Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Once Adam recovered to his peak form, he took a step toward the door, and kicked it open. Adam's kick had been so powerful that the door flew forward, hurling toward the boss.

The boss was an even bigger spider than the Chieftain, it was completely black in color. As the door flew toward it, the boss used one of its legs to smash the door, pushing it aside.

[Black Blood Spider] (Lord, Level 30)

250000/250000

Adam had to admit, the difference in strength between a Lord and a Chieftain was really big. Not even talking about Martial Arts, most players in the world right now wouldn't even be able to deal enough DPS to overcome its natural healing rate.

And that was only one problem. The spider looked scary, and standing in front of it Adam felt like he was drowning into a sea of blood because of how thick the spider's killing intent was.

Most players would freeze in fright and wouldn't even be able to attack the boss. Adam wasn't one such person though. His damage was giganormous, and his will was stronger than ever.

Adam smirked and suddenly roared at the boss, using one of his new skills, [Barbarous Roar]. If the spider was emitting killing intent, what Adam projected with his voice was pure violence. The sound waves mixed with some aura crashed into the killing intent, destroying it, and hit the spider, making it flinch.

Adam could see some fear in its eyes, but it still leaped at him, two of its legs trying to pierce a hole in his body.

Adam smiled and easily dodged the two legs, and activated several of his skills. He first used [Wind Blade], which consumed aura instead of mana now, and jumped forward, slashing out by activated both [Lunar Strike] and [Mighty Strike].

Adam was already very fast with his Agility stat, way faster than this boss, but adding the power behind his attack he became so fast that the spider could follow it with its eight eyes.

In truth, Adam's sword turned to a mild blue, the light wasn't as blindingly bright as before, but rather it looked like there was a film of water on his sword. His sword crashed into the boss, the sword dealing considerable damage. However, before blood could spill out three other ethereal swords of ice crashed into the wounds, freezing it.

-46536 HP!

-46536 HP!

-46536 HP!

-46536 HP!

Before perfectly mastering the skill, [Mighty Strike] would only activate for the first strike and then Adam would have to wait for three seconds to activate it again. However, the effect now applied on all four of the strikes, but the expenditure of aura was three times bigger since he had to use the skill on three more blades.

That's why almost 75% of the boss' health suddenly disappeared, while Adam arrived behind it. The boss' was shocked by the damage it was dealt, and the pain was immense, but so was its fear and anger. Despite Adam being too fast for it to see, it knew where he would approximately be, and so it tried to attack him.

Adam hadn't seen it before, but the boss actually had a stinger hidden on its behind, and it was currently coming for him. However, he was simply too fast, and he dodged the strike as he rapidly slashed at five of its legs, cutting all of them off.

-12441 HP! Cripple (*5)

In barely a couple of seconds, only 1651 of the original 250000 health points was left, and the spider couldn't even stand anymore.

The spider was now at Adam's mercy, and both of them knew it. Adam once again used [Barbarous Roar], although a bit unconsciously this time, projecting his intense inner violence onto the beast's mind, before preparing himself to kill it.

Before he could kill it though, the spider squealed and he received a weird message he didn't expect.

['Black Blood Spider' wishes to become your pet!]

This made him freeze, that was possible?

Everyone knew players could have pets. All classes were restricted to a single pet, except for Summoner classes who could have many more. But for most classes, one could only have a single monster under them.

However, taming a monster was a difficult process and required rare items as well as the presence of a summoner. And yet, the skill he had received from a quest actually allowed him to get a pet so easily?

Moreover, it wasn't just some weak Common pet, but a Lord Rank Monster! A very low amount of players could kill Level 20 Lord monsters right now, and even less could kill ones that are level 30.

This was an opportunity Adam felt he had to seize, and so he accepted. He expected the monster to directly become his pet, however he received another notification.

[The monster you are taming is part of a dungeon, and is affected by its internal rules. If you decide to take it as a pet, it will lose a major part of its strength.]

Adam felt like cursing, but this was to be expected. If one could tame pets in dungeons and have them keep their whole strength, then a guild could just farm the same monster and have all their members have it as a pet.

It looked like that if he wanted to get a monster as a pet, then it would have to be a unique pet with a single life. In this dungeon, only a single monster fit the bill, and that was the boss on the Nightmare difficulty, the one that drove the miners out.

Orin had told him it had a single life before, so if he tried to tame it then he would most certainly get the full powered version of it. However, he would have to defeat it first, and successfully tame it. If he was unlucky then he would fall on a monster that didn't fear death.

Adam wondered whether this would allow him to complete his quest with Orin though.

But now wasn't the time to worry about this, he had loot to plunder. Through this whole run, he had gained much more than before thanks to the increase in difficulty. And now was the best reward of the whole run.

First was the loot left by the dead boss, and there was also the chest behind it. Adam wasn't disappointed by what he saw. Apart from the usual materials, which were a rank higher than normal, there were several Uncommon Equipment as well as a skill for Clerics, a C Rank one.

C Rank skills were very rare right now, and B Rank ones were yet to be seen in public. However, Adam decided not to sell this, but instead give it to Louisa. The skill was called [Poison Nullification], and consisted in injecting a poisonous mana into a person's body to destroy the poison already present.

Adam stored the skill to give it to Louisa tomorrow when they get to see each other, and opened the chest. Once again, he found some Uncommon equipments, two of them, but he also found the rare [Dark Gold Iron Ore].

As Adam eyed the rare mineral he couldn't help but wonder what this metal was made of. Iron and Gold were two different metals, two different atoms, so was this a mixture of both metals, or was it just because the color was dark gold?

With those questions in mind, Adam left the dungeon, prepared to dive back in as soon as he was out. However, once he got out he was surprised to see there was someone else present.

Adam became alarm when he saw how the girl was dressed though, she was part of Aemon's Cult. She wasn't much of a threat herself, she was a Level 50 Bronze Rank, but if she was here then there could be others nearby.

However, she didn't look like she was here for trouble, so he didn't attack her immediately and instead asked "What are you doing here?"

The girl, who was quite young for a Level 50, bowed, shocking Adam, and said "I am here on my cult's account to clear the matters between us."

Adam frowned and said "What do you mean?" Is she wanted to fight then she wouldn't have bowed.

The girl replied "You stole something from us and destroyed a monster tide we started. In return, we paid Blackheart Mountain to send assassins after you. We want to stop our enmity here."

Adam raised an eyebrow and said "I thought Aemon's Cult was feared through the land and was a powerful organization… Why do you to make peace?"

The girl shook her head and said "I don't know, but orders are orders. In exchange of making peace, we can agree on stopping any attack on the Azure Sky Kingdom."

Adam was even more surprised, but found no reason to refuse so he said "Sure, let's make peace."

The girl smiled and said "As a step toward friendship, I can also give you additional information for free. We weren't the only ones to pay assassins for your death, but another cult, the Demon's Cult, did so as well, and unlike us they don't intend on stopping their chase, so be careful of them in the future."

Adam nodded but still said "Even though we set the records right this time, I don't like your cult. I won't attack you out of nowhere, but if you get in my way, know I will kill you."

The girl sneered and said "Don't overestimate yourself…" She didn't get to finish her sentence though as Adam appeared in front of her and grabbed her in a choke hold.