Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Eddy and his team of adventurers were frozen in shock, only Adam and Judith were in a better state. Adam could understand their fright though, for the average low level person, or NPC, a Chieftain Boss of the same level was frightening.

Even a team of 5 would have barely any chance against such a boss if they didn't have some good equipment or good martial skills.

Had there been a single one of them, then they wouldn't have panicked, had they been on their own they probably would be able to kill it by losing a member or two, but with the addition of Adam and Jude they were confidant on taking a Chieftain Boss without a single loss.

However, they were talking about two Chieftain Bosses, one being a physical one and the other a magician, the worst kind of combination they could have.

And even though there was Adam and Judith who had proved themselves to be way stronger than they initially thought, they didn't believe this was going to be enough to fight those two bosses.

And even with the far fetched possibility where they slayed the two bosses, they were bound to lose some of their members, and even if they only lost one member, it could be any one of them, and so the fear of death paralyzed them.

As for Adam and Jude, one could resurect and the other was eager to test her new strength. Seeing the state of the others, Adam knew it was time to step in. Despite his leader personnality and skill in leading a team, he had let Eddy make the decisions out of respect, but now if he didn't do anything they would have to fight two angry bosses without any tactic.

So Adam yelled "WAKE UP!"

His loud voice as thankfully enough to make them jump back to attention so he followed with "We split up. Jude, Breyn, Eddy and Baugh fight the mage! Vodmir, Vastrik, the three of us take the Troll! Louisa, stand behind and heal the two groups. I have a special skill that freezes my surroundings, attack only when it is activated. Jude, immobilize the mage!"

Jude nodded and disappeared as Adam rushed toward the Troll. The Troll roared inhumanly and raised its cleaver before attacking toward Adam. However, he easily dodged that attack, then kicked the side of the Troll's knee.

-150 HP!

This forced the Troll to stop in place and slightly bend one of its legs, but it also enraged it as it swung its second weapon at Adam. He once again dodged the attack despite the close proximity, and kicked its other knee.

-160 HP!

As he did so, he saw his disciple appear behind the High Shaman and attack it, stunning it. Adam internally sighed 'Finally.'.

Adam first activated [Wind Blade], enhancing his attack speed by 170%, then [Charge], stunninng the boss.

Now that it was unable to react, and more importantly couldn't keep its balance, Adam activated [Crushing Blow], in an upercut motion forcing the Troll off the ground. It barely moved up, but it had still left the ground. Once it did, using his enhanced attack speed Adam striked once more, using [Mighty Strike] this time.

-600 HP! -15% Defense!

-1400 HP!

The second strike was powerful enough to send the Troll flying backwards, and crash into the High Shaman who barely recovered from Jude's attack.

When the two clashed they were both out of their stun, but the hard body of the Troll was enough to send the mage back into a stunned state, while the Troll fell to the ground.

Meanwhile, Adam did something that looked incredebly weird in the other's eyes. He was jumping forward while slashing at the air, but he hit nothing and just advanced forward.

The speed at which he was advancing was scary though, he was much faster than anyone here, even the assassins who had proved to be faster than him before.

What Adam was doing was actually using the weight and momentum of his sword to move his own body. This was an incredbly advanced technique which Old Adam had developed toward the end of his life, when he had opened the 5th Gate.

This was one of the few techniques he was able to reproduce as someone who didn't open any Gate, and it could be very useful. Even without any boost using this technique to move allowed him to move faster than normal, but with [Winf Blade] on he moved even faster and was thus able to reach the two bosses before they could even get back up.

Once he enetred within the right range he activated [Everwinter], his chest armor's skill. With him as the center, everything within 15 meters froze, including the two bosses. The skill was supposed to slow them down by 70% and weaken their attributes by 30%, but because they were 5 levels above him and were Chieftains, the weakening was somewhat lesser.

Despite this, the effects were still amazing, and they visibly slowed down in frnt of everyone. But Adam wasn't finished. Now that the two were in such close proximity, he used his other equipment's activa skill, [Fire Breath].

The two monsters were engulfed in flames and wailed in pain as the torment continued for the three seconds.

-750 HP!

-750 HP!

-750 HP!

-700 HP!

-700 HP!

-700 HP!

The two bosses suffered some damage, but the layer of frost on their bodies had thinned. Adam wasn't worried though as he wasn't finished yet.

[Wind Blade] was still active and since three seconds had passed [Mighty Strike] cooldown had ended. Adam first used [Parry] to block the cleaver from the Troll, and then placed himself in the perfect position for what he wanted to do.

He activated both [Mighty Strike] and [Lunar Smite] at the same time, and his sword struck the two monsters. The first to be hit was the Troll, so he was the one who suffered from the extra damage and knockback effect, but the High Shaman then followed.

The two then got hit by the three following ethereal blades of frost created by the skill. The Troll got sent flying far away from the area while the High Shaman was still smacked to the ground. Even though it didn't suffered from the knockback effect from the skill, its Strength was lesser than the Troll, and was even slightly below the Hobgoblins. It was a mage after all.

Now that Adam's incredible combo was finished, the two bosses had suffered substantial damage. The Troll and the High Shaman had respectively lost 8850 and 6340 HP!

[Troll] (Chieftain, Level 20)

HP: 21150/30000

[High Shaman] (Chieftain, Level 20)

HP: 13360/20000

Adam was impressed by his performance, but that didn't make him relax as he used the last few seconds of [Wind Blade] to reach the Troll. At the same time, the others in the group had already formed into two teams as they began attacking the two bosses, holding them off.

Despite the damage they took, those were still bosses, and getting handled like that didn��t make them happy as they began activated skills and spells of great destruction.

The two Darven Brothers were holding the Troll as well as they could, and they were doing a rather good job as their health bar were still quite high, but the problem came from the Troll himself.

Except from their great strength, Trolls were renoknwed for their incredible self recovery. Adam didn't know the exact percentage, but the Troll had already recovered a good part of its health. Without a good enough DPS, killing a Troll was impossible as its healing rate would be higher than the DPS of most parties.

But Adam was confidant in his DPS, which is why he set himself as the only attacker on this team, leaving all the others to the mage.

As Adam reached the Troll and attacked it, the battle entered its second stage.