The Return of the Legendary All-Master

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Chapter 39

[Broken Soul Stone Fragment]

The Ego Sword that Jeong-Hoon brought was completely powerless.

Therefore, even after going through the advanced decomposition process, the fragments of the broken soul stone could not be restored.

“Well, you won’t be able to use this.”

The material must also be intact to be usable.

He was expecting a little bit because it was an Ego Sword, but it was a fragment that was broken beyond reuse.

In the first place, if it had a self, a whole soul stone should have been put in. But that fragment was so shameful that it could not even be called an ego.

He wondered if he was disappointed?

Heyrn glanced at Jeong-Hoon.

But there was a smile on Jeong-Hoon’s lips.

“This is enough.”

“…Is that so?”

“As promised, I will definitely spread the word.”

Heyrn’s face brightened.

“Did you promise?!”

“Yes.”

The promise will be kept.

[Advanced disassembly successful! *User is the first to disassemble the ‘Forgotten Intermediate Knight’s One-Handed Sword’ and extract a soul stone fragment.]

The notice was posted on all New World servers.

It’s not a great achievement, so it’s not posted separately on the New World homepage, but it was enough word of mouth that the entire notice was posted in the chat while playing the game.

[Whisper/zl-John-Ha-Jin12 -> Hoon: Hey! Shit, what is this? Did you ask me to buy this knowing this?]

Look.

There’s already a reaction.

[Whisper/Hoon -> zl-John-Ha-Jin12: Yes, that’s right.]

[Whisper/zl-John-Ha-Jin12 -> Hoon: Wow… Crazy, I went to the auction house and the one-handed sword you took is all sold out.]

[Whisper/Hoon -> zl-John-Ha-Jin12: I think it will go up a lot lol]

[Whisper/zl-John-Ha-Jin12 -> Hoon: Yeah~ I bought one too because I thought so.]

[Whisper/Hoon -> zl-John-Ha-Jin12: Be thankful.]

He whispered to Ha-Jin, who was returning with the evolution stone, and apparently he bought it as soon as he returned.

[Whisper/zl-John-Ha-Jin12 -> Hoon: Where the hell do you hear all this stuff? It’s really amazing.]

[Whisper/Hoon -> zl-John-Ha-Jin12: I was lucky. So what are you going to do with that?]

[Whisper/zl-John-Ha-Jin12 -> Hoon: Hmm… I guess I’ll have to sell it? I don’t need soul stone fragments.]

[Whisper/Hoon -> zl-John-Ha-Jin12: Okay. For your information, it will go over 1,500 gold later.]

[Whisper/zl-John-Ha-Jin12 -> Hoon: Huh, does it go up that much?]

The price of the Forgotten Intermediate Knight’s One-Handed Sword will jump to 1,700 gold.

It even stays at that price.

[Whisper/Hoon -> zl-John-Ha-Jin12: I expect so.]

Of course, it will take a long time for it to be maintained that way.

This is because the soul stone fragment is worn out to the point that it cannot be reused even if it is extracted.

Currently, there are no one-handed swords for sale because of the announcement, but soon one-handed swords will be listed again.

Nevertheless, it goes up to 1,700 gold because the restoration method has been spread.

‘Then shall we restore it?’

It was time to restore the fragments of this soul stone.

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Earth Korea Management Team.

The employees were staring at the monitor screen with surprised eyes.

“No… Was that an Ego Sword?”

“Weapons with egos should be at least level 300 or higher?”

“I’m going crazy… But that’s a fragment that can’t be used, isn’t it?”

“You’re not going to restore that too, are you?”

It’s impossible with normal methods, but New World players have cheats.

That is the achievement system.

And the user succeeded in restoring the Red Dragon Bone Bow using cheats.

He was a user who had only shown amazing plays so far.

So wouldn’t he know how to restore the fragments of the broken soul stone?

“That’s impossible.”

Oh Jin-Soo shook his head.

Soul stones can only be obtained by moving to a village of level 300 or higher.

He had to admit that obtaining the fragment was a great achievement, but it was impossible to restore the broken fragment.

“Hey, even if it’s an out-of-norm being like that, wouldn’t it be possible?”

One of the employees asked with a curious face.

“Then shall we make a bet?”

Then Oh Jin-Soo chuckled and offered a bet.

“A bet?”

“Yes. Bet on whether the user restores it or not, and the loser buys coffee for the winner for a month.”

“Huh! You seem really confident…?”

Oh Jin-Soo’s nickname was salt.

It’s a lot of salt.

It was a nickname given to him because it was famous that money never came out of his pocket once it entered, and he never spent it recklessly.

If he is betting, it is impossible unless he is very confident.

“But don’t you think it’s possible?”

“Well, for sure…”

Staff imagined the user’s past play.

They couldn’t experience it for themselves because they couldn’t play New World directly, but from the standpoint of watching countless users play so far, it was an undeniable fact that the user was an out-of-norm being.

Such a user obtained the soul stone fragment in a single step.

Doesn’t that mean there is a way?

“It’s impossible. You have to be at least level 300 to get the soul stone itself?”

Normally, the level of a weapon with a self exceeds 300.

Even that was a very rare item, with only about 5 items appearing in the whole world.

“Ah, is that so…?”

With that one word, the attitude of the employees changed.

He seemed to understand why Oh Jin-Soo was so confident.

“I’ll bet he can’t restore it.”

When he nailed it, the employees naturally flocked to Oh Jin-Soo’s opinion.

“Then I’ll bet he can restore it.”

A total of 4 employees stood on the opposite side bravely.

They were all newbies who hadn’t been in Earth Korea for long.

“What, why did you bet there?”

“Because it’s the bottom line anyway.”

“Really? You don’t know if you lose?”

The starting salary at Earth Korea is in the hundreds of millions of won.

They were not new employees who were constrained by money.

‘They’re trying to take care of us on purpose.’

At first glance, it seemed like an eye-catching behavior, but the seniors didn’t see their actions badly.

In a situation where there are no employees who choose the option to restore it in the bet that Oh Jin-Soo made, they would have tactfully chosen the option to restore it.

“Wow… that’s going to cost a lot of coffee.”

“Right.”

“It’s okay. It’s the law that the youngest is sacrificed…”

That thought was correct.

They also agreed with Oh Jin-Soo’s opinion, but tactfully chose the opposite option.

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Jeong-Hoon entered the achievement shop.

Currently, he has 23,000 achievement points.

Now he will use these points to restore the soul stone fragments.

The materials needed to restore the Red Dragon Bone Bow were the mysterious hourglass, holy lubricant, restoration powder, and fusion potion.

What was made that way was Unique Restoration Powder.

However, the restoration powder does not work on this soul stone fragment.

[Done! Shit, I found out how to restore broken soul stone fragments lol]

-The answer was in the achievement shop… Wow, you have to go with this combination to restore it. It was a very simple way.

A post on World Com.

Due to that post, the craze for the ‘Forgotten Intermediate Knight’s One-Handed Sword’ began.

This is because it was an article that restored the soul stone fragment so that it could be reused.

And as users who succeeded in restoring the fragments through the post appeared, the one-handed sword immediately rose to 1,700 gold.

└Ah, but you can’t call it an ego weapon with fragments.

└Still, it’s okay because the stats are overall increased!

└Wow! Thank you! Thanks to you, I restored the fragment!

└But it’s awesome lol How did you find this?

└There are so many amazing people lol

At the time, Jeong-Hoon also restored the soul stone fragments with the help of that post.

So it was easy to find items.

-Intermediate Warrior’s Soul

Intermediate Warrior’s Soul, which can be purchased at Achievement Shop Lv.3.

The soul was an item with black smoke billowing from a small glass bead.

The price is 10,000 points.

Upon purchasing the item, 23,000 points were reduced to 13,000 points.

Of course, it is impossible to restore with this alone.

-Combination Stone

The price of the combination stone is 1,000 points.

Jeong-Hoon took out the combination stone and Intermediate Warrior’s Soul he had purchased.

Since the soul of the fragment is worn out, it is a work of replacing it with a new soul.

The operation is simple.

First, charge the combination stone with mana as energy.

As energy was charged, the combination stone glowed blue.

[Would you like to use the combination stone?]

Two icons were created above the combination stone.

If you put the item in this icon and press ‘Yes’, the combination stone will work.

Jeong-Hoon placed the Intermediate Warrior’s Soul on the left and the fragment of the broken soul stone on the right and pressed ‘Yes’.

Then the combination stone started to vibrate and then shattered.

A fragment of soul stone remained in its place.

[Fragment of Soul Stone]

-Type: Material

-Grade: Epic

-A part that has fallen off the soul stone.

-Can be used to make weapons and armor.

Done.

With this, he succeeded in restoring the soul stone fragment.

The last time was when he got back the Red Dragon Bone Bow, which he had left at the blacksmith’s.

Jeong-Hoon spent two more days hunting and then visited the blacksmith.

“Are you here?”

Vulcan was standing in front of the blacksmith shop, waiting for Jeong-Hoon.

“Yes. How’s the refining?”

“It’s perfect.”

Vulcan gave a thumbs up and led him into the blacksmith shop.

And Jeong-Hoon was able to find the Red Dragon Bone Bow displayed in the middle.

Unlike when he first left it, the Red Dragon Bone Bow was emitting a cool bloody aura.

“I’m satisfied.”

The corners of Jeong-Hoon’s mouth rose as he checked the weapon.

Of course, Jeong-Hoon, who left the weapon, can see it.

Other users are blinded so that they cannot touch or see the displayed weapon.

NPCs are an exception, but since the system that the user left it is applied, you don’t have to worry about it being stolen.

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[Red Dragon Bone Bow]

-Type: Bow

-Grade: Unique

-Attack Power: 206

-Critical Hit Rate: 3 ~ 3.5%

-Remaining Durability: 100%

-Special Ability (1): Infinite magic arrows are created.

-Special Ability (2): When an arrow hits, there is a low probability of additional flame damage.

-Special Ability (3): Breath Arrow is automatically activated with a low probability.

-(1st stage) Refinement success: The sealed dragon’s soul has partially awakened.

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Refining is different from strengthening.

If strengthening is to strengthen all the abilities of a weapon using strengthening stones, refining is literally a role to awaken the potential of the weapon.

‘With this, all the conditions have been met.’

Jeong-Hoon grinned.

What he was aiming for was the soul stone upgrade.

The way to upgrade the soul stone is currently known only to Jeong-Hoon.

It was when he reached level 370 before returning.

The world had already collapsed as New World became a reality.

In that situation, Jeong-Hoon was breaking through the dungeon alone.

-Unknown recipe

A mysterious recipe that was accidentally obtained.

The recipe listed a list of items and synthesis results, and the list included soul stone fragments.

Thanks to that, he used that recipe very usefully.

And the recipe for upgrading the soul stone is as follows.

[Soul Stone Recipe]

-Soul Stone Fragment

-Dragon’s Soul

Dragon’s Soul.

A weapon that can be obtained with a very low probability when hunting dragon monsters in the Dragon Mountains at level 350.

Even among those weapons, you have to obtain a weapon with the dragon’s soul in it to satisfy the recipe.

It was impossible to upgrade until refining, but just now, through the refining of the Red Dragon Bone Bow, the conditions were met.

With this, he would be able to get an effect equivalent to a soul stone.

‘Then shall we start?’

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