Light of Arad: The First to Walk - Chapter 47



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One of the systems that clearly existed and was used.

That is the item creation using Shinda.

‘Based on the standard material synthesis method, you could gather the corresponding materials and create an item. The basis is similar even now, but… … Strictly speaking, at that time, there was only one place to create an item.’

Doesn’t the , an item sold by NPC Shinda in the current game Dungeon & Fighter, still remain as history and evidence?

Even if there was a synthesis method, and even if the materials were obtained according to the synthesis method, the place that had to pass through in order to make all of those materials into actual equipment was Shinda’s blacksmith’s furnace and Shinda’s hands.

So that’s what Jinseong thought.

‘Even if no one uses it these days, it’s because better items have been developed and are more easily available.’

The point that it can be of great use to you.

Also, if you are a true self who can obtain and use discontinued items, you will be able to use the system that has virtually disappeared now.

“I know that you, Shinda, have made many items yourself before. That is what I would like to ask of you.”

Jinseong spoke again.

But Shinda immediately shook his head and gestured behind him.

“That was a long time ago. Hehe, aren’t all the things I made back then here?”

Jinseong looked at the weapons and armor displayed inside the blacksmith shop that he had pointed to with his chin, and the weapons covered in dust.

However, they are all common grade, lowest grade weapons.

There are no additional effects.

That’s not what Jinseong wants.

“You are still checking the adventurers’ durability, aren’t you? I think the reason you do such things is because you still have feelings for crafting.”

“That’s true. I’m giving a chance to those who want to use the furnace and the forge. However… I don’t hold the hammer myself.”

“But you are a master, Shinda.”

Jinseong did not back down.

Jinseong gave Linus the use of for virtually free.

Jinseong knows that he can use millions of gold worth of the game Dungeon & Fighter just by being close to NPCs and asking them for a few favors.

I believed that I could quickly master cheap value-added methods like the and that used Shinda in the past.

And that was a misjudgment.

“Has the master been a master for thousands of years? And so was the whale that lingered in the sky… I have come to realize that the things I have made are no longer very necessary for today’s adventurers, those living in this rapidly changing Arad.”

Shinda spoke in a slow voice.

Could it be that the lingering sound in his hoarse voice is not phlegm, but a kind of vanity?

“ah…….”

He was a craftsman who dominated an era, but what is Shinda like now?

Although Jinseong himself was not a craftsman, he was able to understand it vaguely.

‘I feel like I’m being pushed out of the times… … When DnF’s popularity waned, I also got depressed and died down. It won’t be to that extent, right?’

What about Shinda?

Currently, I know exactly what function NPC Shinda has in the game Dungeon & Fighter.

‘There will be users who don’t know if it exists or not. Even if it was going well in the past-. Well, that’s inevitable as updates continue and new NPCs come out… ‘

It is difficult to dismiss it as something that can only be helped because the people living in the real world of Arad feel emotions.

Are you saying that this isn’t something to be laughed off, not just for NPCs, but for each and every person’s life?

In a sense, Shin may be feeling not only a sense of futility but also misery.

I wonder if it would be better if the system were discontinued and disappeared.

and are not ‘discontinued items.’

Even though it still remains.

Because no one uses it.

Jinseong was momentarily flustered, but he knew that nothing would go according to plan anyway.

‘It was the same during the Alleyway Battle content. There were newbie friends who could barely get 2% of Bakal’s health while getting 47% of the fear during the Bakal raid. No matter how absurd the situation is, there is always a way to conquer it.’

An old blacksmith who feels a sense of futility about whether or not craftsmanship is necessary.

How can we re-invigorate him and make him do Jinseong’s request?

It was clear that simple words of comfort or encouragement would not work.

What would help him would be proof that the craftsman’s skills are still needed in the world… … .

“You are a master, Shinda. You are a master blacksmith recognized by everyone in Arad.”

Jinseong finally remembered.

“Didn’t I tell you? Arad doesn’t need a master anymore-.”

“And you, Siv, are also a master.”

It was the name of another famous person who had been troubling users for various reasons for a while.

* * *

There are not many people in Arad who have surpassed the level of craftsman and reached the level of master.

And one of them is Shiv.

A blacksmith and craftsman like Shinda.

And the creator of .

“……What do you want to talk about? Why are you suddenly talking about Shiv?”

Shinda’s nose hairs twitched.

Jinseong shrugged his shoulders.

“No, that’s right. Until relatively recently, Siv-nim was very popular and well-known among adventurers for making jewels that fit the secondary equipment. He’s a bit different from someone like Shinda-nim who has given up on it.”

Jinseong continued speaking as if nothing had happened.

“I wonder if Lord Shinda knows how hard the adventurers work to obtain the jewels made by Lord Shiv.”

At Jinseong’s voice, which had become much lighter, Shinda’s nose hairs finally trembled.

“That kind of story has nothing to do with me! Whatever that guy Shiv does-”

And the moment when the master, whose anger has reached its peak, gets angry.

“No, it doesn’t matter. You two are famous blacksmiths in Arad. Shinda-nim is actually a few years younger! But why did you give up already?! Shinda-nim used to be a master! And Siv! Shinda-nim’s reputation in the field of weapons is even greater now!”

Jinseong said.

Actively utilizing the background settings of the game Dungeon & Fighter.

Shinda, who was about to get angry, was unable to say anything to Jinseong’s remark.

“Master Shinda Philip. Please help me. You said earlier that I was just an adventurer who didn’t seem like much. I will be a tool to raise Master Shinda’s reputation. I will use your equipment to make Master Shinda’s name as famous as Master Shiv.”

Jinseong asked as he watched the vibration of the nose hairs that had been trembling gradually decrease.

It was a remark that was half-way to the youth’s tantrum.

Shinda stroked her nose hair.

“Even if you use my equipment, I don’t think my reputation will increase. With that skill… Hehe. How shameless of you to speak so well.”

“Ah, that, that-. There-.”

“Still, it seems like you’ve come to your senses for the first time in a long while. My only concern is that your hands have become a little dull, so I wonder if you’ll be able to do what I ask of you.”

“Don’t worry about that! This request isn’t that difficult.”

As soon as Shinda finished speaking, Jinseong opened [Inventory].

And then he took something out one by one and put it on the floor.

There were countless spider carapaces and remains.

“What I want to make is armor. It’s a five-piece armor consisting of shoulders, top, bottom, shoes, and a belt made from the upper skin of spiders and Marphisas.”

What Jinseong wanted to create was one of the light armor sets favored by the swordsman class in the past.

It was the Arti Marpissa set.

“If it’s armor made from the outer skin of spiders, then it’s not an ordinary task-.”

“Hehe, I still believe you’ll do well. Oh, by the way, I didn’t just bring these from Underfoot, I also brought this… I brought something else because I believed that Mr. Shinda would definitely accept my request.”

Jinseong took out something again while looking at the bewildered Shinda.

One was a glass vial with a sloshing purple liquid.

And another one… … ?

“Ugh-. Smell!?”

“W-what is this! What is this ominous wave?!”

Things that even make the GSD watching flinch for a moment.

“The treasures of the Dark Elves, the pride of the Kingdom of Pennes! and . Are these special products valuable enough to be used as trade goods?”

The very same ingredients that were taken out and stored in the small box of Shallow Keep and that even touching them with your hands felt unpleasant!

The pungent smell emanating from the extremely fermented dairy product was enough to make even the GSD hold its nose and back away, let alone the Shinda.

“Hehehe, then please take care of it!”

Jinseong raised his voice and bowed his head.

Shinda looked at the GSD with a puzzled face.

“GSD, your disciple is this, this-.”

“I think you know that even if he’s not extraordinary, he’s not an ordinary person.”

GSD replied as if he knew what Shinda was trying to say.

“-That’s it, that’s exactly it.”

“Hehe, that’s right. These items are surprisingly hard to obtain?”

Jinseong will not fully understand that I said this because I brought or .

* * *

Jinseong was catching his breath in front of the back alley leading to Northmire.

‘It’s fortunate that the Magician’s Guild has stocked up on anti-epidemic drugs.’

If everything had gone as planned, I would have finished commissioning Shinda to make the Arti Marpisa set and then received additional rewards from Sharan of the Magic Guild.

Sharan, who was still busy, couldn’t return to the Magician’s Guild, so she couldn’t help but feel a bit regretful.

However, since the Duchy of Bel Myer was also suffering from an epidemic, a significant portion of the epidemic treatment drugs mass-produced at the Alfraira Garrison had been distributed to the Magic Guild for distribution to the Duchy, and Jinseong had come out separately to collect quite a few of those treatments.

“Oh, looking at the writing, it looks like it’s good for your health.”

Jinseong drank a whole bottle of the plague cure.

Then he started walking towards Northmire.

‘I can’t see any users yet… … But I guess it’s better to at least get a grasp of the situation first.’

Normally, it would be a pattern of chasing after the user, but this time it was different.

First of all, since there were no particularly contaminated elements in the Kingdom of Pennes, it is not even possible to know whose quest was contaminated.

Of course, it was not in Jinseong’s nature to just sit still and wait, so he was trying to take action.

‘When it comes to Deregistry, the first thing that comes to mind is Peter the Piper… … The boss monster based on the Piper.’

There are also many terrible monsters that have been twisted and deformed due to the influence of Direji.

Starting with the giant rat-man named ‘Scar’, to the piper Peter the Piper.

Northmire is also a place with many monsters that leave a particularly strong impression on users’ memories.

And the starting point of such dungeon area: Northmire.

The truth was immediately apparent.

‘It’s definitely different. Even on that side, every blade of grass is rotting away. On this side, the greenery is still vivid.’ A small town that became known during the evacuation of the survivors after a plague broke out in the Northmyre area, killing many of the residents in an instant.

A green city that has remained exceptionally clean and free from infectious diseases.

A town where the queen of the Duchy of Bel Myer requests an investigation from the NPC who helps adventurers and the ‘Poison Queen’ Louise.

It was also known that the bizarrely shaped scarecrows placed here and there were not just there to scare away birds.

Phew! Phew!

When the scarecrow, which had been still, suddenly began to bounce back like a water spring, Jinseong laughed.

“Here it is.”

Green city Grozny.

Dungeon Area: Jinseong finally entered the first dungeon of Northmire.

Jinseong had no reason to fear the horde of scarecrows rushing toward him.

“.”

Skill level increases by the item you are currently wearing.

Because with just that one shot, the four scarecrows that were approaching were blown up, scattering rags.

‘Let’s live slowly… huh?’

It was at that moment that something caught Jinseong’s eye as he was about to begin his full-scale exploration.

A black shadow passed between the buildings of Grozny.