[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power":3,"chapter-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-70":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Killed Me? Now I Have Your Power",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1085391,1415,"Chapter 70: The Soulforger’s Deal","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-70",70,"\u003Cp>Chapter 70 – The Soulforger’s Deal\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden didn’t quite know what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just here to complete his mission so that he could complete his quest and earn his rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why, all of a sudden, did he have to pay for something he didn’t do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something his big brother did instead?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of bullshit was that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden shook his head at Old Smith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ma’am, you got the wrong saying. It’s not the younger brother who has to pay for the older one. I mean, the opposite seems more logical.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It doesn’t matter,\" Smith said. \"What matters is—you will have to pay for your brother’s actions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t ask me why. It’s because I decided so,\" she added, taking a puff from her pipe, her deep, hardened black eyes never leaving him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden started to frown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What if I don’t want to?\" he asked, his voice now cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smith immediately noticed the shift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at Kaden and could clearly tell he was irritated by all this, but...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He’s not brute-forcing his way through, huh... interesting.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smith thought inwardly, then smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good. Then I have a deal for you,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\" Kaden asked, a bit puzzled by the sudden change in tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your brother promised me he’d let me study his weapon if I forged him an armor. But in the end, he vanished. Never upheld his part of the deal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smith’s voice turned sharp, her disappointment clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At her words, Kaden frowned slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know much about his brother, but Kaden did know the Warborns never went back on their word. Honor and respect were sacred in their house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So why...?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden couldn’t help but feel curious about his brother’s actions back in Asterion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I propose you let me study your weapon—and I’ll double, no, triple your mission rewards,\" Smith said, pulling him out of his thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden tilted his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You want to study my weapon... which means you want to study my Origin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you really think I’d accept that? If you understand everything about my Origin, wouldn’t you be able to counter it easily?\" he asked, voice serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was something no sane being would ever accept.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Smith knew that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already prepared for this exact kind of suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will swear on The Will that I will not use it to harm you in any way possible. And if I ever do—even unknowingly—then my soul will be yours, forever,\" Smith said, her voice so grave and sincere that the room itself seemed to tremble with the weight of her words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she meant it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was dead serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because that was the only way forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being a Forger Blacksmith was good—but she had hit the ceiling of that realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She needed to enter the next one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The realm of Soulforger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after years of searching for the path to ascend, she had discovered one truth:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only beings who had reached Soulforger status were either close to a Warborn...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or a Warborn themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And none of them had ever explained how they did it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Smith could guess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d heard that the Warborns’ Origin weapons were always sentient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were alive. They had thoughts, emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A weapon with thoughts and emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t that exactly the dream of any Soulforger?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she would never replicate the level of a true Warborn Origin, it would still be enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough to break through the limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough to evolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that’s exactly why she was ready to gamble her soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because if she didn’t become a Soulforger...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then her life had been a failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing all this, Kaden was a bit surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that swearing on The Will was irreversible—an eternal bond that nothing, not even death, could undo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So yeah, this dwarf... she was serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why?\" he asked. \"Why do you need it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smith gave him a look like he’d just asked if fire was hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course—to improve my blacksmithing. And how can you, a Warborn, ask a question like that? Isn’t your whole damn family made of blacksmiths?\" she asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden tilted his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that he thought about it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a blacksmith forge in their basement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A place his father was always in—when he wasn’t provoking his mother into battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered, vaguely, his father asking him to come down there once in a while... but Kaden always chose to be with his mother and sister, chatting and training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden’s lips twitched at the memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well... my father seems to do blacksmithing, yes,\" he said, nodding awkwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smith stared at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his physique. His hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ve never touched an anvil, have you?\" she asked. \"Never held a hammer? Never felt the breath of a deep-burning forge?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I never did,\" he admitted honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smith looked like she’d been personally betrayed. Her face twisted in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A Warborn... not doing blacksmith?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She shook her head, legs dangling, pipe puffing in distress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a waste of talent. What a waste of advantage...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden didn’t know what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... he agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t sure he had talent for it, but still... blacksmithing was important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was starting to see that now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until now, he had only cared about training. About improving his skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the back of his head, he always thought Reditha was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Fokay had shown him otherwise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a simple mask—an artifact—could change life and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that realization made him want to learn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But here was the issue:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Artifacts weren’t just blacksmithing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were the fusion of blacksmithing and runesmithing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And his family?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They only created the weapons. The rune inscriptions were done by outsiders—either the Cerveau or the Elamin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Such a dumb decision. Fortunately, I told them to stop using the Cerveau for that.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kaden couldn’t help but think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the more he thought about it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more he wanted to learn both blacksmith and runesmith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that’s why,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know runesmithing too?\" he asked Smith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smith’s face lit up with pride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course. I’m already at the Rune Scribe realm. I can write basic runes on what I craft to turn them into real artifacts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At her words, Kaden didn’t hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then I’ll accept your deal but only if you agree to teach me both blacksmithing and runesmithing. Not now, but later. I’ve got things I need to finish first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a second of delay—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Deal!\" Smith shouted, grinning wide, her heart pounding in her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had just secured the one thing she wanted most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The path to becoming a Soulforger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even better...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would be the master of a Warborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that thought,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She grinned with wide anticipation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—End of Chapter 70—\u003C\u002Fp>",1123,"2026-06-03T10:53:47.503Z",1,"novelbin.me","2739983abdcbb923db7235c754689fa9604d36f68572da441a52cd88c8afa0a4","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-71","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-69",481,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fkilled-me-now-i-have-your-power-cover.jpg"]