Chapter 19
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 19
Chapter Title: Staff Sniper (2)
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Staff (B) x2
Wand (B)
Orb (B)
Four bullets painstakingly saved up over two weeks of holding back.
If I just squeezed my eyes shut and fired all four right now, at least one of them...
No.
At minimum, two or more had to be live rounds.
"Hoo..."
This was precisely the moment when prayer was needed.
And I was no longer alone.
Earth, sea, mountains, and all living things... Share just a tiny bit of your luck with me!!!
The hope of the blacksmith world, Boastful Blacksmith, is heading out!!!
Leave a word of support and encouragement, everyone, and pray fervently for a miracle to happen!!!
This guy's not right in the head either lol
Anyone can see it's an aggro post, so Hepha-fan had every right to roast it lol
For real lol. Actually, a lot of people got cursed out back then, but he took the worst hit and bore all the blame alone
I'll pray!!! Send a DM pls!!!
It's DM you idiot lolol Boastful Blacksmith personally taught you and you still mess it up lololol
Boastful Blacksmith's created new villain stars: Hepha-throne and DM-throne lolol
I don't know what's going on, but fight on!!!
Yeonhwa...
Stuff like Fire Stick...
doesn't exist...
lolololololololololololololol
Now he doesn't even ask for a fire staff anymore and just roasts anyway lololol
Isn't this guy stirring up trouble again??? Something feels off?
For real lolol the guy who posted crap and immediately certified a B-rank rapier, no telling what he'll drop
For real lol
Did this guy copy my nick???
Changed nick right after buying katana yesterday heh
Make sure to prepare for B-rank at least~
For real lol C-rank is fine, make B or higher.
"Pfft! Heh heh..."
After soaking up plenty of support and encouragement, I closed the Gallery.
No point dragging this out.
Just blast all four in a row bam bam bam bam!!!
"Here we gooooooo!!!!!!"
[Attribute Endowment]
"Ah."
It had been a while, so I'd forgotten.
That clicking the blank space brings up equipment eligible for attribute endowment on the right.
In other words.
[No equipment eligible for attribute endowment exists.]
As long as that bullshit message didn't pop up, at least one would land.
❌
『Staff (B)』
『Wand (B)』
❌
Out of the four, two were eligible for attribute endowment.
Beyond that, plenty of non-mage weapons piled up from before.
"Oh..."
Counting them all, a total of 14 pieces of equipment were eligible.
About 400 attempts over two weeks, yielding 41 successful pieces.
That meant a roughly 10.2% success rate on equipment creation.
The law of large numbers was indeed a straightforward fact.
The statistical principle that as trials increase in random events, the actual success rate approaches the true probability.
In other words, with a 12% rate for B-grade gear, the more you pull, the closer you get to 12 out of 100 succeeding.
So, what about attribute endowment?
Out of 41 items, 14 eligible.
Around 34% success rate, so my rough guess of one in three was spot on.
Knowing these odds doesn't make success more likely, but to avoid forgetting later, I jotted them down in my phone's notes app and dove straight into endowing attributes.
Click.
Successfully endowed Broad Sword (B) with Fire attribute!
Acquired 『Burning Broad Sword (B)』!
Click.
Successfully endowed Battle Axe (B) with Poison attribute!
Acquired 『Poisoning Battle Axe (B)』!
This would take all day like this.
Realizing it'd take longer than expected, I skipped messages for everything except the staff and wand, just ripping through fast.
Normally I'd be praying up a storm for each, but with the main course set, no choice.
Around the eighth item...
[Attribute endowment failed!]
"What the hell."
In my rote rhythm of endowing and closing messages, a word I shouldn't see slipped in.
'Failure'
"No way, this is such bullshit..."
If this were a real game, they'd be hit with probability item regulations left and right.
They don't disclose rates for anything but equipment creation.
And now double-layered probability systems?
That means even the staff and wand could fail.
'I've just been lucky so far...'
Or maybe the failure rate is really low.
Six endowments left.
The last two for mage gear.
"Haa..."
Time for a do-or-die decision.
I'd saved them for last out of ignorance, but now knowing failure's possible, I couldn't stick to the plan.
Shedding bad luck.
Mean reversion.
No way it'd fail twice in a row.
Now's the time!
"Here we gooo!!!"
Scrap the plan—attempt on the wand!
This is my gambit!!!
[Attribute endowment failed!]
"Ah..."
"Ah..."
"Ah..."
Does this make any sense...?
No rage, no injustice.
Just blankly...
A short sigh escaped my lips.
No failures in over ten tries until now, then two in a row.
Does that make...
Recapping the moment, suddenly.
I stopped thinking.
And my fingers moved like flowing water.
Closed the damn failure message and jumped right into the next endowment.
No prayers, no begging.
With a perfectly empty, reverent mind.
『Staff (B)』
[Attribute Endowment]
Squeeze—
Successfully endowed Staff (B) with Fire attribute!
Acquired Crimson Flame Staff (B)!
"Aah..."
...
"Kiyoooooooot!!!"
"Sh...shit!!! Crimson Flame Staff!!!"
What an insanely cool name.
"Wow, damn... no... wow..."
That choice was one hell of a gamble.
If I'd kept cool after failing the wand, I'd have definitely postponed the staff.
Until another mage-eligible piece showed up.
If I'd tried right away and failed the staff too, my mentality would've shattered, wrecking daily life.
Not that daily life was anything beyond eat-shit-gallery-sleep every five hours, but anyway.
Success is success!!!
Blacksmithing is indeed a fiery profession.
Cool-headedness would've never yielded this.
The heavens, moved by my blacksmith-worthy fiery judgment, bestowed the Crimson Flame Staff.
"Hoo... hoo..."
Dopamine exploding like mad.
Just sitting and breathing hard, but I couldn't calm down.
"Hngh... ngh..."
Calm a bit, then think of the Crimson Flame Staff and get hyped again.
"Hoo... this isn't the time."
Ultimately, what calmed me was the very Crimson Flame Staff exciting me.
I couldn't wait to see what effects it got.
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Name:Crimson Flame Staff
Grade:B
Attribute:Fire
Effects:
- - Fire-type Awakeners gain 2 stages of Magic Power stat increase when equipped.
- - Fire-type skill efficiency increases by 100%.
[Infused with the Blacksmith's Touch, imbued with special power]
Additional Effects:
- Fire-type Awakeners gain 1 stage of Magic Power stat increase when equipped.
- - Intelligence stat increases by 2 stages when user receives Blacksmith's recognition.
"Wow..."
No separate skills endowed, but options purely focused on firepower.
With the owner practically set, it was actually a great setup.
High chance it'd sell to Christopher Akamont of Magma Guild or Chae Yeonhwa of Crimson Lotus Guild—or Fire Stick.
As S-rank Awakeners, they wouldn't be desperate for skills.
For them, stat boosts beat B-rank skills in efficiency.
Who to sell to... I hadn't decided yet.
Honestly, my heart leaned toward the adorable fellow Korean, Chae Yeonhwa.
But if an American rich bro offered an astronomically insane sum, things might change.
Anyway, not a decision for right now.
What I could tell them was one thing.
"First come, first served."
Made a super cringey elementary-school-level named weapon;;
『Crimson Flame Staff (B)』
It's so cringey I'm thinking of smashing it with my knee and tossing it, anyone want it?
If no takers here, knee-smash and trash it goes.
?????????????????????????
Boastful Blacksmith is a god, Boastful Blacksmith is a god
Dude;;
Whoa!! As expected of Boastful Blacksmith!!! 👍👍👍
Even getting pissed at Boastful has levels lolololololol how much will this fetch???
If real, billions wouldn't be chump change
Even among Koreans, there's already a gallery ghost haunting for a fire staff lololol
For real, but why no comment??
Fire Stick-nim, over here! lololololololol
This isn't faked or anything, right?
You Hepha-throne? lolololololol
No way he's pulling that crap again? lolololol
This is the guy who made a B-rank rapier, it's real ㅇㅇ
Ok Akamont aside, why isn't our Fire Stick commenting???
This ain't a spam-comment situation lolol
For real. He'll approach properly. Not the size to spam lolol
Maybe thanks to becoming a named Gallery user.
My post blew up with reactions, shooting straight to the top of popular posts.
An hour of enjoying the buzz on Gallery.
Then, DMs arrived from the ones I'd been waiting for.