Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 250

The glowing anvil and the system notifications that followed.

Seeing them, Su-ho’s lips curled into a smile.

‘So the anvil was a verifier.’

And the Nameless Forgemasters, who had regarded him as a dimwit, now nodded in approval.

In other words, using Mana Detection to find the target was indeed the right approach.

But the notifications didn’t end there.

Fwoosh!

[ The Sealed Hammer of the Great Forgemaster responds to your strikes. ]

[ The first seal has been partially released. ]

The anvil with the pure iron began to glow once again.

Then the pure iron vanished, and a new notification appeared confirming the partial release of the first seal.

‘I see. So that’s how it works.’

Su-ho turned his gaze toward the remaining scrap heaps.

Now that he understood the mechanism, all that remained was to repeat the same task.

And that was something Su-ho excelled at.

Enduring monotony was one of the things he was most confident in.

Without delay, Su-ho swung his hammer at the next scrap heap.

Kang! Kang! Kang! Juh-geok!

Kang! Kang! Kang! Juh-geok!

Now that he had figured out the method, his hammering was much more fluid and efficient than before.

He continued hammering away at the pile for some time.

And then, in the middle of his hammering, Su-ho noticed something odd.

‘Lines?’

What caught his eye were lines—barely visible, almost spiderweb-thin lines running across the entire scrap heap.

They were so faint that unless you looked closely, you wouldn’t even notice them.

At first, he thought he was imagining it.

But no matter how much ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) he checked, they were real.

‘What are these lines?’

Was it just this scrap heap?

Just to be sure, Su-ho examined the other heaps as well.

And sure enough, they all had lines—each drawn in different directions.

‘What in the world...’

He hadn’t seen any lines like these on the first heap.

But now they’d appeared.

Coincidence?

He didn’t think so.

There were no coincidences with the system.

Su-ho stopped hammering and began studying the lines more carefully.

After a long while, he discovered a pattern.

The lines weren’t random.

Upon closer inspection, they were dividing the scrap heaps into separate zones.

But why?

Then, an idea struck him.

‘Could it be...?’

Seeing is believing.

Su-ho raised his hammer and began striking a specific spot within one of the outlined sections.

Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang! Juh-geok!

With just a few hits, a chunk of scrap metal broke off.

Su-ho smiled at the clean break.

Then he started hammering directly on one of the lines.

Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang!

He hammered for quite some time.

Eventually, a fragment broke off—but it was messy and misshapen.

The line shifted slightly, but the structure of the pile remained mostly intact.

Seeing this, Su-ho turned to another spot within one of the divided zones and hammered again.

Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang! Juh-geok!

Again, just a few hits and a clean piece broke off.

That was enough for Su-ho to be certain.

‘That's it. The lines divide tangled scrap from one another.’

Exactly.

The lines drawn across the heaps were boundaries separating clusters of entangled metal.

There was no doubt.

He’d tested the theory three times to be sure.

‘Must be related to the partially released seal.’

Otherwise, there was no reason the lines would have suddenly appeared.

From that point on, Su-ho’s pace accelerated dramatically.

Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang! Juh-geok!

Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang! Juh-geok!

Even in the sweltering heat, he hardly noticed as he joyfully hammered away.

After all, the first heap had taken him hours, while the second took only a few minutes thanks to the lines.

This allowed him to reach the pure iron spot with unprecedented speed.

Once again, Su-ho used Mana Detection, extracted the pure iron, and placed it on the anvil.

The anvil glowed.

[ The Nameless Forgemasters nod in approval. ]

[ The Sealed Hammer of the Great Forgemaster responds to your strikes. ]

[ The first seal has been partially released. ]

The system displayed the exact messages Su-ho wanted to see.

As he read them, the air around him felt noticeably cooler.

‘Let’s get through the rest quickly.’

But first, he needed to check something—the change in the lines.

If his hypothesis was correct, and the seal had been further released, the lines should have changed too.

And his prediction was right.

The spiderweb-thin lines were now clearly visible.

Maybe that’s why...

He began to look forward to the next stage.

With brisk, confident movements, Su-ho followed the now clearer lines and began hammering the third heap.

And just as the third piece of pure iron was about to be revealed—

[ ■■■■ smiles at your hammering. ]

[ Congratulations! You have learned Forgemaster’s Strike (F). ]

A new skill.

Its name: Forgemaster’s Strike.

Su-ho immediately checked the skill description.

[ Forgemaster’s Strike ]

– Grade: F

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