The Weakest Occupation "Blacksmith," but It's Actually the Strongest - Vol. 9 Ch. 124 - Gratitude to a Blacksmith

[MangaDex]

 

[Substitution]

Relius is more of a defeatist than MCs that spend years as slaves.

 

[EsmKone]

Thanks for the chapter. o7

 

[Seinvolf]

Thank u always for ur great work...
^^...

 

[ciera]

thanks for the release

 

[Mangamoz]

Let me guess, she's gonna wanna do an arranged marriage with him?

That or some secret mission thing.

 

[Salfaro]

Let me guess, she's gonna wanna do an arranged marriage with him?

That or some secret mission thing.

She's the one from a few chapters ago who was shown as seeing the vision of the past, so it's probably a lore dump related to that.

In that vision she saw it mentioned that the heroes ("The spearman of thorns", "the three magical swordsmen" and "the sword of ice") had disappeared before a blacksmith showed up, and with the spearman probably becoming the first blue stone monster Relius killed, and the three swordsmen probably becoming three-headed cerberus, she's probably gonna bring up the ice guy as being the potential next big bad guy, + revealing what blacksmiths have to do with everything.

 

[Mangamoz]

She's the one from a few chapters ago who was shown as seeing the vision of the past, so it's probably a lore dump related to that.

In that vision she saw it mentioned that the heroes ("The spearman of thorns", "the three magical swordsmen" and "the sword of ice") had disappeared before a blacksmith showed up, and with the spearman probably becoming the first blue stone monster Relius killed, and the three swordsmen probably becoming three-headed cerberus, she's probably gonna bring up the ice guy as being the potential next big bad guy, + revealing what blacksmiths have to do with everything.

I see, I must have forgot from how many manga I jump through.

Thanks for the refresher.

 

[screamdoom]

I don't know man, smells like trouble, and she sure is reeks like one, just bail out of there.

 

[Kaarme]

It would be easy to imagine that in the distant past of that world, blacksmiths were just another regular class, but after they got strong, they became a huge problem for the rulers and were demonised. After all, a single hero could still be beaten or assassinated by another hero or a few members of a lesser class, but a blacksmith can both equip hundreds of people with hero class weapons and high quality potions, and use strang skills like blowing up their creations for great destruction. Maybe they are able to do even weirder things (allowing MC to grow still stronger). Basically a blacksmith with followers could easily form a formidable army to challenge a king.

But who knows.

 

[lsweb]

i see, she have some idea what the past blacksmith doing so she want to talk about it

 

[Dwarfy2k]

Overall the chapters ok specially for a shorty like this but man MC gonna have like 20 girls at this rate for his pseudo-harem.

 

[VladDracul2]

This king is a smart king, most of you may not notice, but he did a great political maneuver by honoring the dead idiot with the second prize and our MC with the first prize.

The idiot had been a millstone with his hard-headed refusal for "unholy" help and his suicidal tactics, not to mention dying unceremoniously in a flash, so him and any group related to him would have been publically shamed the moment the truth of the matter showed up, so the king decided to "honour" him with a rather high prize in order to cover up the incident and gain political clout (aka. a "favour") over the groups the guy most likely represented, which most likely must've been the conservative nobles, the fundamentalist side of the church and/or a considerable size of the army/knights. And then, by honouring the MC with the biggest prize, one that was one size greater than the dead guy, he pretty much showed everybody that not only did he make an enormous contribution to the effort, but that he contributed more than the other guy, technically placing him higher than the dumbass' associates on the honour spectrum and the king's favour; and to top it all off, the aforementioned groups cannot do anything to him, since attempting any kind of maneuver out of spite or religious belief would jeopardize their own positions, since it would most likely reveal the whole incident with the second place fraud, bringing them far more shame and risking their positions, not to mention it would also make them enemies of the king, to whom they owe a favour for saving their hides. So yeah, they can only smile and wave at our MC without being able to do anything about it ever again, since the king simply finessed them with a simple fraudulent prize.

Now let's just hope the author also realized this fact too and not have everything go back to zero, cause honestly it's tremendously hard to find mangas that know how to do politics and court drama properly.

 

[Dwarfy2k]

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I hope it was forthough and not just lucky/coincidence writing. This series though has always had an issue with pacing considering it's short chapters but treating them like .1 and .2 which gets annoying sometimes. That said at least they were smart enough to set it hundreds of years ago when the hero was killed by the blacksmith, is bad in some of these series where they are like "30years ago someone did a bad and now X class/profession is bad" forgetting people are alive from before that point.

 

[IvanDFakkov]

It would be easy to imagine that in the distant past of that world, blacksmiths were just another regular class, but after they got strong, they became a huge problem for the rulers and were demonised. After all, a single hero could still be beaten or assassinated by another hero or a few members of a lesser class, but a blacksmith can both equip hundreds of people with hero class weapons and high quality potions, and use strang skills like blowing up their creations for great destruction. Maybe they are able to do even weirder things (allowing MC to grow still stronger). Basically a blacksmith with followers could easily form a formidable army to challenge a king.

But who knows.

It was explained in chapter 95.

 

[ZoeVerse]

I'm so tired seeing this entitled gold digger Benny. MC's IQ's too low that I'm gonna puked. Gonna drop this fckn trash harem show.