Genius Blacksmith’s Game - Chapter 11

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The Genius Blacksmith’s Game

 

 

 

 

Legendary Class Proposal (1)

 

 

 

Press Conference Waiting Room.

When they heard that the ecosystem disruptor was going to the Hunting Training Ground, the development team leader asked.

“What should we do? He’s a rather unconventional user.”

CEO Lee Se-jin understood the gist of the question better than anyone.

“What do you mean what should we do? We should leave him be. It’s his own skill.”

Lee Se-jin of Pureum Corporation was a person with firm convictions.

In the waiting room, he heard about what had happened so far through Team Leader Kim Tae-seok of the Special User Management Team.

Rewards for unconventional achievements.

The first Rare Artifact creation.

Ore creation.

Finally, Epic Artifact creation.

And then even Wooden Doll Breaking, which 1.2 billion people had failed.

However, that user had accomplished it.

If there was just one concern.

“…Was one of the conditions for achieving the legendary class Black Smith to reject an Epic or higher job class once?”

Legendary class. The exclusive domain of only chosen users.

User class types exist in the order of Normal, Hidden, Epic, and Legendary.

Among the 1.2 billion players, not many users have obtained that class, and all became famous rankers.

To obtain this legendary class, various conditions must be met.

In the case of blacksmiths, it’s rejecting an ‘Epic job proposal.’

Pureum Corporation wanted to confirm.

How desperate he was for blacksmithing.

Whether he could remain unshaken by temptation.

It was to see if he had the qualifications to become legendary.

“An Epic job proposal…”

Kim Tae-seok of the Special User Management Team smiled bitterly.

“Ah, come to think of it, there is something at the Hunting Training Ground where user Hyeon-su is going that might warrant such a proposal. Looking at Hyeon-su’s current status window and weapons, it might be possible.”

“You mean the Epic class Berserker?”

“That’s right.”

Berserker.

It was a very good job as an Epic class, but it couldn’t compare to a legendary class.

“This Berserker job also requires achieving ridiculous Achievements…”

That was the condition for obtaining Hidden, Epic, and Legendary classes.

However, Lee Se-jin showed an expression that it wasn’t a big deal.

In fact, from Lee Se-jin’s perspective, even if Hyeon-su became a legendary job, he probably couldn’t deny it.

He was a user who had sufficient qualifications.

There was just one concern he couldn’t tell Team Leader Kim Tae-seok or the development team.

‘He surely won’t reach the God class…?’

A realm that not a single person had reached yet.

God class.

However, Lee Se-jin soon shook his head.

‘The conditions for achieving God class are too difficult and demanding.’

Lee Se-jin thought it wasn’t yet the stage to worry about that much.

 

 

 

Hyeon-su, who left the Wooden Doll Training Ground, immediately logged out.

Ji-hoon, who was waiting in front of the capsule, was looking at Hyeon-su with eyes full of envy.

“Soon you’ll be gaming with a VVIP Capsule at home, right? You’ll let me try it too, won’t you?”

“We’ll see how you behave.”

“Okay, I’m so grateful I could cry.”

While walking, Ji-hoon said.

“But you said the Beginner Zone where you started the game was Bardin Territory?”

“Yeah, why?”

“Tsk tsk, poor guy. Do you know what kind of place Bardin Beginner Zone is?”

“?”

Hyeon-su made a puzzled expression. He hadn’t researched hunting spots yet.

Wooden Doll Breaking had been his top priority for now.

Ji-hoon, who had said that, soon hardened his expression.

‘Or maybe not…? Is it easy for him now?’

He suddenly thought of the Epic Sword and stats that guy possessed.

“What kind of place is it?”

Just as he was about to answer, they reached a crossroads.

“Search for it yourself when you get home, see you later.”

Hyeon-su, who parted with Ji-hoon, soon entered his house.

Returning home, Hyeon-su accessed the Ares Community.

And he searched about Bardin Beginner Zone.

 

[Guys, I started the game in Bardin Beginner Zone, am I screwed?]

[Yeah, totally screwed lololol.]

[For real, guys who start in Bardin Beginner Zone, good luck suffering lololol.]

[You started in Bardin Beginner Zone? Close your eyes. What do you see?]

[I don’t see anything…?]

[That’s your future lol.]

[Lolololololololololololololol.]

[Wow, Bardin Hunting Ground difficulty is insane hell. If you happened to start there among hundreds of beginner zones, you really have no luck at all.]

[No matter how high the difficulty of beginner zones, isn’t it all the same?]

[Bardin is different… Bardin beginner hunting ground has instructors give 1:1 intensive training…]

[1:1?]

[Because the difficulty is insanely hard lolololol.]

[Why is it hard?]

[According to the setting, when you leave Bardin Territory you start in Prime Kingdom, and Prime Kingdom is a nation surrounded by monsters on three sides, so they teach you insanely hard. Other beginner zones hunt deer, right?]

[Yeah yeah, hunt deer. Deer don’t even attack so it’s super easy.]

[Bardin starts by hunting goblins, kekekeke. Ah, but why am I tearing up. .]

[Lololol that bastard, was a Bardin user lolololololololol.]

[Dude, give us a review.]

[Goblins were too strong, died three times and barely escaped. They don’t let you leave until you successfully hunt a Goblin…]

[Lolololololol.]

[For real, raising human weapons. At level 1 lol.]

 

Hyeon-su nodded his head. He could understand why the Bardin Beginner Zone was said to be tough.

However, he felt a strange sense of regret.

‘Making things is more fun than hunting… Isn’t there anything I can make?’

But it was a process he had to go through to escape the Beginner Zone.

Putting his regrets aside, Hyeon-su lay down on the bed and went to sleep.

 

 

 

The next day.

Hyeon-su logged into Ares.

Walking a bit further, he could see a translucent blue barrier.

He knew that crossing this barrier would start the Hunting Training Ground tutorial.

He crossed the blue barrier without hesitation.

 

[You have entered the Hunting Training Ground.]

 

It was just as the Ares Community users had said yesterday.

Upon entering the Hunting Training Ground, he saw countless users receiving one-on-one instruction.

Soon, an instructor approached Hyeon-su.

“Hey, rookie. Take this sword.”

It was an instructor named Relson.

Hyeon-su had sharpened blades for countless instructors.

But this instructor named Relson was someone he was seeing for the first time.

 

[You have obtained a Rusty Iron Sword.]

 

Hyeon-su looked at the iron sword that was rusted in several places.

‘Attack power is 17…’

Gwangmyeong’s current attack power was 143. Hyeon-su put the weapon into his inventory.

“I’ll use my own sword.”

“…Are you a blacksmith?”

Instructor Relson said this while looking at the sword at his waist.

When Hyeon-su slowly nodded, Relson let out a hollow laugh.

“To have such a worthless profession, what a pitiful fellow.”

“…?”

Hyeon-su’s face crumpled miserably.

The NPCs’ personalities were truly diverse.

Some had good personalities.

Some had bad personalities.

There were also those who unconditionally believed that what they did was the best.

However, Hyeon-su didn’t need to understand this.

In his childhood.

Hyeon-su was teased a lot at school for having a blacksmith father.

‘Can’t you ask your father to make me some gear?’

‘Hyeon-su, can you craft items too?’

Of course, they were severely scolded by Hyeon-su.

Those who came to Father’s blacksmith shop to buy things would also say things like this when he wouldn’t give them a discount.

‘Tsk tsk, that’s why you’re still running a blacksmith shop in 2040.’

Father was an elite.

He once worked at a major corporation, and the reason he first became a blacksmith was so cool.

‘I heard that all the blacksmiths in our country have disappeared. I’ve admired blacksmiths since I was young, so I quit to become the last blacksmith.’

We blacksmiths are not people who should be looked down upon.

We are valuable people.

But there was no way to prove it immediately.

However, it was different here.

Here, he could prove what kind of sword this was.

He could show how much effort they had put in.

He could demonstrate what their value was.

“Instructor.”

Hyeon-su’s voice became fierce.

Father had said.

‘Don’t endure it. Why should we have to endure it?’

We are the blacksmiths who uniquely carry on the spirit of Joseon.

Does this seem trivial?

Instructor Relson was startled by Hyeon-su’s cold voice and gaze.

‘What is this, these eyes…?’

These weren’t the eyes that mere Outsiders usually showed.

Instructor Relson knew people with such eyes.

Those who had reached the pinnacle in their field, at the very least.

Could they show such eyes because they had reached the top?

No. They were the tough ones who harbored such fierce determination to reach that level!

“Instructor, you must have seen many geniuses so far.”

“That’s right? Many have passed through me, there was an Outsider named Han-ul.”

“…?”

Coincidentally, it seemed that Han-ul, the recent kendo gold medalist, had completed the Hunting Training Ground through this instructor.

“He was amazing, so strong that blacksmiths like you couldn’t even dream of it. You should have taken up the sword like that friend instead. You would have made a truly excellent swordsman.”

Hyeon-su was gradually understanding the Ares game.

He speculated.

What would have happened with a user of Han-ul’s caliber?

“He must have hunted goblins magnificently.”

“That’s right, and not only that? He also hunted many of the additional monsters I suggested right in front of me. Do you know? He almost hunted even a level 15 mad goblin at the same level as you.”

Hyeon-su had also learned more about Bardin Village before logging in this morning.

Occasionally, instructors would recommend hunting stronger monsters to exceptional users.

Of course, this was common to all Beginner Zones.

If you hunted deer magnificently in other places, here you would hunt goblins.

Watching the instructor excitedly ramble on about Han-ul, Hyeon-su grinned.

“Then I’ll try hunting more monsters than that Han-ul right here.”

At that, Instructor Relson made an incredulous expression.

 

 

 

Instructor Relson wondered if he had heard wrong.

Han-ul? Hunt more monsters than that sword genius Han-ul?

Instructor Relson had never seen such a genius in his life.

He was someone who killed goblins that ordinary users would have to hit five times with just two strikes.

And what about those inspired movements and excellent swordsmanship?

Furthermore, instructors could present additional trials to outstanding users.

Those additional trial presentations were possible up to stage 4, and killing these Weakened Goblins belonged to stage 1.

Amazingly, Han-ul was a user who almost succeeded up to stage 4.

Moreover, being an instructor, Relson knew that no one worldwide had cleared stage 4.

But what kind of nonsensical talk is this?

“Are you angry, friend? Hahahaha, but you have to face reality!”

No matter how much bravado you show, there should be limits.

“A mere blacksmith claiming he’ll hunt more than Han-ul? How absolutely ridiculous.”

Relson grabbed his belly.

“Ahaha, I’m sorry about that, so don’t be mad. Well, I’ll summon one for you anyway.”

Snap-

When Instructor Relson flicked his finger, a goblin appeared in front of them.

 

[Weakened Goblin Lv.3]

 

“You just need to attack and kill this fellow. But be warned – it takes about 5 hits from ordinary Outsiders to kill it. Also, watch out for its dagger and poison needles.”

The goblin that appeared was about 120cm tall and had green skin.

“Well, I’ll help you when you’re in danger, so don’t worry! Have you ever actually swung a sword instead of just making them?”

Relson was excited.

Teasing this user was quite entertaining.

Moreover, Relson was someone who strongly pushed the idea that swords are the best!

“First, let’s learn how to make a first kill.”

Hyeon-su drew his sword.

Shing-

Sword Gwangmyeong was drawn with a clear, ringing sound.

“Now, give it a light swing.”

Hyeon-su literally gave a light tap- and slashed the goblin from top to bottom.

Thunk-

“Kiheeeeeek!”

With just that casual swing, the goblin’s body split in two as green blood spurted up.

The goblin wore an expression as if it had no idea what had just happened to it.

Then it was cleanly severed in half and crumbled to ash.

 

[You have hunted a Weakened Goblin.]

 

“…!?”

Instructor Relson’s eyes went wide.

Even Han-ul had needed two strikes to hunt a weakened goblin.

Hyeon-su flicked off the green blood with a swoosh and smiled contentedly.

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