The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 262

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Chapter 262
262.
As M-Grade Crafting videos began uploading in earnest, the community exploded.
-Wow. He’s just demolishing everything everyone said couldn’t be done.
-They said SSR Rank would be hard to reach, but he reached it, and they said M-Grade would be difficult to attain, but he attained it.
-Watching JinTube continuously. There’s so much to learn.
-The mentality is excellent as well.
-But it really couldn’t be done, so we said it couldn’t be done…….
-I feel genuinely wronged.
-I feel wronged too.
-I said it couldn’t be done…… Jin-woo must be the anomaly…….
The spectacular performance from the Underworld Reclamation period.
And the M-Grade Crafting videos on top of that. JinTube’s performance was beginning to break through the heavens.
-I’m so curious about the next content. This content is already a huge hit, and seeing him make an M-Grade Wave Purification Shield makes it seem like he’s in the middle of another quest?
-Is this Netflix’s fourth episode?
-Already four episodes?
-With the third one being such a massive success, they’ll definitely make this into a series.
-Netflix must be committed now, right? The ads have been popping up like crazy.
Positive reactions continued to pour in.
Suomi Company.
The main conference room.
Twelve GMs had gathered in the spacious conference hall.
“GM Chae-seok. Please explain.”
At the Vice President’s words, Kim Chae-seok immediately began his PowerPoint presentation.
This meeting had been called due to Jin-woo’s FIRST Quest clear.
“Yesterday, user Jin-woo cleared the FIRST Quest ‘[The Princess of the Deep Night Cannot Sleep]’ which is one of the capital quests of the Avalak Kingdom.”
The GMs sighed upon hearing the name of the quest Jin-woo had cleared.
The GMs were all themselves both GMs and players of NewGen.
Therefore, there wasn’t a single person here unfamiliar with this quest.
“Wow…… he cleared that?”
“How on earth did he clear it?”
“But he’s a blacksmith.”
The GMs wore bewildered expressions.
The Vice President, observing their reactions, spoke up.
“How difficult is this FIRST Quest supposed to be?”
Kim Chae-seok, the manager in charge, answered immediately.
“It was a difficulty 7 quest. One tier lower than Ryuten’s Steel Beast Quest which was cleared just before.”
Ryuten’s Steel Beast had a difficulty of 8.
Among FIRST Quests divided into a total difficulty of 10, it wasn’t in the highest tier, but given that it had to be cleared within a limited time during the tutorial, it was comparable to a 10-point quest.
“However, the difficulty is hard to measure by score alone. Both Ryuten’s Steel Beast and Princess Estella’s insomnia are extremely difficult to resolve.”
Kim Chae-seok explained about the quest.
The Vice President roughly knew the basics already.
-Quest: [The Princess of the Deep Night Cannot Sleep]
True to the quest name, the main objective was to make the insomniac princess fall asleep.
The quest clear condition was very simple.
To put Princess Estella into deep sleep.
Yet this simple task had remained uncleared until now because it couldn’t be done.
“Princess Estella’s insomnia isn’t a curse or magic. The trait is insomnia itself, making a resolution impossible.”
The GMs clicked their tongues at this.
This information was known only to the GMs managing the FIRST Quests.
Therefore, the FIRST Quest administrator GMs were prohibited from attempting the FIRST Quests themselves.
“Because of this, all the wizards who attempted to dispel it failed.”
If Princess Estella had been under a curse or magic, it would have been easy to dispel.
But Princess Estella simply possessed an innate insomnia trait.
“What method did existing users use?”
“Potions. They attempted to make Princess Estella fall asleep by pushing alchemists’ potion creation to its limits.”
Users had consistently believed potions were the only answer.
“There was an alchemist user who previously nearly made Princess Estella sleep for a few hours. He pursued the quest aggressively with a custom-blended potion.”
There had been a moment when Princess Estella’s eyes almost closed from that potion.
“But unfortunately, the quest still didn’t clear. The condition was that she had to fall into deep sleep.”
“So that’s why everyone shifted to alchemy?”
“Yes. Everyone judged that was the right method.”
Of course, there were no restrictions on the clearing method.
Any way to make Princess Estella fall into deep sleep would work.
But since the one who had challenged before had nearly succeeded, all users shifted to alchemy.
“However, user Jin-woo cleared it through a different method.”
That was why everyone had been confused.
Jin-woo is a blacksmith—so how could he have cleared it?
“User Jin-woo’s clearing method was Crafting.”
“He cleared it through Crafting?”
“Yes.”
Kim Chae-seok displayed the screen.
“A pillow and a bed.”
He made Princess Estella fall into deep sleep using a Master Grade pillow and bed, which represented the culmination of all his Crafting skill.
……
The Vice President was amazed.
“Not following the established method, but clearing it his own way. Just pure innate sense, huh?”
“Yes. That’s correct. It’s completely different from the direction other users were attempting.”
Jin-woo cleared the quest in his own way. What methods other users had attempted beforehand wasn’t an important factor to him.
Heh.
The Vice President found himself laughing despite himself.
“The CEO is going to be thrilled hearing this.”
The current CEO had flown to the United States to negotiate with Netflix.
“Remarkable, truly remarkable. Honestly, I thought the FIRST Quests would just remain as they were. Until the game ended.”
Players across the world are determined to play the game.
Monster-like users.
Obsessive users.
And countless users exploring the game in various ways.
Even before Jin-woo started the game, there were many such people. Though Jin-woo now received idol-like treatment in the monitoring room, before that, Starlight and InClassic and several other users had been doing these sorts of things.
“Even the regulars in the monitoring room before Jin-woo couldn’t clear the FIRST Quests.”
That’s why there had been an enormous amount of noise.
“But he’s pulling it off.”
Already two of them on his own.
Ryuten’s Steel Beast.
The Princess of the Deep Night Cannot Sleep.
He’s cleared these two FIRST Quests.
“Now we can finally stop receiving complaint calls.”
The customer support center had received calls every day.
Asking if we deliberately made the FIRST Quests unclearable.
Asking if we’re deceiving users right now.
“At least we won’t be getting those calls anymore.”
This proves it.
That FIRST Quests can genuinely be cleared.
Of course, the Vice President understood.
This success happened only because Jin-woo is exceptionally talented. Nothing has fundamentally changed.
But what can you do about it.
It’s been proven that it’s possible!
From Suomi Company’s perspective, they had every reason to be grateful to this Jin-woo.
“There’s a message from Logical.”
Kim Chae-seok showed Logical’s message.
This message from Logical was something that even moved Kim Chae-seok considerably.
A hymn to humanity.
An official message from Logical.
“That’s high praise. Very high praise.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
At his words, GM Kim Na-yun, who was also attending the meeting, wore a pleased expression.
After this FIRST Quest was cleared.
GM Kim Chae-seok had come to GM Kim Na-yun in a hurry and told her about this.
Watching GM Kim Chae-seok make a fuss about it, GM Kim Na-yun thought that everyone was finally coming to understand Jin-woo’s greatness.
Well, this much was routine for GM Kim Na-yun.
“What are the rewards for clearing the FIRST Quest?”
“It’s the same mechanism as the Mobile Workshop that user Jin-woo received when he previously cleared Ryuten’s Steel Beast. Logical confirms the desired reward and distributes it if there are no problems.”
“That was surprising too.”
Asking for a Mobile Workshop. I never expected him to request such a reward.
“If he had simply asked for the Workshop to be given, there was a high possibility Logical would have refused.”
“Did he calculate all of it?”
“Yes. I believe it was all calculated.”
Of course, Jin-woo hadn’t calculated any such thing, but in the eyes of the GMs, Jin-woo’s image had become that of a thorough, cold-blooded world-class ranker.
“It seems like he started with this plan from the beginning.”
“There are no precedents for these unprecedented things he keeps doing. Let’s immediately contact him about the reward distribution.”
If there had been precedents, we could have responded accordingly, but there were none at all.
Then GM Kim Na-yun raised her hand.
“I believe user Jin-woo should be promoted from Special User.”
Among the Special Users that Suomi Company monitored closely, Jin-woo was uniquely exceptional, so it seemed he should be promoted to a different designation.
“For instance?”
“He’s pioneering paths that haven’t been traveled.”
That was something special among special things.
“How about Pioneer User?”
“Let’s go with that.”
The Vice President nodded. In fact, this was something the Vice President had been thinking about as well. Jin-woo was too anomalous to be bound as a Special User. He was a user of a higher tier altogether.
The Vice President thought Kim Na-yun had done well.
‘I was thinking of calling him an Ultra-Special User.’
Pioneer User seemed much better.
* * *
Shriek-shriek-shriek!
Shriek!
The new demons carried wind within them.
Not just any wind, but turbid and sinister wind.
-The wind flows like a blade.
Shriek!
-You take damage from the wind.
They led the wind with them, and their very existence wreaked havoc on their surroundings.
Bone spread his wings wide in front of Jin-woo and blocked the wind blade.
“Impressive.”
“I’m blocking it, Master. This is Bone.”
Bone snorted proudly through his nostrils.
“The wind’s cutting right through the bone gaps. What are you talking about?”
“Gasp.”
Bone hurriedly layered his wings in two folds, barely blocking the wind.
“Still, that was admirable.”
“Yes! I can do this!”
‘His relentless optimism is one advantage at least.’
“Human. So you’re a Necromancer? You have quite impressive subordinates. But Grendan is being Grendan as always.”
The wind demon laughed cheerfully.
Unlike Grendan who had three horns, the wind demon possessed extremely sharp talons.
‘Like a vampire.’
Jin-woo focused on those talons—or rather, claws.
‘Sharp as minerals.’
Most of all, the power of the wind emanating from them felt intensely strong.
‘Good material.’
Shriek-shriek-shriek-shriek-shriek!
As he gestured like a conductor and his talons clicked against each other, the wind blade grew fiercer.
“Let us take revenge against the human for that pathetic Grendan. Demons!”
With that, the wind demons moved.
And Speed moved in the exact same pattern.
Of course, the pattern was the same, but what they possessed was different.
Before facing Grendan, there had been nothing, but now there was the Thunder Cloud Dagger and the Thunder Cloud Cloak.
With M-Grade equipment added, Speed was far faster than before.
Flash!
Speed shot forward as a single streak of lightning, piercing straight through a wind demon.
!
“What?”
One demon was eliminated without even a chance to scream.
At that sight, First and Pur glanced at each other.
“Quick and polite, which is nice, but…”
“T.O.O. F.A.S.T. O.U.R. W.O.R.K. I.S. D.I.S.A.P.P.E.A.R.I.N.G.”
“That’s true.”
First and Pur watched Speed, who was equipped with the newly made Thunder Cloud Dagger and Cloak, rampaging madly, and they sighed with regret.
“O.N.L.Y. U.N.T.I.L. T.H.I.S.”
Since Speed had been given new equipment, they would only watch until this was done.
“Since the courtesy was used up.”
Pur also waited obediently.
Crackle-crackle!
Flash!
Against Speed, who wielded the Thunder Cloud Dagger freely, the wind demons couldn’t cope at all.
“Gaaaah!”
“I-I can’t see!”
“What’s happening—”
“What on earth is going on!”
Rigaldo, the intermediate demon who had led the demons, reeled in shock and tried desperately to turn the situation around.
“Wind, heed me!”
They wielded the fierce wind’s power.
‘The Tower of Thunder and the Tower of Wind.’
He was curious about what the remaining third tower might be.
‘With this wind…’
A good idea occurred to Jin-woo.
‘There’s definitely a wind-related weapon I haven’t crafted yet, I think.’
Jin-woo observed the wind demons carefully.
Flash!
But Speed’s velocity was too great. The demons were eliminated before they could properly use the wind’s power.
“Well, I got a good enough look though.”
Speed was moving with tremendous velocity among the demons while adapting to the Thunder Cloud Dagger.
Crackle-crackle-crackle!
But the intense power could momentarily intoxicate the one using it.
‘High attack power does that.’
That great exhilaration could dull movements as well.
“Don’t be swayed by the equipment!”
Jin-woo offered advice to Speed.
Speed certainly lost composure once momentum took hold and moved like a raging fire.
The Thunder Cloud Dagger only encouraged that, so Speed had to maintain proper control.
Flash!
But that was no easy task.
“But you have to manage it.”
Speed is a subordinate created by none other than Jin-woo himself.
If he can’t even do that, then Speed deserves to give up the position of tenth subordinate to another.
Flash!
Speed swung the Thunder Cloud Dagger. It was an attack imbued with both speed and the dagger’s power.
But.
At the very end, Speed deliberately controlled that velocity.
“That’s it.”
Jin-woo smiled.
First and Pur also nodded upon seeing Speed’s precise control.
Control.
Not being led by the weapon, but leading the weapon.
‘He’s got the fundamentals down. Heroic Undead are definitely different.’
Jin-woo decided he needed to raise all his undead to Heroic tier.
‘That should be the baseline quality.’
“Damn it! What is this. What is going on!”
The wind demon wrapped its entire body in wind.
Wind, like lightning, had considerable speed as one of its properties.
But Speed, emboldened, didn’t stop at all. He kept slashing and slashing and slashing again.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle!
“Ugh—!”
-You have hunted the Wind Slash Demon, Widid!
Thus Widid properly showcased Speed’s new M-Grade equipment before dying.
Whoosh.
Crackle. Flash.
Still overflowing with lightning, Speed flicked the Thunder Cloud Dagger cleanly.
Then the remaining lightning burst to the ground and dissipated.
“Phew.”
He caught his breath deeply, then went to Jin-woo and kneeled on one knee.
“It exceeded expectations.”
Speed bowed his head deeply.
“Thank you for entrusting me with legendary equipment! Because of this equipment, I have been perfected. You have made me complete, Master.”
At Speed’s words, First and Pur’s bodies twitched suddenly.
That eloquence.
That tone of voice.
“A formidable rival has emerged. First.”
“O.N.E. S.T.E.P. A.H.E.A.D. I.N. E.L.O.Q.U.E.N.C.E.”
The subordinates began to feel a strong sense of crisis.

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