Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 208: Fleeing

Now certain the demons were coming after him, sparks appeared around his body as he once again boosted his speed. Lightning was the second fastest element in the world in a straight line, only bested by light.

But the Light Concept was quite rare and those versed in it would rather use it's illusions than it's speed. It was much more difficult to reach the max speed with this concept.

That's why, the lightning skills were generally known as the ones offering the greatest boosts in speed, for linear movements.

But as fast as Adam was with his different boosts, although he could lose the weaker Heroes, the stronger ones were still faster than him. Thankfully, he had quite some advance on them, and they were only a bit faster than him.

In only ten seconds they had already flown so far away that they couldn't see any more humans, and they weren't even close to catch up on him.

Trailing behind him, the leader of the demon, the Half-King Demon, who had been enraged by Adam's multiple attacks, growled with his demonic voice "We have been baited! All of you, go back to take care of them, I will deal with this punk by myself."

The Higher Demons nodded and flew back toward the humanoids they left behind while their leader went for Adam. However, ten seconds later when the demons came back to the entrance of Providence, they found out that nearly every humanoid had fled already.

The demons looked at the younger ones of the Demonic Faction who entered from Epoch, and descended from the sky chase the humanoids. Maybe some had seen where they went.

Meanwhile, Adam was still being chased by the Half-King Demon, who was closing in on him. They had already flown for a few hundred kilometers already, leaving the entrance of Providence far behind.

As the Half-King Demon was getting closer and closer, Adam knew it was time for him to leave. Being chased by a peak Ancestor Demon who was about to reach the next realm was very dangerous, and it would be quite hard for him to leave if he didn't have a plan. Fortunately, he had kept several trump cards.

For the next few seconds, Adam began flowing slower and slower as he made his aura look weaker and weaker, to appear more exhausted than he was. The demon behind him didn't have any doubt about Adam being tired, flying costed a lot of Aura.

Finally, the demon entered within a kilometer of Adam, and he stopped. In an instant the demon crossed the kilometer and arrived about ten meters in front of Adam.

He sneered and said "To think that I would get to kill a human Sovereign before ascending to become a King Demon The Devils have blessed Tazolos."

Adam raised an eyebrow and said "So your name is Tazolos? Are you sure you can kill me though?"

As he said that, he slashed the air behind him with his palm, quickly creating a portal, and he began falling backwards into the portal.

Tazolos was shocked. First, he never expected this human, who was so exhausted, to be able and have enough Aura to form a portal. Moreover, had the human opened it before, when it was flying after him, it could have sent a full powered attack at the human before he could enter the portal since his Aura was circulating quickly through his body due to flying.

But now that he had stopped and laid down his guard, his Aura had practically come to a stop. For someone of his power, he only needed an instant to launch a full powered attack, but in many fights, an instant was all that was needed. For example, falling in a portal.

Still, even if it couldn't launch a full powered attack, he could still use a part of his power directly. Tazolos sent its palm toward Adam, instantly launching a flying palm toward Adam.

As he fell backwards, Adam put his sword in front of himself and created several barriers using his different concepts, and a large part of his Aura at the front of his body, leaving the other part to protect his organs.

Then, the palm strike struck him heavily, sending him flying even faster in the portal, and continued behind him.

Not only people, but attacks could also go through portals. Tazolos saw Adam cough a mouthful of blood as he was hit, and was satisfied as he thought he killed the human. However, the next second he saw the portal was still opened, meaning the caster hadn't been killed yet.

What it didn't know was that it had done exactly what Adam wanted it to do. He had created his portal several tens of meters underground, and using the portal would have been impossible as the other side was surrounded by rocks.

And Adam wouldn't be able to destroy such a large amount of rocks fast enough. That's why, he had the demon destroy it in his stead. And since he couldn't avoid taking the blow either, he had the demon lay down his guard, leading to him releasing only a part of his power.

And as he appeared underground, Adam was glad he made such a decision as his HP was almost depleted from a single palm strike, he was nearly killed. Adam then hurriedly summoned Neith and had her lead the two of them away.

A second later, Tazolos appeared underground, normally one would hesitate to enter someone else's portal as they could be killed if they entered at the wrong time, but as a peak Hero, even if the portal closed on Tazolos he could shrug it off.

When he took the portal, he appeared in a dark tunnel that had been created by his palm strike, and that went for several hundred meters. Thinking Adam had gone that way, he hurriedly followed the tunnel, reaching the other end in an instant.

But as he reached the other end he didn't see anyone, and at the same time the portal was closed behind him. Tazolos gritted his teeth as he felt he was played with. He punched upwards, he was sure Adam was hiding in wait next to the portal using some methods and had made the portal disappear after taking it.

However, as Tazolos appeared above the ground once again, Adam was nowhere to be seen. Unfortunately for Tazolos, he didn't know that Adam had long left and was several kilometers underground, and far away from Tazolos.

Even though Neith could perfectly cover her traces while underground, facing this unknown demon Adam had Neith continue digging for an entire hour before returning to the surface. Only then was Adam sure they had successfully escaped.

Adam and Neith then went on to find a place to settle in before Adam began recovering. This time, his injuries were quite grave and he would need around a week to completely recover from them.

Meanwhile, all the other people who entered alongside Adam split and hid around Providence.

Days passed, and soon a week went by, and as it did, the people trapped received terrible news. Every sub dimension had a core, and controlling the core meant controlling the dimension.

A few people had tried to go back to the entrance to flee and warn the powers in Epoch, but they found out that the portal had been completely sealed. Tazolos, the Half-King Demon had closed the portal as he had already refined this dimension's core. The only way for them to leave would be to kill Tazolos.

Finally, back to Adam, after an entire week of recovery, he was finally back to his top form and was ready to set off. He had to find his guild, and find more about the situation within Providence.