The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 114

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Episode 114
114.
Soul Sight.
Jin-woo, who possessed the Necromaster job, already had the ability to perceive and extract souls.
And along with that.
‘Besides, I’ve been continuously going through the process of understanding materials.’
Because of this, extracting souls presented no particular difficulty for Jin-woo.
But Highrun, who had no way of knowing this, was quite bewildered.
“Why, why?”
Why was the soul coming out?
“It shouldn’t be this easy…… but it is.”
Extracting a soul was a high-difficulty task.
He himself had trained for a very long time to master this technique.
One had to understand the material to its absolute limit.
Only then could the soul be drawn out.
“Droizen Steel…… you’d never seen it before, had you……?”
“No, I hadn’t.”
“Then how.”line>
Jin-woo answered Highrun’s question simply.

“I understood it.”
He had understood the material.
He had understood the process of the soul emerging.
It was a difficult process, but it was manageable.
…….
Highrun fell silent. Jin-woo had answered exactly as briefly as he’d explained it.
Highrun marveled at Jin-woo’s exceptional skill, but Jin-woo too was astonished by Highrun’s technique.
‘This is definitely different.’
The conventional Soul Sight was a technique that allowed one to perceive and manipulate the souls of living creatures.
‘I’ve seen the souls of living creatures through Soul Sight many times.’
Highrun’s technique, by contrast, extracted the soul that an inanimate object—or rather, a material—possessed.
‘For a blacksmith, there’s no technique quite like this.’
Because it was inanimate, it was certainly different from the souls of living creatures.
-You have learned Deep Refining.
-Extract and purify the soul of the material, then maximize its latent potential!
“Purify.”
-The soul of the flame has been purified.
“I’ve learned well from you, Highrun.”
To learn and execute Deep Refining this easily.
Highrun swallowed hard.
Then he asked urgently.
Hoz, Rodin, Mirae.
Following them, a different thought about Jin-woo, who had come to him, flickered through his mind.
“Could you show me the Flawless Seamstress Art that you learned from Mirae?”
Jin-woo immediately produced cloth.
He had Harpy Feathers he’d obtained from the Mirage Fog Tower. He wove together the feathers.
Swish—. Swish—.
Jin-woo crafted rippling waves of cloth using the Flawless Seamstress Art.
Witnessing the entire sequence, Highrun’s jaw dropped.
“Mirae’s in his body. No, wait—it’s a bit different…….”
Now he could understand.
“Right. That elf had good reason to praise me.”
Highrun crossed his arms.
But it wasn’t over yet.
He still had plenty of tricks up his sleeve.
“Excellent work, Jin-woo. But this is only the beginning. My Deep Refining and Fire Build are the basic techniques needed to stand at the starting line. Now begins the true start of my refining arts!”
“I’ll study hard!”
“Don’t push yourself so hard in your studies! Take breaks too! That’s important!”
* * *
The full-scale broadcast war between networks had begun.
KBC, OBC.
And MBS and JBS.
The first two channels were set to air on Netflix, while MBS and JBS would premiere exclusively on Mytube.
Each broadcast network featured different top-ranking players, and the content varied slightly, but naturally the most talked-about were KBC and OBC.
Both had recruited Rankers in the top ten.
KBC had signed Slayer, the current top-ranked player in combat, while OBC featured High Tech, who was famous as a vanguard tank.
-Wow. KBC has good instincts.
-Who would’ve thought they’d recruit Slayer. He’s literally the greatest combat-class Ranker.
-It must have been hard to recruit him.
-They actually did it.
-OBC is no joke either. Recruiting a vanguard tank from the Geo Dragon Guild. With them fighting the Leap Guild over tower ownership right now, there’s no way they’d have let him go.
-They must have paid him a fortune.
Sharknet.
The community bulletin board was watching this inter-network Main Scenario competition with great interest.
Everyone was praising the players recruited by KBC and OBC. Slayer was the Leap Guild’s main dealer, and High Tech was the Geo Dragon Guild’s main tank—and the two guilds were rivals in many ways.
-Isn’t the relationship between Leap and Geo Dragon bad right now?
-Leap seems even worse off with Realize.
-Still, looking at what Leap is doing, it seems like they’re trying to pick fights with other guilds too.
-Probably doesn’t matter? Slayer’s there. Plus they have Kalantiér.
Main Scenario.
Control of the tower had sparked not just between the two guilds, but among numerous guilds, and with networks now entering the fray, it was bound to draw massive attention.
-I’m really looking forward to this.
-I’ll watch it as soon as it drops.
However, MBS and JBS received poor reception.
-What exactly is MBS??
-So much for the big three networks. MBS recruited someone in the top 30. That’s not going to cut it.
Especially MBS faced ridicule for recruiting a Ranker of lower caliber compared to the previous KBC and OBC.
If the tier was lower, there should have been novelty value, but there wasn’t even that.
Of course, JBS was even worse off.
The Rankers recruited by the previous three networks were all combat-class players.
They could deliver spectacle in Main Scenario clears, create dramatic scenes, and most importantly, take the initiative.
Taking the initiative was quite crucial here.
The program’s direction.
The editing direction.
And for the viewers’ entertainment, it had to be proactive.
-JBS has a Crafter?
-Not Starlight, not Inclassic, and even though they’re past their prime, not even Craftwell.
-It’s someone named Jin-woo?
-Jin-woo?
-Wait, that Jin-woo?
Jin-woo had made quite a name for himself.
Hall of Fame updates.
First tower clear.
And he was a Crafter who had revitalized the Auction House and earned the love and respect of various professions.
-He’s a rising star though.
-Oh. Is JBS actually not doing so badly then?
-But what can a Crafter do?
-How is a solo Crafter even going to progress through the Main Scenario?
-Wasn’t Jin-woo the first to clear the tower?
-Probably not the same person.
-It can’t be the same person. Top guilds and Rankers are struggling hard to clear the tower these days. How on earth would a Crafter do it alone?
There was no doubt that Jin-woo was an excellent Crafter. He’d already proven it quite a bit. People thought he’d soon break into the top 100.
But in this inter-network viewership war, most felt Jin-woo offered little competitive merit.
-JBS really went for broke here.
-This won’t work.
Slayer and High Tech are signed, and they bring Jin-woo?
-JBS is done. If they can’t prove themselves in this Main Scenario, they’ll need to find another path.
-No point watching.
-Plus they’re uploading to Mytube too.
Users set JBS aside and focused on KBC and OBC, talking about Slayer and High Tech.
Nobody had high expectations.
And then.
-[NEW!] Exclusive Premiere! The Tower’s Slayer.
KBC’s video dropped on Netflix. Moments later, OBC’s video was released as well.
The full-scale war had begun.
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“Whew.”
PD Lee Il-yong, working under PD Han In-gu, received an urgent call and came to the editing room.
“What do we do.”
PD Han In-gu had picked Jin-woo as the user.
The Crafter user Jin-woo had naturally sent in craft footage.
Lee couldn’t figure out how to edit it.
“Can we even make it interesting. When we’re competing against Slayer.”
Slayer, the butcher recruited by KBC, would certainly have received spectacular editing thanks to Netflix’s capital and production muscle.
“How do we compete with craft footage.”
Lee arrived at the editing room.
“You here?”
Lee Il-yong arrived last. Everyone else was already gathered.
“So we’re playing the video?”
“PD, sorry, but shouldn’t we have a meeting first?”
“No. Just watch it first.”
Everyone looked at Han In-gu uncertainly.
Right now, Han In-gu was like a candle before the wind. His standing within JBS was shrinking by the day.
Everyone sensed the funeral atmosphere, yet Han In-gu wore a smirk.
“What kind of video did he send.”
“The PD’s been like this the whole time.”
The writers watched the PD.
“Then let’s watch the video first.”
“Playing it.”
Han In-gu immediately played the footage Jin-woo had sent. Han In-gu PD had done a rough cut overnight.
It was edited cleanly—unnecessary parts cut, only the essential moments preserved.
As the video played, PD Han In-gu closed his eyes.
His lips were already curling upward.
“What……?”
From the opening moments of the video, bewilderment erupted.
“Why is the tower……?”
Shouldn’t craft footage be playing?
Han In-gu’s team continued watching, displaying the same reaction as PD Han In-gu.
“This, this is.”
“Is this really what we saw?”
“No way…… is this actually real?”
Everyone’s pupils were dilated.
It meant they were genuinely shocked.
“Yeah. I just did a rough cut. It’s exactly as it is.”
“PD, you can’t just—!”
“The viral potential is insane!”
A solo Crafter cleared the tower.
Moreover, he crafted inside the tower itself, completely shattering every preconception about what a Crafter could do.
“How did he even do this…… I’ve never seen crafting in such circumstances.”
“And despite crafting like that, he made SSR Grade equipment.”
The PDs and writers were also New Gene players.
And since they interacted with New Gene Rankers, they had some knowledge.
Crafting in a tower?
It was possible. If you forced it, you could do it.
But crafting that way and producing SSR Grade equipment was absolutely astounding. This had to be viral.
The more you understood it, the more you’d grasp how extraordinary this really was.
PD Han In-gu let out a laugh at his team’s reaction.
Now his mind was at ease.
“This works. Absolutely works. Even I didn’t know. I didn’t think he’d send footage like this.”
Recruiting Jin-woo was naturally because his skills were exceptional.
He’d signed him because his potential seemed superior to other Rankers.
But Jin-woo had exceeded even that.
“I was shocked when he sent the footage. The title was ‘Tower Clear Video,’ so naturally I thought he’d send craft footage for tower crafting.”
That wasn’t it.
Everyone nodded at what the PD said.
Having just watched the footage, their agreement was complete.
They hadn’t made a fuss for nothing.
Actually, they were being quite composed about it.
If they’d seen this themselves, they would’ve absolutely lost their minds.
This was footage worthy of that reaction.
“Then we’ll be pulling an all-nighter?”
Everyone nodded.
“As soon as the edit is done, we upload. Let’s keep an eye on the view count for Slayer’s footage on Netflix too.”
“Yes!”
“Yes!”
* * *
“Try crafting equipment using Deep Refining and Fire Build. Using something and using it well are different things.”
Highrun spoke.
“No need for lengthy explanations. Just show me what you can do.”
Whoosh—.
Jin-woo stepped before the forge.
“Oh.”
‘The flame of the forge.’
The forge’s flame was fierce.
It was fiercer than merely fierce.
‘It’s intense.’
“Highrun, what kind of flame is this exactly?”
“That flame is…….”
At Highrun’s answer, Jin-woo’s eyes widened.
It was an answer that defied expectations.

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