The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 241

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Episode 241
241.
SharkNet Community.
-Hey everyone, there’s a new workshop in Chanran and the equipment quality here is insane.
-Chanran? Avalon?
-Isn’t that place garbage?
-There aren’t any Named users there either, are there?
-Isn’t Peran over there?
-Nah, Peran doesn’t sell gear there. He’s just working under the master blacksmith.
-But who opened up a shop in Chanran??
-I’m not sure about that, but I bought USSR+ Rank equipment and the attributes are basically M Rank or higher.
-????
-No way
-Is this a troll?
-Nope, it’s real. I saw it myself.
-So who’s there then?
Conversations about the newly opened workshop in Chanran began trickling into the community.
-Maybe the person who bought from them would know?
-Someone named Free, apparently. The buyer told me the craftsperson’s name.
-Free?
-Never heard of them.
-Could it be Frisbee?
-Frisbee’s alt account?
Frisbee was indeed one of the famous rankers.
-But Frisbee is in Malen. He even joined a Guild recently.
-So that’s probably why?
-That means he doesn’t have the time.
-Then who is it?
Everyone was curious and moving fast to find out.
“Wow. There’s already a line forming.”
“Once everything sells out, won’t it take a while to restock?”
Oson’s Workshop.
Oson was recalling words that Jin-woo had spoken.
This Chanran had less foot traffic compared to the other two kingdoms.
That’s why Jin-woo had said that with this level of skill, it would naturally be better to go to a kingdom with more traffic.
That’s when Jin-woo had said:
-If I’m there, people will come.
His words had been true.
“It really was true.”
It wasn’t mere confidence speaking.
He was simply stating the obvious.
Because Jin-woo was here, they came.
A madness of queuing!
“Even my Oson doesn’t get lines like this when we open…….”
In front of Jin-woo’s Mansan Workshop, which hadn’t even opened yet, a line snaked densely.
Thanks to that, Chanran’s streets were buzzing with energy.
And more people kept arriving.
“When does this place open?”
“We don’t know yet.”
“But why is everyone standing in line?”
“Because the stock is limited!”
“I think I need to camp for the opening rush.”
The users began waiting patiently.
“But what if we don’t know when it opens?”
“We just wait until it does, I guess.”
“These days there are so many good blacksmiths. That’s nice.”
They were starving for this.
“I just want to try some quality gear once.”
Named blacksmiths’ equipment was already too expensive to buy. So this word-of-mouth was an opportunity.
A chance to get good gear at a relatively reasonable price.
* * *
Suomi Company.
GM Kim Na-yun was continuing work on advertising for the New Continent content.
Jin-woo was the main model, and she needed to have a meeting with him about it.
“I’ve already left a message for him.”
Now she had to wait for a reply from Jin-woo.
“This is seriously crazy. A complete recalibration of Synchronization Rate.”
Logical’s recent message had been quite striking.
“Logical’s predictions are always spot-on, like seeing the future.”
As a super-intelligent AI, Logical excelled at prediction.
Anticipating, grasping, and seeing through things.
With so many references to draw from, mistakes were almost non-existent.
But that Logical had officially stated it couldn’t grasp something.
“Should I call it a human victory?”
Though whether to classify Jin-woo as human was actually questionable.
It was something no ordinary person could do.
Ding-! Ding-! Ding-!
An emergency alert sounded.
“As expected of Jin-woo.”
She thought he might have achieved something related to going to the capital. Since he’d interacted with Peran, one of the famous blacksmiths, it could be related to that.
“Huh?”
But it was completely different.
-User Jin-woo [MASTER] achievement unlocked.
-M Rank achieved.
-Earliest achievement level [418]
-Logical message: Grade prediction model unable to determine. Constructing new model. A dedicated evaluation model for user Jin-woo is required.
M Rank.
It was one tier above USSR+, the previous grade, but many craftspeople who had reached USSR+ had long failed to reach the next tier.
Even Essel, who had clashed with Jin-woo at the European Union Auction House, had continuously failed to reach the next grade after USSR+.
He had barely managed to leap to M Rank in a direct confrontation with Jin-woo, so this M Rank could be considered a kind of barrier.
“I thought it would take Jin-woo some time to reach M Rank…….”
In fact, Jin-woo had stayed at USSR+ for a long time.
Of course, “long” was measured by Jin-woo’s own growth timeline.
“But it wasn’t because he couldn’t climb higher?”
Logical was saying it.
That Jin-woo’s skill had already transcended M Rank.
“Wow…….”
Jin-woo was carving his own path.
He understood that simply raising grades wasn’t everything—the attributes on equipment mattered more.
“Even knowing that doesn’t mean you can just do it at will.”
But Jin-woo was pulling it off, so Logical had no choice but to revise its prediction model.
GM Kim Na-yun typed rapidly at her keyboard.
When had existing blacksmiths and top craftspeople achieved Master Rank?
And how many rankers had never reached Master Rank at all?
“……Wow.”
Seeing the numbers, it was even more shocking.
“It was like that at USSR+ too, but this is incomparable.”
His own history.
A path no one else had walked.
Jin-woo was shattering the very road that existing craftspeople had traveled, as if mocking it.
For a moment, GM Kim Na-yun felt a chill run down her spine.
“New Continent…… you’re progressing through the quests faster than expected, aren’t you?”
Predictions about Jin-woo were already meaningless.
“Still, I’m glad. I need to update this right away.”
Kim Na-yun had naturally assumed Jin-woo would stay at USSR+ Rank until the New Continent content advertisement was complete.
But now she had to change that.
“To M Rank.”
As she made those edits, a chill crept down her spine.
“……What if he goes even higher before the advertisement?”
An ominous premonition gripped her.
* * *
After opening the workshop, Jin-woo paused to think.
“I don’t need to list this right away.”
The Wave Purification Shield was the first M Rank equipment Jin-woo had crafted.
Everyone currently believed Jin-woo was still at USSR+ Rank.
“Plus, the Underworld videos are all focused on USSR+.”
The release date for part three was just around the corner.
“So then…….”
A good idea came to Jin-woo.
Trigger a synergy with JinTube when the Netflix Underworld video drops its third episode.
Then accelerate the timing slightly and reveal the M Rank crafting video.
“I need to build up the synergy.”
Jin-woo immediately sent the Wave Purification Shield crafting video to Dongwoo.
“I wonder if I’m giving Dongwoo too much work.”
But it was fine.
“You do it while you can.”
Besides, Jin-woo was exercising a certain level of control.
“Dongwoo’s going to be surprised.”
Currently, Dongwoo had no idea that Jin-woo had reached M Rank.
-[Wave Purification Shield Crafting Video ]
Jin-woo sent the video with a simple title.
“I’ve ended up with more M Rank materials than expected.”
The byproducts from Seir, the boss of the Tower of Seven Swords, had come into Jin-woo’s possession.
The Crimson Ruin Stone and other byproducts greatly stimulated Jin-woo’s interest.
What should he make with these materials?
And what would be good to experiment with?
Jin-woo ran his fingers over Seir’s byproducts.
“Hmm.”
He could feel it clearly.
“Finicky. Very finicky.”
The higher the grade climbed, the more forcefully materials asserted their own nature.
And each one pulled in a different direction.
“All finicky, but their finickiness runs in different directions.”
The previous methods couldn’t handle them.
“Which is actually really helpful.”
Jin-woo gripped the Crimson Ruin Stone and the Void Essence.
-Seir’s Void Essence [M]
Description: The essence of void power contained within Seir, the lord of the Tower of Seven Swords, a demon.
“The power of the void.”
Jin-woo had heard a brief explanation about Seir from Casino.
‘From what I heard, he could move energy to achieve short-distance teleportation.’
“It’s highly likely this Void Essence contains that power.”
Jin-woo’s mind began forming a picture of how to use this Void Essence.
Jin-woo first placed the Crimson Ruin Stone into the furnace.
Whoosh-!
‘With the Crimson Ruin Stone and the Void Essence.’
He was planning to forge a sword.
The Crimson Ruin Stone entered the furnace.
‘This material won’t accept heat easily.’
But.
Jin-woo smiled slightly.
“Let’s see if you can endure it.”
The Crimson Ruin Stone suddenly unleashed an enormous force.
But only for a moment.
Whoooosh-!
The guardian spirit’s flames swallowed the power the Crimson Ruin Stone was emitting whole.
‘The guardian spirit’s fire is no joke.’
That balance was incredible. The power to instantly consume and subdue materials was so great that even Jin-woo stared at it in a daze.
Jin-woo quickly withdrew the Crimson Ruin Stone.
Flicker-. Flicker.
“Good call combining the three flames.”
The power of the three flames was now embedded in the Crimson Ruin Stone.
Jin-woo gripped the Hammer.
“Let it seep in deeper.”
Clang-!
Jin-woo brought the Hammer down.
“Wave Resonance.”
Jin-woo pulled forth the power of resonance.
Clang-!
‘Different. It’s different.’
When Jin-woo had crafted the Wave Purification Shield, he’d used M Rank materials.
‘Handling them had been quite difficult.’
So his stamina had been significantly drained.
But now the recoil returning from the Crimson Ruin Stone was reduced.
The reason was simple.
“The difference in flames is considerable.”
Jin-woo continued striking with the Hammer.
Clang-! Clang-! Clang-!
The Crimson Ruin Stone, an M Rank material, began reshaping itself as Jin-woo desired. Longer. Ever longer.
“Dust. Coco.”
Jin-woo summoned his two spirits.
Hisssss-.
The two newly summoned spirits were immediately engulfed in darkness.
“What?”
Then their forms began to shift.
-Material spirit, Dust, levels up.
-Dark Flame Spirit, Coco, levels up.
Since this was Jin-woo’s first summon after achieving M Rank, both spirits were immediately affected.
Hisssss-!
“Ohhh.”
Jin-woo marveled as he watched the two spirits.
“Better than I expected.”

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