While the continental war was underway.

PHSHHHH-

The nurse and Dr. Kim Jinseop, who had pulled Hyuntae out of the capsule after he fell asleep again, laid him down on the bed.

“......Are you satisfied?”

It seemed a small smile lingered at the corner of Hyuntae’s mouth as he slept again.

Dr. Kim Jinseop was a doctor.

He should have thought only of patient Kang Hyuntae, and he should have put only his safety first above all else.

When Kang Hyuntae entered the capsule, because he was a doctor, he had to pull him out of the capsule.

But the VVIP patient capsule placed in the hospital room was differentiated from ordinary capsules.

The wires connected to the machine grasped the patient’s current health condition and mental state.

If it was dangerous, a red light appeared, and if it was stable, a green light appeared.

Jinseop, who had been going to end the connection, stopped when he saw the green light.

Of course, he could have forcibly ended it.

But rather than forcing it to end, he judged that it would be better for someone who had been a vegetative-state patient to be forcibly logged out on their own.

And also......

‘......Because I’m a father too.’

Saying that, Jinseop clenched his fist tight.

There was one reason he was swelling with excitement.

‘Hyuntae, a miracle happened to you.’

Michael, a doctor with global prestige in the vegetative-state field, said in the results of this study that vegetative-state patients who experienced a Miracle of a Day had an overwhelmingly high probability of fully waking up.

In other words, Hyuntae had taken one step closer.

And for Jinseop, the attending physician, Hyuntae mattered—but there was also another precious person.

-It’s Crazy Rookie. Many experts have guessed he’s a weapon master, and it seems he’s going to summon another weapon.

Dr. Kim Jinseop looked at the ore rising on the screen.

The continental war was reaching the entire nation, like the World Cup.

Nurse Lee Ji-hye, who had a crush on Hyunsoo, wore an anxious expression.

Hospital Administration Team Lead Ho Seok. The one who had received a shirt gift from Hyunsoo also ran over when he heard Hyuntae had woken up.

Everyone there who knew Hyunsoo, and everyone who had watched over Hyuntae, was staring at him with anxious faces.

-But now, no matter what weapon he summons, it doesn’t seem like anything will change.

Unlike the commentators’ words, there was a truth only they knew.

“......What are they talking about?”

Jinseop crossed his arms and laughed.

“Our Hyunsoo is a blacksmith.”

And the best blacksmith he knew.

Soon, at the alarm spreading from beyond the screen, everyone there cheered.

[A world message rings out.]

*****

Somewhere else.

In a bar, eating chicken and beer with guildmates, a young man had been uniquely ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) cheering only for Crazy Rookie.

“Jihoon, please!”

“Eheheh.......”

The young man called Jihoon. Hyunsoo’s closest friend.

Even with the guildmates’ nagging, he didn’t care and kept shouting in the chicken place, yelling for Crazy Rookie to fight.

And then, suddenly.

“Hhk, h-hhk...... khh-hhhk.......”

He started crying.

One guild member tilted their head, but Jihoon sobbed out loud.

After Hyunsoo’s father became like that, Jihoon had gone with Hyunsoo to a pension located up in the mountains.

And when morning came, he saw Hyunsoo blankly staring down at the foot of the mountain.

Back then, Jihoon casually shouted at him to eat.

But he still couldn’t forget Hyunsoo’s expression at the time.

Hyunsoo’s world had collapsed.

And the father he had wanted to meet so badly.

When Jihoon realized Hyunsoo had met him, he was sincerely happy.

“Damn it.......”

“Ah, we lost.......”

“Damn it, why do they even do this stupid continental war!”

Unlike Jihoon, who was crying, people began losing interest, certain the continental war would be a sure loss.

-What is that ore?

At the commentators’ sudden words, the chicken place’s customers whipped their heads toward the TV, then their faces fell with expectations deflating.

“That guy’s a weapon master, right?”

“Is he really a weapon master?”

“I don’t know. Experts and rankers say so, so he is, right?”

Jihoon, spaced out, got to his feet.

People were already washing their throats with cooled expectations and cooled beer.

But Jihoon fixed his eyes on his friend Hyunsoo, broadcast on the TV hanging on one wall.

With shaking eyes, he stared closely into Hyunsoo’s eyes.

“Excuse me.”

“Hey, you’re blocking the TV!”

He had been friends with Hyunsoo for a long time.

Was it that he could tell just by the eyes now?

From that gaze, Jihoon learned one fact.

‘Confidence...... certainty.......’

A voice from behind.

“Jihoon, are you maybe acquainted with that weapon master?”

Jihoon didn’t answer.

Sweat began to run from his tightly clenched fist, and he shook his head.

‘Weapon master, what are you talking about.’

And the sound spreading.

At the words world message, the customers’ eyes, which had gone cold, snapped back to the TV.

‘He’s the only master craftsman in this world!’

And it rose.

[The first legend is written.]

With it, Jihoon shouted.

“Go! Wipe them all out!”

Somewhere else.

A shabby two-story residential neighborhood.

Park Haesu, the only son of Landlady Kim Hyesuk, visited his hometown home after a long time.

Haesu, who had been watching the continental war on his smartphone, turned on the TV as soon as he arrived.

Kim Hyesuk and Park Bongshik, who had come out of the room to greet their son, felt hurt that he turned on the TV first and nagged him.

“Is the TV first before your dad and mom, you little punk!”

“Ah, come on! It was an important moment—this guy called Crazy Rookie, with ore—ugh, what would you two know!”

Park Haesu kept his eyes fixed on the TV.

But suddenly, Hyesuk’s startled voice rang out—Hyesuk, who didn’t even know the word game.

“H-hyunsu, isn’t that Hyunsoo, young man?”

Her husband Bongshik reacted.

“Huh? It is! That’s Hyunsoo, the young man who lived in the two-story house!”

“Oh my, it really is! But why’s Hyunsoo young man doing that!?”

“Ah, Hyunsoo young man said that last time, didn’t he? That he made money as a blacksmith in something called Ares.”

Haesu wore a puzzled expression.

“Huh......? What are you talking about? That person’s a weapon master.”

Haesu wore a puzzled expression.

But suddenly his mother and father shoved right in between him.

“What’s going on!”

“Ah, let me watch too!”

Haesu tilted his head, and with trembling eyes he took in the notifications.

“W-what......? First ever legend......? No way—does that mean the first user to rise to legend just appeared!?”

“Legend? What’s that?”

“Is it good?”

“Uh...... it’s like scoring a goal in the World Cup.”

Hyesuk and Bongshik suddenly stood up.

And soon Haesu focused on the additional notification rising. Usually, after something becomes something, it informs you what achievement they accomplished.

[He has created a new grade of artifact that does not exist in the world, for the first time among users.]

Haesu was horrified.

‘A new grade of artifact that doesn’t exist in the world......!?’

And Bongshik and Hyesuk demanded an explanation again.

“Uh...... it’s like you were losing 3:0, and then one person suddenly scores four goals in a row and turns it around......!”

At those words, Hyesuk and Bongshik hugged and danced.

“WOOOOOOOO!”

Unable to contain his excitement, Bongshik threw his arms up and shouted, and Hyesuk thrust her hand straight forward and cried out.

“Hyunsoo, young maaan, go on, go on!”

Somewhere else.

In the continental war that was about to end, the MVP presentation was scheduled to be done by Pureum Co., Ltd.’s CEO, Lee Sejin.

The continental war wasn’t over yet, but while walking to prepare for it, CEO Lee Sejin could see employees gathered in the central hall.

Since it was Korea VS China, CEO Lee Sejin had installed a giant screen in the headquarters’ largest hall so employees could watch.

And since they were employees of Pureum Co., Ltd., they knew better than anyone what was happening right now.

CEO Lee Sejin walked over to check what was going on.

At that moment.

The Story Team Leader said:

“N-no way...... no matter how fast, it wasn’t supposed to come out until half a year later.......”

Soon, Lee Sejin wore a puzzled expression.

It wasn’t supposed to come out until half a year later?

Soon, Lee Sejin’s eyes widened at the rising notifications.

‘W-what......!’

Lee Sejin judged that even though Hyuntae had suddenly broken in, he wouldn’t be able to affect the continental war.

He had no choice but to.

“C-CEO.......”

Soon, Team Leader Kim Taeseok of the Special User Management Team and Associate Lee Jihee came. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

“User Kang Hyuntae handed user Hyunsoo a sheet of paper with the Twin Dragon Sword’s crafting method drawn on it.”

As he spoke, Taeseok held out to Sejin an image of the Twin Dragon Sword crafting method he had captured on his phone.

Sejin’s eyes shook.

It looked far too much like a blueprint.

It even brought to mind a single car.

To run one car, hundreds of different materials go into it.

No matter how exceptional someone was in that field, could they make this just by seeing it once?

“On top of that, it’s emergency crafting.”

Those words made Sejin’s heart pound even harder.

With emergency crafting, the production time was only four to eight seconds at most.

In that four to eight seconds, he understood that Twin Dragon Sword crafting method and completed it?

This was difficult even if you presented it to someone outstanding in any field.

If someone brought the scientist Sejin a method for making some program, he couldn’t do it that quickly.

In other words, the meaning was simple.

As the notifications coming up right now said, Hyunsoo was, at last, a user who held the unique glory of being able to stand in that place.

And the notification that had just risen a moment ago.

The story that he had created a new grade of artifact that did not exist in the world, for the first time among users, was shaking the entire world.

Following it.

[He has newly engraved the grade of artifact known as Transcendence.]

“Kyaaaaaak!”

One employee screamed. It was Associate Lee Jihee of the Special User Management Team.

For a moment, everyone looked at Jihee, full of joy. They were watching the CEO’s presence, reading the room.

Soon, CEO Lee Sejin pushed through the employees and walked forward.

“There are dozens of legend candidates in the world.......”

The people here knew that fact best.

Without realizing it, Lee Sejin swung his clenched fist hard into the air.

“Korea did it first! User Hyunsoo did it!”

It was proof that he, too, was ultimately a person of this country.

With him, the employees there who had been watching the room burst out that heat.

“Wooooo!”

“That’s insane!”

“The first legend!”

“First out of 2.5 billion, first, FIRST!!!”

“Let’s gooooo!”

“The first Transcendence artifact!!!”

*****

Inside the Korean fortress.

Chinese users who had wiped out all Korean users were breaking the barrier.

‘Persistent bastards.’

Pond admired them. He never dreamed that users from Korea, a tiny country that dared to stand against China, would fight this well.

Now only about fifty of China’s strongest users were alive here.

In front of them, a red flag with “Asgan” written on it fluttered.

At that moment, all users breaking the barrier stopped at once.

[A world message rings out.]

[The first legend is written.]

They couldn’t hide their shock.

They had heard that there were dozens of powerhouses across the world aiming for legend.

But they never dreamed it would come out already.

“Keep going. It has nothing to do with us—”

The next notification made him stop dead.

[He has created a new grade of artifact that does not exist in the world, for the first time among users.]

“What......?”

He panicked.

A new grade artifact?

‘That exists?’

Then one user said.

“There’s still one left. Are you just going to leave him?”

Still one left? He thought of Crazy Rookie, the one they had left alive to kill at the end.

Pond sneered at him.

While facing Crazy Rookie, he had thought this.

“Enough. He’s a guy full of nothing but bravado and stubborn conceit.”

In Pond’s eyes, the only reason Crazy Rookie could reach that place was solely thanks to Blacksmith Hyun.

“I’ve faced many famous users. But this is the first time I’ve seen someone famous and yet so incompetently skilled.”

Named users had their own reasons.

But in Crazy Rookie, he couldn’t see that.

“Skill that’s a little better than average, and just that the artifacts Hyun made for him were amazing. If you look at that user alone, he’s so—”

[He has newly engraved the grade of artifact known as Transcendence.]

At the notifications continuing to ring, Pond stopped.

‘Huh?’

Then Pond grew flustered.

Because of the last notification.

[His name, Blacksmith Hyun.]

“......?”

For a moment, those there wore stunned expressions.

And it felt as if Pond and the Chinese users’ minds were briefly paralyzed.

The reason their minds were paralyzed.

Top-named NPC.

In other words, in the case of NPCs that reached legend class, there were notifications that sounded when they entered a certain radius.

CREAAAK-!

The half-broken main gate opened, and the moment Hyunsoo entered, the notification rang.

[The one who recorded the first Transcendence appears.]

[Ten Legends. The appearance of Master Craftsman Hyun!]

Information rose above Hyunsoo’s head.

[Ten Legends. Master Craftsman Hyunsoo Lv.339]

The entire world was swallowed by shock.