Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 167: Olyvalone

Back in the real world, not much happened. Adam followed his usual routine as he took a shower, changed, ate with his family before returning to his room to meditate. While in the real world, Adam worked not only on his cultivation, but also on comprehending the Fire Concept. To do so, he just took a lighter, and burned himself.

It was painful, but it was the best way he had found to understand fire. For most of the night, he just kept burning himself, but toward the end of the night, as the sun started appearing in the sky, Adam began feeling a connection to the fire.

Using this connection, Adam felt able to slightly control the flame, and make it burn hotter, or cooler. Once he found this initial understanding, Adam also began finding strange connections to his Water Concepts.

It wasn't similarities, but instead drastic differences, and yet Adam felt like those were like the two sides of a coin. This was a very strange feeling, but nonetheless Adam felt like his understanding over fire advanced by leaps and bounds thanks to the weird connection he felt between the two elements.

When Adam logged back into the game, he sent a look at his status. As it turned out, his Fire Concept had reached 0.1% and was a Sovereign Concept, just like his Water Concept.

Like the Water Sovereign Concept, the Fire Sovereign Concept had several forms. Pure fire, smoke and lava. However, he couldn't shift between the three forms like he could with water.

Liquid, solid and gaseous were three forms of water, but were essentially the same. However, fire, smoke and lava were very different from each other. This meant the fire element had less adaptability than the water element.

However, while there were drawbacks, there were also advantages. First, Adam could use his concept to now create a flame out of thin air, unlike water that needed him to use an already existing source of water.

Although Adam felt like he would be able to to create water from the particles in the air, he would need to reach a much higher level for his water concept, or maybe even reach the Water Sovereign Essence level.

If Adam wanted to use the magma form of the Fire Element, he would also need to mix fire and earth, meaning that if there weren't any mud near him then he wouldn't be able to use it. But again, while this made using magma attacks much harder, magma element attacks were among the ones that dealt the most damage amongst all the elements.

Still, if Adam wanted to really use his Fire Concept, he would have to create skills for it. However, even if he did so, he would try to only use it on Earth, because of how his body was made.

Because of his class, the body of Adam's avatar in the game was affiliated to the Water Element, and so his meridians related to water were much wider than those of the same element, which resulted in attacks from other elements costing much more Aura, if he wanted to use them.

For example, if he used a Fire skill of the same power as Ice Statue, it would cost 16 000 instead of 8000.

Anyway, Adam summoned Neith back to him as he reached the teleportation array in the middle of Ember City. She wasn't far from the city so he had no problems doing so. He directly put her in his Pet Space as he teleported to Fjora.

Now, his destination was the Dragon Valley, which was located between the Coldlands Empire in the North and Feynwoods in the East. If one wanted to go there, they could use either path, the time used would be pretty similar.

Because he never set foot in Feynwoods, and that it was an allied force to Coldlands, Adam decided to teleport there, which would allow him to discover a new region of this world. A bit of tourism was going to be great before doing what he had to do.

Actually, Adam felt a little reluctant in killing all those dragons, although he was set to fight against them in the end, he still felt like this was too early. Becoming an enemy to the whole dragon clan was obviously going to burden all his allies, and it would throw the world into a political mess.

Although in the end the Coldlands Empire will most probably be able to protect him, his guild and other friends might get targeted by the dragons.

And all that for an armor he would only use for the Silver Rank. During the past few days he had already asked Morbash about enchanting the armor, and the latter told him that if he went to see a good Enchanter he should be able to include a leveling function to the armor.

But even then, because of the materials used, the strongest this armor could get to, even with enchantments, was Level 100. Risking so much for an armor that would become useless as he reaches Gold Rank didn't feel right.

However, he didn't have a choice, even if he didn't want the armor, it had also turned into his Promotion Quest, meaning that if he wanted to become Silver Ranked he needed to complete this mission.

All in all, Adam felt troubled, and so visiting the great Feynwoods should alleviate his mood.

So Adam used the array in Fjora to reach out to Olyvalone, the capital of the elves in the West. As his surroundings changed, Adam was stunned by what he saw. He expected the capital to be close to nature, those were Wood Elves and Fae after all.

But Olyvalone was not just close to nature, it WAS nature. Of course there were houses and shops, but they were in the trees, the trees had been morphed to form them. This was a sign of the famous Nature Magic they were famous for.

Moreover, one could see many monsters here, all of various sizes, and more importantly, friendly. This was due to the races making this Racial Power, namely the Wood Elves and the Fae.

Wood Elves were naturally good at Nature Magic and Archery, while the Fae were the best summoners in the entire world. Actually, summoners were looked down upon by most players, because in their early period they were very weak, they couldn't fight themselves and their summons were weak. So there were very few Fae among players right now.

However, a good summoner could become a one man army, and the inhabitants of Epoch knew that perfectly well, which was why no one dared to attack Feynwoods despite it's apparent lack of defense.

Adam left the teleportation array and summoned Neith. As expected, despite the appearance of a nearly twenty meters tall black spider didn't surprise or frighten anyone, she just passed as another monster. Moreover, no one would just look at her status for no reason, so she was just a monster among many here.

Adam had Neith walk toward one of the nearby shops as he had asked around where he could find a map. Adam needed to teleport to a city in the north of the nature empire, so he wanted to update his map.

Maps of entire empires were costly, costing several tens of golds, but Adam still bought it as having a map of the entire world could become quite the advantage in the future.

After buying and extending his map, Adam decided to explore the capital a little bit as he was curious about the strange place. As someone who lived in the present world, nature had already started disappearing from his world, as humans destroyed the planet inch by inch every year.

Although there still existed natural forests and beautiful landscapes, less and less people would go there, as the life there wasn't as comfortable as in the cities. That's why, Adam took a liking to Olyvalone right away.

However, no matter how he felt about the capital of Feynwoods, it was time for him to leave, as he had dragons to slay.