The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 362

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Chapter 362
Episode 362.
“Ugh…….”
The demon’s body collapsed where it stood.
Its expression was one of disbelief.
The other demon that had emerged from the tower with it widened its eyes.
“You……!”
“Children of Darkness. Take care of that one…….”
But before the sentence could finish, First moved.
Without the Eternal Cycle Sword available, he wielded the Ego Sword: Yurold instead.
Swish-. Swish-.
The Ego Sword: Yurold was equipment he’d crafted long ago, so it was an exceptionally easy weapon for the current First to handle.
Slice-! Slice-!
With fluid movements, he cut down the lesser demons and swiftly dispatched the superior one as well.
“You…… just what are you……!”
Having disposed of three demons, First slipped silently into the darkness and vanished.
Timple, who had been the enemy until moments ago, felt oddly reassured by First’s terrifying strike.
-You have hunted an Intermediate Demon!
Whoosh-.
Jin-woo naturally gathered the demon’s soul and byproducts into his possession.
-Intermediate Demon Soul [M]
It was an M-Grade soul, no less.
‘This is insane.’
An Intermediate Demon, yet its soul was Grade M.
‘If this demon is roughly in the middle tier of this tower, then how powerful are the high-tier or peak-tier demons?’
Jin-woo found himself looking forward to exploring this tower.
“It seems Hamud has made a contract with a demon and made a wish.”
‘This situation is getting more interesting.’
Hamud had made a wish.
And that wish had apparently brought this tower into being.
‘What kind of wish could he have made to a demon?’
A wish.
At that word, something seemed to occur to Timple, and he opened his mouth.
“I…… don’t know if this will help, but I have a guess about what that wish might be.”
Timple spoke.
“Not long after we arrived in Sacra, Councilman Hamud’s lover passed away. Councilman Hamud always wore his lover’s necklace, but at some point it disappeared, and we all thought he’d simply forgotten about it. After that, Councilman Hamud began collaborating with us.”
Timple recalled something Gordan had said back then.
“He said he seemed like a completely different person. As if he were possessed by something.”
At Timple’s words, Jin-woo stroked his chin thoughtfully.
‘Bringing him along was a good call.’
Thanks to Timple, he’d learned quite a bit of information he didn’t know before.
‘There’s a high chance it’s connected to his lover.’
Simply put, the wish could have been to resurrect his lover.
‘Regardless.’
He had to enter that tower and see for himself.
“Thank you for the useful information.”
“Well, then…….”
“There’s no need for you to come along. From here, I go alone.”
Jin-woo told Timple this.
Timple had been anxious, half-expecting Jin-woo to ask him to enter the tower together. Judging by the demons they’d just seen, the tower’s difficulty was far from ordinary.
If he entered, he’d only be a hindrance and would die quickly.
Of course, due to the circumstances, he’d been acting as an ally, but he wasn’t truly one. From Jin-woo’s perspective, he could simply use Timple as a shield and discard him.
But when Jin-woo said those words, Timple quickly bent his waist ninety degrees.
“Thank you.”
Jin-woo immediately moved toward the tower.
An alert appeared at once.
Ding-!
-Your Quest has been updated!
-The Quest, Master of Sacra, has been updated.
-Conquest Progress has changed.
-Conquest Progress: 0%
-Please check the updated Quest.
The eighty percent conquest progress he’d built up had vanished as if it were a lie.
‘A Quest update?’
The change in conquest progress meant the Quest itself had changed.
Whoooosh-!
Sure enough, a new Quest window appeared before Jin-woo along with a fierce wind.
* Quest: The Origin of the Tower of Wishes
Grade: ?
Description: Conquer the Tower of Wishes that has risen in Sacra!
Constraint: X
Reward: At User’s Discretion
A very simple Quest.
‘The Origin of the Tower of Wishes.’
The description only said to conquer the Tower of Wishes. There were no Constraints, and the Reward was at the User’s discretion.
‘Quests like this are always the hardest.’
And the Grade was marked as “?”.
It meant this was a Grade Jin-woo couldn’t currently perceive.
‘It’s higher than MR+.’
The difficulty seemed to be the highest of any tower he’d conquered so far.
‘Towers really can appear anywhere.’
This was an entirely new method. Hamud had made a wish to a demon and forged a contract.
This tower was the result of that contract.
‘Since he summoned the tower through a Demon Contract.’
To confirm what he’d wished for, he had to conquer the tower.
The answer would be waiting inside.
Jin-woo headed toward the tower.
“Please handle the cleanup on your own. The situation is already resolved. Explain what happened to the Guild members who resurrect after their Death Penalty.”
There would be Guild members resurrecting once their Death Penalty ended.
They wouldn’t understand the situation, so he needed to explain it properly to them.
Of course, even after resurrecting, they wouldn’t want to fight Jin-woo.
“Yes. I’ll explain everything properly, so don’t worry.”
Timple had no desire to fight Jin-woo either. Jin-woo was an exceptional person. With someone like that, you didn’t fight—you built a relationship.
If that wasn’t possible, then naturally, you avoided meeting them.
“And please handle the demons as well.”
“The demons?”
“While I’m inside the tower, more demons will escape from it.”
Timple and the rest of the Special Months Guild members had been in Sacra for a very long time.
Because of that, they had no experience conquering the tower, which was the main Quest.
So they hadn’t considered that demons might emerge again.
“If all the Guild members work together, you should be fine. And if you collect the byproducts from those demons, you’ll have something to discuss as well.”
At those words, Timple nodded. So he was even thinking that far ahead.
Those with a broader perspective really were different.
His vision was this expansive.
“Yes, I understand. Then…….”
“Let’s each secure the benefits we can.”
Now that a common enemy had appeared, it was better to secure maximum profit rather than fight each other.
After Timple left.
Jin-woo looked at the Tower of Wishes.
Beyond its extreme difficulty, he couldn’t quite grasp what kind of tower it was.
“Then I should prepare thoroughly before entering.”
Jin-woo opened his Workshop right away.
“Summon.”
Whoooosh-.
The moment the Summoning Workshop opened, Jin-woo pulled out a box.
‘I’ll use materials obtained from B Zone.’
After pushing back the Special Months’ elite forces and reclaiming B Zone, Jin-woo had raided the material warehouse. Of course, not as thoroughly as he’d done in D Zone. B Zone had no vacant Workshops.
These were materials he’d received, along with a warm greeting, as a form of “support.”
‘I was in a hurry to get to the castle, so I just grabbed the box.’
Because of that, he wasn’t certain what exactly was inside.
Jin-woo immediately opened the box.
Click-.
As the box containing materials opened, an intense light burst forth.
Whoooooosh-!
Previously, when he’d received Frost Titanium from Tabuk, intense cold and blue light had burst from the material.
This was similar.
An impressively promising aura erupted forth.
“Hm.”
-Advanced Runestone [MR+]
-Sacra Eternium [MR+]
Inside the box were various materials. The two most eye-catching were standout.
First was the Advanced Runestone, which had also existed in Tabuk’s Workshop.
‘The Mechanical Engineers in B Zone really are different.’
In B Zone and A Zone, only Mechanical Engineers officially certified by Sacra could establish a Workshop.
Because of that, the materials kept in their Workshops were also quite impressive.
‘Tabuk was originally in A Zone, wasn’t he?’
He’d been demoted to D Zone for falling out of favor with Hamud, but originally, he’d been here.
Jin-woo looked at the faintly purple mineral arranged beside the Advanced Runestone.
Purple light flickered alongside golden radiance.
Sacra Eternium.
A mineral that exuded a powerful presence just as intense as the Advanced Runestone. Jin-woo couldn’t take his eyes off the Eternium.
“It must be a special mineral that only comes from Sacra.”
It looked far superior to the Frost Titanium he’d used in Tabuk’s Workshop before.
‘I’ll only know once I handle it.’
By his assessment, it was a tier above Frost Titanium.
Of course, all minerals each possessed their own traits. So it was more appropriate to focus on the traits they possessed rather than determine what ranked higher or lower.
‘But this one is different.’
This one was elevated.
It was a high-tier mineral.
And that tier meant something else entirely.
‘If Orichalcum is the gateway to becoming a master Craftsperson,’
Whoosh-.
Jin-woo caressed the Sacra Eternium.
“Then this is the gateway to becoming a master Mechanical Engineer.”
The difficulty of handling this was considerable.
He could tell just from touching it.
‘Its traits are remarkable.’
Buzz-buzz-buzz-.
The Sacra Eternium continuously emitted a unique vibration.
‘And it’s emanating a distinct, unique frequency.’
Jin-woo picked up a hammer and gave it a gentle tap.
Since he wasn’t putting it in a furnace to melt it, it could be called a very light strike.
But in that instant, the frequency resonated with his hammer.
Thump-.
“Hm!”
Jin-woo smiled.
‘How noble.’
Ordinary skill or strength couldn’t even leave a mark on it.
Buzz-buzz-buzz-.
“And this vibration.”
Jin-woo immediately placed the Sacra Eternium into the furnace.
Whoooosh-!
After removing it with tongs, he began striking the Sacra Eternium.
Clang-! Clang-! Clang-!
Then he attempted to synthesize it with the other materials from the box.
Screech-!
Jin-woo halted his hands. If he’d continued, the Sacra Eternium would have become unusable immediately.
“Just as I thought.”
Through simple work, Jin-woo confirmed the Sacra Eternium’s traits.
“It’s quite finicky.”
This Sacra Eternium was a resonance material.
“It requires Synchronization.”
Jin-woo looked at the Advanced Runestone.
This Runestone, the alpha and omega of Mechanical Engineering equipment, naturally needed to be mixed with a mineral.
‘To insert this Runestone here, I need to achieve perfect Synchronization with the Eternium.’
If creating something with Eternium alone, simply hammering it properly would suffice.
But if other materials were involved, things changed.
‘If it doesn’t Synchronize with the Eternium, it collapses.’
If that happened, the Eternium would essentially become just a mineral.
It would lose all the traits it possessed.
‘Considering only its traits, using the Eternium alone would be best.’
That carried the least risk.
It was difficult to handle, but there’d be no need to achieve Synchronization this way.
But ironically, this Sacra Eternium was a mineral that only appeared in Sacra.
‘This mineral used as Mechanical Engineering material must absolutely be combined with other materials.’
Unless he was making screws from Sacra Eternium or other supplementary materials, it had to be mixed with materials like this Advanced Runestone.
‘To become a master Mechanical Engineer, you must be able to insert a Runestone into any material.’
He had to be able to create a core by inserting a Runestone even into finicky materials like this.
“Phew.”
Jin-woo took a deep breath.
He’d mechanized all sorts of equipment, mechanics, and even Familiars.
‘I thought I’d done just about everything at this point.’
Mechanical Engineering ran deep.
The materials he could work with were diverse and extensive.
‘That’s why I came to Sacra.’
Had he not come to Sacra, he would have only scratched the surface of Mechanical Engineering. Moreover, he wouldn’t have known these materials existed.
Jin-woo gripped his hammer.
Clang-!
‘The Sacra Eternium first.’
The Sacra Eternium was already quite high quality in its current state.
So to match the Advanced Runestone that would be synthesized with it, it was actually better to refine this Eternium roughly.
But Jin-woo had no such intention.
“I’ll draw out the Eternium’s limits to their maximum.”
It was a Craftsperson’s duty to draw out and use every ounce of power a material possessed.
“I’ll bring out your true form.”

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