The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 330

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Episode 330
Episode 330.
The waters off Positano Harbor.
“What’s that?”
“What are they moving?”
“Positano really does have all kinds of people, doesn’t it?”
“Looks like they’re heading to the harbor?”
Jin-woo and Baekster carried Golrae toward the harbor.
In doing so, countless users took notice of Jin-woo and Baekster.
“Is that a whale?”
“Are they going to release the whale into the sea?”
“There really are all sorts of people here.”
The sight of carrying the enormous Golrae certainly drew considerable attention.
However.
“Ehehehehe.”
“I am Jade Bin, age forty-three. I am the legitimate owner of this city!”
But Positano had far more peculiar users than that.
“There’s another fight here!”
“Who’s dropping loot?”
“They’re stacking people into a tower!”
“I’m now going to build a tower out of people. Sixty-six stories total.”
Hot zones always attracted attention-seekers.
So Positano had more than plenty to see.
“They’re just creating content for us.”
“Hello, this is Yangyang from Yangyang TV. Today’s content is—”
As a result, Jin-woo carrying the enormous whale was quickly buried in the chaos.
For users already conditioned by dopamine, that sight held no particular stimulation.
“Actually, you see.”
Baekster, who had been moving Golrae, spoke.
“Didn’t I say you’d help me build a ship?”
“Yes, you did.”
“I was planning to attach something like that Sky Void Magic Core you created to the ship.”
This was actually a technique Baekster had been meaning to teach Jin-woo. That’s why he’d suggested building the ship together.
But then he just went ahead and made it like that.
Baekster wore a sheepish expression.
“You’ve beaten me to it.”
Then he continued.
“I never dreamed you’d have mastered something like this!”
If it had just been about creating a familiar, he wouldn’t have been so surprised.
Of course, it was unusual. He’d never heard of a Necromancer creating familiars directly before.
But he would have thought that much was possible.
“Creating such a massive familiar with your own hands.”
And he’d said it would take about three days, yet Jin-woo finished it in one.
‘Bone Craft works better than I expected.’
Thanks to the Universal Spanner’s excellent effect, Jin-woo had plenty of time to spare when cutting the bones.
That’s how the work was completed in a single day.
‘And building the Colossal Statue really helped.’
If he hadn’t attempted to create the Colossal Statue before, he wouldn’t have been able to make such a massive familiar so easily.
‘Experience really is everything.’
Whoooosh—! Crash-aaaaaaaaa—!
The moment Golrae entered the water, waves sprayed up like a tidal surge.
“Almost got swept away.”
Baekster’s muscular frame was grinning.
“Truly, you deserve the title of Master Craftsperson who oversees all of Positano’s technical capabilities.”
“Hahahaha. Well, a craftsperson without strength is just a corpse!”
Grrrrooooowl—!
Golrae let out a cry and looked toward Jin-woo.
Because it was so enormous and unable to speak, it differed from his previous familiars.
But even so, its loyalty to Jin-woo seemed unmistakable.
“Grrrrooooowl—!”
Golrae swished its tail gently, urging him to mount.
Currently, the harbor area had no particular attractions, and there were no ships that could leave the harbor, so there weren’t many users around.
Thanks to that, Jin-woo moved freely without needing to hide anything.
“Let’s board.”
Jin-woo jumped from where he stood and landed on Golrae’s back. Then he slowly made his way inside.
“Wow!”
Baekster, following behind, gasped in admiration.
“Quite comfortable!”
Inside Golrae.
‘It feels like a submarine.’
Jin-woo immediately gave Golrae a command.
“What’s our current location?”
“Our location is…”
Ding—!
-Quest updated!
A quest marker for the Engineering City of Sakra was officially registered.
“Just follow that marker!”
Grrrrooooowl—!
The voyage toward Sakra began with Golrae’s cry.
Whoooosh—.
Despite its enormous size, Golrae was remarkably fast.
High-Speed Swimming.
Alongside that, Jin-woo activated the Magic Core.
-Mechanical Engineering Wind Magic activates!
Shhaaak—.
The Magic Core inside Golrae’s body created a favorable wind.
Instantly, Golrae’s speed—already heightened by High-Speed Swimming—began accelerating insanely.
At the same time, a barrier of wind formed around Golrae’s body.
Screeeee—.
Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom—!
A sonic boom erupted in the water. Its intense force rippled outward, making Golrae look like an absolute tyrant of the sea.
“Ooooh…!”
The fusion of Mechanical Engineering power and a Necromancer’s familiar. Seeing such a thing for the first time, Baekster couldn’t help himself and began to clap.
“I never imagined such a combination!”
Who would have thought it?
That the power of Mechanical Engineering could be fused with the power of Necromancy.
No craftsperson had ever attempted it. Baekster, who had intuited this, felt dopamine flooding through him wildly.
“Hahahaha—! That’s the beauty of Mechanical Engineering! It’s not a limited power. It can be applied in endless ways and coexist with other powers!”
‘Mechanical Engineering really is an independent power.’
Making it coexist with other powers to heighten its potential was an exceptionally difficult feat.
‘But it’s not impossible.’
Difficult, yes. Impossible, no.
And Jin-woo was proving that right now.
‘To truly test it out—’
But he hadn’t properly tested it yet.
“Baekster. How many sea monsters will we encounter on the way?”
Jin-woo asked Baekster.
Baekster patted his chest as if to say there was nothing to worry about.
“Don’t worry. I know the sea monster routes very well. We can avoid them all—or at least, I can avoid all the particularly dangerous ones, even if we can’t evade every single one!”
At that, Jin-woo shook his head.
“I want to take that route.”
“…What?”
“Baekster.”
Jin-woo spoke to him.
“Which route has the particularly dangerous sea monsters?”
* * *
The Team Leader rushed urgently to the Rizny Representative.
“Representative.”
The Rizny Representative rose quickly from his seat.
His heart was racing.
The Team Leader coming in such a hurry meant something had happened.
“What is it?”
“We’ve received contact from Jin-woo.”
He quickly explained the situation.
“He said he wants to sign a contract with us. A three-part contract. He wants to do the sequel to the Soul Craftsman series together with Rizny!”
“!”
At those words, the Rizny Representative clenched his fist tightly.
Done.
They’d done it.
But there was no time to celebrate yet.
Jin-woo was the strongest card with success predicted, but Rizny was currently in such dire straits that even one success like this would be hard to turn things around.
The Team Leader handed an iPad to the Rizny Representative.
“These are the contract terms Jin-woo sent.”
For video editing and production, the PD and team would be brought in from our side, and we’re asked to provide Rizny’s maximum support.
“Of course! That’s only natural!”
The Rizny Representative let out a short laugh.
“Mister Han. Schedule a meeting with the PD right away. Push this as fast as possible and ask them to deliver the video within the shortest timeframe possible!”
The Rizny Representative gestured quickly.
“And make sure the advance is paid immediately. Have all the materials from the Magic Forest collected! And set it up so you can pay Jin-woo consistently!”
“Yes! Understood!”
* * *
SharkNet.
A post appeared on the community.
-So, I heard a rumor that Jin-woo signed a contract with Rizny??
-Apparently he decided not to continue with Netflix.
-????
-What are you talking about??
-Rizny??
-Why Rizny?
It was a post saying Jin-woo had signed a new contract with Rizny.
-You know Netflix has those flagship titles up. Usually they say “indefinite” for the duration, but Jin-woo’s work doesn’t say indefinite.
-?? Really??
-And when episode 2 came out, there was already a preview page for episode 3 registered, but now there’s no preview page for episode 4.
-Wow. I heard the platforms were fighting like crazy to recruit Jin-woo.
-And he signed with Rizny of all people!
-I’m a bit worried about this.
Rizny was currently the lowest of the three platforms.
-Honestly, compared to Netflix or Enjoi, Rizny only invested aggressively but has no flagship titles, right?
-I haven’t subscribed to Rizny in forever. There’s nothing to watch, honestly.
-I’d rather just stick with Netflix. They’ve got plenty of good stuff.
And it wasn’t even comparable to the other two platforms.
-Maybe Rizny is trying to build loyal subscribers.
-Ugh. How much did they even give him?
-Doesn’t Rizny not have money anymore?
-I thought Netflix or Enjoi would have offered more.
-This is really surprising.
People thought Jin-woo had made the wrong decision.
-Netflix made Jin-woo’s videos get those crazy views. If it had been on Enjoi or Rizny, it would’ve been buried with no fanfare.
-Bad judgment call.
-Not subscribing to Rizny, thanks for your work.
-I’ll just binge-watch episodes 1 through 3.
The overall mood wasn’t great.
They thought that while Jin-woo was certainly amazing, the platform had played a huge role as well.
-Still, I’m looking forward to it. Episode 4 should have MR Grade, right? New continent and all.
-I’m looking forward to it!
There was some hope, but nobody thought Jin-woo could revive a dying platform like Rizny.
Rather, the mainstream opinion was that he might decline along with Rizny.
-We’ll find out when it comes out.
-Can’t wait to see what happens.
* * *
Baekster was greatly flustered.
Sea monsters are fundamentally quite difficult to deal with. First of all, the sea is not human territory.
So humans can only rely on limited vessels, and powerful sea monsters know all this.
They destroy the ship first, and humans can’t mount any proper offense or defense. Thus, they destroy the ship immediately.
Humans who fall into the sea can barely breathe, so they can be neutralized quite easily.
These monsters had learned all of this, so the stronger and more intelligent they were, the more one had to avoid them.
Yet Jin-woo was doing the opposite.
He was actually enjoying himself.
“This place is truly dangerous! The monsters here are of an exceptionally high level! Of course, your familiar looks sturdy, but these sturdy familiars can even be swallowed whole by monsters of this caliber…”
“That’s all the better.”
Jin-woo looked at Baekster.
“That way, better materials will drop.”

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