Absolute Necromancer

Absolute Necromancer Chapter 158

After the conversation, Melton ended up teaching Jinhyuk how to blacksmith, and the cicadas immediately hung on Jinhyuk.

So, Ha-Ryu and Mi-Ho were sent outside.

“I’m sorry, little girls, but from now on it’s time for hot fire and cold iron. If you guys want too…Ask that guy over there, not me, to teach you.”

Ha-Ryu and Mi-Ho, who were kicked out of the workshop after saying kind but cold words, looked at Jin-Hyeok sadly –

“Sorry, I’m at the bottom here too.”

Jinhyuk didn’t have a proper method.

Here, Jinhyeok is not a climber who surprised the tower, but an apprentice among apprentices who has never held a hammer before.

No matter how equal their relationship was, as a blacksmith, he could not resist the words of his seniors and teachers, Melton and Muyoung.

This was especially true because Ha-Ryu and Miho’s presence in the workshop didn’t help anything.

“…I’ll wait outside.”

“Do you know how long it will take?”

“Still. “Still, I want to wait.”

“How about going back to military service during that time and brushing up on the basics a little more? I don’t think Kyung-hoon would be the type to see that guy as a girl. “He shouldn’t have anything to complain about, right?”

“…Ugh-”

Fortunately, it was not that difficult to send him back because he was a downstream person who reacted strongly to the word Choi Kyung-hoon.

“Then, when you’re done, you have to come to the military office immediately. “Don’t let it leak somewhere else.”

“…What kind of five-year-old kid am I? “It will take care of itself, so don’t worry and go back.”

“…See you later then. “Let’s go, Miho.”

“yes!”

As expected, Miho just did what Ha-ryu told her to do.

There was no reason to worry or not want to break up.

For example, as soon as Ha-ryu asks to go back, doesn’t he nod his head with a proud expression on his face that says he played well?

“Tsk tsk, that’s a shame. “If it wasn’t for the blacksmith job, I wouldn’t have sent that kid away.”

“Let’s stop talking nonsense and get started, old man.”

Jinhyeok cut off Muyeong’s words, which were expressing regret as he watched the back of the stream moving away, and hoped that the blacksmithing class would start right away.

Seeing Jinhyuk’s resolute appearance, Muyoung glanced at Ha-ryu and Jinhyuk once, then lowered his head with a sigh.

“Haryu, that child is going through a truly difficult path. Such a blunt….”

“…What did you say?”

The voice muttered so softly that even Jinhyeok, who has good ears, could not hear it properly.

Jinhyuk immediately frowned and asked back, but all he got back was Muyoung’s calm answer.

“I said it would be great for hammering since you have good muscles.”

“I don’t think we talked that long….”

“…There’s no time, so let’s get started right away.”

Of course, Jinhyeok, who is quick-witted, had a vague sense that that wasn’t true, but Muyoung struck first.

In the end, with only doubts left, Jinhyuk entered the class in earnest.

* * *

With Ha-Ryu and Mi-Ho returning, Melton, Mu-Young, and Jin-Hyeok, there are only three left in the workshop.

The first to speak there was Melton.

“The hammer….”

“I think I said about three times that I didn’t catch it….”

“Damn it, Melton of the world is teaching someone who is worse than an apprentice who has never held a hammer before!”

bang!

Despite having spoken first, Melton couldn’t hold back his anger at Jinhyuk’s answer and slammed the desk.

“Keuuuu….”

“Are you stupid? “Why are you hitting the steel desk with your fist?”

“…shut up!”

Of course, Melton, who hit the steel desk, frowned and grabbed his hand.

Muyoung stepped in to replace the injured(?) Melton.

“So, what do you think are the three most basic things for a blacksmith?”

“…I don’t know how to hammer or read a drawing.”

Muyoung shook her head as Jinhyuk drew an answer from the blacksmith he knew.

“I only got it right on how to read a drawing. The answer is how to choose minerals, control fire, and look at the blueprint. “The hammering comes next.”

“…Isn’t this your first time there?”

Select minerals, adjust fire, and look at blueprints.

Jinhyuk frowned slightly at such basic things.

However, Melton forgot about the pain in his hands and jumped up from his seat and shouted.

“You idiot! Okay, let’s start the test now. If you fail this test, you will be disqualified. “Pack your bags and get out now!”

“…What, you’re telling me it’s already a test even though I haven’t learned anything?”

“As you said, it is basic, it can be said to be the most basic, but why? “Are you scared?”

Seeing Melton shaking his head and shouting ‘Jjol?’, Jinhyeok eventually nodded with a frown on his face.

“Okay, if I win, I hope you treat me properly from then on. Do you understand?”

“Hmph, do you think you can succeed? Who ignores the most important thing because it is the most basic? Heng! A passing kobold will laugh!”

Ignoring provocation did not suit Jinhyuk’s temperament, and Melton laughed at Jinhyuk’s boldness.

Rather, the one who was embarrassed was Muyoung, who stayed still.

“Melton, Jinhyuk. Both of you stop. Melton, do you intend to subject someone who has never even touched iron in its mineral state to take the test? And Jinhyuk, the same goes for you. Everyone knows you’re amazing, but don’t think that applies to blacksmithing. “The basics are the first to learn, but they are also the most difficult to master.”

Beginners learn the basics, and advanced people also learn them.

However, beginners ignore the basics, and advanced people think they have mastered the basics.

However, among them, only a handful of people truly understood and mastered the basics.

In the first place, even craftsmen say they still lack the basics, so how many lower level beginners, intermediate, or advanced people have mastered the basics?

That’s why Muyoung stopped Jinhyuk.

“You would like to learn the skills of a blacksmith and a fieldsmith. Whether it’s a sub job or something else. But then, keep in mind that there are not many beings who can perfectly teach metallurgy, and there are two in front of you right now. And are you going to miss that opportunity because of a moment of pride?”

“….”

There was nothing wrong with Muyoung’s words.

In the future, metallurgy would definitely be of great help when managing weapons on the battlefield.

Maybe I should create something new.

But Jinhyuk did not back down.

“Apart from that, I am confident, Test. “Let’s do it.”

“…Do whatever you want.”

“Hahaha! Great, this will make the armor crafting go faster! “Just take a look with those little girls next to you!”

When told that he would take the test, Melton burst into laughter.

This is because Jinhyuk was convinced that he would lose his status as a disciple and end up playing the role of a spectator on the sidelines.

“Then it’s the first test!”

And immediately the first of the three tests began.

* * *

“Light this brazier. “You can use all the tools in here.”

An empty furnace.

The brazier that had been burning the fire until now did not even move.

Jinhyuk scoffed at Melton’s words to light a fire in such a brazier.

“Can I just make a complaint?”

“Sniff, yes. It’s good to be confident. However, the temperature of the fire you need to raise is 3,000 degrees.”

“…3,000 degrees?”

Considering that the melting temperature of iron is approximately 1,500 degrees, the fire needs to be lit to a temperature that is twice as high.

Jinhyuk frowned at that.

“Is there a need to raise it that much?”

“I said it was a test. And you said you were confident. And although 3,000 degrees seems high, in reality, the melting temperature of adamantium and mithril, which are written in the manufacturing instructions for the weapons you need to work on, is between 2,000 and 3,000 degrees. First of all, if you can’t even melt the minerals that will go into the weapon you’re crafting, you’re just a sandfish. “Is there no need for this?”

“…Phew, good. “Please give me some firewood.”

“I said I could use everything in the workshop. “Just take it and use it yourself.”

After replying bluntly, Melton walked to the backseat where Muyoung was sitting and sat down with his arms crossed.

Jinhyeok chuckled at the sight of his determination not to intervene no matter what happened and brought a pile of firewood from a corner of the workshop and threw it into the brazier.

“fire.”

Grumbling-

A fire was ignited inside the furnace with just a light starter.

It wasn’t that difficult as I was well versed in magic.

And so the test of lighting Jinhyeok’s egg-making brazier began.

* * *

“Isn’t 3,000 degrees too much to begin with?”

“Hmph, that guy brought it on himself. And I didn’t say anything wrong.”

“…The skin might all cook off.”

“Make it ripe.” “The workshop will be filled with the smell of grilling meat.”

While Jinhyuk was lighting the fire, the two had a meaningful conversation.

Muyoung said it was too much, and Melton expressed his opinion that of course it should be done at that level.

Lighting the first test fire.

That’s not that difficult.

It was a process of developing tenacity and tolerance to heat, as well as helping the blacksmith become familiar with fire.

And that meant that a novice blacksmith would not have the strength to withstand that much heat.

As Melton and Muyoung said, even if the temperature is only a few hundred degrees, the skin on the entire body can sizzle.

“Of course, that guy’s skin won’t get cooked in the heat of just a few hundred degrees, but…It’s different if it’s 3,000 degrees.”

The general melting temperature of iron is 1,500 degrees.

He at 3,000 degrees is twice as strong.

That kind of temperature is a heat that cannot be ignored, no matter how experienced a climber is.

Even a climber on the 300th floor, or maybe even the 600th floor, would not be able to handle the heat properly without wearing all of his armor.

‘Hmph, there’s no way a guy who hasn’t even held a hammer would dare to do that.’

Melton’s ridicule was natural.

Heat is not something you get used to right away.

If you do not have a certain tolerance, you have to gradually get used to fire and communicate with it before you can handle the heat of only 1,500 or 3,000 degrees.

Therefore, Melton did not even dare to imagine that Jinhyeok, who had just picked up firewood, would pass his first test.

but-

crackling-

The sound of top-quality firewood burning in the brazier.

Slowly, the inside of the workshop became warm and it became like a sauna.

“Uhm…What temperature is it now?”

“…500 degrees.”

Muyoung’s ability to immediately grasp the temperature of the flames fluttering in the furnace with his eyes was truly amazing, but Melton didn’t care.

“…It’s holding up well.”

Even though the overwhelming heat of 500 degrees filled the workshop, Melton did not care.

He always worked with a smile in the scorching heat exceeding 1,500 degrees.

The reason his face hardened was not because it was too hot or because it was hot.

“…1,000 degrees.”

“Wow, you’re more persistent than you look.”

The heat is gradually rising.

It was a fever that would have already made an ordinary apprentice grit his teeth and endure it or run out of the workshop.

However, Jinhyeok calmly blew air into the fire burning the firewood.

“…1,500 degrees.”

“Damn, what is that guy? How can a guy who has never stood in front of a furnace heat it up to 1,500 degrees straight away? …!”

And Melton’s mask broke the moment the heat in the furnace exceeded 1,500 degrees.

Melton got up angrily, like a pottery that couldn’t withstand the intense heat and broke, but Muyoung stopped him.

“You know it too. Jinhyuk, that guy didn’t use any tricks just now. He also said that if he used magic to cool himself or regulate the temperature around him, we would have already known. “Aren’t you angry because you know you didn’t do anything?”

“…Fuck you, damn it.”

There were no people as sensitive to magic as these two.

Magic and metallurgy are inseparable things within the tower.

Because they both had some level of magic.

Additionally, their eyes were able to easily grasp such shallow tricks.

Nevertheless, what made Melton angry was that Jinhyuk held on so well even though he did not see any tricks.

And while the two were fighting, the temperature inside the furnace and the workshop gradually increased.

“2,000 degrees.”

“…2,500 degrees.”

As the temperature got closer to 3,000 degrees, even artisan-level blacksmiths Melton and Muyoung could not remain calm.

Just as ordinary blacksmiths struggled in the heat of 1,500 degrees, they also had no choice but to struggle in the heat that was approaching 3,000 degrees.

Of course, they were the ones who hammered while struggling in the face of that kind of heat, and they could withstand even more heat-

“He…why…Are you okay? …Damn right….”

Jinhyuk, slightly sweating, was standing where the voice panting in anger reached him.

Even though I am controlling the fire right in front of the furnace, all I can do is sweat a little.

Melton was now more than annoyed, he was scared.

“how…The climber…What the hell should I do…Sweating a little in front of a 2,500-degree flame…It’s just….”

Most climbers believe in resistance with armor and do not develop resistance to attributes.

Therefore, the fact that Jinhyeok, who was wearing ordinary apprentice clothes, was fine was the same as saying that Jinhyeok had overwhelming fire resistance or resistance.

“Wasn’t he a guy who was busy climbing towers and fighting wars?”

“…Right.”

“But when did you find the time to develop resistance?”

“If I knew that, I wouldn’t be so frustrated.”

Even while listening to the two’s grumbling voices, Jinhyuk’s concentration did not break.

From 2,500 degrees, beyond the 2,600 and 2,700 lines –

“3,000 degrees. “It’s a pass.”

“…Jeenjaang!!!”

It exceeded the test passing line of 3,000 degrees.

As soon as Muyoung gave a definite answer, Melton, who swore and kicked his seat, walked towards Jinhyeok with great strides.

“Is it a success?”

“Yes, it is a success. But let me ask you one question.”

“What is it?”

“how…How on earth did you survive? “Originally, he would have opened the workshop door and jumped out from under it, let alone 1,500 degrees, so how on earth did he survive?”

question.

In order to answer his curiosity as a blacksmith, Melton suppressed his shame and asked the reason.

And Jinhyuk had no hesitation in answering that question.

Sreuk-

Jinhyeok took out a small stone, also called a spark stone or a fire stone, from the underspace of his coat, which he had left in a corner of the workshop, and placed it on the palm of his hand.

Chii Iik-

Naturally, the heat exceeding hundreds of degrees burned Jinhyeok’s palm with strong heat.

The person who was surprised was not Jinhyuk, the person responsible, but Melton.

“Hey crazy…!”

“It’s not hot.”

“…? dog sound! The temperature of the hot stone is at least several hundred degrees…Can you believe it?”

Melton, who was trying to shoo away Yeolseok by telling him not to talk nonsense when he said it wasn’t hot, looked at Jinhyeok with a blank face and a look of disbelief.

Tup- Tup Jeok-jeok-

Jinhyuk lightly put the stone in his mouth and chewed it with his strong teeth like it was candy.

“Just hit your whole body with a hot stone until you become resistant to fire and burns, then eat it. How about it? It’s easy, right? Would you like to have ten seats?”

The reason why I was able to reach 3,000 degrees, the passing mark of the test, without resting or even shedding a drop of sweat for the first time standing in front of a furnace was a very simple reason.

Except that’s something not everyone can do.

“shut up! You monster bastard. “Who on earth can increase their resistance by chewing raw stones like you do!”

“It’s right in front of you, right? what…So, did you pass the test?”

“…The first test is passing. But don’t think the second or third time will be as easy as it is now!”

With a resentful but helpless expression on his face, Melton admitted that he had passed the first test.

Right now-

“Thank you, then let’s move on to the second test.”

Chewing the crumbs of the stone left in his mouth like pieces of candy, Jinhyuk immediately moved on to the second test.