The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 151

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Chapter 151
151.
The Flam Continent was in upheaval due to the Main Scenario Quest.
The Flam Continent was home to several kingdoms.
The most prominent among them were the Grona Kingdom, with the Abalak Kingdom and Malen Duchy flanking it on either side.
These three kingdoms occupied considerable territory on the Flam Continent, and where their borders touched, small-scale battles erupted daily.
The major guilds maintained close ties with these kingdoms, and the moment towers began sprouting up, they threw themselves into competition, leading knights from their respective realms to monopolize ownership rights over the towers and secure their own interests.
“No. This is Abalak Kingdom territory! The tower that rose here falls under our Realize Guild’s authority!”
“These bastards. When the hell did they get here? Has our intel been compromised?”
Mirekan, the largest city in the south.
A tower had materialized here as well, and the top-tier guilds were clashing over who would claim it.
The number one guild by current ranking was the DoYak Guild.
Below them stood the Realize Guild and Jiryong Guild.
“You DoYak bastards! This isn’t honorable! We arrived first!”
“We’ve been preparing since before that. If anyone’s being dishonorable, isn’t it you? Didn’t you watch the video?”
The DoYak Guild was brimming with motivation.
“We’ll be the ones to clear this tower.”
To film the second Netflix production, they needed to conquer this four-star tower.
Grind—
Casino, the Guild Master of Realize, clenched his teeth.
“Guild Master!”
“They’re pushing in from behind!”
Casino received the urgent report.
“It’s Kalantierre!”
“Slayer is approaching as well!”
Kalantierre was a user known as the Martial Sage.
Ranked third.
The DoYak Guild currently had Slayer, who ranked first, and Kalantierre, who ranked third.
“He’s wearing Pendant’s new equipment…!”
And they were equipped with fresh gear from Pendant, one of the top-tier craftsmen.
But that wasn’t all.
“It appears Inclassic Equipment is present as well…!”
They also had gear from Inclassic, whose crafting skill rivaled the number one craftsman, though these were older pieces.
“Hah.”
The situation was essentially irreversible.
“Damn it.”
The Realize and Jiryong Guilds, while among the top five and bristling with ranked players, could only yield to the DoYak Guild.
“Where’s the DoYak Guild Master!”
Casino shouted. But instead of an answer, Kalantierre began approaching. Slayer hadn’t even moved from his position.
Shaaack—
Thud. Thud.
Waves of force rippled outward with each step.
An overwhelming presence. As Kalantierre drew near, the ranked players of Realize tensed visibly.
Who was Kalantierre?
A PVP powerhouse who had single-handedly defeated an entire kingdom’s knights.
The reason the DoYak Guild had been able to seize control after the Main Scenario began was because they’d recruited Kalantierre.
With Kalantierre specializing in PVP and handling users while the overwhelmingly dominant Slayer conquered the tower, the DoYak Guild had acquired an unprecedented one-two punch.
“Kalantierre… going to DoYak…”
The strongest PVP fighter.
It was said that only Slayer could oppose him, but now that Slayer and Kalantierre were allies? The balance was absurd.
“…Retreat. Fall back, all of you!”
The Guild Master of Realize ground his teeth.
“So this is how they’re going to play it?”
Then fine.
“We form an alliance. First, we bring down that overwhelmingly dominant number one. Then we’ll see.”
“Guild Master, but Kalantierre and Slayer are formidable in their own right, and with that equipment, we can’t match them. Even if we form an alliance…”
“Then we just get better equipment made!”
The Guild Master spoke with certainty.
To overcome the gear they were wearing, all they had to do was commission something from a craftsman of higher caliber.
“But Starlight and Inclassic are impossible to commission!”
The only craftsmen surpassing Pendant were Starlight and Inclassic. The crafter they knew as Han-woo ranked below Pendant.
“What about the Rising Star?”
At the Guild Master’s words, the Vice Guild Master’s eyes widened.
When it came to rising talents these days, there was only one name.
“I’m certain. Absolutely certain. That person is Jin. It has to be Jin.”
Jin-woo.
This was the conclusion drawn from closely monitoring his trajectory.
He had single-handedly cleared two towers and rescued JBS from the brink of collapse.
No one had expected it.
That JBS would recruit Jin-woo and beat both KBC and OBC with that content.
A hundred million views in a week was truly remarkable.
“He single-handedly revived a dying JBS. And inside the tower, he was crafting obsessively. A crafter with that kind of focus? Only Jin. No one else could pull it off.”
JBS, which had never once succeeded in the New Gene field and had only accumulated failures, suddenly posted overwhelming viewership numbers.
That alone made it clear.
His talent was no ordinary thing. And there’s only one person with talent like that.
“A rising star who’s already worn the crown. Not just a new star, but a true prodigy.”
He was Jin from Eternal Sunshine.
If that were true, he would be the only true counter to the current powerhouses of New Gene.
“To topple DoYak, we need his equipment.”
They absolutely had to purchase gear from him.
“But will Jin-woo even accept a commission from us?”
“There’s only one way to find out. Besides, we’ve just won a bid. An Orc-ish Axe.”
Asking other craftsmen would only get them stuck in place.
“But in the past, the guild obtained a bid and made contact with Jin-woo.”
However, Jin-woo had politely declined.
“That was probably when we tried to recruit him to join the guild. But we won’t make that offer this time.”
The Realize Guild Master had one specific request in mind.
“We can’t beat Slayer and Kalantierre anyway. But we can take the ranked players below them.”
Slayer and Kalantierre were anomalies. They had no intention of trying to defeat them.
Their target was the other ranked players beneath them.
“Those two will inevitably be away more often. They’re focused on the content.”
If they aimed for that window, they had enough competitive power.
The Realize Guild Master raised his hand.
“Fall back! All of you, retreat before we needlessly die!”
“W-we’re really retreating?”
“To retreat like this…”
The guild members ground their teeth, their pride wounded.
“This isn’t just running away.”
The Realize Guild Master’s hand trembled as well.
“It’s a strategic retreat!”
A tactical withdrawal to gain three steps of advantage.
* * *
“Show us the byproducts of the Embodiment of Evil.”
At Jin-woo’s words, the Guild Master’s expression shifted to confusion.
The Embodiment of Evil was the tower’s boss.
In other words, he was asking for the greatest reward from the tower conquest.
But Gold Guide thought it was only natural to provide that much to smooth things over in this situation.
Giving it wasn’t a problem.
The problem was—
“I… forgive me for asking…”
“You’re saying the tower conquest won’t be easy?”
From the start, the Agent Guild’s reason for coming here wasn’t confidence in clearing the tower—it was to attempt the challenge.
Jin-woo smiled at this.
“I’ll show you some equipment, so don’t worry.”
That confidence—
“Then it’ll be possible.”
Enveloped Gold Guide in an instant.
“Clear it.”
* * *
“Wow…”
The Agent Guild members who had died and been resurrected by Jin-woo’s Familiars wore identical expressions in the same space.
“I… don’t even know what to call this.”
“Since New Gene started, this is the first time I’ve ever experienced this. From a single person…”
“We just… completely lost.”
Now they understood.
“I finally see why the Guild Master was so shaken.”
“I thought maybe he was being overly cautious…”
It wasn’t overly cautious at all.
It was a perfectly reasonable response.
“Only tower rankers like Slayer or Kalantierre should be capable of this… or so I thought.”
Never before had they been so utterly helpless in defeat.
Of course, Jin-woo was no ordinary blacksmith, and he was a special user who commanded Necromancers, but in practical terms he wasn’t even ranked in the top tiers.
“We lost to a non-combat ranked user.”
“And he still had room to spare.”
Jin-woo had held back in this battle.
“He seemed quite at ease, truthfully.”
“And he didn’t even summon all his Familiars.”
Jin-woo had neither drawn upon the full power of his Familiars nor summoned them all.
“The Bone Dragon—I’d never seen it before…”
“Could he have crafted that himself?”
If that were true, then this outcome could only be counted as fortunate.
“But what do we do now? Vice Guild Master?”
The Vice Guild Master had also died and been resurrected.
“First… we need to expel the backer.”
Before considering anything else, they had to remove the backer.
“Because of that bastard, this whole mess started.”
But it wouldn’t end there.
“But expelling the backer won’t cool his anger, sir.”
“The Guild Master will have to handle that. Hah, I don’t know. I don’t know. Shouldn’t the Guild Master be arriving soon?”
The last sight they had was the Guild Master rushing ahead, declaring he would resolve it himself.
So they waited a bit.
Bang—!
Someone entered the building.
“What’s happened here!”
It was Hanssom, an executive.
Upon arrival, Hanssom was taken aback seeing all the resurrected guild members.
“There… seems to be about 200 people here.”
That would be everyone who went out for the tower conquest.
“Yes, Hanssom.”
An executive spoke to Hanssom.
“We all died. To Jin-woo.”
“Hah.”
He’d suspected as much.
“The Vice Guild Master prodded him again. A second time.”
“You damn bastard… this backer, seriously!”
Hanssom couldn’t help but curse aloud.
“Where’s the Guild Master!?”
“We don’t know. Since he hasn’t returned yet, he seems to be alive.”
There was a sliver of hope that the situation might have resolved well.
Of course, resolved well meant that he’d managed to placate Jin-woo’s anger.
If he hadn’t…
“Everyone, prepare to head back to the tower. This is not the time to be sitting around.”
Hanssom called out loudly.
“Go back…? To fight again?”
“No, don’t be stupid! You just fought!”
Hanssom shook his head in disbelief.
“All 200 of us need to go apologize!”
Hanssom looked at the executive as if to say he was unbelievable.
“Otherwise the guild is done for.”
Hanssom spoke with absolute certainty.

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