The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 117

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Episode 117
Episode 117.
“Phew.”
“How much time has passed?”
“One hour and forty minutes. The running time is complete.”
One hour and forty minutes elapsed.
The video uploaded to JBS Channel had a total running time of one hour and forty minutes.
Those who had watched it from the moment it went live should have finished watching by now.
“Now we should see proper reactions from the viewers.”
Real feedback would start rolling in now.
Producer Han In-gu closed his eyes. His heart was hammering wildly.
Ding! Ding-! Ding-! Ding-!
Just then, notifications began erupting from his work PC.
-This is insane.
-Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much, but this is so entertaining?
-The tension was incredible. I seriously didn’t think the video would flow like this. The creator is a Crafting user tackling the tower solo?
-The creator can’t be just a Crafting user. A Necromancer who’s also a Crafter? That’s such an unexpected combination;;;
-That amazing sword from Jin-Tube. Jin-woo’s familiar was wielding it. The performance is just insane;;;
-I want to become Jin-woo’s familiar. Is the position open?
The response was explosive.
At the same time, the view count skyrocketed.
Sharknet Community.
-Checking out JBS Channel? The main scenario program dropped.
-That’s Jin-woo they brought on, right?
-He’s a crafter, so it’s probably boring.
-Stop the viral marketing. Nobody’s gonna watch it anyway~
Even in Sharknet Community, where negative comments had dominated, actual viewers began posting their impressions.
-This is seriously insane. How is this even possible?
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Didn’t expect it to be more fun than Slayer.
-Watching it again.
-I never thought a crafter could tackle the tower like that.
-Damn. Using the gear you made yourself like that.
The posts pouring into the community skillfully dodged all spoilers.
It was enough to pique the interest of those who had dismissed it as viral marketing.
-What is this even about?
-Can’t the creator not tackle the tower anyway? He’s a crafter. Does he just go in wearing gear he made himself?
-Being good at making equipment doesn’t mean you’re good at fighting, right?
-Watch it and you’ll see ㅋㅋ
-Seriously watch it and you’ll see ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The comments saying “watch and you’ll see” only drew more attention instead.
-Just five minutes.
-I’m only watching three minutes before I turn it off.
And so the view count kept climbing.
One million, five million, ten million.
Whoosh-. Whoooosh-.
The view count soaring wildly.
And then.
-Trending Video #1
-This is seriously insane.
-Highest view count among JBS Channel videos.
-Jin-woo is just solo carrying. How did JBS even manage to recruit someone like Jin-woo;;;
-Nobody was expecting anything. The recruitment must’ve been easy?
-It couldn’t have been easy. Look at those skills!
-The view count trajectory is weird, though? Why is it rising so fast?
JBS Editing Room.
Producer Han In-gu and his team, who had been editing right up to the very last moment, were suffering from extreme exhaustion.
But at this astonishing result, the fatigue suddenly vanished.
“We did it…….”
Everything was changing.
“We did it!”
It was a result nobody had anticipated.
“I thought it would go well, but…….”
“It went way better than expected!?”
“This is really…… Jin-woo carried it for us.”
The source material was so good. They had simply edited to match that footage without any shortcomings.
“Overseas viewers are jumping on it now. This is going to work.”
At most, five million views.
But in less than a day, it had already hit ten million views.
“We’re going to beat Slayer……!”
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“A Necromancer……?”
Hyrun looked at Jin-woo with surprised eyes upon seeing the familiar Jin-woo had summoned.
“Something similar.”
Hyrun’s gaze shifted to the familiars Jin-woo had summoned.
Then his eyes quickly turned to the familiars’ equipment.
“Don’t tell me you made all of that?”
“Yes.”
“!”
Only then did Hyrun seem to understand everything, his eyes widening.
“Equipment you made, equipped on your familiars…… That’s clever. So efficient! This way you don’t need feedback from others! There’s zero percent chance of betrayal from whoever you give equipment to!”
Hyrun marveled.
“Incredible, truly incredible.”
Jin-woo wiped just below his nose with his index finger.
‘He gets it, as expected.’
Hyrun especially had no choice but to understand.
He had just recently come under attack from the Agent Guild.
Had things gone differently, he could have spent his life as a slave making equipment.
For someone in Hyrun’s position, Jin-woo’s method was nothing short of enlightenment.
“The equipped familiars will fight directly for you……!”
There was no risk of being exploited carelessly.
Hyrun moved closer to the familiars.
“Insane, absolutely insane! You made this from Orichalcon? Wait, what is this…… Could it be World Tree……?”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
“Hahahaha-! Extracting elven treasure! How is this possible! They never give it to outsiders!”
It was always a pleasure to see good equipment.
“So that’s why you asked if the skeleton could be shaved!”
“Yes. I wanted to learn once.”
“Hmm. Then I’ll look into that separately. There’s definitely a blacksmith at Iron Helm who knows how.”
Hyrun shrugged his shoulders.
“Then I don’t have much else to teach you. But I can give you feedback on the Deep Refining Technique.”
Jin-woo gripped his hammer.
‘Materials I haven’t been able to use until now. With this flame, I can use them all.’
He could now properly handle materials he’d been unable to work with.
Jin-woo pulled out materials onto the workbench.
-Sky Stone [SSR+]
-Basago’s Essence [SSR+]
-Basago’s Bone [SSR+]
Finally, the time had come to properly use the SSR+ Grade materials he hadn’t been able to work with.
“Those materials…….”
For a moment, Hyrun’s eyes widened.
“Materials I haven’t been able to handle because of the flame limitations.”
Jin-woo first decided what he would make.
“I’ve made enough weapons.”
He had already given First and Pur two powerful weapons each.
As a result, his familiars had been fighting with a focus on offense.
‘I’ll make armor.’
Dark Knight King.
It was a fairly high-tier class, so it deserved appropriate armor.
Whoosh-!
Jin-woo placed the Sky Stone into the furnace.
With his previous flame power, even properly melting it would have been difficult.
But the moment it entered Hyrun’s furnace.
“It’s melting.”
Jin-woo smiled.
‘Just as I thought, a dragon’s flame.’
The Sky Stone, so formidable before, was melting easily under this firepower.
Now Jin-woo could finally handle Sky Stone properly.
Whoooosh-!
Jin-woo waited until the intense heat turned the Sky Stone red.
‘Now!’
Then he pulled it out at precisely the right moment.
“Perfect.”
The Sky Stone was glowing the perfect shade of red.
Jin-woo picked up his hammer.
Fire Build.
Flames settled into Jin-woo’s hammer.
“Oh!”
The moment Jin-woo lifted the Sky Stone, Hyrun watched with a look of surprise.
“That material—isn’t that Sky Stone! Hmph, it must be incredibly difficult to work with. Even with Fire Build, it shouldn’t be…….”
“It’s fine. I’ve handled it before.”
“……You’ve handled it before?”
Hyrun’s expression grew bewildered.
“Didn’t you say your flame power was lacking? That Sky Stone…… it absolutely shouldn’t melt at normal flame levels.”
“Yes. But I could still handle it.”
Jin-woo brought his hammer down.
Clang-!
The Sky Stone began to deform.
“!”
Hyrun hadn’t seen Jin-woo properly hammer before.
When working with Droizen Steel, he’d held back.
Moreover, the deformation happened so quickly that he hadn’t swung more than a few times.
And so now, watching Jin-woo’s proper hammering, Hyrun couldn’t help but admire it.
“You had to handle it that way……!”
With hammer work like that, even without sufficient flame power, it could be managed.
Purely through physical prowess alone.
“You managed to work material you ordinarily couldn’t handle, with just that hammering alone.”
Clang-! Clang-!
And now proper flame power and Fire Build were added to it.
“I never thought Sky Stone could be worked so easily!”
Hyrun had worked with Sky Stone before.
Having powerful flame power didn’t automatically make it easy to work with.
Powerful flame power was merely the starting line, nothing more.
Only once you reached this starting line could you begin the basic preparation to work Sky Stone. After all that basic preparation, Hyrun had taken three days and nights of hammering to create one very light bow from Sky Stone.
Yet Jin-woo was working this Sky Stone as if it were Droizen Steel.
Clang-!
Easily.
Clang-!
The Sky Stone deformed under Jin-woo’s hammer strokes, effortlessly.
That perfect hammering captivated Hyrun’s attention.
If there existed a textbook on hammer technique, Jin-woo’s hammering right now would be it.
As if trying to remember it forever, Hyrun watched without blinking.
Clang-!
‘Sky Stone inherently possesses a floating property.’
He had already grasped the Sky Stone’s characteristics.
‘It’s suitable for creating orbs.’
But making it into armor creates problems.
It would lose weight and defensive capability could be reduced.
For this reason, Sky Stone alone couldn’t be used to make armor.
‘But if I anchor this with bone.’
Not just any bone.
If I anchor it with the bone of Basago, the embodiment of evil.
‘Basago’s Bone.’
Using the SSR+ Grade bone as a base and incorporating the Sky Stone.
And he would carve Basago’s Essence and set it in the center.
‘That way I can maximize the strengths of both materials.’
And above all, he could achieve an excellent aesthetic.
Taking the distinctive coloration of Sky Stone and adding weight through Basago’s Bone to create a Skull Armor.
‘It’s already a skeleton anyway.’
Adding a skull on top of it.
‘Good on top of good.’
Clang-!
Jin-woo became fully immersed. Hyrun said nothing more.
-Jin: Spell Enchantment Overlay
The power of defensive spells began to layer upon the armor.
Along with that, Jin-woo employed the Hephaestus Refining Technique endlessly.
The foundation of this Hephaestus Refining Technique was originally extreme defense.
‘Hephaestus himself developed this Hephaestus Refining Technique to maximize defense.’
So when crafting defensive gear, this technique showed its true worth.
Clang-!
‘Extreme defense.’
Jin-woo envisioned it.
The mighty attacks that would come at First.
And First defending against those attacks.
Clang-!
That earnest desire imbued the Sky Stone.
Crack-.
It imbued Basago’s Bone.
“Chime-.”
“Buzz-!”
Somewhere in the process, summoned Coco and Dust had breathed their power into all three materials.
Shhhhhhhh-.
And as Jin-woo extended his hand, simultaneously, souls were extracted from all three materials.
-Deep Refining Technique proficiency increases!
He purified the extracted souls.
-Materials are being purified!
Extreme defense, and over that once more, he drew out defensive spells.
Hyrun beheld Jin-woo’s formidable power.
Stronger.
More powerful!
But suddenly Jin-woo’s hammer stopped.
Or rather, it hadn’t stopped.
He had restrained himself.
He could have swung far more fiercely and powerfully. But he brought down only the exact force necessary for this Sky Stone.
That beauty captivated Hyrun.
Ding-!
-Equipment crafted!
-UR Grade equipment crafted!
-Achievement unlocked!
-[Unique] Achievement unlocked!
-Registered in the Hall of Fame!
-Flawlessly handled previously unusable materials!
-Achievement [Revenge] unlocked!
-The great dwarf god celebrates your accomplishment!
-Quest updated!
-Level increased!
-Dexterity Stat increased!
-Focus Stat increased!
-Hephaestus Refining Technique proficiency increases!
-Hephaestus Refining Technique Level increased!

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