Genius Blacksmith’s Game - Chapter 8

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The Genius Blacksmith’s Game

 

 

 

 

Epic Artifact Creation (2)

 

 

 

Hyeon-su looks far ahead to breaking the Wooden Dummy in 10 attempts.

He was willing to stay in this Beginner Zone for at least a month.

If he could stay for a month and obtain a VVIP Capsule worth 50 million won, it would be an enormous harvest.

Therefore, he thought carefully and thought again.

‘The things obtainable in the Beginner Zone are limited.’

Even if they could be obtained, they would have ‘Beginner Zone’s’ attached to them.

They could only produce 1/3 of the effects of ores from outside the Beginner Zone.

With such things, he would eventually hit a wall.

Therefore, he thought about it.

A method to raise his Dexterity stat while also breaking through the limitation of ‘Beginner Zone’s’.

Also, a method to make the blacksmith Ren into a more outstanding blacksmith.

Killing three birds with one stone.

That was obtaining Iron Sand Ingots.

‘Ores made with my own hands have a high probability of not having Beginner Zone’s attached.’

If that happened, the Iron Sand Ingot would possess its complete power.

If he made artifacts using that ore, better results would emerge.

“You mean to collect this Iron Powder at the Seaside to make ore?”

Ren wore a puzzled expression.

As a blacksmith, he also had one curious point.

“Are there advantages?”

If such trouble was necessary, there needed to be corresponding advantages.

Hyeon-su nodded his head.

“Iron Sand has much higher titanium content than regular Steel Ingots. It even has low corrosion rates. Therefore, you can obtain iron with much higher strength than regular iron.”

“…!?”

Ren’s eyes widened.

The Iron Powder obtained from this Seaside contained large amounts of titanium?

 

[Ren has gained new blacksmithing knowledge from your teaching.]

[You gain 2 Dexterity.]

 

“What should I do?”

Ren, who had been lukewarm, now wore an expression burning with motivation.

“It’s simple.”

Hyeon-su literally crouched down and scraped together Iron Sand like Iron Powder with a Giant Magnet.

“Just collect Iron Sand like I’m doing.”

Soon Ren also took a Giant Magnet and crouched down.

Ren was a giant reaching 1.9 meters in height with a cleanly shaved head that made him look fierce.

Hyeon-su was also quite tall at around 184cm.

The sight of two grown men crouching down to collect Iron Sand was quite amusing.

“Collecting Iron Sand requires no small amount of time.”

Most Blacksmith Shop work that blacksmiths did was tremendous manual labor from the start.

We can buy mass-produced Kitchen Knives cheaply for just tens of thousands of won.

However, making a Kitchen Knife through Handcrafting can take over a day.

Hyeon-su continued scraping together Iron Sand with the Magnet.

 

[You gain 1 Dexterity.]

 

‘Oh…?’

Hyeon-su felt that the speed of accumulating Dexterity had definitely increased due to the ‘Dexterity Just for You’ title.

Also, combining the time it would take to make this Iron Sand into a single ore, he expected he could gain tremendous Dexterity.

However, the surprising notifications didn’t end there.

 

[This is a new challenge no one has attempted.]

[You gain 30 Dexterity.]

[If you create results from a challenge no one has attempted, you will receive additional rewards.]

[Rewards from new challenges no one has attempted are accumulating.]

[If you fail to produce results, the accumulated rewards will be deleted.]

 

“Hmm…?

No one has attempted this.

Hyeon-su thought carefully about this Ares.

This game is controlled by the supercomputer Ares.

Also, the supercomputer contains all the world’s information.

Iron Sand Ingots were ingots that actually existed in the very distant past.

However, reaching modern times, no one has made Iron Sand Ingots.

Naturally, there would be no one in Ares who had attempted to make such Iron Sand Ingots either.

Hyeon-su continued scraping together Iron Sand.

 

[Rewards are accumulating.]

[Rewards are accumulating.]

[Accumulating…]

[Accumulating…]

[You gain 1 Dexterity.]

 

Hyeon-su was curious about those rewards.

The Dexterity being gained was from repetition.

What was accumulating was also likely to be Dexterity with high probability.

He had gained Dexterity along with notifications about unconventional behavior.

And Hyeon-su and Ren spent about 5 full days scraping together Iron Sand before leaving the Seaside.

 

 

 

After collecting enough Iron Sand, Ren and Hyeon-su returned to the Blacksmith Shop.

Ren looked at Hyeon-su with surprise.

“Sh, shouldn’t you rest a bit?”

“…Where does a blacksmith have time to rest?”

Ren was puzzled.

No matter how he looked at it, Hyeon-su appeared to be only in his early twenties.

Yet the blacksmith’s spirit he displayed seemed profound even to Ren’s eyes.

‘How can such a young person…’

To Ren, it might seem amazing, but to Hyeon-su, it was once part of daily life.

Father’s blacksmith shop where everything was done by hand.

Blacksmiths need temperatures of over 1,500 degrees to melt ore.

Because of this, they would stand in front of the furnace for days on end, repeatedly working to raise the fire’s temperature every hour.

Before Hyeon-su begins smelting the iron sand, he starts the work of raising the temperature of the blacksmith shop’s furnace.

“Since you’re in the learning process, Ren, you can get some sleep.”

“Oh, no. How could I…?”

But tedious time passes.

1 hour, 5 hours, 10 hours…

To escape the hot blacksmith shop even briefly, Ren placed a chair outside and sat down.

When his turn came, he had to go in and add charcoal.

But the cool summer night breeze felt good.

Without realizing it, Ren fell asleep.

Chirp chirp-

And when he opened his eyes, Ren was startled.

“I need to add charcoal!”

Charcoal had to be continuously added to raise the temperature.

Ren, who had rushed over in a panic, soon stopped in his tracks.

‘This is crazy…’

There stood Hyeon-su with his arms crossed.

Of course, he too looked visibly tired.

But he appeared calm.

As if it were natural for a blacksmith.

During the time he had slept, Hyeon-su hadn’t closed his eyes once and had watched over the fire.

“…”

It’s an indescribable feeling.

Ren had simply wanted to become a better blacksmith.

He had thought about making a sword one level higher to flatten Instructor Hans’s nose.

But this thought occurred to him.

Perhaps that man’s amazing display was the result of a long process of effort?

Hammering tens of thousands of times.

Staying up thousands of nights.

Skills earned by fighting in front of the hot flames.

Ren was genuinely impressed.

‘I want to try making weapons with that kind of will, with that kind of spirit…’

Sensing someone’s presence, Hyeon-su turned his head.

“Did you sleep well?”

 

[Ren develops respect for your blacksmith’s spirit.]

[Intimacy with Ren reaches MAX.]

 

Hyeon-su looked puzzled.

He had just acted as usual, but suddenly the intimacy reached MAX.

Soon, Ren approached with a determined expression.

“How many days will it take to obtain ore from now on?”

“Hmm, at least 4 days?”

“Then during that time, I’d like to try making a sword. Could you help me?”

Hyeon-su read Ren’s expression.

As mentioned, countless people who wanted to become blacksmiths had come to see Hyeon-su’s father.

Nine out of ten ran away.

But that remaining one.

That remaining one lasted a few more days and eventually ran away too.

So about one out of a hundred.

In about that one person, an aura similar to Ren’s eyes emanated.

I want to become like you too.

I want to become a true blacksmith too.

An expression that said: even if I can’t make money, even if I’m looked down upon, I want to create my own works purely through handcrafting.

Even if he had such a spirit and was only now awakening to it.

He thinks Ren could become a blacksmith capable of moving forward.

Hyeon-su smiled slightly.

“Shall we make it? Your masterpiece.”

It began.

Hyeon-su’s smelting work and Ren’s sword-making work.

Ren was fired up.

It was the first time in his life he had been so passionate about learning blacksmithing techniques.

“That’s not how you do it. Put less force into the hammer too. How many times must I tell you that too much force has the opposite effect?”

He was scolded harshly from time to time.

Smelting, refining.

Quenching.

Hammering.

Bellows work.

Oil quenching.

He corrected each one while teaching him strictly.

But why was it?

Ren was enjoying it.

One day passed.

Two days passed.

Three days passed.

Clang-! Clang-! Claaang-!

“Good!”

Following his teachings, Ren took one more step forward.

Whoooosh-

Hyeon-su could see the molten metal flowing out of the furnace.

Clang-!

Claaang-!

Clang-!

Day by day, Ren’s hammering became more skillful.

Hyeon-su hammers the iron sand that looks like a rough, bumpy stone like basalt to remove impurities.

Clang- Clang-! Claaang-!

Ren’s understanding of sword crafting improved daily as he listened to Hyeon-su’s nagging.

“This level seems decent?”

Hyeon-su continuously repeats heating and cooling the rough iron sand in front of the hot flames to remove more impurities.

And Ren understands and applies what he couldn’t understand in his life so far.

Finally, Hyeon-su obtains a real ‘iron sand ingot’ with all impurities completely removed.

“It’s almost finished.”

So much time had passed that he didn’t even know how long it had been.

After going through that arduous process, Hyeon-su reached the final stage of obtaining the iron sand ingot.

And at some point.

Ren, who had achieved considerably improved bellows work, considerably improved oil quenching, and considerably improved hammering, even finished the polishing work and completed the task of engraving patterns on the sword.

Finally completing the sword, Ren burst into tears.

“Keuheuheuheuk!”

“…?”

Hyeon-su looked puzzled as he watched Ren suddenly burst into tears.

Ding!

 

[Hidden Quest: Help Ren Grow completed.]

[You can receive the reward from Ren.]

[Ren creates his life’s masterpiece.]

[Beginner blacksmith Ren grows one level and surpasses the intermediate blacksmith realm.]

[Through you, Ren awakens to the true spirit of blacksmithing.]

[Perhaps he may become an even higher level blacksmith in the future.]

[You gain 20 Dexterity.]

 

“…”

Hyeon-su, wearing a puzzled expression, approached the sobbing Ren.

“Thank you, thank you…!”

Hyeon-su had simply taught him.

Exactly as he had learned from his father.

He had simply acted according to the blacksmith’s spirit his father had taught him.

He hadn’t known this would result in completely transforming Ren’s way of thinking.

Ren sobbed as he clutched the sword and wept.

“Please look at this. This sword created through you!”

Hyeon-su received the sword he handed over and examined it.

 

(Enlightened One’s Faded Sword)

Grade: Rare

Durability: 1,200/1,200

Attack Power: 39

Level Requirement: 1~50

Special Abilities:

·Health +3, Agility +2.

·Active Skill Power Strike.

Description: The Second Famous Sword of the Beginner Zone, created by beginner blacksmith Ren surpassing his own masterpiece.

 

Hyeon-su checked the sword’s completion level.

In terms of actual completion, it didn’t quite reach the level of Hyeon-su’s First Sword that Hyeon-su had created.

But this was ultimately a game.

It could receive help from various systems within the game.

Moreover, Ren was also a holder of various skills, and NPCs could receive various effects as well.

The result created by those effects was a Rare Artifact.

Even if its completion level was lower than his own, it was clearly a sword that achieved a high grade.

This was actually the result of Ren’s mindset of wanting to become a better blacksmith.

It was a sword he had created, a result he had achieved.

“Excellent. Ren, you are now a blacksmith who can aspire to any realm.”

Having grown one level meant he could continue to grow in the future.

Ren, who had been crying and wiping his tears, spoke.

“Even if you leave, I will remember you forever.”

 

[Ren pledges his loyalty to you.]

[Even after you leave, Ren will constantly tell stories about you.]

 

Hyeon-su simply smiled warmly, feeling good.

But suddenly Ren ran off somewhere.

“…?”

Hyeon-su thought perhaps he was so happy that he was running off to flatten the nose of that instructor named Hans.

But Ren quickly returned, carrying some kind of box in his arms.

Ren set the box down on the ground and opened it to show him.

 

Ding!

 

[Your intimacy with Ren is at MAX.]

[You have completed the Hidden Quest: Help Ren Grow with tremendous results.]

 

Inside was an ore that Hyeon-su had never seen once in his life.

 

[The reward becomes even better.]

[You acquire Beginner Zone Mithril Ore.]

 

It was not Beginner Zone’s Highest Grade Iron Ore, but an ore called Beginner Zone Mithril.

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