The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 124

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Chapter 124
Episode 124.
-Radiant Salvation Soul [SR]
“SR Grade.”
Among the souls Jin-woo had obtained before, the highest grade had been Basago’s soul.
Basago’s soul had been SR+ Grade.
This Radiant Salvation Soul was a step lower than that, but it was still a remarkably high-grade soul.
‘I didn’t expect to receive such a generous reward.’
Jin-woo caressed the soul slowly.
-You have obtained a warm soul.
-Soul Sight proficiency has increased!
-Necromaster job level has risen!
-The number of Familiars you can control has increased.
-8 → 9
The number of Familiars he could control rose by one again.
‘Now nine.’
“That gives me a decent cushion.”
Since he currently had six Familiars with him, that meant three slots remained open.
‘My Integrity Score went up too.’
Jin-woo’s current Integrity Score had already reached five points.
‘I should use this soul to create a new Familiar.’
A Familiar created from this soul would surely be quite powerful.
“You’ve done well.”
The credit for achieving the impossible belonged in large part to his Familiars.
“I. am. honored. to. have. met. your. expectations.”
“I have succeeded!”
Pur clenched both fists in delight and raised them toward the sky.
“Pur played the greatest role this time.”
“Fin!”
The remaining Familiars had no choice but to acknowledge it. His performance had been truly outstanding.
Crack—crack-crack-crack!
The landscape around them shattered completely.
And at that moment, Jin-woo found himself back where he had been.
The Desolate Land once more.
“I would have hoped it lasted forever.”
Jin-woo looked toward the Dragon Lair.
“But that’s asking too much.”
There was no way to keep a calamity contained.
* * *
The fallen dragon, Shadow Wing, shattered the chains wrapped around him, again and again.
As a result, only five chains now remained binding his body, where once there had been many.
All the broken chains lay scattered on the ground.
“Almost done.”
The Age of Peace. Through a negotiated accord, the long conflict had ended, and Shadow Wing had entered into a ceasefire with them.
They exchanged promises that there would be no more war between them.
These chains were a form of Sealing Magic created through an ancient covenant with the dwarves.
“That tedious peace is finished.”
But now peace had ended. Promises had become nothing but empty smoke.
“The Avatar of Evil shall come. And greater still, the one who leads the Avatars of Evil shall arrive.”
Shadow Wing intended to be the vanguard of the new world that the great being would bring.
He would spread that power far and wide to create a new realm.
“This land shall become a beautiful place for that great being to arrive.”
This Desolate Land would become a world filled with his power.
Crack—crack-crack-crack!
Each time Shadow Wing moved, the chains around him cracked further, tremors spread outward, and volcanoes erupted.
Crack—crack-crack-crack-crack!
Another chain shattered.
Now only four remained.
“Hrrrgh.”
Shadow Wing paused to gather his strength.
“I would not have thought those dwarves would bring a human. Or perhaps not. Maybe it could not be otherwise.”
Shadow Wing recalled the human he had seen earlier.
“Had they requested the humans for aid, he would not have come alone.”
He might have been some foolish human dreaming of becoming a dragon slayer.
“If so, such an ending would be fitting.”
Shadow Wing bared his teeth in a smile.
“That miner was a being who had been bound to this Desolate Land for ages. A creature trapped by such intense despair that it could not escape.”
He had tried to make that powerful despair and regret his own strength, but failed.
He had managed only to enslave it, yet could summon it only in that place—summoning it elsewhere was impossible.
So Shadow Wing had fashioned a trap from that slave.
“A trap that could only be used in that one location.”
He had locked his enemies inside a prison of regret of his own making.
Those who fell into that regret could never escape it.
“The miner never dies within that regret. He only tries endlessly to break through the mountain and carve a path.”
But that mountain could never be broken.
“How could any being break a mountain with a single Pickaxe?”
If a human could break a mountain with a single Pickaxe, then that human was no human at all.
“Even I cannot do such a thing with a single Pickaxe.”
There was no way that human could accomplish what even he could not.
“I had planned to use it on those annoying dwarves instead.”
He had intended to show them the taste of his Breath.
“Those who love flame—what greater happiness could there be than to perish in that very flame!”
Crack—.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!
Another chain snapped. Now only three remained.
As the chains vanished, his power weakened less and less. Now Shadow Wing no longer even needed to rest. It was done. All of it was done.
“Grrrrrrr.”
Boom—boom-boom-boom-boom!
The chains began to shatter.
“Now.”
All the restraints binding him had vanished.
“It is finished!”
Iron Helm and all the underground lands here would become the territory of the Avatar of Evil he would soon accompany.
“Do not resist.”
Whoooosh!
Lava erupted from the volcanoes. The Desolate Land grew ever more desolate, and the earthquakes did not cease.
Fwip—.
The fallen dragon, Shadow Wing, spread his wings.
“Kyyyyeeeeee.”
Then he opened his maw. The direction was aimed precisely at Iron Helm.
As proof of his corruption, the energy gathering in his mouth was also tainted.
Just as a black Breath was about to be unleashed.
Something tiny.
A very small arrow came flying.
Shadow Wing paid it no mind. He did not know who had fired it, but he suspected it was some late-arriving dwarf or other—a creature beneath his concern.
Obviously, such a thing could never harm him.
It was not worth dodging.
Whiiiiine—.
But something was wrong.
The speed was oddly fast.
Shadow Wing twisted his body. This was something he had to avoid. But the arrow accelerated further as it approached its target.
Kaboom!
The arrow embedded in Shadow Wing’s body exploded, dealing devastating damage.
“Ugh.”
Shadow Wing, wounded by the recoil of the Breath he had been preparing to unleash, burned with fury.
“A wretched creature……!”
Shadow Wing looked down. Corrupted flame flickered at the corners of his mouth.
“……You.”
But what stood below was not a dwarf.
A human.
The very human he had locked away in the miner’s trap, bound to that eternal wheel.
“How did you.”
Shadow Wing’s wings trembled. This was truly astonishing. He had locked him away in that eternal wheel.
“I’m a blacksmith.”
Jin-woo said.
“I resolved it through equipment.”
“……!”
“You seem quite surprised though?”
Jin-woo looked at Shadow Wing.
“You were sure I couldn’t escape, weren’t you……”
Then he saw through it.
“It was a place you couldn’t escape from either. And I got out.”
Jin-woo had gotten under Shadow Wing’s skin.
“How insolent a worm you are.”
Shadow Wing suddenly recharged his Breath.
“You should have remained in that place. Behold me, human. I have no seals binding me now.”
Whoooosh!
“But I just said so.”
Jin-woo smirked.
Then he released Dark Energy. As Jin-woo’s Dark Energy poured out, his Familiars’ eyes began to glow with light.
“Hahahaha!”
Shadow Wing laughed loudly.
“What can those shells do—shells that were so terrified of my power they couldn’t even move?”
He had watched them with both eyes.
Every Familiar except Jin-woo cowering in fear.
If they had been like that even when he was sealed, what would they be like now that the seal was broken?
Whoooosh!
Corruption Energy spread outward.
Dragon Force.
The mighty power possessed by dragons. That which placed all living things at its apex crashed down upon Jin-woo and his Familiars.
Whoosh!
“Pur.”
But his Familiars were different now.
Pur in particular was completely transformed.
With his class raised by absorbing Basago’s soul, Pur was no longer a mere undead.
A Hero-Grade Undead.
The Underworld Chill wrapped around his form.
“Show me.”
Pur moved to shield Jin-woo. Then he swung World Tree’s Judgment against the incoming Breath.
Kaboom!
The corrupted enemy Breath and Pur’s strike collided head-on.
Pur’s hero skill, the Underworld Chill, began to shine.
Freeze-crack-crack!
The corrupted enemy Breath froze solid.
“…….”
Everything should have been incinerated and consumed.
Yet the human and the living shells he commanded stood intact.
No—they seemed to have grown stronger still.
“Those weapons…….”
Shadow Wing finally focused on the weapons wielded by Jin-woo’s Familiars.
The arrow that had flown at him first was strange, and so was that weapon that had just neutralized his Breath. Neither was ordinary.
“Was it not bluster after all.”
The claim of resolving it through equipment had impact enough that it did not seem mere boasting.
And this Familiar—it was clearly different from before.
The power it possessed was considerable. Cold enough to freeze even an enemy Breath solid.
To wield such chill meant it had reached the highest echelon of undead existence.
“So you accomplished something in that brief span.”
Certainly, until moments ago it had been unremarkable.
“Good. Yes. This is the kind of amusement I need.”
Shadow Wing spread his enormous wings wide.
Whoooosh!
Nothing remained to restrain him.
Now he could unleash the full measure of his power.
“Rise, my servants.”
Boom—.
Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!
The earth trembled, and things began to rise from the ground.
Blaze Worms.
Obsidian Golems.
And Corrupted Kobolds emerged from the earth.
Their numbers easily numbered in the hundreds.
-The fallen dragon, Shadow Wing, is observing you!
-You have received a Quest!
-The Difficulty exceeds your Level significantly!
“It doesn’t matter.”
Jin-woo saw the warning message.
Shadow Wing and his servants—just at a glance, the Difficulty seemed considerable.
But that was fine.
“Because that’s how I’ve always lived.”
Jin-woo had always been a seeker of challenge.
Whoooosh!
Shadow Wing, having summoned his servants, flapped his wings. The surrounding land became corrupted, and powerful Corruption Energy filled the air.
This place was now the Domain of the fallen dragon, Shadow Wing.
“Not anymore.”
Jin-woo stepped down hard against the ground.
“If I’m here.”
Everything here.
“Then it’s my Domain.”
Domain Declaration.
Whoooosh!
Shadow Wing’s Domain and Jin-woo’s Domain collided violently.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!
Crimson lightning erupted skyward.
“Let’s do this.”
Jin-woo raised the Blaze Worm Chitin Bow.
“The strong take everything.”

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