Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 231: Bottleneck

Adam stretched his body, yawning as he did so. It had actually taken him two entire months to absorb all the Soul Energy he accumulated. For those two months, he had sat here, not moving at all for the two months.

However, it was definitely worth it. Adam could feel his spirit had become much stronger, to the point he had managed to enhance the quality of his spirit a little through sheer quantity. This made the Concepts appear much clearer to him.

As a result, even though Adam hadn't meditated much on the Concepts, he still made much more progress in them than if he had cultivated normally. All his Concepts had now reached 90%. However, going any higher was extremely difficult. Even Adam's Concept of Slaughter, the first one to reach 90%, had only reached 94%.

His Level had also gotten better, as Adam had reached Level 89. Overall, he had received another boost in strength, although it wasn't a major one, it was still better than nothing.

Unfortunately, Adam hadn't managed to open the Fifth Gate yet. Back on Earth, he had managed to understand the world with luck, but Adam was stuck in Epoch. He could feel he needed a strong stimulation to break out of this bottleneck.

After a moment, Adam entered the Blood Tower, to the 57th Floor. There, he saw Neith was meditating. More importantly though, she had already climbed to Level 100 after eating all the corpses of Sage Monsters as well as some ores.

Sensing Adam's arrival, she opened her eyes and said with a cheerful voice "You finished your seclusion dad?"

Adam smiled and nodded "I did. I see you had some gains as well. Are you ready to evolve?" Neith replied "I still need to accumulate energy for a while. Those ores can't do though, they are too low in quality. I either have to find the corpses of a peak Sage Monster, an extremely precious ore, or just accumulate the energy myself."

Adam said "Good. What do you say about another little venture outside?" Unexpectedly, Neith shook her head and said "I'm fine here by myself."

Adam raised an eyebrow and muttered to himself "Is she already turning into a teen?"

Although he would have liked to go out with Neith, if she preferred staying inside then he would go out alone. And she was in the Blood Tower anyway, so it didn't really matter.

When he exited his cultivation room, Adam was surprised by what he saw. The camp had grown manifolds since two months ago. He could also see there were many more people who had come here.

Adam flew around and saw most of the changes. First, many houses had been created, but crops as well as some shops The base had actually been turned into a small city. It was definitely surprising.

One could also see people of all humanoid races. Adam was sure he saw some of his guild mates, meaning they had probably reached here. Adam approached one of them, who immediately grew frantic.

After asking a few questions while unconsciously releasing his [King's Aura], Adam learned a lot about everything that happened during the past two months. The scouts had managed to find nearly everyone who had entered, except for the demonic faction.

That even included the monsters, such as the dragons, the goblins and many more

Normally, the Monster Faction and the Humanoid Faction would never coexist, and they would fight everytime they saw each other. It was even more improbable they would live together.

But the crisis they were facing forced them to do so. Adam was the only one capable of protecting them, hence why they had to stick together under him.

Actually, at first the Monster Faction was excluded from the camp, but it was Helena, Adam's representative in the camp, who had solved the solution. Having a conflict among themselves wasn't a good idea, although she didn't know why Adam was protecting everyone, he had to have a reason.

If he protected humanoids, then why not take monsters too? Moreover, the only reason Helena could find for Adam's actions was to eliminate trouble. He would rather have them under his watch than roaming around, becoming possible dangers.

Actually, she wasn't far from the truth, and although it wasn't the only reason why Adam kept those people with him, it sure was one of them.

After all, as they said, keep your friends close, and keep your enemies even closer.

Another factor that helped the integration of the monsters in the camp was Xilzror, the Fire Dragon Prince who became Adam's Ninth Division Leader. His whole division was made of monsters, and as Adam's subordinates, they obviously had prime access to the camp.

Although there were some conflicts between Xilzror and the other dragons, in the end the monsters were still allowed in the camp.

Anyway, Adam also learned where his Division Leaders were, so he headed there. He was relieved to see all of them were still safe, it was definitely a relief. Although they were quite strong and had a lot of potential, they were all only Silver Rank.

Adam spent a couple of hours speaking with the nine of them, and was happy to see Xilzror had managed to enter the circle of friends and truly become one of them.

For once, Adam allowed himself to take a break, spending most of the day with them, chatting and leading them on cultivation too.

Although Adam had to get as strong as possible as quick as he could, the next great power up for him was the opening of the 5th Gate, which would turn him into an invincible existence under the Legend Rank in Providence.

And Adam knew for sure it wouldn't take long for him to open that Gate. By then, before Tazolos managed to cross to the Legendary Rank, no one would be his opponent, and he would be able to subdue the entire dimension, with the exception of demon city, which he would leave for last to make sure he would be able to kill Tazolos.

After all, Adam's goal in this endeavor wasn't to exterminate the demons, all he wanted was to get back the core of the dimension to take possession of it. And to do so, he had to kill Tazolos. It wouldn't matter if he destroyed Demon City if he couldn't catch Tazolos.

Hopefully, Adam would be able to kill Tazolos before he could become a Legendary Monster, but that was very improbable. When the demon understood Adam had become much stronger than him, he would hide in the demon city.

And unless Adam managed to reach Legendary Power, he wouldn't be able to kill Tazolos while he is inside the city's arrays.

Anyway, after spending most of his day with his friends, Adam went back to hunt for the Sage Monsters.

Because of the huge number of people who entered the camp, many more people became scouts, and a much wider area was covered.

For the five next days, Adam was busy all day chasing after those monsters, taking the resources and corpses of those who refused to yield, and striking a deal with the rest.

Adam also absorbed a lot more of Soul Energy, but he could feel it would take less time this time to absorb it since his Soul had been strengthened already and it had become easier to refine Soul Energy.

An interesting news came to Adam though during those five days. One of the scouts had found a piece of precious ore protected by a newly advanced Sage Monster.

Adam decided to use it to test Neith, and sent her to take this ore by herself. She would have to kill that Sage Monster if she wanted to be promoted to the next rank right away.

Of course, he secretly followed her, he was able to disturb their soul link with how strong his soul had become. Another benefit he had discovered from having plenty of unrefined Soul Energy around his soul was that it could be use to disturb anything that came in contact with his soul.