su.
“To you who saved everyone here, I wish to grant the title of Baronet.”
Hearing those words, Hyeon-su couldn’t help but be surprised.
[You can rise to Baronet, one of the titles of Goyad Kingdom.]
[A Baronet receives 5,000 gold monthly from the state.]
[You can command and lead soldiers.]
Hyeon-su would be able to earn about 5 million won monthly indefinitely.
‘But it’s not enough for me.’
There had been many such offers, so accepting a baronetcy simply due to friendship with Barad?
‘Refusing would be right.’
Then.
[You might be able to become king someday.]
That thought completely changed.
Barad is drawing a small smile while slowly nodding.
He too must know that Hyeon-su won’t remain at mere baronet.
In the Korean server, there were about 200 users with baronet titles.
23 barons.
7 viscounts.
About 2 counts.
But not a single one among them.
‘Has ever heard this notification.’
Hyeon-su’s heart pounds.
He was weak. The story that this weak person might become king.
“I humbly accept your command.”
[You have been elevated to Quasi-Baron of Goyard Kingdom.]
Barad wore a satisfied smile.
Soon, he looked toward the distant corridor.
It was a sign to go save Bella.
Then a notification reached Hyeon-su.
Ding!
[Emergency Quest: A Woman Prepared for Death has been generated.]
[Emergency Quest: A Woman Prepared for Death]
Grade: A
Restriction: One who will save Bella
Reward: ???
Failure Penalty: None.
Description: Bella may fall into eternal rest within a few days. Put her mind at ease.
Hyeon-su wore a puzzled expression before going to meet Bella.
It was because the reward was marked as ???.
But for now, he didn’t mind it.
He hurried his steps to meet Bella.
***
Special User Management Team.
Team Leader Kim muttered.
“Bella was originally destined to die.”
She was a tragic woman.
She actually possessed talent comparable to the Sword King. As time passed, she would have shone brightly.
“Now she can continue to grow.”
Of course, Ares has such high degrees of freedom that unpredictable events like this often occur.
And the two of them knew what the ??? reward contained.
“Loyalty…”
Kim Tae-seok gave a bitter smile.
The loyalty of a woman with talent to succeed the Sword King. That was the reward.
The problem was this.
[Sword King Barad will give great rewards to User Hyeon-su who saved Bella.]
[As one of them, he may send Bella to him later.]
This is how the Special User Management Team predicts rewards – through such notifications.
And the Hyeon-su they observed was clever.
By saving Bella, Hyeon-su was confident that Barad would do something equivalent in return.
And the notification proved him right.
But soon Kim Tae-seok said.
“Would Bella really follow if Sword King Barad told her to serve Hyeon-su?”
“She wouldn’t. Bella’s loyalty to Barad is far greater and deeper than what Sword King Barad thinks, or even what we think.”
“Right, and faced with Bella’s firm refusal, Barad will eventually withdraw that command.”
Having finished their conversation, the two stood up.
3 PM. The two hadn’t even eaten lunch due to monitoring various users.
They chatted while going for a meal.
“Guild Gwangmyeong will need excellent knights too.”
“NPCs sometimes accomplish what users cannot.”
Users log into the game, but NPCs live there.
Therefore, NPCs have the great power to transform users’ limitations into limitlessness.
Also, protecting strongholds is likewise the NPCs’ responsibility.
So the two had their late meal and returned.
Upon returning, Kim Tae-seok was shocked by the notification that appeared on the monitor.
[Lord’s Grace is activating.]
[…]
[…]
[…]
Tae-seok looked at the final notification and doubted his own eyes.
[Knight Bella embraces another sun in her heart.]
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