Episode 27
Masterpiece of Chaos
As golden hand brought his hammer down, the Venomous Viper’s Dagger melted away with a sound like an unpleasant shriek. What remained in its place was a single small crystal, emitting a sinister purple light. golden hand shared its information with the stream.
[Crystal of Serpent Venom]
Grade: Unique Material
Effect: When bestowed upon a weapon, adds the ‘Deadly Poison’ attribute, slightly increases attack speed, and corrodes the target’s equipment.
Description: A crystal forged by condensing only the essence of thousands of venomous snakes. It possesses lethal toxicity in itself.
Viewers scrolled through the shared message. A storm began to rage once more in the chat.
└ Insane! Extracted a Unique material!
└ Wow, is that even possible? Smashing an item to get materials?
└ Was there a skill like that? Or is it just a Blacksmith passive?
[PK_Godt] disliked your stream.
└ LOLOLOLOLOL Look at Godtte being petty! His mental just explodedㅋㅋㅋ
└ Don’t cry, Godtte. That’s just how life is.
└ We’re both blacksmiths, so why can’t I do that?! Does that make any sense?!
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Seeing the chat fly by, golden hand casually dropped a comment.
“A fairly usable material was extracted. See? Easy, right?”
With golden hand one-liner, the chat atmosphere turned festive. Viewers finally understood golden hand feat and couldn’t hold back their astonishment. And as if to match, donations seemed to explode one after another, but Geumson focused back on his work.
‘Watching the chat keeps disrupting my rhythm.’
Simultaneously streaming and crafting was harder than he thought. But soon, Geumson regained his own rhythm. External noise was unimportant. The only important things now were the red-hot Moonlight Steel before Geumson’s eyes and the sinister purple-glowing Crystal of Serpent Venom beside it. Nothing else.
└ Wow, but that Moonlight Steel aside… the Serpent Venom Crystal is seriously no joke?
└ [Analyst]: Correct. There’s a reason why Venomous Viper’s Dagger was Unique grade. It wasn’t just simple poison; it had a special effect that slightly corroded and slowed the target’s equipment. Melting that into a greatsword? Just imagining it is terrifyingㄷㄷㄷ
└ So getting hit by that sword also applies poison?
└ But how much is an item like that worth?
└ dun?no?
└ Has there ever been a material extracted from a Unique item before?
While the experts in the chat began debating the value of the Crystal of Serpent Venom, Geumson had already moved to the next step.
‘Sun’s Right Hand!’
A heat, pure and powerful beyond comparison to the forge’s flames, bloomed from his palm.
“Walker, the Moonlight Steel.”
“Wooorker!”
Iron Walker used his massive tongs to pull out the red-hot Moonlight Steel and placed it on the anvil. At the same moment.
Clang-!
Clank!
Sparks flew. The sparks flying from the Moonlight Steel looked like falling moonlight. And the hammer striking it. The hammer head glowed red-hot, seemingly imbued completely with the ‘Sun’s Right Hand’ effect.
But the viewers weren’t focused on that hammer. Instead, their eyes were fixed on the Moonlight Steel, which began to smoothly change shape with every touch of the hammer.
└ Crazy… what is that? Is that speed even possible?
└ Is that a skill? Was there a skill like that? Anyone would think the ingot was clay!
└ Wow, the sparks are insane! I’m just watching mindlessly.
└ What class skill is that?
└ Is it like a multi-class of Blacksmith and Mage?
While the viewers were in shock, golden hand drove the Crystal of Serpent Venom into the center of the shaped Moonlight Steel. The two materials with opposing properties met and resisted fiercely. Purple and silver light mixed, beginning to spit unstable sparks.
“Walker, hold it tight.”
Iron Walker’s massive steel hands wrapped around the two materials and began to press down steadily. Under tremendous pressure, the two materials finally began to fuse into a single form. Geumson didn’t miss that moment and picked up his hammer again.
Thud-!
Thud-! Clang-!
Clangclangclang!
golden hand hammering was machine-like in its precision and artistic. The faint light of the Moonlight Steel and the sinister aura of the Serpent Venom Crystal were being forged into a single sword in perfect harmony.
Iron Walker played the perfect assistant, tirelessly bringing cooling water and adjusting the fire’s temperature. Viewers watched, mesmerized. And when golden hand final hammer blow struck the anvil…
Craaaaaaash-!
A dazzling light erupted with a crystalline sound. And as that light faded, the long-awaited welcome message appeared.
[A masterpiece imbued with the blacksmith’s soul.]
[Effect of ‘One Who Astonished the Blacksmith’ is applied.]
[Effect of ‘Forging of the Soul’ is applied.]
[Effect of ‘Sun’s Right Hand’ is applied.]
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[You have achieved a Grand Success!]
[The grade of the crafted item has been raised by one tier!]
[You have successfully crafted the ‘Moonlight Venom Serpent Sword’.]
Beneath the floating messages, on the anvil lay a massive greatsword radiating an overwhelming presence incomparable to before. The blade glowed faintly, as if holding the moonlight of a night sky, and along the edge, patterns resembling snake scales wavered with a deadly purple aura like heat haze.
[Moonlight Venom Serpent Sword]
Grade: Legendary (Lv. 150 Required)
Crafter: Geumson
Attack Power: 280-350
Effects:
[Moonlight’s Blessing]: Attack power increases by an additional 15% during nighttime.
[Serpent Venom’s Curse]: Attacks have a 20% chance to inflict ‘Deadly Poison’ and ‘Slow’ status ailments on the target.
[Serpent’s Scales]: Slightly ignores physical defense, and durability decreases less easily.
[Venomous Serpent’s Breath]: On critical hits, a purple sword energy explodes, dealing additional damage to nearby enemies.
[Lightweight]: Despite being a greatsword, possesses attack speed equal to a one-handed sword.
Description: A greatsword forged by blacksmith Geumson, fusing lunar metal and serpent venom. Light yet lethal, beautiful yet cruel.
Geumson quickly checked the information of the freshly crafted ‘Moonlight Venom Serpent Sword.’ As he read its contents, his face subtly cracked, as if something didn’t quite please him.
“…Legendary? Tch.”
“Guild Master! Are you watching the stream right now?”
Park Sang-soo, the vice-guild master of the domestic top-ranked guild, Yeokcheon (Defying Heaven), rushed into the guild master’s room with an excited voice.
The guild master of Yeokcheon, Kang Moo-jin. He frowned.
“Sang-soo… My sword just broke, and you think I’m leisurely watching streams or something? Are you mocking me?”
Kang Moo-jin was clearly in a bad mood. But Vice-Guild Master Park Sang-soo, undaunted, pressed on.
“No, it’s just that, ahem! A player named ‘Golden Hand’… has crafted a Legendary-grade greatsword in Lepyon! It was just revealed on stream!”
At those words, Kang Moo-jin’s eyes shot open. He checked the detailed information of the ‘Moonlight Venom Serpent Sword’ through the information window the vice-guild master held out. The moment he saw it, Kang Moo-jin’s mouth hardened into a firm line. Overwhelming attack power, high durability, and above all, the ‘Lightweight’ effect that made his heart race.
“…This is it!”
Kang Moo-jin knew instinctively. This sword was made for him. The one weapon that perfectly compensated for his weakness—his slow attack speed—and maximized his strength—his destructive power.
“The stream is still ongoing, but even now, we should make contact…”
Before Park Sang-soo could finish speaking, Kang Moo-jin rose from his seat. His eyes had completely shed their previous sense of loss and were now burning with a hot fighting spirit aimed at a new goal.
“Mobilize all guild members. Use any means necessary to get that sword into our hands. Price is no object. Even if we pour all of our guild’s funds into it, we must secure it.”
Park Sang-soo, the vice-guild master of Yeokcheon, nodded silently. At Kang Moo-jin’s command, the entire Yeokcheon guild began to move in perfect unison. Their target was singular: the ‘Moonlight Venom Serpent Sword.’
But there were others thinking the same thing.
Domestic Rank 2 guild, Asura’s main headquarters.
“Oh, this? Things just got interesting.”
Asura’s Guild Master, Choi Jin-woong, muttered with a raised corner of his mouth. Before him, the guild’s core strategists had gathered for an emergency meeting.
“The Yeokcheon bastards are probably moving with fire in their eyes by now. If that sword ends up in Kang Moo-jin’s hands… the gap will widen further.”
At a strategist’s worried words, the guild master nodded.
“It’s not just the gap widening… we might remain the eternal second fiddle. To seize this opportunity… to hold Kang Moo-jin back and for us to break through, we need that greatsword!”
His eyes flashed with greed.
“We move too. Our goal is to secure the ‘Moonlight Venom Serpent Sword.’ If securing it proves impossible… use any means to prevent the Yeokcheon bastards from getting their hands on it! It doesn’t matter if it goes to another guild or faction. Just not Yeokcheon—no, just not Kang Moo-jin.”
The Asura guild also began to move. This wasn’t a simple item acquisition battle; an unseen power struggle over the pride of the two giant guilds had begun.
However, in the very moment a fierce but covert battle for Lepyon guild rankings was unfolding, there were also those eyeing a new entry.
[Future Group, Lepion Strategic Planning Team]
“Team Leader, the report that just came in.”
A sharp-featured woman, not taking her eyes off the monitor, received the documents. She was Team Leader Cha Yoo-kyung of the Lepione business division, ambitiously newly established by Future Group. Reports about golden hands were also beginning to reach her.
