The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 126

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Chapter 126
Episode 126.
“We came here to get flame. That’s why we’re here.”
Jin-woo saw Shadow Wing’s flame.
Nether Breath.
It was a breath completely corrupted, transformed into a sickly green.
“I can’t use flame like that.”
What Jin-woo had in mind was a powerful firepower capable of melting any material—flame that would let him handle materials far better than before.
Not a flame that melted everything completely, leaving only the essence.
“……I understand.”
“If you put something like that in the furnace, it’ll rot away.”
Jin-woo clicked his tongue.
“It didn’t fire its breath. I was waiting to check.”
He hadn’t expected the breath itself to be corrupted too. And severely at that.
“This is pointless then.”
What was the point of coming here?
Wasn’t it for that dragon’s firepower? Didn’t he volunteer to come all this way to get that dragon’s flame?
“Like this, all the materials rot. Even the Deep Refining Art has its limits.”
And above all, the smell was severe.
“……As expected of you, master.”
First spoke in admiration from beside him.
His master’s approach was fundamentally different.
“Hmm.”
Jin-woo deliberated for a moment.
“Won’t work.”
The deliberation didn’t last long.
“First. This time you go and buy some time. With Dragon Language, winning will be hard.”
First could tell just by looking.
“I’ve found a way to solve this.”
Whoosh.
Jin-woo opened the Summoning Workshop right there.
“I shall meet your expectations.”
Fin descended and carried First this time.
Jin-woo laid the materials on the workbench.
There were plenty of materials to use.
“First I need to change the fighting environment.”
Shadow Wing’s domain was the sky.
Knocking it down from this sky was the priority.
‘He uses the dragon’s original power well, and on top of that the corrupted power too.’
Among the dragon’s powers, Dragon Language was the most troublesome.
‘It’s strong enough that Pur got blocked all at once.’
Even approaching was difficult, let alone pressuring him.
The king of the sky.
The master of magic.
‘Truly a dragon.’
“First thing—I knock it down.”
Getting him down from that sky where he floated so proudly was the priority.
Jin-woo immediately summoned the workshop.
“I’ve fought aerial enemies too many times already.”
Jin-woo smiled wryly.
He’d used bows, throwing spears, and countless other ranged weapons, but none of them could bring Shadow Wing down.
‘I need something new.’
Jin-woo checked the materials he’d placed on the workbench.
“Materials are sufficient.”
Obsidian, Blaze Worm chitin, and.
“Cobalt leather.”
Jin-woo began stitching together the cobalt leather and Blaze Worm chitin.
“Flawless Seamstress Art.”
Stitch. Stitch. Stitch.
Mirae’s needle shone brightly.
Within endlessly beautiful stitching, the two materials began weaving together precisely.
Stitch. Stitch.
Cutting and stitching.
A massive form was created in moments.
“A net.”
What Jin-woo was making now was a giant net.
Equipment capable of perfectly suppressing the wings of the airborne Shadow Wing.
‘Shadow Wing’s powerful forces are two things.’
Dragon Language.
And breath.
‘A net is fundamentally something that can’t be escaped from.’
So I’ll make it so it can’t catch fire.
‘And Dragon Language…….’
That’s quite difficult to block.
“I give up.”
If you can’t block Dragon Language, then you simply give up on blocking.
Stitch. Stitch.
If you can pierce through your own equipment precisely,
you can make any equipment suited to the situation.
Stitch.
—Equipment created!
—SSR+ Grade equipment created!
The net was born in Jin-woo’s hands.
—Obsidian Net [SSR+]
An Obsidian Net.
Equipment exclusively for dragon combat.
“If I use it as a weapon, it becomes a weapon.”
A grand gift from Jin-woo for that dragon soaring through the sky.
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“That husk recovering down there is far stronger than you. Will it change anything that you come up? Skeleton.”
Shadow Wing taunted First as he rode Fin upward.
But First had already come up with a grand purpose.
“Nothing changes.”
His role was not to win.
“I came to do exactly that—nothing changes.”
Screech!
First tapped Fin’s shoulder lightly.
“I understand your hardship.”
Then Fin’s wingbeats grew fiercer.
“The master is preparing.”
Then First gripped the Orichalcon Greatsword.
“Just trust.”
“Fin!”
Carrying Pur, Fin had been flying helplessly. The morale that had been lost because of those emotions was recovered.
“Right.”
Screech!
Now Fin could remember. What’s in front is a dragon with untouchable strength.
But he had a strength the dragon does not.
Steel Wings.
As long as those steel wings existed, he could gain the upper hand over the dragon in that one regard.
“Fin!”
Fin flew freely.
“Squirming like a worm.”
Shadow Wing released its breath.
“Nether Breath.”
Screeeech!
The corrupted breath spread around. This Nether Breath wasn’t fired with intent to hit.
It was to spread contamination across the sky and restrict movement.
The space Fin could fly in gradually shrank.
“Are you frightened? You’re not diving in like before.”
Despite Shadow Wing’s provocation, Fin didn’t easily approach.
“Good then.”
Then Shadow Wing beat its wings.
“Let’s see how much longer you can fly in my sky.”
Roar!
Shadow Wing gradually occupied space, pressuring Fin.
First threw boomerangs intermittently in response.
The weapons he’d used in the previous tower were quite familiar to his hand.
Of course, since the boomerangs were of quite low Grade, they were practically useless at actually damaging Shadow Wing.
Yet First did not stop attacking.
Between attacks, when Fin approached, he seized the moment and swung the Orichalcon Greatsword.
Screech!
Of course, the distance was far too short.
But First had skills too.
“Wave Emission.”
A wave imbued with the power of the Orichalcon Greatsword flew toward Shadow Wing.
Crack!
Of course, Shadow Wing easily dispersed it with a wing strike.
“Multi Scale.”
Shadow Wing was also excellent at defensive magic.
First kept riding Fin in circles, continuously releasing waves.
But Shadow Wing, with Multi Scale amplifying its defense, took no further damage.
“Enough playing.”
Seeing that, Shadow Wing, finding it tedious, suddenly spread its wings wide.
Then it released breath with incomparably greater power than before.
“Nether Breath.”
Whoooosh!
The corrupted flame came flying, precisely targeting First’s torso.
Instantly Fin dove sharply downward.
Seeing that, Shadow Wing let out a laugh of triumph.
“Excellent entertainment.”
Watching them flee, it beat its wings with all its strength. In an instant, Shadow Wing tore through space and reached Fin almost instantaneously.
But Fin wasn’t fleeing.
“!”
First leaped off right there. And Fin immediately carried Jin-woo.
“Krehehehehehe! Kahahaha!”
Sending familiars one by one, and now he himself comes?
“Finally you arrive!”
When Jin-woo rode Fin up, Shadow Wing grinned with delight, baring its teeth.
“I deliberately played games.”
It wanted to plant despair in Jin-woo watching from below.
To say that even his proud familiars sent forward could never win.
It was behavior filled with psychological pressure and Shadow Wing’s sadistic taste in equal measure.
“So. Let me see your true strength. I’m so very curious.”
Truth be told, it was very curious.
A human who called himself a blacksmith, bearing the power of a Necromancer.
How did that human escape the cycle of infinity?
“Show me that power.”
Still, it looked down on all existence from above.
Jin-woo held a small dagger.
An Obsidian Dagger.
“You’ll stab me with that dagger? Will you try to stab my Reverse Scale? My fatal weakness?”
Every dragon possessed one fatal weakness—the Reverse Scale.
“Very well, I’ll show you. Here. Below my neck. The backwards scale. That is my weakness. But I’ve already seen that you cannot even approach me with those bones.”
Jin-woo swung the Obsidian Dagger from a distance.
“Like your familiars…….”
But in an instant, he switched equipment.
Fin, who had been rising upward, dove sharply downward.
Screech!
And what unfurled was a net.
“!”
Very wide.
Almost devouring space itself, the enormous net unfurled, and Shadow Wing, startled, beat its wings heavily to the side. But it was too late, so it used Dragon Language.
“Dragon Language – Collapse.”
As the collapse magic unfolded, the net jerked and paused once, then fell away with a sound.
“That net……!”
Did you have it from the start?
Or did you make it just now?
Either way, Shadow Wing could only be astonished. The aura emanating from the Obsidian Net was severe.
If caught in that net in this sky, one could only fall.
Jin-woo rode Fin and collected the net again.
“You seemed at ease.”
In an instant, Shadow Wing urgently freed itself from the Obsidian Net.
For the first time, Shadow Wing felt a threat from that Obsidian Net, which had appeared so at ease until now.
Jin-woo smiled and properly scratched Shadow Wing.
“Running with your tail between your legs?”
Jin-woo, who had somehow drawn a bow, now attached a net to an arrow.
“And using Dragon Language too.”
Screeeech!
It was fast.
Shadow Wing frowned. At the tip of that arrow was more than just the net.
That arrowhead.
That jet-black arrowhead accelerates further as it reaches its target!
His pride was deeply wounded by Jin-woo’s mockery, but separate from that, he had to acknowledge it.
That net is dangerous.
He absolutely must not underestimate it and be swept up in emotion.
Crunch!
Shadow Wing forced himself to rotate quickly to the side.
Thinking he’d dodged, the net’s end caught his tail in the next instant.
Thwack! He thrashed his tail violently to shake off the net. But that was exactly what Jin-woo aimed for.
“Did you think there was only one net?”
Screech!
A second net was thrown at Shadow Wing.
Impossible to dodge.
“Dragon Language – Collapse.”
The collapse Dragon Language was cast.
But it wasn’t a perfect incantation.
‘There’s no way you can use it consecutively.’
Jin-woo had already anticipated this. Great power always comes with conditions.
Crash!
Shadow Wing was completely engulfed by the Obsidian Net.
It twisted its body and swung its wings trying to break free, but the more it did, the more tangled it became.
“Nether Breath.”
Whoosh!
Then burning it away would suffice.
But it didn’t burn.
“Because I made it from obsidian.”
The net couldn’t possibly burn.
A dragon that once dominated the sky entangled in a single net. It was quite humiliating.
Yet Shadow Wing didn’t slacken its vigilance. This net—the more it moved, the more mana drained away.
“Damn it.”
The net was absorbing mana.
Now Shadow Wing was considerably defenseless.
This was the perfect moment for additional attacks to rain down.
But Jin-woo simply waited.
He showed no sign of attacking at all. He simply seemed to be waiting for Shadow Wing to fall to the ground.
Could it be. It even calculated the range of Dragon Language?
Or was it ignoring him?
No, there was no way it could ignore him.
That meticulous one hides gravity within lightness.
Shadow Wing suddenly realized.
That one is deliberately seizing victory over me! This is the manifestation of his perfect prudence!
Of course, Jin-woo had a different purpose.
Boom!
Shadow Wing fell to the ground.
“So that was the trick. To escape with that skill.”
Without doubt, he’d escaped with that miraculous Crafting skill and dexterity.
Boom!
Shadow Wing, having fallen to the ground, glared at Jin-woo.
“Do you think my power will vanish just because I cannot fly?”
“Surely not.”
Jin-woo shook his head.
“Simply so our attacks can land.”
Shadow Wing gnashed his teeth. Indeed, that human was cautious. A dangerous being to the core.
Whoosh.
Pur, recovered by now, and First, who hadn’t managed a proper attack, stood at the four corners around Shadow Wing.
“Payback time.”
The familiars all rushed at Shadow Wing at once.
Screech!
“Where!”
As Shadow Wing said, losing flight didn’t mean losing power. He dodged every attack precisely.
No.
He permitted exactly one attack.
An attack by Jin-woo with the Obsidian Dagger.
But it dealt no damage. Shadow Wing’s current defense was quite high, so Jin-woo’s attack, not using Familiar Unity, simply bounced off.
“?”
But something felt wrong.
“What are you doing now…….”
That attack that just grazed past—it wasn’t an attack.
The Contamination Level filling Shadow Wing’s body had been recovered by that grazing strike.
More precisely, it had been purified.
“Get yourself clean and live.”
Shadow Wing’s corruption was a force of the same type as Dark Energy.
‘Of course it’s not identical so absorption itself won’t work.’
But extraction was possible.
‘And moreover.’
Jin-woo had combined Soul Sight with Deep Refining Art.
‘I have the power to purify and bleach right now.’
“I need your flame.”
Jin-woo spoke.
“Your very clean flame.”
Roar!
“You…… purify me?”
Shadow Wing wore an expression it had never shown even once before.
“To have my flame?”
“I don’t need corrupted flame.”
“You insane human—!”
He was the real deal.
A genuinely insane human.

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