blacksmithoftheapocalypse

1044. Master Mountain and a Friend

Seth didn’t dawdle and got himself presentable before he hurried to the elevator to the embassy. A staff member already waited for the blacksmith and guided him to one of the guest rooms on the upper floors.

He was looking forward to meeting Master Mountain, not just because they had beco...

1043. Final Trinket

The first surprise was that he got 100 points of Power of Existence for a unique item. Seth knew that Unique was not bound by the usual rating. A unique item could be worse than something uncommon, or better than something epic... did that mean the Lucky Trinket was now considered to be on the sa...

1042. Soul Refinery goes -brrrrr

Seth quickly sifted through the pile of items. The system money quickly found its way into his inventory. Among the things the golems had collected were also credit cards, however, at this point in time these cards were useless.

They were useless because most of the banks and institutes sup...

1041. Dig Dimblood

<Dig Dimblood lv.102>

Seth remembered the name, the moment he saw the tied-up creature. It was the cobbler Strik had talked about. Like Forebone, he was a tiny man, his height barely reaching Seth's upper thigh, however, it took two bulky His moss green suit, flaming red hair, and a s...

1040. Changes

---Delta---

The wave of cultivators Master Mountain had prophesied finally came. Over the past weeks, Delta had become a hotchpotch of people. Apart from the natives, travelers from foreign worlds, demons, and cultivators were now mingling in the streets. At least in some places.

Not ...

1039. The Colossus of Rhodes

What Seth aimed to build in the advent of the coming Pythian Games was:

The Colossus of Rhodes.

In Urthan legend, the colossus once stood on the island of Rhodes, close to the Peninsula of Theta that reached into Urth's great ocean. A massive bronze statue towering over a straight tha...

1038. Hubert?

“Tower Master! Your guest is at the meeting room on the 24th floor,” the lady in the lobby greeted him friendly.

“Thanks.”

He didn't press her to find out who was waiting for him and simply thanked her before he turned to the elevator. He has some thoughts about who it would b...

1037. Flowing Damage Carry

Seth was just joking. He didn’t have the time or will to scold Mike. In life-and-death battles, he couldn’t blame him for going for the vitals. Currently, he just wanted to get back home, since he didn’t know how long the next project would take.

“Here, put it on, let’s see how it...

1036. Where are those reactors?

Inside the pub was a single cultivator surrounded by five people with daggers, wearing black thief attire. The man in the center had several cuts in his clothes, bleeding from various shallow wounds. He had long, black hair and sharp eyebrows. His sleeveless robes revealed the arms, thick like tr...

1035. Group of Thieves

Seth had no idea what exactly influenced it, but the right blade was specialized in combat and only made physical damage, while the left one was specialized in magic and only caused magic damage. The blades had only five effects with three unique effects each. However, each effect was very specia...

1034. Slaughter Blade

“Things became a lot calmer in the village,” Mina told him over dinner.

“Really?” Seth asked surprised. Although he did make an example of the croaking Cricket, or whatever his name was, he didn't expect the cultivators to tone it down. Master Mountain had told him that they were us...

1033. Slaughter's Crown

“Sivri, how far are you with the belt prep?” he asked friendly.

“Almost done, why?” the golden dwarf asked, looking up.

“Could you finish the snake head? Then I would start on the belt,” he offered. Sivri looked over at the crown.

The snake was almost done, but Seth ...

1032. Midnight Deals

---Outside Little Gamma---

Under the cover of the night, a group of masked figures met on a peak,  with a view of the massive tree in the distance. Some wore clothing of the Voracious Cloud Continent, others had completely hidden themselves with dark cloaks.

“How many people di...

1031. Slaughter's Scale Armor

After reminding the group that they didn't have to treat the hooligans like citizens, Seth stayed for lunch, before returning to Sivri's side. After all, the blacksmith was not here on vacation, although he wished he was.

Even when he joked about vacation, he actually looked forward to maki...

1030. Stalking Cicada

This morning, Seth left Sivri alone in the workshop, to finish up the pieces they would need for the belt and crown. The bard followed Yulecat’s Fur and Ray to the Pythian Village to face the man who bullied his girlfriends.

The party guided him to another place built in the style of the ...

1029. Blood of Maahes

While Sivri started refining the rough gems, Seth started up the furnace to refine the <Arcane Gold> and <Mithril> from Donnchadh's hoard. While the Nuggets of these two materials generally occurred in pure form in nature and not as some kind of ore, they would still have inclusions o...

1028. Don't you “tehe” me, you little-

Zhu Ling fled through the streets of the Pythian Village. His stars were still hurting and the battering he experienced had also left him hurting all over. But hotter than the burning of his wounds was his indignation and anger.

“How dare these wenches set me up like this!” he exclaimed...

1027. The Frowning Crane

After unloading most of the stuff on Baker, Seth felt much lighter. But maybe he was just looking forward to seeing Fin and Mina. He arrived at Little Gamma without Problems. Just before he left, he remembered the list of quests he had gotten at Donnchadh's basement.

Send Augur's Set and We...

1026. Guest Lord Seth

---TS7, Spring City---

knock knock

“Hello, Lord Mike? You have a guest waiting in the lobby,” a clear voice could be heard from outside the door.

Tardily, the beastman surfaced from his sleep and the sea of sheets, careful not to wake the warm and soft being that was holding...

1025. Somewhere Else(29)

---Delta, Northern Wall---

The wall wasn't looking too swell. The past months had already been hard with the constant attacks of infected beasts. The disease that was ravaging the north of Urth was terrifying, with a danger level that could even threaten the whole empire if it were to sprea...

1024. It's empty

--- Minas Mar, Embassy---

“How are the last preparations for the games going?” Mary asked at the orb. Inside the orbs, it showed Cade, Karina, and the members of Yulecat's Fur who were currently at Little Gamma to test and oversee the venue. Apart from Mary, Jane,  Leana, and Luf w...

1023. Blacksmith and the Shoemaker

---A day later---

“Seth, I think you should have a look at this,” Sivri called out to him when they were looking through the third branch of the player association. Unlike before, this place was truly empty. The floors were littered with cut-down undead mixed with dried blood.

“...

1022. Tapatorc

The Center of Y-City was more dangerous in general. Not many of Baker's scouts returned from this place. The ones that did had barely anything out of the ordinary to report, except for the presence of powerful beasts.

From their reports, it was clear, that there was a mix of powerful beasts...

1021. Genius Enchanter's Last Request

<Quest: Genius Enchanter's Last Request

Quest Difficult: S

Augur Ursson died an unfair death in the fight against Donnchadh. He was inadvertently brought to a foreign world during his honeymoon. Avenge his death and return his wedding ring and possessions to his widow.

Requir...

1020. Soul of Donnchadh

<Soul of Donnchadh (Epic,Ex,Ego)

The soul of a Nem Marvo, an undying being, forcefully detached from its undead body. Soul contains 85% of the Nem Marvo's original knowledge and skills and 12% of its personality.>

Ex and epic, the soul had similar specs to Al'Zalsar, though it w...

1019. Nem Marvo

<Donnchadh lv.115

Focused, Annoyed

1000/1000 HP  165 000/578 000 Mana

...>

Its health had completely recovered.! About 50,000 Mana were spent to mend all of its wounds and return to peak condition. Judging by how much mana it had and how much it spent slinging c...

1018. Donnchadh

Over the next few days, the force of Golems started spreading further and deeper into Ypselon and Y-City. After their initial combined combing through a big stretch of ruins, the army splintered into smaller teams led by older golem knights that used to follow Wolfram.

24/7 these golems kep...

1017. An official purge

“This is the Tower Master of Minas Mar, speaking. Hereby I announce an official purge of Ypselon. To all entities able to understand human language: If you face the golems, put your weapons away and lie on the ground. If you do so, your lives will be spared. If you don't, the golems will identi...

1016. Like a swarm of locusts

---Minas Mar, 5 days later---

Seth was looking at the assembled golem they had finished over the past two weeks. The number was impressive, but their presence was a little underwhelming because of their mostly mismatched-looking gear.

Apart from the ones that happened to wear actual a...

1015. Reaching Thres

---Beta, Thres---

A caravan of battered trucks and carriages was creeping along the steaming mountain ridges. Claw marks and other signs of battle covered the vehicles that were barely running at walking speed, but they kept slowly drawing closer to Thres.

Mike lamented Adam's prepara...