Genius Blacksmith's Game

Silence settled over the Special User Management Team at what had happened in only two minutes.

“What did I just see?”

Team Lead Kim blinked, finding it difficult to believe.

Taptaptaptap—

Beside him, employee Lee Jihui was tapping on her keyboard, replaying footage from the fight against Fenrir.

—Kraaaaaagh!

Hyunsoo had taken advantage of the fact that his stats were overwhelmingly higher than those of artifact users and ordinary users, and had crushed Fenrir beneath them.

To be honest, in terms of pure skill, he had only been somewhat better than ordinary users.

And Team Lead Kim could hear Hyunsoo’s regretful words.

—I should’ve used Peerless...

He was reproaching himself for failing to make the correct choice.

But not Team Lead Kim, who was watching him.

“When did he grow this much?”

A mistake?

Only Hyunsoo himself felt that way.

Also, Hyunsoo’s movements after using a great blade for over a year had now reached a level no ordinary person could ever imitate.

The Sanctuary of Wooden Dolls.

The fact that he had reached 200 was not simply because all his stats and artifacts had become excellent.

Hyunsoo was now showing control that reached the level of most high-rankers.

If we assumed he was at the level of an ordinary user, then even with user Hyunsoo’s artifacts and amount of stats, he would have broken around 150.

That was how large the increase in numbers due to Hyunsoo’s improvement in skill had been.

Because of that, Team Lead Kim had thought that Hyunsoo, who was reproaching himself, was being foolish, but employee Lee Jihui said,

“...Isn’t it because he always believes he’s lacking that he can keep growing endlessly?”

“...”

Someone who is satisfied, believing they have fully grown.

Someone who always thinks they are lacking.

The growth of those two people was bound to be completely different.

The former would inevitably become satisfied with the present and grow lazy.

The latter would work harder and improve further.

And now, it was time to do their work as the Special User Management Team.

“Nearly twice as many as Valhalla... Of course, that was from six months ago.”

Six months ago and now were on completely different levels.

User Hyunsoo would know that too.

However, because Valhalla had been arrogant, he had lost the most important thing to Hyunsoo now.

“...He should have come back and challenged the Sanctuary of Wooden Dolls again.”

Of course, even they could not know how many he would have broken.

Whether he would have been equal to Hyunsoo or even higher.

What was certain was that Valhalla’s arrogance had caused Hyunsoo to take the Unique Title “Wooden Doll Massacrer” from him.

A Unique Title could no longer be obtained by Valhalla even if he achieved not 200 now, but 1,000.

And also—

“Team lead, 150 was the general number reward we set, and didn’t we create a reward for reaching 200?”

The key point was the additional reward.

“That’s right. It was even time-limited. Since users who can break 200 will inevitably appear someday.”

The Sanctuary of Wooden Dolls was different from the Beginner Zone’s wooden-doll breaking.

The Beginner Zone’s wooden-doll breaking starts everyone under “the same conditions.”

But in the Sanctuary of Wooden Dolls, users can break more as they grow.

That was why there was a time-limited reward.

It was a reward given if a certain number was reached only until the end of this year.

And by achieving 200, Hyunsoo had fallen within that time limit.

“He managed it by a hair with two weeks left...”

When setting this, neither the Story Team, Team Lead Kim, nor even Lee Sejin, who had received the report, had expected anyone to achieve it.

“What kind of reward is it?”

“There are four choices.”

“Four?”

Lee Jihui looked surprised, and Team Lead Kim said,

“What we need to watch out for is that all four choices are excellent. Just like during the Beginner Zone’s wooden-doll breaking.”

“Excuse me?”

The Beginner Zone’s wooden-doll breaking had increased all stats by 5.

Fools might say, was that really so amazing? But no.

Level 1.

When everyone had the same stats.

Having all stats +5 higher than everyone else was an absurd reward.

That was why the entire world had gone wild over it in the past.

He’s receiving that kind of reward?

Team Lead Kim listed them off to Lee Jihui, who looked startled again.

“The first is a gold reward. The second is an artifact reward. The third is a parchment reward that increases physical attack power and magic attack power. The last is a Golden Material Box reward. And this Golden Material Box is special.”

Team Lead Kim looked at the monitor as he spoke.

“Because the user can receive the material they want.”

“The material they want...”

Lee Jihui thought that was certainly special.

But what truly mattered was the grade.

“What grade is it?”

“Transcendent grade.”

“Excuse me?”

Lee Jihui was shocked.

Because the idea of giving a Transcendent-grade material was too stunning.

Was Pureum really going to hand out materials like that?

Of course, breaking 200 is an absurd achievement.

But she still thought it was excessive.

At her worried expression, Team Lead Kim said to her,

“Don’t worry. User Hyunsoo will choose the artifact reward. Because the second reward, the artifact reward, is far too outstanding. It’ll even be useful to user Hyunsoo, so he’ll definitely want it. Also, when we discussed these rewards, the Golden Box reward was what we discussed the most. The material grade written on the Golden Box reward says it can produce anything from Super Legendary to Transcendent.”

“Ah...”

In other words, because it was stated that a material between Legendary and Transcendent grade could appear, it looked highly risky.

Of course, the Special User Management Team knew that a Transcendent-grade material would appear with 100% certainty.

Lee Jihui nodded and opened the information on the second artifact reward Team Lead Kim had mentioned.

A gauntlet...?

After checking it, Lee Jihui soon exclaimed in admiration.

Wow...

Even among Transcendent items, it was at an unreasonable level, and Team Lead Kim said,

“An artifact with this kind of effect exists nowhere else in the world.”

She felt as if she understood why Team Lead Kim had said user Hyunsoo would choose this.

Then Lee Jihui looked at Hyunsoo on the screen as he received the reward proposal.

Just then—

What is this ominous feeling?

Lee Jihui felt an inexplicable unease.

That unease came from the instincts of the Special User Management Team.

*****

“Why did he make that choice?”

Team Lead Kim truly could not understand it.

That artifact was the only one of its kind in the world.

There was only one plunder artifact.

If this opportunity disappeared, he would not be able to obtain it.

Just then—

Hyunsoo, on the monitor, said,

—Whatever. I can just make one myself.

“...What!?”

That was right.

The four rewards planned by Pureum.

They had given a Master Blacksmith something enormous called inspiration.

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