Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 232: Ambush

The two didn't take very long to reach the location of the precious ore spotted by the scout. Judging from how excited Neith seemed to be, there were good chances there was indeed a good ore there.

However, just like the scout had said, a monster was laying guard in front of the cave housing that ore. That monster was a Level 150 Sage, a Mountain Devouring Worm.

At the Sage Rank, every monster evolved into powerful species, and they would always have this kind of powerful sounding names. If that worm was named as such, it was because it was actually capable of eating a whole mountain. Not at once, of course.

This was a great match-up for Neith though as she had a high resistance to Earth Elemental attacks, so this fight would be even easier for her. Of course, it remained a Sage Rank Monster, so it wouldn't be easy for her either.

The two monsters began fighting each other, and at first, neither used skills. Instead, they only used their bodies. The Mountain Devouring Worm was quite powerful, but Neith was massive compared to it, she had already reached the height of 100 meters, and she was still growing quickly.

Size represented strength, up to a certain extent, and although the worm was powerful itself, it couldn't even reach Neith's abdomen unless it left the ground, and that would be a very dangerous thing to do considering Neith was able to spit deadly venom.

Thus, the worm was the first one to stop relying only on it's body, and started using skills. Four big pillars rose from the Earth next to Neith's legs, making her lose her balance. However, she immediately pierced her other legs into the earth to remain steady, and activated one of her own skills.

The surroundings turned into sand, which rendered the worm's skill useless, and even lowered the worm's mobility for a moment. Using this moment, Neith once again solidified the surroundings, this time into rocks, entrapping a part of the worm's body into the rocks.

And finally, as the rocks began compressing onto the body of the worm, she launched tens of rock spears at the worm.

But the worm didn't seem to want to stand there and become a living target as a ten meters wall rose all around it, stopping the first spears. The next ones broke the wall, but the worm had already plunged into the rocks as easily as in mud, and dodged the attack.

It arrived below Neith and tried to take a bite out of one of her legs. She could dodge it, but she decided otherwise. Gathering a huge amount of venom, Neith quickly spat everything on the leg targeted.

Her venom wasn't to be laughed at, it was a powerful acid capable of melting almost anything, and it also parasitized living beings, paralysing them and eating them from both in and out.

Her venom was a very deadly weapon which promised a terrible death. The worm didn't know that though, and still attacked.

It revealed it's terrifying mouth, made of tens of rows of sharp teeth, rotating like a meat grinder. It took one of her legs into it's mouth, and the teeth began grinding against her shell. Although her shell was very strong and couldn't be easily breached through, the lower part of her leg was shredded in an instant.

However, as the worm was feeling good about itself, the venom also flew down in big quantities into it's mouth, directly going for it's stomach. Everything in the way was getting eaten away by the venom though.

The worm retreated as it started writhing on the ground in pain, but not for long. Neith, who also was in great pain as she had lost the lower part of one of her legs, used her remaining seven legs to turn the worm into a sieve.

It tried to resist, but she was too quick and it was pinned down quickly. Even with tens of holes in it's body though, it still wasn't dead. It had a great vitality.

But even then, Neith spat a few more globs of venom at it, finally finishing it off.

Neith then swallowed the worm like one would slurp a spaghetti, and turned her attention toward the cave. However, at that moment, Adam, who had been hiding in the shadows and was happy about her victory, suddenly frowned.

In the sky above Neith, multiple demons appeared, and all of them were Higher Demons of great strength. Neith looked up in confusion, what were they doing here?

One of the demons, a Minotaur, flew down and said "Come here little spider, I've always longed to eat Titanic Spiders' legs. I heard it was like eating a crab"

However, before he could even finish his sentence, Adam appeared next to him. The Minotaur wasn't a nobody, but actually one of the generals under Tazolos, Eranan, a Level 200 Higher Demon.

He was shocked Adam was already here, but the later's speed was to be expected. However, even though it was to be expected, it didn't make it any less dangerous.

As he was in the middle of lowering his head to block the incoming blow with his mighty horns though, the demon suddenly felt a strange power invade his mind, and shook it hard.

This paralysed Eranan, and while he was in a fainted status, unable to even think, his insides were starting to turn into stone.

After killing Zeus, Adam had taken Aegis from him, and studied it. He found it amazing, especially the skill, which had managed to stun him despite his incredible Soul strength.

Now used by Adam, who had strengthened his mind by a great deal, the skill had turned deadly, and even someone like Eranan was stunned by it, and would need at least a second to recover. A second was more than enough for Adam to strike him.

The sword Adam wielded used his skill [Chop], but it was no longer the same [Chop] as it used to be

Critical Hit! -238.165.000 HP!

Adam's sword had plunged half into the Level 200 Higher Demon's neck, and even though the pain was immense, the demon wasn't awaken.

The other demons above finally noticed something was wrong, and tried to come to Eranan's rescue, but it was too late. Before any of them could come down to help, Adam once again swung his weapon.

Critical Hit! -238.165.000 HP!

The sword completely severed the head of the demon, finally awakening him. Something worthy to note though was the fact that this demon had an especially great vitality, as even after his head was cut off, he was still alive.

Of course, that wouldn't be for long. The demon only had around 20 Million HP remaining, and although that seemed to be a lot, he was losing his HP at an incredible speed. Although he could survive for a time while being headless, that was only for a time.

And Adam didn't intend on making him suffer him any longer as he grabbed the head and crushed it in his hand, turning it into meat paste, while also crushing the Nascent Soul and absorbing the incredible Soul Energy contained inside the head.

Everyone was shocked. One of Tazolos' fiercest generals, the leader of the Minotaur clan in this dimension, had been killed by Adam, without a chance to defend himself.

However, unlike what Adam expected, he didn't see despair on the faces of the demons above. Instead, he only saw amusement, and relief. Especially on the face of the old demon who fought against him two months ago, he seemed please. What was going on exactly?

But if they didn't want to move, then so be it. [Chop] had been enhanced by Adam, and he raised the skill to the limits of the A Rank, just like his [Three Line Sacred Ball], and costed 500k Aura.

Although using it costed so much, the damage had been raised to 5000%, making his attack much deadlier.