The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 288

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Episode 288
288.
At Jin-woo’s words, Aktoz’s breath caught.
Fun?
Fun? Was this moment entertainment for him?
“Damn it.”
Under normal circumstances, fury should have been rising.
But in this abnormal situation, instead of anger swelling up, fear flooded in.
“How can you speak such words?”
It wasn’t said as a joke.
It wasn’t said to provoke him either.
This was genuine.
He was speaking those words in earnest.
“Impossible. You are.”
This man was not human.
No human could ever hold such thoughts.
“You are afraid. Master of Ten Thousand Demon Palace.”
“You are not normal.”
“You call us demons, yet are you not the very embodiment of evil?”
“You are the true demon!”
Aktoz conceded the point.
Jin-woo was no human. If this was human, then they were not Great Demons but mere lesser demons.
Despite Aktoz’s words, Jin-woo continued striking the Hammer.
Bang!
“Madman.”
“Yes, go ahead. See it through to the end.”
“And when you reach that end, despair!”
“Let’s see if you’ll still be doing this when everything is finished!”
Aktoz unleashed power in a frenzy.
He could not afford to give more time.
If he gave more time, he had no way of knowing what might happen.
Though he held the advantage, he felt considerably anxious.
Screech—!
“First I will bury all of your Familiars in the earth.”
“Even Undead can be annihilated.”
“We will see to it.”
Aktoz spoke.
“Let’s see if you can still manage such boasts when all your proud Familiars are dead.”
The Familiars began fighting Aktoz with desperate ferocity.
Crash!
The moment they charged, Aktoz swung numerous arms and wings.
Crack! Bang!
Pur’s blade cracked straight through.
The Cold Breath Ultimate Sword too cracked like the Void Blood Ruin Sword, releasing a powerful cold breath.
Whoosh—!
Yet that cold air never reached Aktoz.
“Pointless efforts…….”
Aktoz clicked his tongue and brushed off his hands.
“Pointless, is it. We are waiting.”
Pur answered while swinging the Extreme Sword, its power draining steadily.
“Our master has found the answer. We need only hold you back until the end.”
“Damn you—!”
Aktoz’s brow furrowed seeing his Familiars growing stronger than before.
“Such loyalty……so strong!”
At the display of their formidable devotion, Aktoz swung his fists with even greater force.
Bang!
The cracks in the Cold Breath Ultimate Sword deepened.
Pur retreated. As the Extreme Sword took damage, so did Pur himself—the impact was considerable.
His body staggered for a moment.
One more hit and the Extreme Sword would surely shatter.
“Huff.”
Since becoming Jin-woo’s Familiar, there had never been a moment quite this dangerous.
And at the same time, there had never been a moment quite so satisfying.
“This is when our master needs us most!”
Pur looked at the other Familiars. Their eyes glowed an intensely deep blue.
“A true statement.”
First replied and stepped forward.
Though as exhausted as Pur, now was the time to move. The time to strike and hold fast.
Jin-woo had found his answer.
They need only hold out until he could deliver it.
Having glimpsed hope, the Familiars naturally grew stronger than before.
“Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha—!”
Bone in particular recharged his strength and unleashed a Breath.
“Roar—!”
Strangely, Bone’s power proved quite effective against Aktoz.
While it dealt no damage, it could restrain Aktoz for several seconds continuously.
Jin-woo rapidly refined the Spirit Stones imbued with attributes.
‘One piece of equipment can only hold one attribute.’
That was the rule, and to incorporate multiple attributes required making the others far smaller.
Primary Attribute and Secondary Attribute.
There could not be two Primary Attributes at the center.
At least not by anything he knew.
‘To deal damage to Aktoz, two or more attributes must establish themselves as Primary Attributes.’
So Jin-woo forgot everything he knew.
‘That information is useless now.’
It would only hinder what he needed to do.
So he let it go.
Whoosh—.
Then Jin-woo wrapped himself in the power he had newly acquired.
It was the Cyclic Power he had gained since coming to Elementia.
‘Circulate the attributes.’
Jin-woo infused the Cyclic Power into the Hammer.
Whoosh—.
As the Cyclic Power settled, the Hammer transformed as if wrapped in a thin membrane of wind.
‘Break convention. Make the impossible possible to conceive as possible.’
Bang!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
As he struck, attributes began to bloom from the Spirit Stone. Jin-woo gathered the rising attributes together.
‘Dangerous.’
The surging attributes repelled each other.
Crackle!
Lightning and water collided and melded.
Fire and earth suddenly swallowed each other, becoming as nothing.
‘Right here.’
Bang!
Jin-woo circulated the attributes.
Rather than letting them settle and embed themselves as they normally would, he set them in motion.
‘Circulating the very essence that the attributes hold.’
Whoosh—!
He eliminated the Primary Attribute itself.
‘So that all attributes could stand as masters.’
To achieve that, he wielded the Cyclic Power.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
—Material is circulating!
Jin-woo’s hands trembled for an instant.
Until the moment of the strike, he could not know if it would work.
But the moment he struck, he understood.
‘It works.’
Watching Jin-woo swing the Hammer like a madman, Aktoz smiled brightly.
Right now, Jin-woo was digging his own grave.
Synthesizing attributes so recklessly would cause the material itself to rupture.
“Foolish. Foolish indeed! If you keep that up…….”
The Great Demon laughed wickedly and sneered.
“It’ll explode!”
That explosion would consume Jin-woo and carry him to death—this much was clear.
Watching Jin-woo ignore even this simple truth in his greed and continue striking, the Great Demon thought him merely an arrogant Craftsperson after all.
“May you die, consumed by that arrogance!”
The Great Demon unleashed tremendous power.
All the Familiars, including First and Pur, advanced on the Great Demon. They had never doubted their master for even a moment.
He said he would resolve this soon, so they would wait.
He said to block the Great Demon’s movements, so they would do just that.
“We.perform.our.role.”
With First at the center, the other Familiars’ loyalty never wavered.
Screech—!
The Void Blood Ruin Sword unleashed its tremendous power once more.
Though cracks spiderwebbed across it and power continued to leak, First paid no mind.
This blade was merely a blade.
He could receive a new one from Jin-woo at any time.
So he swung it.
“Foolish work. Perhaps because you are Undead, you tire not and continue this foolishness.”
Aktoz took the descending blow of ruin head-on.
The absolute constraint governing Aktoz did not waver. Rather, it only grew stronger.
Elementia’s power was adapting to Aktoz’s body and seething within.
Bang!
At the moment the Hammer descended.
The attributes gathered in the material convulsed violently.
It will explode.
Now everything ends!
“Kha-ha-ha—!”
At the moment of explosion, Aktoz smiled.
But.
—Material circulation successful!
“……?”
The circulated material continued to stir the attributes.
Not a single attribute.
No one attribute had become dominant.
Literally.
“Circulation.”
—God of Element and Cycle marvels!
—God of Element and Cycle blesses you, saying you have achieved the impossible with Cyclic Power alone!
A beautiful mineral was born in Jin-woo’s hands.
—Mineral completed with Cyclic Power!
—Eternal Circulation Stone created!
The Eternal Circulation Stone rested in Jin-woo’s palm.
Synthesized lightning, wind, water, fire, earth.
Five attributes circulated wildly.
“Im, impossible!”
Aktoz recoiled in shock.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Having completed the Eternal Circulation Stone, Jin-woo continued his strikes.
Rune Inscription – Extreme.
Essence Inscription.
Ether Flame Crafting.
Soul Forging…….
He began to craft the equipment, employing every technique at his command.
Bang!
The Eternal Circulation Stone was a remarkable material.
‘I can feel all five attributes vividly.’
Without wrapping Cyclic Power around the Hammer, even striking with it was dangerous.
But if he wielded this Cyclic Power correctly, he could taste a new craftsmanship unlike anything before.
Bang!
Circulation is flow.
Unbroken.
And natural.
—God of Element and Cycle says you have awakened to your own power!
—God of Element and Cycle grants you a Rune.
—Rune, Wind of Circulation obtained!
A new power descended upon Jin-woo, steeped in Cyclic Power.
Rune, Wind of Circulation.
—Circulation Skill ability strengthened!
Currently Jin-woo’s circulation was at the Basic level.
Normally, at such a basic level, performing attribute circulation would be quite difficult.
But who was Jin-woo?
He possessed the handcraft skill to perform vibration crafting even without Hyper-Vibration Crafting tools.
Whoosh—.
As Jin-woo properly wielded the Rune’s power, his Basic Circulation evolved.
—Basic Circulation has become Advanced Circulation.
—Convection Power can now be used.
Convection was, in a word, a power that made flow itself greater.
In other words.
‘It becomes more stable.’
He could now swing the Hammer more harshly than before without consequence.
‘Then I’ll draw it all out.’
“Ultra-Maximization Refinement.”
Whoosh—————!
The power held by the attributes began to roil violently.
Screech—————!
“What is……what is happening here…….”
Aktoz halted his assault on the Familiars as tremendous shockwaves erupted from Jin-woo’s center.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
“What in the—what are you making!”
What was he creating?
Or rather, what was being created!
Aktoz shoved away the advancing Familiars with force and reached out sharply toward Jin-woo.
He had to stop it.
If he didn’t stop it.
If he didn’t—!
Bang!
Whoosh—————!
But light erupted from Jin-woo’s Hammer.
—Equipment created!
“What are you making, you ask?”
Grade M.
Surpassing MASTER Grade itself.
—MR-Rank Equipment created!
A new tier had been reached.
“Hope.”

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