Chapter 154

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Subject: Created a guild for blacksmiths in the Helioca Empire.
Author: Heimer
hello.
I’m Heimer, a blacksmith in the Helioca Empire.
As I mentioned in the title, I created a guild dedicated to blacksmithing.
The guild name is ‘Smiths’.
It was created to share information and protect blacksmiths.
I haven’t bought a guild house yet, and I work at the Imperial Forge in the capital city of Nexus, so that’s where I’m based.
Membership is open to pure blacksmiths only, but if you have any questions, please send us a message.
-Commando: You make everything. Information sharing is literally information sharing, and what is blacksmith protection?
-Heimer: Blacksmiths are weak to PK, so it’s kind of a group effort.
-BoboBobo: LOL A blacksmith’s guild? An imperial palace blacksmith’s shop? See you soon.
-Heimer: If you’re interested in joining BoboBobo, please send me a message.
Heimer, or rather, Kim, smiled as he watched the post’s views continue to climb.
“Oh, that’s pretty responsive.”
The response was pretty good. Kim refreshes the homepage to see if he has any messages.
“Oooh, they’re already here.”
He hadn’t even posted the post yet when he received a message. Kim quickly checked the message.
“Bobobo? Oh, you’re the guy I wanted to meet earlier.”
The person who sent the message was the same user who had asked to meet up soon in his post. But when Kim read the message, he couldn’t help but shake his head.
“…Why do you ask for the number of people, but not the level?”
Something was off. The message asked how many people were in the guild and what their levels were. I could ask for the number of guild members, but why the guild level?
“…I can’t believe that out of all this, the only thing I have to tell you is headcount.”
Kim muttered to himself as he wrote a reply to the message. There were so many questions in the message, and only so many guild members could answer them. After sending the message, Kim hit refresh and began checking to see if the message had been received.
“There you go again.”
Quite a few people were messaging him to see if he had seen their posts. Kim couldn’t help but frown slightly as he continued to reply to the messages.
“YOU DIE? What is this bobobobo guy?”
BoboBobo had a message for you. The message ended with the words YOU DIE. Kim shook his head, decided to ignore the message, and started replying to other messages that kept coming in.
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Eight days after returning to the forge and resuming his quest for Merit, Ming Hu was still crafting items to earn Merit today.
Boom!
[You have succeeded in crafting the Iron Shield].
“Whoa.”
When Ming Hu finished crafting, he pressed the blue button to unlock the valve and opened the quest window to see the quest.
<Armor of the Knights of the Black Bear
The leader of the Black Bear Knights has a problem on his mind. The Black Bear Knights are about to set out on the frontier again, so the leader has approached the Emperor with a request, and the Emperor has agreed. Craft equipment for the Black Bear Knights before they leave for the frontier!
Time remaining: 9 days
[Heavy Iron Longsword: 50 / 50]
[Wrought Iron Long Spear: 50 / 50]
[Iron Helmet: 100/100]
[Heavy Iron Armor: 100/100]
[Heavy Iron Shield: 100/100]
Difficulty Level: A
Quest Reward: 500,000 Helioca Merit
Increased affinity with the Knights of the Black Bear when completing quests within the time limit
"Hmph half a million!"
Ming Hu closed the quest window. He started walking to the warehouse to complete the quest. After a while, Ming Hu was able to reach the warehouse and handed over the equipment to Cannon. Upon handing over the equipment, a message popped up about his achievement, and Ming Hu smiled and muttered to himself as he walked back to the forge.
"How much quest are you going to give me this time?"
Unlike in the past, when I used to get quests with 200,000 rewards, these days, the quests I get are basically 500,000. I realized that the more quests I beat, the higher the level of achievement I received, so I figured I could get the standard 1 million quests.
"…Hmm?"
Arriving at the forge, Ming Hu shook his head at the sight of Heimer, Leto, and other user smiths at the far end of the workbench.
"What's going on?
Their expressions were quite grim.
"Four days ago, I was so excited about this.
Four days ago, when they founded the guild, their faces were bright. Even their guild mark was a smiling face, made by humanizing a hammer.
'Well. I guess I shouldn't bother.'
However, since it wasn't his guild and he didn't feel the need to interfere, Ming Hu approached Nerfai, accepted the quest, and began crafting items again.
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The Guild House of the Twin Axes Guild.
In the small conference room inside the Guild House, Guilmain Billy and Vice-Guilmain Soondong, along with their executive officer Bobobo and a few other players, were currently gathered in a circle.
"Dean, can we start now?"
"It's not time yet…"
Billy shook his head at the young man's words.
"Nah, we could probably take her now, and besides, you're not even close to what you were then."
"I'm stronger than I've ever been, but what about her? Is she any stronger?"
"B-but he's a blacksmith!"
Billy's words caused the cub to pause for a moment, then he exclaimed.
"I got one-killed by that blacksmith guy."
"So when the hell are you going to start then, are you going to keep me waiting?"
The conversation between Soondong and Billy continued, and the cadres around them, including Bobobo, listened in silence.
"You're right, we can kill him now, but what about our guildmates if he sticks around?"
"That's"
"Sooner or later, sooner or later. Sooner or later… no matter how strong she's gotten, I can make her feel the blacksmith's limits. Just wait…"
"…Okay."
At Billy's words, Soondong frowned slightly and replied. At Sundong's reply, Billy looked at Bobobo, who had been listening to the conversation in silence, and said.
"Mr. Bobo, what happened to what you said then?"
"Ah, I think we can do that right away. I checked to see if he's registered, since the Imperial Forge is his base… but he's not, so even if he does get involved, I can always back out and say I didn't know about it, hahaha."
Billy thought for a moment, then opened his mouth to speak.
"…I'll leave that to you, Bobobo."
"Yes! Let's go right now, then."
Bobobo smiled broadly at Billy's words and walked out of the breakout room.
"Hmph, here we go."
After leaving the small meeting, Bobobo went straight to the Guildhouse common room. Upon arriving at the common room, Bobobo smiled once again at the sight of so many guild members at play.
"Uh, bobobobo, what are you doing here?"
Just then, a guildmate hanging out in the rest area spotted Bobobo and spoke to him. Bobobo recognized the guildmate who had spoken to him.
"Oh, great, I was looking for you, Necton."
Just the guild member I was looking for. Bobobo looked at Nekton, who seemed puzzled by his words, and continued.
"You know what I told you before? Blacksmith hunting! That's what I'm going to do now."
"Oh, really?"
"Yes, do you have a moment?"
Bobobo asked Necton, of course he did, but there was no way he had time. He wouldn't be hanging out at the rest stop if he didn't have time.
"Of course! I was bored as hell, thank goodness!"
As expected, Necton smiled broadly at Bobobo's question. Still smiling at Necton's answer, Bobobo looked around the rest area, noticing several guild members who seemed intrigued by his and Necton's conversation.
"Would you like to come with me?"
"Great!"
"Kwink, that sounds like fun."
"I've been waiting for you to say that."
The guild members who were intrigued by Bobobo's words quickly approached. Bobobo looked at the guild members gathered for the blacksmith hunt with a satisfied expression.
"Let's go!"
With that, Bobobo and his guildmates left the Guildhouse and traveled to the Imperial Palace.
"Should I just wait here?"
When they arrived in front of the palace, Necton asked Bobobo.
"Yeah, if you wait a minute… uhhh, there it is. Hmph."
Answering Nekton's question, Bobobo smiled eerily as he watched the user emerge from the imperial palace. The guildmark of their target, Smith's Guild, was proudly displayed above the user's head.
"I'll follow you."
Bobobo, who wasn't foolish enough to PK in front of the Imperial Palace, looked at Necton and his guildmates.
Jumbled
Bobobo, Necton, and the rest of the guild followed the Smith Guild user out of the palace and toward the exchange, and when they reached the exchange, Bobobo stopped them.
"…?"
The user walked back to the exchange, past Bobobo, who blocked his path with a puzzled look on his face. However, Bobobo moved after the user and blocked his way again.
"You're Mr. Smith, right?"
"…Yes."
The user looked at Bobobo, who had blocked his way again, with a puzzled expression, and nodded in response to Bobobo's question.
"Do you work in the imperial forge?"
"Yes, I know, but why?"
The user was puzzled, unable to understand why Bobobo was saying this. Bobobo smiled creepily at the user's words and reaction, and signaled to Necton and the guild members who were waiting.
"…?"
The user shook his head at Bobobo's behavior and smile, and then realized that he was in danger when he saw the approaching Twin Axe Guild members.
"Why-why would you do that?"
The user turned around and said to Bobobo, "I'm sorry. But Bobobo raised his one-handed axe and said, "I'm not going to do that.
"Hahahaha, you'll have to ask your gilma about that, did I say heimer?"
With that, Bobobo grinned and swung his axe at the backward user.