The Return of the Legendary Golden-Handed Blacksmith - Chapter 38

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Episode 38
Episode 38.
-A Unique Job has been born on the Flam Continent!
-With the birth of a Unique-grade hero user, the Main Quest progresses!
The moment Jin Woo transitioned into his Unique Job, NewGeneration’s Main Quest began to unfold.
-What?
-A Unique Job born?
-Weren’t all the Unique Jobs already filled?
-Looks like there was one left!
-Damn. Who is it?
Currently, there were eleven users holding Unique-grade jobs.
Five of them were Korean, and the remaining six were foreign users.
-This balances things out perfectly.
-NewGeneration is a game published in Korea, so losing the Unique Job count to foreign users stings a bit, you know?
-Wow, but who on earth is it? Everyone said after a year, you basically can’t get a Unique Job anymore.
-From what I can tell, it’s definitely not a new user. Sword Saint Hepalles invested over eight months just to get a Unique Job.
-And I heard Starlight, who has the Crafter’s Unique Job, took six months.
Because of this, everyone assumed there was absolutely no way a new user could have obtained a Unique Job.
While Shark Net was in chaos over the Unique Job.
Videos were being uploaded rapidly on MiTube.
-New Unique Job Born! Who is the Mystery User?
-The Last Unique Job. We reveal the identity now!
Of course, none of them knew the identity of whoever had obtained the Unique Job.
They were simply enjoying the festive atmosphere.
Ding—!
-The masters of the 108 Towers have manifested on the Flam Continent.
But the birth of the Unique Job was merely the beginning.
-Guys, towers are rising!
-What is this? The terrain is changing!
Rumble-rumble-rumble—!
The Flam Continent.
Towers began to rise across that vast continent. The existing towers remained perfectly intact, and new towers were being generated.
-What? What?
-It looks like the Main Quest is really proceeding!
-No, towers just suddenly appeared!
-Insane. Wait, were you guys preparing a major update?
-Suomi Company is doing great!
Users began to anticipate the unfolding Main Quest quite eagerly.
-But how do we even get this Main Quest?
-Seems like we have to find it ourselves.
-Let’s head to the kingdom first!
As the new quest progressed, users began to move on their own initiative.
NewGeneration was fundamentally not a merciful game.
Simply notifying players that a quest has started was pretty much all the hand-holding it would do.
Users actually enjoyed such adventures.
After all, if you learned about it first, you could monopolize that advantage.
Suomi Company.
The main event proceeding alongside the last Unique Job.
Because of this, Suomi Company was moving in a flurry of activity.
“We have event preparation materials ready, right? Get all the announcements posted and upload the official teaser video! The timing on this is perfect.”
“We thought the Main Event might never actually proceed, so we’re truly relieved.”
The vice president and team lead spoke.
“Kim, you got the report on the Unique Job holder, right?”
“Not yet. It should come in shortly.”
“Now I’m really curious. Who exactly caught this last ride?”
They couldn’t have imagined it.
That the person who had caught this last ride had only just started the game.
Monitoring Center.
GM Kim Na Yoon was convinced that this latest alert would surely be about a different user.
After all, Jin Woo had only just crafted an S-grade weapon recently.
But it was Jin Woo again.
“He… transitioned?”
The quest he had received was a Crafter’s Legend-grade Job quest.
“For him to transition this quickly. Ah, is this related to crafting that S-grade?”
GM Kim Na Yoon quickly processed the situation.
“Huh? This isn’t just a Legend-grade job… is it?”
A Legend-grade job wasn’t a job that only one person could obtain.
If the conditions were met, multiple people could obtain the same Legend-grade job.
But there were special jobs even among Legend-grade jobs.
Namely, Unique Jobs.
“Wow. It’s a Unique Job!”
The job Jin Woo had transitioned into was indeed a Unique Job.
Currently, there was only one Unique-grade job holder in the Crafter category.
Crafter ranking number one: Starlight.
“Starlight obtained her Unique-grade job through two transitions, I heard.”
Starlight had obtained her Unique-grade job six months after the game’s release.
“Her level was over 300, and she’d already progressed through several Main Quests.”
On top of that, she’d received tremendous help from her guild.
And now, following Starlight, Jin Woo had obtained a Unique Job.
Moreover.
“In less than a month.”
It was an unprecedented pace.
No, “unprecedented” didn’t even begin to cover it.
Compared to Jin Woo, Starlight was just an ordinary player.
“As expected.”
GM Kim Na Yoon, herself from Eternal Sunshine, found Jin Woo’s performance extremely welcome.
“I’m practically beaming with pride.”
Then, brimming with excitement, she began writing her report.
“I’m going to enjoy this overtime tonight.”
The current time was six o’clock. Normally it would be quitting time, but she had to write an additional report, so overtime was unavoidable.
But tonight’s overtime felt oddly enjoyable.
Of course, she had no way of knowing.
That tonight’s overtime would run considerably longer.
* * *
Jin Woo examined the Red Stone Armor from every angle.
“Does this have special Necromancer options?”
There was a notation saying darkness had seeped into it.
“Converts damage taken into life force?”
With this level of option, it normally required learning a specific skill or using particular materials to make it possible.
“Can you really just add an option like this with a single job?”
And now that he’d learned Hepalles’ Ultimate Defense, these two high-tier options were essentially built in as a baseline.
“Hmm!”
Jin Woo immediately tried to equip the Red Stone Armor.
-Insufficient level.
-Insufficient Strength stat.
“Damn.”
Jin Woo frowned.
“I can’t equip it because my level is too low.”
From S-grade to SS-grade.
Jin Woo had risen through ranks remarkably quickly.
Simple crafting was possible if he had the skill, but wearing what he made was impossible.
“Being too good at crafting is a problem itself.”
It was a phenomenon arising because his level was far too low compared to the quality of his creations.
In truth, this was a problem unique to Jin Woo; no other crafter had ever experienced it.
After all, there wasn’t a single S-grade-or-higher equipment crafter whose level hadn’t exceeded one hundred.
“Then.”
There was no choice. To verify this armor, he’d have to create something right now.
“I need to make some Undead Servants right away.”
Jin Woo left the forge and immediately entered the Gorge.
Rumble-rumble-rumble—!
-Closing the door to Hepalles’ Forge.
-Through the Successor’s privilege of Hepalles’ Legacy, you have become the master of this cavern forge.
“I can return here anytime I want, then.”
As the inheritor of everything Hepalles had, Jin Woo could use this cavern forge whenever he wished.
“I’ll be back soon.”
* * *
The Gorge.
“Kyargh!”
Emerging from Hepalles’ Forge, Jin Woo cut down a goblin without hesitation.
-You have hunted a Long-armed Goblin!
Float.
“Oh.”
As he hunted the goblin, he could see the goblin’s soul.
A pitch-black soul.
-You have obtained a D-grade Soul!
“D-grade?”
-You can store souls.
-By collecting souls, you can unlock exclusive Necromancer skills!
-The tier of Undead Servants you can create is determined by the soul’s grade!
-You can create Normal-grade Undead Servants.
“So D-grade means Normal-grade.”
Jin Woo immediately continued hunting monsters.
-You have obtained a Soul.
-You have obtained a D-grade Soul!
“This level of monster is D-grade.”
The Gorge was home to a diverse array of monsters.
Rustle—.
Rustle-rustle-rustle—!
An exceptionally large spider.
-You have obtained a D-grade Soul!
“Growwwl—!”
A massive-fanged wolf.
-You have obtained a D-grade Soul!
“Hmm. Looks like everything in this hunting ground is D-grade.”
Unfortunately, the best souls obtainable here seemed to be D-grade.
“Then let me try making an Undead Servant with D-grade souls first.”
D-grade souls were still worthwhile.
For Jin Woo, the mere fact of creating an Undead Servant was itself quite exciting.
“The body is more important than the soul anyway. The soul just drops when you kill a monster, but I have to make the body myself.”
Jin Woo collected an even more crucial byproduct.
-You have obtained Long-armed Goblin Bone!
“I need plenty of bones to craft the body I want.”
Jin Woo began to slaughter the goblins and orcs in the Gorge.
Crack—.
“It feels good to level up like this.”
Jin Woo started collecting bones this way.
After hunting for bones for about two hours, a question occurred to Jin Woo.
“Can I get bones from monsters that normally don’t drop them?”
Before learning the Soul Sight skill, naturally he couldn’t see souls.
But after learning the skill, he could see souls and use them.
He wondered if the skill for crafting bodies from bones worked similarly.
“Maybe I can get bones from any monster.”
If so, that would be quite interesting.
“Let me try.”
Jin Woo found a tree monster in the Gorge.
It seemed like a creature that wouldn’t have bones at all.
“It’s the kind of monster that definitely wouldn’t have bones.”
A moving tree—a Dark Tree.
“Lizard Flame.”
Jin Woo wrapped the Lizard Flame around his sword.
Then he swung his blade toward the Dark Tree.
Jin Woo’s combat technique relied entirely on his equipment and on using keen observation to track his opponent’s movements—a style that felt quite clumsy against monsters like this Dark Tree.
The Dark Tree creaked and hurled its leaves like shuriken.
Shwish-shwish-shwish—!
The Lizard Flame’s effect was unmistakable.
The Dark Tree burst into flames in an instant and quickly became ash.
-You have hunted a Dark Tree!
Jin Woo checked the byproducts.
-Dark Tree Bone
“It does drop?”
He’d honestly expected it not to.
After all, it was a tree-type monster. There didn’t seem to be bones anywhere on it.
But the fact that bones did drop was actually surprising.
“Dark Tree bone, huh.”
Jin Woo scratched his head slightly.
“Tree bones. Was this forcibly created by Bone Making?”
Jin Woo examined the Dark Tree Bone more closely.
“Indeed.”
Upon inspection, it was clearly different from goblin bones.
“It seems to be made from the mana the Dark Tree possesses.”
If that was the case, another question arose.
“How well would it work?”
Having collected a fair amount of materials, Jin Woo immediately opened his crafting forge.
“Bone Making.”
First, he creates the body of an Undead Servant.
“Hmm. The bone work here is quite intricate? I used my basic technique for the bone pickaxe, but this is an Undead Servant I’ll be using for a long time.”
Refinement and Smelting techniques.
These two skills were necessary to work with bones.
“I should learn Refinement technique more professionally. For now, let me try.”
Leveraging the know-how he’d gained from carving bone pickaxes, Jin Woo carved the bones.
Then he connected them one by one.
Click—. Click—.
What Jin Woo was crafting was a skeletal soldier of considerable size.
“I’ll be equipping it with all the gear I’ve made.”
Larger was better for now.
Connecting the bones, he crafted a skeletal frame about two meters in height.
-You have crafted a mana-infused skeletal framework!
-You have created a B-grade skeletal framework!
“Hmm.”
The framework he’d created was B-grade.
“This is my first time making something this large. It’s not easy.”
The connection process in particular was quite tedious.
“I’ll need to practice this multiple times.”
And it seemed that the resulting body was determined by the bones used to craft it.
“I could synthesize different minerals with the bones to create the framework too.”
He didn’t need to limit himself to bones alone.
Having created the skeletal framework for the body, Jin Woo immediately retrieved the souls.
“As for the souls—”
All the souls Jin Woo currently possessed were D-grade.
“It’s a shame.”
Goblins, Dark Trees, giant spiders.
The souls he’d collected from this Gorge didn’t quite satisfy him.
A B-grade framework with a D-grade soul. Even if it was his first Undead Servant, he felt unsatisfied.
As Jin Woo pondered briefly, a good idea came to him.
“I wonder if it’s possible.”
Jin Woo summoned Dust.
“Can souls be recycled too?”
Dust’s current Recycle function included material synthesis.
Material synthesis had the effect of raising grades.
Dust looked at the souls, his expression conflicted. His white eyes were very visible, so Jin Woo could tell right away.
“I’ll give you something delicious next time. Rare minerals, you know.”
“Peep.”
As if saying that was acceptable, Dust swallowed the souls.
Shaaaaa—.
-Recycle!
-Synthesizing materials!
Hack.
Dust spit out the souls he’d swallowed.
“Whoa.”
Jin Woo gazed in admiration at the result.

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