The Cursed Blacksmith Who Regressed - Chapter 17

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Episode 17

When the God of Gambling personally watches over you, the greatest fortune is bestowed.

That was exactly what the God of Gambling’s Blessing was.

It was a satisfying transaction.

In fact, the Curse of Memory wasn’t really a curse for Choi Hyun, but since it was classified as a curse anyway, this was quite a profitable deal.

That’s why he limited the usage to 3 times, but what did that matter?

When you use the God of Gambling’s Blessing, the greatest fortune suited to that situation occurs.

‘Simply put, if you buy a lottery ticket, you’ll win first place, and if you go to a racetrack, the horse you bet on will come in first.’

Of course, if you consider the detailed causality, things would get complicated, but Choi Hyun knew well how powerful the God of Gambling’s Blessing was, which is why he requested it.

‘So now I just need to wait for what I ordered.’

While waiting, Choi Hyun repeated the acts of repairing junk and recovering his mana.

Then, after a while, a delivery service driver knocked on the warehouse door.

“Mr. Choi Hyun?”

“Yes, that’s me.”

“Please sign here.”

After showing his ID and completing the signature, he could finally receive the item from Hunter Auction.

When he opened what was wrapped in luxurious packaging paper, inside was a small box like a ring case.

When he opened it, inside was a single pill about the size of a marble.

[ Strange Immortal Pill ]

– Type: Item

# A legendary elixir said to have been created by an immortal called the Strange Immortal.

# The Strange Immortal believed that martial talent changed according to constitution and spent his entire life researching constitution improvement, and the Strange Immortal Pill was the elixir created through that research.

# When taking the Strange Immortal Pill, constitutional characteristics are randomly granted according to conditions, and the effect only appears once and cannot be used twice.

The Strange Immortal Pill was a masterpiece among masterpieces created by the Chinese Alchemist Guild, an elixir crafted based on an elixir recipe discovered in a High-Level Gate several years ago.

And as stated in the description, there are truly various types of constitutions for martial arts, with over fifty types discovered so far, and among them, the most outstanding constitution was undoubtedly the ‘Heavenly Martial Body’ possessed by Yang Hui, called humanity’s strongest Player.

‘Since Yang Hui, not a single Player has appeared who obtained the Heavenly Martial Body characteristic.’

Yang Hui also said he didn’t know how he was able to obtain the Heavenly Martial Body. Until humanity came to the brink of extinction.

Choi Hyun suddenly recalled his conversation with Yang Hui about the Heavenly Martial Body.

“Actually, I know how I came to obtain the Heavenly Martial Body.”

“How did you get it?”

“There are several conditions. First, the Heavenly Martial Body requires the Player who ate the Strange Immortal Pill to be at level 1, and all stat conditions must also be at 1. On top of that, you must have the Nameless Arts characteristic and the Understanding of Martial Arts skill. But these are basics, and the final condition is the most important.”

“What is it?”

“You need to be lucky.”

“Huh?”

An unexpected condition.

There’s a reason for the saying “luck is seventy percent, skill is thirty percent.”

But this wasn’t entirely a pleasant story.

“You know where I’m from, right?”

“I know. You’re from the Black Society.”

“To be precise, I’m from the Black Society’s Weapon Factory. You have no idea how many awakened ones the Black Society captured and experimented on there.”

Especially after the Strange Immortal Pill was discovered, the Black Society launched the ‘Martial God Project’ to artificially create the strongest Player, and Yang Hui was one of the many victims who were practically kidnapped and dragged there.

In other words, there were quite a few subjects who, like Yang Hui, artificially practiced and learned Nameless Arts and Understanding of Martial Arts at level 1.

But even so, seeing that in Player history only Yang Hui was granted the Heavenly Martial Body, you could tell that luck was truly important, just as he said.

‘That’s why I prepared the God of Gambling’s Blessing.’

Choi Hyun put the Strange Immortal Pill worth over 100 million into his mouth.

[ You have used the Strange Immortal Pill. ]

Whoosh!

At the same time, he used the God of Gambling’s Blessing.

[ The God of Gambling’s Blessing is activated. ]

Swoooosh!

The actions were performed almost simultaneously.

Then his body began to glow from the Strange Immortal Pill, and a gentle wind created by the God of Gambling’s Blessing enveloped Choi Hyun.

[ Beginning bone and flesh transformation. ]

The Strange Immortal Pill’s medicinal effects began to circulate.

The Strange Immortal Pill began to earnestly reconstruct the consumer’s body to match martial arts, and as the reconstruction began, it started causing intense pain inside the body.

Choi Hyun immediately sat down and deployed the Nameless Mind Method of Nameless Arts.

[ Ultra Focus is activated. ]

[ Nameless Mind Method is activated. ]

He endured the pain while activating two skills.

Yang Hui had said that when he ate the Strange Immortal Pill, it was so agonizing he wanted to die.

But because of the Black Society members watching, he was forced to sit cross-legged, bite his lips until they bled, shed tears continuously, and desperately endure it.

Choi Hyun was the same.

It was agonizing.

It was painful.

But he couldn’t roll around pathetically from just this level of pain.

Even thinking of the countless comrades who trusted him and sent him to the past, he desperately endured it.

How much time passed like that?

Whoosh!

Choi Hyun’s body began to glow with golden light.

[ You have successfully completely absorbed the Strange Immortal Pill. ]

[ Bone and flesh transformation is complete. ]

[ You have overcome extremely dire odds and obtained a heaven-sent martial constitution that everyone would envy. ]

[ Conditions have been met. ]

[ You acquire the characteristic ‘Heavenly Martial Body’. ]

[ All stats increase by 5 each. ]

[ You have achieved a great Achievement, so the System gifts you 3 bonus stat points. ]

Notifications flowing up one after another.

At the same time, Choi Hyun’s breathing cleared.

‘I did it…!’

He finally obtained it.

The heaven-sent constitution called the Heavenly Martial Body, said to have been obtained by only one person in Player history.

Choi Hyun checked his status window first.

[ Choi Hyun ]

– Lv: 1

– Class: Blacksmith

– Characteristics: ＜Demon’s Eye＞＜Repair＞＜Curse of Memory＞＜Nameless Arts＞＜Heavenly Martial Body＞

– Strength: 6

– Stamina: 6

– Mana: 6

– Sense: 6

– Unallocated Stat Points: 14

Seeing the updated status window, Choi Hyun couldn’t hide his laughter.

An insane status window.

His level was only 1, but his stat total was a whopping 24.

Including the bonus stats, the total came to 38.

Considering that each stat point has the value of one level, Choi Hyun was already no different from having surpassed level 30.

Choi Hyun then checked the information for Heavenly Martial Body.

[ Heavenly Martial Body ]

– Type: Characteristic

# A constitution for martial arts bestowed by heaven.

# Comprehension of all martial arts greatly increases, allowing you to learn martial arts of different natures without restrictions, and you receive an ultra-accelerated experience effect for martial arts acquisition.

# Each time you level up, your Strength, Stamina, Mana, and Sense stats increase by 1 each.

Choi Hyun smiled as he read the description.

The reason why the Martial God Yang Hui was destined to become humanity’s strongest Player.

It was because while others received 1 bonus stat when leveling up once, Yang Hui alone received 4 additional bonus stats.

‘It’s effectively like gaining 4 more levels.’

So who could possibly defeat Yang Hui?

Yang Hui was truly an unprecedented monster.

But even so, there was a separate reason why Yang Hui couldn’t readily volunteer to be the regressor.

Choi Hyun recalled the conversation he had with Yang Hui.

“But why don’t you want to become the regressor despite being the strongest?”

“It’s because I’m lacking as a person.”

“Lacking?”

“As you said, if we’re only talking about individual martial prowess, I should be the one to go. But this is a very big war. I may win battles, but I’m not confident I can win the war.”

“With that logic, you just need to keep winning battles. Then you’ll win the war too.”

“That’s just sophistry. You know well that if other places collapse before then, we’ll lose the war, right? And more than anything.”

“More than anything?”

“You said I could use the Thief God’s Bow to obtain the Heavenly Martial Body, but that’s only possible because it’s you. If I were to go back to before I obtained the Heavenly Martial Body, I can’t guarantee that version of me could get the Heavenly Martial Body again. So it’s much better for you to go, since you’re smarter than me and have more flexible conditions.”

Yang Hui was sincere.

That’s why he had passed on the secrets of the Heavenly Martial Body and the Paechen Divine Art, which could be called his everything.

‘Now all preparations are complete.’

Now all the basic preparations were truly finished.

What remained was to develop the Repair skill, his job-exclusive trait that he had been putting off since his regression.

‘Only then can I move to the next stage.’

The goal was to reach the fifth stage of Repair, the 5-star level.

All this process required was time, effort, and broken items to raise his Repair trait level.

Choi Hyun began earnestly repairing junk items again.

[ Basic Repair is activated. ]

[ Dexterity is activated. ]

[ Ultra Focus is activated. ]

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang…

[ Repair has been completed. ]

[ You have successfully repaired the item. ]

After repairing several junk items for some time.

[ Your skills are becoming more refined. ]

[ Your repair skills have become both faster and more meticulous. ]

[ Conditions have been met. ]

[ You acquire the skill ‘Quick Repair’. ]

[ Your trait grows significantly. ]

[ The skill ‘Hammer of Repair’ has grown and some information has changed. ]

[ You acquire the stat ‘Craftsmanship’. ]

Choi Hyun finally succeeded in evolving his Repair skill to the next stage.

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