blacksmithoftheapocalypse

601. The Leaderboards

Many thoughts flashed through Seth's mind. Happiness, doubt, but most prominently regret.

“Why couldn't this have dropped earlier!?” he screamed internally.

If the proficiency he had gained from his legendary armor set had been tripled, he might have reached the master tier by now.  Why didn't his prophetic skills tell him to wait a little longer? He was willing to allege malicious intent of the system. He took a moment to cry his crocodile tears and get it out of his sys...

600. A new Chapter

The moment Seth took the flute out from the waters of Styx, it started to play an eerie tune that started to summon the illusion of a dark and misty forest.

~Stop that, Gleobem.~

~But I am so happy to be free, Benefactor! Your tune had truly widened my horizons, if only I had been stronger I wouldn't have fallen off the edge and died.~ the floating panpipes kissed up to him.

It seemed that the satyr minstrel had quickly made the connection between Seth and the Benefactor tha...

599. Keeping a Promise

Boom!

A figure fell to the ground, leaving a human-shaped indent on the walls of the training room. Jonah could only look on awkwardly, secretly wiping away the sweat. He was just glad that a human-shaped bullet missed him.

It was a lot harder to get used to high-speed combat than Seth had expected. This was the third time he had to peel himself out of the wall. His movement skill <Lame One's Walk> needed absolute control over one's body.

This was why he had to familia...

598. Antares

Seth was overwhelmed by the sudden flood of notifications. Legendary set with a chance to become a myth? Magnum Opus? What was with these crazy rewards? Momentously two of his attributes had shot past 200 and Luck passed 100 while his other attributes also weren't far off the mark.

“What are the luck-related multipliers?!” he exclaimed distressed when re-reading the effect of “Fortune's Favored”. He knew that luck played a role in a lot of things and one of the reasons why he lo...

597. Legendary Set

The cracking of knuckles echoed in the workshop. The time had come to finish may be the work of his lifetime. The last piece of the set that would round off everything. A shield made of what could be called some of the strongest defensive materials.

Seth soon started groaning. One and a half of the seven dragon scales were used on the materials for the shield. The difference in the ratio became immediately clear when he tried to forge the metal plates alone.

The blacksmith had not...

596. Somewhere Else (17)

--Voracious Cloud Continent--

In dark throne room filled with swathes of miasma, sat a handsome man on a demonic throne. His dark charm would weaken the hearts of men and women alike.  He was taking a sip of wine from a golden chalice when a figure in dark rober appeared kneeling in front of his throne.

“Any news?”

“Reporting. The life lanterns of the Boar Brothers have been extinguished. The Scene was unable to give any information about their whereabouts. ” 2022-10-10 16:01:49 +0000 UTC View Post

595. Scorpio Escape

Looking at the description of the pair of boots, it was the first time during this build, that something unforeseen had happened. Seir's Travel had vanished. Other skills he expected, like the <Shattering Stomp> were there, but the demon's movement skill had vanished.

The leather's option to purify curses over time had also evolved into <Apollo Bless>. This skill could purify any curse once a day and grant immunity to status effects for 5 hours.

However, when he checke...

594. Piprima

There were just two more armor pieces left and he had finished the blueprints for the next iteration of the Faer. Today, while he and the dwarfs were working on refining the last of the materials, the Golem Forge was working furiously.

It wasn't the only thing running in the background. Besides Cerberus who was tirelessly working on weapons, they could also hear construction work from a new door they had not seen before.

After they refined the last bits of Dragon Scales into the c...

593. Laraweg

Seth was too tired and failed to control his strength. He had underestimated the power of the draconic titan fire. The two figures, which were shortly visible when taking the brunt of the attack, were reduced to charred corpses before his eyes.

“Whoops...”

Maybe he had overestimated them after they took the Salamander Fire and were just fine. Now he was unable to harvest their soul. He could only do with what they dropped naturally, which was nothing.

He was too tired to...

592. To Protect

Seeing that the situation in Delta was turning, Seth wanted to finish his armor as quickly as possible. But he couldn't get hasty. He was already very fast, taking into account that he was working on a legendary armor set.

He wanted to quickly return to the workshop, however, he stayed in the meeting room and they kept talking. It had been a while for all of them to meet like this and it felt good to simply talk. Not all of it was important stuff.

At some point, Link brought out f...

591. You dare?!

--Delta--

“Uargh!”

Using his Tiger Cloud Step and his spear force, he easily pierced through the chest plate of the team's leader. It was pathetic how easily these people went down, he thought arrogantly. Of course, in total disregard of the fact that he was invisible and did a surprise attack.

“Tsk, useless natives. They really need me to step up to deal with this kind of vermin?” the invisible attack scoffed as he pulled out the spear tip from his victim's stomach....

590. Alniyat

Although Seth was eager to continue, it was important to take breaks. After completely exhausting Hoen and Wedan the other day, he decided to be a good example and take a break, too.

The blacksmith grabbed Mina and gave her a compulsory break as well, to go on a date. It had been a while since they just strolled through the city together.

“Oh wow, is this for real?” Seth exclaimed in happy surprise when he saw the announcement of a new movie in a cinema.

The advertisemen...

589. Karina's Input

Seth almost choked at the number of additional skills, he needed a moment to grasp that there were seven additional skills that came with the pauldrons.

The moment Hoen and Wedan got a glimpse at the pauldron, they started worshipping him and wouldn't stop. It just made it harder to concentrate on the items.

Most were self-explanatory. Leraje's Archery gave a basic improvement of everything archery related, similar to the passive bonus a common or uncommon archer class would get.<...

588. Shaula

Seth tried to be not affected by his sudden audience and started working on the pauldrons.

The blacksmith gave the pauldrons a polish before getting the acid and brush ready. The text he had chosen was another long one, but it would be worth it. The text was actually a short prose of Leraje the demon archer and his legendary journey.

Leraje was born with the bow in his hand and the quiver at his side. With his great skills as a hunter and sharpshooter, he earned his standing among...

587. Not a Butterfly

“Are you ready?” he asked Mary as they met up in Minas Mar's business building on the surface.

Fortunately, the drunk dwarfs were easily appeased after offering them such an opportunity and Seth was able to get to bed with a relieved conscience. He was able to get a good night of sleep to get ready for today's appointment.

He spent the whole morning as Mina's dress-up doll to find the right outfit to make him look like a stylish, modern businessman. It was a little hard for he...

586. Girtab

Seth now had to decide what to do next, between the pauldrons and the gorget. The parts were mostly finished. All that was left were assembly, adjustment, and enchantment for both of them.

After some pondering, he decided to first make the gorget and then make sure to pauldrons fit the cuirass and gorget. He started off by marking out the area for the demonic etching. Befitting the demon it was dedicated to, he wanted to arrange it as a decorative collar.

The demon in question was...

585. Sargas

Although it was the wrong pantheon, Seth had chosen this soul because he thought it somewhat fit  Tisiphone. Aside from both creatures, Erinyes, and Valkyries, being winged women, Tisiphone was the fury of murder and retribution.

The soul simply seemed quite fitting for Tisiphone's Revenge and Seth hoped it might bring in some other effects. Shaping the Shieldmaiden's Soul into a copy of the cuirass was a lot less energy-consuming than forging out the part from the composite materi...

584. Assistant Needed

<Ding! Goldsmith(Craftsman) lv.4 had become Goldsmith(Craftsman) lv.5>

In the morning of the day after tomorrow he finally managed to level his <Goldsmith> skill, he had wanted to get at least this far, before he finally started working on his cuirass.

Seth had several plates made from two and a half scale he had made over the past two days. They were the parts of the cuirass, the gorget, and the pauldrons.  The first thing he did was get mentally prepared for the...

583. Oath Jewelry

Once the old man was out the door, Seth turned toward the sorceress.

“Aaaal~ Can you help me make a spatial equipment to store my golems in?” he asked since he was already here.

It was a pain to walk all the way, every time he wanted to speak with her. The sorceress vehemently refused to use a mobile phone and her building was shielded from the magic signals of communication crystals.

“I don't have time for that now. Did you forget about the whole business of setting u...

582. Selling a Prisoner

“They use the bodies of fully transformed blood berserkers. The stronger the berserker was, the higher is the efficacy of the pellet. It is a highly sought-after cultivation supply among the black faction.”

“EW! And people from your world ingest something like that willingly?!” Seth screeched, twitching in disgust.

The incident he remembered was the robbery of bodies from the morgue and some hospitals. The sick fu*cks actually stole corpses to make drugs.

“Some fro...

581. An unexpected Visitor

After finishing up, Seth left his workshop. Seeing the two dwarfs still busy, he felt almost a little bad to be the first one to leave. Only almost. He was just thinking of grabbing a bite before returning to his quarters and maybe play some games when he saw a rare face.

It was Mike. Well, Mike wasn't hard to meet in general, but it was rare for the beastman to find his way into the workshops.

“Look who got lost. Mike! What's up?” he greeted the brother of his girlfriend.

580.Somewhere Else (16)

--Delta--

The bar was filled with adventurers from all around the district. It was a bar close to the emergency shelters for the people of Sigma. Many of the people present belonged to prominent guilds and businesses and were sent to work as guards until the refugees settled in.

“Puha!” someone exclaimed after taking a big swig of beer.

“I'm telling you, it's those bastards from Minas Mar. Every time something happens, they are thriving. Behind they shiny facade, they ...

579. Lesath

Sitting at the enchanting table he set everything up to start working on the right vambrace. The acid this time was a dreadful sludge that Alison came up with during her experiments with different acid recipes.

This stuff was so potent that it could even corrode the flesh of high-level creatures and instantly cause sepsis and necrosis. The divinities he wanted to stir for this vambrace was the light god's double property of healing and the plague.

Finding a plague demon was easy. ...

578. Graffias

One of Apollo's domains was the mastery of musical instruments, especially lyres. To kindle this part of the divine power inside the material, Seth chose an etching dedicated to Amducias, a demon of music and called the ghost of music instruments.

Where the library of the college lacked in works that praised the demons of the forge, it excelled in praising demons of music. The poem Seth chose was only rare rated, but it was long. Sometimes in demonic poetry quantity could make up for qu...

577. Mustache Power

Over the following days, Seth spent some of his time on the side coming up with a way to help them. After talking again with Mina, he came to the conclusion that their invisibility was purely a visual effect since Mina could still use her ears and nose to find them.

The blacksmith couldn't make them something like his own Argos Eyes that could see through the illusion, which would probably work against them, however,  he had a better idea. A really stylish one.

Seth used a pa...

576. Hot Training

When he entered the wing dedicated to training, he could hear the sound of fighting from one of the training rooms. Who was training this late at night? Curious, Seth came to the door of the room the sounds were coming from.

Inside he saw two shadows fighting at a speed his eye could hardly follow. One wielded a training spear, the other a sword. From the golden mane following the spear wielder, he realized it was Monique, while the other was Jonah, based on his elusive movements.

575. Trignis Gloves

To his surprise, the description really became a lot more comprehensive and the ego had been restored. After his improvised surgery, it had only taken 15 to 20 minutes for the ego to restore itself. Although it was probably not perfectly fine, the speed was impressive.

Seeing the soul was repaired, Seth saw no reason not to finish what he started. The further steps were a lot easier compared to the experimental operation he had just performed. He split the soul into two parts, connected...

574. Chickensoup

After moving the dwarfs into a more comfortable sleeping position, Seth entered his own workshop. In the corner was Cerberus diligently turning all kinds of raw material into weapons for the shop. Originally, the golem was meant to take a support role in the smithy, but Seth seldom needed a second hand.

Instead, Cerberus became the cornerstone of the Turquoise Anvil's weapon supply. With all the sudden and sometimes long breaks, the shop would have long broken down without the golem's s...

573. Spicy Audience

It had really become a legendary item... and it had the right to be called that in Seth's opinion. At this point, Forgeright did not only augment all his basic blacksmith skills, but also the more magical like Enchantment and his demonic ones like forging ballads.

Ögunn's influence had further improved it in a direction where it fit better with a demonic bard who specialized in forging weapons like himself. With Wraithguard and Forgeright, he now has a pair of gauntlets that augmented ...

572. Brothers of the Forge

With the boss gone, most of the problems in the mansion were resolved. Even if it was a growing dungeon, it had nobody that controlled it now. Most ghosts had found their peace and only the few evil ones like the gremlin-like fellow still stuck around.

Sandra, Seth, and the Girl they found were more than enough to make a sweep of the mansion and find two more survivors. The blacksmith didn't know how many they had lost, but their faces didn't look good.

It was evening by the time ...