Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

When Adam appeared next to the camp, he kept his Domain off, but it no longer exuded the oppressing might it usually did. Actually, the people inside the camp didn't even know that their every move was under Adam's scrutiny.

In an instant, Adam located the leaders of the different forces making his camp, and using his domain, he transmitted them all a message only they could hear "The demons have all been killed, except for Tazolos. Send your men to the Demon City and clean the city. I want the city to be cleaned and repaired."

After he said that, he left and flew toward the Demon City to collect the corpses of the Demons and sent them into the 57th Floor of the Blood Tower, where Neith was busy evolving.

The reason he had come back to his camp first was because he was closer, but he didn't want to just leave those corpses as they would be useful to Neith even after she evolved. Only after taking every corpse did Adam finally set down back in his camp and started meditating.

Now that Adam had broken through those two Gates, not only had he become much stronger, but his rate of improvement would also become much faster. Moreover, his Spirit Concept had considerably advanced, and although it hadn't reached the apex of the Concept Realm, it should be around 96-97%.

As Adam started meditating on his gains, turmoil set in the camp. Although Adam had only spoken to the leaders of the different forces, they had to send people to scout the demon city, and when those people came back with the news of the demons having died, the news quickly spread to the entire camp.

They began feeling respect, but also fear toward Adam. He had killed ALL the demons, not just their warriors. The scouts had entered the city, and they had seen the corpses… Although everyone in the camp belonged to the strongest forces and would have done the exact same, it didn't make the feat any less scary.

Until now, although they had seen Adam's absolute power, he never did anything that hunted to such barbarity. Now though, everyone knew that offending Adam could lead to a very bad ending for them.

After that, things started quickly changing for everyone in Providence. The forces of Epoch had become the new ruling force of Providence, with Adam being the absolute leader. The demons had been almost exterminated, with the exception of some tribes that didn't join the city and Tazolos of course.

As for the monsters, Adam hadn't been kind with them either as he forced them into submission, having them give him all their resources. With his Domain, Adam was able to scout much more efficiently, and it became extremely hard to hide from him.

Tazolos though managed to do so through unknown means as the Half-King Demon seemed to have disappeared from the surface of Providence.

Three months after the defeat of the demons, the forces of Epoch had completely rearranged the demon city, which had been renamed by Adam the Divine Capital. Although Adam hadn't yet established his kingdom since he felt it was pointless without any subjects, he intended for this city to be the future capital of his Kingdom.

Providence would make the best base for Adam as he was invincible in here, so he would be able to strengthen his forces without anyone interfering.

During those three months Adam had been quite busy. The first thing he did was to wipe out the demonic spies among the forces of Epoch, and it had been quite easy. With his domain, he was able to read the rough emotions of everyone in it thanks to his Spirit Concept, or read their memories by focusing on them.

Using those abilities, Adam not only fished out all the spies, he even destroyed the Demonic Forces who came from Epoch and trapped them.

Trying to send spies to someone who mastered the Spirit Concept was in itself dangerous, even more so if that person was as strong as a Legend, had a domain and mastered the Sovereign Spirit Concept.

But doing this took him three days, not three months. What took most of his time was to search through the entire Providence. Using his speed and domain, Adam had searched through the entire dimension.

However, even after doing this, he hadn't found Tazolos. He was either in a strange place that was even capable of blocking Adam's sight, deeper than a kilometer underground, or higher than a kilometer in the air.

As for searching though the underground of the world… it would just take too much time with his current abilities. That's why, Adam decided to wait until he broke through to the Gold Rank, by then his Domain would become even bigger and allow Adam to search much more efficiently.

Moreover, those three months of search weren't useless as it had allowed Adam to find all the Sages in this dimension and subdue them, and kill the others. Now, after three months, only one Sage remained, and it was the strongest monster in this realm.

This monster was the previous strongest being in the dimension, even stronger than Tazolos. It also had the most resources aside from Tazolos. Adam had purposefully kept it for last, for no real reason other than this feeling right. Beings under the Legend Rank didn't really make any difference to a Legend anyway, so fighting that monster wouldn't make any difference compared to the other Sage Monsters.

But when Adam arrived to the lair of that monster, he actually had a nice surprise. Tazolos, whom he had been searching for the past three months, was sitting cross legged, next to the corpse of the monster Adam came here for, a Roc.

Moreover, Tazolos' aura was much stronger than it used to be, it was on the verge of reaching the Legend Rank.

Although this surprised Adam, he was going to wait for his opponent. He instantly suppressed Tazolos using his domain, shocking the demon who opened his eyes in panic.

He wanted to flee, but he felt himself unable to move. Then, he saw Adam's sword swing down on him, resembling a black hole as it did. Using all the strength in his body, Tazolos moved to the side, evading the sword.

Unfortunately for him, Adam had perfect control of his sword, and redirecting it wasn't a problem. Instead of cutting the demon from head to two, Adam moved his sword and bisected the demon at the waist.

Tazolos cried out in pain, and his HP plunged down to 0. Tazolos felt despair, after all his efforts, he was going to die right before his ascension to Legendary Rank.

However, as Tazolos thought he died, he found himself to still be alive, despite his HP reaching 0. then, he received a notification, telling him he had broken through the second restriction of the system.

Tazolos was overjoyed, but he knew he still wasn't out of danger. As for Adam, he was surprised Tazolos had survived that strike, but that didn't stop him from slashing once again.

Tazolos gritted his teeth and suddenly bit down his tongue while speaking in the demon language. As Adam's sword was about to crush and obliterate his head, it was suddenly stopped, shocking Adam.

A rift had unknowingly appeared next to them, out of which a hand appeared. That hand had used two fingers to stop Adam's sword, and it didn't even look like it had used any effort.

As Adam was shocked by what happened, the hand moved it's pinky a little, and another rift appeared, which quickly absorbed Tazolos before disappearing.

Then, a cold voice came out of the rift where the hand came from "You will pay for trying to kill my descendant, human."

Then, the portal disappeared, but the hand was cut off. As for Tazolos, he had disappeared.

Adam grabbed the hand that had fallen, and the demonic power flowing out of it was so powerful it nearly affected his mind. Thankfully, his Soul was much stronger than it used to be, so he resisted it.

Using the system, he analysed it.

[Great Devil's Severed Hand]