I Became an SSS-Grade Time-Transcending Almighty Blacksmith - Chapter 120

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Chapter 120
Chapter 120
El had made a Potion.
This was no ordinary occurrence.
As the world’s first and only Blacksmith, I knew it well.
What had just come into being before me was the world’s first and sole Alchemist!
There was no way this could be anything but extraordinary.
“A Potion! If you had more Troll Blood, could you make more of them?”
“Yes, well… truthfully, a recovery Potion made with Troll Blood is quite basic and elementary work, and without proper reagents the performance is rather meager…”
“Meager? Then if the materials were better prepared…”
“If various reagents, catalysts, a proper Workbench, and such were well equipped, I could make something far superior! I’m confident about that!”
Apparently even the Potion she had just created was on the low end of the quality spectrum.
I marveled at this and immediately reached out.
“Lee Seo-yun!”
I contacted her at once.
“It seems I’ll be able to make Potions going forward. We can sell these, right?”
– P-Potions? Truly?
“Yes. Well, I’m not making them myself—my assistant is—but yes.”
– What Grade are we talking about for these Potions?
“The one I made now is an A-Grade Vitality Potion. But with proper preparation, I could make even better ones.”
– …! Is that really true?
“Yes.”
– Potions themselves are already extremely rare… something of that Grade would have enormous demand! Let me work out a sales plan and pricing right away!
“Please do!”
These days Lee Seo-yun handled all our item sales.
The Potions I would make going forward would naturally be sold by her as well.
I was simply giving her advance notice.
After that.
“El, you said you needed a Workbench, right?”
“Ah, well, having a proper Workbench would definitely be much better.”
“I’ll make one for you right now. Do you need any special materials?”
“If… if possible, timber imbued with Mana would be ideal…”
“Grom, bring some more Blue Wood! And is there anything better than Blue Wood?”
“Chirp! I think there was something deeper inside! I’ll go check right now!”
“Good. El, what else?”
“O-one more thing—a stone like marble that resists contamination would be nice.”
“Toran!”
“Aha-ha-ha! Leave it to me! I’ll go dig some up right now!”
“Um, and I’ll need Glass as well…”
“Glass?”
“It can be made from sand.”
“Ah, sand! Drake, could you fill a bag with sand from the beach?”
“Sure…”
We began swiftly gathering materials according to El’s specifications.
Creating the Workbench would require quite a few additional components.
So first, I decided to make the Glass Reagent Bottles needed for the Potion-making process.
Shortly after, Drake brought back loads of sand from the beach of the Blacksmith’s Sea.
Since Glass was needed.
I was about to swing my Hammer and turn the sand to Glass when.
“I-I’ll do it! Since it’s Glass for my tools, I want to make it in the exact proportions I need so those components don’t react with other substances.”
“Ah, I see. Do it however you’re comfortable.”
El insisted on making it herself.
I was curious how she’d manage it.
“M-making Glass is simpler than you’d think. You just need to heat the sand. O-of course, if you only do that, the quality drops…”
Just as she had done before, she made the sand float in the air.
And beneath it, she ignited a flame.
“If you add limestone powder, you can increase its durability. Normally soda ash is added to lower the melting point, but you can manage that by raising the heat! With the right proportions and temperature, heated carefully.”
And so.
“Glass is complete! Th-though the composition is a bit lacking. Since we don’t have the materials now, I’ll make better Glass later!”
“Impressive.”
The Glass was complete.
Incredible.
To craft Glass so effortlessly.
Watching her work, I understood something fundamental.
She wasn’t summoned merely to brew Potions.
Summoned as the Blacksmith’s assistant, as she was.
Her true gift lay elsewhere.
Perhaps her genuine purpose was this: to refine and transmute raw materials through Alchemy, crafting the very substances I would use in my work.
Though I had to admit, in our present circumstances, her ability to make Potions seemed far more immediately valuable.
With the Glass she’d created.
“If I shape this into bottles, that should work?”
“Yes! If you could make different types—standard cylinders, narrow-necked ones, all sorts of shapes and sizes—that would be wonderful!”
“That’s nothing difficult.”
“I—I’ll make more Glass for you!”
Now came the bottles.
[ Commencing crafting. ]
I retrieved the Glass and brought my Hammer down upon the anvil.
With the Glass material prepared.
The rest was straightforward.
I simply had to hammer the Glass into whatever shapes Lee Seo-yun desired.
When a task required nothing more.
Than reshaping—a simple, mechanical exercise.
[ Crafting complete. ]
[ Crafting Evaluation : S ]
[ Obtained ‘Glass Reagent Bottle’. ]
The bottles came together with ease and speed.
Once I’d crafted dozens of them.
“Cheek-cheek! Master! I brought it! Wood growing among the Blue Wood! It holds more Mana!”
“Will this do, little one?”
“You’ve both worked so hard!”
Grom and Toran.
The two had retrieved exactly what I—
Or rather, what Lee Seo-yun—needed.
Far more than I’d anticipated.
Though her voice wavered with hesitation, how crisply she’d laid out each required component, its purpose, its form.
She’d even specified the precise quantities needed.
If an ingredient was unavailable, she’d name a substitute—a lesser material that could serve—then explain it thoroughly enough that we’d find something as close as possible to her specifications.
Frankly, her mastery had reached a point where I myself didn’t know what to do with half these materials.
“H—here! These are Blueprints! I’ve organized everything—what materials each one uses, what shapes, all of it!”
“Wow, no joke?”
She’d drawn the Blueprints with flawless precision.
Perfect doesn’t begin to cover it.
[ Activating Special Crafting Skill. ]
[ Please provide a Blueprint for the Special Crafting item. ]
When I fed her drawn Blueprints into the system’s design interface.
[ Blueprint creation complete. ]
[ Please select materials. ]
It simply advanced to the next step.
Because of that.
[ Commencing crafting. ]
I could begin work immediately.
And as I did.
“P—please keep that side as perfectly balanced as possible! Even a slight imbalance could throw off the mixture ratio!”
“That part needs to seal perfectly—not a speck of dust can get inside!”
“Th—this section needs a streamlined curve at exactly 128 degrees—I need 128 degrees specifically so the evaporated Mana disperses uniformly…….”
She watched over my work with meticulous attention.
Did that bother me?
Not in the slightest.
“Is this acceptable?”
“Yes! Ah—it’s magnificent!”
“I was thinking of finishing it like this.”
“Oh, yes! I think that would be perfect!”
Actually, it was helpful.
This was my first time making something like this, so I wasn’t sure if I was doing it right.
But with Lee Seo-yun right beside me, telling me exactly what shape she wanted, everything became clear.
Clang!
So the work progressed even more smoothly.
My first time crafting a workbench.
And the structure was so devilishly complex.
Because the crafting points were equally intricate, the Crafting Difficulty spiked dramatically.
But thanks to Lee Seo-yun’s clear guidance.
[ Crafting has been completed. ]
[ Crafting Evaluation: SS-Grade ]
[ You have obtained ‘Alchemist’s Workbench’. ]
[ A Masterpiece has been born. ]
[ A Masterpiece worthy of announcing your name to the world has been completed, and through it you gain inspiration, raising your stats. ]
[ Wisdom increases by 2. ]
[ Intelligence increases by 1. ]
I had created a Masterpiece.
True, no Special Crafting Skill attached to it.
But still, an SS-Grade workbench is more than enough.
I was ready to start using it right away, but then—
“W-we don’t have enough materials.”
“Wasn’t Troll Blood enough on its own?”
“Well, Troll Blood is the primary ingredient, but if we had enough reagents, we could make something much better with it!”
“Ah, I see. And we’d need more than just Troll Blood anyway.”
“Exactly!”
So it wasn’t happening yet.
There simply weren’t enough materials to start immediately.
Still.
“Hmm, what materials do we need? Should I ask Serin or Drake?”
How was I supposed to get materials?
‘Blacksmith’s Hunting Ground’ and ‘Blacksmith’s Sea’ did have some resources usable in Alchemy.
But most of what we could harvest there was oriented toward crafting rather than Alchemy.
Which made sense.
Those places were named ‘Blacksmith’s Hunting Ground’ and ‘Blacksmith’s Sea’ after all.
So I asked her.
“W-would it be alright if I went to look myself?”
“To the hunting ground?”
“Yes. The hunting ground would be fine, and other places too.”
“I don’t mind, but won’t it be dangerous?”
“I’ll be fine!”
I decided to go check it out myself.
Lee Seo-yun seemed confident in combat too.
Just to be safe, I headed first to ‘Blacksmith’s Forest’, which seemed most likely to have Alchemy materials.
This was the place where Grom had occasionally brought back unusual flowers and the like.
“Wow! The life force is so rich here! There must definitely be good Medicinal Herbs!”
The moment we arrived at Zone 1,
Lee Seo-yun’s eyes sparkled and she began searching the surroundings.
Grom occasionally found things, but it was extremely rare.
All the times Grom had brought back something other than wood added up to less than five.
So I thought finding anything easily would be unlikely.
“Y-yes! I found it!”
“Really?”
Not long after, Lee Seo-yun pulled up something with a flourish.
Honestly, it looked like an ordinary herb, no different from the others around it.
I checked to see if this was really a proper Alchemy material.
[ Medicinal Herb ]
Form: Material
Grade: F
Description: A small herb that naturally developed medicinal properties by drawing in the abundant life force of the forest.
“Oh!”
It was true.
A Medicinal Herb had actually been found.
The only problem was how low its Grade was.
F-Grade, of all things.
It seemed difficult to make a good Potion with this.
Given that limitation.
“Shall we head to Zone 4?”
“Yes!”
We immediately set out toward Zone 4.
The higher the zone, the better the Medicinal Herbs we’d likely find.
As we made our way to Zone 4,
just as expected,
“Wow! Th—there are some here too!”
[ Healing Herb ]
[ Wind Grass ]
[ Honey Flower ]
…….
We were discovering a variety of materials.
Without even searching carefully,
the materials we’d found just along the way to Zone 4 were already that impressive.
The gathering skill was exceeding expectations.
And I never imagined the Blacksmith’s Forest held so many gathering elements hidden within it.
Not long after that,
“Chitter-chitter, master?”
“Grom, keep doing what you were doing. I’m just taking a quick look around with Lee Seo-yun.”
“Chitter-chitter! Understood!”
I could see Grom swinging his axe.
Zone 4.
It was my first time coming here directly, and the height and thickness of the trees were remarkable.
Though Grom seemed even more impressive, felling them effortlessly with a single axe.
In any case,
not long after Lee Seo-yun began properly investigating Zone 4,
“A—a Life Flower! It’s a Medicinal Herb that grows only extremely rarely even in places rich with life force, but there are so many of them here! It’s truly amazing!”
We were able to discover the core materials of Zone 4.

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