blacksmithoftheapocalypse

453. Big Farmer

--Chrona--

“...Now, watch in despair-” her monologue was cut off.

Suddenly the broadcast cut off. The broadcasting screens turned black.

Leana’s heart dropped.

“We have to go to the palace immediately!” she exclaimed to the ladies.

That the broadcast was cut off could only mean two things to her. Either their side was losing, or something happened to the recorder on the other side. Both were bad news.

The Princess, Elza, Mina, and Fin pushed their...

452. My Turn

--Chrona--

Seeing the tragic battle take such a radical turn, the audience was confused about how they were supposed to feel. The music caused a restless urge to dance along, but the scene of dancing skeletons and slimes was ...awkward.

It became clear that Natina the Necromancer was not used to the quick rhythmic dance moves and sweat quickly drenched her elegant black dress. She wound her body in more and more indecent poses.

“Urgh, this... humiliation.” she pressed ou...

451. Phase Two

Right, Phase two was to force Natina to reveal her hidden strength with a bunch of cannon fodder. What necromancer could deny a comparison in numbers?

From the sea came the Golems he had originally left in Akhaz. He had given them the command to follow sometime after the Blood Sun because he didn't want to stomach the loss. Although these souls were weird patchworks, they were big, and he was sure he could have refined them once he was back home.

Even if he had turned them into go...

450. Is that all?

While Twinkle opened a Path, the others made sure to rest and prepare. Megan and Hubert used recorders to keep an eye on the camp at the cliff.

“I don’t know what is going on, but they assembled maybe 50 or 60 people at the cliff,” Huber shouted, causing everyone to assemble around him to look at the little handheld screen.

Even with the illusion Cad had cast onto them, the two operators didn’t dare to get too close to avoid detection. They were still close enough to notic...

449.Seriously, A dragon?

“He should have just used that Helmet and-”

“Stop your dumb backseat comments, Seth. She is obviously a champion, if he assassinated her, her goddess might curse him.” Hermes scolded.

“These spirit flames, is she a champion of a god of death like you, Uncle?” Hephaistos asked the go beside him.

Hades had a light smile playing around his lips. It was one of the few times the blacksmith god had seen his stoic uncle smile.

“Yeah, and I can’t wait to rub it...

448. Broadcasting Again

--Chrona--

Leana cursed silently. Their worries were correct, the spies had left backdoors to highjack the broadcasts. She hurriedly called Hardwig.

“I know! We are already working on cutting the connections.” her brother said distressed and immediately hung up on her. If they were already working on it, there was nothing she could do right now, except to watch.

Panning out the shot showed Natina Durnham surrounded by a company of roughly 60 pale people, standing at the ...

447. Those we Control

“Okay, let’s all get on Puffles, we still have to meet up with Caleb.”

Puffles did not fly this time. It was to save his mana. Instead, he rushed through the streets of the crumbling city like a runaway train.

Megan helped the mountain queen calm down, while the ivicer express rushed to their next destination. Once the group was completed, they had to talk about how they would proceed from here on.

It was clear that someone was aiming for their lives, and they probably...

446. Fallen Silent

After dropping Cade like a tactical warhead, the Puffles Bomber continued in a different direction. Their path was a little farther.

“That’s weird. The fight ahead suddenly fell silent...” The scaled lady mumbled behind Seth.

“You mean it’s already over?” the monk in the back asked worried.

“No. It simply fell silent.” Senior White answered uncertainly.

When they reached the scene of the fight, a field of statues appeared from the fog. Upon closer inspe...

445. Bagged as Proviant

A loud whoosh in the mist above paused the fight giving her once again the chance to escape. Feanys had been playing the cat-and-mouse game with her attackers for a while. She had fought them several times and managed to escape using the ramshackle houses and mist.

Although she was better at fighting than a traditional thief, thanks to her unique class “Mountain Brigand”, she couldn’t persevere fighting two opponents at the same time. Ultimately, it was still a class reliant on st...

444. Triple Hero

“Seth! How could you do that to Elza?” the flaming swordsman screamed.

Mobilizing his last energy, Marcel charged at Seth with tears flowing down his cheeks. Before Marcel could grab onto the blacksmith, Seth had already caught his collar.

“Calm down! She isn’t dead. Listen! She isn’t dead!” he kept shaking the heartbroken man a few times.

“If that halberd had pierced her, we would be facing an undead Elza now. I saved her!” he said for Marcel as much as for ...

443. Undead Escape

Wyvern!

The back of a giant wyvern was plowing through the houses towards them, from the direction White was looking. As it came past between the opposing groups, they all saw a giant djinn with purple skin grabbing it by the throat and pushing it across the city.

“Caleb!” the archeologist called out when the Wyvern came into view.

“Do you know the wyvern?” Seth asked, wondering what a weird name that was for a wyvern.

“Y-Yes, it’s the mount of our leader C...

442. Wyvern?

Seth was slightly stumped by Senior White’s revelation. Even if everyone missing was having a cliche one-on-one fight, that was at most 14. Who else was there? Another enemy or maybe passers-by?

“I see you are confused. Let's go to the one closes and deal with things as they come.” Senior white suggested.

She was right. Who was fighting was not important right now. They had to hurry. Everyone agreed, leading to the weird scene of a scaled lady, a bunch of people, and an ever...

441. Offering Home

The snake seemed amicable, but Seth could feel an aura similar to the throne angel from her. It meant the snake was by no means weak. As a local deity, as the Demon had mentioned, her power might be just below a god.

Seeing the difference in level, Seth bet on the cuteness of her Junior Tatzel and making a good first expression by being honest. He described their situation and the reason they were in this world.

~ So, you are looking for the remnants of that old coot. ~ the white ...

440. Senior White

The slimes taking care of the undead finally gave Seth a calm moment to think and recover with some potions. They had called him a bard and it seemed they had come looking for him specifically. This meant not only that there was someone out for him.

That person also got information on him and probably the others from somewhere. Did they catch one of their team...? No, that seemed unlikely. They were all together until the attack.

Right, the attack. Maybe that person was responsibl...

439. Pandora’s box

Laboriously he stood up from a small crater in the cobblestone. Seth stood in the middle of a narrow alley. Through the thick fog, he could barely see the entrance to the alley. What had happened?

He tried to recount his memories.

Until yesterday, he was able to look out of the window of their airship and there would have been the vast ocean and the Koor Worm that chased them all the way across the sea. They had traveled straight across the ocean and now came close to the south of...

438. The Mission

--Somewhere in Tyrybh’z--

“We got new information from our insider. Looks like the Urth group found evidence that the citadel is at the northern shore of Tyrybh’z and belongs to the ruins of their old capital. There is another team that managed to teleport to a place close by.”

“Are we going there now and leave the rest of the teams to my minions?”

“Yeah. Bring out your Nidhogr, or whatever you call that thing. We have to get there first and prepare the stage b...

437. Field of Ruins

The hero kept peppering the Koor Worm with quick energy slashes to keep its aggro on them, as they flew back the way they came, to the open sea.

The beast that had fallen into a frenzy readily followed its target. Once above the open sea, Hubert turned their ship south to circumvent the island of Bazilark. After passing the island’s tip, they could get back on course and aim for the detached continent of Tyrybh’z.

200 meters below, the ocean was frothing from the winding, endl...

436. Island Piercer

The earth shook and stalactites came falling from the ceiling. To make matters worse, a wave of screaming people rushed into the market cavern, causing a mass panic.

“It’s the sea dragon!”

“Run!”

They screamed in fear and Cade could only do little to resist the push and shove of the crowd, as they rushed to the exits. It was easier to just rush out faster than them. Stepping on heads and shoulders the rakshasa quickly exited the underground.

She had no idea w...

435. Disturbance in Chrona

Leana was rubbing her temples in annoyance. Things were going according to plan. Fin was in Chrona and she had taken care of that stupid fair folk prince in a fabulous manner. The path was cleared to spent some fun time with Fin.

How much she wanted to spoil the little cutie once she was done with her duties that had accumulated in her absence. The princess blushed, thinking of all the things she wanted to do with Fin.

Watch her eat cake. Watch her eat ice cream. Watch her become ...

434. Aburth

It became quiet again after the awkward incident with the royal invader. Fin had a long talk with her parents, but everything returned to normalcy afterward. Fin refused to talk about the details, but the group from Minas Mar had returned to their shut-in lifestyle of binge-watching the evaluation broadcasts.

“Urgh, walking across half a continent...We finally arrived. Let’s hope we can get a ship here.”

On the screen was one of the three favorites, that were now closing in ...

433. Free City of Abad

They had cut across the strait between the continent and the island of Bazilark to escape the Koor Worm’s pursuit. After the ship landed to recharge the energy storage, she offered to scout the city of Abad.

She enjoyed the quiet after leaving the group. Once she was out of sight, she pulled out some jerky and started eating in relish.

She had spent so much time alone now, that the chaos of constantly being in a group became a burden to her. But that wasn’t all.

It was h...

432.Pushy Pursuit

The only people who were assured of the demon’s survival, apart from Seth, was the imperial family. They were sure their technology had not malfunctioned, and the demon just found a way to evade the recorder’s detection.

As for the audience of the empires broadcast, the Battle of Akhaz had an abrupt end that jumped from the third wave to the team traveling across the sea.

Their group's action was once again overshadowed by what happened to other teams, as they tried to weather...

431. An Ace

“See, I told you he wouldn’t hold back,” Seth claimed triumphantly the moment the city wall started rising imbued with arcane life.

The rest of the audience scoffed at him in disdain. When did he say it? Wasn’t he the one whining about finally getting out of isolation only for his champion to lay low?

Hades went as far as to decisively ignore the braggart and concentrate to appreciate the show.

As the blacksmith on the screen started deploying modified souls and grow...

430. Golem Madness

This had to be what the blacksmith had talked about. The bad premonition had come true. She herself had dodged a lightning strike and several attempts to ambush her with these weird daggers.

Incensed, about the old demon’s betrayal, she saw no reason to leave him be. Climbing the tower, she found the demon was distracted by the bard’s giant pet and she used her chance to end him.

Her fangs tore through the demon's nape, severing the head except for a thin strand of skin, still...

429. Blood Sun: The Wave (2)

The third wave had concluded. Puffles stayed on the field and kept gorging on the corpses of the abominations, while a team of magicians and soldiers ran out to reset the outer barrier.

Seth’s bad feeling had not gone away, so it was not about the third wave. At least the power some the team members had revealed reassured him. There were great abilities during the last battle.

Still, he couldn’t help but give the Merchant another visit.

“It’s done.” Hubert greeted ...

428.Somewhere else (11)

A rain of light hammered down onto the elite beast, punching holes through the tough body armor.

“As expected of the Warrior Nun!”

“Wow!”

The rest of the raiding party was gushing in awe. The person in question still felt awkward hearing people react like this, but she couldn’t say that it was unpleasant. A little more than two months ago, she had to face a decision.

She had denied a chance of a comfortable lazy life and even left behind an easy way to grow s...

427. Blood Sun: The Wave

It had been little more than an hour since the last wave before the next appeared on the horizon. Seth had learned his lesson and did not use his pendant’s skill to look at the wave in the distance.

To the relief of many, the second wave was tremendously weaker than the first. The lightning, though weaker, managed to strike down the humongous Amalgamations before they reached the freshly erected secondary barrier.

The shield held up and they were able to wipe out the second wave...

426. Blood Sun: First Wave (2)

“Seth! It’s that one! Stop him! He's killing my babies!” Ellie suddenly tucked his sleeve and screamed over the noise of the battle.

With tears and vengeance in her eyes, she pointed down in the moat. In the moat below, was another war raging, slimes frantically trying to envelop and digest the still living beasts that had entered their wet territory.

Most of the beasts were simply too clumsy in the water, to offer any significant resistance to the gooey undertakers.

S...

425. Blood Sun: First Wave

The ringing of bells woke Seth up. It was the alarm of the city. There were only another 30 minutes until sunrise. It was the signal for the soldiers to assemble and the citizens to hide in the shelters.

Seth wore his armor and robe before stepping outside. Streams of people were hurrying past him to the shelter entrances. Then tension was almost tangible in the atmosphere of the city. He met Ellie who also exited her room and they walked to the city wall where the team planned to assem...

424. The Deal

Hubert McCarthy, the dimensional merchant. Seth had forgotten his name right after they introduced themself at the start of their journey. He only remembered it when the hero called him that.

“I know, everyone here has their secrets and skills they don’t wish to reveal. However, we were plunged into this situation together and should share information. Does any of you have any skills that could be of value in our current situation?” the dimensional merchant began.

“I will ...