02. A visitor from the future (13)

Yoon Seo-hee opened her mouth as she looked down at the peaceful cityscape from the rooftop of a skyscraper.

“The gate opens here….”

“Yes.”

She didn’t come out expecting an answer, but Paik Ji-su, standing on the other side of the skyscraper, nodded her head.

Despite the strong wind above the high-rise building, her small voice clearly reached Yoon Seo-hee.

It’s not because of the Awoken’s excellent hearing. The two were now telepathically exchanging voices with each other.

It is a convenient function that is basically installed in the Holo device used by the top hunters, but of course, the two did not already receive the Holo device.

It was because a magician with a blank score could use telepathy on his own without using a device alone.

“During vacation, somewhere in this city, a B-level gate will open.”

“You mean the gate connected to Eldoras Tower? Somehow, the fortress attack was slow.”

After the Outbreak, until ninety-nine towers rose in the world, the towers were inviolable to mankind.

Dangerous monsters are swarming inside, and even conventional weapons do not work, so no one dared to climb the tower at their own risk.

That was until I learned that if the tower is left unattended for a long period of time, magic power is excessively concentrated inside the tower, and as a result, the gate opens and monsters pour out.

Only after making millions of sacrifices in this small country, mankind felt the need to conquer the tower, and the fact that the gate does not occur when the hunter climbs the tower and hunts the monsters inside has become common sense by now.

Yoon Seo-hee and Baek Ji-soo look down on the city from the top of a skyscraper.

After looking at the city all day like this, if an unusual magical response is confirmed, we plan to move to the site with Baek Ji-soo, who can use space transfer.

“Isn’t that a bit strange? The gate opened in the middle of the city, but the government and guild couldn’t handle it.”

As the Korean government is not a scarecrow, of course, countermeasures are prepared to prevent the gate from opening in the city center, and to prevent the disaster that will occur if the gate is opened.

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Government-approved A-level or higher guilds are in charge of each jurisdiction in the city, and when a gate occurs, the guild’s main hunter must be mobilized immediately.

“I don’t know.”

Baek Ji-soo slightly frowned and shook his head.

“All I know is the result of the gate opening and a lot of people dying. I can’t remember when, where or why it happened.”

This isn’t very helpful information, Yoon Seo-hee thinks to herself.

I didn’t say it out of my mouth, but because of my inexperienced use of telepathy, that short thought was conveyed to Baek Ji-soo.

However, Baek Ji-soo did not show any sentiment.

It was because she realized herself the most.

“… ….”

There were so many holes in Ji-soo Baek’s memory of the future that his plans went awry.

If I had known the exact date and place, I wouldn’t have had to watch the city without countermeasures.

But I can’t help it. If you lack, you have no choice but to make up for it with your body.

In order to prevent a terrible tragedy that continued like a domino after this gate disaster, this case had to be concluded here and now.

The surveillance of the city continues for a long time.

How much time has passed.

‘Nothing happened….’

Yoon Seo-hee: She already lost confidence in whether she could continue this.

To wait for the gate to open, watch the city all day long, take the first train in the morning and go home, repeating it throughout the vacation.

I wanted to spend more time with Lee Jin during vacation.

“Blank number.”

“Yes.”

“What kind of person was the future me?”

Yoon Seo-hee, who was bored, put what she had been worried about all this time, and Baek Ji-soo, at that question, hardened her expression so that she could not be seen from the other side of the building.

Of course, that hardened expression wasn’t much different from usual.

“… Why are you curious about that?”

“Well, wouldn’t anyone be curious?”

To be honest, I was curious about what I would look like in 10 years.

The only information I heard from Baek Ji-su was that he was an Auror user who resisted the devil until the end, and that he was the adversary Baek Ji-soo had been searching for so long.

Did he really confess to Lee Jin-yi at that time? Even if it was a hopeless future, it would be nice for the future self to have a little romance… I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

And those thoughts were being fully conveyed to Baek Ji-soo through telepathy.

“I can’t tell. Not yet.”

“Huh, is that so?”

Yoon Seo-hee kicks her feet on the ground as if she has lost her excitement.

Baek Ji-soo also looked down at the city without a word.

The awkward silence continues for a long time.

“… ….”

I know this shouldn’t be the case.

For Baek Ji-soo, Yoon Seo-hee is her only adversary and a companion who resists a hopeless future together.

For the future, it is necessary to build a friendly relationship with each other.

However, Baek Ji-su has not yet been decided.

She wonders whether or not she should let the person know that in the future, Yoon Seo-hee will go crazy with hate and she will become a rampaging revenge.

I couldn’t possibly predict how the future would change by announcing that.

Since Yoon Seo-hee was thinking of Kim Yi-jin, Baek Ji-soo also naturally remembered her thoughts about him.

A boy who restores the sword of the dead of death and makes a sword for Yoon Seo-hee.

Perhaps it is a special existence for Yoon Seo-hee.

If you have that level of skill, you will surely be a skilled blacksmith in the future. Then there’s no way she wouldn’t know, but she doesn’t remember at all.

Ten years later, no one was with Yoon Seo-hee. On the contrary, she actively pushed everyone who approached her.

She could have used a much better sword if she had attacked countless towers alone, but she always cherished and used only one worn-out sword.

Actually, she had already vaguely guessed.

There is a high probability that the boy named Kim Yi-jin is dead.

Thinking that far, Baek Ji-soo suddenly remembered.

Why did I give him a ring of space transfer, and not something else?

Baek Ji-soo was able to quickly realize the answer.

Maybe he just wanted the boy who saved him to live.

His head feels like it’s about to break, and he quietly closes and opens his eyes.

The morning sun was slowly rising over the horizon.

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Kaang-! Caang-!

I resumed work as soon as it was 3:00 in the morning.

Strike a lump of iron heated to orange color with a hammer to lengthen it. If you want to stretch it properly, fold it in half and put it back together. Stretching it again, folding it again and beating it, stretching it, folding it and beating it again, repeat.

This is the so-called folding work.

Folding is a technique used to control the carbon content and impurities in iron, but in fact, it is not a technique that is often used in modern times, where casting technology has improved a lot and the highest quality steel has been produced.

There is a technology that can adjust the mana and carbon content of the metal from which impurities are completely removed at the casting stage, but there is no need to do anything to save poor-quality iron.

But since what I’m making now is Damascus, I need to do some folding.

Damascus. A special sword made mainly in the Middle East, famous for its unique wavy pattern.

However, since the materials and manufacturing methods used to reproduce the actual Damascus have been put into practice in modern times, swords that reproduce only the unique wavy pattern are collectively called Damascus.

Pattern Welding It is also called Damascus. When steels with different properties are overlapped and welded, the inherent color and carbon content are different, so the layers are piled up like water and oil to create a wave pattern.

“Suck!”

Kaang-! Caang-!

Two folds once folded. Four folds when folded twice.

Theoretically, if you fold it up to 15 times, the number of layers exceeds 30,000.

Of course, there is no functional difference between Damascus when folded like that, and it only creates aesthetic value.

If it was a normal sword, it would be like that.

But there was something else I was aiming for.

“Whoa….”

Look at the shape of the blade that has been folded and stretched up to 10 layers. It is still dark and not visible properly, but when I looked inside with the analysis skill, the holy ore was spread evenly throughout the blade as intended.

Now, if you polish the surface and polish it, the starlight unique to the star ore will be revealed on the surface of the sword.

Traditional autographed swords engrave 28 constellations on the sword, but three-person swords only engrave the Big Dipper, not all constellations.

That’s right, if you want to engrave 28 constellations on a three-person sword, you can engrave it, but even then, it’s just an ambiguous object that’s neither a three-person sword nor a sign sword. I wanted to make it in the traditional way as much as possible.

Nevertheless, wanting to pursue my own originality is also the stubbornness of the craftsman, so the use of star ore related to the stars was to maximize the spirituality of the Big Dipper, which is said to be the best among the 28 constellations.

In fact, it is already far from the traditional three-person sword, as it is made with the Damascus technique.

‘I don’t even know what this will be made of.’

Because of the feeling of being caught vaguely somewhere between the traditional and the modern, I felt like I could check if it was properly made by actually seeing the finished product.

I just hoped that the performance would be as good as I thought.