Genius Blacksmith’s Game - Chapter 179

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The Genius Blacksmith’s Game
Twin Dragon Sword (4)
Everyone watched.
The Twin Dragon Sword had appeared without warning.
The legendary blade of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, lost to the world, now believed to be forged by Blacksmith Hyeon.
Bella extended both arms and grasped the hilt of the colossal Twin Dragon Sword.
[A masterwork of unparalleled uniqueness crafted by a Master Craftsman.]
[A skill activates.]
[Awaken]
[It resonates with your latent potential and legend.]
What was Bella’s potential rating?
At merely twenty years old, she already held the position of Vice Commander of her nation’s Knight Order.
Her potential transcended all conventional understanding.
[HP recovers to 50%.]
[You surpass your limits.]
[You surpass your limits.]
[You surpass your lim—]
The notification transformed.
[You transcend your limits.]
[You transcend your limits.]
Shrieeeeek—
Azure mana blazed forth from Bella’s body.
[Measuring level.]
[Cannot be measured.]
[Cannot be measured.]
Bella had once heard a tale about Hyeon-su.
A single blade that had awakened the mana of those incompatible with magic.
She now understood that this Twin Dragon Sword carried a similar power.
The soldier ant that had been diving toward Bella’s abdomen.
As Bella turned her head, their eyes met, and the creature pivoted away.
Shrieeeek—!
It was fleeing.
The First Calamity Helenya was bewildered.
‘What… what is this?’
From the woman who had been dying mere moments before, an incomprehensible power was awakening.
Helenya could not comprehend it.
Was it the power of that blade, or the power of this woman called Bella?
And then she understood.
‘Both.’
That mysterious, tremendous blade was awakening the dormant strength that lay within her.
Barad saw far into the future.
In five years, Bella would become the commander of the Knight Order, and in ten years, she would surpass him.
Helenya grew desperate.
She struck the ground with the staff gripped in her hand.
The space around her tore open, and colossal insects emerged from the rift.
[Giant Mantis Lv.365]
[Giant Hornet Lv.364]
[Giant Butterfly Lv.364]
Having summoned roughly seventy creatures in a single breath, her complexion turned ashen.
Even for her, performing a summoning of this magnitude was beyond her limits.
Seventy powerful insects surged toward Bella.
They descended upon her in unison.
[Measurement complete.]
[A new legend awakens.]
[Sword King Bella Lv.458]
Bella witnessed the swarm of roughly seventy insects charging toward her.
And as she gripped the Twin Dragon Sword, she felt something.
It was the ore from which the Twin Dragon Sword had been forged.
The power of Gwangmyeong Stone.
[The legend that saved the nation responds to you.]
The legend that saved the nation.
That legend was questioning her.
Him, sleeping within the legend. A voice that seemed to reach only Bella’s ears.
Why did you speak thus?
‘Fight, even if you die.’
Bella’s answer was simple.
Because she knew that the First Sun and the Second Sun would grieve.
She gripped the Twin Dragon Sword tighter.
I am a selfish person.
Indeed, that was true.
I knew nothing of the subjects the Sword King cherished, nor of the Gwangmyeong that Hyeon-su held dear.
I simply wished that the two people I loved would not suffer.
Then.
[You become the protagonist of the legend.]
She became the protagonist of the legend.
What does this mean?
[Your name is inscribed in history.]
Bella moved.
She advanced toward the swarm of roughly seventy insects converging upon her.
She struck down the mantis at the forefront, its claws as sharp as blades, reaching toward her.
Crackle-crack-crack!
Two times my usual power, no—three times.
A force that transcends me by far cleaves the mantis in two, sweeping away the insects behind it as well.
My own strength, and the strength of the Twin Dragon Sword.
The Twin Dragon Sword is a great blade.
A great blade is an Artifact possessing power that transcends ordinary swords.
Its weakness lies in being dreadfully heavy and difficult to wield.
But this sword was different.
The pattern of Twin Dragon Sword inscribed on the blade’s surface glowed crimson.
Screeeech—
Rumble-rumble-rumble, crack-crack-crack, boom!
Three seconds.
In that fleeting instant, the viewers doubted their own eyes.
Seventy-odd insect remains fell thud-thud-thud to the ground from her great sword.
Thud-thud, falling among the insects.
Tap, tap-tap, strike!
Bella descended to the ground and charged forward.
Hundreds of giant ants surged toward her.
It manifested once more.
The sword’s bombardment.
The pinnacle of power—shredding ten giant ants to pieces.
Roooooar—
From the Twin Dragon Sword, a force incomparably stronger than before came surging.
In an instant, the image of a small nation and a great general was projected onto her, captivating the viewers as recorded history echoed forth.
[She is a selfish knight. She does not fight for the peace of the people and nation, but only for the sun she holds within herself.]
[To protect her two suns, she will cut down anything in this world!]
The two suns she holds.
King Barad, who first extended his hand to the abandoned girl, Bella.
And on the day I was dying.
I am a knight who lives only for Hyeon-su, my second sun who saved me.
Yes, Bella is selfish.
I wield my sword not for the nation, but for those two people.
Crackle-crack-crack-crack-crack!
Hundreds of strands of sword energy slashed through the giant ants blocking the way.
Pushing off the ground, I carved through the gap and faced the giant ants alone.
Bella gritted her teeth.
She knew that if she could not kill them, this calamity would reach her first sun.
A massive great sword came crashing down toward her as she madly carved through the ant swarm.
Boom—
Flying backward, she regained her balance and tilted the Twin Dragon Sword back.
“This land is ours.”
Words she didn’t understand traveled along the blade.
“The god still possesses one final sword.”
[The god’s]
[A condensation of tremendous power extends toward the enemy.]
[The enemy is slashed 27 times.]
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle-crack-!
The moment the parried blade came crashing down, Second Calamity Rogal’s body was torn to shreds.
“Ugh, ugghhhhh, ahhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhh!”
[Rogal’s HP drops below 40%.]
Screech-
I cut through him without pause, surging forward relentlessly.
Where I ran, the First Calamity awaited.
[First Calamity Helenya Lv.436]
“No, no, don’t come. Don’t come, don’t come!”
The most wicked calamity.
A villain who devoured multiple territories with ants.
A cruel entity that had never known fear.
The First Calamity, whose very name struck terror into all hearts, stumbled backward.
“Ant’s arm.”
Whoooosh-
A colossal ant’s limb summoned from the sky crashed down upon Bella.
Helenya panicked immediately.
The Twin Dragon Sword rose upward, and with a single breath, the six-meter-tall ant’s arm was severed cleanly in two.
Crunch-crunch-crunch-
Helenya gathered all her power.
Mountains of insect corpses formed a barrier before her.
But before that could matter.
Whoosh-
Bella, closing the distance in an instant, slashed across her shoulder.
“Kyaahhh!”
[Helenya’s HP drops below 85%.]
Damage that defied all reason.
Crunch-crunch-crunch
Even when she gathered her strength again and blocked with insects, it was useless.
Crack-
Bella cut through them in one stroke and continued forward, relentless.
Once.
Crack-
Twice.
A deep resonant boom echoed through the air.
Three times.
Between the silver-hued short hair, beautiful eyes contrasted with a blade-like gaze that instilled terror in Helenya.
Helenya saw it.
The tip of the Twin Dragon Sword surged toward her throat.
Then, Rogal appeared, having recovered in the meantime.
She withdrew her blade and struck upward at Rogal as he surged from above.
The entire scene was captured on the broadcast screen.
Rogal was being overwhelmed by Bella wielding the massive Twin Dragon Sword.
Slash, slash-slash-slash, slash-slash-slash—!
What Rogal found most unbelievable was that she deployed no defensive techniques whatsoever.
A blade that rippled in form was the cruelest of all swords.
Cutting was not the concept—tearing was—inflicting unbearable agony.
Yet Bella ignored that pain entirely.
Rogal too felt fear.
Her Twin Dragon Sword had reduced him to a mangled wreck.
The irony was that her HP had also dropped to twenty percent.
No matter how briefly they had reached Legendary Grade, the First Calamity and Second Calamity possessed formidable power.
But Bella continued to allow attacks while striking back at Rogal.
Finally, Rogal sensed that death was near.
A chill ran through him.
“…!”
This attack would kill him.
Rogal, the Second Calamity, the very symbol of terror and dread.
He crossed his arms before his face.
“Ahhhhhhh!”
His scream of terror was no different from that of an ordinary human.
A sickening crunch.
The Twin Dragon Sword carved through Rogal’s neck and passed beyond.
[Legend. The selfish knight is recorded in history.]
The record of history was complete.
Yet Bella still could not stop.
Just as she turned her body, she felt something scalding rising in her chest.
“Cough!”
Blood poured from her mouth in torrents.
[Awakening has ended.]
Her body collapsed.
Her trembling eyes, kneeling, met Helenya’s gaze. Helenya was smiling before her ally’s death.
“Thank you. I was planning to kill Rogal anyway.”
Helenya’s words were the truth.
Once this catastrophe passed, Barad would hunt them down.
To survive, Helenya had to grow stronger.
She was known as a summoner.
But her true nature lay in something entirely different.
Her arm transformed into that of an ant.
That appendage plunged into Rogal’s freshly lifeless corpse.
Like tentacles drawing in sustenance, her arm writhed and pulsed.
And as she absorbed it, her form underwent a terrible metamorphosis.
She became something like a bipedal, winged queen ant.
[First Calamity has been enhanced.]
[First Calamity has been enhanced.]
[First Calamity has…]
[First Calamity Helenya Lv.467]
[First Calamity Helenya has reached eight monster tiers.]
She had approached Legendary Grade.
Kiiiiieeeeeek—
[Queen’s Roar]
[Paralyzes the area.]
“Gahhhhh!”
“Ugh, ugghhhhh!”
Blood began streaming from people’s ears, eyes, and noses.
All trembled in terror at the sight of Helenya’s grotesque transformation.
“How… how do we kill that….”
“Legendary Grade?”
“Insane….”
Amid the people’s horror and dread, Helenya approached her.
As Bella gazed at her in a daze, she felt the power radiating from the Twin Dragon Sword she had dropped.
“…?”
Helenya, about to strike Bella with a hand blade, wore a puzzled expression.
Because Bella had suddenly smiled.
It was a smile of faith.
And beyond the barrier.
A man was receiving a notification like a Power Strike.
[The most perfect trinity.]
[An additional 10% attack power is imbued.]
[The title ‘Creator of the Mightiest Step’ shines.]
[2x damage is applied.]
Helenya swung her arm to strike Bella’s neck.
‘What is this?’
Her arm would not move, as though someone had seized it in an iron grip.
‘Telekinesis?’
At that moment.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crack—
The barrier tore like paper against the ferocious spinning drill.
Whoooosh—!
A single Short Arrow shot through and struck her with devastating force.
“Gaaahhhhh!”
Helenya flew thirty meters backward.
Like a crucifixion, she crashed into the three-story-high wall alongside the arrow, her gaze fixed on the torn barrier.
A man was crossing through the breach.
Draped in a brown coat, he possessed the same towering, muscular frame as Barad.
Bella smiled, her eyes gleaming with trust.
The members of Hyeon’s Forge Guild turned their attention toward him.
As he extended his hand forward, the Twin Dragon Sword that had fallen beside Bella moved to find its master.
Whoosh—
He grasped the Twin Dragon Sword with effortless grace.
With his arrival, a notification resounded for those of Hyeon’s Forge.
[Guild Master Hyeon-su has entered.]

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