Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 225: Ruthless

Adam's speed while flying had become even more absurd than it used to be. If he didn't use any skill other than Flying itself and the Blood Tower's bonus, then he could move at 25 km per second. However, flying at this level of speed was highly uncomfortable if he didn't remove air resistance.

It wasn't just because of the reaction force, but rather the huge friction. 25 km per second was more than Mach 70, and one would create a fire more than a 1000 degrees Celsius at Mach 5 In other words, moving at that speed turned him into a small sun.

That's why, removing air resistance was a must at that speed. Then, for travels in straight lines Adam could further boost his speed with lightning skills and reach 50 km per second. In other words, an insane speed.

Still, Providence was quite big, and it took Adam a few minutes to reach his destination. The demon city. In the past, he had to avoid them because they were much stronger than him and even fleeing from them was hard.

However, after the weeks of trainings he went through and the Spirit Fruits he ate Adam became strong enough to match even strong Heroes. But more importantly, he had become fast enough to escape even from Tazolos were he to give chase.

So it was time to attack. The goal of this attack was to deal enough damage to make them understand he could hurt them if he wanted to, but they wouldn't be able to kill him even if they wanted to.

Adam stopped above the demon city, his arrival had been silent as there was no air around him, and he was hidden among the clouds so no one knew he was here. And that was perfect.

Using his Wind Concept, Adam began to gather the clouds around him and slowly began charging them with electricity. What he could do himself would always be limited by the system because he was in Epoch, but the natural elements of this world were much less limited.

Below, the demons didn't even notice anything was wrong. Although the sky was turning dark, they just thought there was going to be some rain.

Adam continued building up the electricity and the water in the clouds for half an hour, before he was finally ready to attack. Unfortunately for the demons, his attack wasn't going to be a straightforward one.

With Adam's order, rain finally started to fall from the clouds. But once again, no one reacted to it, as it was nothing but water. Normal water. An intense rain, but that was it.

The drops of water fell all over the city, and after a few minutes the demons finally started to notice something wrong.

Even in mortal cities, a huge downpour wouldn't do much damage because the earth would absorb a majority of the water, and only if an excessive amount of rain fell would it become threatening.

In Epoch, or here Providence, special means had been created to allow the Earth to store even more water and even reuse it later on. As such, people didn't have to worry about floods.

However, today something was wrong. The rain had already reached their knees, which should be impossible. And the water level was still rising quickly.

Actually, Adam had released Neith earlier and had her hide underground. When the downpour started, she changed the surrounding Earth so it wouldn't absorb any amount of water, and completely block the water.

Seeing the demons were starting to get agitated, Adam finally began actively acting.

Adam wished he could just flood the city with his [Tidal Waves], but unfortunately the city was most certainly protected by a huge number of arrays that would probably be able to defend from even a Legend.

That's why he had to flood the city using a different way, using natural rain. The arrays in the city would only react to attacks, and rain wasn't an attack so it wasn't blocked by the arrays.

So while the city below was getting flooded, Adam created a large portal that connected the inside of the city with the area just below the lightning bolts. Adam was shocked though by the amount of Aura that took him.

Such an action, with his mastery of space, should only take a few hundred thousands Aura to form, but it took 3 million of his Aura to form that portal.

But after a moment he understood the reason. It was probably because of the arrays. It was only his wishful thinking to think he could just go around the protective arrays by using teleportation, that would be too strong.

Although the arrays weren't able to completely block him from manipulating space, it made the consumption of Aura much higher than it should be. Fortunately, Adam's Aura was much more potent than others of his level thanks to his incredible foundation.

Even the strongest Heroes had around 2 Million Aura or Mana, so the array in the city would indeed be able to block the attacks from most Heroes. Unfortunately for them, Adam was an anomaly.

The moment the huge space portal appeared, Adam immediately acted while thinking of all those things. He knew that it was impossible to hide something like that from the Higher Demons in the city, so he had to act quick.

Quickly using up all his remaining Aura, Adam used the lightning that had been accumulating in the clouds to attack. However, unlike what he usually did, he didn't create lightning by himself, but only used his Aura to activate and redirect the natural lightning.

As such, the lightning would remain a natural element of the world and wouldn't be limited in it's speed and power by the system. Of course, if he didn't use the portal the arrays would still have stopped it.

Following Adam's will, a huge lightning bolt was formed which contained more than 50% of the total lightning, and nine other smaller ones rotated dispersed around it and contained the remaining lighting.

What most people didn't know was that water itself didn't actually conduct electricity, but it was the minerals in it. So strictly speaking, if someone just summoned a huge amount of water and made lightning fall in it, no matter how powerful the lightning was, it wouldn't electrocute everything inside.

However, the water Adam had used wasn't one he had completely created himself, so it already contained minerals. Moreover, while Adam had Neith block the water from entering the Earth, he still had her infuse a huge amount of minerals into it from the Earth.

Of all the lightning, the huge lightning bolt directed itself toward the area where the strongest Higher Demons, which should be the city's palace where Tazolos lived, and the other nine went to the nine most populated areas of the city.

In an instant, a calamity had struck the demonic city. Adam had no doubt he had instantly become a great sinner and what he did was worse than what the gods did back on Earth, but it had to be done.

Demons were but another lifeforms, and like every other lifeforms, they started as infants, babies, children, teenagers and adults. And this city wasn't a military city, it was the living place of all the demons in this realm.

The areas Adam had just targeted were those where the population was the most concentrated. In other words, his target this time weren't the warriors among the demons

Had it been in the past, Adam wouldn't have ever done anything like that. Killing millions of men, women and children, even if they were demons, wasn't something to be proud of. But he wanted to be feared.

Not only by the demons, but by the people of Epoch too. Until now, Adam had always acted as a saviour and helped other people, so he was respected by the masses, but he wasn't feared by anyone.

Even while he was in seclusion, he kept an eye on the Lizardkin and Northmen, and he had caught a few who were planning to use their influence in Epoch to deal with him when they exited this realm.

That made realize he needed to act in prevention. Catching them and killing them wasn't going to help, it would even help their cause. That's why Adam decided it was time to show he wasn't some benevolent person. He wouldn't hesitate to kill an entire city to protect his people.

And of course, it would have it's effect on the demons. While he did kill many demons by targeting those areas, the city was simply too big and those he killed were only a fraction of the entire city. While the demons would be angry, they wouldn't be in a frenzy.

Like this, they would know the damage he could do, if they really angered him he would be able to slowly thin out their population and kill their families, so their best interest was to leave him be, as long as he didn't attack them.