I Became an SSS-Grade Time-Transcending Almighty Blacksmith - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79
Chapter 79
The Forge of Time had reached Level 5.
And with it came a newly unlocked area.
[ The Forge of Time has reached Lv 5. ]
[ A new space has been opened. ]
[ 1. Blacksmith’s Sea ]
A sea.
A sea, out of nowhere?
I’m not entirely sure myself, but……
‘It’s probably like the forest.’
That was my rough guess.
Still, I thought I’d ask Ember just in case.
– Among the materials needed for crafting, some come from water.
– Fish bones, crustacean shells, coral — and ores that exist only underwater, among others.
– This is the place to obtain those things.
Just as I thought.
It had a similar feel to the forest.
After all, according to Ember, the materials you could find on land were completely different from those in the water.
So it made sense that there would be a Blacksmith’s Sea.
Honestly, if I were satisfied enough already, I might have hesitated to pursue it.
But since I’d raised the level using Awakening Stones anyway, it didn’t matter.
Now that a new space had opened, I figured why not.
“Emergency assembly.”
I called my assistants.
“Come with me to check it out.”
“It might be dangerous. I shall protect you, Master.”
“Ahahaha! A sea, you say? It’s been ages!”
“Chirp?”
“Noum’s never seen the sea before!”
We decided to go together.
Truth be told, I was looking forward to it.
Beyond the materials themselves — this was the sea, after all.
I couldn’t quite remember the last time I’d actually seen the ocean with my own eyes.
“The path to the sea is here too.”
The route to the sea was just like the paths to the Hunting Ground, the Mine, and the forest.
What had been a three-way junction before had now become a four-way one.
We stepped through the newly formed door.
Whoooosh—
A beach stretched out before us.
It was stunningly beautiful.
Sandy shores glistened beneath the blazing sunlight.
Gentle waves rolled in across them.
Beyond lay an endless horizon.
This field appeared to be a small island, with nothing but ocean surrounding it in all directions.
“Wow……”
A vast sea you could never see in the real world.
No buildings, no ships — just a pure, unblemished horizon.
Apart from the small island where we stood, it was all water, and somehow that alone was breathtakingly beautiful.
“Ahahaha! Magnificent!”
“Chirp……”
“Waaaaaa! This is Noum’s first time seeing something like this! It’s so pretty!”
My assistants felt the same way.
They were all lost in wonder at the sight before them.
Seeing their awe,
I couldn’t just stand there.
“Everyone, wait a moment!”
“Master?”
I closed down the forge right then and there and stepped outside.
Immediately, I opened the delivery app and placed an order.
After a little while.
I headed to the Blacksmith’s Sea, carrying bags of delivered food in both hands.
Since I’d ordered quite a lot, there was quite a volume, but now that I’m an Awakener myself.
With so much invested in Strength, this wasn’t heavy at all.
Still, the quantity was so much that I waddled a bit as I walked.
Anyway, so it went.
“Ta-da!”
The moment I arrived at the beach.
First thing.
Whoosh!
I spread out the Picnic Mat.
Was it because the restaurant I’d just ordered from mainly sold picnic food?
They sold picnic mats too, so I’d bought a few.
After spreading the mat across the small but beautiful Sandy Beach.
“Master, what is all this……?”
“Since we came to such a beautiful place anyway, wouldn’t it be nice to feel like we’re on a picnic? And it’s around mealtime too.”
“Chirp, a picnic?”
“Yeah, you know — coming to a pretty place, eating something tasty, and resting!”
“Chirp, picnic good!”
I began arranging the food I’d just ordered.
Since it was from a picnic food restaurant, most of it was picnic fare.
Sandwiches arranged in various types, all sorts of fruits.
To match the mood, I’d prepared all the drinks as Fresh Fruit Juice.
“Come on, everyone sit down and eat!”
“Thank you, Master.”
“Looks delicious!”
“Chirp!”
“Thank you, sir!”
An impromptu picnic had begun.
First, the main course — sandwiches.
“Serin, want to try this one first?”
“……!”
“How is it?”
“Delicious! A pleasant acidity and a subtle sweetness. This is…… carrot, isn’t it?”
“Oh, right. It’s a Carrot Rapé Sandwich.”
“It’s wonderful!”
Now that I’d gotten a sense of my subordinates’ tastes.
“Toran, this one’s for you.”
“Wow! The cheese is so rich and melted!”
“It’s called a Cuban Sandwich.”
I recommended sandwiches suited to each preference.
For Noum, I suggested a sandwich with sweet kabocha, and for Grom, a Meat Bomb Sandwich.
It did have a lot of meat, but I was worried whether he’d eat it since it was wrapped in bread.
“Chirp, delicious!”
Fortunately, it looks like he could handle that much.
There was a time when he couldn’t even eat this much.
Living with us, it seems Grom’s palate has been gradually changing.
Though it remained true that Grom still loved meat.
And I.
“You can’t beat the classics.”
Ate the Ham and Cheese Sandwich first.
Layers of ham with perfectly melted cheese piled on top, soft and creamy on the tongue.
It was certainly just an ordinary sandwich.
“So good.”
“The breeze is refreshing too!”
“Chirp!”
“So good! So good! Noum is happy!”
Eating here made everything taste several times better.
A sandwich eaten on a sandy beach brushed by ocean breezes.
There’s no way it could taste anything but wonderful.
After finishing the sandwiches, they moved on to the generous supply of fruit they’d brought along.
In particular, there was a whole watermelon that had been specially ordered and delivered to the shop.
Crunch!
“Oh, Grom…….”
“Chirp?”
“……Never mind.”
Unfortunately, Grom was already holding the entire watermelon and biting into it.
I’d been thinking of doing something like smashing the watermelon.
The plan fell apart immediately.
……Come to think of it, this might have worked out better.
If Grom had smashed the watermelon, it would’ve exploded like a bomb for certain.
Regardless, once we finished resting and eating, there remained a problem.
“……But how are we supposed to get materials here?”
One issue stood in our way.
“Does anyone know how to swim?”
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
“No, Noum can do it! If someone just teaches me!”
“It seems there’s no one here who can teach…….”
Among our group, not a single person knew how to swim.
“We could hunt seagulls.”
“But the seagulls are all flying over the water.”
“If we attach string to an arrow and hit them…….”
At least Serin might be able to hunt seagulls by shooting them with her bow.
But that wouldn’t work.
From the look of it, these seagulls weren’t ordinary birds—they’d likely drop monster materials.
But what good was that if we couldn’t actually enter the sea itself?
This way, even with the sea opened up, it was nothing more than a picnic.
As I stood there thinking for a moment,
“Hold on!”
I rushed urgently to the forge.
Then I picked up a hammer and
Clang!
began crafting an item.
The materials I used were wood and fur.
First, I processed the fur into string.
String made by twisting fur together like hemp cord, you might say.
Then I connected this to wood that I’d shaped into a long pole.
Finally, I attached a small, sharp hook to the end of the string.
[ Crafting complete. ]
[ Crafting Evaluation: A ]
[ You have obtained ‘Plain Wooden Fishing Rod’. ]
The fishing rod was finished.
Since I’d made it hastily just to see if it would work, the evaluation was a somewhat disappointing A.
Still, it didn’t matter.
I went on to craft four more fishing rods.
“Ta-da.”
“Master, what is this?”
“Fishing rods. Let’s give them a try.”
I distributed one to each of my companions.
Though aside from Serin, none of them knew how to fish.
Even Serin had only fished casually in a river before—she’d never fished in the sea.
Still, as our only person with any experience at all, I received a quick lesson from Serin.
Swish!
The five of us cast our lines simultaneously.
With fishing, we didn’t need to enter the sea itself to catch fish, after all.
We began with high hopes,
“…….”
“…….”
Nothing’s biting.
Fishing is supposed to be the art of patience, but nothing’s biting at all.
“Master, I suspect the real problem is that we don’t have any bait.”
“Bait? Hmm….”
“Kid, why don’t we try using the leftovers from lunch?”
“Worth a shot.”
Following Serin’s suggestion, I tried using actual bait.
Sandwich scraps we’d just finished eating, cherry tomatoes—that sort of thing.
I wasn’t sure it would work, but….
Not long after, we got a bite.
“Oh, ho!”
Something had caught on Toran’s line.
I pulled hard, just as Serin had advised.
“…….”
A chunk of rock came up instead.
My fishing rod was sturdy enough, I suppose.
But I still couldn’t fathom how I’d managed to land that.
Next came Serin’s turn.
As the only one among us with actual fishing experience, she succeeded with ease.
The catch, though….
“Hmm….”
“I’m terribly sorry, Master.”
“No, Serin, there’s nothing to apologize for.”
The problem was that the fish she’d caught was barely the size of a finger.
It was clearly too small to use as crafting material.
Then Noum, standing right beside her, succeeded next—true to form for someone with such a talent for mimicry.
“Noum….”
His catch was exactly half the size of Serin’s fish.
I’d thought we were headed for complete failure, when—
“Screee! I’ve got one!”
Grom’s voice cut through the air.
The fishing line went taut in an instant.
The rod itself bent so severely it looked ready to snap.
But whatever was on the line was unbelievably powerful.
“Scrreeee!”
Even Grom, the strongest among us, was struggling.
What on earth had hooked itself?
I wondered if maybe, like Toran, he’d caught some massive boulder.
Whoooosh!
The line began to move.
It thrashed left and right, then was yanked backward as if trying to escape—definitely something alive.
“Everyone, grab on!”
We all rushed to help Grom, latching onto the rod and pulling together.
Thanks to our combined effort,
the fish was slowly being drawn in.
Splash!
It burst through the surface, revealing its true form.
The problem was
that it was
“Rooooaaar!”
“Aaaah!”
a shark.
And not an ordinary shark.
I’d heard that the largest great whites grow to less than seven meters.
But this shark, with only its head above the water, looked even bigger than that.
At this size, it wasn’t just a shark anymore—it was practically a megalodon.
That’s what it felt like.
The saving grace was
a snapping sound.
The creature glared at us, bit through the line, and vanished into the depths.
Thanks to that.
Crash!
We were all rolling across the Sandy Beach, still gripping our fishing rods.
In that moment.
I understood.
“……A fishing rod won’t cut it.”
This wasn’t something a fishing rod could solve.
And I couldn’t exactly ask my crew—who couldn’t swim—to go fetch fish from the water.
So there was only one path forward.
‘The Summoning Platform.’
I’d level up the Summoning Platform and summon a new assistant.
And this time, I prayed something sea-related would appear.
There was no other way.
True, using the Summoning Platform didn’t guarantee an assistant suited to the situation.
‘But according to Ember, it seemed reverse summoning was possible as many times as needed.’
If the right one didn’t appear, I’d keep summoning until it did.
It hadn’t happened yet.
Though I’d feel a bit sorry for the assistants I’d reverse summon.
But there was no helping it.
If I wanted to use the Blacksmith’s Sea, this was the only way.
And that brought another problem.
The first was simple.
‘Money.’
Money.
Unless another Awakening Stone appeared, I’d need roughly sixteen billion to enhance the Summoning Platform.
But that wasn’t all.
‘Skill.’
The Summoning Platform’s difficulty was beyond imagination.
When I’d summoned Noum recently, it had been quite taxing.
For the next summoning, I’d have to grow stronger, or I wouldn’t be able to pull it off properly.
So somehow, I had to get stronger.
A new short-term goal had landed on my shoulders.
“For now, I’ll give up on the sea. We can just come on little trips like this sometimes.”
“I’m sorry, Master.”
“Don’t apologize. This is something I’ll handle myself, so let’s get back to work!”
“Yes!”
To achieve this new short-term goal.
Clang!
I picked up the hammer again and set back to work.

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