Chapter 524 – 524. The Thousand and One Nights (7)
Kaaang!
The Orichalcum blade collided with Vulcan’s hammer and howled wildly, absorbing Eunhyeon’s divine power contained within the hammer.
The amount of divine power absorbed by striking multiple times instead of once was incomparable to the amount of energy absorbed when Durandal was restored.
The reason why Eunhyeon can continuously produce and supply that divine power is because of another god’s weapon imprinted in his soul.
[God’s Arms]
[Cornucopia]
It is the cornucopia of Pluto, the god of the underworld, one of the members of the Dodecatheon.
It is another divine object bestowed upon by the gods by Eunhyeon, who can draw a tremendous amount of divine power as well as the vitality of the whole body just by holding this.
With the rapid increase in physical strength, he was seeing the efficacy to satisfy his wives mainly in bed, but it was only a secondary effect, and Cornucopia’s real ability was the constant generation of divine power.
The amount of divine power created by activating this cornucopia is like an eternal spring that never dries up and flows incessantly.
All that is needed to maintain this is Eun-hyeon’s mental strength.
Unlike the physical fatigue accumulated from the repeated hammering for several hours, the level of mental fatigue accumulated in Eun-hyeon’s head rapidly increased, starting with summoning and maintaining the god’s weapon.
But nonetheless.
Kaaang!
Eunhyeon’s hammer hitting the iron was still overflowing with power.
While Eunhyeon stayed in the dwarf village, she did not learn much from Oran.
The level of the village’s best artisan, who holds the title of Cheonilyajang, was too high, and the gap with Eunhyeon, who had not learned any skills at all, was too great.
That’s why Eunhyeon was able to learn only the basics of the most basic things, without even the skills of a thousand and one night markets.
-The most important thing is the desire to keep going up without being bound by limitations. Okay. In that respect, you are better than me.
Whether as a swordsman or a blacksmith, a spirit of improvement that constantly strives to rise to the top in any field.
It is the only part that Oh-ran, who was superior in all aspects of the qualities a blacksmith should have, acknowledged Eun-hyeon, and it is also the reason why he continued to teach Eun-hyeon metallurgy.
Kaaang!
Eventually, the divine powers injected into the two blades that had withstood the hammering reached the limit of acceptance.
Ugh
The blades, vibrating and trembling violently on the anvil that was firmly fixed, moved as if they had a will.
Reaching the acceptance limit of divine power means that metal can no longer withstand the smelting of silver, and in reality, it means that smelting has reached its final stage.
“End… Am I…”
I reverse summoned Vulcan’s hammer and suppressed the activation of Cornucopia, which gave me a throbbing headache.
When the headache that was eating away at her mental strength disappeared, Eun-hyeon’s empty head and body were weighed down by extreme fatigue and exhaustion.
“Nice… Ugh…”
As soon as the smelting was finished, his whole body was drained of strength as if his pulse was completely drained, and he almost collapsed on the floor.
I bit my teeth hard and forcibly endured the fall.
“Yet… Not yet.”
So far, only the smelting of the blade has been completed, and the proper finishing, including the handle, has not been completed.
After telling herself that it wasn’t over until it was over, Eunhyeon stretched out her hand toward the blade.
Ugh
“… What?”
Eunhyeon opened her eyes wide and looked at the blades fixed on the anvil.
A subtle form that seems to be expressing emotions as if feeling and responding to his touch.
“Properly… What happened… Go?”
He made several swords, but Eun-hyeon, who had never even made a holy sword, let alone a divine sword, was still unsure whether the sword he had made was a success or a failure.
The name Shingeom itself, which Eunhyeon came up with, was taken from Shinchang, the nickname of her favorite partner, Brunak.
The moment Eunhyeon reached out to check the condition of the two blades, her hand touched the blade.
Ugh
“Kuh!?”
The divine power contained in the blade came out and filled the forge with a bright silver light.
Eun-hyeon was unable to respond to the sudden change and covered her face with her arm to protect her eyes from the dazzling light.
That was just the limit for his tired body.
Then he felt something in him flow into his body through the skin of his fingers against the blade.
“This… ?”
Feeling the existence of something flowing into her soul, not her body to be exact, Eun-hyeon put on a small puzzled expression.
It was not unfamiliar yet disparate, but it was very familiar, and he noticed its existence belatedly melted into his soul.
“The sword… Came into my soul?”
This situation, which was imprinted in her soul without difficulty, was a very unexpected situation for Eun-hyeon.
Belonging to the underworld, it was a very complicated and strange feeling to have a metal that had mass melt and merge into one’s soul.
Is this really possible?
Strictly speaking, it is not impossible.
The two swords made based on the divine power he gave are already part of Eun-hyeon’s soul.
Eun-hyeon, who was unable to properly finish his sword and faced an empty end as only his blade entered her soul, sat down on the floor, realizing that this time was the end.
“Ha… I don’t know…”
The question of this incomprehensible variable situation did not leave her head, but more than that, the desire to take a rest began to dominate Eun-hyeon’s entire body due to the feeling of fatigue that hit her whole body.
“First… You should sleep and think.”
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Eun-hyeon, who began to awaken little by little, sensed something strange belatedly and began to turn over.
His heavy eyelids were still not open, but the sensation of lying on the hard floor before he lost consciousness was Eun-hyeon’s last memory.
The strange thing is the softness that is currently taking care of yourself to take a comfortable rest at your bedside.
It was after awakening his consciousness that he realized that it was someone’s knee.
“… Lily?”
As soon as she opened her heavy eyelids and looked up, Eunhyun met Lily’s gaze as she was looking down at her.
“You are awake.”
Lily greeted Eunhyun with a bright smile.
Eunhyun looked around her.
A single room with no bed and only a simple kitchen.
After confirming that it was not the forge, but the empty house of the Black Anvil tribe that Doran had rented, he quickly figured out what had happened since he had fallen asleep.
“… How long has it been since I fell asleep?”
“About five hours.”
“Five hours…”
Silently chewing on that time, Eunhyeon tried to get up slowly.
“Are you okay? My body is still tired…”
“Are you okay. If you keep cutting her knees like this, Lily will be in pain.”
There are no proper beds or bedding here.
In the first place, dwarves were born with a stronger body than humans and were a race that slept well even on hard floors.
Dwarves are those of their own kind who drink alcohol at night after a day’s work and get a good night’s sleep even when they stretch out on the street.
Literally, the word ‘Earth Fairy’ is a special race that can’t be as good as this.
Eun-hyeon tried to stand up for Lily, but Lily shook her head and pulled Eun-hyeon by the shoulder.
Having her head cut on her knee again semi-forcibly was no different from force majeure to Eun-hyeon.
“What if I can’t shake off even the strength of my arms like this?”
“…”
Does it mean that the fatigue of the body is not completely relieved yet?
It was just physical fatigue that accumulated, and he could resist and get up as much as he wanted to resist, but he didn’t want to refuse Lily’s consideration that much.
Lily ran a hand through Eunhyun’s hair.
“I’m OK. Rather, I can be of help to my master like this.”
The soft cloth felt by his bedside and the sensation of his delicate knees were very pleasant, so Eunhyun smiled bitterly and gave up.
“… Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
“How did I get here?”
Eun-hyeon recalled her situation before losing consciousness.
He finished the test, but he lost consciousness and collapsed from his exhaustion, so he didn’t know how to judge the test result.
Even the posthumous work of Cheonilyajang, which had to pass the test, was absorbed into Eunhyeon’s soul as soon as it was completed, so it is impossible to judge by looking at things.
“The dwarves moved it.”
“… Dwarves?”
It’s unexpected news that you never thought of.
“Yes. The sound of the master’s hammer that I had been hearing all of a sudden cut off and I couldn’t hear it.”
“… What was the result of the test?”
“Whoops.”
Lily didn’t answer right away and she just let out a meaningful smile.
But if she was a failure, she would have expressed her full expression of regret that her expression darkened.
That means you passed the test soon.
“… Why?”
It was even weirder for Eunhyeon.
She couldn’t even finish it completely, and even the remains of her Thousand and One Nights, which was her test task, would have been absorbed into her own body, and her reality itself would not have existed.
“All the Dwarves said they felt it through their skin. Master’s skills.”
Just because she was hidden by a wall, or because she couldn’t directly see the process of the work, the dwarves didn’t just wait outside for Eunhyeon to come out.
The sound of metal crashing hard.
And every time the hammer was struck, waves of powerful magic that bounced outside the blacksmith’s interior.
Eun-hyeon’s tenacity to continue beating metal for over ten hours, not just one or two hours, was close to a first-class level even for a blacksmith.
The dwarves directly experienced Eunhyun’s skills through their voices and their skin.
“Zor-nim, the chieftain of the Red Brazier tribe, who was dissatisfied with the master, also asked me to tell him that he was sorry at the end. He wants to apologize later for ignoring the master because he is human, just a stranger.”
Not only Jorre, but also the Dwarves who were jealous of Eunhyeon’s existence and appearance, and the humans who beat them to take the Cheonilyajang test, finally recognized Eunhyeon.
At the last moment, every time they felt the powerful wave of divine power, which is a higher energy than magical power, their shoulders trembled and shivered. There was.
“The owner should have seen their expressions…”
Lily, who seemed unusually excited, explained the expressions of the dwarves as if she was very happy.
Although the tasks and results prepared by the Cheonil Night Master of the previous generation disappeared for some reason, Eun-hyeon, who pounded a hammer for more than ten hours with stronger physical and mental strength than anyone else, could not be dismissed as a mediocre human blacksmith.
“After coming to my senses and resting, Doran-nim said he wanted to see me again to hear more about the exam. And…”
Lily smiled meaningfully again and brushed Eunhyun’s hair.
Eun-hyeon guessed that perhaps the words Do-ran was trying to convey were the most important thing, seeing his attitude that he wanted to say something even while taking a break.
“Congratulations on the succession of Cheonilyajang.”
“… I see.”
As soon as Eunhyeon heard Lily’s words, she let out a small breath and rested her head comfortably on Lily’s lap.
Lily whispered softly while arranging Eunhyun’s hair, as her eyes were gently closed.
“You worked hard. Master.”
An unprecedented event that took place for the first time in the history of the Dwarf Village.
A human who inherited the title of Cheonilyajang was born.
