The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 101

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Chapter 101
Episode 101.
Jin-woo began his earnest conquest of the first floor.
Now that he’d crafted a ranged weapon, the constraints no longer mattered.
Shriek—!
-Griffin defeated!
-Level increased!
First and Pur wielded their new weapons with fervent intensity, and together they swept through the first floor with Jin-woo moving swiftly across it.
“This is quite profitable.”
He’d already hunted dozens of griffins.
It had been worthwhile before, but with the 300% Drop Rate, Jin-woo was able to rake in materials as if pulling them toward him with a rake.
“The yields really are excellent.”
Materials dropped at a remarkable pace.
Griffins yielded basic materials like talons, feathers, and bones, and at low probability, something called Griffin Essence—a sort of gemstone.
“With such a high drop rate, I get one every three kills or so.”
-Griffin Essence [SR Grade]
Description: A concentrated essence infused with the power of a griffin. The accumulated power has crystallized.
The moment Jin-woo obtained the Griffin Essence, he began crafting immediately.
Crack—!
-Flame Engraving Technique activated!
He shattered the essence and, simultaneously casting the Flame Engraving Technique upon it, wove the bones together to forge a ring.
-Griffin Bone Ring created!
-SR+ Grade ring created!
“The Griffin Essence is quite useful.”
The Griffin Essence was a crystallization of the griffin’s power itself.
Because of this, the attributes were simple but contained all the essential ones.
“Every stat rises evenly.”
Jin-woo equipped the ring.
“I could sell this without hesitation.”
He left the hunt to First and Pur, gathering fallen materials and crafting continuously.
-Equipment created!
-Equipment created!
Jin-woo never stopped crafting equipment.
Thanks to the 300% Drop Rate, materials flowed in without pause.
There were moments when crafting speed suddenly surpassed hunting speed.
“Faster. Go faster.”
At that moment, First shouted to Pur. Pur threw spears with all her might and wielded the World Tree’s Judgment, yet she had no choice but to push harder.
Jin-woo was waiting behind them.
-Health declining.
Of course, the price for crafting so frantically was dropping health—Jin-woo nearly reached the brink of death during his work.
But then Jin-woo’s rune activated.
“I crafted in faith.”
-Luminous Nature Rune effect activated!
-Health regeneration effect maximized!
When the Luminous Nature Rune, which possessed per-second life regeneration, activated, Jin-woo’s health—which had dropped to the edge of death—began recovering frantically.
“Let’s continue.”
-Equipment created!
-Equipment created!
How much time had passed like that?
He’d already pushed past the midpoint of the first floor and was now reaching its latter half.
“Will I spend twenty-four hours on just the first floor?”
At that moment, such a thought crossed his mind—Jin-woo was deeply enjoying himself.
And so, gathering all manner of materials.
And even souls, Jin-woo had soon reached the end of the first floor.
“What a pity.”
-Mirage Fog Tower, Floor 1 conquered!
-Tallying Floor 1 clear rewards.
-…….
-…….
-Remarkable conquest! You have hunted all monsters on Floor 1!
-Rewards received!
A complete sweep.
Jin-woo had thoroughly cleaned out the entire first floor and reached the end.
But there was something even more remarkable.
“I made about sixty pieces.”
Equipment accumulated during the conquest totaled sixty items.
“I could’ve made more, but the first floor ended sooner than expected.”
Of course, the first floor wasn’t short.
His two Undead Class Familiars, having no life limit, had pushed themselves to exhaustion.
“We definitely…… moved together…….”
Jin-woo showed no signs of fatigue at all. Fighting was one thing, but crafting—how difficult a task it was. One requiring immersion and focus.
It was remarkable enough to maintain such concentration in a tower like this, yet to continuously produce quality equipment on top of it.
As Pur shook her head vigorously.
Jin-woo first checked the Floor 1 clear rewards.
“The reward has me curious.”
When he’d conquered the Ancient Tower before, he’d received a golden key. Thanks to that, he’d become the master of the treasury of ten thousand gold coins.
A box descended gently into Jin-woo’s hands.
-Torn Blueprint [???]
Description: A blueprint with which something can be crafted. It is torn, making it impossible to verify its contents.
“Huh?”
What he’d received was a blueprint.
“The grade is a question mark?”
That meant this blueprint could be far above the grade of any materials he’d obtained in this tower.
“At least SSR Grade or higher, then?”
And Jin-woo was drawn to the word “blueprint” itself.
“It seems I’ll be able to craft something remarkable.”
-The spirit bound to this tower calls upon you!
-It says to gather all blueprints as you conquer the tower! It says if you collect all the torn blueprints, you’ll be able to craft Mythic Grade equipment!
Jin-woo examined the blueprint for a moment.
“Hmm.”
The torn blueprint was certainly difficult to discern in form.
But.
“I think I can make it.”
The blueprint before him was enough. He felt he could supplement the torn parts himself.
-The spirit bound to this tower shakes its head at you!
-It says you absolutely cannot!
-It tells you to find the remaining blueprints!
-It says once you complete the blueprint, you’ll be able to craft incredible equipment!
“Really? Then watch me.”
Jin-woo spoke.
“See what happens.”
Jin-woo spread the blueprint wide open.
Then he laid materials on his workbench based on that blueprint.
“This is a sword, then? A sword imbued with the spirit’s power, I see.”
Text was written in the torn sections, and Jin-woo could roughly infer what it said.
“The parts I don’t know at all.”
I can supplement them while crafting. What matters is understanding the heart of whoever made this blueprint.
What intention did they have when crafting the equipment?
What is its purpose?
To understand and delve deeply.
‘It’s the same.’
It was identical when he learned Spell Enchantment and when he learned the Flawless Seamstress Art.
Understanding the craftsperson’s emotion was enough.
“Materials.”line>
Materials remained in plenty.

Thanks to First and Pur hunting griffins frantically to their limits in the latter half.
Fortunately, materials accumulated faster than they were consumed in crafting.
This blueprint, too, could be obtained thanks to such effort from his two Familiars.
Jin-woo began by engraving the bones.
“This calls for minerals here.”
But that was always substitutable.
“Materials are important, certainly.”
But there was no need to obsess over materials.
This blueprint was merely a tool to reproduce the equipment.
“Is there meaning in making equipment exactly identical?”
As long as the intention was properly conveyed, that was enough.
Scrape. Scrape.
Bang—! Crack—!
Jin-woo increased his pace.
-The spirit bound to the tower observes your crafting.
The spirit bound to the tower thought Jin-woo was bluffing.
Naturally. The torn blueprint consisted of four pages total.
Jin-woo had only obtained the first page.
To craft the equipment from the blueprint with only the first page?
That was clearly impossible.
To claim he could do it was overconfidence in his own abilities—pure bravado.
It should have been.
It had to have been.
-The spirit bound to the tower looks at you as if unable to believe this.
Crack—.
Jin-woo was crafting a sword.
From the first torn page of the blueprint.
The fact that he’d deduced the equipment was a sword just from the first torn page was remarkable in itself.
-The spirit bound to the tower now suspects it may be under an illusion spell!
Despite the absence of the other three pages, it was taking shape similarly.
More than similar, in fact.
For a moment, Jin-woo had become the spirit craftsman who’d made this blueprint.
“One page is enough.”
Clang—! Crack—!
-Equipment created!
-SSR Grade equipment created!
-Blueprint equipment completed!
Whoosh—.
The torn blueprint began burning and dissolving.
-Quest received.
-Quest cleared!
Normally, the format would be to gather remaining blueprints as you progress and clear quests gradually, but since he’d gathered only one page and already completed the craft, he received and cleared the quest simultaneously.
Whoosh—.
-Ancient Spirit’s Sword created!
“Ah.”
Following the blueprint, a beautiful spirit sword had been forged. Of course, the primary materials had changed, and with the torn sections filled by Jin-woo’s own interpretation and deduction, it wasn’t identical, but this was unmistakably a spirit’s sword.
“A fine blueprint, indeed.”
-Conditions fulfilled.
-The torn blueprint has become whole.
-The seal on the spirit bound to this tower has been released.
Whoosh—!
A spirit materialized before Jin-woo.
Snow-white hair.
And beautiful features. Yet the body itself was quite small.
‘Like a fairy,’ he thought.
Before Jin-woo, the spirit bound to the tower slowly opened her eyes.
“……I cannot believe it. I truly cannot believe this.”
The spirit’s first words—so bewildered by the situation—began with disbelief.
“This is Floor 1, and…… this tower has four floors total, so you’re supposed to gather torn blueprints floor by floor…….”
That was the basic framework of the quest.
But there wasn’t a strict constraint. So clearing it however freely was acceptable.
Of course, this was too free. Far too free.
“I apologize greatly. Thank you so much for releasing my seal…… I’m grateful you released it, but…… however did you accomplish this.”
The spirit bound to the tower was an Ancient Spirit.
“I truly cannot believe it. How did you craft this from just one torn page of the blueprint?”
The Ancient Spirit could not fathom this situation.
“No, of course I’m very pleased and grateful my seal was released…… But, please look at this.”
There is an order to things.
The Ancient Spirit looked at the spirit’s sword Jin-woo had made.
“It’s real…… it’s truly a spirit’s sword. How did you make the unseen parts look so authentic?”
The Ancient Spirit’s eyes trembled intensely.
“I understood it.”
Jin-woo answered simply.

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