The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 358

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Episode 358
358.
Gorden, Citadel, and the Guild members wore expressions of bewilderment.
The Divine Realm had succeeded. This entire area was now saturated with sacred power. So why were Jin-woo and his subordinates unharmed?
“……It has been deployed. This place is indeed the great and sacred Divine Realm.”
Citadel checked his buff window.
Three powerful buffs from the Divine Realm were active there.
Whoooosh—
—Brilliant Divine Power *
—Warrior of Sacred Ground *
—Protective Barrier *
All of them were potent buffs that enhanced physical abilities, increased health and mana, and amplified attack power.
“The Divine Realm has been deployed…….”
So why were Jin-woo’s subordinates completely unscathed?
‘Not bad at all.’
He could think of it as a domain so powerful that it could reignite even mechanized subordinates—though it wouldn’t catch them again.
‘Without the mechanization.’
They would have been burned to a state of complete combat incapacity. He was certain of it.
Snap.
Jin-woo, who had been walking slowly forward, flicked his fingers.
“Proclamation of Thousand Names.”
Beneath the names of a thousand.
Whoooooooosh—
A mighty darkness began to spread across the surroundings.
—You are enveloped by the power of Dark Vapor.
—The effects of sacred power are greatly weakened!
Jin-woo himself had not been mechanized, so the effects of the Divine Realm were still working on him.
However, since Jin-woo himself was not of the Undead category, the moment he was wrapped in Dark Vapor, the Divine Realm could no longer weaken him.
‘The sacred power cannot reach.’
The Dark Vapor was like an umbrella blocking the rain that was the Divine Realm.
—Warning!
—Warning!
—Please be cautious!
Intense alert messages began appearing to the Special Months Guild members.
—Darkness spreads!
—This is the Archlord’s domain!
The mechanized subordinates began cutting through the sacred wind.
Screeeeeech—!
Clang—!
First’s blade reached the Guild members.
“!”
An elite Guild member was sent flying backward. The tremendous damage made one knee buckle, and at that same moment, First lightly cleaved through the Guild members who had rushed toward him.
Speed had returned.
Whoooosh—!
Moreover, thanks to this Dark Vapor, his instantaneous output was higher than before.
The parts that had been weakened, however slightly, by the Divine Realm were now compensated for by the Dark Vapor.
“First and Pur—I’ll take them!”
Gorden gritted his teeth.
Jin-woo was indeed an unpredictable being.
However he had overcome this Divine Realm, whatever Jin-woo had created earlier seemed to be exerting a major influence.
“Sacred power doesn’t work on the subordinates! Account for that and attack! Nothing is finished yet!”
The Guild Master gestured.
“Combat Mechanic!”
The Combat Mechanic became a shield, allowing the Special Months Main Force’s attacks to reach the subordinates.
The Vanguard had tactics like the JP-1, but the Main Force did not.
Gorden retreated backward. Right now, he needed to focus not on First and Pur, but on all the subordinates.
To do that, he had to continue commanding.
He couldn’t fight and command at the same time.
But First and Pur would not let him go.
“How far do you intend to chase?”
Gorden kept trying to pull back. He naturally began moving deeper into the Main Force, and First and Pur followed accordingly.
Like this, First and Pur would end up in the very heart of the Main Force. Gorden was unwittingly serving as bait, drawing the two strongest subordinates into their midst.
“…….”
It was actually favorable. If they came like this and he could isolate these two subordinates, then no matter how strong they were, the elite of Special Months could defeat them.
Even without overwhelming them, a war of attrition could finish them off.
Cracks are made little by little. Those small cracks erode mountains and allow water to pierce stone.
Suddenly, Gorden pulled back more boldly, and First and Pur found themselves willingly entering the encirclement.
Gorden smirked.
Now the odds of capturing First and Pur had increased. Who would have thought they’d walk in like this on their own?
“Welcome!”
At those words, First’s eyes blazed fiercer.
Pur, standing beside First, gripped his War Hammer tightly and swung it.
“Thanks…for…the…invite.”
This was precisely the center where First had been aiming. Knowing that, Pur moved with him.
Whoooosh—
Attributes infused the Eternal Cycle Sword. Three Primary Attributes collided and achieved balance.
This blade maintained the three attributes stably due to the advanced Circulation that Jin-woo had achieved.
The advantage was being able to execute a variety of powerful attribute attacks through the power of Circulation.
But the power of this blade was not merely that.
As First wielded the Eternal Cycle Sword and came to understand it, he discovered there was another method of attack.
Whoooooosh—!
First deliberately severed the power of Circulation.
Then the three Primary Attributes began to wildly assert their power.
Discord.
Crack. Crack. Crack.
Tremendous energy began accumulating in the Eternal Cycle Sword.
“Can…only…use…it…once.”
With that single strike, he could accomplish something tremendous.
“What are you doing now—!”
Gorden moved to stop First. But Pur blocked him.
“Too late!”
Pur completely stopped Gorden’s charge.
“Total…detonation.”
First smiled and swung the Eternal Cycle Sword.
With its Circulation shattered, the Eternal Cycle Sword was instability itself. Swinging it in that unstable state meant it could only shatter.
And with.
KABOOOOOOM—!
A tremendous explosion.
“Hahahaha—”
Seeing this spectacle, Jin-woo smiled.
He’d never imagined they would use it that way.
“Yes. That’s it.”
Drawing out even the risks the blade possessed, going beyond his own expectations—that was true understanding.
This was exactly what Jin-woo had hoped for.
First had achieved it.
‘Did becoming mechanized make them smarter?’
Either way, he was quite pleased.
“The blade did break.”
But he could simply forge a new one. Now that Jin-woo was as he was, he could craft even finer equipment.
Crash—crash—crash—!
Whoooooosh—
The aftershock of the explosion filled the surroundings with smoke. But thanks to the Divine Realm, the smoke quickly dissipated.
And what became visible was quite grim.
Most of the users closest to the epicenter had died, and those further away suffered grievous injury.
“Hah……”
“……”
“You…detonated the blade?”
They themselves possessed this method of combat.
After all, the Vanguard had mechanics dedicated to self-detonation.
But the power was nothing like this.
“Guild Master……”
“Guild Master, are you all right!”
Guild members who had escaped the blast’s impact frantically looked for Gorden. He was the lynchpin of this force.
Yet Gorden had been right in the center of the blast.
He had been directly in front of First.
Rumble—
Fortunately, Gorden was unharmed.
—A Rune activates!
—The effect of Rune of Divine Protective Wall negates massive damage!
Gorden had a Rune. A Rune that activated perfectly in such a situation—and so the damage from the Eternal Cycle Sword’s explosion was fortunately negated for Gorden.
Without it, Gorden would have died instantly.
“……”
Because of that, Pur also narrowly escaped the brunt of the blast.
Pur naturally retreated backward.
Gorden gnashed his teeth.
“Is everyone all right!”
“Yes!”
“We need to regroup!”
It was a fierce explosion, but since the elite Main Force’s equipment was so fine and they had many artifacts prepared for contingencies, many had endured.
But they had merely endured.
—You have taken critical damage!
—Health drops below 20%!
—You continue to take damage!
The Eternal Cycle Sword that First had deliberately detonated was a weapon that maintained three Primary Attributes in constant Circulation, allowing it to exert its attribute power at any moment.
Since such a weapon had exploded, the Guild members were continuously suffering damage from those three attributes.
Then the subordinates moved.
They charged straight at those who had taken critical damage and were scrambling to recover quickly.
Crack—!
Ben fell with tremendous force, crushing them with his claws. Alongside him, Speed and Bee flailed wildly.
“Gaaaah—!”
“Ugh.”
“The speed…increased even more……”
Moreover, mechanized Moltus was no longer as weak as before.
Whoooosh—
He spewed Dark Vapor and wielded Telekinesis every which way.
Rumble—!
He stopped one who was about to drink a potion and simply lifted and dropped them.
Boom—!
“Do you have the leisure to recover health?”
Moltus spoke.
“I’ll repay the humiliation from before.”
“Ugh……”
“Gasp……”
“Fall back. Fall back…… if everyone dies here……”
They had wanted to become a wall.
A great wall to stand against Jin-woo. Moreover, a wall that would prevent Gorden and Special Months from being threatened.
Two-thirds of those executives had died.
Only three remained.
Gorden had survived, but the elite of the Main Force had been severely depleted.
“Huff…… huff……”
Citadel raised his hand high.
Priests fundamentally had low health and weak defense. Because of that, all the priests except Citadel had died in the explosion.
“Celestial Touch.”
Citadel drained all his mana to restore the remaining Guild members.
“I have…… done all I could.”
Slice!
Speed’s dagger pierced straight through Citadel.
—You have perished!
The core Guild members of Special Months continued to fall one after another.
Crack—!
Bang—!
The Combat Mechanics were the same.
Jin-woo’s Combat Mechanics, with their higher specs, were systematically dismantling Special Months’ Combat Mechanics.
The materials from that were carefully collected by Abyss’s tentacles.
“Click—click—”
Abyss had no soul, but had a Magic Core. Because Jin-woo had created it, every action was oriented toward Jin-woo.
Gorden surveyed his surroundings.
Without the Rune, he would have been the first to die in the center of that explosion.
Fortunately, he had survived.
But did surviving matter?
Boom—
Gorden clenched his fist.
It mattered.
It wasn’t over until it was over.
“All forces, listen—!”
Crash—!
Gorden stomped the ground hard.
“Retreat…… we are retreating!”
A tactical withdrawal.
Retreat was better than annihilation. He had to withdraw and prepare to face Jin-woo again.
Or, if he could not prepare for battle, he would have to try a different method.
That was why Gorden had survived.
“Retreat—!”
With the retreat order given, the Guild members all began withdrawing with full force.
Whoooosh—
As they disappeared, the Divine Realm too began to fade.
Jin-woo looked at his subordinates.
“We did it.”
Jin-woo said.
“We did it.”

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