The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 210

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Chapter 210
Episode 210.
-You have learned Integer Bestowal!
Jin-woo learned Integer Bestowal from Trent.
“Integer Bestowal is a technique similar to Attribute Bestowal.”
‘So it was an alchemy technique?’
Jin-woo had once used Attribute Bestowal on First and Pur respectively.
‘I did that with Integer too.’
The difference was that this skill could imbue potions with attributes.
And there was one more thing.
‘You can blend materials and create attributes from scratch.’
Previously, Jin-woo had granted attributes using materials that contained those properties.
But with Integer Bestowal, you could even create the attributes themselves.
‘In terms of practical application.’
This could be considered a far higher-tier skill.
“You can enhance flame attack power or raise resistance. The Integer Bestowal technique is precisely what allows you to strengthen or resist the power of specific integers.”
Trent used Integer Bestowal as he blended the materials.
“Each material possesses its own attributes. You can’t see them, but you can sense them through smell. This requires considerable training, though…….”
Jin-woo smelled each of the materials.
“Certainly not easy.”
After smelling and distinguishing the materials several times, he presented his findings to Trent.
“This one’s flame-type, this one’s ice-type. And this slightly sour one—is that lightning-type?”
“…….”
Trent stared at Jin-woo.
“You said it wasn’t easy…….”
“Ah. It wasn’t easy.”
He’d said it wasn’t easy, not that it was impossible.
Trent had no choice but to nod at Jin-woo’s words.
“Then you’ve cleared one major hurdle, and next comes making a potion with these blended materials.”
Creating Integer Potions—potions imbued with Integer Bestowal—was the core of this technique and its most difficult work.
“With a wrist snap…… timing it right…….”
The method differed little from standard potion-making, but the need to continuously infuse mana made it considerably tricky.
“Failure is natural.”
-You have created a Flame Integer Potion!
“……Success is natural too.”
Trent nodded and examined Jin-woo’s potion.
A Flame Integer Potion.
This potion raised flame attack power when consumed.
“Now try making one more potion with a different position!”
Following Trent’s instruction, Jin-woo made another potion.
-You have created a Flame Integer Potion!
Another Flame Integer Potion appeared, but this time one with flame resistance instead.
“Wow.”
Watching Jin-woo produce exactly what he aimed for, Trent had entered a realm of pure admiration.
Integer Bestowal was his signature technique and one requiring considerable mastery.
He’d done it with ease.
No.
“You didn’t just do it easily. You’ve already mastered the techniques needed for Integer Bestowal in other disciplines.”
This wasn’t a place he’d reached by mere luck.
Trent praised Jin-woo with genuine admiration.
“Is it alright, Trent?”
“Pardon? Yes, it’s fine. It’s that Jin-woo is remarkable, not that my technique is lacking.”
“I meant whether it’s alright if I learned your Integer Bestowal.”
“Oh?”
For a moment, Trent’s expression cleared as if he’d suddenly understood.
“Ah.”
“Dear me.”
Oson shook his head.
But a smile played at the corners of his mouth.
He too hadn’t wanted to teach the method for crafting Crystal Platinum.
Yet his mouth had spoken different words.
Words of consent.
And Trent was experiencing exactly the same thing now.
It was pitiful, yet somehow gratifying.
There’s no helping it. Once you teach Jin-woo and experience it, you end up giving away everything.
It isn’t just him either.
“It’s fine. It’s fine. You’re a truly excellent craftsman, Jin-woo. I suspect the day will come when you’ll be grateful to me.”
“……You mean the day I’ll be grateful to you……?”
“It might come sooner than you think.”
While Trent was caught off-guard in conversation with Oson.
‘Hmm.’
Jin-woo, however, was thinking of something else.
About the applications for these Integer Potions.
‘I think I can use this a different way.’
It seemed he could use it on materials as well as for drinking.
Jin-woo poured the made potion gently over a material.
Whoosh—
‘Hmm.’
As expected, the potion didn’t soak into the material.
‘In that case.’
Jin-woo summoned Dust.
“Pwoong!”
The summoned Dust looked around.
“Just you this time.”
“Pwoong!”
Dust spun happily around the space.
“Can you synthesize this potion with this material?”
“Pwoong.”
Dust showed slight hesitation.
But then looked at Jin-woo with determined eyes.
“You’re saying you won’t know unless you try, since you’re different from before?”
“Pwoong!”
For some reason, Jin-woo could read Dust’s gaze instantly.
“Then.”
Jin-woo handed over the material and potion.
“Please.”
Dust emitted its power, then synthesized the Integer Potion and material directly.
-Synthesizing material!
-Material Synthesis complete!
-Recycle proficiency increases!
Whoooosh—
“Oh.”
Jin-woo examined the synthesized material.
“It’s embedded.”
Drinking wasn’t the only use.
“You can embed it into materials.”
“Pwoong!”
Dust looked at Jin-woo as if asking how that was.
“Dust. Excellent.”
At that, Dust shook its fluffy fur quite pleased with itself.
Jin-woo tucked the created material into his bosom.
“A spirit I’ve never seen before……?”
Trent’s eyes narrowed as he observed the spirit Jin-woo had summoned. No matter how he looked, he couldn’t tell what kind of spirit it was.
Moreover, the action Jin-woo had performed through the spirit.
It clearly looked like he’d synthesized the potion’s options into the material.
“……Could it be……?”
Trent too had made many attempts to embed Integer Potions into materials over the years.
But the losses were too great, and the potion barely soaked into the material.
Jin-woo began crafting another Integer Potion.
This time, he even opened a Summoned Workshop.
“Summon.”
-You have created a Lightning Resistance Potion!
This time he made a Lightning Resistance Potion and poured it over the mineral.
“Soul Forging.”
Whoooosh!
Then the potion soaked into the material.
‘This method works too.’
Jin-woo smiled with satisfaction.
“Huh?”
Trent looked at Jin-woo.
It had definitely soaked in.
“It soaked in…….”
The power held by the potion was absorbed entirely without loss into the material.
Jin-woo then threw both the material synthesized through Dust and the material into which the potion had soaked via Soul Forging directly into the furnace.
Whoooosh!
Then, to compare them, he brought down his Hammer.
Clang!
“Oh.”
‘The feel is different.’
It wasn’t just the feel that was different.
‘The material synthesized through Dust has far more Integer Potion power.’
The material absorbing through Soul Forging inevitably suffered some loss.
Though very slight, Dust’s method was clearly superior.
“Just as expected.”
The difference was definite.
“Since the material that Dust synthesized can also be Soul Forged.”
Synthesizing through Dust was far more advantageous.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
-You have created equipment!
-You have created USSR Grade equipment!
-Special Option: [Integer Potion’s Power – Flame resistance greatly increases! Absorbs and releases flame damage.]
‘I can add one more option.’
Jin-woo picked up the created USSR Grade Integer Potion Dagger and swung it.
“One more weapon added.”
Thanks to that, one more option—the Integer Potion’s Power—was gained.
“!”
Looking at the created USSR Grade dagger, Trent’s expression grew flustered.
“Didn’t I tell you?”
Oson spoke to the bewildered Trent.
“That the day you’d be grateful would come soon.”
Jin-woo turned to Trent with a satisfied expression.
“I learned it well. Integer Bestowal has remarkably high applications.”
Integer Bestowal itself wasn’t particularly high in applications.
It was Jin-woo’s skill that made Integer Bestowal high in applications.
“I learned well from you, Trent.”
Oson tapped Trent’s shoulder as he watched Jin-woo tidy up.
“Right?”
Trent nodded.
Just as Oson said, the day of gratitude might not be far off.
“Chanran will be revived. Then both your workshop and mine will share in an age of glory together.”
Trent smiled in return at Oson’s grin.
“Because of Jin-woo, you mean.”
* * *
Starting with the alchemy workshop, Jin-woo next visited the precious metals workshop specializing in Engraving.
The master of the precious metals workshop was a middle-aged woman named Helen.
Tall frame.
An aura radiating from her presence.
At first glance, she felt like a true master craftsman.
Her long, slender fingers especially allowed one to gauge her Engraving skill in an instant.
“Anything is possible, certainly.”
That’s what craftsmen are.
Without skill, no affinity is born, no matter what.
Click—
“!”
But prove that skill, and.
“That delicate engraving. Could you possibly have learned from someone?”
Treatment shifts instantly.
Learning Integer Bestowal from the alchemy workshop.
Exchanging Engraving techniques at the engraving workshop.
Jin-woo made the rounds through countless workshops in Chanran like a traveling performance, “exchanging” with each one.
“Wait. You—weren’t you a blacksmith?”
“That’s correct.”
Engraving requires a delicate touch…… wait, what!?”
Jin-woo didn’t overlook even the overlapping workshops.
He visited and exchanged with three separate engraving workshops.
“This is fun. Exchanging.”
The more he did so, the more Oson’s tongue wagged in amazement.
Everyone was hit just as hard as he was. They all ended up laying bare their secrets to Jin-woo.
“Whether to like this or not.”
Of course, Oson was naturally pleased.
“They’re all different engravings.”
Even among engraving workshops, the fields they handled differed.
Yet Jin-woo understood all those different fields completely.
“Where did you learn all this?”
“I had excellent masters.”
Next was the Magic Bestowal workshop, known as the Sanctuary of Mages.
Jin-woo felt considerable anticipation for this place.
‘Shamanic Bestowal and Magic Bestowal are similar-type skills, after all.’
Currently, Jin-woo had learned Shamanic Bestowal – Extreme.
After learning Shamanic Bestowal from Rigardo, an orc shaman, Jin-woo had used this technique quite profitably.
The fact that his equipment could have far richer options was largely thanks to Shamanic Bestowal’s role.
‘I can’t help but be curious about Magic Bestowal.’
Jin-woo wanted to learn Magic Bestowal properly as well.
“Wh—what is this?”
When Jin-woo showed his Shamanic Bestowal – Extreme, the mage was astounded.
It was a technique far above his own Magic Bestowal.
“Is it ancient magic……?”
“No. I learned it from an orc.”
“?”
He asked cautiously.
“Are you……an orc……?”
Jin-woo frowned.
“I thought so!”
“No.”

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