Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 688

SPLURT!

It happened in an instant.

Before Su-ho could even think of stopping him, the Lord of Ten Thousand Gold City suddenly cut off his own wrist.

"E-Elder? Are you all right?"

Startled, Su-ho hurriedly reached out to treat the Lord of Ten Thousand Gold City's wrist.

But the Lord of Ten Thousand Gold City extended his remaining intact hand and refused the treatment.

"No need to make such a fuss. All of this is simply to show you something."

The Lord of Ten Thousand Gold City lightly shook the arm whose wrist had been severed.

Drops of blood splattered onto the ground around him, but then not only did the bleeding stop, the wound itself completely closed.

A recovery skill?

Su-ho couldn't tell.

The sight of the man healing his own arm as though he were some kind of monster was simply astonishing.

Still smiling, he picked up his severed hand.

Then, just as he had shaken his arm, he shook the severed wrist as well, and as if it were a lie, the bleeding stopped and its wound closed too.

He spoke.

"Do you remember when I said the Art of Dismantling can't be used on living beings?"

Su-ho, who had momentarily been staring blankly at the bizarre sight, quickly answered the Lord of Ten Thousand Gold City's question.

"Ah, yes. I remember."

"Then is this wrist alive right now, or not?"

"Since it's been severed, I suppose it's dead?"

"Correct. Which means this wrist now has a central point that couldn't be seen until a moment ago."

The central point of the severed wrist that was visible to the Lord of Ten Thousand Gold City.

Naturally, Su-ho couldn't see it.

His Smith's Eye had not yet reached the ultimate level.

"So, if I strike the wrist like this."

The sword transformed into a small hand hammer.

He lightly tapped the wrist with the transformed hammer.

Clatter!

It sounded like a pile of blocks collapsing.

Amazingly, just like the Black Iron Shield from before, the wrist shattered apart and collapsed into pieces as though it had never been flesh at all.

Looking at his own wrist, now reduced to a pile of fragments, the Lord of Ten Thousand Gold City spoke as though it were nothing.

"And just like that, it becomes material fragments."

"A-Are you really all right?"

"Why wouldn't I be? Do you know why doctors are so remarkable? Because ordinary people only know how to kill, not how to save. We're the same. Ordinary people only know how to break things. They don't know how to restore them."

He extended his severed arm toward the fragments of his wrist.

The wrist fragments began rattling and moving, and then one piece snapped onto the severed surface of his arm.

"It begins with the central point."

Then the other fragments began moving as well.

Shrrrk—

As though being reconstructed, they began joining together around the central point of the wrist fragment that had attached first.

Before long, the joined fragments had perfectly reconstructed the wrist exactly as it had looked before being severed.

"But this only means the shape has been fitted back into its original frame. It hasn't been perfectly assembled yet."

With that, he tapped various places on the wrist with the hand hammer.

There was almost no sound.

If anything, it sounded faintly like someone tapping leather.

Eventually, when he pulled the hand hammer away, a golden aura gathered around the wrist he had been striking, then dispersed.

The wrist began moving perfectly again, just as it had before being cut off.

As though nothing had ever happened.

"Wow......."

A murmur of admiration escaped Su-ho without him even realizing it.

It felt as though he had just watched an incredible magic show.

Having restored his wrist, the Lord of Ten Thousand Gold City casually waved it around again and smiled.

"What do you think?"

"I think it's incredible."

"Come now, you can't talk like an ordinary spectator. You're my successor, aren't you?"

"Ah."

At his reminder, Su-ho quickly collected himself and explained what he had taken away from what he had just seen.

"First of all, unlike the Mega Crusher, it seems the Blacksmith Style allows self-healing."

"Hmm. Do you really think self-healing is all it can do?"

"Pardon?"

"Broaden your perspective. This isn't the same kind of recovery skill you've learned."

"Recovery...... Ah!"

Right.

He had been thinking too much from his own perspective.

The man in front of him was a blacksmith.

Not a healer.

Then Su-ho needed to think differently as well.

"I think it allows modification of the human body, rather than healing."

"What makes you think that?"

"What you just showed me didn't seem like a process of destruction followed by recovery. You harvested the materials that made up your wrist, then used those harvested materials to reassemble and restore it...... In other words, I think it was closer to restoration."