Chapter 98
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 98 - How to Face Unexpected Situations (3)
I shouted while blocking Yggdrasil, who was glaring at Kangyoo with her eyes shining brightly.
“No, wait, wait! Isn’t that too quick?!”
However Yggdrasil, whose eyes had already rolled back, didn’t listen.
She spat out words as if she was firing a machine gun.
“Do you know what kind of talent this is?! At this level, when he fully grows up, he’ll be on par with Aqua! It’s been a while since I’ve felt motivated!”
If it’s Aqua, isn’t she one of the members of the Savior conquest team?
She was a mermaid who mainly used water magic as one of the members of a different race, but she was said to be someone whose mana was unmatched by anyone in the entire generation.
Kangyoo’s talent is that much…?
I knew he was outstanding, but it was surprising.
But I have to stop Yggdrasil from going wild! At this rate, they’ll definitely take you away and treat you really badly!
[I can’t do this…! I’m out of stamina!]
[Water knows the answer! Water is also a potion! I’ll put a potion in you!]
[Gulp—]
[Good! Now you have stamina left! Stand up!]
He can’t!
He absolutely can’t!
“No! Kangyoo is so young! He’s not even old enough to enter the Academy!”
“Hmm? Kangyoo, how old are you?”
“Fourteen!”
“Fourteen… It’s the age when children from the awakened families start to awaken. No problem. According to the Awakener Special Law, outstanding awakeners over the age of fourteen can enter the Guardian Academy if they have a guarantor.”
“Still…!”
When I was about to say something, I felt a hand grabbing my sleeve. It was Kangyoo.
“Sister, my dream is to be a hunter. You know that. This is my chance!”
“You’re too young!”
“I’ve grown up enough already! I’ll quickly become a Hunter and help our orphanage!”
They’re both out of their minds…!
I tried to stop them, yet I felt that I wasn’t enough on my own.
I could barely hold off their rampage by making excuses that he had just awakened today and was going to take a short break.
But this excuse would only work for a few days. The two were ready to start training again to enter the Academy at any time.
“Hmm! ‘Staying balanced on the cliff’ and ‘Focusing in the artificial crocodile swamp’! Not bad! You really know a thing or two to choose these two!”
“Is that so? I’m glad!”
“I’ll make it even more dangerous!”
“Yes!”
Stop it, please.
I shook my head, which was barely turning.
Kangyoo could be stopped through the orphanage teacher. However, there was no one who could stop Yggdrasil from going wild.
Is there anyone who could stop her on equal footing with Yggdrasil? For example, a member of the same Savior conquest team.
At that moment, the image of someone I had met before suddenly flashed through my mind.
[I’m Michael, the blacksmith of the Savior International Attack Force.]
Michael! Yes, there was Michael!
There wasn’t much time. After I sent Yggdrasil away, I prepared to visit Michael’s blacksmith shop right away.
***
[Story Fragment collected!]
[Currently collected Story Fragment: 8]
– Academy’s Genius Commander: 3
– ???? ??? ???? ?? (locked): 5
[Story Fragment/Unconfirmed]
As soon as the Yggdrasil party left, the researcher scratched his head and called someone.
Drrrrr—
The other person answered the phone right away. The researcher could sense a sense of impatience in that moment, so he let out a snicker.
“Usually you’re busy and you contact me slowly, yet this time you’re answering right away?”
— Noisy. That’s because you’re reporting useless things. More importantly, how was it?
“Ah, well, it was fine. Healthy, with all your limbs intact. More importantly, she brought me a real elixir! Who the hell is that friend Kang Na-hyun? And that friend Kangyoo, that power… Haha, it’s really scary.”
— We don’t know the route of her obtaining the elixir either, so it’s difficult. And Kangyoo… I thought he’d grown more since he was young, but I didn’t know it would be that much.
“Anyway, I’ve done everything you asked me to do? Don’t touch me for a while! I came up with a few things to try by referring to the actual elixir data!”
— Yes. Get out of here.
Suddenly—
The researcher chuckled as the phone suddenly turned off after saying those words. He approached one wall of the lab with a big smile on his face and manipulated the research machine next to it. Then, the wall opened.
Inside was something that resembled a telescope.
Its body was pitch-black and thick like the night, and its cylindrical body had a pattern of a fox and a tower engraved on it.
“Well, then, shall I prepare for destruction in my own way?”
As if covering the researcher’s back, the door in the wall that had been open closed.
“For the six races! For the representative of Cheonho!”
He giggled playfully and soon grabbed the telescope with a serious expression.
***
I headed to Michael’s blacksmith shop with urgent steps.
At this moment, the complicated and winding road of the meister village and the complicated way to get to Michael’s blacksmith shop didn’t matter.
Goodness, when Kangyoo said he would become a hunter, I was prepared for him to enroll in Guardian Academy, but now isn’t the time! As I walked along, feeling like I was running in a mess, soon I saw Michael’s blacksmith shop.
I quickly went to the blacksmith shop and knocked on the door.
Bang, bang—!
“Are you there, Michael? It’s Kang Nahyun!”
“Yes, I’m going out!”
Yet what I heard from inside the blacksmith shop was a strange woman’s voice.
Huh? While I paused for a moment, the blacksmith shop door opened softly.
However, what appeared inside the door wasn’t Michael, but a girl.
She had white hair, healthy brown skin, and a hexagonal red gem on her forehead. She had thick lines and looked very sturdy.
I paused as soon as I saw her.
Wait, this girl…
“Master is out for a moment! Would you like to come inside and wait?”
“…Kim Kangha?”
“Oh, do you know my name? Have you heard it from Master?”
“Ah, yes…”
Kim Kangha, the blacksmith of the main character in the novel. She’s one of the top tier masters in this world, and he will be the exclusive blacksmith for Na Yuhan and his party starting from the second semester.
Why is this kid here? More importantly, she calls Michael ‘master’?
“Come in!”
“Yes, thank you.”
…It seems I received a weapon from an incredible person.
I entered the blacksmith shop, cowering for no reason, and sat down on the guest chair as Kim Kangha guided me.
Glancing to the side, I saw various monster cores rolling around on what looked like a work table.
I was curious because there seemed to be a lot of rare cores, but I decided not to touch them rashly because they were obviously very expensive.
I’m sure it was described in <Academy’s F-Class Commander> that she was doing something with monster cores, but I didn’t read the rest of it, so I didn’t know.
So, to kill time, I asked her about the things on the table.
“What is this? What are you making?”
And I immediately regretted it. Kim Kangha’s eyes began to sparkle. Oh, I’ve seen that recently. It’s exactly the same as when Yggdrasil turned her eyes to Kangyoo.
What’s wrong today?
“Ah, that?! It’s about making weapons using the cores of monsters, but currently, the cores of monsters are used very limitedly. They clearly contain strong energy, but they are simply used to stimulate and release the mana contained within them. The current method of generating electricity through the cores of low-level monsters is also a method of turning turbines using this released mana. However, I changed the idea a bit here. Well, there are already pioneers who have come up with this idea, but anyway, I thought, what if we made a weapon that can accumulate and release mana by adding the accumulation function that monsters originally use to the cores of monsters? There are actually a few prototypes in the industry, and I’m working on making them lighter—”
“Yes. I see. Yes.”
I let Kim Kangha’s words slip by without knowing what she was saying.
Now that I think about it, since she’s interested in her own interests, she seems like she’d get along well with Park Yoola.
In the original novel, the two never met until the episode I read.
Is that okay?
I interrupted Kim Kangha and asked.
“From what I’ve heard, I know someone who has similar interests. Are you interested in making a researcher friend?”
“Of course!!”
“Shall I introduce you?”
“Yes!”
It would be nice if the two of them became close, right?
In order to avoid Kim Kangha’s machine gun talk, I passed the person to Park Yoola.
When I made a video call to Park Yoola through the device, her appearance, who seemed to have been resting, appeared on the screen.
— Nahyun!! What’s going on?!
“I have a friend I’d like to introduce you to.”
“Hello!”
I briefly introduced them to each other and handed the device over to Kim Kangha.
And I felt a little regret.
— Lightening the monster core weapon? Certainly, there are some monster cores that have high efficiency with small volume, but most of them grow in size in proportion to their magic power. Rather than using the monster core itself, it would be better to follow the principles of the monster core and create a new original core!
“An original core! I didn’t think about that! It’s definitely different from my perspective of using existing materials! Could you possibly commission that core?”
— Good! It’s been a while since I’ve been on fire! Are you more interested in the beings of the other world? The energy they provide—
“Interesting. According to what Miss Yoola said—”
— If you’re going to make equipment, how about making it like a giant fortress?! Robot! Giant robot!
“Oh, robot! Gun*! A girl’s dream!”
…What are you talking about?
My device didn’t come back from Kim Kangha’s hands. Their talk seemed endless.
— There’s a risk of explosion, but I guess we can do it at the Academy!
“Of course!”
…Sometimes I heard strange conversations.
…Eh, did I just create a combination of disasters?
A thought that was close to the correct answer crossed my mind, but I tried hard to deny it.
Ah, no way. No way.
I was feeling anxious inside, listening to the conversation between the two runaway trains with one ear and letting it out the other, when I felt someone approaching me with a stride and swinging the door open.
“What’s so noisy?”