The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 198

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Chapter 198
Episode 198.
Obsidian Light Mine.
Yur, Artemus, and the Attendant were mining ore deposits deep within this cavern.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
“Phew.”
“They’re coming!”
The most dangerous thing in a mine wasn’t difficult ore deposits.
It was the monsters that crept up silently while you were absorbed in mining.
Especially in the Obsidian Light Mine, there lived a fearsome creature.
“Black-Nosed Goblins!”
Black-Nosed Goblins.
They had small bodies befitting goblins, but the power they possessed was no goblin-grade threat.
Curse of Petrification.
A skill that literally turned users to stone and paralyzed them, and they also possessed the ability to rot equipment if they touched it with their hands.
“One or two is manageable. We can handle it.”
Yur and Artemus stepped forward.
But in an instant, their expressions hardened.
Rustle.
Rustle, rustle.
It wasn’t just one.
At least a dozen Black-Nosed Goblins had encircled them without warning.
“Seems like too few people ever come here.”
“They must have been waiting for someone to show up.”
Yur and Artemus clicked their tongues.
In this situation, even the strongest resistance wouldn’t be enough to withstand the Curse of Petrification.
But then.
The Attendant stepped forward.
“Whoosh.”
“Shriek!”
The Black-Nosed Goblins gained tremendous power and lost their ability to speak. With a threat, they spread their hands toward the Attendant like drawing arrows.
-Curse of Petrification!
“!”
A dozen Black-Nosed Goblins simultaneously unleashed the Curse of Petrification, and Yur, Artemus, and the Attendant were all caught in it.
“I-I’m sorry, sir.”
“We didn’t expect them to come as a team like this…”
The two miners were only worried about the Attendant. They would come back even if they died. But if the Attendant died here, neither of them knew what would happen.
They thought that as an undead, he would naturally revive, but if that wasn’t the case, they would lose the Attendant forever here.
Beyond the shame they’d face to Jin-woo, losing a good partner infuriated them.
“Ughhhh!”
Yur tried desperately to open his item window.
He had a hidden trump card.
That would be able to save the Attendant.
“Don’t worry, sir.”
But.
Click. Click.
There was no need for that.
The Attendant moved as if nothing had happened.
“!”
The Attendant lightly rolled his feet.
“Don’t interfere.”
Then he swung his Pickaxe toward the Black-Nosed Goblin at the front.
Crack!
“Shrieeek!”
The Black-Nosed Goblin groaned and toppled forward.
“He is waiting for me.”
The Attendant’s purpose was to bring the finest ores to Jin-woo.
His master, Jin-woo, was a monster of a person who grew stronger the moment time was granted to him.
So even if he mined the finest ore he could gather now, a mistimed delivery would make that ore worthless.
So he had to mine quickly.
“I have no time to share with you.”
The Attendant disposed of the Black-Nosed Goblins in an instant.
“S-sir.”
“Let’s continue, masters.”
Yur and Artemus laughed as they looked at the Attendant.
The word “masters” carried considerable weight.
“Ahem.”
“Ahem-hem!”
The familiar, the Attendant, began steadily absorbing the techniques of these two top-tier miners.
“Sir. Ore is, you see…”
“Sir! When mining such tricky ore, you adjust your strength like this…”
The techniques the two miners taught were quite advanced.
“Ah, so this is pickaxe work that transcends the mortal realm.”
At those words, Yur couldn’t control the corners of his mouth.
“Well, not quite to that extent.”
And now came praise for his strength control.
“To breathe life into mere stone ore through this work… it’s truly magnificent. That I’m learning such things—tears just flow. You’re amazing, Artemus.”
As tears streamed from the undead’s eyes, the two miners couldn’t help but feel heartwarmed.
“Then show this too!”
“Teach him this!”
The Attendant perfectly absorbed the teachings of the two miners.
And as a result.
-You have obtained ore!
The Attendant mined ore.
Brilliant flash!
The ore that burst from the deposit emitted enormous light.
It wasn’t just light.
Black light.
A brilliantly black light—quite a contradiction indeed.
“Wha—!”
Even the two miners were shocked.
“This is…”
“Oblivion Crystal!”
The highest-grade ore that could be mined in this cavern. And the Attendant had mined it.
“Finally.”
-Oblivion Crystal [SSR Rank]
The Attendant was surprised by the grade he’d never seen before.
“It’s the finest ore you can get from the Obsidian Light Mine!”
“Sir! I knew you could do it!”
The two miners were delighted yet disappointed. They thought that because the Attendant had mined an Oblivion Crystal, he would immediately return to Jin-woo.
But the Attendant still held his Pickaxe.
“One will not satisfy him.”
The Attendant knew his master well.
“Let’s clear the mine together.”
The two miners smiled as they looked at the Attendant.
“Yeah. That’s the way!”
* * *
Ding!
-User Jin-woo has cleared the Tower of Trials.
-Clue granted upon completion of conditions.
Suomisa.
Currently, Suomisa was filled with talk about Jin-woo.
Ever since CEO Lee Hwa-shin recognized Jin-woo’s achievements, the company had been pushing him aggressively.
Combined with the advertising effect from Netflix, collaboration proposals were pouring in, and nearly every department was handling work related to Jin-woo.
“Little Jin-woo. Well, he was already big to begin with, so already-big Jin-woo has grown absolutely enormous.”
GM Kim Na-yoon was utterly flabbergasted.
“GM Na-yoon.”
“Na-yoon~”
“Na-yoon!”
GM Kim Na-yoon had no attention left for the endless stream of work requests.
“The bonuses are rolling in, which is great!”
But she couldn’t forget her primary duties either.
“The Tower of Trials—that’s the place the Slayer cleared, isn’t it?”
He cleared an already-cleared location?
“Oh.”
GM Kim Na-yoon realized it after seeing the notification.
“It wasn’t fully cleared—the true boss was never defeated.”
And Jin-woo had defeated that true boss.
“How did you know?”
Suddenly, GM Kim Na-yoon realized something.
“You watched the Slayer’s video?”
She hadn’t expected him to keep tabs on the Slayer’s content as well.
“That’s scary—honestly scary. At this point, you’d think anyone would let their guard down. But you monitored it properly.”
Not only did he watch the Slayer’s video, but he also confirmed the part the Slayer couldn’t clear.
“How sharp are your eyes?”
And that wasn’t all.
“We haven’t even digested the New Continent yet.”
Yet he’d already received clues for the content after the New Continent.
“I wonder if Jin-woo is aware of this…”
The person who’d cleared the most towers wasn’t Jin-woo.
As soon as the Main Quest began, Do-yap had deliberately cleared towers here and there and currently held first place in tower clears.
But the person leading the way was Jin-woo.
“He’s the one spearheading the Main Quest.”
The core key to it all lay with Jin-woo.
Of course.
“Urgent message from Calantierre!”
“Starlight sent an urgent message!”
“Inclassic too!”
The top-ranked users were also accelerating their progression through the Main Quest.
“Until now it was calm.”
For one year after opening.
Before Jin-woo started playing, New Gene had seemed stuck in a stagnant state with no further change.
“A storm. It’s a storm.”
Since Jin-woo entered the game and stirred things up, everything had begun to change.
* * *
Having exited the Tower of Trials, Jin-woo smiled as he gazed at his well-stocked inventory.
“The Slayer must be disappointed. Missing out on this.”
Just thinking about the materials the true boss, Gamigin, had dropped made him quite pleased.
“But strictly speaking.”
In fact, strictly speaking, the Slayer couldn’t really be said to have cleared this tower.
“Still, thanks to him, I cleared it well.”
Jin-woo summoned Moltus.
“You played a big part, Moltus.”
“No, sir.”
Moltus bowed his head, somewhat embarrassed.
“I’ll perform my role properly from now on.”
He vowed never to be so helpless again.
Exiting the tower, Jin-woo chuckled and sent the tower video to Dongwoo.
“This should be pretty fun.”
Once the Netflix episode three video went live, the subscribers to his JinTube channel would only multiply.
Then it would be good to keep showing the newcomers large-scale content, even if not quite as grand as episode three.
“A Tower of Trials clear video counts as major content.”
After sending the video, Jin-woo looked at his accumulated materials.
Following the Underworld and now the Tower of Trials.
He had quite a few unused materials left.
“I’ve collected plenty.”
Now it was time to use them.
Jin-woo had quite a lot he needed to craft.
“First, let me make something decent to put on the Auction House.”
Just thinking about using titanium made Jin-woo feel quite good. From using it multiple times in the tower, he knew it was a material with endless appeal.
Ding!
After sending the video to Dongwoo, Jin-woo checked his mailbox.
“Dongwoo’s got a lot of messages.”
Feedback on the previously sent video and the channel.
“The response from overseas users is hot.”
-JinTube Channel Viewer Analysis
-JinTube Channel Roadmap
“As expected from a highly educated person—it’s all organized cleanly.”
Jin-woo opened the file.
JinTube was currently recording tremendous growth, the highest growth rate among all new MiTubers launched this year.
“At the center of that high growth rate.”
Overseas subscribers were at the heart of that growth.
“The Auction House has also seen considerable interest from overseas users.”
He had deliberately listed the Tentacle Whip on the European Union Auction House. And the response there was substantial.
It meant that Jin-woo’s fans were spreading globally.
“It’s thanks to Netflix. A billion-dollar ad campaign properly exploding is bringing overseas fans.”
Thanks to Netflix pushing him with real intent, Jin-woo was experiencing a proper trickle-down effect. Everyone who took an interest in him found their way to JinTube.
But if simply pushing someone could guarantee it would explode, Netflix would keep pushing whoever they wanted.
This wasn’t a trickle-down effect. It was a result Jin-woo had created himself.
-Please episode three.
-Please episode three!
-When’s episode three coming?
-Korean blacksmith. When’s episode three?!
-You just advertise and don’t upload episode three—I’m going crazy.
-Around this point, episode three should be coming soon.
-Wait and see. Surely it’ll come, right? Content doesn’t just pop out nonstop.
-But JinTube uploads all the time.
JinTube channel.
And on the SharkNet community, conversations about Jin-woo never ceased.
-I heard a rumor that Jin-woo made an SSR Rank item this time.
-Is it real?
“I only showed the Sickle of Judgment briefly.”
Users’ eyes were really keen to have figured it out from just that.
“That’s something to show through the Auction House.”
In the Tower of Trials, Jin-woo had crafted several pieces of equipment using titanium.
Not all were SSR Rank, but everything he’d made with a hammer was SSR Rank.
He planned to list all this equipment on the Auction House.
“It’s going to be revealed in videos anyway.”
The fact that Jin-woo had reached SSR Rank would come out soon.
Jin-woo immediately took out the Phantom Titanium.
“Time to get back to basics.”
The item that first drew attention to Jin-woo on the Auction House was the Pickaxe.
-Holding my breath until the Pickaxe is listed.
-Breath…
-Breath…
-About time it was this turn. Please.
“You’ve been waiting long.”
Jin-woo entered the Auction House first.
-Auction completed!
-Payment received!
Jin-woo received the auction payment for the Tentacle Whip.
“Right. I knew it would sell. It’s niche equipment, but precisely because it is, there’s a solid buyer base for it.”
Beyond the price, finding a user who would use it well was itself an advantage of this unique item.
‘If they use it well, the maker can’t help but feel good.’
“Oh.”
While browsing the European Union Auction House, Jin-woo spotted a familiar username.
Ethel.
“Is that the Ethel I know?”
A crafter user who makes axes exceptionally well.
“I remember being impressed by their work.”
Many users had transferred from other games to New Gene with the same usernames.
“If that’s the case.”
Jin-woo felt quite glad.
“I should greet them then.”
He was planning to make quite the grand introduction.

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