The Cursed Blacksmith Who Regressed - Chapter 33

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Episode 33

A considerable amount of time passed after that.

[ Disassembly Repair is activated. ]

[ Dexterity is activated. ]

[ Ultra Focus is activated. ]

[ Quick Gathering is activated. ]

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang…

[ Repair has been completed. ]

[ You have succeeded in repairing. ]

[ Due to the effect of Enhanced Repair, the target has been completely repaired while some options have been improved. ]

[ Due to the effect of Disassembly Repair, unnecessary parts of the target have been removed and some options have been improved. ]

…

Many repetitions.

It took much more time and repetitions than when he acquired Quick Gathering.

But compared to the average time it took other blacksmiths to reach this level, it was remarkably fast.

After gathering traces accumulated for quite a while again.

[ More skilled and precise craftsmanship. ]

[ Your gathering skills are fast, meticulous, and flawlessly excellent. ]

[ Conditions have been met. ]

[ You have acquired the skill ‘Precise Gathering’. ]

[ Your trait has grown even further. ]

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

[ You have gained 3 Dexterity stat points. ]

Choi Hyun was able to successfully level up his gathering skill once again.

“Nice.”

He had reached Level 3 Precise Gathering.

And Choi Hyun’s goal was Level 4 Enhanced Gathering.

Enhanced Gathering wasn’t anything special.

It literally enhanced gathering abilities by one level, and there were cases where ordinary gathering skills couldn’t gather certain targets.

‘Mainly cursed items are like that.’

But what items had Choi Hyun been grinding on all this time?

Cursed items.

Could this be a coincidence?

Absolutely not.

Choi Hyun had selected cursed items as his grinding targets from the beginning with this situation in mind.

‘There’s no gathering target as tricky as cursed items.’

Without rest, he immediately returned to work.

Of course, he naturally invested the bonus stats he just acquired into Dexterity.

[ Disassembly Repair is activated. ]

[ Dexterity is activated. ]

[ Ultra Focus is activated. ]

[ Precise Gathering is activated. ]

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang…

[ Repair has been completed. ]

[ You have succeeded in repairing. ]

[ Due to the effect of Enhanced Repair, the target has been completely repaired while some options have been improved. ]

[ Due to the effect of Disassembly Repair, unnecessary parts of the target have been removed and some options have been improved. ]

…

As expected, Precise Gathering.

It was definitely fast and precise.

Choi Hyun checked the information of the curse traces he obtained from the item he had just finished working on.

[ Something gathered from the cleaver of the Underground Butcher Shop. ]

– Type : Item

# A curse gathered from the cleaver of the Underground Butcher Shop.

# The user experiences various withdrawal symptoms including anxiety about consuming human flesh.

# If the user consumes more than 10kg of human flesh, Magic stat permanently decreases by 5.

# If the user consumes more than 100g of human flesh, a permanent state of madness manifests.

A smile spread across his lips as he checked the options.

Not curse traces, but a curse.

As evidence, all the options attached to the curse were clearly intact.

The next one and the one after that were the same.

‘This is why they say gathering starts from Precise Gathering.’

This was all because he did his skill training work with cursed items.

Normally, cursed items would show frequent failures even from basic gathering, but Choi Hyun used his previous life’s proficiency and high Dexterity stats to simply overpower and drastically reduce the failure rate.

As a result, he created synergy with the Dexterity skill options and reached Level 3 gathering faster than anyone else.

‘Now, let’s go for the finale.’

Choi Hyun picks up the cursed item and hammer again.

* * *

[ Perfect craftsmanship. ]

[ Your gathering skills are now beginning to show a realm beyond simple gathering. ]

[ Conditions have been met. ]

[ You have acquired the skill ‘Enhanced Gathering’. ]

[ Your trait has grown even further. ]

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

[ You have gained 4 Dexterity stat points. ]

Some more time had passed.

Choi Hyun was able to raise his gathering skill to Level 4 without much difficulty.

It was all thanks to his Dexterity stats and cursed items.

The gathering skill that reached Level 4 was now incomparably faster and more accurate than the previous gathering work speed.

‘To put it bluntly, I could now gather successfully even with my eyes closed and hitting carelessly.’

He had achieved his intended goal.

The normal gathering skill range that Choi Hyun considered went up to Enhanced Gathering.

‘I’ll postpone the next stage, Disassembly Gathering, for later.’

It wasn’t urgent.

He could obtain it now if he spent the time, but from an efficiency standpoint, it was right to postpone it for a while.

Disassembly Gathering wasn’t simple gathering.

He caught his breath for a moment and checked his status window.

[ Choi Hyun ]

– Lv : 30

– Class : Blacksmith

– Traits : ＜Demon’s Eye＞＜Repair＞＜Curse of Memory＞＜Nameless Artisan＞＜Heavenly Martial Body＞＜Material＞＜Noble Spirit＞＜Qualification of Beyond＞

– Strength : 34

– Stamina : 34

– Magic : 34

– Sense : 34

– Dexterity : 83

– Unallocated Stat Points : 4

4 bonus stat points.

It would be nice if there were additional Achievements, but unfortunately he had already achieved them all when leveling up his repair skill.

He allocated the 4 bonus stat points he gained to Dexterity.

This brought his Dexterity stat to 87.

’13 more to go.’

Not a small number.

In terms of levels, that’s 13 levels.

However, it was a light goal for Choi Hyun.

He had already planned how to obtain those 13 stats.

Choi Hyun went to the refrigerator and emptied a bottle of water.

Then he ate some bread to replenish his stamina before lying on the sofa to rest for a while.

About 10 minutes later, having rested sufficiently, Choi Hyun picked up his hammer again and got into position.

The place he positioned himself was where the curse options had been removed – where the blessed items were piled up.

The first thing he picked up from there was the familiar dagger.

[ Nemen’s Crimson Dagger ]

– Type: Item

– Restriction: Level 10 or higher

– Durability: 280/280(210+70)

– Attack Power: 40.3(31+9.3)

– Options:

1. Targets hit by attacks suffer ‘Minor Bleeding’ effect.

# A sword said to have been carried by the shaman Nemen.

# Filled with ominous energy.

# Has been appraised by an expert.

# Unnecessary elements have been removed by a skilled blacksmith.

# Enhanced performance will disappear if durability falls below the original level.

He checked the information.

Nemen’s Crimson Dagger that had undergone Enhanced Repair showed the same information as before.

It was sufficient.

Choi Hyun began hammering the dagger with the hammer he had taken out.

[ Enhanced Repair is activated. ]

[ Dexterity is activated. ]

[ Ultra Focus is activated. ]

As he began hammering the dagger, the sword glowed softly again, showing the familiar murky colors and contour lines.

However, unlike before, no black blocks were visible.

The cancer cells had already been removed.

Therefore, this time the target wasn’t black blocks but murky blocks.

As he focused on hammering those, the contour lines began changing to grid patterns and Disassembly Repair activated.

Choi Hyun immediately changed the hammer’s form and began hammering the murky blocks to start the impurity removal process.

This was work he had done thousands upon thousands of times.

He skillfully removed the impurities.

The amount of impurities was less than expected.

This meant the dagger itself was fairly well-made.

Eventually, having finished the impurity removal work, Choi Hyun found and took out another dagger from the pile of items.

And hammered it the same way.

Soon Disassembly Repair activated.

But this time he switched to the Material Hammer instead of the Repair Hammer.

Then he hammered the white blocks of the newly picked up dagger.

[ Enhanced Gathering is activated. ]

When Enhanced Gathering activated, the white blocks fell off as if by magic.

Choi Hyun gathered the white blocks from the newly picked up dagger, almost dismantling it completely.

No, it was practically dismantling.

The dagger became block fragments, dismantled so thoroughly that it could no longer even be called a dagger.

But Choi Hyun, as if unconcerned, checked the information of what he had removed and gathered from each dagger.

[ Something that fell off from Nemen’s Crimson Dagger. ]

– Type: Item

# A fragment that fell off from Nemen’s Crimson Dagger during the Disassembly Repair process.

[ Something gathered from Veteran Desert Hunter’s Survival Dagger. ]

– Type: Item

# A fragment of the Veteran Desert Hunter’s Survival Dagger.

Two blocks.

One was an impurity and one was material.

The difference seemed almost nonexistent.

The only difference was that impurities were marked as ‘fell off’ while materials were marked as ‘gathered.’

But in the System’s standards, there was a huge difference between these two.

‘Impurities are treated as impurities no matter what you do with their composition, while materials are treated as materials no matter how poor they are.’

So were impurities completely useless?

That wasn’t the case either.

Later, when additional skills became available, impurities could be dismantled once more, but that wasn’t what mattered now.

Choi Hyun’s current purpose was to combine materials gathered from other items with existing impurities to reprocess the impurities into usable materials.

Simply put, it was a color issue.

Impurities were murky colored, materials were white.

If the target from which materials were gathered was the same item from which impurities were removed, such reprocessing work wouldn’t be necessary.

You could just use them directly like when repairing the tutorial sword.

But these two were different items, so this kind of intermediate processing work was necessary.

That’s why the secondary trait Material Processing skill existed.

The processing method was simple.

Place what you want to be the main component at the bottom, then place the gathered material on top.

Then hammer with the Material Hammer.

Then processing work is carried out according to the Dexterity stat and material characteristics.

‘Now, shall we begin?’

He placed the impurity at the bottom and the material on top.

And.

Clang!

[ Basic Processing is activated. ]

The two overlapped materials began responding to Choi Hyun’s power.

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