The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 183

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Chapter 183
Episode 183.
European Union Auction House.
Esel’s trump card had been registered at the Auction House.
-Item registered!
“These are Twin Axes. They’ve always come as a pair.”
Where the first axe he’d uploaded had a crescent-moon edge, this one was slightly thinner.
‘Sharper.’
And it held a special ability within it.
-Huh?
-Another piece of equipment just went up.
-USSR Grade again??
-And it’s an axe!
-Wait. Isn’t this a matching pair with what he uploaded before?
The Auction House users immediately grasped Esel’s equipment concept.
-Wow.
-Twin Axes aren’t common, huh??
-USSR Twin Axes. Insane.
-Check out the design.
-Krrrrrrr.
Everyone marveled at them.
-Twin Axes are basically treated as one anyway.
-If this is his effort, then I’m bowing out. Esel really gritted his teeth to prepare this.
-Did he have some bad karma with someone??
-If he’s from Eternal Sunshine, it’s probably faster to find someone without bad karma with Jin-woo.
-Honestly, it feels more like trauma than bad karma lol
And that assessment was accurate.
This was a kind of trauma.
The trauma of feeling diminished whenever he faced Jin-woo.
But Esel had overcome it through NewGene.
“I’m erasing Jin-woo from my heart right here!”
Esel broke into a gleaming smile.
And yet.
-Popularity ranking has been updated.
-1. Jin-woo [Judgment Tentacle Whip]
The popularity ranking remained unchanged.
Another thirty minutes passed.
-Popularity ranking has been updated.
-1. Jin-woo [Judgment Tentacle Whip]
“Why, why won’t it drop?”
Esel was experiencing what the existing named users of the European Union Auction House had endured.
Jin-woo wouldn’t budge.
He remained fixed in place as though anchored to that spot.
“It doesn’t make sense. Twin Axes. USSR Grade!”
Jin-woo’s equipment was merely UR+ Rank.
And it wasn’t even a major piece of equipment.
“The material is tentacle and the finished product is a whip. Why on earth.”
The fight at the European Union Auction House was spreading through the community in real time.
As a result, Jin-woo’s Judgment Tentacle Whip received an insane influx of views.
Which meant it simply couldn’t drop.
“My numbers exploded too!”
Of course, Esel’s Twin Axes were also drawing an unprecedented reaction.
-Esel’s insane.
-Esel finally broke through.
-Isn’t this his masterpiece? I compared it with what Esel’s made recently, and nothing comes close to these Twin Axes.
Esel too had created equipment of historic caliber thanks to his showdown with Jin-woo.
But since he was losing to Jin-woo, he couldn’t decide whether to take pride in this or not.
Still, one thing was certain.
“He brings an uproar wherever he goes.”
Even though the game had changed, his skill had not.
-Judgment Tentacle Whip auction has ended!
The Judgment Tentacle Whip triumphed even over Esel and concluded its auction in first place.
And the price was nothing short of.
-Auction Price: 80 Million Gold.
-Winning Bidder: Yogurt
-Insane.
-80 million Gold burned on a UR+ Rank whip?
-Even if it is a whip made from tentacles.
-This person seems suspiciously loaded.
-Krrrrrrr.
-There’s a rumor that this person has a subcharacter. Rumor is it’s a famous Priest subcharacter.
-A Priest…… wielding a whip……?
-To each their own;;;
Ding-!
-Hall of Fame ranking has been updated.
With just a single auction, Jin-woo entered the Hall of Fame. Since only Esel had broken 100 million Gold at the European Union Auction House, Jin-woo at 80 million Gold ranked directly below him in second place.
-Wow. Sells one piece of equipment and immediately hits second place.
-Such is Jin-woo’s stature;;;
-So what’s next.
American Auction House.
This American Auction House was where the most users congregated.
It was a truly free place.
-Isn’t this where activity is most vibrant?
-Actually, they seem to favor the Auction House even more there.
-Or maybe he’s trying to dominate the European Union Auction House first.
He had surpassed Esel’s equipment and sold the Judgment Tentacle Whip, but he hadn’t yet updated the number-one ranking.
-That sounds like something Jin-woo would do based on his character.
The battle at the European Union Auction House was far from over.
* * *
Ice Elz and Skull King had said.
There was a tower in the Underworld.
‘Boros had been influenced by that tower and possessed tremendous power.’
So Jin-woo had naturally assumed there would be a tower in the Fragment-Centered City as well.
But to think he could summon that tower directly.
“Remarkable.”
‘More than I expected.’
Yuroald’s scale was immense.
“He’s far more impressive than I thought.”
When he thought about it, it made sense. For someone to possess a Tyrant-rank monster of overwhelming strength like Boros as merely a guardian familiar meant Yuroald existed on an even higher tier.
Shaaaack-.
As the tower was summoned, its doors opened.
Towers were meant to be climbed.
But this tower before him was spreading outward.
No need to climb.
It began sprawling across the entire vast Underworld city.
Shaack-. Shaaack-.
Monsters poured from the opened tower doors.
“Grrrrrruk.”
A massive one-eyed giant composed of bones.
A Skeletal Horse.
A flying skeletal griffin.
And countless high-grade spirits of the dead.
In terms of Jin-woo’s familiars, they were Special Grade Undead, just below the Hero-Grade.
And interspersed throughout were faceless knights that appeared to be Hero-Grade Undead.
“Gruk.”
Once all the monsters had poured out.
The tower slowly tilted and finally collapsed.
Crash-!
“I see. It wasn’t a summoning.”
Jin-woo’s body trembled for a moment.
It wasn’t that the tower had been summoned.
“From the start, this Underworld itself was.”
A massive tower.
And Yuroald was its master.
-Entering Underworld, Collapsed Tower of the Abyss.
Craaack-. Crack-crack-crack-!
That overwhelming restraint he’d felt from the moment they entered—it was all the tower’s power, and Yuroald’s power.
-The Tower Master of the Abyss, Yuroald, reveals his true strength.
“I hunted the Nightmare’s Warden. In exchange, I became the tower’s master.”
Craaack-. Crack-crack-.
Yuroald’s body began to transform.
“But this is not my original power. That’s why I didn’t want to draw it out.”
If things continued this way, Yuroald could only face defeat at Jin-woo’s hands.
“God. Please bear witness.”
Yuroald paid his respects to the King of the Dead, then stamped his foot forcefully.
The monsters responded.
“Target.”
Yuroald was not targeting the familiars.
Jin-woo’s familiars were quite strong, but ultimately the real threat was Jin-woo himself.
The most dangerous element must be neutralized first. Yuroald had already grasped this.
As he pointed at Jin-woo with his hand, marking him as the target, the monsters’ atmosphere shifted.
Thud-.
Stamping the ground hard, the monsters charged madly toward Jin-woo.
First and Pur gripped their weapons as they watched the monsters surge forward. They too understood that their target was Jin-woo. If they bolted out ahead, they wouldn’t be able to protect Jin-woo from those raging monsters.
“First, Pur.”
But Jin-woo instead pushed both familiars forward.
“Deal with Yuroald.”
The familiars’ primary objective was protecting Jin-woo. But they responded immediately to his command.
They judged that following Jin-woo’s orders was equivalent to protecting him.
“Command. Acknowledged.”
The tower’s monsters targeted Jin-woo.
Jin-woo’s familiars targeted Yuroald.
A battle of mutual destruction had begun, each side targeting the other’s commander.
Yuroald smirked.
“You’ve made a grave miscalculation.”
Yuroald could withstand First and Pur’s attacks to some extent. Of course, not for long.
But Jin-woo had no combat ability.
“You have equipment, though. But haven’t you already distributed your vaunted gear among your familiars!”
There was a possibility he’d kept some equipment hidden.
But it hardly mattered.
“It’s over!”
Yuroald shouted. At the same moment, First and Pur reached Yuroald first. Then they carried out the command.
Clang-!
Crash-!
As Yuroald groaned while simultaneously blocking First and Pur’s attacks.
One of the tower’s strongest-looking Hero-Grade Undead raised a greatsword wreathed in Dark Aura toward Jin-woo.
“Command. Executing.”
Shaack-.
Shrieeeeek-!
Boom-!
Jin-woo barely dodged the attack.
But immediately, a follow-up came. This time it was the massive one-eyed giant.
Jin-woo had no equipment now.
The Dragon Stone Chain Scythe was already broken, and all the additional equipment he’d prepared had been distributed to his familiars, just as Yuroald said.
His only support was Bone, Pin, and Moltus, but those three would struggle against these two hundred-plus tower monsters.
Clang-! Clang-!
Yuroald, fully grasping the situation, allowed the attacks on First and Pur to continue even as he smiled.
Once Jin-woo was dealt with, it would all be over.
These powerful familiars couldn’t fully exercise their strength without Jin-woo.
“I’ve won. I’ve won, you remnant of the old gods.”
The one-eyed giant.
And a Hero-Grade Undead and Special Grade Undead below it surrounded Jin-woo.
“Grrrrrrr.”
“Taste. The. Power. Of. The. Abyss.”
Checkmate.
Even the Underworld’s two master smiths couldn’t think to step in now.
Yet Jin-woo, the man at the center of it all, remained calm.
“Yuroald. You made one grave mistake.”
Jin-woo smiled.
“You understood more than anyone how important a promise is. Yet you didn’t keep yours. So I kept it for you. The bodies you promised to the Underworld’s spirits—I’ve made them all.”
Crash-!
Yuroald, having shoved back his two familiars, stared at Jin-woo.
“Nonsense!”
Yuroald laughed at him incredulously.
“Do you know how many spirits dwell in this Underworld?”
After hunting Boros, Yuroald had immediately sought Jin-woo.
It hadn’t taken much time.
But in that scant span of time, he’d created bodies for every single spirit in the Underworld?
Finding it absurd, Yuroald laughed at Jin-woo.
Even lies had their limits.
“484.”
That answer wasn’t expected.
But as Jin-woo stated the number at once, Yuroald’s eyes went wide.
“Not a single one missing.”
Shaaack-.
Jin-woo snapped his fingers.
“I made them all.”
Shaack-. Shaaack-!
-Sending signal to the Bone Contract signatories.
-Signatories respond in accordance with the Bone Contract.
-Warning!
-Warning!
-Wave of darkness approaches.
-Grand Summoning Ritual is activated!
Yuroald, startled, looked at Jin-woo.
The ground was trembling.
A wave of darkness was sweeping in. As a Necromancer himself, Yuroald recognized the phenomenon well.
“Aura.”
Shaaack-!
Darkness spread outward from Jin-woo’s form.
-Summoning the signatories of the Bone Contract.
-Requesting summoning.
-All signatories respond to the summoning call.
484 spirits.
At Jin-woo’s call, every single spirit answered the summoning.

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