Chapter 43

Forest and Rock (4)

The highest grade of blueprint I had seen so far was at best a C-grade.

The sturdy steel hammer I gifted to the dwarves.

Even so, it was a weapon that was slightly too much for Bone Six, a mid-level Lv.2 blacksmith, to make.

“Here! Take this! It’s a replica, and the original is separate, so don’t feel too pressured!”

“Take this too! It’s useless even if it stays at home anyway!”

But today.

I felt like I was about to get a lot of blueprints.

And all of them were B-grade or higher.

‘Oh my god…’

The types of blueprints were diverse.

Various mysterious tools and weapons.

There was even a blueprint for a bow used by elves.

‘How much would all of this be if I sold it?’

Of course, my rare blueprints were my capital, and I wasn’t so short-sighted as to think about selling them off.

Indeed.

Could the value of these blueprints even be quantified?

“Just a moment. Please give them to me slowly. I’ll check them one by one.”

I busily gathered the blueprints.

“I’ll definitely make them for you one by one, starting with the ones I like. Ah, put them here. Thank you!”

It felt like I was under a goose that laid golden eggs.

Stuffing falling gold nuggets into a bundle.

The dwarves were simple yet passionate.

I only made them one weapon, but they were passing on such valuable things so casually.

How much time had passed like that?

“Huh? Over there! Isn’t that Tonir?”

“Tonir?”

It was then that some of the dwarves started whispering, looking behind them.

“What’s Tonir doing here?”

“Ooh, is Tonir also here to bring blueprints?”

I turned my gaze as well.

Why, who is Tonir?

“Kuh, Tonir is from a prestigious blacksmith family! In the past, all the high-level warriors of the earth used weapons from the Tonir family, didn’t they?”

“Of course, the Tonir family’s weapons are famous. Although there aren’t many left, they still shine even after many years.”

“Kya, then if we could just make that?”

“It wouldn’t be impossible to wipe those damn elves off the face of the earth!”

Hope began to fill the eyes of the murmuring dwarves.

That small dwarf’s family must be that famous.

Tonir had already come up to me and opened his mouth.

“You.”

He held out a blueprint in his hand.

Even though it was just a piece of paper.

Was it just my imagination that it seemed to shine more than the blueprints the other dwarves had brought?

“Do you perhaps have the skill to make this?”

“……”

Gulp!

I swallowed and received the blueprint.

[Item: Titan’s Thunder Hammer]

[Grade: A]

[Type: Blueprint]

[Description: A blueprint for manufacturing the ‘Titan’s Thunder Hammer’.]

[Effect 1: ‘Titan’s Thunder Hammer’ can be manufactured.]

[Effect 2: Requires 100 ‘Iron Ingots’, 20 ‘Silver Ingots’, 2 ‘Mithril Ingots’, and 30 ‘Wood Pieces’.]

[Effect 3: Boasts excellent performance due to the complexity of the manufacturing difficulty.]

‘……What is this.’

I was shocked.

An A-grade blueprint.

Even on Earth, the value of an A-grade blueprint was beyond imagination.

It meant that expensive A-grade items could be mass-produced.

‘S-grade is out of the question.’

S-grade weapons felt like they were unique.

I hadn’t even heard the news that blueprints existed until now.

‘Besides… it requires too many materials?’

I shouldn’t think that was all the materials.

If I thought about the materials that would be lost if I failed, I would need countless materials.

‘And Mithril Ingots?’

Bone Six’s refining skills weren’t yet capable of extracting Mithril Ingots.

No, before that, could Bone Six’s ‘Intermediate Item Creation’ (Lv2) even make that A-grade weapon?

Creak!

Bone Six came up with a hammer in his hand.

Gleams of light were emitted from the area of his eyes.

I could feel his desire to create.

[Examines the blueprint, ‘Titan’s Thunder Hammer’.]

[Warning! Warning! Warning!]

[This is a blueprint of high difficulty compared to your skill level.]

[The probability of failure is high.]

“Ah……”

I blankly looked up at the message.

Indeed, was an A-grade blueprint still beyond my capabilities?

Clang! Clang! Clang!

However, Bone Six vigorously shook his head.

As if he could do it, he confidently raised his hammer.

“You want to try that?”

Nod, nod.

He confidently agreed.

Tch, I licked my lips.

‘Well.’

The high probability of failure meant.

To put it nicely, it meant there was a chance of success, right?

Besides, if I succeeded in making just that, Bone Six’s skill proficiency might increase tremendously.

“The problem is Mithril……”

“Don’t worry about that.”

Tonir approached me as I was holding my chin and pondering.

“There is spare Mithril being managed by the family. If you just challenge yourself, I will support you without holding back.”

“Really?”

“Yes, we are that desperate for that weapon.”

“……”

Heo.

Even the materials were prepared?

Then I had nothing to lose, right?

“Then let’s do that.”

I also neatly agreed.

“Hehe, you. I hear you’re challenging yourself to make the Thunder Hammer?”

“Please make it well.”

“You are the hope of our Stone Clan.”

News of my challenge spread widely in Titan.

The dwarves stopped visiting for the time being and cheered from a distance.

They looked at me with expectant eyes.

“……”

Clang! Clang!

Bone Six powerfully struck down with his bone hammer.

[Completion 30%]

Clang! Clang!

[Completion 35%]

[Manufacturing fails.]

[The invested materials are destroyed.]

“Damn it.”

The manufacturing process was not as easy as expected.

Bone Six, who had been confident at first, also tilted his head.

It must mean that his body wasn’t following his thoughts as well as he wanted.

Even so, Bone Six did his best.

Creating a high-level weapon.

It was something that required a tremendous amount of time and effort.

Even the slightest hesitation in the hammering.

[A crack occurs.]

[Manufacturing fails.]

[The invested materials are destroyed.]

Everything that had been made disappeared.

“Bone Six.”

I stayed by Bone Six’s side.

Instead of entrusting everything to him, I tried to endure it together with him.

“Don’t give up. I’ve lived and learned. There’s nothing you can’t do if you try.”

That’s right.

Had there been any effort in blacksmithing until now?

Was it really effort to just use a skill and have something made in a snap?

Real skill, not system-based proficiency.

Acquiring a technique as if it were ingrained in the body through hundreds and thousands of repetitions.

That might be what Bone Six needed.

Clang! Clang!

The clear sound of metal rang through the mine.

I also sat next to him in a lotus position.

Supreme Clarity Heart Method.

I calmed my mind, felt the energy, and fell into thought.

Clang! Clang!

In response, Bone Six’s hammering also slowed down.

It was happening as we communicated with each other.

‘How, in what way, should I strike?’

‘How can I deliver the same force without disrupting the balance?’

Bone Six’s worries flowed into my mind.

In that process.

I could feel the pride from his class, ‘Blacksmith’.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

At that moment.

His hammer began to move more fluidly.

‘Thunder… the designer wanted to imbue this weapon with lightning-like speed.’

‘Through a thunderous roar, he wanted to instill fear in the enemy.’

Lightning is a symbol of fear.

The iron hammer of light falling from the sky is unpredictable as to when and where it will fall.

In addition, it is very fast and intense.

Clang! Clang!

The imagery I had in mind began to be imbued in Bone Six’s hammer.

The energy of the Supreme Clarity Heart Method began to surge like lightning.

“Uh, uh?”

“Oh my god!”

“H, hey guys. Look over there! Lightning is flowing through the hammer!”

The dwarves who had been standing far away began to murmur.

They were surprised by the sight they had never seen before.

“I! I’ve heard of it! Our ancestors said that such a phenomenon appeared when they were hammering!”

“That’s right! They say it happens when you put your soul into hammering?”

“Soul?”

“Yes, soul! We called a blacksmith who knew how to put their soul into it a master craftsman!”

The dwarves gathered one by one and admired Bone Six’s hammering.

The lost heritage of the Stone Clan.

Their faces were clearly filled with emotion.

“……”

I also trembled.

‘Bone Six.’

What is his true identity?

Just what is he…

How could he imbue such a ‘soul’ with just an intermediate item creation skill?

Moreover, only with the remnants of the soul left in the body of the deceased, not his own true thoughts.

[Completion 2%]

Clang! Clang!

‘Heo.’

I lamented inwardly.

Clearly, the hammering now was much more intense and difficult than the hammering he had wielded until now.

However, unlike now, the completion rate did not increase properly.

Just how great of a weapon was trying to be born to make it like this?

Clang! Clang!

An hour passed, two hours passed.

Finally, a day passed.

[Completion 21%]

“……”

The completion rate filled in 24 hours was only 21%.

Still, one thing that was comforting was.

That the failure message no longer appeared.

Clang! Clang!

Bone Six did not stop hammering.

I also continuously operated the Supreme Clarity Heart Method.

In the middle, I instinctively called the Old Man, but.

After watching me concentrate, he nodded and disappeared.

Clang! Clang!

Already, rumors were spreading throughout Titan.

“He’s a real blacksmith……”

“That guy is the real deal!”

“Ah, the passion of the artisan that is felt even from here pierces deep into my heart!”

Now it was a state of ecstasy.

I couldn’t even hear the dwarves’ exclamations.

In the end, blacksmithing also connects to ‘energy’.

I put my energy into Bone Six’s hammering, which was surging like a storm.

Then his hammering became more fluid.

He danced.

As expected, Myriad skills was not wrong.

And unlike the Old Man, I felt like there was definitely the soul of a blacksmith in my Myriad skills.

“Hmm.”

A ghost was watching Ju Dong-hoon from behind with a satisfied expression.

A person with a face full of wrinkles and wearing a white shroud.

The absolute being of this world, the Master of Myriad skills.

The Old Man thought.

‘It’s better this way.’

‘While watching that hammering, he’s actually getting closer to ‘energy’.’

‘The Supreme Clarity Heart Method is already rising to a high level.’

He was pleased.

At first, he didn’t like the fact that the guy was turning his eyes to trivial skills.

But now it wasn’t.

‘Hehe, I underestimated the Great Law of Supreme Clarity and Material Accomplishment too much.’

Even though he created it himself.

A technique he had never used.

A secret technique that could turn a trash-like dullard into a genius chosen by the heavens!

Indeed, that ability was amazing.

Ju Dong-hoon.

He was clearly.

Learning blacksmithing for the first time in his life, alone, without any teachers.

Seeing an action, gaining enlightenment, and developing it into his own.

Creating his own art.

That was the path of a genius!

Clang! Clang!

Clearly, Bone Six was doing the hammering.

The dwarves in front of him were also cheering while looking at Bone Six.

‘But.’

The Old Man knew.

Bone Six wasn’t doing the hammering alone.

Ju Dong-hoon’s imagery was being added to Bone Six’s precise hammering.

Looking at the gradually completing hammer.

He could feel a power that was no less than his own weapon from his heyday.

‘Amazing guy, disgusting guy.’

Yeah.

He was honestly impressed this time.

Even though he was always slick, he had to admit it this time.

And.

‘Now he’s finally like my disciple.’

The Old Man decided to postpone training for the time being.

The current Ju Dong-hoon.

It was a more important time for him to gain knowledge on his own than for someone to forcibly inject knowledge.

“……”

The Old Man, who had been watching his disciple’s appearance with satisfaction.

After an hour, he disappeared with a swoosh!

Feeling proud for the first time.