by Park Saenal
“…”
Despite feeling expectant of the result produced by the Enhanced Belial’s Horn, his excited mind became calm.
“…”
He couldn’t hear the voices of the blacksmiths gathered around him.
“…”
He looked back on his techniques. He looked back on his mistakes. He looked back on his goals. Time flowed.
“…!”
The blacksmiths watching Grid held their breaths. Belial’s Horn that had been emitting fire and demonic energy. Grid stared at it and his eyes deepened like an abyss.
‘A bright and clean mind…!’
Khan and the blacksmiths got goosebumps.
Ttaaaaaang!
The sound of Grid hitting Belial’s Horn made a clear sound that resonated through the huge smithy.
‘Ah…!’
White from the White Hammer Smithy, Enoch from the Blue Flames Smithy, Byuksan of the Black Anvil Smithy, and Lahochu of the Red Tongs Smithy. They were praised as the four great blacksmiths of Pangea. Now they were inspired by Grid’s techniques!
[White has reached new enlightenment as a blacksmith of the Overgeared Kingdom! He has been blocked by the wall of the Advanced Blacksmith’s technique and now has room to grow into a craftsman!]
[Enoch has reached new enlightenment as a blacksmith of the Overgeared Kingdom! He has been blocked by the wall of the Advanced Blacksmith’s technique and now has room to grow into a craftsman…]
[Byuksan has reached new enlightenment as a blacksmith of the Overgeared Kingdom! He has been blocked by the wall of the Advanced Blacksmith’s technique…]
[Lahochu has reached new enlightenment as a blacksmith of the Overgeared Kingdom! He has been blocked by the wall…]
“Oh… Ohhhhhh!”
Khan’s elderly body shook. The bright future of a blacksmith kingdom, the Overgeared Kingdom, was unfolding beautifully in his head. He was eager. He wanted to survive longer and see Grid’s works. He wanted to do more for the bright future of the Overgeared Kingdom. This desire was passed on to Grid.
‘Khan.’
Ttang! Ttang!
Grid reached his peak while tempering Belial’s Horn. He felt the burning aspiration of someone who was sometimes a friend, sometimes a teacher, and sometimes a father. Thus, he poured even more strength and skill into his hammering.
‘Don’t think about dying until you learn from all my skills.’
His first friend, Grid wanted to be with Khan forever. This wish raised Grid’s concentration to a higher level. A stage of self-transcendence. Now Grid forgot even himself. He couldn’t distinguish himself from the hammer and as a result, Belial’s Horn became further tempered.
[You are extremely concentrated and the Legendary Blacksmith’s Breath skill has been activated.]
[You are extremely concentrated and the Legendary Blacksmith’s Patience skill has been activated.]
[You are extremely concentrated and the Legendary Blacksmith’s Breath skill has been activated.]
[You are extremely concentrated and the Legendary Blacksmith’s Patience skill has been activated.]
[You are extremely con…]
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Ttaaang!
Every time he hit it with the hammer, Belial’s Horn would flash red and black. The material to make the strongest weapon in existence gradually took the shape of a blade.
“…It’s finally over.”
After a long time, the result came out. It was beyond Grid’s expectations.
[Blade Born from Enlightenment and Strong Desires]
Rating: Myth
Durability: 1,660/1,660 Attack Power: 3,500
* 20% increase in physical attack power.
* 20% increase in magic attack power.
* 30% bonus fire attribute damage.
* 30% bonus dark attribute damage.
* Deals an additional 50% damage to sacred beings.
* There is a certain probability of flames (large) being released when attacking.
* There is a low probability of illusions being released when attacking.
★ There is a certain probability of a black flames explosion when attacking.
* The skill ‘Enlightenment’ is created.
* The skill ‘Ecstasy of Desire’ is created.
It is a blade that will become a myth beyond a legend. The owner of this blade will leave countless achievements and will be the protagonists of hymns that future generations will sing.
Of course, this is a story for when the blade is attached to a handle. It isn’t possible to use the blade with no handle.
The blacksmith Grid has surpassed the skills of a god and has shared his enlightenment and aspirations with others.
The blinking flames on this silvery blade show an artistry that is rare even in dragon lairs.
The hidden function of ‘black flames’ has been implemented because the features of Belial’s Horn have been drawn out to the extremes.
The explosion of black flames will ignore all fire resistance and dark resistance of the target and will ruin the area.
Conditions of Use: Under the premise that a handle is attached, the three highest ranked use of each class in which a sword can be equipped.
Weight: 1,999
[Enlightenment Lv. 1]
A persistent passive.
Increases character experience and skill experience acquisition by 10%, and accuracy and evasion by 20%.
* Skills attached to myth rated items can be upgraded.
[Ecstasy of Desire Lv. 1]
A conditionally triggered passive.
When fighting an enemy with a higher level than yourself, there is a very low probability of entering a ‘selfless’ state if your health drops below a certain point.
Your attack power will increase by three times and your evasion by 99% for 20 seconds.
However, defense will fall to 0.
* Skills attached to myth rated items can be upgraded.
“Uh… Um…”
Of the options that were possible when making a weapon out of Belial’s Horn, Grid had uncovered eight. But now he saw nine things in total. And all nine of them were attached to his weapon.
“…This is really amazing.”
The flames (large) that had a certain chance of being emitted was a secondary effect that applied 5,000 fixed damage. Of course, damage wasn’t fully applied to targets with fire resistance, but this wasn’t a disadvantage. Grid always wanted the fire release option. Yet there were eight options as well as the fire release one. No, nine options were allocated.
Grid had especially high anticipation for the hidden attribute of black flames.
‘A unique property that ignores fire and dark resistance…’
The explosion was also likely to be a splash attack. Maybe it would be similar to the 5,000 damage of the flames (large). No, it would show great destructive power even if it dealt only half of that damage.
‘Next.’
It might not be comparable to Kraugel’s Super Sensitivity, but the Enlightenment effect would be very helpful in battle. Starting with the durability and attack power, all the options were perfect. There was only one problem.
‘Ecstasy of Desire…’
It was a skill that reminded of the legendary weapon Sword of Self-transcendence produced during his beginner days. Strictly speaking, it could be called a higher state than self-transcendence. Perfect State of Self-Transcendence was a skill that caused the user to lose their ego in exchange for doubling all stats. They would also be defenseless for two seconds after the duration ended.
‘Certainly… It is a hundred times better than the Perfect State of Self-Transcendence skill. It’s much more powerful to have my attack power triple than my stats doubling.’
Furthermore, his evasion increased to 99%. It meant he could avoid 99 out of 100 attacks. It was almost a cheat key. But as mentioned before, there was a problem. It was also a deadly one.
‘Defens
e will become zero…’
Didn’t it mean a 1% chance of being hit? Grid had a 99% evasion rate, so from an ordinary person’s point of view, having zero defense wasn’t something to worry about. But who was Grid? He was an unlucky person. The probability of 1% was too annoying.
‘Ah, damn… I feel like this is a troll skill…’
No, he shouldn’t jump to conclusions. Grid shook his head and pulled out the Sword Ghost with the Pulling Device attached to it. Then he tied the Enlightenment Blade to the other end of the silver thread.
“…”
The blacksmiths were still unable to grasp the identity of the pulling device and showed great interest. They were excited to finally find out the use of the box. Then…
Ttalkak.
Grid pressed a button. Then.
Chwarururuk!
Clink!
The Enlightenment Blade flew and was automatically fitted to the Sword Ghost. Grid’s intention was revealed. There was a reason why Grid tried the Sword Ghost as a handle. The reason…
[Sword Ghost (Small Piece) and the Blade Born from Enlightenment and Strong Desires have been combined. The item information will be updated.]
[Sword Born from Enlightenment and Strong Desires]
Rating: Myth
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* For every attack that hits the same target, 10% attack power will accumulate (up to 100%).
A sword that will become a myth beyond a legend.
The owner of this sword will leave countless achievements and will be the protagonists of hymns that future generations will sing.
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The Sword Ghost was a sword designed to exert the best power in combat. Compared to other weapons, it was very comfortable to handle and had the option of exerting extreme attack power. It was easy to use and strong. Grid was obsessed with the Sword Ghost because he wanted to add the strength of the Sword Ghost to his new blade. This was the result.
Clack!
Chwaruruk!
Clink!
Once he clicked the button again, the blade separated from the handle. It flew through the air, was grabbed by a God Hand and inserted into Grid’s waist belt. This item swap was at the speed of light.
“…Huh.”
The blacksmiths couldn’t close their mouths after grasping Grid’s intent.
[You have failed to enhance the +0 Blade Born from Enlightenment and Strong Desires.]
[You have failed to enhance the +0 Blade Born from Enlightenment and Strong Desires.]
[You have failed to enhance the +0 Blade Born from Enlightenment and Strong…]
“…”
Grid shed tears. He tasted the pain of his heart breaking despite hearing from Jishuka that myth rated weapons were difficult to enhance.
“XX.”
Grid forgot his dignity and cursed before leaving the smithy. He intended to relieve his stress and test the power of the weapon by hitting the scarecrows in the training ground.
After a moment.
Kuwaaaaaang!
“Pounding Mortar?”
Reinhardt shook. It was like the shock that occurred when Piaro and Kraugel competed in Reidan.
Chapter 670
Chapter 670
“The Overgeared King!”
The training grounds. Asmophel was training the soldiers when he found Grid and ran over. He was interested in the blade hanging from Grid’s waist.
“Isn’t that a peculiar shaped weapon?”
It was a blade without a handle. He wondered if it could even be called a weapon?
“Is the production process unfinished? Ah!”
Asmophel’s eyes widened in the middle of his question. It was because the blade hanging at Grid’s waist suddenly heated up like lava and threw out flames. It blossomed like a flower and disappeared, looking beautiful and mysterious. Grid smiled warmly.
“Isn’t it cool? Asmophel, this is a blade made of Belial’s Horn, just like your weapon. This is the also the finished product.”
A long explanation wasn’t necessary.
Tadak!
Grid pulled out the Sword Ghost and pressed a button on the Pulling Device.
Hwiririk!
Clink!
The blade was drawn by the silver thread towards the Sword Ghost and became attached.
“Huh… That’s why there is a deep groove in the blade.”
“Yes, it can attach to the blade of the small piece like a sheath.”
“Great. You can use it during battle and deal an unexpected blow to the enemy.”
“Um, well… I can use it for that purpose.”
Grid crossed the training ground while talking to Asmophel. His dignity grabbed the attention of the soldiers. Thousands of soldiers forgot about training as they watched Grid. There were also players present.
There was Soldier, who was active on Cork Island with Peak Sword, as well as players who had the ‘soldier’ class. Why did they enlist in the Overgeared Kingdom’s army instead of the Saharan Empire? It wasn’t because of Grid or the expectations that the future of the Overgeared Kingdom would be brighter than the empire. They only wanted the mass produced Grid set.
That’s right. They aimed to carry out quests they could receive from the Overgeared army and built up items based on it. It was an incomplete force that had the ability to leave the Overgeared Kingdom at any time after achieving their goals.
‘If it wasn’t for the mass produced Grid set…’
‘I would’ve enlisted with the empire or Ares.’
‘From the standpoint of a soldier, the empire and Ares are much more advantageous than Grid.’
They would gain the mass produced Grid set and then leave. In order to obtain the set, they had to contribute to the development of the Overgeared Kingdom.
“Huh? What’s he trying to do?”
The players looked at the Overgeared Kingdom as a stage to ‘step through.’ Unlike the NPC soldiers, they looked at Grid without any inspiration. Grid was standing in front of a scarecrow on one side of the training ground.
Someone laughed. “Is he going to show off his sword dance in front of the soldiers in order to increase the morale of the army?”
“Pfft…”
Grid’s strength was known by all. It was the same with the player soldiers. But the player soldiers remembered the battle in the Belto Kingdom not long ago. Grid was defeated by Kraugel in the National Competition and pushed back by Agnus in the Belto Kingdom, so they recognized him as the ‘number two.’ They thought it was funny that Grid was posturing in front of his soldiers.
‘Well, the NPC soldiers are frogs in a well who don’t know the identities of Kraugel and Agnus. They will praise him if Grid shows off his sword dance.’
‘Grid will enjoy the soldiers making a big fuss over him.’
The player soldiers weren’t disregarding Grid right now. They were jealous of Grid who was beyond them. However, these people didn’t want to admit that they were jealous of Grid. They tried to find a small flaw in Grid in order to criticize him.
“Um.”
On the other hand, Grid didn’t even see the player soldiers. He knew exactly why they joined the Overgeared Kingdom’s army. He thought they were just passing by and treated then as a folding screen. In addition, the reason why Grid came to the training ground was to test the power of his weapon, not for the soldiers.
“I will start the test.”
Hwaruruk!
Sparks flew from the sword in Grid’s hand. He struck a training scarecrow that had a fixed defense and resistance of 0. However, the power and effect was beyond the category of a basic attack.
Peeeeeong!
“….!!”
After making the myth rated item, all stats had risen by 10 and Grid’s total strength was 3,120. At the third awakening, the strength stat gave an extra 0.4 attack power per one point. Thus, 3,120 strength guaranteed 1,248 damage. There was the 20% increased physica
l attack power, 30% additional fire damage and the 30% additional dark damage. Once the sum of the Sword Born from Enlightenment and Strong Desires was added together, his attack power was 6,300. It was a total of 7,548 attack power for those who had no fire resistance and dark resistance, plus the effects of Pagma’s Swordsmanship Lv. 4 and Weapons Mastery Lv. 5. The deactivated Pagma’s Swordsmanship Lv. 4 increased attack power by 34% and Intermediate Weapons Mastery Lv. 5 increased attack power by 17%.
[You have dealt 11,397 damage to the target.]
Grid’s basic attack dealt more than 10,000 damage to the scarecrow.
Kung!
“…!!!”
The scarecrow fell down, proof that it suffered more than 10,000 damage, before jumping up again. The soldiers’ mouths dropped open as Grid attacked the scarecrow a second, third and fourth time.
Jjang! Jjejeong! Jjejejeok!
[You have dealt 12,537 damage to the target.]
[You have dealt 13,791 damage to the target.]
[You have dealt 15,170 damage to the target.]
The effect of Sword Ghost increased attack power once it attacked the same target. Thus, the scarecrow started to suffer more damage.
“…Eh?”
The players doubted their eyes. Grid didn’t seem to be using a skill. This made it hard to understand why the scarecrow fell every time it was hit.
‘Surely he isn’t doing more than 10,000 damage with a basic attack?’
‘This is impossible…’
The soldiers kept refusing to believe it.
Jeeeong!
[Critical!]
[The effect of the title ‘Death in One Shot!’ has been activated, adding 30% critical damage!]
A critical was applied to Grid’s basic attack. The important point here was that like the Death in One Shot! title, Pagma’s Swordsmanship also increased critical damage. Pagma’s Swordsmanship Lv. 4 increased critical damage by 20%. While a player’s base critical damage was 200%, Grid’s critical damage was more than 250%. It was a number that would shame assassins.
[You have dealt 41,718 damage to the target!]
Kwajak!
“…This isn’t a basic attack?”
The scarecrows had the option of ‘stabilizing when under 50,000 damage.’ The players started turning pale. Grid hit the scarecrow again.