Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 692

Jack's explanation of Shadow Duplication.

The moment Su-ho heard it.

"This is it."

At the same time Jack smiled, the corners of Su-ho's mouth rose as well.

He completely understood the concept behind Shadow Duplication.

Thanks to that, his problem was solved.

- This is it.

"This is the one."

- Satisfied?

"It's perfect."

- But if there's one thing we need to be careful about now, it's the durability of the duplicated hammers. I guess we don't have to worry about that, right?

"Oh, of course not. This is a hammer made in Ten Thousand Gold City. Forget ten thousand strikes, I bet it'd still be perfectly fine after a hundred thousand or even a million."

- Nice. Then let's get started right away.

"You can duplicate the furnace too, right?"

- Of course. How many do you want?

"Let's go big. A thousand hammers and a thousand furnaces. I think we can finish this in one shot like that."

- That's about two thousand. But you know, right? Even though this technique only creates temporary duplicates, the replication is extremely complete, so it consumes a huge amount of mana.

"Haha, you're actually worrying about my mana? With you here and me here, why would we worry about something like that?"

- True. Then let's begin right away.

Jack snapped his fingers.

Black shadows burst from Jack's body, swallowed the hammer and furnace, then rapidly spread across the nearby ground and took over the entire area.

WHOOOOSH!

Mana drained away in massive chunks.

At the same time, one thousand hammers and one thousand furnaces rose from the ground, each positioned at regular intervals like pieces on a Go board.

- If I had my way, I'd attach Shadow Soldiers too, but no matter what, I think you need to be the one taking the lead on this.

"You mean the duplicate soldiers, right? I think so too."

[ Army Tactics is activated. ]

Army Tactics, which he hadn't used in quite some time.

At the same time, countless duplicate soldiers identical to Su-ho were summoned.

One thousand duplicate soldiers.

The summoned duplicate soldiers didn't even need Su-ho to give them verbal commands.

Immediately understanding their master's intentions, they moved toward the mountain of equipment, each picked up a piece, then headed toward the hammers and furnaces and took their positions.

"Let's begin."

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

They began hammering.

And just like that, ten strikes were completed.

Would this really work?

[ The release condition has been fulfilled. ]

[ The Liberated Hammer of the Great Smith responds to your efforts and releases its fourth seal. ]

It worked.

Su-ho could only laugh in disbelief.

[ Item information has changed. ]

[ Due to the influence of the Liberated Hammer of the Great Smith, the information for Smith's Eye has changed. ]

[ For achieving a great accomplishment, the System grants you 10 bonus stats. ]

However, there were fewer System notifications than during the previous release.

Putting that aside for now, he activated the furnaces as well.

[ Flame of the Golden Blacksmith is activated. ]

[ Extraction is complete. ]

And then.

[ The release condition has been fulfilled. ]

[ The Liberated Necklace of the Great Smith responds to your efforts and releases its third seal. ]

[ Item information has changed. ]

[ For achieving a great accomplishment, the System grants you 10 bonus stats. ]

When he activated one thousand furnaces at once, sure enough, he was able to immediately release the third seal this time as well.

Having triggered all those releases in an instant, Su-ho laughed hollowly.

"So it was this easy."

- At least you figured it out before suffering any more, right?

"That's true."

- So, what's next?

"Hold on a second."

Just in case, he immediately checked the options.

[ Liberated Hammer of the Great Smith ]

- Grade : S++

# A brilliant legacy bestowed by the Great Smith only upon the successor he cherishes most.

# To release the hammer's final seal, one million strikes are required.

# The first seal has been released, activating the ability 'Square Extraction,' which harvests part of a target in a precise shape, and the 'Socket' function, which allows harvested fragments to be equipped.

# The second seal has been released, activating the ability 'Square Forge-Welding,' which creates materials by overlapping one material with another.

# The third seal has been released, activating the ability 'Precision Dismantling,' which dismantles a material one additional time.

# The fourth seal has been released, activating the ability to create a 'Socket' in a target.

# Socket 1 - Fragment of Obsession from the Suppressing Chain Coffin(S).

# Socket 2 - Fragment of Obsession from the Suppressing Chain Coffin(S).

# Socket 3 - Empty.

# Socket 4 - Empty.

[ Liberated Necklace of the Great Smith ]

- Grade : S++

# A brilliant legacy bestowed by the Great Smith only upon the successor he cherishes most.

# To release the necklace's final seal, the furnace must be used ten thousand times.

# The first seal has been released, activating Flame of the Golden Blacksmith(S++) and Smith's Furnace(S++).

# The second seal has been released.

# The third seal has been released.

# Once all seals are released, a hidden power will be unlocked.

[ Smith's Eye ]

- Grade : S+

# An eye possessed only by successors of the Blacksmith Style.

# Also known as Smith's Eye, and when used, it allows the user to observe the target from a smith's perspective.

# The target's central point becomes visible.

# The effect of Smith's Eye applies to all targets.

There had been changes.

But there was no change in grade.