The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 335

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Chapter 335
Episode 335.
“It’s remarkably light.”
Astonishingly light, in fact.
Along with that came a sensation of drifting gently through the water.
‘Is this the trait of Kraken Skin?’
Or perhaps the power of the Cheonmuggyeol Sewing Technique?
Jin-woo jumped in place and walked briskly to test it.
The result told him exactly where this lightness came from.
‘It’s the Cheonmuggyeol Sewing Technique.’
The Cheonmuggyeol Sewing Technique had rendered this leather armor incredibly light.
‘It’s even drawn out the hidden traits that the Kraken Skin possessed.’
Beyond that, the Cheonmuggyeol Sewing Technique had erased the weight that came with handling the leather armor itself.
As a result, this Deep-Sea Mobility Suit had become remarkably light.
‘This means I’ll be able to move far more freely in the water.’
Jin-woo grinned with satisfaction.
The finished product was extraordinarily impressive.
Without hesitation, he dove straight into the sea.
Splash!
-Special Attributes activate!
Two special attributes immediately came online. Jin-woo took a deep breath.
‘I can breathe.’
And the Deep-Sea Mobility Suit assisted his smooth movement beautifully.
Whoosh. Whoosh.
Cutting through the water, Jin-woo moved with the speed and grace of someone on land.
‘If I can move this well in it myself…’
Then First or Pur wearing it would achieve even faster movement.
Jin-woo pushed hard with his feet and tested a sharp directional pivot.
Bang!
“Excellent directional control.”
The Dive technique made descending equally effortless.
Jin-woo quickly surfaced near Golae.
“Perfect.”
He grinned and pulled out the remaining Kraken Skin.
‘There’s still plenty of Kraken Skin left even after making the Deep-Sea Mobility Suit.’
“This is why I love large monsters.”
Even after using material lavishly, there was always plenty to repurpose.
“Magnificent work!”
“Thank you, Baxter.”
Then a tremendous presence began approaching Golae from the front.
“…Noisy thing, arriving now. Positano Bay hosts many powerful sea monsters. Each has its territory, and they generally avoid overlapping in their movements.”
Baxter spoke up.
“But you felt it just now—Kraken is dead.”
And something would soon hunger to claim the vacant territory where Kraken once ruled.
“I’m looking forward to it.”
Jin-woo smiled.
The Kraken Skin had exceeded his expectations. He also wanted to work with its Soul and essence soon, along with the Deep-Sea Pearls.
“What excellent creations I might craft.”
* * *
-Encounter: The Ancient Shark Sharking, which chews through mountains, in Positano Bay!
An ancient shark—Sharking.
Its massive body was even larger than Golae, whom Jin-woo had created.
Swooooosh!
The epithet “chews through mountains” fit perfectly. When that enormous maw opened wide, hundreds of teeth gleamed within.
Snap!
Closing its massive jaws unleashed a shockwave.
“Ha!”
Kraken had been sluggish by nature. While its tentacles moved fast, moving that massive body required tremendous power, making it highly likely a creature would escape. Survival was common.
But meeting Sharking meant death was all but certain.
“…I never imagined I’d encounter Sharking.”
Sharking was one of the monsters that absolutely had to be avoided. No one dared use this shortcut because of it.
Yet there were bold fools who risked their lives, and they never returned.
Though occasionally, some did.
Only when Sharking had eaten its fill.
Then it would deliberately toy with them before releasing them.
“Shhhhh—.”
Sharking made a sound. Like a serpent’s hiss, or the scrape of blade on blade.
Then it charged with blinding speed.
It moved like a living cannonball.
Screeeeeeeech!
“Insane! That size—moving at this speed!?”
Larger than Golae, yet far faster.
Golae’s pride seemed wounded. In an instant, he wheeled around, intent on meeting the charge with his horns.
Boom-crack!
Sharking’s charge sent Golae reeling backward.
A low rumble rolled through the water.
Golae’s rage surged.
Or rather, his wounded pride.
“Golae.”
Jin-woo spoke to his creation.
“I made you.”
He put weight behind the words.
“Your being driven back means…”
Jin-woo continued.
“I’m being driven back.”
At those words, Golae’s rage transformed into icy clarity.
Then, instead of matching Sharking’s blistering speed, Golae went still.
He waited.
If you knew an attack was coming, speed didn’t matter.
Thud!
As Sharking lunged, Golae drove his horn in at precisely the right moment.
Shriek!
But just before the hit landed true, Sharking twisted its body. Its thick hide absorbed most damage, leaving only a gash.
“Shhhhh—.”
Sharking regarded Golae. Thinking it could toy with him easily, it seemed delighted by the unexpected resistance.
Screeeeeech!
Sharking lunged again, this time with gaping jaws.
It meant to bite clean through Golae’s skull along with his horns.
In that moment, Sharking’s maw grew even wider.
“!”
Baxter, watching, clenched his fists. Sharking was already larger than Golae, and now its jaws opened wider still—it looked as though Golae would simply vanish down that throat.
Even trying to stay calm felt impossible.
Crunch!
Sharking’s enormous jaws collided directly with Golae’s horn. The shark seemed to find the horn deeply irritating.
It tried to swallow it whole, but the horn proved far harder than expected.
This bone had been meticulously carved with Master-Level Bone Crafting and a Wave Crafting Blade.
It was not easily broken.
Crunch! Crunch!
Sharking thrashed, trying to shatter it, but then Golae suddenly wrenched his head violently.
“Ugh… so dizzy!”
Baxter groaned in distress.
“Pur.”
A dark shape emerged from the shadows with a sharp hiss.
Pur had arrived.
“What are your orders?”
This was Pur’s solo mission.
“That shark is our enemy.”
Jin-woo immediately handed the Deep-Sea Mobility Suit to Pur.
-You have given your familiar Pur the Deep-Sea Mobility Suit.
Pur had always accepted First’s advance as natural.
He was the Legion Commander.
And he had always been in the lead.
So moving forward seemed only right.
“Pur.”
“Yes. What are your orders?”
“You’re not thinking of letting him pull ahead forever, are you?”
“…”
Jin-woo thought there was nothing odd about either First or Pur stepping forward.
‘Legion Commander is merely a title.’
His legion would continue to grow.
If it did, one leader would not be enough.
‘Every one of my familiars should be capable of becoming a Legion Commander.’
Each had to possess power befitting a Legion Commander.
Hearing this, Pur looked at Jin-woo.
These were not empty words of comfort.
Jin-woo truly believed in Pur.
“…I shall step forward!”
“Good. That’s how it should be.”
Splash!
Pur dove into the sea.
“Your familiars are certainly strong, I can see that clearly. But that Sharking is far stronger than Kraken!”
Sharking’s strength was fundamentally different from Kraken’s.
Where Kraken excelled at overwhelming multiple foes, Sharking possessed the raw power to shred a single opponent in one-on-one combat.
“Though it’s presumptuous to say, were you to send all your familiars right now…”
“That won’t be necessary.”
Jin-woo replied.
“Pur alone will suffice.”
A low vibration rippled through the water.
Descending into the depths, Pur felt the Deep-Sea Mobility Suit activate.
Made by Jin-woo, he had never ventured underwater like this before.
The strange sensation was deeply uncomfortable at first, but soon the suit’s power allowed him to breathe and move as though standing on land.
Of course, water resistance prevented truly earthlike movement, and he had to adjust his technique accordingly.
Pur moved his body in various ways. The Deep-Sea Mobility Suit Jin-woo had crafted fully preserved the strength the Kraken Skin possessed.
Smooth as silk.
Pur recalled Kraken’s movements.
Then he mimicked them.
“Excellent.”
Pur gripped his War Hammer tightly.
Screeeeeech!
Upon seeing Pur suddenly dive into the sea, Sharking seemed amused.
Sharking was a colossal monster of the deep.
Pur was large, certainly, but compared to Sharking he was tiny. Sharking was a massive abomination rivaling Golae in size.
“Are you truly sure!?”
Standing before it, the size difference was staggering. Baxter couldn’t help but feel anxious.
Enough? When compared directly, Pur looked like nothing but a single bite for Sharking.
Screeeeeech!
The moment Sharking lunged to swallow Pur, Pur pivoted sideways and curved around to Sharking’s flank.
Then he swung his War Hammer.
Because of the water, the swing could only be slow.
The harder he pushed, the fiercer the resistance.
So Pur controlled the War Hammer with meticulous care.
On land, a single swing was trivially easy. Underwater, it was not.
He had to understand everything the War Hammer contained.
Crack!
Boom!
A tremendous roar erupted. Shockwaves rippled through the deep water, and the impact—so intense that heat compressed into a red glow—struck Sharking with devastating force.
“Screeeeeeeee!”
Sharking shrieked in agony. Expecting no such attack, it had no proper defense.
Struck hard on the flank from such a position, Sharking convulsed and rapidly widened the distance from Pur.
Then it glared at Pur with furious intensity.
-Shark Pressure!
-Paralysis will set in.
-Debuff effects are nullified.
But it had no effect on Pur.
Pur rocketed forward like a charging dolphin. Then he alternated his gaze between his hand and the War Hammer.
Just now had been distinctly different.
Pur currently had to manage multiple concerns in this harsh environment. This forced him to concentrate harder than usual, and that intense focus enabled him to grasp every facet of the War Hammer.
But it was still hazy.
“Clarity.”
Now came the work of making it clear.
The prideful Sharking charged with manic speed.
Like a missile. With no further hesitation, Sharking aimed with precision for Pur.
Zip!
Close in and crush with teeth—Sharking’s most fearsome power.
Crunch!
Pur dodged in the same manner, but Sharking anticipated this. It forced its body into a violent spin, opening its jaws where Pur had dodged.
Crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch!
Sharking’s teeth collided directly with Pur’s War Hammer.
“Formidable teeth!”
Despite the water, he had never encountered teeth that could withstand the War Hammer before.
And Sharking had never imagined such a thing. It had long believed that nothing existed which it could not shatter.
Yet this weapon held firm. Worse, it was making its own teeth ache.
“Hmm.”
Jin-woo uttered a sound of admiration.
“He fights well…!”
Baxter assumed Jin-woo was impressed by Pur’s improved combat ability.
But Jin-woo was admiring Sharking’s teeth.
‘If I forged those into an axe, the performance would be absolutely insane.’
And that shark hide capable of withstanding such rapid acceleration.
‘The fins could serve as potion materials.’
Or he might ask the cook to prepare it as food instead.
‘It’s massive enough—plenty of options.’
Crunch! Boom!
Pur and Sharking clashed furiously. Pur was finally truly understanding his War Hammer.
“I’ve been using this so poorly all this time.”
The War Hammer he had wielded until now represented only a fraction of its true power.
“This is how to swing it.”
Screeeeeech!
Cutting through water, Pur’s hammer struck Sharking squarely again. Sharking bit down on the hammer with tremendous force right there.
“!”
Sharking’s teeth shattered. But Pur could tell.
It had intentionally broken its teeth. It was sacrificing them to generate even greater power and damage the War Hammer in the process.
But the War Hammer did not budge.
Smooth. Smoothly growing back.
“Its teeth are regenerating?”
Pur observed Sharking. A shark’s teeth continuously grow throughout its life. This technique was possible precisely because of that.
Pur glanced at Jin-woo.
“My master would be absolutely thrilled. If possible, I wish to capture it alive to present to him!”
But raising something this massive would be quite difficult.
“I shall dispose of it at its prime—when its teeth are in pristine condition.”
I shall bring my master the finest teeth!
Boom! Boom!
Having grown accustomed to the War Hammer, Pur no longer gave ground to Sharking.
“Screee! Screeeeeeeee!”
Sharking sensed the truth instinctively. The Pur it faced now was utterly different from when they first met.
Death.
It must flee!
Sharking wheeled around.
“You shouldn’t have turned. You might have survived if you’d charged straight through.”
-Heaven Earth Shattering is cast!
The special skill Heaven Earth Shattering, brimming with the power of Fusion Actoz, split Sharking cleanly in two.
Booooooom!
-The Ancient Shark Sharking, which chews through mountains, passes into eternal rest.
-Level Up!
Whoooosh.
Though not as potent as Kraken’s Soul, a jagged essence streamed directly into Jin-woo.
‘The byproducts are quite excellent as well.’
Jin-woo was glad he had sent Pur alone.
‘He’s grasped the fundamentals of wielding the War Hammer.’
Now he would use it flawlessly against MR-Grade enemies.
‘And the Deep-Sea Mobility Suit proved excellent too.’
It enabled both underwater respiration and swift movement in the depths.
“Master!”
Pur surfaced urgently near Golae.
“The teeth, sir.”
Then he grinned widely, presenting Sharking’s teeth to Jin-woo.

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