Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 209: Sage Beast

Adam flew a hundred meters into the sky, looking over the horizon. Be it to find his guild or finding resources, Adam needed to search a wide area. As such, he decided to split up with Neith. She would search the underground of Providence as well as the rocky terrains such as mountains or deserts if there were any.

As for Adam, he would travel as much distance as possible by flying. If any of them encountered danger, they could feel each other presence thanks to their spirit link, and they would never be too far from each other so with their speed they would be able to join each other very quickly.

Adam didn't know anything about this dimension, be it it's size or who inhabited it. Sure, there were the demons who ambushed them, but were they really the only ones living in this world? Even if they dominated the realm, there could be other strong beings.

After some time, Adam began flying in a random direction. This time, he did not transform into lightning, but only used his Concepts to fly. This allowed him to fly without a cost, and he was still very fast.

His base flying speed was 50% of his agility, and the Blood Tower boosted this by 500%, pushing his speed to 2.5 times his normal agility. Using his Space Concept, Adam could offset a part of the gravity acting on him, and finally use his Wind Concept to ignore air resistance and even use wind to boost his speed.

All of this contributed to make Adam's flying speed be 5 times faster than his Agility, meaning he could fly with the speed of 316872 Agility. This converted to about 31.6 km per second in speed! Adam had already become far faster than anything on Earth.

With this speed, it would take Adam only around 21 minutes to circle around the Earth. This was this kind of speed. However, Epoch was many times bigger than earth, and even Providence was much bigger than Earth. And Adam had to be careful when he searched around the place, so he wouldn't be able to search the place as he quickly as his speed allowed him to.

Still, it allowed him to find something pretty quickly. Half a day after he started his search, Adam found a monster.

[Mountain Shattering Bear] (Sage, Level 155)

HP: 140,000,000/140,000,000

This monster was of the same realm as the demons, it was a Sage Beast, the equivalent of a Hero Rank. Evidently, it had broken through since only a short time, but it remained a very powerful monster.

This confirmed Adam's suspicions that other powerful lifeforms existed in this dimension. For him to fall upon a Sage Beast after only searching for half a day, there were most probably many of them, and stronger ones as well.

Adam doubted there were any Legend Rank, or they would have already killed the demons. If the demons dominated the realm as they were it was probably because they were united, while the monsters were living solitary lives.

After thinking it through, Adam approached the lair of the powerful Sage Beast.

When he arrived a hundred meters from the monster, it opened its eyes and sent a ferocious glare at Adam. After a moment, it growled "How dare a weakling like you intrude in this Sage's lair!"

As a Sage Beast, it was obviously capable of human speech. Adam approached closer to it and said "I just arrived in this world. I have a deal for you."

The gigantic bear snorted said "I don't do deals with weaklings." As it said that, it sent it's palm hurling toward Adam.

It expected Adam to not even be able to see the paw coming and be reduced to meat paste, but to its shock Adam unhurriedly moved his right hand and placed his palm in the path of the paw.

As the two vastly different sized hands smashed into each other, the paw was stopped right in it's place, and Adam barely moved a meter back, his arm a little numb. Adam raised an eyebrow and said to the shocked bear "I guess it's my time to strike then."

As he said that, he took his palm back before he struck out with it. A powerful and incredibly cold air current was shot from his palm and hurtled toward the Sage Beast. The Sage Beasts didn't have the time to dodge due to their proximity and was struck right in the belly.

It was sent flying tens of meters backwards as it's brown fur turned blue.

-33.000.000 HP! Sever Bleeding!

Although it's fur looked find, it actually suffered from internal bleeding, which was caused by the Godslayer's Heart's skill.

The bear coughed a mouthful of blood as it extracted itself from the wall it had crashed in, and when it felt the state of it's body, it looked at the tiny human in fear. How could a mere Silver Rank deal so much damage?

That human didn't even look tired, but the bear knew that if it were to receive this attack three more times, it would die. Moreover, the attack had caused it to internally bleed, thus losing more and more HP every second. Fighting would only aggravate this. Even scarier was the mysterious force lingering in it's body that seemed to alter his healing process, making it much slower.

Thinking that all of this had come from a Level 64 Silver Rank, the monster bear was shaking in fear. It looked around, and began thinking of a solution. It didn't even consider fleeing, because behind it were it's cubs, and the female bear would never abandon her cubs behind. She would rather die.

However, Adam seemed to read her thoughts as he said "I am not here to fight you. If you are willing to sit down with me and talk, I promise I will leave."

The Sage Bear was shocked by Adam's words, but after a moment she remembered something as she asked "Do you have anything to do with the recent disturbance in space?"

Adam smiled and said "I take it you are ready to talk?"

The female bear seemed to hesitate for a little more before she eventually nodded and said "Fine, as long as you hold your promise."

Adam grinned and approached closer before sitting in front of the bear. He then said "I'm not from this land, I come from a vaster world outside of this world. I was sent here alongside many other people. But when we arrived, we were ambushed by demons."

The bear, who was around five meters tall, had also sat down as she recovered her injuries and listened to Adam. She said "Must have been that bastard Tazolos? A Half-King Demon attacked you I guess?"

Adam nodded and asked with a smile "Could you tell me more about this world's situation?" The female bear nodded and began explaining the politics of Providence.

After listening for some time, Adam understood his guesses had been quite close to the truth. There existed many Sage Monsters, but they were all living in their own corner, with some being at the peak of the rank, but with no Legend.

As such, the demons, who were united, were much more powerful than them, and this is how they ended up dominating this world.

After learning a few more things, Adam had already made his plans. If he wanted to leave this dimension, then the only way was to kill Tazolos. He was confident he could kill him when he reached around Level 90, but the would still be his hundreds of Sage subordinates, all as strong as a hero.

Adam wasn't sure that even if he promoted to Gold Rank he would be able to fight against hundreds of Heroes at the same time who worked together their whole lives. As such, he needed helpers.

The people who came inside the dimension with him were mostly useless, even the strongest among them, that is the Level 150 SS Class Gold Ranks, they would only be able to fight against a weak Hero each, and they weren't even sure to win. There were only ten such people.

As for the Sovereigns, the only two who could be useful were that girl, Helena, and Neith. If the two were able to reach Gold Rank, then they may be able to fight against mid tier Heroes.

But there were hundreds of Sages, so this was far from sufficient. One of the reasons Adam had come here was to gather the materials for his Flying Vessels, but Epic Flying Vessels were only as strong as peak Gold Ranks, so that was useless too.

In the end, the only help he could ask was from the inhabitants of Providence, the Sage Beasts.