Despite always giving one-hundred percent, the skeletons seed to be filled with even more blood lust than usual.
Sothing had dared to hurt their master, and their desire for revenge was even more inflad by their fellow undead joining them for the revenge crusade.
All four of them charged madly down the hallway, including Blue. It was an all-out attack with zero concern for self-preservation.
The blacksmith statue was free from Anya’s [Prostrate] ability, and prepared as its enemies charged towards it.
Not that the statue knew, but the first skeleton coming was Red.
Red jumped up high with its hamr raised above its skull, bringing forward a downward swing going right for the statue’s head – yet it never landed the hit.
*BOOM!~*
The blacksmith’s stone hamr swung sideways, easily smashing Red into the wall – but Blue followed right after and landed a heavy hit, catching the statue completely off-guard.
*Crack!~*
A critical hit.
It was like Blue had planned this, using a weaker skeleton to take the hit so it would be free to deal damage..
A large chunk of stone bounced off the statue’s shoulder as half of its jaw was shattered away.
The blacksmith’s tal hamr in its other hand was almost completely stone now, and it swung it back quickly.
Blue knew the hit was coming from its second hamr but it didn’t care, it had done its job: cause massive damage, protect its master.
*BOOM!*
Blue was like a ragdoll as it smashed against the other wall, ending up on the opposite wall to Red.
Since the hamr was mostly stone now, it only did normal damage and Blue miraculously survived. Since the blacksmith superweapon turned to stone, the threat of the blacksmith was essentially over.
The statue continued to march towards Jay, while Sweeper and Lamp were ignored as they hacked away at the statues arms and legs, chipping away so more of its health along with so stone fragnts.
All the damage was taking its toll on the statue. It was on its last legs and was slowing down. It began to realise the plan to kill the necromancer had failed; each of its swings were getting slower and weaker as its life force began to leave its cold stone body.
Its last tal hamr had finally turned to stone; the curse was complete.
It quickly realised it wasn’t going to make it through this, but this didn’t an it couldn’t take a few more enemies with it.
*BOOOM!!!!*
Vengeful indignation and bitter hatred almost seed to create an aura around its body as it suddenly smashed both hamrs into the ground, implanting them into the earth.
The blacksmith gave up its hamrs.
Next, it grabbed two of the skeletons. Years or forging made its grip unbreakable.
Sweeper and Lamp had no choice as they were crushed against its body while it jumped into one of the stone ore containers.
All the skeletons could do was wriggle against its strength.
Red and Blue were trying to free their comrades as they stood at the edge of the stone container and smashed away at it, but it was all for nothing.
The wall suddenly opened and a familiar orange glow flowed out, accompanied by heat.
Slowly but surely, the stone box flipped backwards; the blacksmith, two skeletons and two bone-tal hamrs all fell into the intense heat coming from the wall.
[Your skeleton has been slain]
[Your skeleton has been slain]
[800 Exp]
“Dammit…” Jay thought as he saw the notifications.
“Pretty la way to die.” he pursed his lips.
Crafting those two bone hamrs cost him two tal ingots. Sure, losing two skeletons was annoying but it was now considered a small thing to Jay. Hundreds of thousands of skeletons remained in his gauntlet, but he would have to leave the dungeon again if he wanted more of the hamrs.
Anya was quite pleased with the large experience boost, but she saw Jay only frowning after the notifications. They split the experience, but it was still a lot nonetheless, so she assud it was because of all his skeletons suffering.
“Hmm, he must really care about his skeletons.” she thought, deciding to say nothing about it.
“Hmm…” Jay looked at the forge area, an idea crossing his mind.
The glowing lava was srising as it floated up and down on top of the enchanted stone cube.
“I only need so ingots to make more hamrs right? So why not?” he thought as he approached it.
As Jay drew near, the heat coming from it was intense. His face was imdiately dried out and so traces of steam wisps were leaving his clothes.
Jay grabbed what seed like an industrial ladle from the tool rack near the forge. Pulling out the two chunks of sparkling ore he grabbed, he dropped them in but realised it simply wouldn’t be enough.
For a mont he frowned, but then he looked at all the tools around him and his lips began to curl. Unlike the stone weapons, these were still made of tal. Jay was glad that Helvetia’s curse only affected weapons.
With a smile he hopped around and grabbed them, adding them to the large ladle he was going to lt them all in.
If the blacksmith could see Jay now it would probably forget all about helvetia’s revenge and co back from the dead just to murder him.
These were his precious tools, his life-long accomplices that he took care of, and which took care of him. Now they were being used to make more poorly-crafted hamrs for so undead – they wouldn’t even appreciate them. How could soone do this?
As Jay brought the ladle near the floating lava on top of the rune-covered cube, the lava all moved as it responded to the approaching ladle. It turned into a bowl shape so the ladle could sit on the top.
“Not bad,” Jay thought with a nod, “Helvetia sure was advanced.”
He placed it in, and it only took a mont before the contents all beca a silvery liquid.
There was so gunk on the top but he scraped it off; he wasn’t sure what it was, but his instinct told him it was probably trash.
Jay looked around and found so moulds to pour the liquid into. None of them had hamr shapes but there was sothing shaped like an ingot so he opted for that.
Thankfully, Anya waited patiently as she watched. She didn’t have much else to do, but it wasn’t like she had a choice either; without Jay she would definitely not get this far.
The molten tal flowed into the moulds with ease, it was quite straight-forward.
A few monts later his ingots were crafted. He had so liquid tal left over but he just left it in the ladle.
[Helvetian Steel Ingot – 84% Purity] x 2
“Eight-four percent?” Jay frowned as he analysed the ingots.
He could see the tiny flakes from the sparkling ore in it, but it seed that there simply wasn’t enough for any aningful change. It was probably what made up the other 16% of the ingot, or at least so of it.
“Perhaps I can’t analyse too much about the ingot, maybe I just need so more blacksmithing experience?”
Still, he couldn’t complain as these were steel; much stronger than the iron bars he purchased from Lillian at the guild.
“I wonder what the hamrs will be like.” he thought as he sat down and prepared to craft his new weapons.
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