I Gave Up Being Stronger

Chapter 384

-Is he out of his mind? He almost destroyed the relic and lost the Artedal fragments not too long ago, lol.

-Breaking the materials is part of the fun!

Some observant viewers noticed that the materials had increased.

-Huh? There are more materials now!

-What are those?

-He’s adding Shelby’s and Ysael’s gifts as enhancement materials.

Jin-Hyeok briefly explained what had happened.

-Oh, those are the handles of the swords that broke Artedal?

-I think they are mythic-grade items, lol.

-So, he’s now breaking mythic-grade items for enhancement?

-He has no respect for the enhancement, lol!

-The history of enhancement is divided into before and after Kim Chul-Soo.

The viewers were enthusiastic about this new paradigm of enhancement. Even professional enhancers hadn’t worked on such an enhancement.

But what if Miri breaks too?

-Miri: It’s fine even if my body shatters, hehe?

Jin-Hyeok’s tension also rose with the viewers’ heated reactions. “Last time, I was lucky.”

-Lucky? LOL

-I think he’s saying that because the item did not break after the enhancement failed.

-He does not even count the relics being destroyed as luck, lol. Sometimes, I just can’t understand him.

“This time, I’m going to make my luck.”

Watching Jin-Hyeok’s livestream at Choi Gap-Soo’s workshop, Kim Min-Ji laughed and felt satisfied. “Your weapons are going to be used as materials, old man.”

“My weapons?”

Min-Ji shamelessly continued, “Yeah, your weapons. The great weapons of the Trinity Club. The special weapons that Angel Girl Song Ha-Young stole.”

“I see... Apparently, my weapons are about to disappear.”

“When did you collect such great weapons? You’re amazing.”

“But why didn’t the weapons disappear completely after the fight? From my knowledge, even the handles should have disappeared.”

“I think Artedal’s will transferred over to your weapons when they were breaking Artedal. Maybe that’s why they became sturdier.”

Gap-Soo sensed that Min-Ji had pulled some trick. She had done everything to deliver those weapons to Jin-Hyeok.

‘Min-Ji would not be satisfied with just giving those weapons to Shelby and Ysael.’ Gap-Soo realized once again why she was called the Mad God of Favoritism, instead of just God. She had just pretended to give those weapons to Shelby and Ysael; they were actually gifts for Chul-Soo.

Gap-Soo wondered if Min-Ji had given the weapons to the two girls first because it would be too obvious if she gave them directly to Chul-Soo.

Gap-Soo casually asked, “I’m wondering about that parchment acquired by Yolin, which had a particularly detailed explanation of why Miri was enhanced. Where did such an ancient document suddenly pop out from?”

“W-Well, who knows...?”

Gap-Soo became certain from Min-Ji’s feigned ignorance that the parchment was also either ‘stolen’ from her or she had intentionally lost it.

Anyway, Miri’s enhancement started again.

-Come! This big, black, and hard thing! Let’s mingle together!

***

Jin-Hyeok intentionally stopped the livestream for a moment.

-Did it work?

-Did it explode?

-Is it a success?

-Did he fail?

About sixty seconds later, Jin-Hyeok resumed the livestream.

-What’s with the buffering?

-It’s so frustrating!

Jin-Hyeok intentionally revealed the screen slowly, little by little from top to bottom.

-Did it work?

-What’s going on?

-It will be a huge hit if the enhancement has succeeded!

-Since he’s dragging this out like this, it must have failed.

-Please fail. Please, please, please!

Jin-Hyeok lifted Miri. The hammer-shaped Miri had become about three times larger than usual, and the area around the handle had changed to a deep black color. It was very smooth like the Ink Sword Artedal.

“The enhancement was successful!” Jin-Hyeok said. He re-broadcasted the enhancement scene and tried to ask Katrina for a bit of explanation, but stopped. Katrina was not in a state to give an explanation right now. Right after the successful enhancement, Katrina sat cross-legged on the spot and began meditating.

It seemed she had gained some enlightenment during the enhancement.

“I’m not an enhancement expert, so it’s difficult for me to tell you guys what happened accurately. However, I will try explaining based on what I felt. Artedal and Miri were originally weapons that could not be merged, like water and oil,” Jin-Hyeok explained. He put in a lot of effort to vividly convey this feeling to the viewers. “However, when the handles given by Shelby and Ysael melted...”

Those handles worked like a solvent. Because of that, Miri and Artedal slowly began to mix.

“Perhaps it’s like they played the role of an adhesive,” Jin-Hyeok continued. It seemed that the sword handles made Miri and Artedal forcibly stick together. “I’m not sure if this is an accurate explanation, but that’s what I felt. When Katrina wakes up, I will post a more accurate summary on the community board of my channel.”

The viewers were not the only ones who were listening to this explanation. A fiercely burning sun rose inside Katrina’s microcosm.

‘Yes! That’s it! That is what I was looking for!’ Katrina thought.

Jin-Hyeok’s livestream had brought her enlightenment as well. The students at K-Academy felt a wall and were frustrated by Jin-Hyeok, but Katrina was stimulated. Right now, she was so focused on the enlightenment that she had no time to feel frustrated.

She reached out toward the sun inside her microcosm.

***

Jin-Hyeok immediately revealed the result of Miri’s enhancement. “Miri has received a new Trait.”

[Trait—Time Reversal]

[The ability to restore/recreate weapons destroyed by this weapon.

Activation Condition: Big, black, and hard.]

-So, it can restore destroyed weapons?

-Can it also restore things like the Ink Sword or the Pisat Family’s relics?

Wang Yu-Mi immediately sent him a message.

[Can you use that ability right away?]

“Unfortunately, I can’t show you this ability right here and now. It’s not that I’m trying to save this content for another day, but the activation condition is kind of tricky,” Jin-Hyeok said while shaking his head.

[Activation Condition: Big, black, and hard.]

Jin-Hyeok showed Miri to the viewers. “I’m not sure what this condition means right now, but just in case, I will take a look with Broadcaster’s Insight.”

-Does he think Broadcaster’s Insight is a divine ability? LOL

?Well, it actually is super powerful.

-But I think for this one, Chul-Soo should ask an expert.

“The description says that Miri transforms into a big, black, and hard shape when it is extremely excited,” Jin-Hyeok continued. He could easily think of ways to make Miri extremely excited. The easiest way was to let it enter an extreme combat situation and allow it to shatter the opponent’s back of the head or temple or have it break a great weapon like Artedal. “I think this black handle part grows bigger.”

-Don’t we call that... an erection?

-Apologize to Miri. Miri is female!

-How can a weapon have a gender, wtf.

-No matter how you see it, that sounds like an erection to me.

-Stop it! You’re going to get this video demonetized.

“It looks like I can use the new Trait only by entering an extreme combat situation,” Jin-Hyeok said.

***

Succubus Relphim, who had tried and failed to seduce Jin-Hyeok in Hell, came to see Jin-Hyeok. Ordinary people would feel dizzy from her sweet peach scent, but Jin-Hyeok didn’t. It was his habit to be on guard after seeing a pretty woman.

“I feel like I’m the one being seduced.” Relphim approached Jin-Hyeok as if she were enchanted and touched his cheek. It was closer to an instinctive movement rather than intentional.

‘His lips.’ When Relphim looked at his lips, a desire to kiss him and spend a passionate time with him welled up inside her. Relphim barely took her hand off Jin-Hyeok. “We don’t have to date, so will you sleep with me?”

“Oh!” Jin-Hyeok opened the door and guided her to the bed as if it was a good idea.

Relphim’s earlobes turned red. ‘Is he just like other men when he’s not livestreaming?’

Relphim, who had felt bitter wondering if she had been seduced by an impotent man, had a thin smile on her lips.

“I will install a camera here, so face this way while you’re sleeping.”

“...?”

After the Sword Emperor Tournament and even the enhancement content, Jin-Hyeok had taken a short break; he had poured out all his energy during those events. At times like these, if one of the three beauties did a sleeping content for him, it would be very profitable.

“Sleeping content is quite popular,” Jin-Hyeok said. He could not understand why people liked such livestreams, but strangely, there was a viewer base that watched such content exclusively. Being an Eltuber, Jin-Hyeok was fully prepared to cater to the tastes and preferences of all his viewers.

“You’re crazy,” Relphim said.

“No, I’m telling you. It’s real. There is quite a demand for this, more than you think. It won’t be my main content and will be livestreamed during my break, so the viewers will like it too.”

“No, that’s not what I meant.” Relphim gave up on explaining to Jin-Hyeok, who seemed convinced that he couldn’t be crazy. She felt a bit of self-reproach, thinking that she had been seduced by an impotent and crazy man. “I didn’t come here to do sleeping content.”

“Then why are you here?”

“You seem to think the activation condition for Miri’s Trait is too difficult. I came to teach you an easier way. Can you let me hold Miri for a bit?”

Jin-Hyeok gave the weapon to Relphim. At that moment, his fingertips touched Relphim’s fingers, and she unknowingly let out a seductive groan. Just that touch was enough to make her feel hot all over.

Suppressing the welling desire inside her, she kissed Miri’s handle.

“Watch closely.” With delicate hand movements, she caressed Miri.

-It, it tickles! Hehe!

Miri’s handle, which was usually gray, turned slightly black. Its length also increased a little.

-But this much is not enough!

Relphim caressed Miri again with her long fingers, very carefully as if she were handling something precious. After some time passed, Relphim handed Miri back to him.

“When I do it, the weapon becomes only this dark, but if you do it, the outcome will be different,” Relphim said.

“From my perspective, you seem to be the crazy one,” Jin-Hyeok said. The whole act looked strange to him—the sight of her looking at the weapon with an alluring gaze and kissing it with moist lips. Those delicate, feather-like hand movements toward the hammer looked tremendously perverted.

“It’s not difficult at all. Just hold it in your hand and lightly kiss it.”

“Hm....”

‘There is no way this will work,’ Jin-Hyeok thought. He knew that to activate Miri’s Trait, he needed to enter an extreme combat situation. So, he looked at Relphim with doubtful eyes, but there was no harm in listening to her words.

‘Did she put a deadly poison on Miri’s handle? Is that how she’s trying to assassinate me? If that’s the case, her bizarre actions might make sense,’ Jin-Hyeok thought. Although he tilted his head, he decided to do as told for now.

-W-Wait, I’m not ready yet!

Miri grew.

The moment his lips touched the weapon, Miri became gigantic and broke through the ceiling. At the same time, new information appeared in the Broadcaster\'s Insight window.

[Activation Condition: Big, black, and hard.]

The notification window shattered as if something had hit it, and he heard Miri scream.

-I’m telling you. I’m female! I like big, black, and hard things, but I don’t want to become big, black, and hard myself!