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Chapter 25: World of 1% (5)

Chapter 25: World of 1% (5)

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Lived too long? It was the artisans around them that became enraged at Jaehwan’s words.

“How dare you?!”

But Meikal was calm. He was deep in thought at those words.

“…What do you mean?”

Jaehwan did not answer him outright.

“Use your skill again.”

Meikal stood up and followed what Jaehwan told him to do. He held the chisel and the hammer and tapped on the horn. Once, twice, and a third time. Jaehwan stopped Meikal and asked, “What did you see?”

“…What?”

“When you used the skill, what did you see?”

Meikal became confused but Jaehwan shook his head.

“Look closely and do it again.”

Meikal used the skill again. His ears were filled with the message saying ‘Skill Failed’. He ignored the message and glared at the point where he had used the skill, but he couldn’t see anything. All he saw was the hammer and the chisel.

“Yes, you will see that kind of thing.”

“…Are you joking with me?”

Meikal almost threw the hammer at Jaehwan out of rage. Jaehwan asked, “Do you know how the chisel and the hammer manage to work on the horn?”

Meikal pondered and answered, “The [Craft] skill works…”

Jaehwan shook his head.

“I asked you the wrong question. Let me ask you again.”

Jaehwan looked straight at Meikal, found the right words, and asked, “Do you know how your [Craft] skill works?”

Meikal’s face turned grim.

“Young man, do you know what you’re talking about?”

Meikal seemed angered.

“Do you want to know how the skill works?’

There were countless skills, but all skills were based on another. The skills of the origin. The [Craft] of [Nightmare] was one of those kinds of skills. They existed way before any other skill. They existed before the world even came into existence. At least that was what everyone living in the <Great Lands> thought.

How could a human explain the origins of such an existence? And what was the point of doing that?

Jaehwan nodded.

“Right. So you do not know what exactly you are doing and just kept on using your skill.”

Meikal gritted his teeth. Jaehwan’s words had injured his pride.

“…The spiritual power empowers the hammer and the chisel and wields the power to work on the horn. That’s probably how the skill works.”

“Really? If it’s that simple, then why can’t anyone else use it?”

“That’s…”

It was simply because they did not learn the skill. Meikal tried to answer, but held back. It didn’t make sense. If how the skill worked was that simple, then it did not make sense that one needed to learn the skill to use it.

“You don’t know your skill, but you’re using it.”

Meikal started to hate the man. No one knew about how the [Craft] skill worked and this man was insulting him just because of it.