The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 206

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Episode 206
206.
Tehent was quite tense.
Ever since he’d commissioned custom equipment from Jin-woo.
Jin-woo, who had already been famous, became a major player through Netflix, and now the whole world knew his name.
-Kugh, I keep replaying it. The crafting quality is absolutely insane. Dragon bone—no matter how hard it is, it just shatters if you apply a bit more force.
-I’ve worked with bone! The machining is incredibly tricky, and there are limits to what equipment you can make!
Because of bone’s inherent structure, all equipment made from bone had severe limitations.
For that reason, only simple gear could be crafted from it.
-To utilize bone like that…
-Among Necromancers, is there anyone who creates skeletal frameworks from bone directly like that and makes them subordinates?
-I’m an active Necromancer. I just tell them to rise and drag them around. Thank you.
-I’m an active blacksmith. I just wasted good materials trying to craft bone frameworks. Thank you.
Now people anticipated Episode 3.
-They say Episode 2 is never as good as Episode 1, but what if Episode 2 is more entertaining than the first?
-Then we can expect Episode 3 even more, right?
The wildly inflated expectations made it practically impossible for any content in Episode 3 to satisfy them.
-If that’s the case, it’s rough on the editing team, but it seems like Jin-woo would feel a lot of pressure.
-Doesn’t seem like someone who feels pressure, though.
But somehow Jin-woo seemed like he’d actually enjoy the hype.
“Jin actually likes it.”
“He’s the type to gulp down pressure like it’s nothing.”
Those who knew that Jin-woo was Jin thought that this pressure would actually help him instead.
-How do I buy Jin-woo’s equipment?!
-It went up on the Auction House this time, but the price is insane!
And so the people who’d watched the video hunted down Jin-woo’s equipment.
-The Tentacle Whip is crazy??
-Please upload more!!
The Tentacle Whip eventually sold for over 100 million Gold.
And the new Pickaxe that had been listed sold for a staggering 150 million Gold.
“Over 100 million Gold in value… that makes no sense.”
Right now, Tehent was about to receive Jin-woo’s equipment, worth 100 million Gold.
Knock-knock.
Tehent’s residence.
A log cabin on the outskirts of the city—that was his home. It was the sort of place where monsters could burst out and destroy the house and palisade alike, but for a Hunter like Tehent, it was perfect.
And cheap, too.
Creak.
When he opened the door, a skeleton stood there.
It was a rather nimble-looking skeleton.
Tehent flinched and gripped his equipment, but the moment the skeleton bowed respectfully, he froze.
“Greetings. I am Unit 2. Jin-woo sent me.”
“!”
There it was—the equipment he’d been waiting for.
“Here it is. Please verify it.”
What Unit 2 handed over was a Harpoon.
Tehent immediately checked the item information.
But something felt off.
“This isn’t the grade we agreed on…?”
The grade they’d originally promised was UR+.
But this equipment was USSR.
“And the material…”
The material was unusual.
“Ultra-Titanium…?”
It was crafted from Ultra-Titanium, famous for being hard and light, and had every attribute he’d requested.
And the design.
The sleek, sharp lines and the aura of cold and dark energy flowing from it were mesmerizing.
Gulp.
Tehent carefully grasped the Harpoon in his hand.
It fit his grip perfectly, as if made for him alone.
Crafted for him and him alone.
A fully custom weapon.
Unit 2 observed Tehent’s reaction closely.
He recognized this feeling well.
It was moved emotion.
Profound emotion.
“How is it?”
“Please tell Jin-woo,”
Tehent said.
“I’ll go catch a Hydra with nine heads!”
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[USSR+] Equipment, I made one.
1 second ago. 0 views.
Jin-woo’s MiTube channel, JinTube.
The USSR crafting video everyone had been waiting for went live.
-Guys, new video just dropped on JinTube!
-USSR+ crafting video!
-Insane.
-Commenting before watching.
The moment the video went up, the response was tremendous.
-The timing is perfect.
-I came to check when it’d drop and it’s right on time!!
-Kughhhh.
The subscribers commented first, then watched Jin-woo’s USSR crafting video.
-Wow.
-Crazy.
The video that went up this time was a Pickaxe crafting video.
All the impactful crafting footage from the Underworld would be used in Netflix’s Episode 3, so he couldn’t upload it yet.
-I didn’t think I’d be so focused watching a Pickaxe being crafted.
-The Pickaxe is made this beautifully?
-The crafting process itself is incredibly high-level…
Just a pickaxe.
People who’d thought that way changed their minds after watching Jin-woo’s USSR+ Pickaxe crafting video.
-His technique seems even better than last time.
-To think it can improve further than that.
-I just realized crafting videos could be this entertaining.
-Don’t bother looking elsewhere. It’s just that Jin-woo’s crafting is fun—crafting in general isn’t really entertaining.
With the view count exploding, Jin-woo’s USSR crafting video rapidly climbed the rankings.
-Trending video #1
As a result, it hit #1 trending in record time, and countless likes began pouring in.
-Wow.
-I thought if it’s that Jin, he’d definitely grow fast even up to SSR or UR.
-But USSR though;;;
-He makes it look so easy?
-It only looks easy because it’s Jin-woo.
-Actually, it doesn’t look easy;;;
Comments surpassed 5,000 in the blink of an eye.
And at that exact moment.
Netflix.
A very important announcement appeared.
Boom!
Flames and smoke.
And in the middle of it, the sound of hammering began.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
-Gasp.
-Oh my god!!
-Spirit Blacksmith Episode 3…?
-That’s it!
-Finally!
-Everyone! It’s finally here.
-Episode 3 drops in 20 days!
As Jin-woo became a trending issue across both MiTube and SharkNet,
a very important announcement appeared on Netflix.
-Jin-woo, Spirit Blacksmith Episode 3 premiere!
-Opening September 22nd!
-Worldwide simultaneous release!
Along with the announcement that Spirit Blacksmith Episode 3 would premiere on September 22nd, the episode’s subtitle was revealed.
[Underworld Reclamation Records]
But people were quite confused by this subtitle.
-Underworld Reclamation Records?
-What’s the Underworld?
-It seems like it’s a region?
-Never heard of it??
No one knew anything about the Underworld.
People tried to find information about this Underworld through SharkNet communities, JinTube, and acquaintances.
But came up empty.
-Everyone!
Then a post appeared on the community.
-Guys, I looked it up. Looks like some kind of underground city.
-Like a dwarf city?
-Deeper than that, I think. I think I got a related quest once, but the difficulty was so high I couldn’t even try. Finding the entrance was hard too.
-So the Underworld is a really difficult place?
But because information about the Underworld was so scarce, people didn’t know just how difficult a place it was.
And then.
-Hello. I’m adventurer O Dong-tong.
O Dong-tong, a famous adventurer user and second to find the Underworld after Jin-woo, posted on the community.
-Regarding the Underworld that’s trending now—I’ve been there.
The post was straightforward.
-First, let me say that this is my second visit to the Underworld. As you know, first place goes to Jin-woo.
And then he explained the Underworld in great detail.
-Even finding the entrance is quite difficult. Moreover, the Underworld is…
O Dong-tong detailed the difficulty level of the Underworld.
-Crazy.
-Isn’t O Dong-tong an upper-tier adventurer?
-If it’s O Dong-tong, I believe it.
-If even O Dong-tong says it’s difficult, it must really be tough.
Thanks to that, people could fully grasp the difficulty level of the Underworld.
-So he went there now?
-Wow, this seems connected to a main quest, so that’s probably why he went.
-Isn’t that the video where he was making equipment from cold materials? He made it there, didn’t he?
-Yeah, seems right.
-That place is full of cold energy, right?!
The information about the Underworld that people learned from O Dong-tong only amplified expectations for Netflix Episode 3.
-When I entered, the main quest for the Underworld was already mostly cleared, so it was somewhat manageable. But when Jin-woo first went in, it wouldn’t have been like that. It’s likely been many times harder—or perhaps even more so.
O Dong-tong finished his post with those words.
-Spirit Blacksmith Episode 3 coming to Netflix is really going to be amazing.
* * *
Oson examined the Great Bone Staff that Jin-woo had handed him carefully.
“Nothing but admiration.”
It was USSR+ grade equipment, but it had far better attributes than other USSR+ of the same tier.
Moreover, the special attributes and design.
That all of it was created in such a short time was almost unbelievable—it was that excellent.
Oson, who had no intention of accepting anything, couldn’t help but acknowledge such equipment.
“I thought you wouldn’t accept this, Master.”
Oson nodded at Hamilton’s words.
“I had no intention of it. But.”
There was something a blacksmith couldn’t avoid.
“If I don’t acknowledge this, I’m no blacksmith anymore.”
How could one not acknowledge equipment of this caliber?
“Would you be alright with this?”
“Alright? What else could there be?”
Oson glanced at Jin-woo.
“Perhaps you’re an even greater blacksmith than I am. Such a blacksmith wants to establish himself in Chanran. I can teach you the Crystal Platinum Crafting Method without reservation.”
Oson smiled faintly. With this, his justification became clear.
“We’re going back. To the path of Chanran.”
“…Yes!”
Hamilton’s expression brightened too.
“Jin-woo, there’s no more need to say—this is incredible equipment.”
Oson returned the Great Bone Staff to Jin-woo.
“I’ll teach you the Crystal Platinum Crafting Method. And.”
Then he spoke with firm resolve.
“I’ll also teach you the techniques I’ve honed over so many years.”
Oson extended his hand to Jin-woo.
Then Jin-woo’s hand began to burn.
“!”
“This is…”

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