blacksmithoftheapocalypse

394. The Hustle

Unfortunately, he had no chance to follow this line of thought

Today was the day of the party, that Princess Leana hat talked about. He had promised to come and needed to get ready for the event.

“Are you ready?” Mina asked after he got dressed.

The moment he saw mina in her drop-dead gorgeous dress, he didn’t regret having to leave his workshop anymore. She wore a rather revealing black dress with slits that gave a view of her long legs, a deep cleavage, and an open b...

393. Wait at the end of my Work~

In the next few days, Seth spent some more of his time practicing the lyre. Oz was very talkative in general, but when it came to learning the lyre he was a great help.

It was not just about the item's effects, but Oz was a great teacher when it came to music. He could not only tell Seth what he did wrong but also immediately show him how to do it right.

As the lyre was his body, he could demonstrate the faulty parts by playing them for Seth to see and repeat.

The songs they...

392. Work, and gushing~

Seth and Mina kept enjoying the day together and returned to Minas Mar in the evening. Both had to endure Mary’s scolding about just running off.

“Here, this letter came from Ora.”

Seth took it excitedly. It was from Nädel. Seth had sent the craftsman tailor a sample of Puffles’ <Sky Silk>. He had hoped for the tailor to make him a new set of shirt and pants he could wear under the <Golden Fleece>.

Unfortunately, it was no good news. To sum it up, Nädel...

391.Good vibes

Seth came by the octagonal room again and said his goodbyes to Marcel, Elza, brock, before following a butler to leave.

His head was filled with the things he needed to do in the coming days. Now that he could officially use magic crystals as a cheap additional power source, he would be able to make more test golems without worrying about squandering expensive materials.

Thanks to this, he was sure to level up <Golem Artisan> again and make the next step.

An excited be...

390.Anything you’re missing

Sitting inside a big, regal salon, they faced each other only divided by a small coffee table with sweets and drinks. She took a sip of her coffee and spoke up.

“First of all, I'm glad you did not leave right away. I know it’s much to ask since you yourself have returned not too long ago. On the other hand, I expected nothing less after I saw your engagement to help with the situation in Beta”

Seth decided to just listen for now and kept sipping the tea he was offered. He wa...

389. Wishin the Bard was by my side

Seth was led into a big room. It was shaped like an Octagon and in the middle of the room stood a massive, heavy-looking table. At the round table sat the princess, a bunch of people Seth didn’t know, and one he wished he didn’t know.

One of the people sitting at the desk was the self-proclaimed adventurer king. Seth had enjoyed a sweet time of peace, having forgotten this person's existence after the tournament incident.

What was his name again? Seth tried to remember.

...

388. Hell bent for the tether

---------Gamma-------

Traveling on the Djinn who had transformed into a majestic lion, the journey to Gamma from Y-City had only taken her mere days.

Returning to her origin was kind of nostalgic. Much had changed from the days when the Zarkist went rampant, and the people could only hide in shelter from the lunatics and monsters that kept flooding from the broken dungeons.

Shee found a shaky order had taken root in Gamma. A fragile balance between something called the Chron...

387. Freaks and Monsters drink together

In the evening, Seth and the lord of Minas Mar wore their best attire and joined the Welcome Banquet in a venue close to the accommodations. They were the representatives of Minas Mar, and they knew the Princess.

And they could go look for team 3.  Lydia and her team had not yet returned, and they could go look for them and the chimeras during the banquet.

Most of them wore elegant evening attire except for some odd ones out. Jonah for example insisted on keeping his mask on,...

386. Stone Hide~

While Seth was busy working on his Golems, Hoen had been hard working on making their heat coins. The demand was great. While Seth send Drosi with bis numbers to Gamma, he left the distributions in Y-City to Samuel and his people of the system church.

The blacksmith did not trust the command structure of Y-City. Who knew whether some people wouldn’t pinch off the cheap product here and there to sell them with a profit. Seth paid well Samuel, to make sure that the coins got into the ha...

385. Keep them Golems growin’~

An afternoon later they had come up with a way to integrate either magic crystals or monster cores into the golem as additional power sources. It made sense to use the power cores of the monster themself, but it was not possible for some.

The Magic Crystals or magic nuclei used for staffs were a good substitute for those cases.

Using Al’s advice, Seth went ahead and created the second prototype.

This monkey had the beast core, of one of the big monkeys, as an additional po...

384. Though the souls keep rollin’

A little more than two weeks had passed since Seth returned from Beta. Positive news started arriving one after another. Things were set in motion.

The relief forces of Y-City had reached Beta District and managed to cooperate with the remaining guilds and soldiers of Beta. The evacuation was slowly gaining traction. There was also news of scattered refugees arriving in Y-City.

Simon, the chubby priest, brought another piece of news. Princess Leana and the rescue forces successful...

383. Golem Golem Golem

Having dealt with his own equipment Seth also spent some time revising the equipment of his friends. Some of the items he had made of the stronghold seemed lacking at this point. Especially after getting his hands on a multitude of high-grade materials, he would have felt bad if he did not improve those that seemed lacking.

Only then, did he dive into the creation and modification of vessels. Al’Salzar became a rare sight at Minas Mar. She was either going around the city or locked up...

382. New Things

In the following weeks, the news of Beta became public within Delta and Ypsilon with the flow of refugees from the district growing. The atmosphere of Delta became heavy in this time and a few guilds followed Minas Mar’s example to help in the evacuation.

Voices that demanded for the districts to step in to do more than just war relief became loud. There were many reasons, disclosed or undisclosed, why the leaderships did not move in this direction.

The society that had just sta...

381. Stone Chewer

The damage even rivaled his Draconic blade! It was a shame that a pickaxe was a rather wieldy tool that lacked any dedicated attack skills. Still, with these kinds of enchantments, nobody would want to be struck by it.

When he checked the skill, to see what the synergy had caused, he found a few changes.

<Active Skill: Piercing Strike, No Cost, Cooldown: 30 seconds.

Ignore the target's armor and deal 350% true damage to the target. >

The cooldown had lowered beca...

380. Miner’s Delight

“Seth, can we talk?” he met Lynri at the canteen on his way to meet Link.

“Hi, Lynri. How have you been so far?”

Seth had not much time to check on her, after their return. Since she approached him herself, he would take his time to listen to her.

“Thanks for asking. Life in Minas Mar is great. The food is delicious, the people are nice but...” she paused as if unsure how to continue.

“You can tell me if there is something bothering you.”

They bot...

379. New Directions

However, growing Minas Mar into a force to be reckoned with was all future talk. Right now, there was something bothering Seth that was more pressing than his urge to experiment on artificial life, and it wasn’t repairing the gear of the Oathguard.

After several weeks of absence, their armors looked rather dilapidated after the fights in Ora. He left that job to Hoen, the dwarven magic blacksmith who had recently joined Minas Mar with his wife. The dwarf was of advanced level and coul...

Imugi Name

Hey, guys. As the title says, let's look for a name. Since I did something similar for Puffles.
Personally, I like Tatzel, from Tatzelwurm, a german kind of Dragon.
Other options are Fuchur or Falcor, the name of the lucky dragon of the Unending Story in German or English.
If you have any suggestions, please put them in the comments

378. Realization

Seth became quite busy when they finally returned to Minas Mar.

Although he had left the organizational stuff to others, he still had to look through and approve all of the paperwork involved.

Monique had done well in prospering Minas Mar while he was gone, which made a deal directly with the leadership of another district much easier. His own connection with Mark Baker also played no small role.

What awaited him when he came back was a stern scolding from Mary and Jane. The...

377. Somewhere Else (8)

A party of shadows arrived at the edge of a vast rocky desert. A heavy shower drenched their black robes. The shade in the front pulled out a small orb and called someone.

“My Lady.”

“Do you have any news?” a female voice came from the little orb.

“Yes, we just finished scouting the area. It is as the Urthling reported. We found residues of wards, probably from the Theocracy. The corruption has spread after their Stronghold fell and nobody was left to inject divine...

376. Colossal Grounds

“What is that?!” Seth exclaimed instinctively.

In the center of the city was a giant crater filled with a wide dome that would cause a meltdown for anyone with trypophobia. It was covered in dozens of bigger and smaller undulating orifices.

<Ding! You have witnessed the terror of field boss “Colossal Fungeon- A living dungeon”. Experience gained.>

~ I’m not getting close to that thing. ~ Puffles states vehemently.

“Agreed. Let’s grab Jonah and just ...

375. Fruitful Growth

The section was called Holding, similar to Reserach&Holding in The Burrow.

After what they heard from Jess and James, the rescue party had expected the worst.  hearing from Laura what this facility was supposed to be for, they imagined dark and moist sex dungeons.

But when they arrived, it had more of a subterranean luxury apartment complex! Although still cells they could not leave whenever they wanted, what the group could see through the door windows looked like suites...

374. Everybody’s gone?

Despite the very obvious signal, there was no reaction. Even when they jumped over the gate and neared the building, there was no one to be seen.

They broke the entrance glass doors of the unassuming office building. An automatic alarm sounded, but the entrance was deserted, and nobody came to see what was wrong.

“What is going on in this place?” Archer mumbled.

“I have a bad feeling about this,” Lydia muttered.

The silent city was one thing, but there was nobo...

373. The Cradle (2)

“Simon, didn’t the System Church have a branch in Beta?”

Seth asked after pulling out a small orb from his inventory and calling someone. This was a communication crystal. The group of Minas Mar has purchased several for this mission after it became known that phones would not work in Beta.

“hmm? Yes, what about it?” the old priests answered the question after receiving the video call.

“Do you have any information about the fact that Beta is being overrun?”

372. The Cradle

“What do you mean, you are not coming along?” Seth asked in surprise.

“I mean, that I am not coming along. I will work stay here and work on those books the old man gave you.”

“You mean Master Mountain?”

“Yes.”

“But we need you!” Seth pleaded desperately.

What about his easy bus? Al had finally evolved into a permanent summon only to tell him, that she would not follow him anymore! Seth had looked forward to watching the sorceress slaughter mo...

371. Al’s Shuttle

“You gotta be kidding me, Al!? Are you serious?” Seth asked exasperated when he saw what the Ex-Lich had prepared for their glorious journey.

In front of the entrance of Minas Mar, the imposing magic tower inside a giant cavern, stood a grey omnibus with old blue color flaking off. Supposedly she had bought that thing for a gold coin on a junkyard.

“We are going to fly to beta in this thing?”

It awoke uncomfortable memories of a game Seth knew. Where did the sorceres...

370. And the silver Spoon

“Which means?”

“Give a few minutes.”

While Laura was occupied with the computer, James came out to find Jess had already tied up the merman.

“I got in! Sort off.” Laura suddenly exclaimed.

“Can you stop the monster from getting outside now?

“No... I was unable to get access to the restricted functions. The facility will automatically proceed to eject subjects for defense until there are no more inside.  However, i have access to documents and...

369. The Burrow (2)

The administration was a big room of cubicles, and the place was completely smashed. It looked like a big fight had happened here, with many corpses of guards in matching armor being strewn all over the place.

It was the first sign of actual battle, instead of indiscriminate slaughter. She looked at the chaos and the team of guards on the ground. These were not the ordinary people she knew, who would check their IDs and write entry protocols.

These had been the elites of Xen Biolo...

368. The Burrow

The search was tense as they were aware that Lord Jonah was constantly fighting outside the building while they were squandering time to find the place where the monsters came from. After a while that felt like an eternity, they were lucky.

They had just entered the underground parking lot when they heard a loud rumbling. Quickly they hid in the dark and observed where the sound was coming from.

When the noise stopped, they heard a sliding and suddenly a group of monsters entered ...

367. Beta (2)

The Duo’s destination was the headquarters of a pharma giant Xen Biologies.

For what it was worth, the days they had spent with the military were not a complete waste of time. They were the best source of information to track the path that the cat people had taken.

This company was the biggest suspect. They had found a load of information about visitors from different races vanishing and all were somehow connected to this place. It was just that law enforcement lacked evidence a...

366. Beta

“I feel something is missing. You didn’t add the restrictions?” she asked surprised after she was done adjusting.

“No, I didn’t.”

“Why not?”

“Because... I wish for you to stay with us at Minas Mar, but I do not wish to force it onto you. What good is keeping you, if it was against your will? I just hope that, if you really leave, you will help us travel to Beta first.” a flood of words fell out of Seth’s mouth.

“I see. Then i will leave right aw...