The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 39

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Chapter 39

[Broken Soul Stone Fragment]

The Ego Sword that Jung Hoon brought had completely lost its power.

So even after going through the Advanced Decomposition process, the broken Soul Stone Fragment couldn’t be restored.

“Hmm, this won’t be usable.”

Materials need to be intact to be usable.

He had some expectations since it was called an Ego Sword, but it turned out to be a fragment so broken that it couldn’t be reused.

Originally, to possess self-awareness, a complete Soul Stone would need to be embedded, but a fragment of this level was too pathetic to even be called an ego.

Was he perhaps disappointed?

Heirn watched Jung Hoon’s expression carefully.

But Jung Hoon had a smile on his lips.

“This is sufficient.”

“…Is that so?”

“As promised, I’ll definitely spread the word for you.”

Heiron’s face brightened.

“You promise?!”

“Yes.”

The promise would be kept.

[Advanced Decomposition successful! *User is the first to decompose ‘Forgotten Intermediate Knight’s One-Handed Sword’ and extract Soul Stone Fragment.]

An announcement was immediately posted across all New World servers.

It wasn’t a major Achievement, so it wouldn’t be posted separately on the New World Homepage, but just having a server-wide announcement appear in chat while playing was enough to spread the word.

[Whisper/zl존하진12 -> 훈 : Hey! What the fuck is this? Did you know about this when you asked me to buy it?]

See.

There’s already a reaction.

[Whisper/Hun -> zl존하진12 : Yeah, that’s right.]

[Whisper/zl존하진12 -> 훈 : Wow… damn, I went into the auction house and all the one-handed swords you brought are sold out.]

[Whisper/Hun -> zl존하진12 : That’ll probably go up a lot ㅋㅋ]

[Whisper/zl존하진12 -> 훈 : Yeah~ I figured you would, so I bought one too.]

[Whisper/Hun -> zl존하진12 : You better be grateful.]

He had casually mentioned it to Ha Jin when she was returning with the Evolution Stone, and it seems she bought one immediately after going back.

[Whisper/zl존하진12 -> 훈 : Where the hell do you pick up all this stuff? It’s really amazing.]

[Whisper/Hun -> zl존하진12 : You got lucky. So what are you going to do about that?]

[Whisper/zl존하진12 -> 훈 : Hmm… I should sell it, right? I don’t need soul stone fragments.]

[Whisper/Hun -> zl존하진12 : Got it. By the way, that’s going to go over 1,500 gold later.]

[Whisper/zl존하진12 -> 훈 : Huh, it went up that much?]

The price of the Forgotten Intermediate Knight’s One-Handed Sword would jump to 1,700 Gold.

And it would maintain that price too.

[Whisper/Hun -> zl존하진12 : That’s what I expect.]

Of course, it would take quite some time for the price to maintain at that level.

Even though Soul Stone Fragments could be extracted, they were too worn to be reusable.

Right now there are no one-handed swords available due to the announcement, but before long, one-handed swords would be listed again.

Still, the reason it would rise to 1,700 Gold was because the restoration method would spread.

‘Should I try restoring it now?’

Now it was time to restore this Soul Stone Fragment.

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Earth Korea User Management Team.

The staff members were staring at their monitor screens with surprised eyes.

“Wait… that was an Ego Sword?”

“Weapons with self-awareness should require at least level 300, right?”

“This is crazy… But isn’t that an unusable fragment?”

“He’s not going to restore even that, is he?”

While it’s impossible through normal methods, New World players have something called cheats.

That’s the Achievement system.

And this user successfully restored the Red Dragon Bone Bow using cheats.

He’s a user who has only shown miraculous gameplay so far.

So wouldn’t he know a way to restore the Broken Soul Stone Fragment?

“That’s impossible.”

Oh Jin Su shook his head.

Soul Stones can only be obtained when you advance to villages above level 300.

While obtaining the fragment was certainly a remarkable Achievement, restoring a broken fragment was impossible.

“Come on, wouldn’t it be possible for such an out-of-spec existence?”

One staff member asked with a curious expression.

“How about we make a bet then?”

Oh Jin Su chuckled and suggested a wager.

“A bet?”

“Yeah. We’ll bet on whether this user will restore it or not, and whoever loses buys coffee for the winner for a month.”

“Whoa! You must be really confident…?”

Oh Jin Su’s nickname was Salt.

King Salt, to be precise.

It was a nickname he earned for being famous for never letting money leave his pocket once it entered, and never making frivolous purchases.

For someone like him to make a bet, it would be impossible unless he was quite confident.

“Still, doesn’t it seem possible?”

“Hmm, certainly….”

The employees imagined the user’s past gameplay.

Although they had the constraint of not being able to directly play New World and couldn’t experience it firsthand, from their position of watching countless users play until now, it was an undeniable fact that this user was an existence beyond the norm.

Such a user had obtained even the Soul Stone Fragment with lightning speed.

Didn’t that mean there was some method?

“It’ll be impossible. To obtain a Soul Stone itself, you’d need to be at least level 300, right?”

Usually, weapons with embedded consciousness exceeded level 300.

Even then, they were extremely rare items that appeared only around 5 times worldwide.

“Ah, is that so…?”

The employees’ attitude changed with that single statement.

They seemed to understand why Oh Jin Su was so confident.

“I’ll bet on ‘cannot restore.'”

When he drove the nail in completely, the employees naturally gravitated toward Oh Jin Su’s opinion.

“Then I’ll bet on ‘can restore.'”

The employees who boldly chose the opposite side totaled 4 people.

And they were all newcomers who hadn’t been at Earth Korea for long.

“What, why did you guys bet on that side?”

“Just because we have nothing to lose.”

“Really? You might not know if you’ll lose?”

When you join Earth Korea, your basic salary starts in the hundreds of millions.

These weren’t newcomers who would be constrained by money.

‘Those guys are deliberately trying to look out for us.’

At first glance it seemed like attention-seeking behavior, but the seniors viewed their actions favorably.

Since there were no employees choosing the ‘can restore’ option in Oh Jin Su’s bet, they had tactfully chosen the ‘can restore’ option.

“Wow… that’s going to cost a lot in coffee money.”

“That’s right.”

“It’s fine. The juniors are supposed to sacrifice anyway….”

That thought was correct.

They also agreed with Oh Jin Su’s opinion, but had tactfully chosen the opposite option.

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Jung Hoon entered the Achievement shop.

His current Achievement points were 23,000.

Now he would use these points to restore the Soul Stone Fragment.

The materials needed to restore the Red Dragon Bone Bow were the Mysterious Hourglass, Sacred Lubricant, Restoration Powder, and Fusion Potion.

What he created with those was Unique Restoration Powder.

However, this Soul Stone Fragment doesn’t respond to Restoration Powder.

[Got it! Holy shit, figured out how to restore the broken soul stone fragments lololol]

-The answer was in the Achievement shop… Wow, you have to go with this kind of combination for restoration to work. It was such a simple method.

A single post that appeared on Welcome.

That post began the craze for the ‘Forgotten Intermediate Knight’s One-Handed Sword.’

It was because it was a post about restoring Soul Stone Fragments to make them reusable.

And as users who succeeded in restoring fragments using that post appeared, the one-handed sword immediately rose to 1,700 Gold.

└Ah, but with fragments you can’t really call it an ego weapon.

└Still, it’s pretty decent since all the stats go up overall ㅇㅇ

└Wow! Thank you! Thanks to you I restored the fragment!

└But this is amazing lol How did you even find something like this?

└ For real, there are so many weird people out there.

At that time, Jung Hoon had also restored Soul Stone Fragments with the help of that post.

So finding the item was easy.

-Intermediate Warrior’s Soul

The Intermediate Warrior’s Soul that could be purchased from Achievement shop Lv.3.

The soul was an item where black smoke slowly rose from a small glass orb.

The price was 10,000 points.

When he purchased the item, his 23,000 points decreased to 13,000 points.

Of course, restoration was impossible with this alone.

-Combination Stone

The Combination Stone cost 1,000 points.

Jung Hoon took out the purchased Combination Stone and Intermediate Warrior’s Soul.

Since the fragment’s soul had worn away, this was the work of replacing it with a new soul.

The process was simple.

First, charge the Combination Stone using mana as energy.

When energy was charged, the Combination Stone glowed blue.

[Will you use the Combination Stone?]

Two icons were created above the Combination Stone.

By placing items in these icons and pressing ‘Yes,’ the Combination Stone would activate.

Jung Hoon placed the Intermediate Warrior’s Soul on the left, the Broken Soul Stone Fragment on the right, and pressed ‘Yes.’

Then the Combination Stone began to vibrate and soon shattered with a crash.

In that spot, a Soul Stone Fragment remained.

[Soul Stone Fragment]

-Type : Materials

-Grade : Epic

-A piece that broke off from a Soul Stone.

-Can be used to craft weapons and defensive equipment.

Perfect.

With this, he had successfully restored the Soul Stone Fragment.

The final step was retrieving the Red Dragon Bone Bow he had left at the blacksmith.

Jung Hoon spent two additional days devoted to hunting, then visited the blacksmith.

“You came?”

In front of the blacksmith, Vulcan was pacing around, waiting for Jung Hoon.

“Yes. How did the refining go?”

“Absolutely perfect.”

Vulcan gave a thumbs up and guided him inside the blacksmith.

And Jung Hoon was able to spot the Red Dragon Bone Bow displayed in the center.

Unlike when he first left it, the Red Dragon Bone Bow was now subtly emanating a cool, blood-red aura.

“I’m satisfied.”

The corners of Jung Hoon’s mouth turned up as he checked the weapon.

Of course, only Jung Hoon who had left the weapon could see it.

Other users couldn’t touch or even see the displayed weapon due to the blind processing.

NPCs were an exception, but with the system applied showing a user had left it, there was no need to worry about theft.

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[Red Dragon Bone Bow]

-Type : Bow

-Grade : Unique

-Attack Power : 206

-Critical Hit Rate : 3 ~ 3.5%

-Remaining Durability : 100%

-Special Ability (1) : Mana Arrows are infinitely generated.

-Special Ability (2) : When arrows hit, low probability of additional flame damage applied.

-Special Ability (3) : Low probability of Breath Arrow automatically activating.

-(1st Stage) Refining Success : Part of the sealed Dragon Soul has awakened.

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Refining was different from enhancement.

While enhancement used Enhancement Stones to strengthen all abilities of a weapon, refining literally served to awaken the weapon’s potential.

‘With this, all conditions are met.’

Jung Hoon grinned.

What he had been aiming for was precisely the Soul Stone upgrade.

The method to upgrade the Soul Stone was a fact that only Jung Hoon currently knew.

Before his regression, it was when he had reached level 370.

The world had already collapsed as New World became reality.

In that situation, Jung Hoon was conquering dungeons alone.

-Mysterious Recipe

A Mysterious Recipe he had obtained by chance.

That recipe had a list of items and synthesis results recorded in detail, and Soul Stone Fragments were also included in that list.

Thanks to that, he had put that recipe to very good use.

And the Soul Stone upgrade recipe was as follows.

[Soul Stone Recipe]

-Soul Stone Fragment

-Dragon Soul

Dragon Soul.

A weapon that could be obtained with very low probability when hunting dragon-type monsters in the level 350 Dragon Mountain Range.

Even among those weapons, one had to acquire a weapon imbued with a Dragon Soul to satisfy the recipe requirements.

Until the refining, upgrading had been impossible, but he had just met the conditions through the refining of the Red Dragon Bone Bow.

This should provide effects comparable to a Soul Stone.

‘Shall we begin then?’

The Return of the Greatest All Master (Ongoing)

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