Genius Blacksmith’s Game - Chapter 243

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The Genius Blacksmith’s Game
The Golden Goblin (4)
This is being recorded.
The hearts of the Chinese users sank at those words.
Pond.
‘Hyeon’s Forge will be annihilated by our guild and its members. It will be far too easy. We will appease the angry sentiments of our countrymen.’
Wei.
‘I am known as one of the necromancers who was slaughtered. After the server integration, I will show you a screenshot of user Hyeon-su kneeling before me.’
Liu.
‘My Hydra is supreme. During the Continental War, the artifact that Hyeon-su wielded caused Hydra to attack our own forces, but this time will be different.’
The Chinese users who had agreed to join them.
‘I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in washing away the shame of the Continental War. I will kill one more, trample one more, and ease your resentment.’
And their true intentions beneath it all.
Pond, Liu, Wei, and Yong-wol.
A conversation they had before entering the Labyrinth.
‘If we capture Master Craftsman Hyeon, how high will our standing rise?’
‘I am looking forward to this.’
Everyone had looked at Yong-wol.
‘What artifact will the Master Craftsman drop?’
‘Hmm.’
‘I hope he drops the Twin Dragon Sword.’
‘Come to think of it, the artifacts from those guild members, soldiers, and knights would be even better.’
‘Here is what we will do: we kill all the NPCs, then we continuously hunt Hyeon’s Forge. We slaughter them endlessly. Then Hyeon and his guild members will drop many artifacts they possess.’
‘Hehe, quite a cruel thought.’
‘Do you dislike it?’
‘I welcome it.’
Now everything they had said would change.
They could envision before their eyes what would happen when the recording reached the world.
Four thousand confident Chinese users and Sword Master Roman, who had incited rebellion, walked the path of their own annihilation.
The entire world would mock them, the entire world would ridicule them.
The Chinese would grow even more furious, and there was one more thing that would ignite the flames.
‘How is it that we could not even kill a single one of Hyeon’s soldiers!’
‘Even gods do not have such pathetic subordinates!’
‘The shame of China!’
‘Get out to another server!’
Watching Hyeon-su, who did not even grant them a small mouse hole to hide in, they fell into fear.
He was different from them.
‘He commands four thousand soldiers?’
‘Did you see the damage output? Insane. At that level, wouldn’t he possess the greatest military strength among the counts?’
‘His tactics and strategy were also excellent. He made them fight among themselves, then annihilated six thousand enemies without a speck of dust on his body.’
‘As expected, it’s Master Craftsman Hyeon.’
‘Master Craftsman Hyeon!’
‘He is the greatest User.’
‘He will be the first King!’
He will walk a path different from ours.
Hyeon’s name rises ever higher.
That elevated Hyeon will stand in a place we can no longer reach.
Pond surveyed his surroundings.
Artifacts and Gold were stacked like mountains.
These would become the capital to develop Hyeon-su’s Territory once more.
And Hyeon-su, gripping the Twin Dragon Sword tightly, speaks words that make their chests sink with a heavy thud.
“This is the highlight.”
Every video has its highlight moment.
The supreme scene that makes the protagonist shine.
It was the instant when Wei, Liu, and Pond were reduced to mere extras.
“Haaah!”
Pond, his face flushed with rage, moved violently.
Even if they had skill cooldowns.
They were three of China’s representative rankers.
The Undead gathered before Wei moved to stand against him, protecting their master.
Hyeon-su, pushing off the ground, vanishes.
“Ghost Step.”
The Twin Dragon Sword is a blade with nonsensical damage.
Wei, unlike the others, had taken almost no damage during the battle.
He was being protected by those around him because of his class.
That Wei was sent flying upward.
The Twin Dragon Sword, appearing and disappearing like a phantom as it treads through mid-air, leaving afterimages in its wake, slashes him from the sky.
Once.
Twice.
Thrice.
Eleven times.
Fifteen times.
“Kuh, kuhaaaaaaah!”
Shhwaaaaaaa—
[User Wei has been forcibly logged out.]
Tskakakakakakak—
In the 0.5 seconds it took, only the sound of wind reached Pond and Liu’s ears.
Standing motionless between them, unable even to respond.
Hyeon-su, not yet finished, moves and attacks the two in succession.
“Kuh!”
“Gasp!”
Crash—
I had executed exactly nineteen steps of the Ghost Walk.
Standing at a height far surpassing my past self.
The reason I called myself a lord.
I was no longer the person I once was, but the parent to tens of thousands of Territory subjects.
It was to suggest that I possessed the strength to protect them.
Liu, staggering to respond, thrust his spear forward with a sharp motion.
Hyeon-su twisted his body to evade, already drawing the Twin Dragon Sword backward and lowering his stance.
With his front foot planted on the ground, the Twin Dragon Sword sang out.
Kiiiiiiing—
It reflected in Liu’s pupils.
Dozens upon dozens of blades extended from the single Twin Dragon Sword, sweeping across him.
And the Chinese Users rushing to aid from behind were consumed by the onslaught.
Crash—
The damage was far too immense for those already battered to withstand.
The sight of hundreds of Chinese Users and Liu scattering into ash was sufficient to mark the second time.
[User Liu has been forcibly logged out.]
Then.
Crash—!
Hyeon-su’s back was deeply slashed. Massive damage flooded through him.
“I will kill you before I leave.”
It was the activation of the Raging Bull, a Passive Skill possessed by the Sword Emperor.
[Raging Bull]
[Activates with a 9% probability.]
[Inflicts an additional 378% attack power.]
[Causes stun for 0.7 seconds.]
[Upon each activation, the probability rises exponentially to 25%, and all effects become more potent.]
Pond was undoubtedly a peak-tier User.
Some had spoken of the strength of Users.
That a User was composed of 20% Level, 20% Stats, 20% Equipment, and 20% Active and Passive Skills.
Indeed, the Passive Skills Users possessed were part of their strength.
Especially Raging Bull—once it triggered, its probability rose exponentially, and it grew stronger with each activation.
As Hyeon-su, his back slashed, staggered and turned his body forward.
Crash—!
[Raging Bull]
Raging Bull activated once more.
“Ugh.”
[Activates with a 25% probability.]
[Inflicts an additional 547% attack power.]
[Stunned for 1.2 seconds.]
[Upon activation, the probability increases exponentially at 40%, and all effects are enhanced.]
“Kha, kha ha ha ha ha ha!”
Pond laughed.
Our annihilation. It was certain.
Before I went down, I could have killed this damned bastard.
The stun activated for 1.2 seconds.
Probability increased exponentially at 40%.
With just 2.5 more hits, it would activate again, trapping him in an infinite stun loop.
Pond, seizing victory, drew his Sword back.
The very thought of annihilating them all alone from the start….
“Not checking behind you?”
“…!?”
Pond’s head slowly tilted backward in belated realization.
Click—
Fifty Knights clad in Dragon Helms and Dragon Armor had nocked Short Arrows and were aiming them directly at him.
Pond let out a hollow laugh.
“Ha, ha ha….”
In that instant.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom—!
Fifty Short Arrows pierced through Pond’s body in multiple places.
And Pond possessed a resurrection skill that restored him to 10% HP when his health dropped to 1%.
But his consciousness was already fading, and Hyeon-su, freed from the stun, was raising his Sword.
Seeing the Knights beside him and the enormous forces at his back, Pond felt fear.
The very majesty of a lord incarnate.
Skreeeee—
As Pond’s vision darkened, Hyeon-su’s voice reached him.
“You will never set foot in this place again. The karma born from your greed.”
Pond had one desperate wish.
‘Please, please, please….’
His desire shattered.
“Huh? Isn’t this the Sword you were wearing? Sweet loot!”
For this day, Pond had purchased a Legendary Grade Sword above all Legendary Grades.
No matter how many Legendary Grade items had been released. This, a superior variant of Legendary, still numbered fewer than twenty across all global servers.
[You have dropped Edron’s Sword.]
‘Ugh, ugggghhhhh!’
He had dropped his most precious Artifact.
Truly, the finest of the Golden Goblins.
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Sword Master Roman and the Knights were exhausted.
They had been bombarded by Pond and the Users’ wide-range skills, and had countered with their advantage—Aura.
Moreover, they were overwhelmed in raw power.
The proof lay in how merely two Short Arrows fired by Atlas’s Soldiers had swept away 3,000 of the 6,000.
Of course, the Dragon Short Arrows’ strength played a significant role as well.
Many of the Knights, like Roman, had only a handful of Aura remaining and were swept away like autumn leaves.
‘How… how…’
What shocked Roman even more was that Atlas’s army grew stronger the longer they fought.
Even if they only delivered the finishing blow, Atlas’s Soldiers who hunted high-level Knights continued to level up steadily.
And as their own forces dwindled while the enemy grew stronger, the collapse accelerated catastrophically.
“Ugh, ugggghhh!”
“I, I want to live.”
“You bastards, where are you going…!”
Knights fleeing from the Labyrinth poured out in droves.
And Sword Master Roman found himself on his knees, multiple weapons embedded throughout his body.
“Since this was no rebellion for the nation’s sake, it was only natural that there were none willing to protect it.”
After all was said and done, these were the words of Hyeon-su, who commanded 4,000 troops at his back.
In truth, Hyeon-su was certain of this.
Had Sword Master Roman known Hyeon-su possessed this much military force, he would never have rebelled in the first place.
Moreover, Sword Master Roman was an NPC.
One of the Kingdom’s finest NPCs at that, and it was through him that the Quest had been triggered.
“A fitting outcome, born of your own greed.”
At Hyeon-su’s words, the kneeling Roman let out a hollow laugh.
“Do you think it ends here? Stronger Rebel Forces will emerge, and more exceptional ones will target you. There will be no shortage of those who despise seeing a soft Outsider become king.”
Soft.
Hyeon-su understood the meaning of that word.
Yes, Hyeon-su was certainly soft.
But others were not.
[Nel: Prince Barad commanded that I exterminate three clans. Thus, I had no choice but to do so.]
Hyeon-su felt his chest ache. Yet he knew this too was the path to becoming king.
“I have exterminated your three clans.”
“…!?”
Roman’s eyes widened. The softness he had just spoken of was swallowed whole.
‘What… what…?’
Alongside tremendous mental anguish, the belief he had held—that I was soft—shattered mercilessly.
He stares at Hyeon-su with bloodshot eyes.
Hyeon-su severed his neck in one swift motion.
Skreeeech—!
Thud—
Hyeon-su felt the need to become harder, more resilient.
Just as Roman had said.
The rebellion was only beginning, and stronger enemies would emerge.
‘There are even Users among them.’
So far, I had merely repelled a single Chinese User Group.
And today, Hyeon-su had grown one step further.
It was a spiritual growth—the realization that I must make strong and unwavering decisions to protect what is mine.
Only then could I safeguard my own without it being stolen away.
Other rewards lay before me as well.
‘Just watch. I will grow even stronger.’
Gold piled high before my eyes, along with an enormous quantity of miscellaneous items and Artifacts.
And Hyeon-su knew the truth.
‘At my original level, overcoming this rebellion would not have been easy.’
Yet Hyeon-su had succeeded.
I knew what consequences this would bring, and the notifications proved it.
[Atlas’s forces have written a new legend.]
The notifications proved it.
This battle itself was an unprecedented masterpiece.
And it would grant rewards equally insane.
[King’s Path Quest: Rebel Forces Complete.]
[You have accumulated a Wondrous Achievement.]
The notifications flooded in.

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