The Cursed Blacksmith Who Regressed - Chapter 35
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Episode 35
A smile spread across his lips.
He immediately opened his status window.
[ Choi Hyun ]
– Lv : 30
– Class : Blacksmith
– Traits : ＜Devil’s Eye＞＜Repair＞＜Curse of Memory＞＜Anonymous Craftsman＞＜Heavenly Martial Body＞＜Material＞＜Noble Spirit＞＜Qualification of Beyond＞
– Strength : 35
– Stamina : 35
– Mana : 35
– Sense : 35
– Dexterity : 96
– Unallocated Stat Points : 5
He invested all the bonus stats he had gained into dexterity.
As a result, his dexterity stat became 101.
He had finally reached his target number.
“This is it.”
It was thrilling.
He was only level 30, yet his dexterity stat already exceeded 100.
Throughout his past and present life, had there ever been a blacksmith with such growth speed?
No.
He could say with certainty that there never had been and never would be.
This achievement was only possible thanks to his regression.
‘Frankly, if I regressed and couldn’t even speedrun to this extent, I should quit the game.’
When he checked the time, the sun was already high in the sky.
He went to the refrigerator, took out a bottle of water and drank it, then lay down on the sofa.
He should have been tired, but his mind was crystal clear.
It couldn’t be helped.
Dopamine was bursting from the continuous skill growth.
He grabbed a few pieces of bread to eat and drank another bottle of water.
After resting for a while, he got up again.
This wasn’t the time to rest and take it easy.
He hadn’t come to the past sacrificing his comrades just to do that.
He immediately began preparing for the next repair skill upgrade.
‘Finally, the seventh repair skill.’
There were two growth levels remaining ahead.
Level 7 Extended Repair and Level 8 Universal Repair.
There was no level 9.
Yet the 9-star grade existed because it was a symbolic grade.
The 9-star title was only given when all job traits were raised to 8 stars.
In that sense, Choi Hyun wouldn’t be able to achieve the 9-star title in this life.
Because his crafting trait was sealed.
‘It probably doesn’t matter much. The 9-star grade itself was something people arbitrarily named anyway.’
Whatever.
What mattered wasn’t the name but the substance.
In that sense, to challenge level 7 Extended Repair, he needed a minimum of 100 dexterity stat points as a qualification.
Simply converted to levels, it meant he needed to be at least level 100.
But that qualification had just been achieved moments ago.
Now all that remained was to boldly challenge it and gladly achieve it.
‘Well, shall we begin?’
There was no reason to hesitate.
Choi Hyun immediately picked up a nearby item.
[ Barisa’s Perverse Hobby ]
– Type : Item
– Restriction : Level 20 or above
– Durability : 216/550
– Attack Power : 75
– Options :
1. Targets hit by attacks receive 50% reduced damage but experience 100% increased pain.
2. The user enters a ‘madness’ state within 24 hours if they don’t hear others’ pain-filled screams from the first use.
# Barisa felt ecstasy from torturing people and became a torture technician.
# Barisa accidentally learned a spell that reduced damage and increased pain, and cast it on his torture tools to finally complete his masterpiece.
# But Barisa didn’t know that it wasn’t a spell but a curse.
# Barisa finally completed his masterpiece and on the day he received his first long vacation to return to his hometown, the curse spread madness and led him to death.
# It’s filled with ominous energy.
# It has been appraised by an expert.
What he picked up was an awl, naturally a cursed item.
But it was a quite familiar item.
Choi Hyun’s eyes widened for a moment.
‘Huh, why is this here?’
He had just picked it up casually, but upon checking, it was an item he knew.
So he laughed.
It felt like meeting a forgotten classmate.
Commonly known as the Barisa series.
Named after the torture tools used by torture technician Barisa, as shown in the option description, it was an item specialized for torture and interrogation because targets hit by attacks received 50% reduced damage but experienced 100% increased pain.
Looking at this brought back old memories.
‘I once modified a Barisa hammer before.’
Among the torture tool series used by Barisa, there was a hand hammer, and he had once received a commission from an Anonymous Player.
The commission content was simple.
Remove the curse and maximize the damage reduction rate and pain increase rate.
Naturally, he fulfilled the request as asked, and customer satisfaction was also top-notch.
And much later, the hammer he had worked on became known as undoubtedly the best of the Barisa series.
Because he had modified it to be more faithful to torture.
But to see this here again.
Since it was still early times, cursed items had low utility and seemed to have rolled down here.
That’s why he felt slightly troubled.
Originally, he had planned to just grab any item and use it as a sacrifice for Extended Repair, but if the target was Barisa, the story changed.
‘I’ll need to pay some attention.’
If he could, he wanted to gather materials suitable for Barisa and produce the best result.
But Barisa had rolled in too coincidentally, and he had no prepared materials.
But could there be impossibilities?
No.
Materials were scattered all around, and the one currently holding Barisa was the universally acknowledged greatest blacksmith.
Choi Hyun gathered items from around the area.
He mainly collected similar awls and daggers.
They were materials for the main Barisa he would work on.
‘Well then, shall we begin?’
He grips the Hammer of Repair.
Then he checked the information of the first material item.
[ Northern Front Deserter’s Dagger ]
– Type: Item
– Restriction: Level 33 or above
– Durability: 511/730
– Attack Power: 112
– Options:
1. Targets hit by attacks suffer ‘Minor Paralysis’ effect.
2. Targets hit by attacks suffer ‘Minor Poison’ effect.
3. User enters ‘Minor Anxiety’ state while possessing the dagger.
4. User will have ‘Nightmares’ when sleeping while possessing the dagger.
# A dagger carried by a soldier who was defeated in the northern battlefield.
# He was a seasoned soldier who fought hard but was defeated, and though he survived, he suffered from aftereffects.
# Full of ominous energy.
# Has been appraised by an expert.
A dagger with a level 33 restriction.
The durability and attack power were average levels that matched that restriction, and for a cursed item, the curse options seemed weak too.
But these were by no means curse options to be ignored.
‘Rather than curse options that activate for specific actions, these activate constantly just by possessing it.’
Though it was minor anxiety, constant activation was still a troublesome curse.
Unless one’s mental strength was quite substantial, it would cause considerable damage to daily life.
But that’s exactly why it was perfect as a material item.
Having finished checking the options, I immediately began swinging the hammer.
[ Enhanced Repair activates. ]
[ Dexterity activates. ]
[ Hyper Focus activates. ]
Starting with Enhanced Repair.
As repair began, my concentration started rising, and before long, past the familiar murky colors and contour lines, grid pattern lines appeared and the next skill activated.
[ Decomposition Repair activates. ]
When Decomposition Repair activated, the grid pattern became even denser.
At the same time, various colors appeared on the blocks.
Murky color, white, black, and gold.
Gold was the color of blocks representing special options that increased damage reduction rate and pain, not curse options.
But now wasn’t the time for Decomposition Repair.
I immediately switched to the material hammer.
[ Enhanced Gathering activates. ]
Enhanced Gathering activated.
Through Enhanced Gathering, Choi Hyun removed all the blocks, almost completely disassembling the item.
After repeating the same process on several items, material blocks soon piled up abundantly.
Among them, I picked up one white block and checked its information.
[ Gathered from the Northern Front Deserter’s dagger. ]
– Type: Item
# A part of the Northern Front Deserter’s dagger.
Not much different from the white blocks I’d seen before.
But the important part was starting now.
If the previous decomposition gathering work was the basics of decomposition gathering, the work starting now was the advanced process of decomposition gathering.
‘It looks like an ordinary material block, but it’s actually not ordinary at all.’
Still, it was a white block in name.
The fact that it was only marked as “a part” without detailed description meant there was still much work to be done.
I switched the material hammer to the very small hammer from before.
Then I sat down and slowly began tapping the block.
Tap tap tap-
I handled it carefully, like dealing with curse blocks.
One block glowing softly and white.
However, after tapping it for a long time, the familiar contour lines from repair work began to appear.
The corners of Choi Hyun’s mouth turned up.
The advanced process of decomposition gathering wasn’t discovered from the beginning.
To manifest the additional effects of each blacksmith trait skill, different conditions existed for each, and most required Dexterity stats.
In that sense, Choi Hyun’s current Dexterity stat was 100, so he could naturally manifest additional effects like decomposition gathering.
‘That’s why I raised my gathering skill level instead of raising my processing skill level further.’
Curved contour lines appeared on the material block, then soon straight lines were drawn.
They were decomposition lines.
Once the decomposition lines were set, I now tapped the surface rather than the lines.
Then, before long, the material block split cleanly into two pieces.
[ Gathering completed. ]
[ Gathering successful. ]
Success notification.
I immediately checked the information of the split pieces.
[ Decomposition gathered from a part of the Northern Front Deserter’s dagger. ]
– Type: Item
# Decomposition gathered from a part of the Northern Front Deserter’s dagger.
# Usage restriction of level 33 or above occurs. (1/2)
One additional option.
Seeing that, the corners of Choi Hyun’s mouth curved into an arc.
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