Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 202: Rumours

When everyone felt the presence of a Hero entering the city, everyone, including the guards, the citizens or the different clansmen, turned around and looked at the new-comer.

What they saw was a tall man wearing an awe inspiring armor. It was obviously made of scales, blue ones to be precise, and some people among those watching recognized them to be dragon ones.

But as impressive the armor was, what everyone wanted to know, was what the name of this Hero was. And as they discovered who it was, many opened their eyes wide in astonishment.

[Valiant Heart] (Silver, Level 58)

HP: 749520/749520

It had been a week since Adam had broken through, and he had already reached Level 58. This was quite fast, but Adam knew for sure that as his level increased, it would become harder and harder to level up, and as he neared level 100 it would probably be hard to increase even by one level in a week.

Many couldn't even see what the his HP was, only displaying question marks, but they didn't care about that. The name, Valiant Heart, was one everyone in the world knew. The famed Aqua Sovereign who had slain the dragons and earned the title of Dragon Slayer.

Those people were shocked to discover that at only the Silver Rank, this man had managed to become as strong as a Hero, they knew Sovereigns were above others, but this was a little too much, skipping over two entire ranks and a hundred levels.

Adam heard the people staring at him started talking among them, and although at first they were talking about his recent achievements, he was surprised to find out their topic quickly went off course.

Instead of talking of his numerous battles and victories, they started talking about female companions. Like a bunch of gossipy wives, which some of them were, they began talking about who they thought would go best with him, which female was worthy of him, about rumours they heard.

Even as Adam restrained his aura, the word about his arrival had already spread, and wherever he went he heard people talking about him, and staring at him.

And once again, they were talking about the same things. What was going on with them?

It was only after listening for some time that Adam understood why people had become so interested in his private life.

Rumours had travelled around saying he had been in Princess Thalia's company for a few weeks recently, and the common people started assuming things. Moreover, another rumour had come from within the Imperial Palace of Aldeneid, where a maid spread the word that the Aqua Sovereign had gifted a priceless gift to the Imperial Family to woo Thalia.

This gift was the Star Chains skill book, which was priceless indeed. But the maid had lacked a lot of information, and filled the gaps with her imagination. He hadn't gifted the book, he lent it in exchange of something, and it certainly wasn't to woo Thalia.

But the maid didn't know any of that, and so the rumours quickly spread. Taking this as the truth, people started thinking Adam and Thalia had fallen in love with each other, and were about to get married.

Learning this, many clans around the world who wanted to become acquainted with Adam became desperate. Some who were more reserved simply invited Adam to their clan, to 'visit', and others who were bolder had directly expressed their intention and offered their daughter's hand in marriage.

Even though the rumours said Adam would marry to Thalia, it wasn't uncommon in this world for men or women to have multiple companions, or have concubines. Although the clans wished their daughter could become Adam's wife, becoming a concubine was good enough too.

But it had already been a few weeks since the rumours started spreading, and yet Adam hadn't even made a move. So people began wondering whether he really loved Thalia, and the clans began feeling hope.

All of this led to people starting to talk about who they thought would be best as Adam's companion. This had even already started creating conflicts between many girls and women around the world, all of whom wished Adam would choose them.

After all, Adam had everything a woman could want. Strength, Status, Money, Charisma, Looks and so much more. He was the dream man of practically every girl all around the world, and as such most women in the world became competitors with each other.

Adam didn't miss the many sweet looks the women began throwing at him as he visited Fimdot, and it came from every race.

Also, not long after he arrived, apart from some of the bolder women, and men, who directly came and confessed to him, some clan leaders also hurried to him and invited him to their estate.

In the end, Adam wasn't even able to visit the places he wanted to visit and was forced to leave the place as he was getting overwhelmed by the marriage propositions and girls in love.

Adam made sure to conceal his strength when he teleported over to the Citadel, as he did not want another similar situation to happen.

The Citadel was quite unique among the different Racial Powers as it was made of only one single city which span over a gigantic flying island. It was called by some the City of Sages as this was where the biggest library was located at, and intelligent people would come here to study.

Overall, it was the biggest research centre in the entire world. If one had any question, they would most certainly find the answer within the Citadel, as long as they had access to that information.

Most Islanders, the inhabitants of the Citadel, were Mages, as this path involved much more research than fighting, compared to the Warrior path. They were also one of the neutral Racial Powers, and could be considered the more reserved ones.

But once again Adam had underestimated his own influence. Even though this city was mainly made of erudites, they still had hierarchy, clans, and many people who wanted to become acquainted with him.

So even though he hid his aura, his name was still shown to all, and the news he entered the city quickly spread around, and before he had the time to arrive at the biggest library in the world, he was assaulted by clan leaders.

Even the Heroes, who stood among the strongest people in this world, were behaving submissively, fawning over him just so that he would visit them. In the end, Adam had to excuse himself and left the city, returning to Ember, the only place where he could be at peace.

Since Henry had become a Legend, not many would dare to send their men to Ember. And even for those who did, they would contribute to the local economy and wouldn't even be able to meet with Adam, so it was like hitting two birds with one stone.

Although Adam was disappointed he wasn't able to visit the last two Racial Powers to his heart content, he still got to see what they looked like, that was better than nothing

Another week went by, during which Adam cultivated, managed his guild and spent some time with Victoria.

Adam easily reached Level 60, as the amount of Aura he needed to accumulate to go from Level 59 to Level 60 was the same as the one needed to go from Level 50 to 51.

However, Adam found out that to go from Level 60 to 61, the Aura needed suddenly jumped to twice the amount. If his cultivation followed this trend, then Adam estimated he should be able to reach Level 100 in about a year.

For his Guild, it had already been several weeks since the training had started, and the weak had already been weeded out. They had already stopped recruiting, only accepting the occasional A Class or S Class, which were very small in number, and stopped recruiting B Classes as they had enough people.

After almost a month of intensive training, fighting for their lives everyday, only around 40 000 people were left. With the people who joined midway, about 100 000 people had died during this training. This was much more than Adam thought would die, but the results were incredible too.

All the remaining 40 000 had already come back from their Promotion Quest, and had turned into Silver Ranks, with an average level of 50. Moreover, they were all battle experienced and could face those of a higher class who weren't used to fighting.

In addition, there was also the Ninth Division, led by Xilzror, who was training elsewhere. This Division was exclusively made of monsters, and they trained in a different way. For those monsters, Adam actually favoured quantity over quality because unlike humanoids, monsters were much more restrained by their Bloodline, and a Grade 6 Monster, even with the best training, wouldn't ever become strong.

That's why, he simply had Xilzror control as many monsters as he could, and only seriously train the truly talented ones who were talented enough.

Finally, spending time with Victoria once again started new rumours, but the two didn't have this kind of relationships, they were simply friends. Moreover, Adam had learned Victoria was seeing someone in secret.

Back to Adam, after waiting for two weeks, news about the sub dimensions finally came back, and they were great ones.