blacksmithoftheapocalypse

158. Oddball Leader

Originally, Seth had wanted to test the water alone before looking for a party, but Samuel had moved faster than he had expected. The SDD, too. Back then he had just looked for a way to get them off his tracks but had not thought about the implications.

He had to take care of the whole part...

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157. Auction (2)

157. Auction (2)

Inigo looked perplexed at the sword. Was this really possible? There were even small tears in the corner of his eyes. This reaction was quite normal, for someone who wielded a good weapon for the first time.

Inigo was a Fencer, an uncommon advancement from a swordsman...

156. Auction

--POV of Rando

He entered the skyscraper that was once the main office of the Limar Group but had now become the property of the system church. It was really a shame for one of the biggest enterprises in Y City to vanish overnight. It was an unmistakable warning to all actions and authoriti...

Update

Hey, sorry guys for the silence the last few days.

I'm currently pretty busy writing my bachelor thesis. I'm not really getting to write many chapters, so I can't guarantee regular updates for the next 2 weeks.

I hope to go back on regular updates afterward.

I wanted to give you...

155. Can I really have this?

---------Ora

In a dirty small bar sat 4 figures. One was very big and one was so small she sat on the table. “Yulecat’s Fur” lacked their usual jolly atmosphere. Even Mina the promiscuous catgirl had a hard time leaving the table.

The party had sat there all evening and fought a...

154. Epic (2)

Various potions were lined up on the table in the room. Stamina, Health, Mana, Concentration, and Satiety potions. The last potion had the effect of providing nutrition for three days and suppress the hunger during this time. These were his preparation for maybe the longest forging session ever s...

153. Auction House

“What is this!?”

-15 Minutes earlier-----

Mark Baker was at the headquarters of the Special Defense Department in Y City. In his possession, he had a whopping 130 gold. These were all assets of Koku City. Together with roughly 70% of Y City’s budget, it added up to 667 gold. The...

152. Epic

Having tested that Seth started making the bow. He used both, <Energy Circulation> and the effect of Charon’s Obol in tandem to forge the crooked branch into form. It was always interesting to see the skill work its magic. When his hammer strikes hit the bark's surface it was smoothened a...

151. Y City (3)

Her hands were drenched in blood. Tears left trails in the dirt and blood that covered her face ashes trembling hand reached for her mouth. A long tongue stretched out from a small mouth and licked the fresh blood and bits of meat off the long sharp nails protruding from her fingers.

A devi...

150. Y City (2)

150. Y City (2)

What would have taken maybe two days on foot, was easily conquered with the cars in about two hours. It was enough time for Seth to get a good look at the city. The buildings became bigger and more imposing the closer they came to Y-City, the center of the district. The grea...

149. City Y

Seth knocked on the door of the guestroom, where the girls slept tonight. He could hear scrambling and rummaging in the room. He knocked on the door and all movements in the room stopped.

“Hey, get up and ready. We are leaving soon. I got us a ride.” the inside stayed silent. He was wor...

148. Mark Baker

Seth was fighting a huge group of armed attackers. Arrows and magic showered him, but simply bounced off his armor. Like an Invincible giant, he strode through the enemy ranks and slew them with his burning sword-

Knock knock

A knocking on the door woke Seth from his nice dream “aww...

147. Koku City

--Shop-

The clerk hurriedly rummaged through a drawer below the counter and pulled out a mobile radio. It looked slightly modified with a magic rune carved in the side.

“Sir? Yes. No, I’m not slacking, Sir. I-I know, Sir. It is important, Sir. Just now I saw a man decked out in it...

146. Outpost

“Oh, sorry. Please come in.” the soldier said. He gave back his card and the guard made way for the group to enter. The inside was nothing imposing or surprising. A crowd of people, a few barracks and training space, the usual stuff.

The most important thing was probably the flag of Y C...

145. Zarkon(2)

“The life lights of four followers have been extinguished. What should we do?”

Asked one of the two figures in dark robes. They stood in a wide hall with a vaulted ceiling and no windows. The walls were covered in a moist red growth, like membrane and blood vessels. Here and there were ...

144. Zarkon

Initially, Seth had not planned to interfere when he came across this altercation. He was not a hero and it really was not his business if 2 groups of people fought each other.

He didn’t want to alarm anyone, so he only judged them from what he saw and his experience. The harem party seem...

143. Return

The light became bigger and he finally floated out of the tunnel. His eyes met a bright a beautiful sight. Before him spread out the snow-covered slopes of mountains and valleys that led down into a wide plain. For a moment he was free of gravity as he enjoyed this view. Then gravity kicked in an...

142. Down the Rabbit hole

142. Down the Rabbit hole

People were turning their heads when Seth ran past them. But as he was sprinting towards the church, he felt compulsion wear off and he became slower. Was it over? Oh no...

“Seth!” a fat old man with a Santa-clause-beard wearing a red robe came running to...

141. Somewhere Else(2)

-Gamma City, Northeastern central region of Urth-

It had been several months since the world ended. One day everything was still normal and the next everything had changed. All connections between the great cities had broken down. They entered the system era. Most people were perplexed by t...

140. Burden of Peace

---Previously on Seth’s Birthday--

“Ori humas are really something special, it only took you a few months, what other need years to achieve. You will soon reach the journeyman rank. What are your plans afterward?” a bloated Tored asked an even more bloated Seth.

“What do you m...

139.Calm Days

Ora was on high alert for the next few days. Seth and Tored had secluded themself in their workshop as they did not feel like dealing with any of what was happening outside. Instead, Seth made new items for the group part of his training. He knew they were past level 50 and had chosen their secon...

138. Happy Birthday

They had to ditch the carriage and the horses a long time ago. The horse met their end and the carriage’s wheels broke. They had been running for a week with barely any sleep or rest. They had food, but no time to eat.

They had already been on the run for more than a week, the traders had...

137. Looking for Group

It had a high price, but the sorceress kept her word. She taught and explained to him the demonic ballads she knew. Tored was wary at first, but when Seth explained everything to him, he helped Seth learn and train the new forging ballads. It was finally time that forging weapons was also include...

136. A Pickle

“Kyaa!”

Screams and explosions filled the previously quiet night. The company of merchants was attacked by an overwhelming horde of monsters. Corpsewalkers led by a pack of lycanthropes.  Now, if Seth had been here, he would not have called these things werewolves.

They had a...

135. Lich in a Bottle

135.Lich in a Bottle

“Puffles, are you in here?” Seth asked carefully. He had left the caterpillar in this room for several weeks and only met him to eat together. He had left the Ivicer here to make his new alloy threads.

Kyurr kyuu!?

~ Is it time to eat already? Or will yo...

134. New Ballad

“You are telling me that was the manifestation of a 200+ years old lich you released from a dungeon?” Tored asked in disbelieve

“That about sums it up,” Seth answered meekly.

“And she just taught you a foreign forging ballad?”

“Yes.”

Seth was not sure wheth...

133. Crawling out of the Dungeon

In the pile of dust, he found two rings and a bone fragment. He could only appraise one of the rings and the bone. The other ring was probably out of his appraisal range.

<Dragon Bane

Epic

Durability:3400/4000

1. +500% Damage against Dragon-kin

2. Weakens all drag...

132. Greatest Dungeon Crawler

<Ding! You have leveled up! You are now lv.25!>

<Ding! New Class Skill has been unlocked. Check your Skill Window!>

<Ding! You have completed the quest -The Next Level 4- You have earned new System Rights.>

<Ding! You have received a follow-up quest -The Nex...

131. Crawlers in the Dungeon

After accepting the quest Seth left the guild. He used the analog map in the little booklet to find the passage that led to the old trade route. After showing his adventurer card the guard let him enter the locked-off tunnel. He had to walk for almost two hours after leaving the bounds of the cit...