thenovelthief Chapter 68.2: Great Achievement (5)
Chapter 68.2: Great Achievement (5)
Translator: DreamscribeThe hero ‘Hand Genius’ had been incredibly happy these days. Thanks to FS Games’ medical support program, he received Soul Link, and recently, he had gotten permission to generate revenue, so his mother was able to reduce her workload.
At the Soul Link handover ceremony, none other than Lee Jinwoo came in person!
Lee Jinwoo was his idol.
When he handed over a wooden boat he made for him, Jinwoo smiled brightly.
‘Thank you.’
‘It’s a little crude, right? Haha....’
‘Not at all. I hope the heroes will cross the sea on boats like this. Please make them in Arsilan too.’
Jinwoo’s words felt sincere.
Since he was young, he had trouble with his legs and could only sit.
He had been teased a lot and being ostracized was a daily occurrence. But what helped him endure was his mother, who worked late into the night for him.
She would massage his legs and say she was sorry for giving birth to him this way. Each time, he would smile and say that the strength of his legs had gone into his hands, so he could make anything with them, comforting her.
That’s why his hero name was Hand Genius.
To walk.
To be able to run.
It was an immense happiness. As soon as Hand Genius arrived in Arsilan, he cried as he ran around. No one laughed at him. Everyone was touched.
“Hmm, today....”
He carried a large backpack and checked his messages.
LifeHunter: I’ve heard you’re a skilled Magic Engineer. There’s a festival being held in Elvens, so I hope you’ll lend us your skill.
Hand Genius was a Magic Engineer.
His class was Mage, but he had learned Alchemy and Magic Engineering as production classes and was running various businesses. Lately, some heroes had even started calling him an inventor.
His level was still in the 20s, but he was confident that in Alchemy and Magic Engineering, he was second to none.
“Oh, Elvens?”
Hand Genius had also heard of Elvens. It was the village of veterans that was rumored to clear achievement quests the fastest. The hunters who had settled there were extremely famous.
Their cool and quick way of clearing village openings and leaving without hesitation was truly impressive. Hand Genius arrived in Elvens via the Hero’s Flower.
“Hello! I’m the Magic Engineer Hand Genius.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“LifeHunter nim! I’m a fan!”
LifeHunter grinned.
“Then let me see the catalog.”
“Alright.”
Hand Genius showed the catalog.
The catalog featured various types of fireworks designed for the festival.
Everything had been invented by Hand Genius and was officially registered for copyright in Evanth and Marogo. If someone wanted to use the recipe, they just needed to subscribe to ‘Inventor King Hand Genius’ on Arsilan Worlds.
It was a pilot project started by FS Games.
“Nice.”
“Even if you only purchase numbers 1, 3, and 5, it’s more than enough to raise the festival atmosphere. Altogether, that would be 12,000 gold....”
“All of them.”
“Pardon?”
LifeHunter closed the catalog.
“All five sets.”
“W-What? All five sets would be 300,000 gold....”
LifeHunter immediately paid 300,000 gold through the trade window.
“Gasp! T-Thank you so much!”
“Do you have the stock?”
“Yes! I just happen to have all of it ready! I’ll install them right away.”
He installed all the firework sets in the center of Elvens. Then he handed over an orb-shaped switch to LifeHunter.
“Have you cleared all the village Achievement Quests?”
“Hmm, I cleared them at dawn today.”housand gold.”
“Yes!”
“You seem quite talented.”
Hand Genius looked at the elf before him and then examined the Archmage’s book. The portrait drawn inside and the elf’s face were identical.
“Are you perhaps Tiris...nim?”
“I am not Tiris.”
Swoosh!
The secret shop vanished.
The final material was at the edge of a cliff. The lighthouse herb, which only bloomed in high places.
“I’ll be back.”
Hand Genius put the fairy down and climbed the cliff. Each time he fell in the rough wind, he used magic to survive somehow.
“Gahk!”
“...Wouldn’t it be better to ask someone else?”
“I have to do it. If the material gets damaged during collection, it’d be a disaster.”
The fairy watched Hand Genius continuously fall.
She couldn’t understand why he was so desperate. Even during training in Reinguard, she had been indifferent. Maybe it would be better for her useless race to just disappear for Arsilan's sake.
That was what she had thought.
“Uwaaahhh!”
Thud!
Hand Genius crashed into the ground. He managed to barely survive by casting a Shield spell before hitting the ground.
“A-Are you okay?”
“I got it!”
Hand Genius raised his head. In his hand was the lighthouse herb. His face was covered in mud and a mess. The fairy burst out laughing at the sight.
"What..., that's...."
Tears welled up in the fairy’s eyes.
Right there, Hand Genius opened the book and began concentrating on making it. The fairy sat beside him and watched him seriously. When he added the final material, a shimmering pink cloth appeared.
Hand Genius very carefully brought the pink cloth to the fairy’s severed wings and cut it to the right shape. The cloth soaked into the cut ends like it was fusing with them.
“H-How is it?”
The fairy looked at her wings, now tinted with pink, and tried moving them. At first it was awkward, but as she adjusted, her wingbeats grew faster.
The fairy’s body floated into the sky. She slowly began circling around Hand Genius. Though slow, she no longer looked like she was struggling.
“Hahaha!”
Hand Genius clenched his fist and laughed heartily. From the fairy flying around him, a tiny drop of water fell.
The fairy stopped.
She floated in the air with her back turned in front of Hand Genius.
“Um..., it’s still clumsy, but I’ll keep improving my skills and make them properly.”
Hand Genius said that.
She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and turned toward Hand Genius.
“I’ve decided on a name.”
“Huh?”
“Wing Genius.”
Hand Genius blinked at the sound of that name.
“Hahaha.”
“Hehehe.”
Then they looked at each other and laughed.
“Hey, Wing Genius! You’re doing pretty well!”
“Of course! Hand Genius.”
The two stood there and laughed again for quite a while.
They started walking back toward the city. Leon, who was helping beginner heroes, came into view.
When Leon spotted Hand Genius, he approached him.
“You succeeded.”
"I still have a long way to go. I need to research more."
Hand Genius replied with a smile to Leon.
“I like these wings.”
Wing Genius said that and sat on Hand Genius’s shoulder. Then she looked at Leon.
[Wing Genius spreads the light of the fairies.]
[The Fairy race reveals themselves in Arsilan.]
Fairies with pink wings began to appear one by one.
Leon and Hand Genius stood still and watched the scene.
“Oh, ooh!?”
“So cute.”
“Gasp!”
The surrounding heroes were startled and started taking pictures.
“Ah! That’s right!”
Wing Genius looked at Hand Genius.
Whoosh! Ding! Ding-ri-ri-ri-ring!
A pink-colored aura surged from Wing Genius’s body. The affinity was rising rapidly.
“I totally forgot about this.”
“How could you forget something like that?”
When Hand Genius asked that, Wing Genius was startled and looked at Leon.
Leon only gave a soft chuckle.
Thus passed a peaceful afternoon in Arsilan.
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