Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 177: In the Land of Eternal Night

Adam looked at Neith stunned, that was unexpected. But after a moment, a smile appeared on his face as he replied "Sure, daughter."

Then, Adam felt pure bliss from their telekinetic link, and then relief. He patted her back and told her it was time to go down. She flew down from the sky and landed next to King Slayer, who looked at her up and down before greeting her.

"Hello to you." Neith's eyes locked on King Slayer before she replied to his greetings. Adam jumped down from her back, a fifty meters tall fall wasn't much for him, as long as it was controlled. He just lost a few hundred health points from the fall, but he already had almost 200k HP.

King Slayer then said with a strained smile "You really are a magnet for trouble." Adam smiled back "Well, I have to admit, while I met quite a few Legends already too many, I admit, this was the first one actively threatening me."

King Slayer scratched his head and said "And she won't be the last As I was saying, before I was interrupted, our goals won't go against each other, but we will even be able to help each other."

Adam said "I'm listening." King Slayer said "The Blood Metal Ore is precious, and the mines are controlled by the Royal Family, meaning if you want ten pieces of it, you will have to ask or steal. As for me, I aim to become a Chosen Vampire, which is why I forced my body to become a Sovereign first. But even as a Sovereign, if I want to become a Chosen Vampire I must receive a special transformation from the Vampire King."

He continued "But first I need to be tested, my worth to be exact. I know of a challenge that will allow me to get the help of one friend, and if we are able to go through their challenge we will get what we want. Me, the transformation, and you, the Blood Metal Ore, maybe even more."

Adam nodded to him, so King Slayer turned toward the cliff and said "Follow me." He walked toward the cliff, but did not show any sign he was going to climb or avoid it. Instead, just as he said, the entrance really was behind the rock, as when he was about to collide with the cliff, he mysteriously went through the cliff wall.

Adam and Neith followed right behind him, and as they entered through the cliff they both felt the familiar sensation of spatial transportation teleportation, that is.

A second later, they appeared in a new place. Adam's first impression of this place was big.

In the sky, there was no sun, but only a moon, one much bigger than either Earth's or Epoch's. The light with which it shone was almost as bright as the sun, but wasn't as blinding.

Unfortunately, they could barely see the sky between the rocks above them. They were currently in a long tunnel like passage, they were blocked by rocks and had only one choice: go forward.

Well, that would be if they were normal people. Neith began moving toward one of the walls, and seeing this, King Slayer said with a sigh "It's not use, those rocks are harder than magical steel."

However, Neith continued advancing, and Adam just jumped onto her back. As Neith approached the wall, she put her first foot on it, and King Slayer expected to see the foot scrap off against the wall.

However, much to his shock, the foot entered the rock like a hot knife in butter, and even more shocking was that she didn't break the wall at all, her foot just phased through the rock.

But it wasn't that either as she was actually able to use this foot to star climbing the wall, and she began quickly climbing the rocky side.

In under a minute she was able to climb several hundred meters and arrive next to the roof. King Slayer had climbed along when he saw she didn't have a problem moving up.

When she reached the top, Neith put on of her feet above them, touching the final layer of rocks blocking them from the sky. The rocks started moving around, leaving a hole big enough for Neith to pass, and as she did so it closed behind her.

King Slayer blinked and said "That was anticlimactic." Adam and Neith chuckled as they looked at the scenery in front of them.

They were on a rocky desert, and they could see a thin crack along the earth, which was the path they were supposed to take.

There were no monsters in sight, and the only thing they could see in the rocky desert was a large city in the distance.

Adam looked at King Slayer, who said "This is our destination, the headquarters of the Vampire Race. Normally, we would have to fight against many monsters, among which the majority are Gold Ranks, and the crack would eventually lead to the entrance of the city. But your pet made this much easier."

As he said those words, King Slayer felt two powerful pressures bore onto him, mixed with killing intent. The two auras were so powerful that he felt like he was suffocating.

Adam then said with a warning voice "I adopted her as my daughter, you would do well to remember that."

King Slayer was surprised, but he nodded quickly as the two auras receded. Adam knew what the reaction of most players and even NPCs would be if learned he had adopted a monster as his daughter, but he didn't care.

After this little incident, Neith, Adam and King Slayer began following the crack, heading toward the city in the distance. King Slayer felt helpless though when Neith refused to take him on her back and forced him to walk.

It took them about an hour to finally get close to the city, a trip that would have taken much more time if they hadn't been able to avoid all the fighting, according to King Slayer.

When they reached within a kilometer of the city, they got back inside the crack, and this time Neith did help King Slayer to get down, she wasn't that angry originally since he couldn't know, but she felt she had to do this to make sure he wouldn't forget. She believed an hour of walking was enough of a punishment for something that wasn't really his fault.

For the last kilometer in the crack, the three did not cross any monsters, and were able to arrive at the end of the crack without fighting even once.

At the end of the crack, two huge gates were waiting for them, with a single person waiting outside. This person looked similar to an Islander, but his eyes were red, and he was a monster, a vampire. Thinking about it, calling them monsters was kind of rude maybe not in this world, the world probably didn't have the exact same meaning behind it.

[Vampire Earl] (Elder, Level 100)

HP: 5,000,000/5,000,000

The Vampire was clearly surprised, but after a moment his became cold again as he stared at the group. But once again, when he was able to see their status, he was completely stunned, so much that he almost dropped his spear.

Vampires, like Goblins, were among the only monsters capable of wearing equipment, because their bodies, while stronger and filled with more vitality than other humanoids, they were still weaker than monsters.

So they had access to equipment which allowed them to join the strongest races in this world in the race for power.

As for his title, although he might sound like an important noble, nobility among Vampires was different from the human world. Blood purity determined a Vampire's rank in society, as well as strength.

Among Vampires, except from the weakest Minor Vampires, who could barely hope to level up past Level 20, the second weakest Vampires were Barons, and the strongest were the Royals, who were 1st Grade monsters, in other words, as strong as dragons of the same level, or SS Classes.

Of course, there were also the legendary Imperial Vampires, who were Chosen ones, but there only appeared one every few generations. Well, if King Slayer succeeded in doing what he wanted, he might turn into the next Imperial Vampire But reaching the top was as hard for a Chosen one than for a Sovereign, mostly because of how people would chase after them.

Something else that needed to be understood about Vampires was the fact that one wasn't born a Vampire, they became one. Vampires were still, in essence, undeads, and were unable of procreation. That's why, there were no clans or such things among the Vampires, except for the royals.