Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 124

Chapter 124

When Golin saw the orichalcon, known as the metal of the gods, his eyes nearly popped out of his head.

When Zeke deactivated the hersion, Golin panicked and caused a commotion.

“O-Orichalcon! Give me the orichalcon!”

Looking at the frantic Golin, Zeke spoke in a firm voice.

“Would you like to work with the orichalcon?”

“O-Of course! Besides, I’m probably the only craftsman in this world who can handle the metal of the gods!”

Although it was an arrogant statement, it wasn’t wrong.

Even Gelion, the Soul Craftsman, had expressed reluctance in handling the hersion made of orichalcon.

But as soon as Golin saw the hersion, his eyes turned blood-red and he lunged forward.

Zeke said to Golin.

“If you listen to what I have to say, I will entrust you with repairing this hersion.”

It was an unheard-of way of making a request – not asking for repairs, but offering to let him repair it if he listened well.

Surprisingly though, Golin noticeably calmed down at Zeke’s words.

“Hmm… alright. Let’s go inside first.”

Golin led Zeke into the forge.

The inside was surprisingly ordinary for a blacksmith’s shop.

Except for the mountain of failed works piled up in one corner.

‘Now I see why he’s Gelion’s master.’

Gelion also had the habit of piling up his failed works in one corner like a mountain.

Golin brought over a rough-looking cup filled to the brim with beer.

“This is Golin’s special homemade beer – so good you wouldn’t notice if one of two drinking buddies died.”

Zeke took a sip of the beer Golin handed him.

As he said, it was truly a beer with excellent aroma.

“This is delicious beer.”

Golin smiled with satisfaction at those words.

Golin downed his beer in one go and brought over an entire barrel of beer.

Since dwarves and beer are inseparable, it seemed he had started brewing his own even after coming to barbarian territory.

After finishing his beer, Zeke sensed magical energy from the mug he was holding.

‘This is?’

Surprisingly, the rough-looking beer mug had temperature control magic cast on it.

When Zeke recognized the magic on the beer mug, Golin chuckled.

“It’s an item that perfectly maintains the beer’s taste. You have better eyes than I expected.”

Golin continued speaking while downing his beer.

“By the way, a solid orichalcon hersion. Are you a knight from the Empire? Must not be an ordinary position. Even I’ve never imagined something like this.”

Zeke shook his head.

“No. My name is Zeke Draker.”

At those words, Golin spat out the beer he was drinking.

“D-Draker?!”

Only then did Golin notice the pureblood awakener’s gauntlet Zeke was wearing.

Setting his beer mug aside, Golin looked Zeke up and down.

“A Draker pureblood awakener having an orichalcon hersion.”

The Rom Empire’s hersion production technology is treated as top secret among top secrets.

While the Holy Kingdom also produces hersions, they can’t match those of the Rom Empire.

However, there was one exception – the Silver Armor that the Holy Kingdom gave to Kali Draker.

That armor was also a type of hersion, and being made of solid mithril, its performance exceeded that of ordinary hersions.

It wasn’t for nothing that people said the Silver Armor cost as much as running a large city for a year.

Zeke spoke to Golin who was looking at him suspiciously.

“I found it in an ancient ruin.”

“You found something this divine in ruins?”

He nodded.

Zeke was lying with a straight face.

There’s no way such a hersion could have been excavated so quietly. Even if possible, it would require someone of the family head’s status, not a regular Draker knight.

But Golin didn’t mind Zeke’s words.

“Well, whatever. So you’re saying you’ll repair this hersion?”

“Yes. Being an ancient item, the magic circles on it aren’t properly activated.”

“Magic circles, huh. For something of that caliber, it could probably handle five, no, six third circle spells.”

Zeke shook his head at Golin’s words.

“It has twenty-eight grand magic circles, but only three are activated.”

Golin spat out his beer again at Zeke’s words.

“H-How many did you say?”

“I said twenty-eight.”

“T-Twenty-eight grand magic circles?”

Golin grabbed his head with an expression of disbelief.

“I-Impossible… no, wait. If it’s orichalcon, the metal of gods, maybe the circuits could be layered more densely…”

Zeke clapped his hands toward Golin who was lost in his own world.

“Ah! Right. C-Can you show me that hersion?”

Zeke spoke with a firm expression.

“First, please write a confirmation letter to send to the Guild Alliance. The request comes after that.”

Eager to get his hands on an unimaginable divine item, Golin quickly wrote out the confirmation.

-I’m alive. Don’t look for me, it’s troublesome. – Golin Yober-

Golin even made sure to stamp his seal on it.

Zeke carefully put the confirmation letter in his inventory.

Meanwhile, Golin’s eyes had turned red as he waited for Zeke to take out the hersion.

Zeke took off the breastplate he was wearing and handed it to Golin.

“Ohhh!”

Golin carefully received the breastplate and took it to his workbench.

He put on his magnifying glass and examined every part of the breastplate.

While doing so, he made all sorts of exclamations.

“This is! I-Impossible… To think this is possible! Huh… This is crazy. Just crazy.”

After spending an hour examining the breastplate with sighs and exclamations, Golin took off his magnifying glass and spoke to Zeke.

“C-Can you activate this?”

Zeke commanded the system to activate the hersion.

CRASH!

The hersion changed from its breastplate form to a full plate armor form.

Golin examined every aspect of the hersion while making more exclamations.

Watching Golin, Zeke started to feel slightly bored.

‘This will probably take a few hours.’

While Golin was examining the hersion, Zeke decided to check the random boxes he received as rewards and organize his points.

Zeke went outside the forge and opened the three random boxes he received for defeating the hydra.

BANG!

Three items appeared in front of Zeke.

‘What are these?’

There was an old mace, a cloak, and an old book.

Zeke checked the information of the items.

―Mace Information―

Description: A holy mace containing the power of light, made during the Lubern Dynasty

Unique Ability: Light’s Punishment (Effect applies only on impact)

Special Note: Deals triple damage to undead and demons

―Cloak Information―

Description: A cloak that changes the wearer’s appearance

Unique Ability: Perception Conversion

Special Note: Rather than changing the appearance itself, it changes others’ perception, so the physical form remains unchanged

―Book Information―

Description: The latter part of a magic book containing light magic passed down since before the Lubern Dynasty

Unique Ability: Magic Inheritance

Special Note: Knowledge is automatically inherited by Lubern bloodline successors who have learned light magic

Zeke pondered over the mace and magic book.

“Light magic? Magic that only Lubern bloodline successors can learn. How interesting.”

The Lubern Dynasty crown he had taken from Richmond also had unique abilities of light mace and light shield.

And although Zeke couldn’t use magic, he was able to acquire it as a skill and freely use it through the system.

But since there was no mention of bloodline successors then, it seemed he wouldn’t be able to use these like the crown.

“Hmm, first the Orichalcum series and now the Lubern series. I wonder what’s up with the Lubern Dynasty.”

As Zeke remembered, the Lubern Dynasty was the predecessor of the Holy Empire.

They expanded their territory by deploying holy knights armed with strong faith.

The Lubern Dynasty, which had been just a medium-sized country, soon expanded into a massive empire, which became the foundation of the Holy Empire.

The Lubern king became the first emperor of the Holy Empire, but after two generations, as royal authority yielded to papal authority, the Lubern Dynasty’s bloodline was either executed or went into exile.

The emperor’s position changed to be appointed from electoral prince families according to the Senate’s vote.

‘The fact that items from such a Lubern Dynasty keep appearing seems to mean there’s something going on.’

Zeke opened the hardcover light magic book.

Then a message appeared.

―Main Quest Mission―

[Return the lost latter part of the magic book to a successor of light magic among the Lubern bloodline. (No time limit)]

[Quest Mission Reward: Acquire title ‘Knight of Light’, Acquire skill ‘Sanctification’]

‘A main quest?’

A main quest that had been quiet for a while suddenly appeared. It seemed that while he couldn’t use it himself, there would be a reward if he found someone who could.

Zeke pondered over the mission content.

“Lubern Dynasty bloodline? How am I supposed to find royal family members that disappeared hundreds of years ago?.”

Zeke put the magic book and mace in his inventory for now.

He planned to try searching through the Syndicate’s information network later, and if that didn’t work, he would give up.

Picking up the remaining item, Zeke muttered.

“A cloak that converts perception.”

Zeke put on the cloak right away.

Then a message appeared.

[Please imagine the appearance you wish to transform into.]

‘What should I change into?.’

After thinking briefly, Zeke imagined Kaisir.

WOONG!

The cloak rippled and light enveloped his body.

Zeke examined his appearance.

“What? I can’t really tell if I’ve changed…”

Just then, the forge door burst open and Golin jumped out.

“This is! Amazing! No, even that’s not enough to describe how incredible…! Huh? What’s this? Where did that Draker guy go, and who’s this annoying elf-faced guy?”

Golin didn’t recognize Zeke. Seeing this, Zeke asked Golin.

“What color do my eyes appear to be right now?”

Golin frowned and said.

“Don’t shove such an annoying face in front of me! Get out of here!”

Zeke released the perception conversion.

Then he returned to his original appearance.

Golin, who was watching this in real time, was startled.

“W-What was that?! Was it magic?”

Zeke nodded.

“Something similar. What color were my eyes when I changed earlier?”

Golin clicked his tongue and said.

“Droopy sky blue. Ugh, don’t ever change into that face again, it’s annoying.”

Zeke confirmed that he had properly transformed into the appearance of Kaisir that he had imagined.

With a satisfied feeling, he followed Golin into the forge.

Looking at the hersion, Golin said.

“Do you know what this is?”

“No. Actually, I don’t know much about it.”

Golin grinned and said.

“This is a divine item imbued with the power of a constellation.”

“When you say constellation power, do you mean like the Empire’s Thirteen constellations?”

Zeke recalled the hersion worn by Morgan Buffon, a knight of the thirteen constellations .

A hersion imbued with the power of the thirteen constellations was on a completely different level from ordinary hersions.

Golin nodded.

“Since you know that, you’ll understand quickly. This is a far more incredible divine item than those of the Thirteen Constellation.”

“A constellation outside the Thirteen constellations… Could it be?”

Golin grinned.

“Yes. This is a divine item imbued with the power of Theia, the Moon Goddess.”

The goddess worshipped by the Thirteen Zodiac constellations.

Theia, the Moon Goddess.

Zeke was shocked to hear that Cain’s hersion was a divine item imbued with Theia’s power.

“Theia’s power… You mean it has the power of the Moon Goddess?”

Golin nodded.

“The grand magic circles are impressive, but compared to the Moon Goddess’s power, they’re like fireflies before the moon.”

The Moon Goddess, whose power rivaled the Sun God’s, was the ruler of the shadow world.

While the Sun God handled primordial light, the Moon Goddess handled primordial shadows.

The Thirteen constellations fell far short of her power.

While Zeke was dazed by this unexpected revelation, Golin said.

“And… there’s good news and bad news.”

“What’s the bad news?”

Golin clicked his tongue and said.

“Don’t people usually want to hear the good news first?”

“I don’t.”

“Just listen. The good news is that repairing this is possible.”

“What’s the bad news?”

Scratching his head, Golin said.

“There are two problems.”

He went to the back and brought something out.

It was a small stone with silvery ore attached to it.

“What is this?”

“This is meteoric iron. It’s hard to obtain since it comes from rocks that fall from the sky.”

At the mention of it being hard to obtain, Zeke thought of the meteoric iron armor series.

‘Was meteoric iron that precious?’

He hadn’t realized how rare it was since it kept coming out of every random box he opened.

Golin sighed and said.

“To repair that, we need an enormous amount of meteoric iron.”

“How much is enormous?”

Golin clicked his tongue and said.

“Well, about ten ingots?”

After hearing Golin’s words, Zeke pondered for a moment, then turned around and pretended to search his bag while taking out a meteoric iron armor set from his inventory.

CLATTER!

A full set of meteoric iron armor fell in front of Golin.

“Will this be enough?”

Seeing Zeke casually take out the meteoric iron armor, Golin’s jaw dropped.