The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 344

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Chapter 344
Episode 344.
At Jin-woo’s confident words, Taveuk blinked his eyes repeatedly.
He still couldn’t believe it.
He knew the faces of all the others.
But this stranger before him was someone he’d never seen before.
“I… is this… correct? Who exactly are you…?”
Taveuk asked, even forgetting to express his gratitude.
“I’m Jin-woo, a disciple of Baxter.”
Jin-woo smiled and spoke.
He owed his life to Baxter’s disciple.
Only then did Taveuk, regaining some of his composure, bow his head.
“…Thank you for saving me!”
“Think nothing of it.”
Jin-woo smiled again.
“If you’re truly grateful, I’d be thankful if you could help us.”
“Of course I’ll help. I should help, of course. But… what exactly are you all working on right now?”
Taveuk looked at Jin-woo, then at Baxter, then at Mate and the mechanical engineers in turn.
“Perhaps…?”
Taveuk knew what Mate and the mechanical engineers were doing.
Until recently, Taveuk had been officially a mechanical engineer researching the Ether Core Theory and was attached to Sacra.
“Is that why Baxter has returned?”
To reclaim Sacra.
To remove Director Hamus from his seat and drive out Special Months Guild entirely—was that the goal?
But the force assembled here was far too small for that.
Though Jin-woo was exceptional, he was a blacksmith. He wasn’t specialized in combat. No matter how fine the mechanical engineering equipment he created, there would be no one to use it, making resistance futile against such odds.
Baxter, of course, was a great mechanical engineer and master mechanic, and the very person who had elevated Magic Core Theory to great heights, yet even he lacked the power to overturn this situation alone.
So they would create mechanics to wield mechanical engineering equipment?
That was also impossible. The enemy’s numbers were far too great.
The mechanics would never be finished before everything ended.
Even as Taveuk’s worried eyes dimmed, Mate simply smiled back at him. She could read that look. Until just moments ago, Taveuk’s position had been exactly the same as Mate’s and the mechanical engineers’.
“We’re on our way back from dealing with Elima.”
“!”
At Mate’s words, Taveuk’s expression shifted to surprise.
“With just this many…?”
“No. We didn’t fight at all. We’re mechanical engineers, after all. We lack combat ability. The fighting was entirely Jin-woo here.”
“…?”
This made him even more confused.
Wasn’t Jin-woo a blacksmith and mechanical engineer like themselves?
“He created a mechanic.”
Jin-woo said.
“A somewhat strong one.”
* * *
“…What?”
Gorden’s expression hardened.
“They lost?”
“Yes. Baxter is fleeing again.”
“…Who went?”
“Team Seven under Elima’s command went.”
Elima was a Guild member of Level 892.
She was a mid-to-high-ranking ranker and, as the team leader of Team Seven, had never once failed a mission since arriving in Sacra.
“Elima went and lost?”
Gorden had thought there was nothing Baxter could do.
Therefore, he hadn’t paid it much attention.
He hadn’t even reported this to Hamus.
“Hamus will throw another fit. Damn. How did this happen? Why did Elima lose? Didn’t we send combat mechanics with her?”
“Yes, we did.”
“Call Elima at once!”
At the Guild Master’s summons, Elima entered his office immediately.
“I apologize, Guild Master.”
“What happened? That bastard Baxter doesn’t have anything, does he? Did he bring something dangerous to Sacra?”
The surveillance mechanics had reported that Baxter carried nothing that would be a threat.
Of course, given his considerable skill, he might have created combat mechanics after assessing the situation in Sacra.
But the combat mechanics Baxter created were already well-documented.
The combat mechanics currently in use in Sacra were built on Baxter’s theories.
Therefore, no matter how impressive a new mechanic Baxter had made, there was no reason Elima should have lost.
“There was supporting force.”
Elima’s expression tightened.
“Supporting force? Didn’t you say only one user came with him?”
“Yes. But that user is, based on the circumstances, believed to be Jin-woo.”
“…Jin-woo?”
At Elima’s words, Gorden held his breath.
His expression was one of checking whether what he’d just heard was correct.
Jin-woo.
Jin-woo…
Jin.
“Jin… came here?”
His jaw clenched.
What in the hell did that mean?
“Shit. What? Why is Jin here?”
Goosebumps ran down his spine.
Why had Jin come to Sacra?
“Why is Jin here! Elima. Can you take responsibility for that claim?”
“…Yes. The subordinates are quite familiar to us. Moreover, he had powerful equipment.”
A Necromancer and a blacksmith.
At this point, there was only one user employing that unusual combination.
Gorden cursed.
“Damn. Just when things were going well.”
He never expected this to happen. Gorden couldn’t make a proper judgment faced with such an unexpected turn of events.
He shouldn’t fight Jin.
No, he shouldn’t even create a situation that looked like a fight.
He was from Eternal Sunshine.
Therefore, he knew well the power that Jin possessed.
Elima, watching Gorden’s reaction, spoke firmly.
“Rather, I believe this is an opportunity. Guild Master. Certainly Jin-woo is a powerful user.”
Facing him directly, she had realized he was far stronger than the videos she’d seen on Netflix.
Especially the strength of his subordinates was overwhelming.
“But if we were to commit to fighting.”
Elima continued.
“If we deployed all our combat mechanics and gathered all our elite to face Jin-woo, we could win.”
Gorden didn’t respond to Elima’s words.
“……”
The silence stretched long. Elima couldn’t endure it and called out to the Guild Master.
“Guild Master…?”
“An opportunity. An opportunity, you say. Elima. You’re not from Eternal Sunshine, so you can speak such words.”
Gorden’s expression hardened.
Why, of all times, did Jin appear now?
This was not an opportunity.
It would only be an opportunity if he could defeat Jin. It would only be an opportunity if there seemed any possibility of that. But Gorden couldn’t conjure a single scenario in which he could beat Jin.
Jin was a monster who won in any situation.
Jin from Eternal Sunshine was never a god-tier user from the start.
To reach the summit, one naturally had to pull down those already at the summit, and there were many rankers trying to pull down Jin, who was merely a blacksmith.
Gorden was one of them.
“How much I’ve suffered at Jin’s hands.”
Not once had Gorden ever won against Jin.
“……”
Gorden pressed his palm to his forehead.
But regardless of that, he couldn’t simply let Jin, who had come to attack Sacra, go free.
“I’ll go.”
Given the situation, doing as Elima suggested was the best course.
If things went well and this turned into a blessing in disguise, Special Months could be elevated to the highest position in an instant.
“…Sigh.”
Gorden exhaled.
“All of them.”
Then he spoke.
“Summon everyone. And bring all the combat mechanics too. Tell them to gear up fully and inform the Guild members who aren’t logged in that they must log in—all our forces are needed.”
He had to gather every single member of Special Months Guild.
“To meet a legend, this much is necessary.”
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Taveuk saw the “somewhat” strong mechanic that Jin-woo had mentioned.
“……”
What could “somewhat strong” possibly mean?
Did the meaning of words change among foreigners?
Whoooosh—
At the fierce power emanating from it, Taveuk instinctively took a step back.
“This isn’t a standard mechanic… is it…?”
“It’s an Undead Mechanic.”
Jin-woo said.
“An Undead Mechanic…?”
He had never heard such a thing before.
Undead and mechanic. A combination he’d never even conceived of. No, who would ever think of such a pairing?
Pshhhhh—!
It didn’t look like a standard mechanic, yet steam still burst forth and the intensity of the Magical Core’s power was palpable.
“Ohhh.”
Taveuk slowly approached and examined the Undead Mechanic more carefully.
“Three cores…?”
This Undead Mechanic contained a total of three cores. And those three cores meshed together like gears, rotating to produce tremendous power.
“Not even Ether Cores. Goodness. Achieving balance and stabilization with…”
Here was the very result they had so desperately wanted to achieve.
Jin-woo was demonstrating that stabilization was entirely possible with Magic Core Theory.
Taveuk swallowed.
Ether Core Theory was only stable.
Magic Core Theory was only powerful.
That prevailing orthodoxy vanished from Taveuk’s mind.
Magic Core Theory could be stabilized just as well. Of course, it wasn’t easy. The three Magical Cores before him were crafted with high technique, and their balance would have been difficult to achieve without Jin-woo himself.
But this was unmistakably Magic Core Theory.
The Magic Core Theory that everyone had said was wrong, that could never be stabilized.
“This is…?”
Taveuk looked at Jin-woo.
“Magic Core Theory. Baxter’s. I simply adapted it to my own style.”
Jin-woo said.
“Magic Core Theory wasn’t wrong.”
Jin-woo said.
Baxter, standing behind him, closed his eyes quietly.
“I see.”
Taveuk was the one who understood this best. As someone who had researched both theories, he could grasp what Jin-woo was saying.
“How could a heretical and failed theory shine so brightly?”
It was what the council had said when they expelled Baxter.
They had called it heretical, dangerous, and a failed theory.
But Jin-woo had shown them.
He had shown them directly what this Magic Core Theory was.
“As time passes, the boundary between right and wrong becomes blurry in any field.”
Taveuk said.
“But still, there is one. A correct answer.”

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