Genius Blacksmith's Game

Once every participant entered the capsules, the commentators began explaining the Endurance event.

—Among the viewers currently watching this live broadcast, I doubt there is anyone who does not know about the Endurance event.

—The event name is Endurance. The rules are simple. Baal, who appeared in the trailer for Continental War: World Championship, will appear, and users can win medals by surviving against that Baal for as long as possible.

—The host has set a time limit of thirty minutes, but in reality, it seems unlikely that any user will survive for thirty minutes against Baal, who is also called the Evil God.

—At 9 p.m. last night, brief information on Baal was released, and it shocked many viewers. We will show you Baal’s information, which was released last night, once again.

(Baal).

Level: 811

Description:

·The lord of the Great Archdemons, and ranked first in the Demon Realm. He is also called the Evil God.

·He has descended into the human world and is in a weakened state.

·He can wield various authorities of the 72 ranked Great Archdemons.

Viewers encountering this information for the first time through the broadcast freaked out.

—Crazy. He’s Level 811, but that’s while weakened by the penalty for descending into the human world? Then what the hell is his normal Level?

—He’s the Evil God, so he has to be around that strong. lol

—No, that’s still too much, isn’t it? Won’t this end before anyone lasts even three minutes?

The viewers’ reactions were only natural.

Because even right now, Baal was an average of 300 Levels above the users.

However, many of the viewers finding this absurd now were merely people who had only properly read the competition rules today.

The commentators had not finished explaining the rules yet.

—As you can see from Baal’s revealed information, it is true that he is at a Level current users can never reach.

—That may also be why user Hyunsoo, who said, “I’ll beat him up,” was criticized as arrogant.

—However, users participating in the Endurance event will enjoy a 30% increase to all Defense and a 30% increase to status ailment resistance upon entry.

—It is true that the Endurance event is receiving the most attention. In that sense, this can be called Pureum’s consideration so viewers can watch the Endurance event for longer.

—There is also an interesting system. The “score” system.

The words “score system” drew the viewers’ intense interest.

—Why scores all of a sudden?

—Ah...... please read the event rules in advance.

—What’s the score system?

Soon, the commentators explained the score system.

—Naturally, while watching the event, it will be difficult to tell who is performing well. After all, more than one hundred people are participating. That is why the score system has been introduced.

—This score will be applied to every participant, and naturally, the person who endures the best will have the highest score. It will also serve as an indicator of who is currently performing the best.

—Also, once a certain amount of points accumulates in this score system, something special can happen.

—Something special? What would that be?

—When a participant reaches a certain score, they can obtain something like a potion. Also, if they do not need a potion at that time, they do not have to receive it and can keep saving their points. According to Pureum’s explanation, if a certain amount or more is accumulated, they can obtain something that is more helpful than expected.

—However, most users are expected to receive a reward immediately once their score accumulates enough to reach the reward threshold. If they save it up and then get forcibly logged out, there would be nothing more regrettable.

—At this very moment, the screen shows over one hundred players logging into Ares and appearing.

—The Endurance event continues from the scene in the trailer where everyone charged out together. However, the monsters and demonic beasts that were protecting Baal, the Demon King and Evil God, do not exist.

—The current viewer rating is approximately 37%, easily surpassing the viewer rating from the first day.

—With hundreds of millions of viewers around the world watching, Baal is beginning to appear.

*****

The participants in the Endurance event felt a strange sensation.

An endlessly stretching plain.

Behind them, the corpses of dead humans formed mountains.

This is the scene from the trailer.

Standing in that trailer myself feels new.

When is Baal going to appear?

The players who had appeared together focused on the notifications.

[You are a participant in the Endurance event.]

[All Defense and status ailment resistance increase by 30%.]

The participating players could not help but marvel.

For them, the best tankers, a 30% increase to all Defense could be considered far more significant than a simple 30% defense increase.

Right now, I’m comparable to a Level 600 tanker.

I feel like I could block the attack of a fairly powerful dragon.

Baal? Let him attack. I’ll ignore it easily.

It was common sense that those whose total Defense was already high enjoyed a greater benefit when a percentage-based increase occurred.

Within that common sense, every tanker’s gaze turned toward one user.

Hyunsoo.

The only dealer in this event.......

No, saying he’ll beat up Baal? Isn’t that way too arrogant?

Hyunsoo’s statement.

And the fact that Hyunsoo was the only dealer here—more precisely, a blacksmith—naturally had no choice but to draw attention.

One user approached that Hyunsoo.

It was Portugal’s user Daniel.

Daniel was tall enough to reach 190 cm, and along with Ivan and Emily, he was another powerful contender for the championship.

His entire body was muscular, and he had a dazzling suit of armor plastered in gold over his whole body, with a huge square shield that looked as hard as diamond slung on his back.

He was a tanker famous worldwide, called the HP King, and in fact, his class was also HP King.

Although his Defense was on the lower side compared to ordinary tankers, his total HP was overwhelming even among tankers of the same Level.

He was also famous for something else.

His rotten personality, and the fact that he disliked Asians.

“Ni hao. Did you prepare well?”

Daniel deliberately greeted him in Chinese.

It was racial discrimination.

Daniel, standing 190 cm tall, looked down at Hyunsoo.

It was a question Daniel asked because he knew Hyunsoo had rushed to submit his participation application last night.

Hyunsoo’s strengths came from the blacksmithing field.

Also, the entire world assumed that Hyunsoo had obtained Hydra’s materials just yesterday.

However.

“Guess you didn’t even get to use Hydra’s materials, huh? Hm? Hahahaha.”

When Hyunsoo did not answer him, Daniel thought he had not made any preparations at all.

The users present each threw in a comment.

“Did he fail to prepare anything?”

“Well, there were only around twelve hours left. What could he have prepared?”

“Idiot.”

Also, since Hyunsoo merely stared at him, Daniel thought he had been intimidated by his height and momentum, so he began showing himself off.

“My °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° total HP is about twice that of ordinary tankers. In numbers, it’s a whopping twenty-one thousand.”

At those words, even the other tankers marveled.

In fact, the average HP of the tankers present here was around eleven to twelve thousand.

But even that was a level that far surpassed ordinary users.

Daniel wanted only one thing.

Master Blacksmith Hyun was the most famous among the participants, and he wanted to enjoy a surge of popularity by crushing that Hyun’s spirit.

Hyunsoo made an “oh really” expression.

“Twenty thousand HP. Not bad.”

Daniel thought he had seized the momentum with those words.

“What’s your HP? About twenty-five hundred? Or three thousand?”

Hyunsoo remained silent to this as well.

“Answer me, unless you want to end up in a vegetative state like your father.”

And at Daniel’s words, which crossed the line, the look in Hyunsoo’s eyes changed.

“Okay. I’ve decided you’re first.”

“......?”

At those words, Daniel made a puzzled expression.

He had decided he was first?

He could not understand what that meant.

“What the hell is that supposed to—”

Daniel was about to speak while grabbing Hyunsoo by the collar.

“Daniel, return to your position.”

Ivan warned him.

Ivan was also a user backed by a world-class guild, and he was someone who did not fall behind Daniel in the slightest.

Also, because Daniel was the type to act strong only toward Asians while bowing to the strong and bullying the weak, Ivan’s words were enough to make him flinch.

“Grr.......”

But when both Emily and Ivan glared at him, Daniel took a step back.

“I’ll keep my eyes wide open and watch you log out faster than anyone, you arrogant brat.”

Even as he said that, Daniel felt uneasy.

He said I’m first? What does that mean?

But that thought could not continue for long.

[Baal appears.]

[The Endurance event begins.]

Because a notification rang out to the players.

Lights of all colors surged from every player present.

“Furbing’s Blessing!”

[Furbing’s Blessing.]

[All Defense increases by 2.5 times, and status ailment resistance increases by 2 times.]

“Alambark’s Shield.”

[Alambark’s Shield.]

[The Defense of Alambark’s Shield increases to 4 times the usual amount and enlarges to 3 times its size.]

“King of Tankers, grant me strength!”

[King of Tankers.]

[By the blessing of the King of Tankers, the body’s basic Defense increases by 2 times.]

Like this, every tanker user possessed several skills that increased Defense.

However, there was only one person.

Only user Hyunsoo had no buff imbued into him that dramatically increased his Defense.

And soon.

A huge fog formed, and behind that fog, Baal appeared.

The ominous eyes visible behind the fog.

Then the enormous silhouette that slowly began to show.

A being nearly three meters tall, with horns more than three times larger than the ordinary horns of Great Archdemons.

He had the huge wings of a black bird, the lower body of a horse, the upper body of a human, and a face that could not be seen. At last, that being revealed himself.

[All buffs are canceled.]

At that moment, enormous goosebumps rose across the bodies of the tankers there and across the world.

Along with his appearance, Baal nullified all the powers imbued into the tankers, as if mocking them.

Every radiantly shining energy vanished in an instant.

Furthermore, Baal’s voice, which sounded as though it were scraping at their ears and carried absolute, peerless charisma, shocked the entire world.

“Insolent.”

No one had expected that he would crush them all with an enormous status ailment skill the moment he appeared.

[Insolent.]

[Massive damage is caused by voice alone!]

[All Defense is ignored.]

[This cannot be resisted.]

[You have received 370,261 damage!]

[You have received 412,405 damage!]

[You have received 471,986 damage!]

“Gaaaaaah!?”

“Kuhk!?”

“Cough!”

Just from hearing the voice, the best high-rankers heard the crunching sound of bones breaking throughout their bodies.

“Gaaaaah!”

“What the hell is this!?”

Someone’s blood flowed backward through their entire body and poured from their mouth, while someone else simply collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.

Also.

—Da, damage of 400,000?

—What in the world......?

—The first attack ignores all Defense. Their all Defense rose by 30%, but it is useless.

Based on the damage numbers that appeared simultaneously above the users’ heads, the entire world was shocked.

With his appearance alone, the arena had already become a scene of chaos.

And everyone there thought of one person at the same time.

Hyunsoo.

Because if this much damage came in while all Defense was ignored, they judged that his HP might already be scraping the bottom.

Even Daniel of Portugal, whose total HP was that high, had just taken tremendous damage.

[HP has dropped below 70%.]

Daniel could not hide his bewilderment as he looked back at Hyunsoo.

Like him, users around the world were turning their heads toward Hyunsoo at that moment.

However, all of them soon witnessed a strange phenomenon.

Hyunsoo, whose HP had only 12% left, was moving his feet.

“You asked if I was ready, didn’t you? My preparations are more perfect than ever.”

The entire world thought Hyunsoo was walking toward Baal.

Because he had said with his own mouth that he would beat Baal up!

But soon, Daniel grew flustered.

The first reason was because Hyunsoo was suddenly standing in front of him.

The second was because of what he said.

“Baal isn’t the only one I said I’d beat up.”

“What!?”

At that, Daniel’s eyes widened.

At the same time.

CRAAAAACK!

“Kuhk!?”

CRACK-CRACK-CRACK-CRACK-CRACK!

“Urk, kuh, ugh, gah! Why me!?”

The moment Hyunsoo attacked Daniel at high speed, blood spurted out.

And that spraying blood formed the shape of small blood-colored beads.

The blood-colored beads rode along +7 Full Bloom and were absorbed into Hyunsoo.

[You recover yourself by the amount of damage dealt.]

[You recover yourself by the amount of damage dealt.]

[You recover yourself by the amount of damage dealt.]

—He’s re, recovering!!!?

Watching Hyunsoo’s HP recover at high speed, the entire world was being shocked.