blacksmithoftheapocalypse

11. Into Dark Woods

Seth was fiddling with his status when he heard a sharp cry like an eagle's in the sky. The sound pierced his eardrums and instantly gave him a headache. Shielding his eyes, Seth looked up into the sky trying to see through the gaps between trees.

It was a shadow. A big shadow. So big, that Seth instantly jumped into the ruins of a half broken house to hide. Whatever it was, he didn't want to meet it. But fate obviously had different plans.

The shadow dove towards the ground and s...

10. What worked twice...

It took longer than Seth had expected, but after some time there appeared a group of Goblins. It were 8 Goblins lead by a creature about the size of a human. This was probably the orc. It wasn't the weird pig-like kind that some north-eastern novels featured, but the green skinned kind he knew from games. A rough description would be a skin with a moss-green tint, long pointy ears like an elf, a body full of muscles and a lower jaw featuring a pair of big tusks.

When one of the Goblins ...

9. First Quest?

He looked at the map, which showed a several kilometers long, more or less straight stretch, from his home to here. This place was even marked on the map as jungle biome.

"Why is there a tropical jungle...hah... In the outskirts?", he complained panting.

The humid air made his clothes stick to his skin and it didn't really help, that he wore a thick leather jacket. Seth had actually hoped to get somewhere with less... green. You can say whatever you want about a wasteland, but at ...

8. Burning the Midnight Fuel

Stepping out of the door, he stood at the top of a staircase, that led down to the boardwalk. Well, now it was a meadow of high grass. Seth walked down the staircase until he stood on level ground.

"Summon Spirit Smithy!"

The skill worked, despite the grass and the Spirit Smithy appeared before him, flattening the grass it stood on. Seth pulled out a table leg he had gotten from his neighbor's place, it was a lot better for this, that was what he had prepared. Determined he held i...

7. Leaving home

Seth had finally succeeded! The Billhook looked good and felt good in his hands, he knew without using the <Blacksmith's Eyes>, that it was a good weapon! Still, he appraised it.

<Billhook

Common

Damage: 10-20

Durability:25

This sharp tool for cutting down branches and shrubbery can also act as a versatile Weapon. It was made by an aspiring Blacksmith and has some defects. Grants 2.3x damage against small and mid-sized plant-based Enemies. Grants 1.3x da...

6. Preparations

It was already noon and still dark outside? Was this also an apocalyptic scenario? Did the sun go on a strike and didn't wish to work today?

Looking out the windows, he saw the city submerged in twilight. He opened the window and leaned outside to look at the sky.

"What the...?", he muttered when he saw, why there was no light. It wasn't the sun unwilling to work, it was the canopy of a gargantuan tree that was covering the sky above the city and blocking out the light. The tree e...

5. A long Night

Seth woke up with his body aching all over.

He had been too focused on leveling his skills that he hadn't noticed his bodies pains.

"Status?"

Name: Seth Smith

Title: "Faster than the Thought"

Level:1

Exp: 60%

Race: Ori Huma

Sex: Male

Age:23

Class: Spirit Blacksmith (Unique)

Affiliation: None

Health: 975/1000

Mana:100 (INTx10)

Strength:11

Dexterity:15

Agility: 12

Intelligence:10

Willpowe...

4. Grinding!

Seth knew, that he would have to leave to get more food and stuff at some point, but right now he had food for a few days, so he planned to raise his skills for as long as possible and then try to make a weapon and some armor before leaving his secure home. Using <Blacksmiths Eyes> he combed through his home to find any and everything he could throw in the furnace and collected them on a pile in the living room. Cutlery, pots, pans except for some necessities his kitchen was emptied. A ...

3. The Spirit Smithy

After making sure, that he didn't have to expect being raided any time soon he returned to the kitchen. His fingers were itching to retry summoning the smithy, but testing out the system seemed more important for now. Seth wanted to test the inventory. He took what little food reserves he had and tried putting them into the inventory slots, starting with the refilled water bottles.

He remembered the instructions from the tutorial and concentrated on "storing" the bottle he held in his h...

2. Spirit Blacksmith

"What's a Silver Class Wheel?", he asked subconsciously.

<Good question, Player! Great transition, let's go ahead and continue with the last Lesson, your Class Choice! Each player can choose a basic class from this list!>, a golden scroll appeared with a number of classes like Swordsman, Warrior, Fighter, Healer, Pharmacist, Mage... things like that.

<A class offers you the set of skills connected to it and a boost in learning them, but do not worry! It does not limit the...

1.The World ended?

We are looking at a world very similar to Earth. In the year 21XX humanity realized that they were done for. They had missed the mark and were facing inevitable climate change. More and more natural disasters plagued the humans. Storms raged, cities were flooded and the people became desperate. Projects were rushed, solutions were searched, catastrophes brought things to light that should have better stayed in the dark. But it was no movie and no novel. There was no way for them to stop it. E...