I Login Alone

Episode 137.

What was Beto supposed to be doing? Jung Si-woo, who thought so for a moment, remembered that he had made the blacksmith’s shop before leaving for Potupou.

“It’s harsh to leave him unattended since then.”

[Yes, you are, master.]

He had no choice as he had to travel to the alien world, but he decided not to make excuses. Beto was too young for an adult to make excuses. He shrugged his shoulders and headed toward the entrance to the residential area.

“Okay, let’s go.”

“Yes, let’s go.”

Soo Ah-rin, who was thinking about decorating her bedroom, kept her imagination for now and followed by his side. Yong Se-ha looked very excited because he had never entered the residential area.

“Is Luta behaving well?”

[Every day, she comes and criticizes the safe life of Beto and me. Maybe she has a slightly strange head.]

“How about her intentions?”

[I don’t want such a lowly woman to unnecessarily approaching our cute Beto.]

It was a regrettable statement for the former Death Knight and incumbent Dragon Knight. Jung Si-woo decided to pretend not to hear it.

“Oh, my lord! You’ve come after opening a new door!”

“I want to shut the door tight, so you wouldn’t come in.”

Indeed, as she said, when they reached the blacksmith’s shop, they found Luta nibbling on cookies with a parasol spread in front of the shop. If she were going to do that, he couldn’t figure out why she built her house in a dark place.

“Naturally, the woman that appeared with a friendly impression in the neighborhood turns out to be the mysterious shop’s owner – such a setup is more charming!”

“It’s not charming at all, so get lost.”

“I have something to tell you today, my lord, so I’ll wait here!”

But despite Jung Si-woo’s harsh words, she said so, winking and handing out a cookie. Jung Si-woo sighed and left her there and went into the blacksmith’s shop with his group. To his chagrin, the cookies he got from her were quite delicious.

“Oh, master!”

“Please just call me Lord, too.”

“Yes, master!”

Beto was resting in his chair, and when he noticed Jung Si-woo, he ran with joy. Perhaps he had been trained by his sister to behave like that, but the effect was great. Jung Si-woo asked, gently stroking his head.

“What did you say you made?”

“Yes! Wait a minute!”

Even n games and novels, the first people to start their career in blacksmithing made knives, so maybe Beto made knives, too. Jung Si-woo wondered for a moment how to compliment him when he didn’t use a knife. Soon, Beto came to Jung Si-woo with an item wrapped in a cloth.

“I’ve tried to make a magic item here!”

“Isn’t this a gun?!”

“Your original Mana Bullet Ejection Aid…I heard you lost your Mana Cannon.”

Not all civilizations developed guns, but other people in other worlds also seemed to be dealing with a magic item that assisted for Mana bullet. It was called a Mana Cannon, which meant that Caina told him that Jung Si-woo used the thunder god’s Rage Rifle in synthesis this time, and Beto, who heard it, made a gun as his first work.

“H-how is it? I don’t have many ingredients yet…and I’m not much skilled yet, so I haven’t made anything great…”

Jung Si-woo turned his eyes away from the boy looking up at him with worry and anticipation, and looked at the magic item wrapped in cloth…he glanced at the magic item had a shape of a musket. As it wasn’t actually intended to be shot by inserting a bullet, so whatever the shape of the gun was…

[Taylor-type Modified Cannon]

[Rank – C+]

[Damage – 1,300 – 1,500]

[Skill – 0/500]

[The Mana Cannon, which had been secretly produced in the Taylor Empire, was modified and turned into an artifact. It can be launched by injecting a small amount of Mana after inserting a bullet that fits the type. It is possible to shoot a Mana bullet with equal power without owning a Mana bullet skill. However, there is a disadvantage that successive fire is tricky.]

“What is this?!”

In every sense, an object that betrayed Jung Si-woo’s imagination came out!

“O-of course, you wouldn’t like it. I’m sorry, I’ve never made a reinforced Mana cannon for people with Mana bullet skills…”

“What are you talking about? This is even greater!”

“What?”

Jung Si-woo couldn’t help but feel dizzy looking at Beto, who tilted his head. When he handed out the Mana Cannon to Caina without saying anything, Caina checked the information and nodded faithfully.

[His mother was an aristocrat of the fallen Taylor Empire. The combined forces of many gods miserably destroyed the Taylor Empire. Still, it was at a level where it wouldn’t fall behind any other world when it came to magical engineering. The object that enables one to shoot a Mana bullet without owning a Mana bullet skill is also one of the forgotten legacies of the empire.]

“No, what in the world…”

This guy was hopeless. Jung Si-woo handed the Mana Cannon to Soo Ah-rin without saying a word, and Soo Ah-rin, who had a similar look to Jung Si-woo in just five seconds, handed it back to Yong Se-ha. And exactly five seconds later, Yong Se-ha shouted.

“What is this?!”

[Is it a game of pretending? Everyone seems to be getting along well.]

“With this, if this could be mass-produced…”

Modern personal firearms couldn’t deal an adequate blow to monsters beyond orcs. By moving on to large weapons such as missiles, one would be able to deal with weak orcs. Still, at that moment, the civilization that humanity has built will also blow away. But as long as they had this Mana Cannon…

“It means that everyone with Mana will be able to handle the orcs, right?”

He was truly sorry to the Orcs that the standard of measurement of monsters that could be killed was them, but they were the easiest to deal with, so he didn’t have a choice.

“Depending on the Mana bullet’s power, you can kill a stronger enemy. An even stronger enemy if you have a Mana Stone!”

When Jung Si-woo seemed to like his work, Beto, who was so excited, smiled and spoke cheerfully. However, Jung Si-woo was busy thinking while holding it.

“Now that Mana has been created on Earth, only considering the possibilities, every human can handle Mana…Ah-rin, do you know anything about it?”

“Wait a minute, Oppa. That’s what’s circulating on the Internet these days.”

Soon, Soo Ah-rin held out her phone screen to him. There was news covering a pseudo-religious as an issue, something about feeling energy or having one’s hands turn blue. The important thing was that most of it were probably true.

“That means there’s a good chance it is possible…I’m asking this just in case, but have these artifacts ever been offered as a reward in Sky Castle?”

“There are none. The reward you get in exchange for the bead is basically created based on the player’s record. ‘You can do something without anything’ kind of publicity can only be seen in-home shopping.”

He figured so. Jung Si-woo thought about it for a while and asked Beto.

“How long does it take to make this stuff?”

“My hands are slow…the production process is pretty complicated. So even if my skills improve, perhaps about once a week…I-I’m sorry, master.”

“No, it’s not a thing to be sorry about. That’s fast enough.”

If any of these things had circulated in mass in the first place, any civilization couldn’t have easily collapsed. But…Jung Si-woo remembered an option earlier that the upgraded resting place kitchen had in store. Replication of degraded version of an artifact. Although the degraded version part bothered him, it was very attractive to mass-produce weapons that fired Mana bullets.

“And it’s dangerous…”

Jung Si-woo sweated coldly, realizing that Beto alone had made him the most dangerous man in the world at once…however, it was also clear that there was nothing to lose by doing what he could right now.

“Beto, do you think you can make something better than this? I can replicate a downgraded version, and to be able to hunt orcs with a replicate, too, the base artifact must be outstanding.”

“M-more than this…well, I’m still in the level of an apprentice, so it will be possible if I practice a lot from now on, use Mana Stone when making a Mana Cannon, and use good materials apart from that.”

“And there’s another thing.”

This weapon was solely for those who didn’t have Mana bullet skill. Jung Si-woo also discarded the thunder god’s Rage Rifle to make a good weapon, but there was nothing bad about having a long-range weapon.

“I would like you to make a Mana Cannon that I can use. Since I already have the Mana bullet skill, wouldn’t you make the other options better considering that? Perhaps like successive fire.”

“You mean the Burst Mode?! Then, by any chance, master-”

Beto hesitated a little before asking him.

“Perhaps of what could be a sample…can I see it? B-blue print would be fine. I think I can apply the Magical engineering I learned from my parents.”

“As much as you want, just wait a little bit.”

Jung Si-woo nodded gladly. Seeing him like that, Soo Ah-rin became very anxious, but she had to give up because she couldn’t see a way to stop him.

“Well, I’ll give you Mana Stone and other ingredients as it is urgent.”

Along with that, what Jung Si-woo poured out of the inventory was the monster carcasses he had obtained and stored from here and there, including the Mana Stones of the teddy bears hunted in Potupou. Beto’s jaw dropped and cheered.

“Everything looks great!”

“Yes, use everything you want. I’ll take this Mana Cannon for now.”

Jung Si-woo handed the Mana Cannon over to Soo Ah-rin. She had insufficient direct attack skill, but the Mana Cannon would be quite helpful in an emergency.

“Thank you, Oppa. By the way…can’t we make these things in the kitchen?”

“If that were possible, I would have done business with the United States through Marina already.”

Jung Si-woo made the Phantom Bike because he had the Mana Stone of the Phantom Steed. In other words, the key to the production of Magic Items in the kitchen wasn’t the Earth’s technology but the Mana Stone’s characteristics.

“So I have to find the Mana Stone of the Frog-type Monster as soon as possible.”

“You haven’t given up on strengthening the bouncy ball yet, hyung-nim…”

Yong Se-ha murmured in a voice of despair. Soo Ah-rin, holding the Mana Cannon in her arms, looked at them as if they were pathetic.

“Then shall we go out and search the design of the Gatling gun? No, if I ask Marina for a Gatling gun, will she bring it?”

“They’re going to ask you a lot of things.”

“It would be the same that they would annoy me when I show up with a Magic Gatling Gun anyways.”

Jung Si-woo’s group, who came out waving and saying to wait for a day to Beto, who was very excited after receiving new ingredients, found Luta nibbling cookies in the same pose as she did they entered the blacksmith’s shop. Jung Si-woo tried to turn away from her.

“Shall we go back to our resting place?”

“Then now, I’ll guide you to my secret store!”

“Oh, you’re so annoying!”

[Goodbye, Master.]

Caina waved at Jung Si-woo, who eventually was dragged by Luta. She was fine with anything as long as Luta didn’t cling on to Beto! But at the secret shop where they arrived despite such annoyance, Luta blinked and asked him:

“My Lord, why didn’t you bring the inhabitants of the alien world to the residential area?”

“What…?”