The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 150

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Episode 150
Episode 150.
Thud!
The moment Jin-woo leaped down, First and Pur halted their advance.
Both his familiars were overwhelmingly powerful.
Yet the moment their master fell away, the guild members floundered, unsure what to do.
Jin-woo landed and gripped his scythe lightly, striding forward with steady steps.
“First, Pur.”
Jin-woo summoned one more familiar.
“Moltus.”
A piercing shriek tore the air.
Moltus materialized, wreathed in Dark Energy.
“Show them what you’re capable of.”
At Jin-woo’s command, Moltus raised the Skystone Orb high.
First and Pur unleashed their power in full force.
Orders had been given.
They had to demonstrate the limits of the equipment their master had bestowed.
Snap!
First and Pur shot outward to either side like rays of light.
Boom!
A deafening explosion erupted simultaneously.
“I, insane!”
That had been merely a taste.
With a single word from Jin-woo, his two familiars’ strength became incomparably greater.
Jin-woo walked forward casually.
The guild member before him backpedaled hastily.
“That’s been bothering me since earlier.”
There was something that had nagged at him continuously.
“Who made your equipment?”
Jin-woo’s brow furrowed.
The Agent Guild member wore quite ornate armor.
It had a scale-like appearance and looked well-finished at first glance.
Yet from Jin-woo’s eyes, there was far too much to be concerned about.
“I, it’s Gremlin’s work!”
The Agent Guild members unconsciously spoke with honorifics.
Gremlin was the Agent Guild’s exclusive master craftsman.
“Hmm.”
Jin-woo walked forward and closed in on the guild member, who panicked and swung his blade.
A sharp whoosh.
Jin-woo sidestepped, then tapped the connection joints of the man’s armor three times in quick succession—tap, tap, tap.
The equipment crumbled with a sound like shattering ice.
-Durability decreases!
-Due to reduced durability, the armor shatters!
“This part’s far too weak. A light tap and it falls apart like this. You can’t even call that armor.”
The Agent Guild members gasped at Jin-woo’s action.
He hadn’t used a weapon.
He’d simply pressed his index finger down three times.
Of course, with his high stats, even tapping could deal significant damage, but the guild member was level 300.
Meanwhile, Jin-woo was level 200.
Moreover, Gremlin’s equipment was what all the Agent Guild members wore.
“This, this is impossible.”
“You’re basically naked right now.”
Jin-woo gestured to the man.
“What’s your name?”
“Kim Sung-jun.”
“Not your real name.”
The man blurted out his actual name in his agitation.
“I, it’s… Woojeong-eol, from my house’s water purifier ice dispenser…”
“Right then, Woojeong-eol. You’ve been going around practically naked this whole time.”
While everyone reeled in shock,
Gremlin, the exclusive master craftsman who had arrived with reinforcements, stood frozen, mouth agape.
That armor was something he’d carefully crafted. To Jin-woo it looked sloppy, but it was merely armor with inferior workmanship.
“The Mithril Scale Steel Armor… destroyed so easily?”
Crack! Boom!
With Jin-woo’s destruction of the armor, his familiars’ assault began in earnest.
“Gaaaah!”
“No, insane! My sword broke!”
First, wielding the Balam Thunder Stone War Hammer for the first time, began growing steadily more accustomed to the massive weapon.
Crack! Boom!
With a UR+ Grade war hammer in hand, First was now in a completely different physical condition than before.
“Growing… accustomed… to… this… power.”
Hero-Grade Undead.
Like Pur, First had also become Hero-Grade Undead.
As a Phantom Knight, First was gradually growing familiar with the baseline enhancements to his body.
And with each increase in familiarity, more guild members fell.
He displayed the full force of his Hero-Grade power without restraint.
“We’ve got him! Finally!”
Twenty guild members finally caught First’s movements and surrounded him, unleashing their most powerful skills.
“Guardian Strike!”
“Fierce Tiger Burst Strike!”
“Dark Shadow: Hidden Blade Dance!”
“Fire Windbloom.”
Crash!
Yet First remained unscathed.
Not that he’d taken no damage at all.
“No, insane!”
“Manageable… much… tolerable.”
He pressed forward undeterred. There was no stopping his advance.
First carved a path through them alone.
“Ah…”
At the rear,
Goldguide, the guild leader watching from the hilltop, furrowed his brow.
He’d known.
But seeing it firsthand was far more horrifying.
“He shouldn’t have appeared…”
He’d brought his full strength to attempt the Tower.
Tower attempts were currently the cornerstone content causing major shifts in Guild Rankings. He couldn’t afford to miss such an opportunity if there was any chance of success.
That’s why he had no choice but to come.
And Jin-woo had timed this perfectly.
One hundred fell in an instant.
“Jin isn’t even fighting properly…”
After destroying the armor, Jin-woo had stopped fighting. He merely observed his familiars at work.
Yet despite this, a hundred had fallen, and his reinforcements were now reduced to barely half strength.
At this rate, the Tower attempt meant nothing.
This field itself was the Tower.
Jin-woo was the boss.
“Ah…!”
An old memory surfaced.
His guild members being cut down by rankers wielding Jin’s equipment.
It was happening again here in New Gene.
“Guild Leader! Guild Leader—!”
The vice guild leader cried out, seeing the leader standing motionless.
“An order!”
Only the guild leader could respond to this situation.
Fighting back was impossible.
Retreat was necessary. There was no other answer. Otherwise, negotiation with Jin-woo was required.
Or all remaining reinforcements would be slaughtered.
Death on the Field naturally resulted in lost Stats and Experience Points.
If luck was poor, equipment could be destroyed as well.
If that happened, not only would the Guild Ranking fail to rise, they’d be eliminated from competition and cast outside the top 100.
It meant Jin-woo alone could destroy the entire guild.
He had to decide quickly.
He had to find a way to escape this nightmare.
“Negotiate.”
The guild leader muttered to himself.
“We have to negotiate.”
Otherwise,
“We’ll fall out of the top 100.”
Breaking into the top 100 was brutally difficult.
But falling out was far too easy. Once expelled, it would be over.
Boom! Crash!
A dragon of bone filled the sky.
Three familiars led by Jin-woo dominated the ground.
And Jin-woo stood at the center of it all.
Flee? Of course he could. But word would spread.
That a single Jin-woo had utterly destroyed the guild.
“Either way… word will spread.”
In the end, negotiation was the only option.
Retreat was already off the table.
“I’m going.”
Goldguide steadied himself.
A sharp howl.
Jin-woo’s Sacred Domain Declaration covered this entire field, so he’d need every buff available to approach. That was the only way.
Goldguide stamped the ground with force.
“Ugh—”
“Won’t work. It’s over.”
“Can’t stop this.”
If even First and Pur couldn’t stop it, what could Moltus possibly do?
Even attempting to move through the sky, the Bone Dragon severely constrained his mobility.
The reinforcements were now down to half strength.
“What do I do…”
Then Goldguide appeared.
“Guild Leader!”
“Guild Leader—!”
“Fall back!”
Goldguide, arriving like a hero, turned his body toward Jin-woo.
Then he charged.
First and Pur naturally moved to intercept.
A piercing clash!
He could block once.
That was Goldguide’s calculation as he activated a skill.
“Complete Defense.”
But that thought itself was arrogance.
“Kgh…!”
The Jin of before and the Jin-woo of now.
Part of him wanted to feel that difference firsthand. But he couldn’t afford to.
Complete Defense shattered entirely.
The defense wasn’t merely broken. That single blow had nearly killed him. If he’d died then, everything would’ve ended.
“I, I apologize! I haven’t come to fight!”
Goldguide staggered backward and shouted.
“Jin-woo! I am Goldguide of the Agent Guild! The Guild Leader! Please, allow me to apologize first!”
Goldguide hurried his apology. First and Pur relaxed their attack stance and withdrew.
Then Jin-woo slowly stepped forward.
“A bit late for that.”
Jin-woo smiled and sat down.
“Shall we talk?”
As Jin-woo sat, Goldguide had no choice but to follow.
“…It stopped.”
The Agent Guild executives watching finally drew a shaky breath.
The battlefield halted when Jin-woo halted.
This field was entirely Jin-woo’s domain.
A deep, pervasive howl.
The Dark Energy emanating from Jin-woo proved it.
Bathed in the Sacred Domain Declaration’s immense power, his familiars’ eyes glowed blue as they watched the Agent Guild members ceaselessly.
“First of all…”
Goldguide bent his waist at more than a right angle.
“We made a grave error on our side.”
“A grave error?”
Jin-woo clicked his tongue.
“This doesn’t end as a mere error.”
……
Goldguide gritted his teeth. He felt the fury in Jin-woo’s words.
‘I made it excessive intentionally.’
JinTube and the JBS Channel.
From now on, Jin-woo’s name would spread widely, and as many people came to like him, just as many would come to hate him.
‘I needed to warn those fools.’
That’s why he acted with such excess.
He’d shown them what would happen if they picked a fight.
‘PvP has its own charm, I suppose.’
But what Jin-woo truly wanted wasn’t PvP.
‘Battles between Crafters are far more entertaining.’
“How should we make this right?”
“To properly handle such a grave error…”
Jin-woo folded his arms and remained still.
“…appropriate compensation will be necessary.”
Goldguide answered. The initiative in this conversation belonged entirely to Jin-woo now.
“Understood. We cannot make complete restitution, but we will compensate you as much as we are able.”
‘Pushing further won’t be wise.’
In the end, a win-win outcome was best.
“What I want as compensation is…”
Goldguide’s eyes widened at Jin-woo’s words.

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