Chapters Chapter 312: The Ragnark begins! (3) (1/2)
“There were a few materials left over...”
Vulkan scratched the back of his head awkwardly.
“Please take a look.”
“I will.”
Kang Chul-In nodded.
The item’s options were as the following:
[Invincible] Iron Curtain
Equipment type: Defense (belt) / Consumable good (once)
Application limits: Nothing
Special functions: Nine Lives
*The item Iron Curtain will be destroyed as soon as the “Nine Lives” function is used.
“Iron Curtain… nine lives? What is this?”
“Lives.”
“Lives?”
“This special function will save your life when in danger. After all, your defensive equipment was so bad...”
“...”
“Of course, because you’re very strong, so you probably won’t be in danger, but… you never know. Danger is never expected.”
“You’re right.”
Kang Chul-In nodded.
“Death is really like that. It always wavers around us and comes when we least expect it.”
“Haha! You speak like someone who has died before!”
“Maybe.”
Kang Chul-In had a mysterious smile on his face.
I did die.
It was the truth. Even when he exuded the aura of a demonic god ruling over Pangaea, he crumbled easily under Aleister’s betrayal. Kang Chul-In was someone who knew well that life was a bundle of surprises where no one knew when they were going to die.
“Anyways, thanks.”
“It’s nothing.”
Vulkan shook his head.
“I wanted to make you a perfect suit of armor, but I didn’t have any materials. So instead, I just provided a temporary solution...”
“...”
“My only regret is that I can’t repay your generosity enough...”
Strangely, Vulkan’s attitude was extremely polite. It was hard to imagine that they had just had an intense battle.
“Why are you being so nice to me?”
Kang Chul-In asked.
“I expected you to hate me...”
“Of course not!”
Vulkan shouted with urgency.
“No way!”
“...?”
“I wasn’t able to tell you before, but you’re the true savior of my life!”
“Why?”
“I-I… gave in to the temptations of my youth...”
“Of your youth?”
“I was a blacksmith of darkness who created magical soldiers.”
“Mm.”
“I created all kinds of evil weapons because of my desire to become the greatest blacksmith and spread them across the continent...”
It was a fancy past.
“I even worked with dark magicians to summon demons into the weapons I created… I even...”
“...?”
“While creating Kaiforce… I… I don’t know why I did that back then...”
Vulkan looked down.
“What happened?”
“There’s a saying that your tail will be stepped on if it’s too long. One day, when I was trying to create the masterpiece of my life, even greater than Kaiforce… someone burst into my smithy with Kaiforce in hand.”
“It must have been the Emperor of Blood and Iron.”
“Yes… I made my own bed.”
“I see.”
“So I was punished. I had to spend a thousand years here at the peak of Mt. Hephai. It was more painful than death...”
That was a great length of time… a whole one thousand years. To some, it’s just a thousand years, but if one had spent all that time alone...
“I think I went crazy about 20 times...”
“Mm… so is that why you were in the lava? The Emperor of Blood and Iron...”
“That’s not it.”
“Hm?”
“It was like an act of repentance… my body couldn’t be destroyed after being cursed, but I could still feel pain. But after about 500 years, I became used to the pain of lava and...”
“...”
“Haa...”
Vulkan scratched his head.
“Anyways, I’m able to escape from here now… wait!”
“...?”
“Sir?”
“What?”
“Why… other than your eyes, you look exactly like the Emperor of Blood and Iron...”
The moment Vulkan said that,
“Do you want to be beaten up again?”
“...!”
“I’m warning you, but you better not even bring up the E in the Emperor of Blood and Iron again. Understand?”
“Ah, yes, sir...”
“Anyways, thanks.”
“T-Thank you...”
Vulkan bowed.
“Thanks!”
“You did well, monkey.”
Dorian and Hecate also expressed their gratitude to Vulkan.
“Are you leaving now?”
“We should, since we don’t have any more business here.”
“I see… oh, then...”
“Then?”
“If you ever happen to visit the central castle in Esmeralda...”
“...?”
“Try going into the sewers.”
“The sewers? Why?”
Even without his reputation as the Supreme King of the West, he had no reason to go somewhere filled with rats and wastewater.
“I remember hearing something about that place.”
“...?”
“The Emperor of Blood and Iron was constructing a great underground cavity… it was a massive project with 50,000 dwarves involved.”
“Hm?”
“Wouldn’t such an underground structure be the grave of the Emperor of Blood and Iron?”
“The grave?”
“Yes, sir. I’m not human, so I don’t understand… but strangely, human emperors have a strange tendency of constructing their graves as soon as they come to power...”
“Are you telling me to go to that guy’s death site?”
“Yes.”
“Why should I?”
Displeasure was drawn on Kang Chul-In’s face.
“Are you telling me to go spit at the bastard’s death site?”
“N-No! Of course not!”
“Then why?”
“It’s been about a thousand years since the Emperor of Blood and Iron began the construction.”
“I guess so.”
“Wouldn’t it be complete by now?”
“Are you stating the obvious…?”