The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 237

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Chapter 237
237.
-You have received Lupema’s reward!
Lupema’s reward was straightforward.
“Something I’ve been saving,” he said.
It was equipment he’d carefully preserved.
-You have received Wave Gloves!
“With these Wave Gloves on, you’ll be able to handle the wave with much finer control.”
Wave Resonance was fierce.
That’s why gloves were essential to periodically endure this force—Lupema himself was already wearing a pair.
“Is there any chance I could receive something else instead?” Jin-woo asked.
Lupema was caught off guard that Jin-woo would actually refuse.
“Don’t you like it?”
“It’s not that I dislike it.”
Jin-woo explained.
“But I can control the wave with just my bare hands.”
…….
Lupema fell silent.
“Then I’ll give you this instead.”
He squeezed his eyes shut and pulled something out with a snap.
-Terra Tite [M]
A mineral—Terra Tite.
This mineral was infused with the pure power of earth.
Its grade was nothing less than M.
It was one of the rarest minerals, and there was a reason Lupema had given it while squinting so hard.
Jin-woo swiftly handed over the Wave Gloves and took the Terra Tite in return.
-You have received Terra Tite as a reward!
“Thank you very much.”
“……So you do like this one.”
Jin-woo answered with a smile.
* * *
Ding-!
-You have received a Quest!
-You have received the Quest [Temple Relocation].
“I’ll tell His Majesty about this, but are you really certain you can do this alone?” Lupema asked.
No matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t imagine one person moving such an enormous temple.
“Yes, it’s fine. Quite sufficient,” Jin-woo assured him.
Seeing Jin-woo’s resolve, Lupema nodded readily enough.
Perhaps the temple had simply seemed larger when he was younger, he thought.
“I’m counting on you!”
Jin-woo examined the quest closely.
‘A gift from the king, then.’
Jin-woo smirked.
‘The Royal Blacksmith Guild storage had plenty of good materials.’
Then what about the royal palace’s own warehouse?
‘Might as well have a look.’
“But how exactly do you plan to move the temple?” Lupema asked, concern evident in his expression.
He couldn’t fathom how Jin-woo alone could manage it.
“I won’t be moving it by myself.”
Jin-woo had his familiars.
* * *
“First, Pur, Moltus!”
All his familiars except Unit Two and his attendant were summoned.
“Fin-!”
Fin, summoned after a long time, spread his wings wide.
“Where is the enemy!”
Bone let out a roar the moment he materialized. But seeing First, Pur, and Moltus, he caught himself and folded his wings back.
“After the seniors, I, the great one, shall go forth.”
Bone stood valiantly before Jin-woo, and the rest of his familiars took their positions in his presence.
With First, Pur, and Moltus at the fore and the others lined up beside them, the display was quite impressive.
‘Including the newly created Free, that makes nine now.’
One more familiar and he’d have ten subordinates in total.
“There is no enemy. Instead, today we have different work to do. It’s quite difficult, which is why I’ve called you all,” Jin-woo announced.
He pointed to the temple.
“We’re going to lift this temple.”
At Jin-woo’s words, the undead immediately approached the structure.
Lifting a building—this was no simple task.
‘With Moltus, it should be manageable.’
Even if Moltus alone couldn’t lift this massive temple, all his familiars combining their strength could certainly do it.
“Let’s carve a path first.”
Jin-woo gripped the Pickaxe.
“Servant Unity.”
He mounted Bone, then merged with First using Servant Unity.
-First’s strength flows into you!
Shaaaaash—.
Gathering his power, he swung the pickaxe up at the ceiling.
Crack-crash-crash-crash—!
The hole in the ceiling rapidly expanded. The temple would need to pass through, so it had to be larger.
Bang—! Bang—! Bang—!
It had been a long time since swinging a pickaxe.
The difference between pickaxe work at a low level and at level 400+ was considerable.
Boom—!
…….
…….
“You seem to have grown even stronger,” Pur murmured.
“It’s as though the heavens themselves are collapsing,” Moltus said in awe.
Both subordinates were amazed.
“That should do it.”
With the ceiling breached, Jin-woo repositioned his familiars with Moltus at the center.
“Moltus pulls it up, the rest support from below.”
He planned to use Fin and Bone to haul it to the surface.
“Heavenly Proclamation.”
Shaaaaaaaash—!
Jin-woo supplied the missing strength through Heavenly Proclamation.
“Lift.”
* * *
Boom—!
A colossal temple rose proudly in the Royal Palace Forest.
“Hah……”
Upon hearing that Jin-woo’s work was complete, Lupema arrived at the Royal Palace Forest with his blacksmiths.
Lupema and all the royal blacksmiths were patrons of the guardian deity of fire and craftsmanship. Thus, they had been curious about the vanished temple.
“You extracted something this massive from underground?” Lupema breathed.
The royal blacksmiths gasped in astonishment.
Even Lupema, who had ventured into the temple only in early childhood, hadn’t realized it was this grand.
“How on earth—”
“Simply drew it out,” Jin-woo replied simply.
……?
?
?
Question marks hung plainly on the faces of Lupema and the royal blacksmiths.
“Do go inside and have a look,” Lupema gestured to them.
He directed the blacksmiths forward.
“A historic moment. Go and savor it,” he told them warmly.
“Yes!”
“We shall enter at once!”
After sending them off, Lupema turned to Jin-woo.
“You’ve worked hard indeed. This… this shall be recorded in the royal palace’s history.”
-You have completed the Quest!
“His Majesty wishes to see you. Go receive your reward from him directly. Truly… a magnificent achievement!” Lupema said warmly.
With Lupema’s praise, Jin-woo left the Royal Palace Forest and made his way back to the palace proper.
‘I wonder what the gift will be.’
He was also curious whether he might be allowed to choose the gift himself.
“Please, enter!”
The Audience Chamber.
As the grand doors opened, a long crimson carpet came into view.
At the far end of the carpet stretched in a line sat an enormous jade throne.
Upon that throne sat the king.
Sander Avalon III, sovereign of the Avalak Kingdom.
Beside him stood a smaller throne, and upon it sat the princess.
Jin-woo approached slowly and bowed respectfully.
‘I’ve done this many times before.’
During his time with Eternal Sunshine, he’d met with the king almost daily. The entire kingdom had been within his sphere of influence then.
-You have achieved an Achievement!
-You have achieved the Achievement [Audience with the King].
“Jin-woo, I hear you have recovered the temple that once illuminated our Avalak Kingdom. The Guardian of Fire and Craftsmanship aided our realm in its darkest hours more than once. A debt that has weighed upon my heart like an unpaid favor—and yet you have accomplished what I thought impossible.”
The king of Avalak gestured toward Jin-woo.
Jin-woo looked at the sovereign.
White hair and beard.
And eyes brimming with charisma.
A typical kingly visage. But beside him sat the princess, and Jin-woo was startled at the sight of her.
‘Those dark circles are no joke.’
Her eyes were dull and clouded; her complexion was almost gray.
‘Is she ill?’
Jin-woo decided to focus on the king for now.
“And so I wish to bestow a reward upon you. Is there anything you desire?”
The king seemed genuinely delighted that Jin-woo had restored the kingdom’s sacred temple.
“Might I be permitted to choose something directly from the royal warehouse?”
Ordinarily, such a request might have seemed presumptuous, but Jin-woo possessed a quality of integrity.
-Your Integrity score shines forth!
Because of his high Integrity, his words were perceived not as greed but as a request rooted in clear purpose.
“A man of such integrity as yourself may indeed choose freely from the royal warehouse. Yes, excellent. You shall select one item—just one thing you desire—and take it with you.”
-You have received the Quest reward!
-You have received the Royal Palace Storage Access Pass!
-Your Level has increased!
Quest complete.
With his level increase and reward in hand, Jin-woo immediately made his way to the royal warehouse.
“This is the Royal Palace Storage,” the palace knight explained.
Jin-woo had arrived at the Royal Palace Storage.
“I shall wait here. Master Jin-woo, there is no time limit, so please choose at your leisure!”
As Jin-woo was about to enter the warehouse, he paused.
‘I should ask about that.’
“By the way, is something the matter with the princess?”
Her complexion had seemed far from healthy.
‘It almost seems connected to a quest somehow.’
“Ah… that is…”
The palace knight seemed troubled by the question.
“You might ask Master Lupema directly; he could explain it properly.”
“Understood.”
Jin-woo entered the royal warehouse, his heart racing with anticipation.
-You have entered the Royal Palace Storage!
The royal warehouse was vast.
“Oh.”
-Eagle Eye activates!
Brilliant armor stretched out in neat rows before him.
Jin-woo inspected the various pieces of equipment.
Whoosh—.
“Flower Steel,” he murmured.
Cecilia Pure Silver.
Crystal Platinum.
“And this is Orichalcum.”
Some armor was forged from ore he’d never encountered before.
“Old, perhaps…”
But with proper maintenance, they could shed those centuries as if brushing them away—the quality across the board was exceptional.
Jin-woo turned his gaze to the adjacent weapon vault.
“Blades.”
Beginning with swords, countless weapons lay in wait.
Axes, spears, shields, halberds, tonfa.
The diverse arsenal was crafted from equally diverse materials.
“My eyes are opened,” he said softly.
The equipment stored here appeared to be from smiths of legendary renown.
“Ah.”
Jin-woo recognized one piece among them.
“This is from Lupema.”
A massive greatsword stood alone, and from its craftsmanship, Jin-woo knew immediately who had forged it.
It was a blade carved by wave-resonance—heavy and deliberate in its form.
Jin-woo spent a long while studying the collection.
This warehouse was no mere repository of salvageable equipment.
For Jin-woo, it was a vast treasury of experience.
‘This part here.’
The blunt-edged section of the greatsword.
The inset cavity of the armor.
Each artisan’s unique signature—the options they’d embedded—became a lesson unto him.
Just as observing Lupema had taught him heat-treatment was possible, studying these weapons showed him the extent of what could be achieved.
‘Unable to erase the flaw, they pushed the strength to its limit.’
Gazing upon the Soft Blade—that supple, wavering steel—Jin-woo marveled.
A Soft Blade wielded like a whip, its edge pliable and difficult to sharpen, forfeited keen sharpness in exchange for flexibility.
‘So instead…’
They’d embedded options into the blade that would detonate as it whipped through the air.
“If the explosion were too large, the blade itself would fly apart. So they calculated the damage precisely.”
Only awe escaped his lips.
“This. This is it.”
This was what it meant to be a master craftsman.
Not churning out equipment, but bringing out the unique character of each piece, contemplating it deeply, and crafting it with purpose—that was mastery.
Jin-woo absorbed it all.
Everything in this royal warehouse.
Moving deeper, Jin-woo discovered a dust-covered chest.
Creak—.
He opened it.
“……!”
Jin-woo’s eyes widened in shock.

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