I Became an SSS-Grade Time-Transcending Almighty Blacksmith - Chapter 106

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Episode 106
Episode 106
Among my assistants, Serin was the first to be summoned.
Because of that, she’d always progressed through the Zones the fastest.
And because of that, she was always the first to find the Boss Monster—
“Ahahaha! Not this time! My hands are much faster, it seems!”
But not this time.
Toran had found the Boss Monster first.
Which meant he’d progressed through Zone 3 faster as well.
To defeat the Boss Monster, I gathered all my assistants and headed into the Mine.
“No, it was merely that Zone 3’s progression slowed because I was hunting slimes on your orders, Master.”
“Excuses. What about me? I’m doing everything I’m supposed to do!”
“That’s not what I meant—”
“Ahahaha!”
Serin protested.
She wasn’t wrong, though.
Recently, I’d needed to craft many Slime Saltwater Beds to earn money.
The saltwater was easy enough to gather from the Blacksmith’s Sea.
But Serin had to personally hunt the slimes for materials.
Because of that, she’d spent considerable time searching across all the Zones for slime materials.
That was why Zone 3’s progression had fallen behind.
“I know, Serin.”
I was aware of that fact.
Since I’d been the one to order the slime hunts in the first place, I held no grudge.
“I apologize, Master.”
“No, really, it’s fine. I was the one who had you hunt slimes.”
“Next time, I’ll definitely be the one to spot the Boss Monster first!”
“It’s not—”
She didn’t seem convinced by my reassurance.
The way she was steeling herself like that told me as much.
And Toran finding the Boss Monster first wasn’t simply because Serin’s progression had lagged.
“Once you get to Zone 3, the temperature starts getting hot. I figured we’d need to deal with that first, so I headed toward the hottest spot and dug down.”
“And that’s where the Boss Monster was?”
“That’s right.”
The peculiarity of Zone 3’s Boss Monster, you might say—
its presence had already permeated the entire Zone before we even arrived.
That presence took the form of heat.
I’d guessed as much while listening.
And what that heat actually was—
“That thing right there?”
“Yes.”
“It looks incredibly dangerous.”
“Ahahaha! Of course it does—it’s the Magma Golem itself, after all.”
A Magma Golem.
In other words, a golem formed from lava.
Not liquid lava throughout, though—its surface was hardened like armor, with crimson lava visibly flowing beneath.
A wave of scorching heat radiated outward from its form.
At a glance, it was clearly a formidable foe.
And that threat only intensified the closer we drew.
“Getting close to it, I can really feel the heat.”
“This could pose a problem.”
The Magma Golem’s heat.
It was far more intense than I’d anticipated.
If the Magma Golem began to fully exert its power and the temperature climbed even higher—
my disciples, strong though they were, would struggle in combat.
I remained unaffected thanks to the SSS-Grade Hwahwan Cloth.
But my fighting strength was the lowest among us here.
As I was thinking this—
‘Ah, the Hwahwan Cloth.’
A good idea suddenly occurred to me.
“Would you all mind waiting here for a moment? Toran and I need to visit the Smithy.”
“Hm? Sure, go ahead!”
Right away, I returned to the Smithy with Toran.
Once there, I positioned myself before the anvil.
[ Activating Crafting Skill. ]
I lifted the Hammer.
The item I would forge was a cloak.
The material I would use was.
[ Frost Salamander Leather ]
This.
A hide that exhaled a subtle chill of its own.
I set it upon the anvil.
[ Beginning crafting. ]
Clang!
I swung the Hammer down.
Serin and Toran, Grom, Noum, Drake.
Five cloaks of varying sizes, each tailored to one of their builds.
[ Crafting complete. ]
[ Crafting Grade: S ]
[ Acquired ‘Frostfoot Cloak’. ]
Its effects were precisely as follows.
[ Frostfoot Cloak ]
Type: Cloak
Grade: S
Restrictions: —
Description: A Heat Resistance cloak, crafted from Frost Salamander Leather to shield against scorching thermal radiation.
Abilities: Heat Resistance Lv 3, Temperature Control Lv 2
There it was.
In short, a Heat Resistance cloak.
A cloak imbued with the ability to ward off heat, true to its name.
And Temperature Control came as a bonus.
In this manner, I crafted five Heat Resistance cloaks of graduated sizes.
The moment we arrived at the far chamber of Zone 3 in the Mine by cart,
“Everyone, put these on.”
I distributed the cloaks to my assistants.
The instant they donned them,
my assistants recognized the cloak’s effect and their faces brightened.
“Master, this is…”
“A Heat Resistance cloak. It should help when we face that Golem.”
“Thank you, Master!”
“Ahahaha, didn’t see that coming! It’s true — not hot at all!”
“Squeak, I like it!”
“Noum isn’t hot either!”
“Don’t like hot…”
The Heat Resistance effect was strongly felt by all.
Once preparations were complete,
“Alright then, let’s move!”
“Master, I respectfully ask that you hang back. It could be dangerous.”
“Squeak, let’s go!”
“Noum’s going too!”
“Uhhh…”
My proud assistants
advanced without a trace of fear at the sight of the Magma Golem.
Thus the battle began.
“Grooooooooooh—”
The Magma Golem rose from its place with a sound like wind through a cavern.
Indeed, the moment it lifted its body, the ambient heat intensified dramatically.
Without preparation, drawing near would have been nearly impossible.
“Ahahaha, thanks to this cloak, not hot at all!”
“Squeak!”
Frostfoot Cloak.
The Heat Resistance cloak I’d crafted was beginning to prove its worth.
The Magma Golem belched forth waves of heat, yet none of my assistants were affected by it.
Because of that protection, Toran and Grom were the first to close in.
“Hrah!”
“Chirp!”
They ignored the searing heat erupting before their eyes.
Clang!!
Swinging pickaxe and axe, they assaulted the golem.
Serin was no different.
Since arrows didn’t bite well against golems, she moved close and wielded her short blades.
The paired daggers I’d made for her—Geom-chi-ho’s Frost Chain Fang.
With Noum lending a hand as well.
Their combined might was considerable, but.
“This one’s a real handful!”
“Chirp…”
Our opponent was a Magma Golem.
It bore no resemblance to ordinary golems.
Other golems would gradually crumble if you struck their joints properly.
But this one’s joints were made of lava itself—they wouldn’t shatter no matter how hard we hit them.
Seeing this,
“Ah, I remember now—that tool should do the trick!”
Toran pulled a new pickaxe from his Dimensional Bag.
Its identity was none other than.
“The Water-type Pickaxe!”
The water-attribute pickaxe I’d made for Toran long ago to hold back the Gate and monsters that appeared around our house.
The Water-type Pickaxe.
It was weaker in raw attack power than his standard pickaxe.
But the moment he swung the Water-type Pickaxe,
Shrieeek!
The lava in the joint where the pickaxe lodged hardened crisp and rigid, constraining the golem’s movements.
Seeing this,
“Chirp!”
Grom likewise drew out the axe he’d been using back then.
The Earth Axe.
Though not water-aspected, it worked far better than an ordinary axe.
Serin, catching on,
Whoosh!
drew arrows instead of her blades.
Arrows I’d prepared in advance, crafted with different affinities for any contingency.
From those, she fired Water-attribute Arrows, forged from materials gathered in the Blacksmith’s Sea.
Thanks to that, we were able to methodically break down the Magma Golem.
All my assistants performed admirably.
Yet the most striking among them turned out to be the newest recruit.
Drake.
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh—
The moment Drake seized the Harpoon, water began spiraling around it.
This was my first time witnessing Drake in direct combat—until now, he’d only hunted beneath the waves.
As the water coiled around it,
no, as the current grew violent and spiraled into a vortex wrapping the Harpoon,
Whoosh!
it was hurled toward the Magma Golem.
The Harpoon flew with such precision,
Thunk!
that it drove directly into one of the golem’s joints.
Shrieeeeek—!
The lava within hardened rapidly from the vortex’s force.
Once the vortex subsided, Drake pulled the cord attached to the Harpoon and retrieved it.
Then he wrapped a new vortex around it and hurled it again.
He simply repeated this, yet its power and efficacy were extraordinary.
Every time Drake threw a harpoon, you could feel the Magma Golem’s combat power being systematically dismantled.
“Wow….”
They were all fighting extraordinarily well.
Watching them with admiration, I drew out my own weapon.
The Volcanic Revolver.
I squeezed the trigger hard.
Bang!
Ting—.
“….”
The bullet bounced pathetically off the Magma Golem’s carapace, which had cooled and hardened like armor.
After firing six rounds, only one luckily lodged between the joints.
Just as I’d given Serin arrows sorted by attribute type.
The bullets I’d just fired were also water-attribute rounds.
Hiss—.
“….”
Perhaps the bullets were simply too small?
Or had they not penetrated deeply enough?
There was a faint cooling sound, but nothing else remarkable occurred.
I kept firing more rounds after that.
“….”
I can say it with confidence.
My attacks were utterly useless against the Magma Golem.
Even though the Volcanic Revolver was supposed to be a respectable S-rank weapon.
I never expected it to be this ineffective.
I lowered the gun barrel in disappointment, and the reason soon became clear to me.
‘Right—I have no skills.’
All the weapons my subordinates were using were SS-Grade.
I was temporarily using an S-rank weapon like the Water-type Pickaxe, but that was only because of its attribute nature.
In any case, my subordinates weren’t just swinging their weapons thoughtlessly.
They had the stats to match their weapons and powerful skills, honed experience on top of that.
With all that foundation, they were taking on the Golem.
Meanwhile, I was just pulling the trigger on an S-rank revolver.
It was natural that I was weak.
Of course, even without my help, my subordinates were handling the Boss Monster just fine on their own.
‘It feels wrong just standing here, though.’
Still, I wanted to be useful.
And right now, the subordinates alone could bring it down.
But later, they might struggle even with just the subordinates.
When that time comes, I want to be at least some help.
That’s what I was thinking.
[ You have defeated the Boss Monster of the Blacksmith’s Sea, the Magma Golem. ]
[ The Blacksmith’s Sea is expanding. ]
[ Your Level has increased. ]
“Phew.”
“Gahahah! A formidable foe indeed!”
“Certainly, it seems the bosses are getting stronger as we progress.”
“Cheer, that was a good fight!”
The sound of the Magma Golem crashing down reached us.
Immediately after, the passage leading deeper underground opened, and Zone 4 of the Mine was unlocked as well.
Then Toran approached the fallen Magma Golem and.
“Well then, shall we begin mining?”
Clang!
He began swinging his pickaxe at the Magma Golem.
Not long after, the Magma Golem was Materialized.
“Kid, here you go.”
He brought me the materials.
[ Magma Golem’s Lava Core ]
[ Magma Golem’s Lava Stone ]
Normally, when lava cools rapidly, it becomes obsidian.
Or so I’d heard—volcanic rock or basalt is formed instead.
The ore formed as the Magma Golem’s lava cooled was utterly different from what he’d seen before.
It was something between basalt and obsidian—halfway between the two.
Though it had hardened solid, it retained the lava’s characteristic crimson hue, resulting in a deep reddish stone—what could only be called Magma Golem’s Lava Stone.
Seeing this,
I made a decision.
‘I’ll forge something new.’
A weapon that could aid my assistants in the battles ahead.
As a blacksmith, I would craft a tool powerful enough to wield formidable force without relying on skills at all.

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