The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 285

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Chapter 285
Episode 285.
Jin-woo was focusing intently on the battle.
Strikes that landed cleanly.
Yet damage that was nullified.
But there was a common anomaly he’d noticed.
‘If the attacks are being nullified anyway, why do they hesitate at certain moments? There were timings where they could’ve moved more aggressively.’
Yet the Great Demons of the Thunder Tower, Limmon and Bartos, displayed bizarre movements.
A momentary sense of wrongness.
Jin-woo focused harder to uncover the source of that wrongness.
And he grasped it.
‘Attribute Attack.’
They were reacting only to Attribute Attacks.
‘Ben and Fin’s attacks are non-attribute.’
Attacks without attribute infusion dealt them no damage whatsoever.
‘So I observed how they reacted to Speed and Moltus’s attacks—those with Attribute.’
In a fraction of an instant, their very Aura transformed.
‘And they took no damage.’
When Moltus followed Speed and unleashed a Wind Blow, their Aura shifted again.
Jin-woo could be certain now.
‘They have Attribute Immunity to specific attributes.’
And they would falter when an attribute different from the one they were immune to arrived.
‘Attribute Immunity converts one at a time.’
In other words.
‘They do take damage from Attribute Attacks.’
But if the conversion of Attribute Immunity was as fast as it was now, countering it would be difficult.
‘No problem, though.’
Now that he’d identified their defense mechanism, there was a way to exploit it.
‘Timing.’
If he struck with Attribute Attacks in such precise succession that they couldn’t convert, he could land decisive blows.
“First! Pur!”
Jin-woo called to First and Pur. They had been taking zero damage against Eliah, the strongest Great Demon.
“Damn it. You wretched thing—neither dead nor alive!”
But First and Pur didn’t rise to Eliah’s provocation.
They simply continued conserving strength and waiting.
Then the order came.
“They have Attribute Immunity. The enemy possesses it.”
The bodies of the three Great Demons stiffened momentarily.
“The conversion of that immunity is slow. Target that window!”
“Order… received…”
Whoosh!
First and Pur, having received their command, infused their weapons with Attributes.
The Void Blood Ruin Sword brimmed with dark flame power, while Pur’s Extreme Cold Breath Sword blazed with intense frigid force.
Perfect timing.
In combat terms, no subordinate here could best these two.
“Speed! Moltus!”
Jin-woo called out to Speed and Moltus next.
“Watch closely!”
This was what the two of them needed to do now.
Slash!
First gripped his blade and swept it horizontally.
Whoosh.
The dark flame power coated the Sword of Destruction, transforming it into a blade of pure flame.
Screeeech!
Eliah brought both fists together.
Boom!
Then met First’s incoming strike head-on.
But First was the diversion.
Pur appeared suddenly, continuing the attack with perfect timing.
Shing-crack!
“Grraaaagh!”
A massive diagonal wound split across Eliah’s body.
-Fatal Blow!
-The Master of the Earth Tower, Eliah, has taken Fatal damage!
“This… This is absurd…! How did you figure it out?!”
Eliah recoiled in shock.
He never thought Jin-woo would actually perceive it.
“Not only figure it out… but execute it perfectly…?”
This wasn’t something that could be solved just by perceiving it.
Unless one could wield two Attributes simultaneously with perfect precision, even understanding the secret would never let you defeat a Great Demon.
Yet Jin-woo had accomplished it on the first attempt.
“We saw it.”
“Confirmed.”
Speed and Moltus, having witnessed everything, moved in unison.
Limmon and Bartos grimaced, forced to react to the two subordinates’ assault.
“Damn.”
Now that the exploit was exposed, they absolutely could not take another hit.
Boom-boom-boom-boom!
But Speed was already upon them.
“Now that I understand the answer, I won’t miss this time.”
Crackle.
Craaaaaackle!
Enormous lightning surged through, piercing Limmon straight through.
“Gh… Hck.”
He should’ve been immune to lightning. How had this happened?
“Order executed.”
Moltus’s wind flag was already swirling.
“!”
Limmon had shifted from lightning immunity to wind immunity.
That’s why Speed’s strike could land perfectly.
Bartos faced a similar situation.
Ben raked with claws while Fin drove downward with full force.
“Curse it…!”
The three Great Demons, their exploit laid bare before Jin-woo, found themselves in crisis.
Speed synchronized the timing once more, pulling lightning power to its absolute limit.
Tremendous lightning crackled around the Thunder Cloud Dagger.
Simultaneously, Moltus began compressing wind blades without end.
“It’s finished.”
Slash!
Craaaackle!
Moltus’s compressed wind and the Thunder Cloud Dagger smashed directly into Limmon.
“!”
Yet Limmon was smiling.
“A good attempt. Had I taken that at the start, I might have fallen.”
Limmon suffered no damage at all.
“But I’m already immune.”
These creatures surpassed Jin-woo’s expectations.
“Flame, frost, lightning, wind.”
Eliah spoke.
“We remember.”
Smoke billowed from Eliah’s form.
“Once you’ve used an Attribute Attack against us, it will never touch us again.”
Shing-crack!
First and Pur’s blows, which had dealt damage mere moments ago, now inflicted nothing upon Eliah.
“Hm.”
Jin-woo raised an eyebrow. He’d suspected as much.
“So that’s how it is?”
Great Demons were Great Demons, after all.
“Right. There’s no way to catch them so easily.”
Jin-woo smiled and retrieved the Summoned Workshop.
“Actually, I prefer it this way.”
Jin-woo welcomed this turn of events.
“The fact that an Attribute Attack becomes useless after one exposure…”
It appeared they remembered the Attribute itself.
Once that Attribute was imprinted on their body, they became immune to it.
‘Then the answer is simple.’
Jin-woo pulled out a Spirit Stone.
Whoosh.
Jin-woo possessed countless Spirit Stones obtained from the East, South, and West.
‘I’ve been waiting for the right moment to use them.’
This was that moment.
The Spirit Stone Jin-woo drew forth was like the Brilliant Moonstone, infused with moonlight—its Attributes were frost and lunar radiance combined.
‘Not mere frost power alone.’
The base was frost, but moonlight power intertwined within it.
“If they gain immunity to any single Attribute Attack they’ve suffered once…”
There was a very simple counter.
“Then all I need is to keep creating new Attributes.”
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Jin-woo began Hammering like a madman.
In moments, he’d forged a sword.
-Equipment created!
‘Moonlight Frost.’
A blade focused solely on Attribute Attack, one he hadn’t bothered to reinforce for durability.
‘Durability isn’t necessary.’
This sword would only be used once anyway. So he could simply strip its durability entirely.
Pour everything into sharpness—concentrate all power into a single, devastating strike.
-Given the Moonlight Cold Sword to subordinate Pur!
“Pur.”
“Understood, Master!”
Pur seized the Moonlight Cold Sword and burst forward.
“!”
“What are you doing right now…!”
“Surely not…!”
All three Great Demons stared at Jin-woo in disbelief.
He’d just forged a sword in an instant.
And moreover… a sword of a completely new Attribute!
“This madman!”
Before their curse even finished, Pur’s assault crashed down.
Screeeeech!
Shing-crack!
“Ugh!”
Limmon took a devastating hit.
And in that same instant, Jin-woo completed new equipment.
-Equipment created!
This time, a different Attribute.
-Poison Greatsword created!
Poison Attribute.
Slash!
This time First seized it and swung in perfect synchronization.
“Already immune to poison…!”
Shing-crack!
Pur’s moonlight frost cleaved through Bartos.
-Equipment created!
Simultaneously, a Spirit Stone blade infused with the power of nature was completed.
“This lunatic…!”
Eliah retreated urgently.
Clang!
Regardless, Jin-woo threw himself into Crafting with abandon.
“Ultra Amplification Forging.”
Ultra Amplification.
Since he only needed to strike once, Jin-woo could craft cleanly and efficiently.
-Equipment created!
-Equipment created!
-Equipment created!
As equipment cascaded into existence, the three demons were forced to defend ceaselessly.
“Grraaaagh!”
“Impossible. This is madness! What kind of counter is this?!”
The Great Demons cried out in anguish, clutching their wounds. But Jin-woo’s Crafting speed outpaced their ability to adapt to new Attributes.
Shing-crack!
“Damn. Damn it all!”
The once-confident Great Demons were now wholly occupied defending against Jin-woo’s subordinates’ relentless assault.
-Equipment created!
-Given equipment to subordinate First!
“Keep going.”
Clang!
The Great Demons felt fear from Jin-woo’s Crafting.
They had never imagined their power could be so thoroughly exploited.
“This monster…!”
It was a situation so absurd that the word came naturally.
Shing-crack!
“Hck.”
In the meantime, Eliah took critical strikes from First and Pur.
-The Great Demon of the Earth Tower, Eliah, has taken Fatal damage!
-The Great Demon of the Thunder Tower, Limmon, has taken Fatal damage!
-The Great Demon of the Wind Land, Bartos, has taken Fatal damage!
All three Great Demons’ health fell below thirty percent.
“Gasp… Gasp…!”
-Equipment created!
-Ether Sunlight Greatsword created!
Yet another new Attribute.
‘Attributes only need to differ.’
Even within the same flame Attribute, if the specifics differed, they counted as separate Attributes.
‘Since the Spirit Stones hold such varied Attributes…’
Their choice of Elementia was ironically now tightening the noose around their own necks.
-Grass Sword created!
“How much more… How much longer can you…?”
“How can you—a non-Undead—have such monstrous stamina?!”
The Great Demon fell back hard.
But his subordinates offered no respite.
“Say it again like you did before, you arrogant bastard!”
Ben’s attacks were fundamentally non-attribute, but his Breath carried poison Attribute.
Though it was flame, it was simultaneously imbued with poison, allowing Ben to unleash devastating assaults.
“Fin!”
And the Undead could naturally draw upon dark Attribute power.
Roooooar!
Breath and Fin’s dark attack struck simultaneously.
“Ugh!”
The Great Demons, already reeling from Speed and Ben’s relentless barrage, now suffered fresh wounds from Ben and Fin.
The Great Demons were in chaos.
This terrible sensation was one they’d never known before.
“Right now…?”
“Are we…?”
“Being hunted…?”
Great Demons were predators.
Bringers of fear.
Hunters.
Yet these beings who were supposed to hunt were themselves being hunted. Countered. Outmaneuvered. Driven toward death.
Tremble.
The Great Demon’s hands shook.
“Master of the Ten Thousand Demon Palace…!”
Clang!
Watching Jin-woo continue his frenzied Hammering, the Great Demons ground their teeth.
“In all my battles, I’ve never heard of a Blacksmith who could Craft mid-combat!”
“Well, now you have.”
Jin-woo smiled at them.
“And I’m enjoying this immensely.”

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