Chapter 2012: The Red Banquet -Part 7

Mr Hammer looked at the spread of items and he was disgusted. "Look, I know I am somehow a warhammer being repurposed as an improvised smithing tool but are you telling me that you want to do some smithing with these items?" Mr Hammer talked back to Jin.

"Yeah, is there a problem? You have an audience right in front of you too. And we got to close that dungeon portal no matter what." Jin talked to the hammer and people thought that he was insane. However, people who were well versed or highly attuned to mana could somewhat hear what they were talking about. It was like a murmur for Gara but if he concentrated hard enough, it was possible.

"Are you fucking kidding me? A few vials of potions, some blankets, a few daggers, wine, and an assortment of magic stones?!" The hammer exclaimed and Jin shrugged. "This is what we have right now, or else how can we do improvised smithing?" Jin commented which made the hammer sigh badly.

"Commence Improvising Smithing then. Put all the items around the sword and start hitting the sword." Mr Hammer instructed and Jin asked if he were to use full strength and infuse the hammer with energy.

"Yeah, just use however much strength as you can. From my understanding, it should affect the end product as well." Mr Hammer said and before he could even speak another word, Jin already pulled him above his head and started to swing it downwards while holding onto the sword's hilt. The first bang caused a shockwave of ripples that scared the entire audience momentarily.

Even the sound was so loud that guards guarding the doors attempted to enter the throne room and wondered what was the commotion.

To their dismay, they were unable to enter because of Jin's magical barrier but they realised that there was no problem until Jin went in with the second bang on his sword. It was invisible to the rest but the System was telling Jin to hit at certain places and at intervals as well.

If the dungeon supplier was not mistaken, it was something similar to those whack the moles situation where he got to hit when the hit circle that was projected on the sword turned of a certain size.

It was slow at the start but the intervals got shorter until it sounded as if he was a professional smith, banging around while everyone around him was looking with some curiosity yet at the same time staying from a distance. The progress bar from the System eventually turned full and it needed was one last whack to complete the Improvised Smithing process.

Hence, Jin garnered all his strength, and Maqi whenever possible to slam it one last time. The weapon glowed for a bit before the light diminished and the others started to gather closer to see what Jin had made.

It still looked like a sword but it had engravings on it. The moment Jin brought it upwards, the monster of the sword glowed ever so lightly under the dim conditions that the castle was in considering the sun had set.

The System then reveals the stats to Jin, "Blooded Mana Sword. Rank B. The blade had been reimaged as a straight blade with one keen edge. The other side is blunt for mana additional mana insertion. Has the ability to leech mana and health from monsters at various intervals to replenish the user. At times, there is a 10% chance of it to create phantom daggers made out of blood or magic."

"Eh, not so bad," Jin said as he swung his blade once downwards and he was able to project the flow of magic through the sword. The rest did not know how strong it was because they did not have the capability to read whatever there was on the system's hologram message to Jin. After all, they did not have the System.

But what horrified them was not the sword that Jin had brandished and rather, the so called new King had decided to enter the dungeon without any care. Linus panicked for a moment to see the King to do such a rash action but stopped and looked at Gara, as if waiting for a more official order rather than just follow the King to his death.

"If the King feels that he is strong enough to enter the dungeon by himself, let's see how he does it. This will also give confidence to the rest of the ministers and their lackeys despite his show of power just an hour ago." Gara said. "At the very most if we feel that he is in danger, I myself will proceed to assist him."

Linus knew that Gara could definitely clear a Rank C Dungeon easily with the current powers that he wields so this was all about how much value Jin would be able to put on the table for Gara to take action.

However, as much as there were murmurs within the group, the magic screen that was projecting the dungeon immediately cleared their thoughts. Jin went in with his panda mask on and slaughtered the Elephantmen within seconds. It was not something that Gara believed he could have done as well.

The moment Jin made contact with the Elephantmen who were toying with the dead ministers' bodies for all the trouble they made, he merely infused Maqi into his sword and cut them cleanly into two without any trouble. And he did it with just one swing of his sword.

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Only Gara and Linus who were stronger with their magical senses were able to see a visible sword arc wave projectile coming out from the sword, eliminating almost every single elephant in a wide breadth.

There was practically no need for him to aim for their trunks at all but the leader of the Elephantmen was able to block the damage from it was also partially due to the fact he was the furthest of them all from Jin's slash. Still, that did not deter the King as he had another weapon on his other hand.

It was Mr Hammer and he instantly threw Mr Hammer with all his might while controlling the projectile shot with some magic as well.

The Elephantmen Leader was able to block the first strike from Mr Hammer causing it to recoil but it was also precisely why Jin had used magic to control its projectile angle, allowing Mr Hammer to go one big round and maintain its momentum.

It was at this point, Jin clashed head on with the Elephantmen Leader which forced the latter to have no choice but to defend with all its might the moment their sword and axe interacted with each other.

This left the Elephantmen Leader to be defenceless for a moment and Mr Hammer's strike was more than sufficient to deal a rather hard blow against the humanoid. It also made the Elephantmen Leader to flinch and Jin did a swift retract of his blade so that he could dive closer to the enemy's torso and make a clean cut.

It did not take long for the slit on its torso to open and the leader had to put his hand there to prevent his guts from falling out considering it was an open wound. At that point, the audience could see that blood particles were slowly moving toward Jin's sword and being absorbed by it.

"Wow, I thought I was in full health, did not expect that I was absorbing nutrients from an elephant." Jin thought to himself as he felt more energetic and moved in to deal the killing blow. Instead of allowing the blood's energy to enter his bloodstream through the use of his sword, he instantly infused it with Maqi causing his sword for a moment to change shape.

Or that was what the audience saw, a silhouette of the Elephantmen was seen right above the sword and it looked as if the sword and the silhouette were attacking simultaneously from different directions.

It confused the enemy for a moment and before it could react properly, there was a straight slice of the silhouette's battleaxe into the temple of the elephantmen leader's head and an extension of the cut of the initial gaping wound which caused it to fall to the ground, succumbing to death from major bleeding.

Everyone who was watching it was astonished by the significant difference in power that the new King had compared to all the other Kings that came before him (and of course, during their lifetimes as well) Even Gara was rather surprised by the strength of his new King as he thought that he was only magically inclined due to his magical suppression.

He had no idea that the new king was also well versed in sword arts too.

This meant that they really had struck gold when it comes to a Warrior King. Also, if he really meant what he said by making things right for the Kingdom of Ress, it might be possible that Ress would be in good hands for the next few years.

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