The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 132

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Chapter 132
Chapter 132
The soldiers of Red Beast Fortress had a saying among themselves.
“This isn’t a fortress at all—it’s a museum, I’m telling you.”
“Right. Red Beast Museum.”
“But at least items in a museum are properly maintained. This place isn’t even that, is it?”
Red Beast Fortress was not a fortress—it was Red Beast Museum.
The reason such talk circulated was, of course, due to the weapons of Red Beast Fortress.
Archaic ballistas whose creation date remained unknown.
Catapults so crudely constructed one might wonder if the soldiers had built them themselves due to lack of supplies.
Magical cannons with their enchantment circles completely faded, more than half of them rendered inoperable.
The overall condition of Red Beast Fortress was simply too decrepit.
“If we just got breached once, they’d finally snap to attention and provide proper support.”
“It’s the old story—they’ll fix the barn only after the cow is lost.”
The irony was that Red Beast Fortress defended so effectively against monsters that support kept dwindling.
Yet the soldiers of Red Beast Fortress continued their battles in such circumstances.
“Good heavens, what is this?”
“It’s completely brand new!”
“Look at how taut the bowstring is.”
“The magical cannons are repaired too?”
“I think this is the first time since I arrived here that all the magical cannons are operational.”
“Same here.”
The weapons of Red Beast Fortress were being repaired.
More than that—they looked as though they had just been freshly forged, brand new.
And that was not all.
“You repaired the bows too?”
“Not just the bows—practically all the equipment has been restored.”
“Good heavens, is there even such magic?”
“I heard it wasn’t magic at all—he repaired them directly by swinging a hammer.”
“Come on, that can’t be right! He must have used some kind of magic that involves wielding a hammer!”
The distinctive longbows of Red Beast Fortress.
All of them—with broken bows, stretched or snapped bowstrings—had been fully repaired.
Since most of the critical defensive armor had also been repaired, the soldiers felt even more reassured.
“That’s remarkable. Isn’t this essentially the same as repairing Red Beast Fortress itself?”
“Of course it is.”
“With this, we won’t worry tomorrow. No, we won’t worry for hundreds of years!”
“I agree. Now I understand why His Majesty the Emperor granted Mir, the Grand Sage, the rank of Baron—the first adventurer ever to receive such an honor!”
Red Beast Fortress was being restored to normalcy.
The soldiers who had worried about the massive assault coming tomorrow felt their anxiety vanish completely.
And so, when Red Beast Fortress gleamed like something brand new.
“Is it finally over?”
“You must be exhausted. You’ve essentially repaired the entire Red Beast Fortress single-handedly.”
“Even for a Grand Sage, they say it’s dangerous to overexert mana like that. I hope you haven’t worn yourself out.”
“Hey, come with me and help carry some arrows!”
“Arrows? What do we need arrows for?”
“The Sage Mir asked us to bring them!”
“The Sage Mir requested it? Then we’d better get moving right away!”
New orders had naturally begun flowing from Mir, who was now called the Sage rather than the Marquis.
Standard arrows, ballista bolts, magical cannon shells, catapult stones—everything and anything.
At the command to gather all consumables used for long-range attacks.
“Move!”
The soldiers began bustling about urgently.
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“I’m grateful. You’ve restored the Red Beast Fortress to pristine condition. If I hadn’t witnessed you wielding that hammer, I would have sworn it was pure magic.”
“It was a necessary step to hold back the beasts tomorrow.”
“To see you leading the charge in service of the Empire itself. Now I understand His Majesty the Emperor’s foresight. Mir, I shall report every single one of your Achievements to the Imperial Court without omission.”
Lionheart Marquis grasped my hand, expressing his gratitude.
The eldest son of the Lionheart Family has guarded the Red Beast Fortress for generations, and it seems that since Gareon Lionheart’s arrival, this is the first time the fortress has been seen in such pristine condition.
While I’m doing this to complete the Quest, if the Empire reports favorably, I might receive additional rewards—so it’s beneficial for me either way.
And then.
“Sage Mir! We’ve brought them!”
As I’d requested, the soldiers gathered the Red Beast Fortress’s consumables.
Arrows, shells, stones—everything.
The quantity was far greater than I’d anticipated.
“What are you planning to do with those? They’re not broken, so there shouldn’t be any need to repair them.”
“Repair is difficult, but enhancement is possible.”
“Enhancement?”
I picked up one ballista bolt first.
True to its purpose, it was several times longer and thicker than a standard arrow.
Then, using the engraving tools I’d received from Luke.
– Activating the skill ‘Magical Enchantment’.
I began inscribing runes and magical circles onto the bolt’s shaft.
Just as I’d previously used Magical Enchantment on mana stones at the Cliff to fell the Orc Legion.
The difference being that the bolt’s shaft, unlike a mana stone, had a small cylindrical structure, making it difficult to inscribe runes and magical circles.
‘This much is second nature to me.’
That was a problem I could solve through skill and experience.
Magical Enchantment allows me to imbue even high-level magic regardless of what magic I can use myself.
However, the success rate becomes extremely low.
When I enchanted the mana stones with fifth-circle Explosion at the Cliff, most of them failed, didn’t they?
Back then, I only needed the explosive force of the mana stones, so even if the enchantment failed, it didn’t matter—but I enchanted them with Explosion regardless.
[ Magic enchantment successful. ]
[ Judgment: Critical Success ]
[ Fire Burst Ballista Arrow ]
Not yet.
I imbued it with Fire Burst, a safe third-circle fire magic that I can wield myself.
This way, there’s no risk of failure, and the enchantment process accelerates.
Since I need to enchant thousands upon thousands of consumables immediately, it was better to stick with this rather than recklessly attempting higher-circle magic.
Though this work does require a considerable amount of mana stone powder.
“Here it is!”
“We’ve gathered all the mana stones obtained from defeating monsters, so you needn’t worry!”
The Red Beast Fortress contained an enormous quantity of mana stones.
The soldiers would crush them into fine powder and bring it to me, and I would simply use it to perform the enchantments.
Thanks to that, I could continue enchanting without concern for mana stone supplies.
[ The skill level of ‘Magic Enchantment’ has increased. ]
As a result, my Magic Enchantment skill level rose rapidly.
While I continued my work.
With the soldiers merely tilting their heads in confusion, the Lionheart Marquis could no longer contain his curiosity and asked me.
“Mir, Viscount. May I ask what you’re doing right now?”
It seemed the Marquis and the soldiers of the Red Beast Fortress didn’t understand much about magic enchantment or enchanting.
Even if I explained magic enchantment and enchanting here, it would be difficult for them to comprehend.
“Why don’t you fire one and see?”
“Hmm, very well.”
“I’ll fire it!”
I had them try firing one directly.
A soldier, curious, grabbed one of the enchanted arrows I’d finished and dashed over to the ballista.
Marveling at how much better the ballista had become, he loaded the arrow into it.
“Firing now!”
He pulled the trigger.
Whoosh!
The ballista arrow shot forth with tremendous force.
Yet from the moment it took flight, the arrow seemed far from ordinary.
Subtle flames bloomed from the arrowhead, leaving a fiery trail in the arrow’s wake.
The instant the arrow embedded itself in the ground.
Boom!
“Whoa!”
The ballista arrow erupted in flames and exploded.
Compared to the previous mana stone detonation, it was pathetic, but hardly negligible in power.
Imagine if that arrow had lodged itself in a monster’s body before detonating like that.
Surely, any ordinary monster would perish in agony with its insides charred to ash.
The Marquis, too, recognized this.
“…Impressive.”
I couldn’t help but marvel.
“The fortress contains a substantial quantity of mana stones, so we should be able to craft a sufficient supply of magically-enchanted arrows.”
“Is that so?”
“Arrows have a smaller surface area, so the explosion was less potent, but we can inscribe far more powerful magic onto siege projectiles and catapult ammunition.”
Tomorrow, the beasts’ full assault would descend upon us.
I needed to prepare thoroughly.
Besides, I wasn’t spending my own resources—merely investing time with materials already at hand, so there was no loss.
Though one could argue that spending time itself is a loss.
[ Skill ‘Enchantment’ level has increased. ]
Thanks to this work, I could raise my Enchantment skill level.
If I thought of it as skill level training, there was no problem.
‘I can’t inscribe each regular arrow individually.’
Of course, I couldn’t carve runes and magical circles onto every consumable item.
With regular arrows, there were simply too many, and the arrow shaft was too small—even for me, precision engraving was difficult.
So instead of carving each one individually,
– I use the skill ‘Enchantment’.
I sprinkle mana stone powder over bundles of arrows and cast Enchantment all at once.
While this reduced the efficiency of Enchantment, weakening the magic inscribed on each individual arrow, it allowed me to enchant vast quantities of items simultaneously.
As I continued enchanting amid everyone’s anticipation,
an unexpected System Message appeared before me.
[ Skill ‘Enchantment’ level has increased. ]
[ Three or more production-type skills have exceeded level 10. ]
[ The hidden trait of Omni Mastery is manifesting. ]
[ All production-type skill experience is integrated into the ‘Omni Mastery’ skill. ]
[ All production-type skills are now synchronized with ‘Omni Mastery’ skill level. ]
“What?”
An unexpectedly long message.
Reading carefully at the mention of Omni Mastery’s hidden trait,
“The skill levels are synchronized?”
I was startled by the implications.
Production-type skill levels synchronized with Omni Mastery’s skill level?
That meant all my production-type skills—
Not just Enchantment, Repair, Alchemy, Logging, and Crafting, but even the rarely-used Cooking and Fishing skills with their low levels—
Would all match my ‘Omni Mastery+’ skill level?
For reference, my current Omni Mastery skill level was
[ Omni Mastery+ Lv 36 ]
A staggering level 36.
A skill level that typically required a player wielding only a single weapon to reach level 360 to achieve.
In other words, all my production-type skills would now be level 36.
As proof of that.
– I activate the skill ‘Enchantment’.
Whoosh!
The speed of the Enchantment skill I’m using now has increased dramatically.
The performance of the finished products has risen significantly as well.
I’d been struggling with the shortage of time to level up skills, given that the number of production-type skills kept increasing.
Who would have thought that all my production-type skill levels would be unified like this?
This couldn’t be better.
‘If this is the case, I could do other things too?’
I’d planned to finish my work by enchanting consumables due to time constraints.
But now things are different.
Since the speed of Enchantment has increased, I should finish it quickly and….
‘Should I make more potions?’
If I use alchemy with the leftover monster materials at Red Beast Fortress?
I could create potions that would help with tomorrow’s battle.
The hidden trait of the All Master that manifested unexpectedly.
Smiling at that trait, I
“Could you bring me more materials?”
“Yes!”
Finding enjoyment in production-type skills, I began using Enchantment at an even faster pace.

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