The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 142

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Chapter 142
Chapter 142
“Even with this, you still don’t believe me?”
“No, I believe you. I do believe you. So put that sword down and let’s talk.”
Fortunately, Brak chose to trust my words.
Well, though he seemed half-skeptical about it.
At the very least, he was nodding his head on the surface.
“So you’re saying you really defeated the evil god that appeared at the Red Beast Fortress?”
“It was only possible thanks to the assistance of the Red Beast Fortress.”
“Sigh….”
Brak exhaled deeply and continued speaking.
“To be honest, I’m still half-convinced, but let’s say I believe what you’re telling me. Still….”
Brak shook his head.
“If I go back and say I only brought one person, I can already imagine what the elders will say. And there’s no way to make them believe that I defeated an evil god. Sigh.”
I understood Brak’s concern.
However, I did have proof that I had defeated the evil god.
“Would this suffice as evidence?”
“What are you talking about?”
It was none other than.
[ Hide of the Red Beast God’s Emissary ]
“Huh?”
It was the hide I obtained after defeating the Red Lion.
Had it been someone else, they would have tilted their head in confusion, asking “What is this?”
But Brak, proving himself a dwarf even as a warrior, immediately recognized the identity of the hide I produced.
“Wait, don’t tell me this is the hide of the evil god you defeated? No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem ordinary. Even the legendary-grade materials stored in Moeldum couldn’t compare to this!”
“It is the hide of the Red Beast God.”
“The Red Beast God! You really did defeat an evil god? Even seeing it with my own two eyes, it’s hard to believe. Still, this hide itself seems genuine….”
Brak pondered for a moment, but his doubt didn’t last long.
The hide I had produced was far too clear evidence that I had defeated an evil god.
Those ignorant of evil gods might not understand, but it seemed Brak possessed considerable knowledge about them as well.
And given that an evil god had apparently appeared near Moeldum, the dwarves’ city, he could be all the more certain.
“Fine then. At least you’ve fought an evil god before, so you’ll be useful. If things go south, I can always go complain to your Emperor.”
In any case, this finally allowed us to depart for Moeldum.
But then.
“Are you planning to walk there?”
“What else, fly? Come on, keep up! It’s going to take a while to reach Moeldum!”
Brak finished his preparations for departure, slinging his pack across his back.
My memories and the actual location might differ, but if my recollection was correct, it should be quite far from Labelt.
And yet he intended to travel there on foot.
‘Well, dwarves never had good affinity with animals, even back at First.’
Unlike elves, dwarves possessed an affinity for animals that didn’t merely fall short—it plummeted into the negatives.
Training a horse would have been impossible.
So he had no choice but to walk.
Imagining those stubby legs trudging all the way to Labelt filled me with an unexpected pang of sympathy.
For Brak’s sake.
[ Horse Whistle – Lispe ]
“Neeeigh!”
“Oh! You startled me!”
I blew the horse whistle and summoned Lispe, the sole-ranked mount restricted to level 200.
Brak initially refused to board, insisting he’d walk instead.
But when I forced him onto the saddle once,
“Ooooh!”
he was utterly mesmerized by the rushing landscape.
“This is incredible! How can a living creature—not even a machine—carry two riders and gallop this smoothly?”
“If you move like that, Lispe won’t be pleased.”
“Really? That’s inconvenient. Unlike machines, I have to worry about the mount’s feelings too.”
A thoroughly dwarven assessment.
Anyway, I asked Brak which direction we should head.
“You seem to have defeated the Evil God, but I’m not entirely certain yet. I can’t carelessly reveal Moeldum’s location.”
He clearly had no intention of revealing the coordinates.
He simply wanted me to follow the direction he pointed.
I decided to probe Brak with a question.
The region where dwarves had dwelled during the First era.
Though the terrain had shifted and even the place names had changed, if the location remained the same…
“Could it be beneath the Torg Stone Field?”
I suspected it might be here.
“What?! How did you know that!”
I’d guessed correctly.
But shouldn’t he have been more guarded when reacting to such a probing question?
True to his dwarven nature, his emotions were transparently written across his face.
“Then we’ll head this way. It seems faster.”
“Neeeigh!”
“Wait, how did you know that!”
Ignoring Brak’s protests, I urged Lispe toward the Torg Stone Field.
Of course, the distance was too great to arrive instantly.
Even feeding Lispe vitality potions and maintaining a steady gallop, we couldn’t reach it immediately—we had to rest periodically along the way.
Especially
“Ugh! Why is the motion sickness so bad! Tell it to go slower!”
“Lispe is relatively stable, I assure you.”
“This? Compared to Moeldum’s automated carriages, it’s nothing but a heap of scrap metal!”
“Compared to a carriage running on rails, it’s naturally going to be more unstable. If a carriage ran on this dirt road, it would shake more than Lispe, wouldn’t it?”
“That’s… ugh!”
Brak’s motion sickness slowed our pace even further.
I’d given him a status ailment recovery potion, so his nausea and dizziness should have been cured.
But it seemed he simply couldn’t endure horseback riding itself, separate from any status ailment.
For Brak’s sake,
– I activated the Cooking skill.
I even personally prepared a proper meal using my Cooking skill.
“…I’d rather ride that beast of a horse all the way to Moeldum in one go and bear the motion sickness than eat something like this.”
Humans and dwarves clearly had different standards when it came to taste.
Seeing how he evaluated my cooking that way—and my skill level was no joke.
‘I even added plenty of ingredients specifically to prevent status ailments.’
I tried to feed some to Lispe, but as a horse, she seemed to dislike human cooking and refused it.
Luke also stubbornly refused, saying he didn’t dare eat my cooking, so I had no choice but to eat it all myself.
Then we set off again.
Continuing at this pace,
[ Torg Stone Field ]
we finally arrived at the Torg Stone Field.
“Bleuuuurgh.”
The moment Brak dismounted, he vomited violently.
His condition was terrible—he’d insisted we couldn’t afford to rest since time was of the essence, so we’d ridden hard the entire way.
I patted his back gently, and Brak regained his composure, wiping his mouth roughly.
“Don’t worry about it. Let’s keep moving. Time is critical.”
“Right.”
After that, I focused on climbing through the stone field.
It seemed simple enough, but the Torg Stone Field was no ordinary rocky terrain.
“Hey, be careful. The Torg Stone Field is rich in mana, so powerful golems spawn here.”
It was a hunting ground where fairly high-level golems appeared.
That was the Torg Stone Field.
Sure enough, as we walked a bit further into the stone field,
“Grrrrrrrrck—”
a golem appeared.
With a grating sound like scraping stone, the golem emerged—a massive creature easily over three meters tall.
Well, avoiding a sluggish golem wouldn’t be difficult.
“Here it comes!”
Brak was different.
With Brak’s running speed, he couldn’t escape the golem, and besides, he didn’t seem to have any intention of running.
“Since you’ve never seen a Torg Stone Field golem before, I’ll teach you how to beat it!”
Brak confidently drew his battle hammer.
I focused on his next words, curious if there was some special strategy that only dwarves knew.
“The golem’s weakness is this large, sturdy hammer! The only way to defeat it is to pound it to dust with the hammer!”
I can only hear what barely qualifies as a strategy.
‘It’s true that blunt force is effective against golems, but….’
Sharp weapons like spears and swords don’t work against golems.
Of course, if the weapon were sharp enough to actually cleave through a golem, it would work.
But when you try to cut a golem with a spear or sword of similar level, you only damage the weapon’s durability without dealing proper damage—that’s why the saying arose that blunt weapons are a golem’s weakness.
However, blunt weapons aren’t a golem’s true weakness.
Whoosh!
“Huh? Hey, what are you doing! What do you think you’ll accomplish with your bare hands!”
Before Brak could waste his strength, I charged toward the golem first.
Thud!
I easily evaded the Stone Golem’s sluggish attack.
In an instant, I closed in on the golem’s body and placed my palm against its chest.
– Using 3rd Circle Earth Magic ‘Ground Wave’.
I cast the spell.
Ground Wave—magic that makes the ground undulate, creating a minor earthquake to destabilize an enemy’s balance.
Normally it can only be used on living creatures and requires solid ground, but it can be used on non-living entities like golems.
“Grrrrrrrrr—.”
The golem’s body convulsed from the magic, letting out a groaning sound.
Its stone body couldn’t withstand the vibrations, and cracks began to form.
Through those fissures, I could faintly see the golem’s mana core.
Through that gap—
[ Damascus Kingdom Knight’s Sword ]
Thunk!
I thrust the longsword through.
“Grrr….”
The Stone Golem, which seemed like it would move forever, lost its strength and crumbled to the ground.
Brak, who had been watching, asked me with a dumbfounded expression.
“What, what is this? You, you can use magic too?”
“The way to defeat a golem isn’t with blunt weapons like that. It’s with magic.”
“Dwarves can’t use magic!”
I thought it was over, but it wasn’t.
“Grrrrrrrrr—.”
“What? Even in a stone field, golems don’t appear this many at once like this?”
Golems appeared in succession.
Two of them, no less.
“I’ll handle one!”
Brak hurriedly gripped his hammer and prepared for battle, but—
“It’s fine.”
I didn’t seem to need Brak’s help to deal with two golems.
[Iron Hammer of the Breaker]
(Non-Tradeable)
Type: Hammer
Grade: Epic
Requirements: Level 220 or higher, Hammer Mastery Lv 20 or higher, Strength 700 or higher
Description: The iron hammer of a certain eccentric known to have shattered everything in sight.
I spoke to Luke and drew out an Epic-grade hammer.
Moments ago, I had deliberately approached barehanded to demonstrate the pure power of magic, then thrust my blade through the cracks to shatter the golem’s core.
But in truth, I knew a far more efficient method to neutralize the golem.
And that was.
– I activate the 3rd Circle earth magic ‘Ground Wave’.
Using Arcane Blade to imbue the Ground Wave spell into my weapon.
Then I dash forward at speed.
Crack!
When I swing the hammer against the sluggish Stone Golem’s chest.
Crunch, crunch, crunch!
The physical damage from the blunt strike combines with the magical damage from the spell, spreading throughout the golem’s entire body.
The stones composing the golem’s form fracture, the cracks warping and distorting.
Unable to withstand the impact.
Snap!
The core hidden within the golem shatters.
That seemingly solid golem crumbles to dust in a single blow.
A method I couldn’t use back at First, since I was unable to cast magic then.
With magic properly at my disposal, this seemed to be the most efficient strategy for dealing with golems.
The other golem, which had just fallen and was now swinging its fist at me as if to say it would destroy me alongside its companion.
– I activate the 3rd Circle earth magic ‘Ground Wave’.
With a single blunt strike using Arcane Blade, I brought it crashing down.
“What the….”
The more this happened, the wider Brak’s mouth gaped behind me in astonishment.

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