The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 149

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Chapter 149
149.
It had finally come to pass.
Exactly what he’d feared. Dreaded with every fiber of his being.
“Damn it all.”
The guild master’s curse made the other members tense.
“You bastard! You followed me!?”
Backer, still struggling to grasp the situation, shot to his feet. Then his confidence surged back.
How many Agent Guild members had gathered here?
“Idiots. Over a hundred! A hundred elite soldiers!”
A hundred-odd elite members of the Agent Guild.
And his older brother, the guild master himself, was here too!
“My brother’s incredibly strong!”
Gold Guide was a master swordsman, ranking high on the leaderboards. His equipment was exceptional as well.
Yet Gold Guide’s expression was deeply troubled.
Dark energy rippling outward.
Debuffs spreading to every guild member.
Jin-woo gazed slowly downward from above.
Then, with a sharp snap of his fingers—
“Ah…….”
“A Bone Dragon……?”
While the guild members’ attention fixed on the Bone Dragon,
subordinates emerged from the dark energy blanketing the ground.
Shrieeeeek—!
“!”
First and Pur.
The moment the two subordinates appeared, the Agent Guild members grew deeply uneasy.
The aura they radiated was far from ordinary.
Underworld Flame.
And Underworld Chill.
These two subordinates, wielding opposing powers, bore powerful equipment as well.
As Jin-woo’s formidable pair appeared before them, the Agent Guild members gripped their weapons.
Jin-woo surveyed the Agent Guild members from atop the Bone Dragon.
‘Hmm.’
Until now, Jin-woo had primarily faced monsters.
‘Monsters and users are certainly different.’
Monsters possessed basic defenses, their strength determined by their tier.
But users had to account not only for their inherent power but also their equipment and skills.
‘In terms of difficulty, users are far higher.’
Jin-woo had never tested his equipment against actual users.
His fight with Backer had been far too one-sided to even call a proper test.
And above all, Jin-woo’s true strength lay in his subordinates.
‘UR+ Rank. Let’s see how they perform against users.’
Testing equipment through PVP was essential for reaching the next tier.
Shrieeeeek—!
The aura spread by Declaration of Sanctuary froze the Agent Guild members in place. Some could still move thanks to their Debuff Removal skills, but most could not.
“They’re coming……!”
The sudden turn of events left the Agent Guild members panicked. But if their opponents were clearly hostile, they couldn’t simply endure it.
After all, hadn’t they come here to conquer the Tower Conquest!?
Yet as First and Pur charged forward, they quickly formed a defensive line.
The situation was already clear to them.
Everything that the guild’s embarrassment, Vice-Guild Master Backer, had done had come back to haunt the Agent Guild catastrophically.
“Formation! Now!”
For now, they had no choice but to withstand the assault.
“We’ll attack, Guild Master!”
Yet some of the officers didn’t feel particularly threatened either.
Jin-woo of Eternal Sunshine.
Famous, certainly, but ultimately just a blacksmith.
There was no need to fear a mere blacksmith this much.
They thought perhaps the guild master was overreacting. So when Jin-woo’s two equipment-clad subordinates came charging, they decided to meet the attack head-on.
“There are only a few of them!”
The Agent Guild numbered a hundred-odd members, while the subordinates were merely two. Jin-woo and the Bone Dragon hovered above, but they showed no intention of descending.
Confidence surged through them.
Crack—.
First stomped the ground and closed the distance to the vanguard in incredible speed.
War Hammer raised high.
“Block it!”
Screeeeeeee—!
Bang—!
The hammer came down with full force.
“Aaaaaaaagh—!”
The power was devastating.
Despite three members holding formation to absorb the strike, the damage refused to distribute.
Craaaaaash—!
“Gaaaaaah—!”
“Ugh……!”
The three were sent flying backward as if swept by a gale.
One blow.
Three members fell to critical condition.
“!”
“M-madness!”
Even with the shock, they could barely track First’s movements.
“To the side! Coming from the side!”
When First swept across,
Pur would follow with another rampage.
“Just two of them! Encircle them! Encircle and crush them in one stroke!”
A hundred against two. If they could encircle and coordinate their attacks, they could definitely overwhelm the pair.
“Treat them as boss monsters! We came here to conquer a Tower Conquest after all! This is far below that difficulty!”
They’d trained in combat until they could do it in their sleep.
Crash—!
Boss monsters too unleashed blows as fierce as First’s.
“They can’t sustain that power repeatedly! They’ll tire!”
“Dodge and defend!”
“We have the overwhelming advantage!”
Numerical superiority.
And experience.
“Encircle them!”
With coordination and a single coordinated strike, victory was theirs!
“Encircle—…….”
Crash—! Craaaaaash—!
Yet.
“Encircle—……!”
They couldn’t encircle.
Unmatched.
The two subordinates rampaged wildly, preventing any encirclement from forming. They seized one flank and obliterated it, and the Agent Guild members couldn’t withstand their awesome power.
In just three minutes, half the members lay fallen.
“Thunder. Shatter.”
Kaboooom—!
First unleashed Thunder Shatter.
The moment the thunder fell, Pur beside him immediately followed with Wrath’s Iron Cudgel.
Kaboooooom—!
Now only half of what remained stood.
Moreover, neither subordinate showed signs of fatigue. It made sense. They had conquered multiple Towers with Jin-woo. They’d exerted far greater power before.
And from the start.
“The. Undead. Do. Not. Grow. Weary.”
The dead did not tire.
“This is…… This can’t be…….”
The subordinates’ strength was one thing, but their equipment far exceeded expectations.
“Their attacks are…… too powerful!”
Each strike was devastating. Even with five defending, the formation itself shattered—all for naught.
Not that they were entirely helpless.
With numerical advantage, surely their attacks would connect regularly.
That should have been the case.
Craaash—!
Their attacks landed, yet couldn’t slow the pair’s advance.
Common sense didn’t apply.
And so their tactical responses were severely hampered.
“They…… weren’t planning to defend at all!”
The two subordinates had no intention of defending from the start.
Of course not. The Powerful Armor they wore was crafted by Jin-woo himself.
Since damage reduction was so effective, focusing entirely on offense was far more profitable.
Crash—!
The remaining half soon suffered the same helpless fate.
“Th-this is impossible. This can’t be happening!”
Backer watched the unfolding catastrophe with a dumbfounded expression.
Jin-woo hadn’t even descended.
Guild members were being slaughtered wholesale by merely two subordinates.
The gap in power was overwhelming.
“This is all because of me……?”
Jin-woo was far stronger than Backer had imagined.
Stronger than he could have fathomed.
One man was overwhelming a hundred guild members.
The Agent Guild now stood at a crossroads.
A crucial juncture that would determine whether they could leap to an elite guild through the Main Scenario.
And it was being destroyed because of him.
Backer’s pupils trembled continuously.
Now he understood.
Why his brother had spoken that way.
Why Hanseom had tried to stop him.
“What have I done…….”
But regret came too late.
Boom—! Crash—!
The end of despair.
Then, a loud noise erupted from behind.
Reinforcements bearing the Agent Guild’s emblem on their banners.
“What’s going on? What is this?”
These were additional guild members the guild master had called ahead for the Tower Conquest.
Of course they hadn’t been summoned for this battle, so the sight of the battlefield left them deeply bewildered.
“What……?”
“We’re under attack?”
“What guild is this!?”
In recent times, small-scale battles between guilds frequently erupted near numerous Towers.
So the reinforcements naturally assumed they were fighting another guild. They rushed in to join the fray.
“……Two people?”
A Bone Dragon floating in the sky and two warriors on the ground, rampaging with unmatched ferocity.
“How is this even happening……?”
The situation made no sense. They were being utterly overwhelmed by those three alone?
“We had a hundred…….”
Hundred-odd members had been allocated for the Tower Conquest.
Yet fewer than twenty remained now.
Which meant eighty had fallen to those three.
He desperately searched for the guild master.
Then he spotted a familiar guild member.
“Welch! What in the world happened? We’re being beaten by those three? What guild are they from!?”
“One…….”
“What?”
“We’re losing to one person. Not three……!”
Welch pointed at the two rampaging subordinates.
“Those are subordinates……!”
“!”
The master himself rode upon the Bone Dragon.
“Huh.”
He’d never heard of a Necromancer like this.
“Could it be Dotdanbae?”
Dotdanbae—a user who held a unique position among Necromancers.
Dotdanbae supposedly possessed subordinates powerful enough to conquer an entire city alone. It was said that with a single gesture, he could resurrect a thousand Undead.
There was also information suggesting he could command up to ten thousand Undead.
“That’s not it.”
The two subordinates noticed them and began charging forward with manic intensity.
The sight of them advancing, radiating dark energy, was deeply impressive.
Primal terror.
An instinct to flee gripped them with almost overwhelming force.
“It’s Jin-woo!”
“!”
Jin-woo.
At that name, the team leader who’d brought the reinforcements cried out urgently.
“Where’s the guild master…… Where is the guild master!?”
“Back there…….”
Among the despairing guild members, Jin-woo smirked, seized his Dragon Stone Chain Scythe, and leaped down.
Now that reinforcements had arrived, it was time for him to move.
“Shall we begin?”

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