Level Up Machine

Chapter 115 My Gundam is Not Like This! (2)

“Ter, Terminator?”

“That’s right.”

Yeong-sik looked at the astonished guild members with a mischievous smile.

“Are you saying you’re going to clone yourself?”

Chae-rin, with her eyes gleaming, asked him. The existence that matched the word he had just said was none other than Yeong-sik.

“Multiple Yeong-siks…”

Tiria, imagining something, lowered her head with a face so red it seemed like smoke would come out.

“Hahaha. That’s not it.”

Yeong-sik lightly laughed as he looked at the guild members who were making baffled expressions.

“Well, the ‘Terminator’ is a metaphor. What I intend to create is a humanoid machine weapon.”

“Are you saying you can make something that only appears in sci-fi movies?”

Han-seong looked at him with a disbelieving expression. He knew that Yeong-sik could create modern items like air conditioners and refrigerators.

The automatic manufacturing device was far more advanced than modern items, but it could be understood as the skill specialized and transformed the factory.

But suddenly, a humanoid machine weapon?

It was like going from making pottery in the Stone Age to suddenly creating Goryeo celadon.

“Yes. I could have made it before. But I couldn’t because I lacked the materials.”

With the manufacturing skill reaching level 7, he obtained an Earth civilization-level manufacturing recipe. One of them was the android.

“Oh, so the business…”

“To gather materials leisurely, I needed money.”

Han-seong understood why Yeong-sik had gone through such grand efforts to gather money and mining rights.

All of it was to obtain the materials to create the humanoid machine weapon.

It felt like the scattered puzzle pieces were coming together.

Han-seong rubbed his forehead as if he had a headache.

The business that had produced such extraordinary results was merely a ‘stepping stone’ to proceed with the next plan.

He felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness, like facing an impossibly high wall. He found Yeong-sik increasingly incomprehensible.

‘If Yeong-sik had been an enemy…’

Han-seong frowned, not wanting to even imagine it. The thought of facing him as an enemy filled him with dense fear, pressing heavily on him.

The reason Yeong-sik was terrifying wasn’t because he was exceptionally smart or because his plans were suffocatingly meticulous. It was because, no matter how absurd or reckless his plans were, he moved forward without hesitation. Even in situations where a single mistake could ruin everything, he moved with confidence as if he could foresee the future.

It was like running at full speed across a 1000-meter-high narrow bridge with the certainty that he wouldn’t fall.

‘I’m glad he’s with our guild.’

Han-seong swallowed nervously as he looked at Yeong-sik. If he hadn’t joined the guild, the Salvator Guild would have started to collapse from the traitors’ attack.

“……Mr. Han-seong?”

“Oh. Sorry. Then, let’s conclude today’s meeting here. We’ll get the items Mr. Yeong-sik mentioned as soon as possible and deliver them to you.”

“Yes.”

“Um… But, even though we might be able to gather some Saronite and Mithril, Adamantite is such a rare metal that we might not be able to get much of it.”

Yeong-sik nodded at his words. Adamantite was a metal that was the main ingredient of S-grade rare items.

It wasn’t something that would be easily available.

“Please gather as much as you can. That’s why we accumulated this much money.”

“Understood.”

With that, their conversation and the meeting concluded.

“Cheol-tae, will you join me again today?”

“Of course.”

Gil-soo, who had stood up, spoke to Cheol-tae.

For the past six months, Gil-soo had repeated grueling efforts to awaken the ‘Guardian’ class. In terms of practice volume, he had the most within the guild.

However, despite such efforts, he still hadn’t awakened the ‘Guardian’ class. But that didn’t mean all his efforts were in vain. By continuously pushing himself to the limit, he shattered the solid wall known as the level cap.

Currently, Gil-soo’s level cap was 60. It was significantly lower compared to other guild members, but breaking through his own barrier had great significance.

To get accustomed to his newly gained power, he had been hunting monsters and sparring with Park Cheol-tae’s party, steadily building his strength.

It wasn’t just Gil-soo who was growing.

Ara and Chae-rin were sharing their knowledge of magic and continuously researching to create new spells. Yoo Jin was steadily hunting to reach his level cap of 101.

Yu-na was becoming increasingly adept at handling the Twin Swords’ power, and Tiria succeeded in manifesting six wings.

Everyone was desperately striving to take even one step forward over the course of a year.

‘I can’t just stand still either.’

Yeong-sik looked at the steadily growing guild members with shining eyes. While they were moving forward, it was unacceptable for him to remain stagnant.

Whether by his own will or not, he had become the spiritual pillar of the Salvator Guild, almost like the guild leader.

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“Wow… Are these all magical minerals?”

“They managed to gather quite a bit of that rare Adamantite.”

The day the magical minerals Yeong-sik had requested arrived at the guild house, the guild members gathered around, looking at the magical minerals being unloaded from the wagon with curious eyes.

Although they were busy with their own training, they couldn’t suppress their curiosity about the ‘humanoid machine weapon’ Yeong-sik had mentioned, and they gathered here.

“……Does everyone have nothing else to do?”

Yeong-sik narrowed his eyes as he looked at all the guild members who had gathered without exception. Tiria cleared her throat and answered.

“Mr. Yeong-sik has been preparing this plan for a long time. As guild leader, it’s my duty to directly confirm how positively it will impact the guild’s strength.”

“……I see.”

Yeong-sik nodded with a somewhat reluctant expression. While she wasn’t wrong, seeing her smiling brightly made him doubt if she was here purely to fulfill her role as guild leader.

“I also just came to see for myself what Yeong-sik is so confident about.”

“Hmph, excuses. You’ve been excited since yesterday, saying you haven’t been able to talk much with Yeong-sik lately.”

“Chae, Chae-rin!”

Ara, her face flushed red, covered Chae-rin’s mouth.

“Ugh?”

Yeong-sik swallowed a short sigh in the noisy atmosphere.

‘Let’s just do what I have to do.’

Whether others were watching or not, what he needed to do remained unchanged.

With the help of the guild members, Yeong-sik moved the magical minerals to where the warehouse was.

“Well then, let’s get started.”

Muttering in a small voice, Yeong-sik approached the piles of Saronite, Mithril, and Adamantite.

There were plenty of common metal materials anyway. What he needed were the rare metal cores.

‘It would be best to start with the Saronite.’

Currently, his extraction skill level was 6.

As the extraction skill level increased, the probability of obtaining metal cores also increased, so it was efficient to extract all the Saronite first and then extract higher-grade magical minerals. There was a chance that his skill level might increase in the process.

Extracting Saronite could yield C~B-grade metal cores.

However, most of them were C-grade, and B-grade metal cores were rarely obtained.

It was from Mithril that B-grade metal cores began to appear in earnest. Mithril could yield B~A-grade metal cores, and like Saronite, most of them were B-grade.

‘That’s why Adamantite is needed.’

Yeong-sik looked at the Adamantite ores emitting an orange light. In this order, it was highly likely that A-grade or higher metal cores would come from Adamantite, which was rarer than Mithril.

‘I wish I could get Orihalcon too.’

Yeong-sik gazed at the pile of Adamantite ores with a regretful expression.

Orihalcon was the highest value magical mineral, used in the manufacturing of SS-rank and SSS-rank rare items.

However, that legendary mineral was not something money alone could buy. While its price was high, the biggest reason was that it almost never appeared on the market.

“Hmm… Come to think of it.”

Yeong-sik, about to start the extraction with Saronite, paused as a thought crossed his mind.

‘Then what is the Lacteon Type 2 made of?’

The body of the Lacteon Type 2 was made of pure metal, completely devoid of magic.

However, despite that, it possessed the hardness of weapons forged from the legendary Orihalcon.

Yeong-sik, lost in thought about the Lacteon Type 2, let out a short sigh and shook his head.

Even at level 8, his Structure Analysis skill couldn’t analyze the Lacteon Type 2. Without being able to analyze it, there was no way to know what metal its body was made of.

‘Let’s finish the extraction first.’

With that thought, Yeong-sik began extracting the Saronite.

-Ding.

[You have obtained 78 metal screws, 35 metal parts, and 28 metal plates.]

[You have obtained 3 C-grade metal cores.]

With a blue message window, the Saronite turned into blue light and disappeared. Perhaps because his extraction skill had reached level 6, it was possible to extract large amounts of Saronite at once.

-Ding. Ding. Ding.

Although Han-seong had brought the most Saronite among the magical minerals, it didn’t take long to extract all of it. The pile of Saronite quickly diminished.

‘It seems like I can’t gain any more proficiency with Saronite.’

Despite extracting a large amount of Saronite, no message window indicating proficiency increase appeared.

Yeong-sik, with a look of regret, moved towards the pile of Mithril ore.

-Ding.

[Great success!]

[Extraction was highly successful.]

[You have obtained 280 metal screws, 321 metal parts, and 153 metal plates.]

[You have obtained 5 B-grade metal cores and 2 A-grade metal cores.]

‘Nice.’

The appearance of the welcome message made Yeong-sik’s lips curl into a smile. A-grade metal cores had important uses beyond just making machine weapons.

“With this, I can enhance the weapons one step further.”

His weapons, currently at level 3, required A-grade metal cores for enhancement.

Until now, A-grade metal cores were too rare to use for enhancement, but with Adamantite now in hand, there was no need to hesitate.

Yeong-sik extracted all the remaining Mithril. Mithril worth close to 100,000 gold turned into blue light and scattered into the air.

-Ding.

[The level of your extraction skill has increased to level 7.]

[The amount of materials obtained through the extraction skill has increased.]

[The probability of extracting metal cores has increased.]

‘Alright.’

When almost all of the Mithril had been extracted, a welcome notification sound reached his ears. Fortunately, the extraction skill level had increased before extracting the Adamantite.

“Well then…”

Yeong-sik looked at the pile of Adamantite in the corner of the warehouse. Though the quantity was the smallest, the price was an insane amount of 1 million gold.

In terms of Korean won, its value was about 1 trillion, making it an extraordinarily valuable magical mineral.

Even for the Salvator Guild, which had amassed wealth by sweeping up the continent’s money, this was a substantial sum not to be taken lightly.

The mining rights for magical minerals obtained from the Goldrun Guild didn’t include any Adamantite mines, so they had no choice but to buy the magical minerals sold in the southern regions with money.

“Let’s get started.”

Yeong-sik approached the pile of Adamantite ore for which he had invested an enormous fortune.

His hand touched the Adamantite ore.

“Extract.”

A blue light spread over the pile of Adamantite ore.

Then it happened.

-Flash!

A powerful light burst forth from the Adamantite.