The Cursed Blacksmith Who Regressed - Chapter 22

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Episode 22

[ Material Hammer ]

– Type : Trait Skill

# A class-exclusive skill derived from the Material trait of the Blacksmith Class.

# Consumes mana to summon a hammer of the desired form.

# The summoned hammer consumes different amounts of mana depending on its form, and can be regenerated using mana when damaged.

# When used together with Material trait skills, effects of reduced mana consumption for both skills, increased work speed, and increased work success rate occur.

[ Basic Gathering ]

– Type : Trait Skill

# A class-exclusive skill derived from the Material trait of the Blacksmith Class.

# Consumes mana to gather materials from a target.

# The amount of mana consumed varies depending on the state of the target to be gathered from, and gathering may fail depending on conditions.

[ Basic Processing ]

– Type : Trait Skill

# A class-exclusive skill derived from the Material trait of the Blacksmith Class.

# Consumes mana to process materials.

# The amount of mana consumed varies depending on the state of the target to be processed, and processing may fail depending on conditions.

Following the Repair Hammer, the Material Hammer was created.

Naturally, it was a hammer skill compatible with material-related skills, and though it was called a hammer, it was actually a versatile work tool that could change into various forms as needed.

Therefore, the other material skills were more important than the hammer skill.

‘I need the Material trait to obtain the next repair skill.’

Decomposition Repair aims to improve the target’s completeness by removing impurities from the target.

This improves the target’s performance itself, but has the disadvantage of reducing size by the amount of removed material.

This seemed trivial but was actually quite an important issue.

Because if the size of weapons or armor decreases and no longer fits the wearer, it becomes meaningless.

‘But with the Material trait, I can substitute materials gathered from elsewhere in place of the removed impurities.’

And the stage where such repair becomes possible is the next stage, the 6-star repair skill.

Choi Hyun checked his status window.

[ Choi Hyun ]

– Lv : 10

– Class : Blacksmith

– Traits : ＜Demon’s Eye＞＜Repair＞＜Curse of Memory＞＜Nameless Artisan＞＜Thousand Martial Physique＞＜Material＞

– Strength : 15

– Stamina : 15

– Mana : 15

– Sense : 15

– Dexterity : 40

– Unallocated Stat Points : 0

Level 10, but a stat composition that didn’t feel like level 10 at all.

However, Choi Hyun still felt it was insufficient.

‘To get the next repair skill, my Dexterity stat needs to be at least 50.’

Up to 5-star repair skills, he could somehow reach them through quantity grinding, but from 6-star onwards, there were invisible restrictions.

That was the stat restriction.

Not level.

Stat restriction.

That’s why it was troublesome.

That’s why he stopped without working on proficiency further.

But it was fine.

At the current pace, he would probably be able to obtain the 6-star repair skill smoothly in the Growth Tower.

After finishing his check, Choi Hyun immediately entered the portal leading to the next floor.

[ Moving to the 14th Floor. ]

[ You have entered the 14th Floor. ]

[ Starting the 14th Floor challenge. ]

Swish!

As soon as the challenge began, Choi Hyun rushed forward first again and swung his sword.

* * *

[ You have cleared the 36th Floor. ]

[ Your level has increased. ]

[ You have gained 1 bonus stat. ]

[ Thousand Martial Physique activates. ]

[ Strength, Stamina, Mana, and Sense stats increase by 1 each. ]

[ The door to the 37th Floor has opened. ]

He conquered the 36th Floor.

At the same time, his level increased and Choi Hyun immediately opened his status window.

[ Choi Hyun ]

– Lv : 20

– Class : Blacksmith

– Traits : ＜Demon’s Eye＞＜Repair＞＜Curse of Memory＞＜Nameless Artisan＞＜Thousand Martial Physique＞＜Material＞

– Strength : 25

– Stamina : 25

– Mana : 25

– Sense : 25

– Dexterity : 49

– Unallocated Stat Points : 1

He finally reached level 20.

Choi Hyun immediately invested the gained bonus stat into Dexterity, making it 50.

Just because his Dexterity stat reached 50 didn’t mean immediate changes would occur.

‘But I can create that change myself.’

Choi Hyun immediately took out the tutorial sword.

It wasn’t the sword that had undergone Decomposition Repair, but another product he had brought along.

Then he took out the Repair Hammer and began hammering the sword.

[ Enhancement Repair activates. ]

[ Deft Hands activates. ]

[ Ultra Focus activates. ]

He hammered the sword.

Then the faint, murky colors he had seen before began to appear, and as he focused on hammering those areas, the contour-like lines began changing into a grid pattern as the next skill activated.

[ Decomposition Repair activates. ]

When Decomposition Repair activated, the process that previously required long hammering was skipped, and the grid pattern that should have appeared only after much hammering immediately emerged densely.

Choi Hyun immediately changed the hammer’s form and began the impurity removal work by hammering the murky blocks.

The removal work itself wasn’t particularly difficult.

It was work he had done enough times to be sick of it, and the tutorial sword itself, which was the target for removal, was an easy object to handle.

When the impurity removal work was finally finished, Choi Hyun took out another sword from his inventory.

It was the same tutorial sword.

Choi Hyun hammered that one as well.

Then Enhancement Repair led to Decomposition Repair activation, and the grid pattern appeared.

[ Material Hammer activates. ]

When the grid pattern appeared, Choi Hyun changed hammers.

He also changed the Material Hammer into a mason’s hammer form and hammered the blocks as if removing impurities.

However, this time he was hammering not murky blocks but white blocks.

At the same time, a skill activation notification appeared.

[ Basic Gathering is activated. ]

The activated skill was Basic Gathering.

Since he wasn’t removing impurities from the sword he was working on, but rather removing intact materials, the gathering skill was triggered.

Then, like impurities falling away, white blocks also dropped off with soft thuds.

Choi Hyun gathered white blocks equivalent to the amount of impurity blocks he had removed from the sword he was repairing.

There was no need to gather more.

There would be no failures in the work process.

After finishing the material gathering, Choi Hyun checked the information of the gathered materials.

[ Something gathered from the Tutorial Sword. ]

– Type: Item

# A part of the sword gathered from the Tutorial Sword.

The name of the impurities he had removed before was ‘Something that fell off’ with the description ‘A part that fell off from the Tutorial Sword during the disassembly repair process.’

But this time, the name had changed to ‘Something gathered.’

This was because it had been recognized as proper material rather than impurities through skill work.

‘This is why material skills were necessary.’

The difference between impurities and materials.

It was like the difference between heaven and earth.

Afterwards, he placed the gathered material blocks into the empty spaces of the sword he was repairing and hammered them.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

Remove the impurities and fill with pure materials.

Eventually, all the empty spaces were filled.

The sword with its gaps filled glowed white and softly without a single trace of murky color.

This meant perfect composition.

Having newly composed the sword with the desired materials, Choi Hyun immediately struck the grid pattern solid lines.

Then the grid pattern disappeared and the entire weapon began to glow bright white.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

He hammered until his forearms felt like they would burst.

The more he hammered, the more intense the light became, and when it reached its peak, it flashed once brightly before completely fading away.

[ Repair has been completed. ]

[ New discovery. ]

[ Your repair skills have now reached a level that goes beyond removing unnecessary parts of the target to filling in what is needed. ]

[ Conditions have been met. ]

[ You acquire the skill ‘Fusion Repair.’ ]

[ Your trait grows even further. ]

[ The skill ‘Hammer of Repair’ grows and some information changes. ]

[ You gain 6 Dexterity stats. ]

[ New record achieved! ]

[ You have reached the sixth trait level faster than any Player in history. ]

[ For achieving an excellent Achievement, the System gifts you 2 bonus stats. ]

System notifications poured in.

He had finally obtained it.

The sixth repair skill, Fusion Repair.

Choi Hyun checked the information of the sword he had fixed with Fusion Repair.

[ Perfect Tutorial Sword ]

– Type: Item

– Restriction: None

– Durability: 260/260(200+60)

– Attack Power: 26(20+6)

– Options: None

# A sword supplied by the Tower of Tutorials.

# Unnecessary elements have been removed and necessary ones filled in by an excellent blacksmith, creating it according to the most ideal original design.

# The enhanced performance will disappear if it falls below the original durability.

Choi Hyun smiled upon seeing the information.

Yes.

This is the real Tutorial Sword.

Thanks to his material trait and Fusion Repair, the crude supply-type Tutorial Sword was able to successfully regain its original form that had been designed most ideally.

“It’s sparkling.”

Was it because he removed the impurities?

The sword shone much more sharply and clearly than before.

And that wasn’t all.

Since he had filled in as much material as he had removed, the size remained the same as the original while the weight became much lighter.

‘Next is level 7.’

To obtain a level 7 repair skill, he needed at least 100 Dexterity stats.

He wasn’t worried about when he would reach it.

He had already reached level 20 with 50 Dexterity stats, so how long could 100 take?

‘Well then, now that I’ve obtained the repair skill I needed to get, now I should…’

Focus on obtaining other things.

Choi Hyun decided to call the Perfect Tutorial Sword ‘Perfect Sword’ for short.

After all, there was a superstition that weapons should be treated like lovers, and giving them nicknames would make them last longer.

‘Let’s go, Perfect Sword.’

Choi Hyun invested all his bonus stats into Dexterity, then headed into the portal leading to the next floor with his Perfect Sword.

[ Moving to the 37th Floor. ]

[ You have entered the 37th Floor. ]

[ Beginning the 37th Floor challenge. ]

Entry to the 37th Floor.

And as soon as the challenge began, Choi Hyun unfailingly rushed forward first and swung his sword to cut down the enemy.

[ You have defeated an Orc Warrior. ]

One-hit kill.

The corners of Choi Hyun’s mouth rose with satisfaction at the distinctly different feel in his hands.

‘I’m already looking forward to meeting that guy.’

That guy.

That guy existing on the 40th Floor was none other than what was called the mid-boss.

‘See you soon.’

Choi Hyun’s sword swung without hesitation.

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