Chapter 145: 145

Act 7

Two blue-colored dungeons had appeared in Korea . Bak Yun-gyu went right out to find them as soon as he got the report .

He saw a small dungeon that appeared deep in Seorak Mountain . It was discovered a few days before . There was still some time left until the outbreak . But the problem was there weren’t enough human resources .

Bak Yun-gyu looked to one side There was another dungeon on the other side of the viaduct . And that dungeon was also blue . Moreover, the second dungeon was slightly larger than the first .

Such things were called twin dungeons . They were dungeons that appeared at the same time and the same place . Those dungeons usually cause an outbreak at almost the same time . Typically, low-level dungeons appeared as twin dungeons . But this time, they were blue-colored ones .

“…This is so sudden,” Bak Yun-gyu muttered .

Even the outbreak from a green-colored dungeon had far-reaching power . It could easily destroy a small city or two . Indeed, one small town had been damaged because of a dungeon not too long ago . After that incident, people started to talk about eschatology . That was just a green-colored dungeon . Bak Yun-gyu even couldn’t imagine what would happen if two blue-colored dungeons had an outbreak at the same time . Perhaps even the whole province might be a mess .

“Leader!” A big man named Kang Seung-cheol crossed the viaduct and approached Bak Yun-gyu .

Bak Yun-gyu, who was looking at the dungeon, turned his head and asked, “How is it?”

“It’s expected that it will outbreak in 15 days to a month . ”

At Kang Seung-cheol’s answer, Bak Yun-gyu made a ridiculous expression . “Why’s the error range so big?”

“We don’t have much data about blue-colored dungeons . That’s the best we can do . ”

“It drives me nuts . ”

They always had to assume the worst . If the outbreak would occur in 15 days, they should start attacking in ten days, at the latest .

Right not, there weren’t enough S-Rank awakeners left in Korea . Not just Kim Su-hyeun and Song Hyeong-gi but also Choi Hak-joon, who became S-Rank only recently, went to San Francisco to participate in the Ranking Wars .

“Go bring Mr . Su-hyeun back as soon as possible . ”

“Yes, sir!”

Kang Seung-cheol also knew the seriousness of this case and started to move straight away . Bak Yun-gyu stayed where he was, in case of an emergency .

He held tight the handle of the sword that he wore at his waist . His eyes gleamed .

In the end, Su-hyeun took a rest in the private plane, not at the hotel . It took almost half a day to get back to Korea, so they couldn’t stay in San Francisco any longer . One thing had changed . There was one more person in his party .

“Wow…”

Thomas wandered around the private jet, eyes shining . Thomas never saw the plane flying above the sky . Thomas was a high-rank awakener, but riding a plane that operated so high above the ground, at such fast speed, was something exciting to him .

“It looks like he never knew something like this existed . ” Hak-joon, who was just about to sleep, lifted his eye mask and looked at Thomas .

Su-hyeun replied, lying on his chair, “You were the same . ”

“W-was I?”

“Yes . ”

“…”

Hak-joon felt embarrassed . He scratched his cheek and put his eye mask back . Thomas, who had been looking around the plane for a whole hour, soon got tired and sat in a chair and started reading a book .

They finally arrived after a half-day trip . It was the middle of the day in Korea . Su-hyeun woke up from a deep sleep . He let out a long yawn and got off the plane .

“Will you go right away?”

Hak-joon had heard about the blue-colored dungeons, too . So, he asked, a little nervously . He had joined the raid of a blue-colored dungeon before . So, he knew well the level of difficulty involved . And, this time, there was not just one . This time, twin dungeons had appeared .

“I have to stop somewhere first,” Su-hyeun said .

“Where?”

“Sorry . I can’t take you . There’s an ill-tempered man . ”

“Oh . Are you…?” Hak-joon asked in surprise .

There was only one person that Su-hyeun called an ill-tempered man . He was going the blacksmith named Kim Dae-ho, whose praises Su-hyeun had been singing .

“He said he’s done . ”

“Really?”

“What is this about?” Lee Ju-ho asked .

“Oh . You didn’t hear?”

Su-hyeun explained to Lee Ju-ho about what he had ordered from Kim Dae-ho . After the explanation, Lee Ju-ho’s eyes widened in surprise .

“R-real adamantium?”

“Yes . Real adamantium . ”

“Didn’t you say your sword was made out of the highest-grade Ether stones?”

“Yes, it was . ”

“What the hell…” The curse came out like exclamation .

His sword was made of the highest-grade Ether stones, and now adamantium, called the best metal in the world, was added . If those two were combined, that would almost be a national treasure .

Adel’s gauntlets, which made of a little bit of adamantium, were called one of the most powerful items in Europe . Adding such adamantium onto the highest-grade Ether stones was unprecedented .

“So, are you going to bring a sword?” Lee Ju-ho asked .

“Yes . Also, I want to say hello to Mr . Dae-ho . ”

“Then, do you want to take a day off and move tomorrow? You came right from the Ranking Wars,” Lee Ju-ho said .

“Yes . That is fine with me…” Su-hyeun looked at Hak-joon .

Unlike Su-hyeun, Hak-joon seemed pretty tired . It looked like his fatigue didn’t go away with a bit of sleep on the private plane .

Su-hyeun recovered from physical fatigue, but his mental fatigue hadn’t been relieved yet . The blue-colored dungeons wouldn’t cause an outbreak in a day . According to Bak Yun-gyu, it looked like they still had at least ten days .

“Then let’s meet at the bottom of Seorak Mountain about lunchtime . Hey, Hak-joon, I think you should go to visit Yun-seon . You haven’t seen her in a while . ”

“What about me? What about me?” Thomas asked .

“Thomas, you’re going to go with Mr . Ju-ho . I’m sorry that I can’t take you . See you tomorrow . ”

“Let’s meet Su-hyeun tomorrow again, Thomas . Okay?”

“Whew…”

Thomas lowered his head down as if he felt bad, but he didn’t complain . Eventually, Thomas went with Lee Ju-ho . Su-hyeun got his car that he had parked nearby . Soon, he headed to Yangpyeong .

There was no sound at Kim Dae-ho’s villa in Yangpyeong . It was weird . Kim Dae-ho always struck the metals, except when he slept .

“Mister . I’m here,” Su-hyeun said, knocking on the door .

“Come in . ”

A voice came from a distance . Kim Dae-ho didn’t strike iron at the moment, but he was still awake . Su-hyeun walked into the house, not the workshop . That was where Kim Dae-ho’s voice had come from .

“Hey, Su-hyeun . How are you?”

When Su-hyeun went into the open porch, he could see Kim Dae-ho . He was lying on the sofa in the living room and waved his hand . Su-hyeun looked around the messy room . Kim Dae-ho looked a little tired .

Su-hyeun asked, “What happened? Why is your house so messy? And what happened to you?”

“I didn’t sleep for three days . ”

“What?”

“I said, I didn’t sleep for three days . ”

Su-hyeun widened his eyes . “I heard . But why didn’t you sleep?”

“I haven’t been sleeping because I made your sword . ”

“I told you, it’s not urgent . You didn’t have to do that . You should take care of yourself first…”

“I’m fine . I did it just because I was having fun . I was getting closer to completion, so I couldn’t stop . ”

Su-hyeun understood . He knew how much Kim Dae-ho liked making weapons . He hadn’t been sleeping because he was having fun making his sword .

“Where’s the sword?”

“I hung it up there,” Kim Dae-ho said, pointing to one of the weapons hanging on the wall .

Dozens of weapons hung on the wall like rubbish, but actually, they were Kim Dae-ho’s masterpieces . Each one of them would cost hundreds of millions of won . And, among them, the one that stood out was Su-hyeun’s sword . It looked rather ordinary . The scabbard and handle looked the same as before .

“You said that sword’s name is Balmung, right? I didn’t know because I’m ignorant . But I did some research . It was the sword from some mythical story, right?”

“Yes . That’s right,” Su-hyeun answered, taking the sword down from the wall .

“You have no sense in making a name . Why didn’t you give it a new name? Huh?”

It looked like Kim Dae-ho didn’t like the name of the sword . Su-hyeun didn’t answer his complaints . He drew the sword out slowly . The sword came out about a handspan . It reflected Su-hyeun’s face .

The blade had a pale gold color that could only be seen when he looked closely . This was Balmung . Su-hyeun’s heart thumped . The feeling was completely different from Gram . Balmung was the sword that he used for most of his life . When he held this sword again, he got a different feeling .

There was a skill that he had been saving because of the limitations of the weapon . Su-hyeun smiled again when he thought about how he could use that skill again .

Click—

Su-hyeun put the sword back in the scabbard .

“I bet you’re itching to use it soon,” Kim Dae-ho, lying on the sofa, said as if he understood .

“Not really . ”

“I can tell from your face . Hey, it’s not a shameful thing or something . You don’t have to lie…”

“Hey, old man!” Suddenly, a loud voice came from outside .

“We came to get our gear, old man!”

“Those bastards came again!” Kim Dae-ho crumpled his face .

Su-hyeun turned his head and looked at the direction where the voice came . “Who are they?”

“Never mind . You just stay here . I’ll come back after I kick them out . ” Kim Dae-ho got up from his seat with annoyance and walked out of the room .

Su-hyeun looked at Kim Dae-ho’s back .

Kim Dae-ho kept a low profile, although he had great skill . So, some guilds had come and bothered him to get his weapons . It happened because he started to sell his arms one by one to buy the materials he needed to work . Some of the guilds found out who had made them and forced Kim Dae-ho to make weapons for them . And, Su-hyeun remembered that this had happened about this time in his previous life .

Su-hyeun thought .

Su-hyeun knew why Kim Dae-ho had asked to stay here . He must have thought he would cause inconvenience for Su-hyeun . Also, he probably wanted Su-hyeun to keep out of trouble . But there was one thing Kim Dae-ho didn’t think about .

Su-hyeun began to follow Kim Dae-ho, quietly .