blacksmithoftheapocalypse

661. Formation Membrane

The next day, the first without Al'Zalsar, showed no changes at all. The world didn't seem to care that their biggest backer had left, not even enough to double down on them. Seth felt a lot better after spending time with Mina and decided to deal with some minor stuff, before paying Leana a visit.

“Evan, these are for you.”

“W-What are these?” the tamer-turned-champion of Hermes asked with glowing eyes when the blacksmith handed him three shiny, crystalline eggs.

At...

660. Iego

“I-It's not much, really! I just need your help to modify this formation!”

The blacksmith hurriedly explained and pulled out the schematic for a formation. Al'Zalsar's pupils constricted when she saw the formation. She pondered for a moment.

“The Soul Banishment formation? Is that the one you got from those guys that tried to kill the stone giant?” she asked seriously.

“Soul Banishment? Wasn't it soul eradication?” the blacksmith asked confused.

“That's w...

659. Quarantine

“Are you sure you can deal with this?” Seth asked the princess in person.

Early in the morning, they had gotten the call, that the situation at Delta had been taken care of. Captain Gardy and his men stayed behind at the gorge, bound, while the Team of the Boulder Guild and Minas Mar returned to Delta using Home Call.

“The doctors are experts in the containment of alien diseases. We are also checking the teleportation registries from last night, to see if someone arrived. If...

658. Order 44

Their skin was pale, with an unnatural gray tone and the sclera of their bulging eyes was yellow, the color of pus. With hunger in their sick eyes and spittle flowing from their growling mouths, they struggled against their bonds, trying to charge at them.

“What is going on?“  Ortega exclaimed in shock. The guard captain's face had turned to stone. He had more experience in these situations and had already made the connection.

“*****” he cursed in a tongue even Seth c...

657. Any wounded?

Ortega had been a little depressed, seeing how the Tower Master had not taken them along. He knew this was because the master was worried about them, but Ortega could not help feeling that he didn't trust their abilities.

He and his team had come with the expectation to be able to shine in front of the Tower Master, the man who had enabled him to live a good life in these kinds of times. Not meeting any monsters on day one and being left behind on day two was... depressing.

The kn...

656. Moving with the Tail

Incredulous, he stared down into a giant cavern. It was a natural cavern, with huge columns, stalagmites, and stalactites. If not for the situation, he may have felt like looking at the place longer.

Judging from the rest of the network of tunnels, this seemed like the central chamber. Although he was still missing some parts of the maze, this seemed obvious, when looking at the 3-dimensional model of the <Map>, which had surprisingly reached lv. 5 after constantly being used over...

655. Not supposed to be

Blood gushed from deep gauges as the skills and spells of the adventurers rained on the beast. But no matter how many wounds they slashed, there were no signs of the fight slowing down.

While the teams were exhausting themselves slashing at the immortal nightcrawler, others were watching in shock as the beast kept healing. However, Seth was in a stupor for a different reason.

The spirit blacksmith was unable to make out a soul in the beast. So far he had always been able to see th...

654. Legendary Ingredient

“We should stop this quest. There is something wrong with those worms.”

“I'm trying,” she answered with a sigh.

“I have no evidence, but I have a gut feeling that- Wait, what?”

“I already got the report that something is wrong. My people know more about these beasts than you. If even you can guess that something is wrong, they can do so too.” she answered tensely.

“However, I can't stop this now.”

“What do you mean? Didn't you get full aut...

653. Exploring Holes

The team of Oathguards with him were the new seedlings that were chosen by Jack Felton. They were the most promising bunch with a good personality and could become the members of a possible fourth field team.

“Get in formation and follow me closely.”

The ten of them were split into a healer, an archer, two mages, an assassin, two tanks, and three melee fighters. Their formation was very traditional, with two fighters and the tanks in the front, the long-ranged rearguard in the...

652. Shaking Foundations

They arrived at the garrison located at one of the highways leading out of Delta towards the north. This had once been a highway leading toward Omega. Parallel to the streets, one could see the slowly decaying rails of the bullet train that had once run parallel with the highway.

The garrison here was built with the arrival of the Chrona Empire.  Seth heard there were quite a few fortifications built in cooperation with the empire to protect Delta. Even as the smallest one, Delta w...

651. Happy Misunderstanding

“Mina, are you here? I have something for you.“

Seth returned to the quarters of the tower master, looking for his girlfriend.

“We are in the living room,” it came from inside

.

Entering the living room, he found Mina and Fin sitting on the ground playing games.

“Seth, you are finally back! Why don't you join us for a game?” the little fairy asked eagerly.

“... Sure, why not.”

With a smile, the blacksmith joined the two, spending some ...

650. Couple of Darkness

<Ding! You have finished a legendary item! >

<Ding! A synergy between materials and enchantment has changed your item.>

<Ding! You have finished a legendary item!>

<Ding! A synergy between materials and enchantment has changed your item.>

<Ding! A synergy between your trait Olympian Myths and the divine enchantment has changed your items.>

The notifications rang out when he finished Mina's Rings in the same manner as Evee's pendant.<...

649. Sprite King's Pendant

After returning to Minas Mar, he spent a while explaining what had happened to Mary and the other Lords, who had finally woken and sobered up. The golems would still stay on patrol duty until the Oathguard was back in shape.

Once the important stuff was dealt with, the blacksmith returned to his kingdom. Reaching the master tier was only a milestone, there was still a lot to do to prepare for the Guild's Holy Land.

It was finally time to get serious with the <Bones of Seth>....

648. Commissioner Cordon

The blacksmith had hoped that would solve the situation for now, but he was wrong. In the end, someone still had to personally go to Delta to assess the situation. As the only sober person with authority currently awake in Minas Mar, this task, unfortunately, fell onto him.

So instead of making items, he had to give a visit to Wolfram and Leana. On-site he found a force consisting of people from Chrona and Delta, with groups of two constantly following the golem knights on the patrol. 2022-12-09 16:03:47 +0000 UTC View Post

647. Elaborate

Wolfram stood in the middle of a crater filled with rabble and debris. A purple shield surrounding him had prevented any harm. The many gashes on the armor slowly healed, as he was processing what just happened. He was learning.

Other Golems also worked their way out of the rabble all around him. They had come tumbling down together with the collapsing building that had stood above the hall. Looking up, Wolfram found that the explosion was so strong, that several of the subterranean lev...

646. Toughest Knight

A peculiar dark knight stepped on the almost empty street. Half his armor was a deep black, the other half was a pallid gray. Wolfram was followed by the group of 30 Golem Knights of all sizes and inspected the state of the place.

It had not gone unnoticed by the people of Sigma, that their protectors had diminished, prompting most of them to hide inside their allocated quarters. Curios eyes observed the knight, carrying a shield in one hand and a staff in the other, and the knight orde...

645. Celebration

By reaching the master tier in all three of his crafting skills, there were a few new blueprints for magic armor sets and jewelry, all with the corresponding enchantments. The moment he saw them in his blueprint overlay, he realized where they came from.

After seeing examples of Forgebrand's works in the treasury of the imperial family of Chrona, he could judge that these were designs left by his predecessor. They were designed to be worn by melee fighters and had each their own special...

644. Appetite Demon

An ego? Where did the ego come from? Was the notification this time a little different? He could vaguely remember it saying something about an ego, but he was to preoccupied with not leveling up to the master tier.

Checking the options, he found what was the cause for the change. Instead of gaining the blessing of A'petit as planned, the power of the demon and the soul armament had given birth to an ego called the Appetite Demon, which seemed like a weaker clone of A'petit, the Gourmet ...

643. Knife

Ignoring the enchantment's drawbacks, Seth almost laughed out loud when he read the weapon's effects and how they played together. This sword was just unfair, especially in his hands.  On the other hand, it was completely useless against him and people similar to him.

The most special effect was probably Ixion's Bind, the main effect of the olympian enchantment. It was quite literally the effect to restrict the movement of those who were affected by the “burning” status ailment...

642. White Hilt

The enchantment created with the help of Fin's luck was called the “White Hilt Enchantment”. Seth had no idea what this was supposed to mean, but the system often chose names that were hard to comprehend.

With Fin watching from the back, the blacksmith began engraving the complicated enchantment onto the whole sword. Unlike before, he was able to recognize some familiar strokes among the complicated lines.

He found traces to the fire circuits in several places along the blade ...

641. Rayki and Luf

Rayki was a young man when he fell in love at first sight. The girl he fell in love with was Luf, the Wise. She was no older than him, but her wisdom had already helped their village since she was a child.

Rayki was not as wise as her. Nor was he strong like the warriors of the village, but he had a good head and a pleasant voice. To match Luf he became a scald and learned the songs and sagas of their people.

He courted her and she didn't seem opposed. They got her fathers permiss...

640. Palpatating

Once the soul spear was shaped, Seth engraved a simple Sigil onto it. It showed a cauldron that was struck by lightning. This was the Sigil of the Destiny of Salmoneus. He was a king that dared to impersonate Zeus by throwing torches to imitate lightning and driving a chariot pulling kettles behind it to imitate thunder.

For his blasphemous behavior, the king was struck down by Zeus with lightning. This was Salmoneus' Destiny. The blacksmith was very sure the enchantment would grant a k...

639. Cerberus Shield

<Ding! You have finished a legendary item! +1 to all attributes.>

<Ding! A synergy between materials has changed your item.>

<Ding! A synergy between powers has changed your item.>

First thing in the morning, Seth returned to finish the shield for James. All he had left to do was enchant the soul he had prepared and finish the shield. It was safe to say, it was guard dog themed.

<Cerberus Shield

Legendary

Phys. Def.: 9000

Mag: Def...

638. Legion(2)

<Legion

Legendary, Ego

Durability: 5000

1. Nurturing Space

2. Spells deal double damage

3. Illusion Magic effect is doubled

4. Necromancy effect is doubled.

5. Spells cost 30% less

6. Phase Shift

A ring created through the cooperation of the first Master Goldsmith of Urth, Master Smith, the first master enchanter of Urth, Master Smith, and the Great Sorceress Al'Zalsar. It is a great accomplishment, an item that will turn the owner into...

637. Legion

Suddenly,  James' Shield had to wait as Al'Zalsar and Seth went to the workshop together. Since the blacksmith had already attained the master rank in <Goldsmith> and <Enchantment>, there was no reason to wait for the creation of the storage ring.

He had been looking forward to making this item for quite some time now and all he had been lacking was a material that could act as the medium for the enchantments and the soul. With the Demon Jelly's core, he even got one th...

636. Soothing Lotus Seed

“This is the Soothing Lotus Seed. This pill can extend the user's life by 50 years,“ Master Mountain revealed seriously.

It was a small emerald pill, shaped like a lotus seed but looking like a crystal. Seth stared at Yu in disbelief. Was he serious?

“You mean to say, that I am guaranteed to live 50 years longer just by eating this pill?”

“Unless you get killed, that is correct.”

“Why would your friend just gift away something like this, if that is true?�...

635. Mountain and Blacksmith

This was the first step for James to become a powerful tank. Originally, Seth had wanted to use this enchantment to further improve Tekar's shield, but the hulking tank was already powerful enough as it was.

He was going to make a shield for James and enchant it with the Olympian enchantment called Cerberus Guard that had been unlocked when he reached lv.8 of Enchantment(Craftsman). Judging by the level it was unlocked and the being that lent its name to it, it HAD to be powerful.

634. Mable

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~Hurry up and put me in already!~  the soul spurred him

Seth really didn't know why Archer chose such a feisty girl. Was that his type? The blacksmith shook his head and started hammering Archer's new girl into shape.

The identity of the soul was a young woman named Mable. She was originally a junior mage and adventurer when she happened to be caught by a demonic cultist during a quest. She was sacrificed and somehow ended up in Tano'mol's hands after exi...

633. Archer's Request

Seth, unaware that he had somewhat helped Leana, returned to his workshop the next morning. Today he was going to make an item for Archer, the Archer, and  James, the warrior that had joined Team 3.

Funny enough, Archer, the Archer did not ask for a bow. Archer wanted a quiver he could wear at his hip and not just any quiver.

“Would it be possible to have a quiver that generates different kinds of arrows?” he had asked hesitantly with sparkling eyes.

It came out, Ar...

632. Call of Nature

“2 hours ago a branch of the Gatris Church was completely wiped out. There was a fight between high-level existences to the extent that not only all members of the church present in the building were killed, but the building itself was toppled, causing harm to the whole area.”

So it was just about something that neither concerned nor interested him. In the end, it wasn't like there were any civilians living in that place. Seth found himself thinking that it was overkill to call all ...