I Became an SSS-Grade Time-Transcending Almighty Blacksmith - Chapter 72

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Chapter 72
Chapter 72
The client was Do Garam.
The item he’d given me was a bracelet split clean in half.
Most critically, the four-leaf clover at its center had been cleaved right down the middle.
There was no way it could function like this.
Repairing it looked incredibly difficult, too.
And yet, the reason I’d taken on this commission was simple.
[ Four-Leaf Clover Bracelet ]
Form: Bracelet
Grade: S
Restriction: —
Description: A bracelet of fortune, born when a mutated four-leaf clover that had grown into a massive colony chief fell, and its power condensed into a single form.
Special Ability:
Four-Leaf Clover’s Luck
‘Special Ability.’
That special ability affixed to this bracelet was the draw.
This would be the fourth special ability I’d ever seen.
I wanted to handle as many items with special abilities as possible.
That way, I’d eventually be able to craft items with special abilities myself.
[ Special Ability: Four-Leaf Clover’s Luck ]
Influenced by the four-leaf clover, revered as a symbol of fortune, your Luck increases.
“Luck, huh? That’s interesting.”
An item that boosts luck—such a thing existed.
I’d never even imagined it.
The capabilities of items truly knew no bounds.
Still, this wasn’t luck in the ordinary sense.
If an average Awakener wore this bracelet, almost nothing would change for them.
You couldn’t wear it and buy a lottery ticket expecting to hit the jackpot.
As a blacksmith.
Having seen far more diverse item abilities than most, I could tell.
“This ability affects skills.”
This luck affected nothing but skills themselves.
For example, if you used a skill that dealt between a minimum of 100 and maximum of 200 damage, this luck would push the actual damage toward that upper limit of 200.
Depending on who wielded it, this ability could become utterly useless—or the strongest power imaginable.
As I examined it further,
“Let me start with the repair.”
I dove right in.
But then—
[ Insufficient materials. ]
Troublesome.
No matter what material I tried adding, nothing worked.
I’d thought some plant fibers would do the trick easily enough.
I was wrong.
Even browsing the Trading Post, I couldn’t find a single item suitable for repairing this bracelet.
But—
“This is frustrating.”
I hated to give up just like this.
Even if I did repair it, it wouldn’t become my own item.
But repairing an item with a special ability was so rare that the experience itself was invaluable.
So I refused to quit.
“Grom!”
“Squeak?”
“Come with me for a bit.”
I headed into the forest with Grom.
It had been ages since I’d set foot in the woods.
‘It’s changed quite a bit.’
The landscape was indeed very different from what I remembered.
The trees around me had been neatly trimmed, and the felled trees were regrowing at a striking pace.
But what drew my focus wasn’t the trees—it was the undergrowth.
“Grom, have you ever seen a plant that looks like this?”
“Tsk, Grom not know plants well.”
“But you’ve brought back plant materials before, haven’t you?”
“Grom pick unusual plants! Plain plants—Grom not know!”
I’d assumed Grom had some knowledge of plants since he occasionally brought back rare plant-based materials.
But that wasn’t it at all.
Grom simply dug up whatever plants or flowers caught his eye on the way to lumber—things that stood out.
Plants with different colors, or ones that glowed, or had strange smells.
Those kinds of distinctive plants.
Beyond that, he had no knowledge of plants whatsoever.
‘That’s rather unfortunate.’
Perhaps there were still undiscovered rare plants or flowers hidden somewhere in this forest.
Well, there was nothing I could do about that now.
“Still, would you help me look for one? I really need it.”
“Tsk, all plants look same to Grom!”
“Please.”
“Tsk, Grom try hard!”
Clinging to even the slimmest chance, I began combing the forest.
What I was searching for was, of course, a Four-Leaf Clover.
In other words: clover.
But life rarely unfolds that easily.
“There’s nothing……”
No matter how much I searched, I found nothing.
All I could see were the spiky weeds scattered across the forest floor.
I’d hoped that at least I might stumble upon some rare material while hunting for clover.
But rare materials?
There was literally nothing.
I couldn’t blame Grom for not knowing about plants.
“Tsk……”
Grom, too, seemed to think he’d failed my instructions—his head hung low as he watched my expression anxiously.
But then.
“Grom!”
“Tsk, master sorry. Grom search harder next time!”
“No, don’t move!”
“Tsk?”
Right where Grom was standing.
Beneath his feet.
“Found it!!”
Clover was growing there, dainty and small.
I wasn’t mistaken.
It was definitely clover.
Startled by my reaction, Grom started to move, so I alerted him to the clover’s presence and carefully got him to step aside.
“Perfect.”
Behind Grom, an entire colony of clover stretched out before me.
The moment I confirmed this.
“Emergency assembly!”
“……Master?”
“Hmm? What is it, Toran?”
“Noom?!”
I’d summoned all my assistants.
“Alright, from now on, we’re hunting for Four-Leaf Clovers!”
“Four-Leaf Clovers?”
“See all the clover spread out down there? They normally have three leaves, but sometimes you find clover with four leaves. That’s what we’re looking for!”
I’d issued this emergency assembly because finding Four-Leaf Clovers felt urgent now.
Still, they’d all been pulled away from their work without warning, so they might have been displeased.
“Understood, Master.”
“You’ve got the best advantage, shortstuff—you’re the smallest, so you can get the lowest. Gahahahaha!”
“Noom isn’t a dwarf! And you’re not tall either!”
“What, ‘you’? Who’re you calling old, you little runt! I’m not a dwarf, and I’m actually pretty big for my kind!”
“Noom isn’t a dwarf either! Noom is big for Noom’s kind!”
“Come now, no quarreling. Please, help me with this first.”
“Of course!”
They all pitched in without complaint, helping me search.
And the result:
After thoroughly combing through a rather expansive clover patch,
“Master, I found some!”
“I found them too, little one.”
“Tsk, Grom can’t spot any…….”
“Noom found the most!”
“Aha! Being a dwarf really does make you the best at finding things!”
“Noom is not a dwarf!!”
We managed to gather quite a good haul of four-leaf clovers.
“Thank you all for your hard work! I’ll treat everyone to something delicious at dinner time!”
“We merely did what was necessary.”
“That does sound promising!”
“Noom!”
“Tsk, Grom didn’t find any four-leaf clovers…… Grom didn’t earn his meal…….”
“That’s not true. Grom was the one who found the clover patch in the first place.”
“Tsk, that’s right! Grom earned his meal!”
The moment we’d gathered the four-leaf clovers, we returned to the Blacksmith Shop.
Then, using the Repair Skill, I inserted the freshly picked four-leaf clovers as material for the Four-Leaf Clover Bracelet.
“It works!”
It did.
The four-leaf clovers were genuinely being used as material.
Of course, just one or two wouldn’t suffice.
A considerable quantity of four-leaf clovers was consumed.
About half of what we’d collected?
But what of it?
The moment the repair materials for the Four-Leaf Clover Bracelet were complete.
[ Repair commencing. ]
Clang!
I began swinging my hammer.
And indeed,
‘This is sturdy.’
The difficulty was quite considerable.
The difficulty befitting an item imbued with special abilities.
But thanks to the Mountain King’s Grip greatly increasing my Strength,
Clang!
I could strike the repair points with ease.
Whenever a point looked particularly large and hard, I would use the Ogre’s Brute Strength to momentarily surge my Strength dramatically,
Crack!
and shatter it in one blow.
Then I continued swinging the hammer steadily, deepening my understanding of the special ability as I worked.
With that in mind, even a long session of hammering couldn’t feel tedious.
Each time I struck a repair point, I watched the four-leaf clover-shaped effect burst upward, and drove my hammer down in good spirits, and so
[ Repair complete. ]
I finished the repair without incident.
Unfortunately, unlike with the Faded Saint’s Gloves, no new stat was added.
But I had restored its function perfectly.
With the repair request concluded,
I had no intention of stopping there.
‘Four-Leaf Clover’s Luck’—having repaired an item bearing this special ability, I’d gained a feel for it.
And still had four-leaf clovers left over to serve as material.
[ Crafting Skill now in use. ]
For the first time in a while, I lifted my hammer not for repair, but for creation.
Using half the remaining four-leaf clovers and some fibrous material I’d prepared in advance as my materials,
[ Crafting commencing. ]
Clang!
I began crafting an item.
The ability I would forge: Luck.
That alone.
Each time I swung the hammer with that thought, the Four-Leaf Clovers I’d used as materials merged together, beginning to pulse with a powerful force.
The fibers intertwined, linking with the clover pattern.
Every swing of the hammer sent cute little four-leaf-clover-shaped effects sparking up from the impact points.
And thus.
[ Crafting complete. ]
[ Crafting Evaluation: S ]
[ You have obtained the Four-Leaf Clover Necklace. ]
I had successfully created the item I’d envisioned.
But.
[ Four-Leaf Clover Necklace ]
Type: Necklace
Grade: S
Restrictions: None
Description: A necklace of fortune crafted by blacksmith Jang Gang-cheol from gathered Four-Leaf Clovers.
Ability: Luck Level 2
I had not been able to replicate a Special Ability.
And yet—the Luck ability, which I had never successfully crafted before.
I took pride in having created it at Level 2, no less.
[ Beginning crafting. ]
I created another item.
Unsurprisingly, the item I made this time was.
[ Crafting complete. ]
[ Crafting Evaluation: S ]
[ You have obtained the Four-Leaf Clover Ring. ]
A ring.
Again, I had not managed to replicate a Special Ability.
Like the necklace, all I could manage was Luck Level 2.
If I’d had more Four-Leaf Clovers to spare, I might have challenged the true Special Ability itself.
Or even attempted an SS-Grade accessory.
But the supply my assistants and I had gathered together had its limits, and this was the best I could achieve.
Still, what I truly wanted was different from this.
Even though I hadn’t replicated a Special Ability.
[ You have created the Lucky Four-Leaf Clover Set. ]
[ A Set Effect has been applied to the Lucky Four-Leaf Clover items. ]
[ Set Effect ]
1. The effect of the Special Ability
Four-Leaf Clover’s Luck
is strengthened.
“Excellent!”
Through the Set Effect, I had succeeded in indirectly influencing the Special Ability itself.
It felt like I’d taken my first step toward mastering Special Abilities.
With just a little more effort going forward.
I too would be able to craft Special Abilities with ease.
Having completed satisfactory repairs and crafting, I then.
[ This is Kang Cheol-mangchi. ]
Sent the Four-Leaf Clover Bracelet to the client.
Whether it was because the item carried a Special Ability, or because the situation was urgently desperate.
The commission fee came in far higher than I’d expected.
And there was one more thing.
Looking at the necklace and ring I’d crafted as a set with that bracelet, I sent the client another note.
I could have ignored the Set Effect and sold them at the Trading Post for a premium price.
But it seemed the Luck ability was profoundly important to this client, so I spelled out the Set Effect and asked if they might be interested in purchasing.
Not long after I sent the note.
[ I’ll buy them! ]
How much do you need?
I’ll scrape together everything I have if I must!
Please, sell them to me!
If that’s not enough, I’ll take out a loan!
As a Ranker in the top 100, I can draw substantial credit from the Awakener’s Association!
Or I could set it up as a loan on credit to you, Kang Cheol-mangchi!
If this arrangement works, I can raise the interest up to the legal limit, so please—I’m begging you—sell them to me!!!
An urgent note arrived from the client.
A loan, no less.
The accessories I made must have impressed them quite a bit.
Well, I wasn’t planning to gouge them with an inflated price anyway……
“Might as well buy Mana Stones right now, then.”
It looks like I’ll be able to level up the Blacksmith Shop again soon.

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