The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 356

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Episode 356
Episode 356.
“Damn it!”
Gordan cursed aloud.
Crafting in the middle of battle.
This was an element he’d never witnessed, not even back when Jin-woo was with Eternal Sunshine.
Which meant one thing: Jin-woo hadn’t been idle either.
The legend had evolved further.
“This won’t do.”
It couldn’t be allowed.
“Jin-woo is starting to craft!”
Gordan shouted loudly. The members of the Specialmens Guild began watching Jin-woo.
Clang!
“!”
“!”
What they’d only ever seen in footage was unfolding right before their eyes.
Jin-woo was crafting in the middle of this battlefield.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
It had begun.
Sweat poured down Gordan’s forehead like a torrent.
Jin-woo was creating something.
Maker had once seen Jin craft. In a forge thick with heat, he’d forged equipment.
Maker had made a request alongside providing good materials.
He’d thought it might not work.
The request had been to make it possible to surely defeat an opponent far stronger than himself. Common sense suggested that a single piece of equipment couldn’t overturn everything like this.
Could even Jin do it? Could even the legend of Eternal Sunshine manage it?
Clang!
Jin crafted as if he could read through all such doubts. As if to mock his own foolish thoughts, he created the equipment for him.
And he won.
From that day on, he realized that Jin’s legend contained not a single false layer.
Clang!
And now that hammer was pointed at him.
“You must stop him! Make it the absolute priority! Ignore your own casualties! You can die! Just stop Jin-woo’s crafting by any means necessary!”
Gordan shouted.
But the situation was complex.
“Guild Master!”
“I think we might be fine leaving it alone!”
Could Jin-woo actually craft something proper in this urgent battlefield?
Besides, even if he did create something, it would be meaningless. The moment Jin-woo finished crafting equipment through time spent, the Divine Realm would unfold.
This was a dead end.
A pit of certain defeat from which Jin-woo could never escape.
Time was on the Specialmens’ side.
There was no need to rush.
“It might be better to continue pressuring his familiars as usual!”
“On the contrary, it’s more dangerous! I think Jin-woo intends this!”
The commanders thought Jin-woo had no way out. So they believed he was intentionally crafting.
People knew Jin-woo.
But this knowledge didn’t only work to their advantage. In this way, they muddied the information, making those fighting Jin-woo think he had some hidden card—some way out.
It was a very clever tactic. The commanders themselves clicked their tongues. The mere fact that such a thought crossed their minds meant Jin-woo had already executed the stratagem flawlessly.
Yet despite the commanders’ words, Gordan saw only Jin-woo.
Jin-woo wasn’t a man strong at bluffing.
If it worked, he’d do it. If it didn’t, he’d still do it.
Right now, Jin-woo had genuinely chosen crafting as the way to break through this situation.
Then it had to be stopped.
This wasn’t bluffing!
It meant he wasn’t crafting out of mere bravado!
But Gordan’s words didn’t reach the guild members.
“No. We have to stop Jin-woo’s crafting! Jin-woo proves it!”
Jin-woo was someone who overturned everything through crafting.
At those words, the commanders gritted their teeth.
They had their own thoughts.
But if Gordan pushed this hard, they ultimately had to obey.
The guild master might have seen something they’d overlooked.
“But… no matter what we do, his concentration doesn’t break. Trying to get close will cost us tremendously.”
The guild master’s words weren’t intentional defiance.
“He’s too powerful!”
“His familiars and mechanics are too strong!”
Continuing to maintain this battle situation was more advantageous than forcing a direct approach. If they kept fighting like this, they’d eventually win.
But Gordan erupted.
“Do it!”
At Gordan’s word, the commanders’ bodies flinched.
“Even if our losses are heavy, it has to be done!”
Finally, they moved.
The guild members quickly mobilized at Gordan’s command. It was a confusing order, but they had no choice but to obey their guild master.
“Stop him!”
But then the Abyss moved.
Screech.
Screeeech!
The Abyss extended its tentacles by the dozens, the hundreds, even the thousands, completely blocking their advance.
Of course, the raw power was low. The firepower fell far short of piercing through the armor worn by the Specialmens Guild members.
But that was enough.
The JU Series mechanics supplemented that firepower.
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!
Boom!
Intense output swept over the Specialmens Guild members.
“Damn it!”
“We can’t move…”
“What is this? Something’s off about this combat mechanic… this output is insane. This should be stopping here!”
The elite of Special Monsters clicked their tongues and fell back. This should have been when they stopped. The combat mechanics had immutable limits.
Specifically, the Magic Core’s output system. This output delivered strong firepower in a burst, but required cooldown.
After use, the power dropped for a time and overall specs declined.
Knowing this, they’d advanced at that timing. But what came back was an unrelenting, powerful output.
“…Are you saying what Jin-woo made is different? Even a combat mechanic?”
“This is absurd…!”
First and Pur, now steadied, moved along with the other familiars.
“Damn.”
“We can’t get close to Jin-woo…”
Crash!
Gordan stomped the ground hard.
“Vow of Revival.”
Where the Extreme Moon Greatsword swung, a powerful shockwave erupted. It was one of his artifacts.
“We have to advance!”
Gordan steadied their panic. He pushed forward while putting pressure on one of the JU Series mechanics directly.
Crack!
JU-2 shrieked, cracks spreading across it from Gordan’s strike. Gordan breathed heavily. Though JU-2 took heavy damage from that single blow, Gordan seemed to suffer significant recoil as well.
Gordan clicked his tongue. He hadn’t accounted for mechanics. Mechanics weren’t affected by divine power.
“Destroy them!”
He pointed roughly, ordering an attack on the mechanics first.
Crunch. Bang.
Even in that chaos, Jin-woo remained focused.
Just as they’d predicted, this was no bluff.
His mind raced intensely.
‘Divine power is fatal to the undead.’
A very simple premise.
Each attribute had clear matchups, and breaking those matchups was difficult.
Of course, overwhelming force in one attribute could swallow its opposite.
For instance, fire turning water itself to steam, or cold freezing that very flame and erasing it.
When attribute power was that strong, it could consume its opposite.
But his familiars didn’t possess that level of strength.
Moreover, the divine magic unfolding was quite potent. If it had been ordinary divine magic, he could ignore it, but he couldn’t.
‘The Divine Realm itself—we only endured it. It’s not that there was no damage at all.’
Because Jin-woo’s equipment supported them, his familiars managed to endure, but truthfully it couldn’t be called having overcome it.
It was fatal, and his familiars now fought bearing that lethal damage and disadvantage.
‘So I chose.’
So Jin-woo had selected a method. A way that wouldn’t be greatly affected by divine magic and could instead supplement the Undead Attribute his familiars possessed—that way lay in Jin-woo’s hands.
‘Mechanization.’
Jin-woo looked at the Undead Mechanics.
The Abyss and JU Series he’d created moved exactly as before, despite divine power unfolding.
Gordan thought of them as mere mechanics, but the mechanics Jin-woo had created all bore the Undead Attribute alongside them.
‘This is purely mechanical power.’
The Mechanical Attribute simply covered the weaknesses the Undead Attribute possessed.
‘Divine power doesn’t take hold on machines.’
He couldn’t know exactly how attribute matchups functioned. But from what Jin-woo observed, divine power couldn’t affect machinery.
He focused on that.
‘Grant the Mechanical Attribute to the existing undead, just like Undead Mechanics.’
Crunch. So at this moment, he was carving a Magic Core.
Simply carving a Magic Core held no meaning.
‘Not enough.’
No matter how fast he worked, creating a complete Magic Core was difficult.
Moreover, rather than just giving them to his familiars, he needed to synthesize them into their skeletal structure, but Magic Cores were quite unstable and didn’t fit well.
So Jin-woo transformed the shape.
‘Carve Runestones into screws.’
Not ordinary screws. They were Mechanization screws—sized large enough to be driven directly into his familiars’ skeletal structure.
‘Mechanization Rune Screws. They function like Magic Cores while granting the Mechanical Attribute to the familiars.’
With this, the undead would bear Magic Cores in their bodies.
‘Just like how mixing bones into mechanics created Undead Mechanics.’
Now he reversed it—mixing mechanics into bones.
Crunch. Crunch.
Jin-woo carved the screw.
The Rune Energy of the high-grade Runestone radiated outward.
At that ominous power, Gordan tried by any means to stop Jin-woo.
But First and Pur didn’t allow him passage.
Only Gordan knew that what Jin-woo was crafting would be fatal to them.
‘There must be others who understand me this well.’
They would never let their guard down against Jin-woo.
‘This is fun.’
It felt rather exhilarating, as though he’d become a boss monster himself.
Crunch!
Jin-woo handled the Wave Carving Knife delicately as he crafted the Magic Core.
“It’s done.”
—Magic Core Screw crafted!

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