THUNK!

Su-ho was released as if spat out and fell hard on his ass.

After landing on his ass, Su-ho made a blank, stunned face.

“...What?”

It had happened in an instant.

Just when he thought he’d finally clear up his questions and maybe even see the World Tree, what was this all of a sudden?

He got kicked out.

With a single finger snap, at that.

“Wow...”

A sense of betrayal came crashing in like a flood.

What the hell?

Can she even do that?

Of course, he remembered what she said.

- Everything has its time. And more than anything, right now you lack the stature. Even if you want to know, I can’t tell you, and even if I want to show you, I can’t show you. But soon, you will know everything. So let us promise the next time.

Lacking the stature.

So it was about security clearance.

But even so, this is too much, isn’t it?

“You could’ve just said it out loud, seriously...”

Her personality really is something else.

Su-ho barely restrained the surge of anger, then stood up and brushed off his butt.

“Yeah, me getting mad won’t change anything anyway.”

What could he even do right now?

Nothing.

If he forced himself to find something, it’d be going back to the Fairy Kingdom the next time he unlocked another authority and picking a fight about it then.

Su-ho shook his head and checked his status window first.

[An Su-ho]

Lv: 303

Class: Bloody Cardinal

Rank: Middle Player

Traits▲: ＜New Blood▲＞＜Hercules▲＞＜King of a Ruined Nation＞＜Grid’s Partner＞＜Sun-Moon Body＞

Might (P): 78

True Demon (S): 108

Sense (P): 19

Command (N): 122

Bonus Stat: 1

After catching Gomes, his level went up by one, and he became level 303.

But more than that, what caught his eye was that he had finally completed the New Blood trait quest.

As proof, the ▲ mark beside New Blood was shining brightly.

‘Now the only trait quest left is Hercules’s Hero’s Fate.’

He decided to check the reward for the New Blood trait quest and the Hero’s Fate matter later, and first rechecked the information for Fairy Blood.

[Fairy Blood]

Rank: S+

# A bloodline said to be passed down only to the Queen Family, who were called the first and greatest fairies.

# Lv.1 - Fairy Blood: Fairy Power (S)

# Lv.2 - Fairy Form: Fairy Sense (S)

# Lv.3 - [???]: Locked.

└ Unlock Conditions

① Reach level 400.

② Unknown.

# Lv.4...

Fairy Form, the second authority of Fairy Blood.

Meaning a fairy’s flesh.

Fairy Sense was probably similar.

Su-ho checked the information for both Fairy Form and Fairy Sense.

[Fairy Form]

# A fairy’s body differs from ordinary living creatures from its structure and composition.

# Someone who is not of the fairy race can inherit fairy blood and use fairy power. However, due to innate physical limitations, they cannot handle that power perfectly, and the more refined and exalted the fairy’s power is, the more so.

# But by obtaining Fairy Form, you have now gained a body that can fully endure fairy power.

# Fairy Form greatly increases the stats of Fairy Power and removes the risks of using sorcery and various other fairy techniques.

[Fairy Sense]

Rank: S

# A communion ability meant only for fairies, obtained through acquiring Fairy Form.

# Through Fairy Sense, you can instinctively recognize true fairies.

# Through Fairy Sense, you can mentally commune with true fairies.

After reading all the explanations, Su-ho nodded.

As expected, it wasn’t all that different in nature from the Giant Body and Giant Sense he had obtained before.

‘Well, in a way, that’s only natural.’

First the bloodline, then the power related to it, and then you’d need an optimized vessel to fully utilize what you gained.

‘So what’s next?’

Looking at Dragon Blood or Vampire Blood, it seemed highly likely that a racial evolution would occur—something that brought him even closer to the bloodline itself.

‘Well, I’ll only know the details when that time comes.’

Su-ho then opened his inventory.

Inside were countless square cube shapes he hadn’t seen before, and surprisingly, every single one of them had been harvested from Fairy Dragon Gomes.

Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Horn Fragment (S)

Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Heart Fragment (S)

Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Eye Fragment (S)

Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Tail Fragment (S)

Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Hide Fragment (S)

Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Scale Fragment (S)

...

Countless byproducts of Gomes.

Similar to the Smelting Dragon.

But the options that came out of the byproducts themselves weren’t all that eye-catching.

For example, if you looked only at the options, the Smelting Dragon’s were better.

Just thinking about its heart fragment alone, it had options like a 20% increase to total mana and a 100% increase to mana recovery speed.

Su-ho took out Gomes’s heart fragment and checked its options.

[Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Heart Fragment]

Rank: S

# A heart fragment of Fairy Dragon Gomes, one of the fairy hunter factions.

# Only a part has been harvested, not the whole.

# Gomes tormented the protection fairies for a long time and devoured countless fairies.

# Upon use, the effects ‘Fairy Power Resistance +20%’, ‘Health Recovery Speed +20%’, and ‘Mana Recovery Speed +20%’ occur.

# If Fairy Dragon Gomes’s power gathers, it feels like a mysterious power will take hold.

He had already checked all the options on the material fragments.

Among them, the one with the best options was this Gomes heart fragment.

And this time, it wasn’t just one heart fragment—he had harvested several.

He didn’t know why there were multiple, but one thing was certain: it wasn’t because of the target’s size.

‘If we’re talking size, the Smelting Dragon was several times bigger, but the Smelting Dragon only dropped one.’

Then was it an issue of the material’s quality?

Whatever it was, he decided to think about it positively.

Even if the options were worse than the Smelting Dragon’s, at least he had quantity.

And besides, the last line written in the item options.

# If Fairy Dragon Gomes’s power gathers, it feels like a mysterious power will take hold.

Bluntly speaking, he didn’t need the other options.

This alone was enough.

Because back with the Smelting Dragon, thanks to this line, he had been able to obtain the Smelting Dragon’s Rune.

‘And it’s not just anything—it’s a Fairy Dragon, one of the fairy hunter factions. In that case, the items that come out through extraction, including the rune, will be the ultimate natural enemy of the fairies that exist now, no matter what it is.’

When you made plans, you always had to consider the worst-case scenario.

In that sense, when Su-ho considered the possibilities between the fairies and himself, the worst possible outcome was turning every fairy against him and going to full-scale war.

If he accounted for that outcome, then the byproducts and rune of a fairy hunter faction were, quite literally, the most reassuring insurance.

The corners of Su-ho’s mouth lifted.

Because Marloe, who had just kicked him out as if pushing him away, suddenly came to mind.

‘You’d better treat me well.’

If the real worst-case scenario comes, I don’t think I’ll be able to stand looking at you.

Su-ho immediately activated a skill.

[Field Blacksmith’s Furnace is activated.]

KURRRRUNG!

A system notification.

At the same time, Field Blacksmith’s Furnace appeared before Su-ho.

‘It’s been a while.’

A portable small forge that only Su-ho could use.

At its center were the usual dark-blue furnace and molds.

Su-ho immediately took out a hammer and struck the jar four times.

KANG! KANG! KANG! KANG!

[Golden Blacksmith’s Fire is activated.]

FWOOSH!

With four hammer strikes, the linked skill activated, and fueled by Su-ho’s mana, it began heating the dark-blue furnace like it had gone mad.

It soon completely covered the dark-blue, and beyond red, it shone with a golden high temperature, ready to melt anything.

Su-ho opened his inventory again.

Then he grabbed a big handful of the most plentiful material—Gomes’s scale fragments—and tossed them in.

‘It never said I had to put in only one at a time.’

[Golden Blacksmith’s Fire is activated.]

FWOOSH!

Flames surged up.

The forge automatically drew on Su-ho’s mana, and the furnace diligently raised its temperature to melt the materials.

And after a while, the jar began to tilt.

Squirm—

Golden molten metal poured out.

It fell from a large clump and scattered in different directions.

There was quite a lot.

Because he had put in a lot of materials.

When even the last remaining drop had split apart, only then did the furnace stop running.

[Extraction is complete.]

SSSSS—

An extraction completion notification.

It was just like the rice cooker beep that tells you cooking is done.

And as the furnace stopped running, it returned to its usual dark-blue.

The contents gathered in the molds also cooled quickly.

The items divided and classified ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) from a single material were three types in total.

Su-ho checked whether the classified items had cooled properly, then checked the contents of the molds one by one.

[Fairy Dragon Hide Crystal]

Rank: S

# A hide crystal extracted from a Fairy Dragon.

# Its quality is extremely high. If applied to cheap hide, it transforms it into Fairy Dragon hide to the extent of the crystal’s transformation ability.

[Fairy Power Crystal]

Rank: S

# A high-purity Fairy Power crystal.

First, those two.

Seeing them, Su-ho’s eyes narrowed into crescents.

‘Not bad.’

When he had put in the chain fragment from the Suppressing Chain Coffin, he’d gotten scrap metal and low-purity mana crystals. As expected, since the harvested target was what it was, the results were excellent.

But the highlight wasn’t here yet.

Su-ho checked what was in the last mold.

[Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Rune Fragment]

Rank: S

# An extremely intense crystal containing Fairy Dragon Gomes’s grudge.

# If the crystals gather, it feels like a mysterious power will take hold.

Su-ho’s eyes widened as he read the info.

Sure enough, a rune fragment had come out.

‘Got it!’

Everything was going exactly as expected.

Then all that remained was repetitive work.

Su-ho’s forge began running at speed.

[Golden Blacksmith’s Fire is activated.]

[Extraction is complete.]

[Golden Blacksmith’s Fire is activated.]

[Extraction is complete.]

[Golden Blacksmith’s Fire is activated.]

[Extraction is complete.]

...

The jar heated nonstop.

And the materials split apart.

How much time had passed?

Su-ho finally succeeded in classifying and extracting all of Gomes’s byproducts, and proceeded to the last step.

[Golden Blacksmith’s Fire is activated.]

The final extraction step.

More precisely, it wasn’t extraction—it was combining.

Combining the rune fragments he had gathered so far into one.

[Extraction is complete.]

At last, extraction was complete.

And Su-ho checked the information of the large lump of rune in the mold.

[Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Rune]

Rank: S+

# A rune imbued with Fairy Dragon Gomes’s power.

# Depending on the absorber’s stature, you can acquire Gomes’s power differentially.

“Got it!”

He finally obtained it.

The complete rune of Fairy Dragon Gomes!

And the item description was the same as back when he got the Smelting Dragon’s Rune.

Meaning, rather than mixing it into an item, direct absorption was possible.

Then there was no reason to hesitate any longer.

Su-ho immediately used Gomes’s Rune.

[Mana is infused into Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Rune.]

[Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Rune reacts to your mana.]

[Fairy Dragon Gomes’s Rune begins to resonate with you.]

FWAAAASH!

A dazzling light began to envelop Su-ho.