blacksmithoftheapocalypse

1073. Checking on the Fleet

---Little Gamma---

While more than half the participants were facing hurtful and humiliating traps and riddles, others were fighting their way through the mountain. Not everyone had entered the dungeon, many kept their eyes on the price and trusted their swift mounts and vehicles, rather than taking the dubious shortcut.

Others didn’t even get the chance to see the dungeon entrance. Caleb and those like him who had deigned to take the easy way in the skies ...

1072. Copyright Infringement

--- Cinema Dimension---

“This... This is preposterous! Blasphemous! This is copyright infringement!” the Dungeon God huffed in the second row, causing some of the gods in the first to chuckle.

The movie screen was currently showing the same scenes broadcast to the audience in the stadium and various others from the eyes of Mike, Monique, and the other chosen. If one wasn't used to the typical dungeon streams of the dungeon god, one could have mistaken it ...

1071. Age-old Temple

Although Polter and the others were on the edge of their seats, as they watched their friend Caleb barely overcome the sudden challenge in the wild, the stadium's main screen was currently following someone else.

Hao Ying, the Fleeting Flute, known to the audience as the musician competition winner, was also participating in the obstacle race. he was one of the more exotic racers. When the race began, he threw out his flute, which enlarged and allowed him to ride it like a ho...

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1070. The Race(2)

Caleb had flown into the clouds, riding his trusty Wyvern. Lacking a dragon to ride as a Dragon knight, he could only focus and strengthening his Wyvern and their bond, to improve himself. Although his mount was focused on speed and maneuverability, he knew that he couldn't compete with some of the others in the air.

His decision was to hide in the cloud cover and make some distance here. Caleb was already used to the moisture of clouds soaking into his armor, and the cold th...

1069. The Race

“You can freely change your level?” the room exclaimed in shock. Even Leana seemed surprised. This had much further implications than just smurfing in the competitions. What if someone used to infiltrate

“I wouldn't say freely... It comes with a loss in power and skill proficiency and it's not like I can get it back in a short amount of time. <Warrior's Challenge> comes with a lot of restrictions.” she tried to explain, facing the upset room.

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1068. Lyca

“Hey, don’t I know you? I feel like we met before,” the Winner of the Speed Kill Challenge suddenly asked him as Seth put a golden medal around her neck and stepped away from the winner’s podium. This was the end of the 5th day of the Pythian Games and the official end of the “normal” sports competitions.

With great fanfare, they intended to honor all the winners of the previous round, before the games entered their heated phase. The person who suddenly spoke to S...

1067. Paolo’s Time Away

Standing in a white open, golden gate, with a great formation in the background, was an old priest holding an impassioned speech.

“And he raised his hands to the sky and called forth a flock of winged creatures, so they would slay his enemy!” the elderly priest, wearing ostentatious robes cried out in his raspy voice. His wrinkled hands gestured to the sky, as golden rays fell on the crowd of young people before him.

Paolo was among the crowd. He h...

1066. What happened to -?

“Jane... was this the security reason you wanted to borrow some of the named Golem Knights?“ Seth asked suspiciously, watching the “5-Minute-Breakers” at work. These golems belonged to the first batches of Golem Knights Seth had made and Wolfram commanded later on.

Over time and while training in the Abyss Dungeons they had developed their egos and levels. Not too long ago, they even gave themselves names, differentiating themselves from the other Golem Knights that h...

1065. Whitehilt Nr.5

While the fourth day of the Pythian Games was filled with more traditional sporting competitions, where people competed in physical prowess, the fifth and sixth days ramped up the intensity with competitions focused on more comprehensive strength.

They were made to suit the different classes of the system. A basic competition Tanks would participate in was the Defense Test. Which technically meant they offered to be a punching bag for increasingly stronger attacks by monsters...

1064. Somewhere Else(30)

A solitary figure was making her way through the windswept mountain range. The cold air ripped at her ragged clothes and snow was piling up on her shoulders. Swaying left to right, she dragged her heavy feet through the deep snow.

The cold climbed up her wet legs and she couldn’t feel her toes anymore, but this wasn’t her biggest problem. Her arm twitched, prompting her to quickly kneel down and bite down on a ripped piece of cloth.

Waves of immense pain ...

1063. Little Epsilon?

Where the first three days were spent on the finer, more intellectual arts, the fourth day was the prelude to the physical competitions. The day was coined by contests around physical attributes. Various races, tests of endurance and strength. Everything was for people to prove the results of their training and skills.

The atmosphere in the stadium was heated, even more than on the first and second days. These were the competitions people had been looking forward to. T...

1062. Great Paneling

The winning band was a rock band from Urth and all five people received the right to choose an instrument and 1000 silver as prize money. The second day of the Band Battle went by without trouble.

The third day was a short one, housing the competition of Poets. It was a way to give people a day of break, as the speeches of poets were much calmer and ... verbose compared to the musical competitions. People would either spend the day recuperating by listening to high prose, or ...

1061. Completely Destroyed

Ember's confrontation sparked the rivalry between the teams of the different colleges. A heated competition was ignited which clashed behind and on the stages. grinding her teeth, Ember had to admit that their rivals were a hard nut to crack.

All of them were hyper-focused on beating the others. Forgotten were her thoughts on winning or losing this competition, and her pride in the power of demonic bards. She didn't even bother watching other performances. They just wanted to...

1060. Maybe, but you stoked it

News of the happenings in Arget Nore quickly reached the high-ranking personnel who were currently attending the Pythian Games. They had expected for things to happen before the great climax, but Minas Mar was prepared for the Tree Stations to be hit, not for Gamma to be overrun.

“I would have liked for a longer meeting, but I will have to return early,” the regal Arch Lich said his farewells to Seth and the others after Larish and Larosh informed them of the situation in former Gam...

1059. Former Gamma

---Former Gamma, Territory of Arget Nore---

A darkness had spread across the dry desolate wasteland and the crumbling streets of the former district. Only the center of the land of death, which was covered and protected by the magic charms of their God Emperor was not covered in the shadow.

Spreading like ink, the darkness glinted like tar and creatures pulled themselves out of the viscous shadow. Standing freed from the tar that held only them like a ...

1058. Juice and sticky stuff

Now that the nice part was finished, came the dirty one Seth could do without, He was not a surgeon, and playing with the “bloody” part of another person, with all the juice and sticky stuff was his nemesis.

Since Jonah was absolutely silent as the blacksmith cut open his stump and removed what remained from his original tibia and fibula, Seth was convinced that HE was the one suffering the most in this process.

With a gag-inducing pop, the silver ...

1057. Olympian Leg of Song

Seth learned a lot, by listening to the music of the contestants. It was similar to watching a more skilled blacksmith work on a great piece. The proficiency of Seth's <Singing> and <Instrument Mastery> rose by a sizable amount, the latter even rising to Journeyman lv.7.

The blacksmith experiences good gains, despite multitasking during the performance. In the private booth of Minas Mar, the bard had his workshop summoned and was meticulously engraving a se...

1056. The Judges

“The Traveling Sound, Master Bard Garmin Del'Prado, “ she introduced a scrawny, wizened man with a long beard held in a thin strand by many brass beads. He wore the typical colorful but travel-worn garb of a minstrel. The crowd rose in cheers, especially the visitors who actually heard of him before, or watched his performances. A Small, friendly smile played around his lips as he waved at the crowd.

“The Century Scribe, Master Poet Enton Skice,” the tall, thin man wa...

1055. Greet Python

---Little Gamma---

The first day of the Pythian Games. The massive stadium finally opened its gates. Taken along by the colorful crowd he was flooded into the wonder of architecture. The central plaza was surrounded by ranks and booths that towered into the sky. Enough seats to fit a whole city or three...

He had stayed at Little Gamma for the past few days and had to admit, that the blacksmith and his people had outdone themselves. Seth had surpassed his expectations b...

1054. Why are you telling me all of this?

Joannia revealed their worries and future prospects with a monotone, slightly depressed voice.

“What about the people of New Hope?” Jane asked a question, that also interested Seth.

“We brought whoever wished to leave with us. The rest will have to rely on the giants for protection,” Joanna answered with a clear conscience. She wasn’t able to do anything about the people that refused to leave.

“I see. Before you make the final decisi...

1053. As long as we had Shells

After complimenting her on her outfit, Seth guided her and the five guards with her to the stadium administrative office, where Leana and Jane who were in direct control of the games' management, as well as the members of Yulecat's Fur, in charge of their safety, were waiting for them.

While the guards stayed in the huge Power Armors, their commander returned hers to the inventory to sit down at the table with Jane, Leana, and Seth. As a staff member supplied them ...

1052. Joannia Taggart.

---Little Gamma, About 2 Weeks Later---

Seth stood on a mountain, at the edge of Little Sigma's barrier, just below the crown of the tree. Looking into the distance, using Theia's Vision and <Clairvoyance> he was able to look over a vast landscape of mountains, past the foothills and even at the edge of the eastern plains.

The blacksmith came to Little Gamma yesterday since there were only two days left before the Entrance Ceremony of the Pythian...

1051. The New Representative

“Seth, we have to talk,” Leana personally appeared at the workshop. She seemed upset. Upset enough that she ran down to the workshops, instead of calling him like usual. The blacksmith looked up from the ornaments he was currently preparing for Ortega's new armor.

He put down the file he was working with and turned to her, ready to listen.

“The new representative of Chrona arrived today,” she said with a serious face.

“That w...

1050. Dashed Hopes

“A failure! “the blacksmith thought disappointed. Before he began on another serious project, he thought of doing something relaxing, which was experimenting with the three Geass-holding soul pieces, he had refined out of the four souls from Y-City.

In the beginning, Seth had held especially high hopes for the soul of the Shellcoat, which held the Geass of not losing stamina in the water, in exchange for only being able to feast on sentient beings. However, it turned out ...

1049. Colossus of Rhodes?

The group of craftsmen rode Puffles away from Minas Mar, to Seth's practice valley. Despite having a massive hangar for making big golems, they still had to get outside for this project. The valley where Seth had tested the Devil's Wheel Fiddle and helped Luf had been thoroughly flattened in the past and perfect for the first step.

To summon the Golem Forge on a colossal scale. With the size it needed to work on a colossal body, it even overshadows the peaks of the mou...

1048. Testing his Luck

---Northeastern Mountain Range---

Xiong Peng was impressed. Although riding an insect scratched at his dignity, he had to admit that they were superior to most common mounts he knew. These dragonflies had easily carried him and the others for three days straight, never slowing down, except for passenger breaks.

With their incredible speed and stamina, it had only taken four days to reach the place his granddaughter was headed to. They had crossed Arget Nore directly and...

1047. Ripped from this World

--- Amaver---

Sitting on a foreign throne, wearing a foreign crown, sat a former bandit with a royal frown. To her left stood a slender mage dressed in wide robes, her face hidden. To her right stood a wide priest in white robes.

Her finger played around the handle of her saber, as her eyes swept across the “throne room”. Gentle sunlight fell in through the broken roof and splintered walls. The tiled floor, covered in old leaves and encroaching vines, was littered with corpses...

1046. Temple of Persephone

---Elarion --

Two knights entered the exotic city under the burning rays of the sun. One had a slender build, wearing a pristine black armor with a bright glossy shine, like crystal. The other was taller and more buff. He wore a bright armor showing signs of wear, of an arduous journey.

The city was built from beautiful why marble and sand stones and the people on the streets wore colorful, clean robes, as they led their everyday lives. Faced with the two intrusive elements, the c...

1045. Jumping to my Bones

“Of course, since we will be allies, I will show you your money’s worth,” Seth answered with a mysterious smile. Others may have been worried about the distance to the mountain range and the dangers lurking in its shadow.

However, Seth already had a plan. A great one at that, which would be quick, effective, and cost him almost no time.

“On this matter, I would also like to talk about the continued support of my Luminous Mountain Sect to Minas Mar,” Yu linked himself int...