Chapter 236

Stepping into the guitar warehouse, Kaiser looked around.
“What did I buy here?
Why did Ming Hu come from here? What did he do here?
“Is there anything special?
Kaiser looked around, wondering if there was something special.
“Are you just here to buy an ingredient item?
Pondering, the Kaiser was soon able to guess Ming Hu’s reason for coming here from the material items that came into view.
‘Well. I’m a blacksmith.’
Ming Hu was a blacksmith. He likely came here to buy material items.
“Let’s go back.
Kaiser turned around to head back to the trinket room. He hadn’t yet fully explored the guitar storeroom, but that wouldn’t change if he came back later. Kaiser began to walk out of the guitar warehouse.
That was the moment.
Jumbled
The sound of footsteps stopped Kaiser in his tracks, and he frowned.
“Who is it?
First, it wasn’t Ming Hu. The Kaiser had definitely seen Ming Hu rise. So who could these footsteps be? The Kaiser turned around, a slight frown on his brow.
“…?”
Turning around, the Kaiser spotted the old man in his line of sight and gave him a puzzled look. It was the same for the old man. The old man looked at the Kaiser for a moment, then opened his mouth to speak.
“Ying? Who’s your guy?”
“…What?”
The Kaiser could only ask back with a puzzled look at the old man’s words.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!”
The old man frowned at the Kaiser’s half-question and exclaimed.
“Not a normal NPC.
It was obvious from its presence here that it was no ordinary NPC. He was dressed in rags, but from the way he spoke, he seemed to have some sort of high status. Kaiser smiled slightly and opened his mouth to speak.
“I’m Viscount Kaiser.”
“A viscount? Huh, a viscount in here, you must be good.”
“Again.
The old man’s words that followed convinced Kaiser that the old man was no ordinary NPC. The Kaiser opened his mouth to speak to the old man.
“May I ask… May I ask who you are?”
“Me? You mean me?”
At the Kaiser’s words, the old man pointed his finger at himself and smiled broadly.
“…?
Kaiser was a little puzzled by the old man’s reaction, but he nodded and said, “I’m sorry.
“Yes. Who are you–”
“Hmph, if you ask me…”
The Kaiser focused on the old man’s words, and then the old man continued.
“Nothing!”
* * * * *
Ming Hu thought as he walked out of the treasure room.
“Where do I go to make it…
I was wondering where to make the Alcandeum Golem.
‘Just looking at the ingredients, it’s going to be a mess…’
Just by looking at the materials that go into making an Alcandeum Golem, I could tell that it was going to be huge.
‘Not the imperial forge, at least…’
The closest was the Imperial Forge, but you couldn’t make it there.
“I think a quiet place would be nice.
I needed a quiet place, a very quiet place.
“…Wait, why am I even thinking about this?
Ming Hu frowned as a sudden thought occurred to him. This shouldn’t have been a problem in the first place.
“I could just make it…
Ming Hu opened the Estates window, then went into the Building Construction window to find the Forge.
“There it is.
Sure enough, there was a forge, and Ming Hu decided to return to his mansion in Asren to build one, so he traveled to the warp gate.
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to Asren.”
“Warp.”
Soon arriving in front of the warp gate, Ming Hu handed the mage the fee and was soon able to warp to Asren.
“What should I make…
Arriving at the Warp Gate of Asren, Ming Hu opened the building construction window and began walking toward the mansion, contemplating which forge to build.
‘Should I do this? No…’
Just as there were several types of mansions, there were several types of forges. Of course, unlike the mansions, they all look pretty much the same, just with different special effects.
“This is better. Let’s build it with this.’
After deciding on a forge to build, Ming Hu arrives at the mansion and walks to the vacant lot next to the mansion, presses the Build button, sets the construction location to the vacant lot, and presses OK.
Goo Goo Goo.
Then, with a bizarre sound, the ground rumbled as if there had been an earthquake, and the forge began to rise.
“…”
Ming Hu smiled at the rising forge and stepped inside.
“That’s pretty good.”
I was curious to see what the interior would be like, but it was better than I expected. It was nothing short of an imperial palace forge.
“Now let’s build it.”
Ming Hu first approached the largest workbench in the center of the room, opened his inventory, and used the Alcandeum Golem Recipe he had received from Nerfai.
[Recipe: You used an Alcandeum Golem].
[Strong – Added Alcandeum Golem to Armor Crafting].
[You can craft an Alcandeum Golem once].
A message popped up when he used the recipe. Ming Hu smiled and opened the weaponization window, scrolling down to find the Alcandeum Golem.
“Hmm.”
After a while, Ming Hu found the blue glowing Alcandeum Golem, smiled, and pressed Craft.
Siaak
When I pressed Build, some of the materials in my inventory appeared on the workbench.
[Hold the hammer].
At the prompt, Ming Hu pulled the life-giving hammer, the key to this craft, from his inventory. He looked at the materials on his workbench.
[Tap the marked spot with a hammer].
Soon, a message appeared and certain parts of the materials began to glow. As if waiting for it, Ming Hu immediately struck the shiny part.
Boom!
It was a loud bang that made me think, “Are we destroying instead of building? The sound was so loud that it made me think, “Isn’t it destroying rather than creating?
‘Wow. Not in the same room? I guess this isn’t normal. It’s not normal.’
Ming Hu, who had made the noise, looked at the ingredients on his workbench, still glistening, and smiled, a little surprised. He thought it would only take one shot, but contrary to his expectations, the ingredients were still shining.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Ming Hu began striking the shiny part with his hammer, and soon the message he had been waiting for appeared.
[The first piece of the Alcandeum Golem is complete].
[Current progress: 1/100].
“…”
But when Ming Hu saw the message, he couldn’t say anything.
“…and now it’s 1?
I couldn’t believe it. No, he couldn’t believe it. Ming Hu rubbed his eyes and looked at the message again, wondering if he had misread it, but he hadn’t.
‘What the heck is so great about…’
Ming Hu turned away from the message and looked at the first piece on the workbench.
[Begin crafting the second piece of the Alcandeum Golem].
Siaak
At the same time, the first piece disappeared with a message, and the materials reappeared on the workbench.
“…I’m really looking forward to it.”
Ming Hu smiled at the materials that appeared on his workbench. Then he raised the hammer again and struck the shiny part.
Boom!
Once again, it wasn’t done in one fell swoop. Ming Hu began hammering away at the shiny part with his hammer.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
[The second piece of the Alcandeum Golem is complete].
[Current Progress: 2 of 100].
Soon the second piece was finished. Ming Hu looked at the finished second piece and scratched his head.
“It looks like it took longer than the first one…
It seemed like it took more hammering to finish the second piece than it did to finish the first. No, I definitely did a lot.
‘This is… unnerving. I’m not sure.’
I had an uneasy feeling.
[Begin crafting the third piece of the Alcandeum Golem].
Siaak
Soon the second piece disappeared and the materials reappeared on the workbench. Ming Hu picked up the hammer again and began striking at the shiny part.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
“…what is it?
Ming Hu kept hammering away, but when he didn’t get the message that he was done, he stopped hammering and looked at the material with a puzzled expression. Certain parts of the material were still shiny.
“…Huh.”
Looking at certain parts of the shiny materials, Ming Hu smirked and went back to hammering.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
“…That’s weird.”
After a few more hammers, I realized that something was wrong. No, it was definitely weird.
“Why… It won’t finish?”
He hammered twice as hard as he had on the first and second pieces, but the third piece remained unfinished. Ming Hu stared at the glittering materials with a puzzled expression.
“…Huh?”
Looking at the ingredients, Ming Hu quickly opened his inventory at the first one he saw.
“Alcandeum…?”
The 500 kilograms of alkandeum in your inventory had been reduced to 499 kilograms. It seemed that the third piece was not being completed because of the alcandeum. Ming Hu double-checked the information on the alcandeum.

A legendary metal, harder than any other metal in Middle-earth, it is both physically and magically resistant. It is said to be untouchable by human power.
After reading Alcandeum’s information, Ming Hu muttered with a slightly uneasy expression.
“No way…because you’re human?”
The information said it was ‘known to be beyond human power’. It didn’t say it was untouchable, so I wasn’t sure, but I had a bad feeling that it was somehow incomplete.