Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 219: Sun Spear

Adam grabbed the severed arm by the wrist, and looked at the shield it was holding. Aegis, a shield with the head of Medusa on it. Medusa was quite a famous mythological figure who had the incredible power of turning anyone who looked at her in the eyes into stone.

However, at this moment, her eyes were filled with fear as she looked straight into Adam's eyes, who seemed able to shrug off the effects of her gaze.

Indeed, Adam had been stunned by the first attack because he didn't expect it, but now that he was on guard, his mind was fending off her mental attacks and his Qi was dispersing the invading Qi trying to turn his body into stone.

After a moment, he smiled and said "You are quite the interesting being, staying alive despite only having a head left."

He could feel she was alive, because he was unable to put the shield inside the Blood Tower, meaning she was alive and had a will.

Adam dropped the shield, but it did not drop and instead remained floating in the air. The reason for thus was that he had created a platform in the air, for the shield to lay upon.

Then, he looked at Zeus, who was clutching what remained of his left arm, forcefully stopping the blood circulation to stop losing his blood.

At the same time, Zeus' earlier arrogance and condescension had vanished, his face now portrayed a mix of reluctance, fear and regret.

Zeus opened his mouth, about to say something, but Adam didn't let him talk as he rushed at him at full speed. He was far too angry to even care about whatever he had to hear.

Zeus tried to retreat, in a straight line, but all Adam had to do was to form a portal behind him. Unless he wanted to be teleported right in front of Adam, he had to dodge to the side, making him much slower.

And Adam used exactly this timing to rush at him, his hand forming a spear as lightning covered it. His arm seemed to transform into a lightning spear, going straight for Zeus' heart.

The god of the sky tried to dodge, but Adam was far too quick compared to him, and so he was only able to change to targeted area from his heart to his right chest.

As Adam's hand connected with Zeus' body, Adam felt how strong his body was. This was Adam's attack with the strongest penetration, and yet he wasn't even able to pierce through his body entirely, his hand stopping after it pierced through Zeus' right lung.

However, Zeus, who knew he was going to get hit anyway, stopped trying to evade at the last moment and instead gathered power in his neck to deliver a strong headbutt.

Adam wasn't able to dodge the attack, and the moment he pierced through Zeus' lung, Zeus headbutted him.

Zeus' body was definitely incredibly strong as Adam was sent flying, and his forehead started bleeding. But Adam only looked at Zeus with contempt. So what if he bled? Zeus had his right light pulverised.

And indeed, Zeus coughed a mouthful of blood, mixed with some gory bits of flesh and organs. However, his Qi remained as strong as it was at the beginning of the fight.

Zeus raised his remaining arm and pointed toward Adam, and lightning surged from the surrounding clouds, shocking Adam.

How had Zeus used the surrounding lightning when he had already taken ownership over it?

This lightning was much closer to real lightning than Zeus' earlier lightning bolts, both because they were Adam's own lightning bolts, and they had been strengthened inside the clouds. As such, Adam was unable to dodge and was smitten a few times.

The areas of his body that were hit turned darker from the impact, and Adam felt the lightning destroy many of his already injured nerves. He gritted his teeth and once again formed a domain of flames around him.

Zeus was within range too and was burned by the flames. However, this time he already had his defences on so the damage dealt was even lesser than the damage Adam received from the lightning earlier.

However, this was only the first part of Adam's attack as the moment Zeus tried to escape from the domain of fire, Adam opened his mouth wide and spat out a thick fire breath that would even put dragons' to shame.

The flames were very quick too and Zeus wasn't able to escape from them as they covered him from head to toe. Moreover, the fire breath was strengthened by the domain of fire around them, turning them hot enough to raise the temperature in the city below by a few degrees at least, despite being at least 2 km in the sky.

The fire breath continued for a whole five seconds before Adam stopped as he felt Zeus had escaped it's reach.

However, the damage done was astonishing. First, Zeus, despite putting on his strongest protections, had no more hair remaining on his body, and most of his skin was burned black. He no longer looked like the mighty god of the sky.

But the damage didn't restrain to only Zeus. From his high understanding of the Wind element, Adam could also feel he had burned all the air available in the surroundings. Most of it was consumed, and even the little that remained was literally on fire. Anyone weaker who entered here would be burned to ashes in a matter of seconds.

Even Zeus had stopped breathing as he would quickly die were he to dare to breath this air.

Speaking of Zeus, the latter was looking really bad, and his Qi had finally weakened, and by quite a lot. In contrast, even though he was injured too, Adam was in a much better form. Moreover, he was able to breath just fine as fire could not damage his body.

He saw Zeus throw a reluctant look at Olympus before he tried to flee at top speed. Adam sneered seeing this, Zeus was ready to abandon his whole family to save his own little life. Unfortunately, Adam wasn't going to let him.

Actually, he was curious about something, and that was why Zeus hadn't tried a single try to teleport during their fight. Normally, a Legend should be able to teleport, and this was considered one of their strongest skills.

But even now, as he tried to flee for his life, Zeus did not even try to teleport, nor rip open space to form a rift. All he did was fly. Adam suspected he simply wasn't able to, maybe because of the way he became a Golden Idol, but he couldn't be sure.

Nevertheless, Adam formed a space portal right in front of Zeus, once again forcing him to dodge and lose in speed. Like this, Adam was able to close up on him in a matter of seconds, and throw his final attack.

A white lance that seemed to be as blinding as the sun appeared in Adam's hand, and he threw it at Adam. The moment it left his palm, Adam felt a big portion of his Qi leave his body, but it didn't matter as he didn't need to use any more Qi.

The lance travelled at a speed not so much slower than his earlier lightning bolts, and the remaining air around it was evaporated the moment it neared it.

Zeus felt the greatest crisis in his life, but he could do nothing except watch as the white lance of flames hit his body.

Unlike Adam's earlier thunder spear, but very much like his space slice, the lance encountered no resistance as it pierced through Zeus' body, and continued flying through the sky.

Zeus' body finally stopped moving, all life had disappeared from is body. Despite the lance being only a couple centimetre thick, almost his entire body had turned into cinders, leaving only his head intact.

Meanwhile, Adam's spear hit the ground a few kilometers away, and revealed the terrifying power it held. A fireball with a radius of a whole kilometer appeared in the distance, vaporising area it had hit.

Although he was tired from this attack, Adam controlled the fireball to hold the damage to just this kilometer, or the nearby Athens may very well be destroyed by the shock wave of the attack, and the following rising temperature.

Meanwhile, the mortals below living in Athens, had heard and felt the huge shocks coming from the sky, but what shocked them the most was when a second sun appeared not far from the city. At that moment, they felt death was coming.