I Became an SSS-Grade Time-Transcending Almighty Blacksmith - Chapter 80

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Chapter 80
Chapter 80
Right now I have two major goals.
The first is to save money.
The second is to improve my specs.
Starting with the first point, I needed to accumulate roughly 1.6 billion won to purchase Mana Stones.
To do this.
Clang, clang, clang!
I swung my hammer without pause.
Until now, I’d been crafting items I wanted to make.
But since it felt wasteful not to put the Blacksmith’s Sea to proper use, I focused on earning money to utilize it fully.
Though Noum was already doing well with that part.
But to earn money faster than that, the method was really.
‘Commissions.’
Commissions.
Until now, I’d been too lazy to take commissions and instead made items I wanted, then dumped them all on the Auction House.
But now money was more pressing.
[ This is the Awakeners’ Association. ]
We would like to prepare rental equipment for the growth of new Awakeners.
First, we’d like to order thirty pieces of equipment per level.
For weapons, we will distribute quantities according to usage priority…….
The first commission I received was from the Awakeners’ Association.
Honestly, the pay wasn’t huge, but it was still better than what I’d get on the Auction House.
Besides, I was living here rent-free thanks to the Association.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to take on these commissions occasionally.
“Noum.”
“Noum is ready!”
“From now on, we’re making items together. I’m about to start taking on mass-production commissions in earnest.”
“Noum thinks that’s great!”
The moment I accepted the commission.
[ Beginning crafting. ]
Clang!
I began swinging the hammer.
It would have taken longer if I’d worked alone, but with Noum it went quickly.
The Association had requested a lot of items, but they were all basic-tier series anyway.
Thinking of it as laying a foundation, I swung the hammer earnestly.
[ Crafting is complete. ]
Soon I’d filled all the quantities needed.
The moment I sent all the commission items to the Association.
[ Thank you, Kang Cheol-mangchi. ]
Thanks to Kang Cheol-mangchi, the Awakeners registered with our Association now have a foundation to grow more safely and quickly.
We express our gratitude once more, and hope to…….
A lengthy thank-you note arrived from the Association, as if they’d written it in advance.
And then.
“Next!”
Beginning with that, I started taking on and completing commissions that looked profitable in my message box.
I began by accepting those involving basic-tier item production.
Supplying a major hospital with beds imbued with the Regeneration ability in bulk.
Taking commissions from large Guilds requesting equipment by level, like the Association had.
I fulfilled those sorts of things.
But while I was checking my message box.
I found what real money-making commissions looked like.
[ This is Han Tae-yoon, Vice Director of Hanseong University Hospital. ]
I would like to commission a chair for our hospital director to use.
The Regeneration ability attached to the bed you crafted is fine, or anything with an ability that aids in rest would work.
This isn’t an order from the director, but a personal request from me.
With patient numbers increasing lately, our director hasn’t been getting proper sleep. I’m making this request hoping he could get some real rest, even if just for a moment.
If you accept this commission, the payment will be double the current market rate.
No, triple the market rate.
I sincerely ask for your assistance.
This is what happened.
A commission from an ordinary person, not an Awakener.
But how did a non-Awakener send a commission slip in the first place?
Well, that’s simple enough.
Not every Awakener hunts monsters for a living—plenty of them either dislike combat or have ambiguous abilities, so they live ordinary lives like anyone else.
Failing that, you can always hire a low-level Awakener to help.
Or you can keep an Awakener bodyguard and ask them to deliver the slip for you.
There are plenty of ways.
In any case, commissions like this boasted commission fees that were overwhelmingly higher than most others.
So I decided to take on this vice-director’s request.
It’s not as though I don’t have a chair in my Furniture Compendium already.
[ Using Special Crafting Skill. ]
Still, if a hospital director was going to sit in the chair…
wasn’t it a bit awkward to just craft an ordinary wooden chair from my Compendium?
[ Please draw up a design blueprint for this custom piece. ]
I found a blueprint online for a high-end chair and modified it.
Why was a chair so ridiculously expensive?
It was just a chair, but the price ran to a million won.
And this wasn’t even the most expensive model—just the sort of chair hospital directors and professors typically used, I’d heard.
The blueprint was fairly intricate, but with all my experience so far, I managed to complete it cleanly.
‘It’s going to take a lot of materials.’
I began laying in the materials in earnest.
The high-quality iron ingots Toran had recently started bringing.
From Grom’s timber I selected pieces that would promote rest.
From the Zone 3 monster hides Serin brought, I used only those that would best support relaxation.
After that.
[ Beginning crafting. ]
Clang!
I swung the hammer.
It wasn’t an item an Awakener would use, but there was still genuine satisfaction in making it.
Especially since this commission wasn’t placed for personal comfort.
The vice-director had left this request to look after a struggling director, hadn’t they?
My heart warmed, and motivation welled up inside me.
‘This is quite challenging.’
Just as the blueprint was intricate.
The crafting process itself was enormously demanding.
Why was a simple chair so complicated?
At this rate, it was more involved than forging a decent weapon.
Still, my skill level had risen considerably.
I steadily swung the hammer and pressed forward with the work.
And the result was.
[ Crafting complete. ]
[ Crafting evaluation: S ]
[ You have obtained Healer’s Rest. ]
I had successfully completed the chair.
And not just any chair.
[ A masterpiece has been born. ]
[ A masterpiece crafted with utmost devotion has been completed, granting you insight and raising your attributes. ]
[ Wisdom increased by 2. ]
A masterpiece, no less.
I’d made it with care, my heart full of warmth, but I never expected a masterpiece to emerge.
Eager to see what I’d created, I checked the item information.
[ Healer’s Rest ]
Form: Chair
Grade: S
Description: A custom chair made by blacksmith Jang Gang-cheol, moved by the commissioner’s heart, for the sake of a healer’s respite.
Abilities: Repose Lv 2, Meditation Lv 2, Vitality Lv 1
“Ah.”
I was quite pleased with the chair that had emerged.
Repose Lv 2—which aided mental clarity and focus recovery.
Meditation Level 2, which heightens mental fortitude and focus.
Vitality Level 1, which literally bolsters one’s energy reserves.
At this level, the items would prove invaluable to a hospital director as busy as this one, and surely satisfy the requester’s expectations.
Pleased with the result, I sent the item.
As expected.
[ Thank you so much! Thank you so much! ]
A note of gratitude arrived from the requester.
Satisfied, I began searching for more lucrative commissions.
Not long after.
“Hmm…?”
In my message box.
[ This is Taeseong Corporation. ]
[ Would it be possible for you to craft items similar to those requested by Hanseong University Hospital? ]
[ Siran Group is placing a commission request. ]
…….
Messages requesting items similar to the chair I’d just finished.
And they began flooding in, each offering even higher commission fees.
* * *
Kwon Seong-jun, director of Hanseong University Hospital.
Though he led one of the city’s largest medical institutions, he differed markedly from other hospital directors.
Typically, the heads of major hospitals devoted themselves to administration and political maneuvering far more than to actual patient care or surgery.
Yet despite his title, he refused to abandon treatment, maintaining a hellish schedule to see it through.
He arrived before dawn to sign off on pending documents.
Afternoons found him in the operating theater; nights consumed by hospital administration.
His sleep had always been sparse to begin with.
“Director, there’s an emergency patient…….”
“Prepare the operating room.”
“It’s a critical case! And, and right now there’s no doctor available with your expertise to——”
“I’ll go.”
Recently, the number of Gates opening had increased dramatically.
With them, the flood of patients—Awakeners and ordinary people alike—surged proportionally.
The hospital director grew busier still.
And exhaustion mounted with each passing day.
It was for this weary director that.
“Director, a gift for you.”
“Deputy Director? What’s this…….”
“Remember the Regeneration bed we commissioned from the blacksmith? This is a chair he crafted.”
“No, we should’ve asked for another bed instead of a chair!”
“We can’t do that. If you collapse from overwork, that would be far more dangerous.”
“But still…….”
“Just sit in it for now. We can’t do anything about surgery, but at least when you’re handling administrative work, sit here and let some of that fatigue ease.”
“Hmm…….”
The deputy director had prepared this gift.
A chair, of all things.
With that money, commissioning another bed would have been far better for treating patients.
A pang of regret stirred in him.
But the director was human, after all.
He recognized that his fatigue had become excessive of late.
Apparently it was crafted as a custom item, non-returnable at that.
“……Thanks.”
“Don’t mention it.”
He sat in the chair reluctantly.
Then began working through the backlog of administrative tasks.
“Ahhh……!”
Immediately.
The director felt the chair’s efficacy.
“My mind hasn’t felt this clear in ages.”
The heightened mental fortitude and focus from Meditation Level 2.
It wasn’t merely a combat tool.
It proved invaluable when sitting and working through administrative matters.
Thanks to that, the speed at which administrative tasks were processed improved dramatically.
And that was only the beginning.
Normally, after handling administrative work, one’s mental energy would be completely drained, leaving a person utterly exhausted.
“Ahhh…!”
Not this time.
Even after finishing the administrative tasks, his mind felt clear.
The effect of Repose Level 2 was unmistakable.
That wasn’t all either.
With Vitality Level 1 also applied, he felt invigorated even after completing his work.
Because of this, the hospital director was able to finish his duties faster than usual.
And in the operating room that followed, he was able to perform surgeries faster and more precisely than he normally would.
Extraordinary efficacy.
And being human, the hospital director couldn’t help but spread word of this to those around him.
“Haha, I’m telling you the truth. The chair that Kang Cheol-mangchi made for me—it’s unbelievably good.”
Moreover, he was the hospital director, after all.
Those worthy of his mention were people who had reached positions similar to his own.
Other hospital directors, and chairmen of large and small corporations alike.
Every one of them, upon hearing this news,
“Submit a commission immediately! Even if we have to double the fee!”
“The chairwoman made the request herself. Please hurry….”
“What? Really? That Awakener, Kang Cheol-mangchi—he never even glances at commissions like this, does he?”
“Exactly! This is our chance! I’m not sure why, but it seems he’s actively accepting commissions right now!”
“He doesn’t read the commissions? Then raise the fee higher! Just put the commission amount at the top of the message!”
They began sending urgent commissions to Kang Cheol-mangchi.
As the commission fees climbed higher,
Kang Cheol-mangchi’s message box became practically indistinguishable from an auction house.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————