Transcendent Warrior with a Dimensional Shifting Inventory

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He crossed the plaza and arrived at the red-roofed building.

The sign confirmed what the materials shop owner had said.

＜Rocus’s Smithy＞

However, he wasn’t sure if this Rocus was the one who made Rocus Alloy.

Minhyuk looked around the smithy.

The shop door was closed, and no one was in the outdoor workshop.

The fire in the forge was out.

Knock, knock-

He knocked on the shop door.

There was no response.

‘Is no one here?’

Knock, knock-

He knocked again.

Then a voice came from inside the shop.

“Who is it?”

“Mr. Rocus?”

“I’m Rocus.”

Fortunately, he was in the shop.

“I need something.”

“I’m not taking any jobs right now. Find another smith or come back in ten days.”

“I’m not here for a commission, I need to buy some metal. Do you have any Rocus Alloy?”

Rocus sounded surprised at Minhyuk’s words.

“Who are you? How do you…”

“Open the door and let’s talk face to face.”

Clank-

The sound of a lock being opened was heard, and the door opened immediately.

However, something completely unexpected came into Minhyuk’s view.

A transparent sphere the size of a grapefruit was floating in the air.

Information about it appeared before Minhyuk’s eyes.

＜Crystal Ball of Communication＞

– Allows face-to-face conversation with a distant person.

– Can perform simple tasks using telekinesis as instructed by the user.

It was a magical tool that allowed video calls like a cell phone.

The face of a male dwarf was reflected inside the crystal ball.

It was Rocus.

“I’m somewhere else right now.”

He had used the crystal ball from a distant location to open the door for Minhyuk.

“But how did you know? That I’m developing a new alloy?”

Minhyuk covered it up with a rough lie.

“I heard it from the owner of the material shop across the square.”

“That’s strange, I’ve never mentioned the alloy to that guy… Did I say something while I was drunk?”

“Where are you right now?”

“Me? It’s somewhere you don’t know. I’m very far away from Silphir.”

His conversation with Rocus allowed him to infer the situation 20,000 years ago.

Rocus, the god of blacksmiths, wasn’t a real god like in the legends.

He was just an ordinary dwarf blacksmith who ran a smithy in Matop Square.

He had been able to survive because he had evacuated his smithy and traveled far away when the Great Mana Explosion occurred.

“Have you completed the Rocus Alloy?”

“Rocus Alloy, I haven’t decided on a name for the alloy yet, but that’s a good one.”

It might seem like Minhyuk had just named the alloy, but that wasn’t the case.

This place was an isolated world where the future and cause and effect were not intertwined.

So no matter what actions Minhyuk took, history would not change.

Therefore, the name of the alloy was destined to be ‘Rocus Alloy’ regardless of Minhyuk’s actions.

“I’ve succeeded in extracting the metallic substance from the dragon’s bones. I’ve created the strongest metal in the world! But it’s still incomplete. I need to refine the process one more time.”

“How long will it take to complete?”

“If I’m quick, about a week, if it takes longer, about ten days.”

In this world where the same day repeats itself, ten days later will never come.

So he wouldn’t be able to obtain the Rocus Alloy here.

‘I need to go to Cron Castle and find it.’

I had to find the King’s Sword that the Queen of Cron hid somewhere in the palace.

Of course, it wouldn’t end with just obtaining the materials.

I needed to know the processing method to make equipment with the Rocus Alloy.

“Wouldn’t you need a special method to process the world’s strongest metal?”

Rocus tilted his head at Minhyuk’s question.

“Why do you want to know? The alloy itself isn’t even complete yet.”

“I’m just curious.”

“Are you a blacksmith too?”

“No, I just asked out of curiosity.”

Hmm-

After a moment of silence, Rocus opened his mouth.

“You’re right. You can’t process new alloys with ordinary methods. You need special tools when refining them so that you can melt them again and process them into the shape you want.”

“Where are those special tools?”

“Of course, I have them now. I came all this way to collect them.”

“So, where is that?”

“It’s at the western end of the continent.”

There was a legend that Rocus’s forge was hidden at the western end of the Lina Continent.

As it turned out, the place where Rocus had temporarily stayed after leaving Sylphir was the forge in the legend.

Numerous blacksmiths had tried to find that forge.

They believed that special tools for processing the Rocus Alloy, as well as the alloy itself, would be hidden there.

However, no one had ever found Rocus’s forge until now.

But now there was an easy way to find it.

I could just ask him directly.

Minhyuk asked in a friendly tone.

“Where exactly is your current location?”

“Why do you want to know the exact location?”

“I’m just curious.”

Hmm-

This time too, Rocus paused for a moment before opening his mouth.

“There’s an open-air hot spring at the end of the Nesumio Mountains, and next to it…”

Rocus explained his current location to Minhyuk in detail.

He was the type of person who couldn’t hide anything if someone asked him something.

It was fortunate for Minhyuk.

“I’ll return to Sylphir as soon as the alloy is complete. If you come back in ten days, you’ll be able to see the actual alloy.”

Poor Rocus,

He didn’t know that this place would disappear by tomorrow noon.

“Then, I’ll see you later.”

Minhyuk finished his conversation with Rocus and left the forge.

I had to wait until tomorrow noon to return to my original timeline.

‘What should I do with all this extra time?’

Thud, thud-

He walked around the plaza without a thought.

People talking while looking at the crystal spheres could be seen here and there.

They were video calling with someone far away.

‘Should I buy that?’

It was a much more advanced form of communication than Durango’s twin rings.

Minhyuk entered a nearby magic tool store.

“Welcome.”

“Do you sell communication crystal spheres?”

“Yes.”

“How much?”

“1,000 dalants.”

Converted to Korean won, it was about 1 million won.

It was incredibly cheap compared to weapons or armor.

Minhyuk received a crystal sphere.

He tried to put it in the refrigerator to see what it would transform into, but-

＜There is not enough space in the inventory to put the item in.＞

He couldn’t put in the crystal sphere, which was only the size of a grapefruit.

There was only one reason.

It meant that the crystal sphere transformed into something incredibly large.

Something too large to fit in a 10-pyeong freezer.

It could be as large as a dump truck or a crane.

It could be a prefabricated house.

It didn’t matter.

He just had to pay in dalants.

“Can I get a discount if I buy 10?”

“I’ll take off the price of one.”

Minhyuk bought 10 crystal spheres for 9,000 dalants.

And he returned to his original time after walking around the Magic Tower Plaza until noon the next day.

***

The highest floor of the Magic Tower,

The owner of the Magic Tower was nowhere to be seen.

Instead, there was a large egg where he had been standing.

It was a dragon’s egg.

Thud-

Light burst out of the egg.

And after a while,

Creak-

Crack-

The eggshell began to crack.

Crack-

A new life broke out of the egg.

However, it was not a dragon but a human form.

A giant who was more than 10 times taller than an ordinary human.

He was the master of the Magic Tower.

He came out of the egg and wiped the sticky liquid off his body, and muttered in a small voice.

“I was born again.”

The master of the Magic Tower was a half-blood of a god and a giant, and his life span was much longer than that of a human.

However, he was not born with the power of eternal life.

He did not intend to live in this good world only once and leave.

So he found a way to live forever on his own.

Using a dragon’s egg.

The reproduction of dragons was somewhat similar to eternal life.

Because part of the father’s memory is passed on to the child.

The master of the Magic Tower created a magic that could make a copy of himself using a dragon’s egg.

If he had a dragon’s egg, he could get a new body as many times as he wanted.

And the body he obtained once could be used for about 10,000 years.

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However, it was not easy to obtain a dragon’s egg.

‘It was a close call this time too.’

In the deal with the Akara dragon, the master of the Magic Tower asked for a dragon’s egg as a condition.

I almost failed to get the egg on time and disappeared forever.

In fact, with the skill of the master of the Magic Tower, it was not so difficult to kill a dragon.

However, even if you kill a dragon, you cannot take the egg.

It was because of the spell that the Great Mother of the Sky put on the egg she laid.

The spell of belonging.

A dragon’s egg can be guided by someone, but it cannot be taken away.

Even if you raid the dragon’s nest to steal the egg and kill the dragon, the egg will disappear like fog and return to the Great Mother of the Sky.

So, like this time, I had no choice but to get it through a deal.

They were dragons who valued their eggs more than their lives.

It was so hard to get one dragon egg every 10,000 years.

‘Will it be different from now on?’

Ping-

The space at the top of the Magic Tower was split as if cut with a sharp razor.

It wasn’t the master of the Magic Tower.

Squeak-

A lover came out of the gap in the space.

A woman with snow-white hair and skin.

She was the Great Mother of the Sky.

It was a form transformed into a human form.

The master of the tower bowed his head toward her.

“Why have you, the Mother of the Sky, come to such a wretched place?”

The Mother of the Sky opened her mouth, gazing at the broken eggshell.

“My precious child was sacrificed because of you.”

“Sacrificed? Look at me. I hatched healthily, Mother!”

The master of the tower had stolen the life force of an egg that should have been born as a dragon and used it to clone himself.

It was no different from a parasite that enters the womb of another animal and steals its nutrients.

Yet he shamelessly called the Mother of the Sky his mother.

But she was not one to be angered by such a thing.

“What do you want? Why did you give an ancient relic of humanity to a visitor?”

Chuckle-

The master of the tower answered with a smile.

“Because I knew you would need me.”

***

Clatter-

The soldiers of the Asdel Empire marched westward.

Their destination was the Kron Citadel in the center of the Rania Continent.

Ten days had passed since they had left the territory of Gaho and hunted beasts as they traveled.

“General, I see the Jordan Pass!”

The Jordan Pass was the entrance to the Berakan Plateau.

There was a lake at the bottom of the pass.

Upon reaching the lake, General Drake ordered his soldiers.

“Set up the Gaon!”

The Gaon, which had been carried on a wagon, was set up by the lakeside.

Whoosh-

A curtain of light appeared under the arch of the Gaon.

And Minhyuk stepped out.

Chun Sam followed Minhyuk out.

All the nearby soldiers, including General Drake, bowed their heads to Minhyuk.

“We will camp here until we receive contact from the scouts.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

After the great flood, the Berakan Plateau had become an unknown land where no one had set foot.

As they did not know what dangers lurked there, they had sent out scouts in advance.

Flutter-

Minhyuk flew high into the sky on Chun Sam’s back.

Rather than waiting at the camp for the scouts to contact him, he wanted to see the Berakan Plateau for himself.

Swoosh-

As they crossed the lake toward the Jordan Pass,

[So, it’s you. Visitor.]

Someone’s voice entered Minhyuk’s mind.

Minhyuk looked around.

Someone was standing on the surface of the lake.

As he approached, he saw that it was a woman with pure white hair and body from head to toe.

“Who are you?”

[I am the mother of the dragons you killed.]

The Celestial Mother had come.