He Became the Genius Blacksmith of the Namgung Family - Chapter 99

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Chapter 99

Episode 99

Though it was called a Giant Bio-Insect Sprayer, the status window that appeared upon confirmation showed it as a Giant Pest Control Sprayer.

Namgung Cheon-gang understood this as the sprayer originally having the role of pest control.

But after the breathing technique?

After purification and life were applied, the name changed like this.

‘Wow…’

It really works as promised?

Even if it’s not bio-insects, where is this?

And did only the name change?

The color became even more stunning.

What was already sparkling under moonlight became full of vitality.

Though it seems strange for iron to be full of vitality…

‘It sparkles even without light, and sparkles more with light, so it would be odd to say it lacks vitality, right?’

So.

“What is this…!?”

The next morning.

Upon waking, Yamu gaped in amazement at the Giant Bio Sprayer shining brilliantly like a treasure in the sunlight.

It definitely wasn’t like this the night before?

It was just a lump of iron?

Why did it become a treasure after one night?

“Well… while you were sleeping, I polished it using Cheongeumjeong’s unique technique and it became like this.”

The person who seemed to be the culprit of this incident spoke hesitantly.

“…”

“It’s, it’s true. Plus, Baekseol helped too!”

“Squeak!?”

“Come on, that’s right. Isn’t it?”

Watching Namgung Cheon-gang wink at the flustered divine insect, Yamu was even more at a loss for words.

“…No. Well, fine. If you’re a disciple of Master Mak Noya, you must have some strange abilities.”

“Right, right?”

Whether it sparkles or not.

A life-filled energy can be felt from the crafted item.

Just putting water in there and spraying it seems like it would purify contamination.

“With this, we should be able to treat the Namman Gwadaemun contaminated by blood energy! Plus, if we do well—!”

After understanding, feeling the greatness of the device, he realized what could be done with it.

So excitement naturally embraced him.

He thought it would be enough to follow even half of Mak Noya’s level, but this was beyond that.

“It’s not finished yet.”

“Ah.”

When he was wrapped in excitement rising like blood.

Namgung Cheon-gang’s calm voice reached him.

Only then did the excitement subside.

“Sorry. I got greatly excited by the life energy I felt without realizing it. How foolish of me.”

“No, elder. Who would criticize someone for feeling good? It’s just that there’s something even more pleasant, so I said it wasn’t finished because it would be good to share it.”

“Gasp! There’s something even more pleasant here? What is it!”

“We need to make healing water. I told you, right? A sprayer to put healing water in and spray.”

The double effect is just beginning, elder.

Hehehe.

* * *

He said he would make healing water.

Then, how?

By adding salt to water?

‘No way, that can’t be it.’

Salt is precious in the Martial Arts World.

You’d get slapped for adding salt to plain water to make purified water.

Naturally, a different method must be used.

What that is:

“Baekseol’s purification soil!”

Baekseol-brand purification soil created by eating and spitting out blood soil.

If tools are made using this, purification is possible without breathing techniques, according to the description.

‘If such purification soil is dissolved in water?’

Wouldn’t it be natural for the water to be imbued with purifying power?

Of course, the possibility of it becoming muddy water cannot be overlooked.

So, it must be tested immediately.

He considered putting it in the furnace to make a solution.

‘If I do it like melting ore, would that be healing water? It would be lava water.’

If put in the sprayer, the sprayer would melt completely.

Then, where should it be dissolved?

Water.

Not just any water, but hot water.

Namgung Cheon-gang filled a large container with water, then added the purification soil he had collected.

Then he boiled it vigorously while stirring rapidly.

“…”

Yamu and Ung-i, watching from the side, couldn’t think of anything to say.

He said he was making healing water, but suddenly took out a lump of soil from his bundle, put it in water, and started boiling it?

Since he had made such devices, they couldn’t say anything.

If he had put soil in water and boiled it claiming to make healing water without having made any devices, they would have thrown him into that boiling water.

To make him come to his senses.

Since he had accomplished things, they watched thinking he must be doing something.

Half a hour passed like that.

‘It’s not dissolving well? Should I use internal energy?’

He used internal energy to stir more vigorously.

Another half hour.

Only then did it start dissolving in the boiling water.

As Baekseol-brand purification soil dissolved in water, the water began to emit a subtle silver light.

‘Wow… doesn’t it look like sacred water to anyone who sees it?’

Just in case, he checked.

Damn.

Incredible.

It became purification water beyond what he had imagined.

“Gasp! Heavens, to feel sacredness from water!”

“Amazing! Incredible! Purification!”

Namgung Cheon-gang wasn’t the only one who saw the subtle light rising.

Yamu and Ung-i saw it too.

Watching from afar, they saw the light and approached as if enchanted, then made those comments after seeing it up close.

“Hehe. I told you I would make healing water. Anyway, now the contaminated Mosquito-Honeybees shouldn’t be a worry. Right?”

Nod, nod.

Yamu and Ung-i could now believe Namgung Cheon-gang even if he said he would make beans from soybean paste.

* * *

Preparations to purify the contaminated Mosquito-Honeybees were complete.

However, I can’t say it’s completely finished.

I’ve only finished ‘half’ of it.

Why half, you ask?

‘There’s still the matter of protecting the person who will spray the extreme bio-sprayer, right?’

That’s right.

This extreme bio-sprayer isn’t an ‘automatic’ device that sprays healing water by itself.

It’s a ‘manual’ device that a person carries on their back, moving around and operating the sprayer head to spray.

So protecting the person who will use the sprayer head is essential.

‘Even if the ones using this will be the Namman warrior brothers.’

The only ones who can avoid the Mosquito-Honeybees’ attacks are warriors – in other words, in Namman, only the warriors.

Ordinary people would be caught instantly and pierced by those long proboscises.

‘They say they drink fruit juice, but if these are Mosquito-Honeybees poisoned by blood energy, there’s no law saying they won’t suck blood.’

All this time I’ve only talked about horses getting their blood sucked dry.

But thinking about it carefully, people could definitely get their blood sucked dry too.

‘Just look at that Blood Cult bastard in Dongryang County who sucked his comrade’s blood. So there’s no law saying fruit mosquitoes with blood energy won’t suck blood.’

That’s why warriors need to carry it.

‘Even warrior brothers can’t be considered safe. Thinking of those long, sharp, giant mosquito stingers…’

Ugh.

It looks like they could just pierce through iron plates?

They’re protected by internal energy so they’d hold out to some extent, but how could they withstand thousands of proboscises?

So what needs to be made after the extreme bio-sprayer?

‘Exactly, insect-proof clothing!’

It can’t be heavy.

They need to use lightness skills smoothly to avoid the flying giant Mosquito-Honeybees.

‘So I need to use ordinary martial robes and turn them into insect-proof clothing.’

Then the material for the insect-proof clothing to be made should naturally be light and sturdy.

Is there such a material?

There is.

Exactly the Cheonggung Clothing Shop brand silk cloth!

However, there isn’t enough time to procure Cheonggung Clothing Shop brand silk cloth right now.

Do you know how long it takes to go from the Nanman Beast Palace to Anhui Province and back?

At minimum, you’d have to allow three months!

‘If there was Ro○ delivery? I could wake up the next morning and receive it…’

What Ro○ delivery?

There’s not even Delivery Min○.

So I have to procure it directly.

Is it possible?

It’s possible.

Because!

I have Baekseol, the silkworm divine insect!

“Baekseol! Please! Spin silk!”

“Squeak!”

Pwoooook!

At Namgung Cheon-gang’s request, Baekseol produced silk.

“A bit more, a bit more!”

She kept spinning it out.

“A little more!”

“Squeeeeak!”

Pwoooook!

“A bit—”

I was about to say ‘more!’ when anemia hit.

Weakness.

Thud.

‘Ah. This also uses my internal energy.’

But it wasn’t like this during the monster battle, was it?

Did Baekseol use the power she had stored up during her chrysalis days then?

That must be it, right?

‘Well, if she had used my internal energy back then, I would have crossed the river to the underworld.’

Namgung Cheon-gang realized.

“Squeak!”

Hearing Baekseol’s pitiful roar, Namgung Cheon-gang quietly closed his eyes.

And woke up half a day later.

* * *

Baekseol had produced a lot of silk.

Upon checking, it was indeed A-grade crafting material.

Of course, that doesn’t mean there’s enough to make insect-proof clothing for 20 people.

Even at maximum, 5 people would be the limit.

‘That’s only if I use it to make complete sets.’

What if I only make separate pieces for the vulnerable parts – heart, groin, neck, head, and the Achilles tendon area of the legs?

There’s more than enough to make 12 people’s worth.

Fortunately, the Nanman Beast Palace was overflowing with insect-proof clothing.

There are quite a few people who do mosquito and bee farming, so there’s no way they wouldn’t have any.

Where to make it?

There is a place.

The clothing store belonging to the Nanman Beast Palace that Gyarong introduced.

‘But there’s something I need to do first.’

Exactly, the measurements of the Namman warrior brothers who will wear the upgraded insect-proof clothing.

‘Everyone has different clothing sizes, so I need to measure this properly, right?’

Just looking at them, there are plenty of brothers whose clothing size easily exceeds 120, so I needed to be even more precise.

“Gyarong hyung-nim. Can you recruit warrior brothers among the Namman warriors who will handle the extreme bio-sprayer?”

“Just trust me!”

He gathered them quickly.

When Gyarong shouted “For Namman!” and gathered them, they assembled in an instant.

“Wow.”

Manly brothers.

My heart is racing!

Namgung Cheon-gang personally measured the manly warriors’ sizes.

Just in case, he also used Insight to measure even more precisely.

Afterward, he asked Gyarong hyung-nim again.

Whether there was a clothing store for alterations.

“There is. Follow me!”

They arrived quickly.

“I’ve finished talking with the clothing store owner. Little brother, use it as you please.”

“…”

Just as I was about to use it.

The woman who owned the clothing store stared intently at Namgung Cheon-gang, then said something to Gyarong.

“Hyung-nim, what did that beautiful Southern beauty, no, Namman sister say?”

The Namman sisters are no joke.

“She says she’ll help. She says men aren’t good at handling insect-proof clothing. Should I ask her to help?”

“He says he’ll help. He says that as a man, he’s not good at handling protective suits. Should I ask him to help?”

“Aha. It’s fine. I make things well.”

“Aren’t you a blacksmith, Younger Brother? You can make clothes too?”

“Of course.”

Making insect-proof clothing into armor?

No.

He really handled the insect-proof clothing properly.

Tearing, mending, even ironing!

Chwacha-cha-cha-cha-chak!

“…!!!?”

“Oooh! Amazing! A god! The god of craftsmen has appeared! That’s what Yoyo, the clothing store owner, is saying! I’m surprised too!”

Baekseol’s silkworm-brand insect-proof clothing, 20 sets.

Completed in half a day.

* * *

All preparations to purify the Mosquito-Honeybees were complete.

Namgung Cheon-gang stood tall in the forest with deployed formation, the same place he had fled from three days ago to escape the Mosquito-Honeybees.

On his back was an ultra-large sprayer.

His entire body was clad in insect-proof clothing made even sturdier with Baekseol’s silkworm brand.

Namgung Cheon-gang’s face inside the insect-proof hat looked resolute.

Baekseol, standing tall on Namgung Cheon-gang’s shoulder, also looked resolute inside his dedicated insect-proof hat.

(`^´): Beep.

“That’s right, Baekseol. We ran away before.”

The past day when they had no choice but to flee from the attack of 2,000 Mosquito-Honeybees.

That battlefield that made them taste defeat(?) for the first time.

“But not now.”

We have been reborn.

How?

“To purify the Mosquito-Honeybees contaminated by blood energy and return them to their original state!”

Snap!

Namgung Cheon-gang raised the head of his sprayer.

“By making ultra-large sprayers and becoming one with eleven warriors! Isn’t that right, Namman Brothers!”

“Ooh!”

Eleven Namman Warriors, dressed in identical insect-proof clothing and carrying ultra-large sprayers like Namgung Cheon-gang, raised their sprayer heads and shouted.

Gyarong, standing at the very front, had the loudest voice.

“We can do it! We can save our friends, the giant mosquitoes, no, the Mosquito-Honeybees from that wicked and evil blood energy! Isn’t that right!”

“Oooh!!”

“I’m not afraid with eleven warrior brothers by my side! I, Namgung Cheon-gang, trust you brothers and will charge forward! Very reassuring! Let’s go! To save the Mosquito-Honeybees!”

“Oooooh!!!”

“For Namman!!”

“For Namman!!”

“Namman Forever!!”

“What’s that?”

“It’s a Western Region term. Good words for Namman.”

“Oh! Gyarong will do it too!”

“Namman Forever!!”

“Namman Fonever!!”

“Namman Fonever!!”

I should help our brothers with pronunciation correction soon.

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