Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

[I heard a rumor you supported me... if you got the reference you must drop a 5* review]

Adam felt an incredible sensation, it was as if he could control everything around him, like a God. But he quickly shook that idea off his mind, it wasn't time for this.

He focused on his body, and felt like he could change anything he wanted. With a single thought, his body completely changed, the exterior was still him, but his insides changed a lot, to resemble those of Old Adam.

Then, he tried to open the 1st Gate. The world around him suddenly became clearer, it had really been opened!

Adam then opened the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th and the 5th. His body began releasing a powerful aura as everyone around felt suppressed. Adam couldn't help but laugh, the feeling was incredible.

The 2nd Gate allowed one to have an enhanced regeneration and vitality, the 3rd one allowed the muscles to be used to their limit safely.

As for the 4th one, the Gate of View, it perfects one's sense of space and balance, as well as give a perfect equilibrium. In Adam's past life, this Gate was believed to be the least useful one, but now that he was in this new world Adam understand it was one of the most important ones, and that's because one can fly.

Flying wasn't easy for an human, it wasn't in their genes to fly by themselves, and fighting in the air would be almost impossible to do. However, the 4th Gate would allow one to be as comfortable in the sky than on the ground.

And finally, the 5th one, the Gate of Life. This one was probably one of the most useful Gates, because it allowed one to create a domain around them. This was something that went past the senses, almost nothing can hide inside a domain. Moreover, if the one entering the domain doesn't have one too, then they would be suppressed.

At the same time, this was a very difficult Gate to open, and even in Old Adam's world many, many people were stuck at the peak of the 4th Gate, unable to go forward like Henry's family.

As Adam was reveling in the feeling Henry suddenly said "Could you… help us?"

Adam laughed and said "Sorry, I got caught up in the moment. Here you go." He focused his attention on the others and began changing them. Henry, Skade, Sarah and Victoria had all opened the 4th Gate, with the first three being at the peak. Jude and Johan had both opened the 1st Gate, and the rest didn't open any.

So he made the Royal Family go straight to the 5th Gate. For the rest, he slowly showed them all the Gates, how to open them and ended up by pushing them to the 5th Gate too. Two minutes later, everyone in the illusion was at the peak of the 5th Gate.

Adam then said "That's all I can show you, I hope this will be enough for you to open your Gates."

He then let them in their own illusion and started working on his own body. This illusion was actually a great way for him to experiment. Since he had already opened the Gates, all he had to do was to find how to recreate it on his current body.

It was actually the same thing the others were doing, but they couldn't experiment on their body because this was Adam's illusion, they could only do so in their mind.

5 minutes went by, and the illusion faded away. Everyone was now sitting on the ground, meditating to earn as much as they could from the opportunity. Adam was the first the open his eyes, joy overwhelming his face.

He had done it! He had opened the Gate of Opening! The world around him was now translucent and felt like it couldn't hide anything from him. Of course this wasn't the case, but the power he suddenly obtained was incredible.

Enhancing the senses didn't limit to just seeing and hearing better. The enhancement was so significant that he could feel the shift of the air around him, something very useful in combat. This was something he could already partially do before opening the Gate, but it was very limited. If he was back at the battle of Rosewatch in his current state, even with his stats back then, no monster would be able to hit him except the boss at the end.

Moreover, the moment he opened the Realm of Opening, he instantly skyrocketed to its peak, because he was already used to it and had already developed his martial arts to the max of this level in the past. And that wasn't all, Adam could feel he was about to breakthrough and open the Gate of Healing very soon, it was a matter of days!

This was because he had been training his body's healing factor for the past 4 months, and while in the game he would always let his body regenerate by itself when he lost HP.

Also, the moment he opened the Gate a notification appeared in front of him.

[Congratulations for opening the Gate of Opening! All senses enhanced!]

Adam didn't even have to look at the others to know they were still meditating. Feeling the power he currently had, Adam understood that he may have overestimated himself in the past when he thought he would be able to match someone who opened the Gate of Limit by the time he opened the Gate of Opening.

Right now, Adam could feel that he could probably defeat someone who just opened the Gate of Limit and still didn't know how to use their power well. However, someone experienced would defeat him easily.

There was a wide margin between someone who just opened that Gate and someone at the peak. After all, opening this Gate allowed one to become about 5 times stronger, this allowed a lot of new opportunities for martial arts.

And that's why the gape between the first two Gates and the third one was very wide. Still, Adam had opened the 5th Gate in the past, he was confidant he would be able to fight most experts who opened the 3rd Gate by the time he opens the 2nd one.

After all, even though healing didn't seem to be very good during a fight, the longer a fight is, the more difficult it is to focus for a fighter, and thus the higher the chance of making a mistake will be.

For Adam though, the chances were a lot lesser because of his strengthened soul, meaning that if he opened the 2nd Gate he would be as enduring as his enemies physically, but even more enduring mentally than them, and this would allow him to defeat them in a battle of attrition.

Of course, against a peak 3rd Gate expert, he would have no chance as long as he doesn't open the 3rd Gate himself.

In the end, Adam was incredibly happy right now, the pleasure brought by recovering a part of his power was great, and it was permanent.

After Adam, the next ones to wake up were Eddy and the rest of the adventurers who didn't open any Gate yet. With a glance, Adam was able to see they had all opened the first Gate of Opening.

This wasn't really a surprise. Although they had been quite a distance from opening it, it was the easiest one to open, they just got a walkthrough up to the 5th Gate, and they just went through a difficult fight. It was the best time for them to learn, and it allowed all of them to breakthrough.

When they broke through, Adam got up and quietly told them to follow him. Like when Jude had broken through, this was the best time for them to train and advance in the realm. It wasn't the case for Adam because he was already at the peak, but they needed it.

Had it been ten minutes ago, Adam would have to spar with them one by one, but now that he had opened the Gate himself, he fought them all at once.

For the next ten minutes, Adam fought a 1v6, but still held the upper hand. The six worked together but they felt helpless against Adam, he was just too powerful compared to them. Both his stats and martial arts was above them, and sine they relied mainly on martial arts to spar he was just too strong for them.

Still, it also allowed them to progress quickly, and ten minutes later they all had reached a comfortable level. However their talent was lesser than Judith's as their martial prowess was still slightly below the elites from the First Tier Guilds, whom Judith's was stronger than when she sparred against Adam.