blacksmithoftheapocalypse

690. Like a Quarry

---Holy Land- Orc Territories---

The massive metal club smashed into the earth, exploding earth and rocks in all directions. After an arduous fight, the Ogre General was the last one standing before her. His black blood drenched the intricate armor covered in magic runes.

Their surroundings were covered in corpses of humans, orcs, hobgoblins, and ogres. She ground her teeth at the sight of her dead comrades. They had been ambushed by the boss and his troops on their way back to ca...

689. Solo Burglary

Seth was alone on this one. Tatzel and Puffles were following other groups as support. The blacksmith was going to get his souls by ambushing the resting chambers of the dragonflies. Following his golem through the damp net of tunnels had Seth thinking. These dungeons were just the upper layer.

It was rumored that things became stronger and more dangerous the deeper one came. That even stuff like the hive, the orcs, and even the Maestro were pushed to the surface. What would dungeons in...

688. Breaking and Entering

Gin had already given his opinion on this beforehand. The leader of the guild remnants was intent to leave the “Holy Land” as quickly as possible and return to Delta. He was convinced Home Call would work once they got past the storm.

On this note, none of the people of Minas Mar agreed with running away. Many just watched, but all suggestions given were different strategies to go on the attack. To finish off the hive and then leave, to wipe out the hive and the orc kingdom before l...

687. Any suggestions?

With the Field teams, Chimeras, and Oathguard called back, Seth left the guests to their own devices while he finished his golems. Even if someone was plotting against them, he saw no reason not to pursue the perfect souls for his necklace.

Or rather, to get his hands on the ingredients to make the perfect soul. Yet, his thoughts kept analyzing their current situation. The adventurers had aptly proven that they sucked when it came to facing an army.

They had split their forces for...

686.Naga? Lamia? Snakepeople!

Anga cast a small light ball that floated over their head and illuminated what looked like the ruins of an ancient temple. Ortega's team of Oathguard had finally taken care of the tribe of Naga that had settled in the vicinity of the dungeon and could finally enter the ancient-seeming structure.

Ortega has been really bummed out when they first arrived and saw the Naga for the first time.

“I thought Naga were beautiful women with the lower bodies of a snake...” he lamented dep...

685.Infiltration Corpses

In the last battle, Seth had gotten his hands on a surprising kind of soul.

<Quick Scout's Soul (Uncommon, Medium),

The soul of a being born to be a scout with incredible eyesight and speed. Skill: Record&Play, Trait: Dynamic Vision>

These were the souls of insect monsters called Zygoptera Scouts, which looked like prehistoric dragonflies. The blacksmith had managed to catch some of them and also find some of these souls after the battle.

He was sure some of ...

684. Boulder Flight

.--Holy Land---

“What is this suddenly with all of these orcs!?” Marcel cursed.

Storms were blowing over the hills. The battlefield was filled with roaring flames, burning corpses, and glaciers full of frozen orcs, ogres, and trolls. Yet, there was no end to them. The Boulder Guild with its two chosen ones had already cleaned up their section and were about to start raiding dungeons when the forces of the orc kingdom started relentlessly invading.

“I hope I'm wrong, bu...

683. Somewhere Else (18)

“What is the meaning of this?”

He asked facing a row of weapons that were suddenly pointed at him. He had come to work as usual and was about to take a break when a group of officers stormed the workshop.

“Cormac Payl, you are arrested under the suspicion of treason.”

“Thomas? What do mean by “treason”? There has been no such thing a treason ever since the foundation of the districts,” Cormac argued, unimpressed by the glinting weapons pointed at him.

�...

682. A new Vassal

<Ding! You have used <Seed of Hades> and gained a vassal. Would you like to name your new Vassal?>

So this was how he could level it. The <Seed of Hades> had gained a good amount of proficiency with the resurrection of the Vespinae General. Seth had not expected that he would get such a valuable chance to try out this new skill when he rushed over to help Monique.

He had not tested the skill so far, because he didn't want to use it on just any random mob. The bla...

681. Moniques's Battle 2

...buy enough time for reinforcements to arrive?

She felt a terrible impact as the room in front of her started accelerating sideways. Monique didn't have much time to register the pain of her ribs breaking, as the next impact was already asking for her attention.

In a rain of rubble and dust, she crashed into the dilapidated throne that the former owner of the boss room had occupied at one point. Her ragged breath echoed in her ears, as she tried to form a coherent thought in her...

680. Monique's Battle

Seth stayed behind in the camp to not take too much of the Faer's experience for himself. Instead, he was working on a new mask for Jonah. Currently, the man was hiding his face behind the beard-shaped detection items Seth had given them some time ago.

For this mask, he went a different route, since Jonah was now the chosen of the goddess of gruesome beauty in battle, he could give her champion a demon face. Instead, Seth took inspiration from some visual novels he used to read.

T...

679. Practicing Caution

The atmosphere was heavy in the court of insects. Nobody dared to speak up after hearing the report of what happened during the campaign.  What was supposed to be a glorious invasion turned into a catastrophic failure.

Although the loss of foot soldiers was negligible, their elites had taken a heavy hit, and most of their generals came back with heavy wounds. One even lost his life. The silence came with heavy pressure. Had they been able to, the insectoid advisors would have been ...

678. Soul Refinery

He mused about the implications of the new perk and skills for a while, before he turned his attention somewhere else. His Attribute Points and Skill points still waited to be distributed.

The first 8 of the 133 APs went into Strength to bring it from 292 to 300. He was curious whether he would gain another skill if he did so and he was not disappointed.

<Ding! Title: "Spartan" gained. "Your strength has reached 300 points." You gained the skill <Flexing>!>

Maybe...

677. Calling of ?

Seth had accumulated a whopping 133 Attribute Points and 12 Skill points. However, the point his eyes wandered to first was the secondary class advancement that was unlocked when he reached lv. 80. He wanted to decide where to use his points after choosing the direction of his Infernal Scald class.

Checking his status he had, once again, four traits he could choose from to decide on a specialization of his class. It was quite similar to his primary job advancement, especially when it ca...

676. Divine Powers

Fin happily described her experience with Bes and the powers she gained.  Her primary class of Battle Cleric had changed to Guardian Twerp, which improved her skills in melee combat, protection, and healing.

“Fin now also has an incredible way to constantly increase my power,” she boasted proudly.

It seemed she was already back to her usual self. When asked what that way was, the fairy took a deep breath to talk about it but stopped mid-sentence with a little blush.

675. Cover Yourself

---Cinema Dimension---

“Kek kek kek, who would have thought that Olympus would steel us the show like this?” a jolly voice chortled.

“That aura?! It's you! What are you doing here?” Seth suddenly jumped from his seat and looked at the hooded figure in the second row to the right.

“haha! It has been me all along!” the figure flung away its robe and revealed that it had been a dwarf standing on the seat all along. A potbellied midget, with jiggling man boobs and an...

674. Help Gryllo

--Fin's Battle--

She had no idea what the situation looked like on the rest of the battlefield,  but it was embarrassing for Fin how much they were struggling with a single boss. As the fight went on and they couldn't really deal any damage to the Dynastinae general, her frustration grew.

The giant, hairy spider lady kept dodging or blocking their attack by swinging her club-like halberd around.  The fairy was getting sick of being swung around by the gales she created w...

673. Ly-lydia?

Seth looked up, staring directly at the emergence of a kaiju from the opposite canyon wall. He instinctively activates the appraisal skill.

<Gryllotalpa General lv.97(Boss)>

As the cliff collapsed and massive boulders fell into the rift between them, other figures jumped from the dust cloud and landed on the plateau. It seemed that the hive was not ready to watch silently as the empowered softskins slaughtered their elites.

<Lucanidae General lv.94(Boss)>

&...

672. Soldiers stand

Things turned when hundreds of elite monsters appeared at the plateau. Their reign of undisputed superiority at the edge of the cliff was broken and the field was slowly filling with an army of elite insects.

<Nosoderma lv.91 (Elite)>

Mina fell back under the onslaught of a group of weird insects with thick armor and earth skills. She wasn't in much danger, but she took a lot of time to kill them, despite <Primal Rage> and <Strategists Mentality>. Their defense w...

671. Spidertaurs

“Oh god, are they serious?” Clay, a scout from the boulder guild exclaimed in horror when he finally reached the place. They had seen the scarlet meteors falling from kilometers away and he had rushed here at Brock's command, to find out what was going on.

The scene he witnessed was incomprehensible. There was a sea of nightmarish limbs and eyes, so many creatures it was hard to see where one began and another ended.. Like an enraged force of nature, the whole ocean was rushing towa...

670. Xaphan's Dream

“Are you really sure about this..?” Monique asked hesitatingly.  Although Seth had shared his strategy with them beforehand, Monique was not the only one who didn't seem confident in the plan. Only the members of the field teams and some of the core members were left in the camp.

“Don't forget the reason we came here for. We want to raise our levels, yes, but most importantly we want the gods to notice you! What's better to get noticed than  a huge one-sided slaughter?�...

669. Water Scorpion's Momentum

After Seth threw a big stone into the pond, the small ripples died down and everyone soon came to an agreement. Bement was able to dissuade most of the guilds from trying to throw themselves into their demise and concentrate on the orc kingdom, Kozdam.

After the meeting concluded they could finally leave and rest for the night. As Seth left the hall someone grabbed his arm. Brock, the leader of the boulder guild had followed him. Seth could see the worry in his eyes. It seemed that not ...

668. No Cherry-picking

Seth riding Vegr, and Mina on Drejtim landed in front of the fortified camp after taking a look at the canyon from the sky. The blacksmith remembered hearing about it in lessons a long time ago, but this was his first time seeing it in real life.

If he remembered correctly it was a mighty river that had carved this scar and the many caves into the landscape but he was unable to spot it on his short flight.

“Quite the sight, isn't it?” the caravan leader greeted them as they ca...

667. The Holy Land

The caravan had halted in a steep valley with the several dozen carriages in disarray. People who had not taken too well to the breach were emptying their stomachs, while others were looking in fascination in the direction they had come from.

The Oathguards disembarked their carriage, facing a complete change in environment. A weird orange light was shining from an almost clear sky and one wouldn't believe how much warmer it was compared to the frozen mountains they had traversed to get...

666. Belly of the Beast

--A week later, somewhere west of Beta--

A long caravan of carriages was traversing the rugged terrain without anything like a road in sight. They had long left the tree route and were traversing westward into the wilderness of the mountains. Snowstorms laden with magic power were constantly raging, forcing them to stay inside the prepared carriages and take shelter from the weather.

“Ugh, who would have thought that I would rather risk my life in a fight with some monster, than...

Christmas Release

Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays (whatever you are celebrating)

I thought i would make a little mass release today. I hope you enjoy a bunch of chaptersr and I wish you a happy new year in advance^^

665. Harbinger of Winter

The peanut gallery was in awe at the rapier that was spewing cold air by simply existing in the room.  But the blacksmith's mind was full of questions.

What did it mean, the power of the demon was refined?! And a special item, not a legendary one? Seth stared at the freezing rapier in his hands incredulously, before hurriedly putting it down, as the ice was starting to build up on his Radiant Forgeright.

<Harbinger of Winter

Special, Growth

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664. Melting away

After a long shower in the bath of the guest room, there were two things on his mind. For one, the three leftover pills. He already decided on giving them to Mina. During the shower, he found that his skin had become a lot smoother and softer thanks to the refinement. What miracles would they bring for someone who started off as a beauty like Mina?

The other was that his fingers were itching to try the new option of Charon's Obol.  He needed to give it a good work over to get rid o...

663. Body Refining

According to Yu one of these pills was enough for the initial cleansing of a cultivator, eating more wouldn't have any big effect. However, Seth counted as an ordinary person and according to Master mountain, he would have to swallow at least three for the same effect. He also mentioned that it would not be pleasant for an ordinary person. Well, Seth took offense to being called ordinary, but he was no cultivator. That much was true.

“Here goes nothing.”

He steeled his heart a...

662. 58 Minutes

“58 minutes-Urgh!”

Her whole body was immersed in the sensation of reverse pooping, a feeling she had gotten used to over the past weeks. Tired, she flopped down on the giant bed. Giant for the size of a fairy, that is.

Fin had been working hard to prolong the time she could spend in a human size, to the point she could now transform for almost one whole hour To the point she seldomly left her own room at this point.

It would have been a lie to say that Seth's engagement...