The Cursed Blacksmith Who Regressed - Chapter 66

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Episode 66

Choi Hyun’s explanation continued.

“Weapons are inherently finicky by nature. Custom-made weapons especially so. Now, if it’s just normal-level strength, it doesn’t really matter much, you know? But awakened ones like us aren’t really ordinary people—we exert power close to superhuman levels.”

“Oh…”

“So each individual stat has an enormous impact. That’s why the best thing to do, especially for hunters who handle weapons based on strength stats, is to have their weapons adjusted every time their stats change.”

“Ah… I had no idea.”

“It’s understandable that you wouldn’t know. Most people don’t know about this stuff. Only people like us would know. But now that you do know, you need to keep paying attention to it. Because Ha-geom, you’re a top-tier domestic swordsman and now a member of Paragon Guild.”

“Understood. But realistically, having to get my weapon adjusted every time a single stat goes up seems like quite a troublesome matter, which worries me. My weapon is also custom-made, so from design to production, it took over six months.”

Choi Hyun nodded.

He understood his troubles.

That’s how the industry situation is at this point in time.

Once you become a high-ranking ranker, everyone stops worrying about money.

So ideally, they’d want to entrust their work only to overseas craftsmen, but the more renowned the craftsman, the more backed up their reservations are.

So as a compromise, he entrusted it to the best domestic production craftsman, and even that took over six months.

But realistically, six months was enough time to raise several stats.

Choi Hyun said with a smile.

“I know. The demanding conditions. But it’s fine now. I’m here, aren’t I? You know what level my repair skill is, right?”

“Ah? But that’s repair, not production, isn’t it?”

“When repair skill reaches around level 7, it becomes virtually no different from production. I’ll prove it to you.”

Choi Hyun immediately took out the hammer of repair and began hammering.

[ Enhanced Repair activates. ]

[ Dexterity activates. ]

[ Ultra Focus activates. ]

[ Disassembly Repair activates. ]

As he hammered, skills activated.

The sword began glowing white, and soon disassembly lines appeared.

‘If I had my way, I’d want to redesign it entirely to match his current level of 87.’

Unfortunately, to upgrade an 80-level weapon to level 87, he needed a weapon of that level.

Because even if you disassemble and combine two level 80 weapons, they’re the same level so it stays the same.

So what should he do?

Simple.

This weapon’s problem is weight.

So he just needs to change the materials composing the sword to heavier ones.

As disassembly lines appeared, the block colors began to differentiate.

There were no murky colors.

Being a custom-made product, it meant they put their heart and soul into making it.

‘It’s not just anyone’s order, but Kim Ha-geom’s. At minimum, money wasn’t a concern.’

So that means they did their best with the design and spared no expense on materials.

He immediately switched hammers.

It was the hammer of materials.

He began hammering.

[ Dexterity activates. ]

[ Ultra Focus activates. ]

[ Enhanced Gathering activates. ]

As he began hammering along the gathering lines, the weapon started disassembling.

He disassembled it neatly like filleting a fish.

The disassembled sword completely came apart as if dissolving.

Actually, since he was only going to adjust the weight a bit, there was no need to disassemble everything like this, but he deliberately put on a show since Kim Ha-geom was watching.

Sure enough, Kim Ha-geom watched from beside him with sparkling eyes.

Eventually, Choi Hyun, who finished the first disassembly work, picked up one white block that composed most of the body and measured its weight.

Naturally, it was hand-weighing without a scale.

That’s fine.

Who was Choi Hyun, after all?

He was none other than humanity’s greatest and strongest max-level blacksmith, sent after much deliberation.

So in his field at least, he had reached a level that no one else could follow.

This trivial weight measurement?

No scale needed.

Hand-weighing would do.

Of course, very delicate work would require one, but for something like this, well.

After finishing the weight measurement, he opened his inventory.

Now it was time to find new materials.

Actually, since he hadn’t thought there would be problems with the weapon, he hadn’t prepared additional materials.

But going out now would look bad.

So even if he solved it, he had to solve it with what he had.

Naturally, he had a plan.

He had already finished calculating in his head when he said he’d look at the sword.

The first thing that caught his eye was the scales of Geumgang Agwi.

The creature that appeared as the Growth Tower boss.

The scales obtained from killing that creature numbered a whopping 12.

He checked the information again.

[ Geumgang Agwi’s Scale ]

– Type : Item

# The scale of Geumgang Agwi, who reigned as the boss of the Growth Tower’s final floor.

# Its hardness transcends imagination.

The phrase attached to the last line of the description.

Hardness that transcends imagination.

Indeed, from experience, the hardness transcended imagination.

He had spent a full 12 hours striking with all his might, after all.

But if you asked whether it was heavy, that wasn’t the case.

‘Light yet hard? This is top-grade material indeed.’

But even such top-grade materials only get treated as top-grade when they’re useful depending on the situation.

In the current situation, it was completely useless.

What he needed was weight.

The next things that caught his eye were Whispering Darkness and Barisa, along with the silent sword and shield sword.

There was also the complete sword, but being basic supply equipment, he could never expect any substantial weight from it.

Barisa was the same.

He had barely made it to supreme quality, so there was nothing more to touch.

And due to the nature of torture devices, if they’re too heavy, they become inconvenient to use.

So the remaining candidates naturally became two.

The shield sword and silent sword.

He checked the information for both.

[ Wandering Knight’s Sword ]

– Type : Item

– Restriction : Level 40 or above. *However, all usage restrictions disappear in the Growth Tower.

– Durability : 1,755/1,755(1350+405)

– Attack Power : 253.5(195+58.5)

– Option : When using swordsmanship-related skills, additional power increases by 10%

# The sword used by the Wandering Knight, gatekeeper of the 40th Floor of the Growth Tower.

# Unnecessary elements were removed by an excellent blacksmith, reducing its size but improving its performance.

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

[ Gray Color Swordsman’s Sword ]

– Type : Item

– Restriction : Level 60 or higher. *However, all usage restrictions are removed in the Growth Tower.

– Durability : 2,600/2,600(2,000+600)

– Attack Power : 390(300+90)

– Options :

1. When using swordsmanship-related skills, additional power increases by 10%

2. Skill ‘Super Strong Strike’ can be used.

# A sword used by the Gray Color Swordsman, gatekeeper of the 49th Floor of the Growth Tower.

# It has been perfectly repaired by an excellent blacksmith and some performance has been improved.

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

Both only had 30% buff effects applied.

Because they were items he hadn’t touched since finishing the combination repair.

And there was no occasion to use them due to level restrictions.

Of course, he could use the Defense Sword after reaching level 40, but most enemies were handled with just the Sword Hammer, so why bother?

The Defense Sword and Gray Sword were similar in size.

He picked them up to check their weight.

Naturally, the Gray Sword was heavier.

‘I knew it would be you.’

After switching hammers again, this time he struck the Gray Sword.

[ Enhanced Repair is activated. ]

[ Dexterity is activated. ]

[ Super Focus is activated. ]

[ Disassembly Repair is activated. ]

Soon disassembly lines appeared, so he switched hammers again.

[ Dexterity is activated. ]

[ Super Focus is activated. ]

[ Enhanced Gathering is activated. ]

Once the conditions were complete, he began disassembling the Gray Sword like filleting fish.

With the disassembly work finished, now it was time to combine the white blocks from each sword into one.

He placed the Origin Sword fragment below and the Gray Sword fragment on top.

Clang clang clang!

[ Enhanced Processing is activated. ]

[ Processing is complete. ]

[ Processing successful. ]

It succeeded easily.

He checked the information.

[ Something gathered from the Origin Sword. ]

– Type : Item

# A part of the Origin Sword.

A simple description.

However, there was a change.

The weight.

It had become much heavier compared to the fragment he first gathered.

And another change.

The fragment’s color had changed from white to a murky color.

The reason was simple.

‘This was designed for Kim Ha-geom at level 80, but this material fragment is too heavy for that blueprint.’

In other words, it was a material that completely didn’t match the blueprint’s intention.

So it was judged as unnecessary and treated as an ‘impurity’, causing the color change.

But at this moment, it wasn’t an unnecessary impurity.

This was the main character.

Choi Hyun asked Kim Ha-geom how much his strength stat had increased compared to level 80, then added new fragments by eye measurement.

Then when he felt it was about right, he began the combining work again.

Of course, he didn’t just simply combine them, but properly distributed the newly added materials and balanced the weight distribution well.

Clang clang clang!

Hammering.

And.

[ Repair is complete. ]

[ Repair successful. ]

[ Due to Enhanced Repair’s effect, the target has been completely repaired and some options have been improved. ]

A notification appeared.

However, the notification that would normally appear.

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

This notification did not appear.

The reason was one.

Because heavy materials different from the designer’s intention were included.

Choi Hyun then restored the disassembled Gray Sword back to its original state.

Of course, the size had shrunk a bit.

Because that much material had been extracted.

It was fine.

He could work on it again later.

Once the cleanup was finished, Choi Hyun checked the information of the newly repaired Origin Sword and handed it to Kim Ha-geom.

“Try holding it.”

“Yes, thank you.”

And.

“…!”

Kim Ha-geom’s eyes widened.

Then he carefully swung it.

“Wow.”

Kim Ha-geom couldn’t help but get goosebumps all over his body.

Seeing that expression, Choi Hyun asked.

“How is it?”

“Wow, it’s perfect….”

At Kim Ha-geom’s answer, Choi Hyun chuckled.

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