Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 184: Taking his time

For the next few floors, Adam was able to go through them very easily, none of the monsters were of any threat to him. Even when he passed by a Cold Floor he didn't linger for long as he had to reach the higher floors to get to the interesting floors.

It barely took him a few hours to reach the 30th Floor, things finally started becoming interesting as he could stay for quite some time here. As a remainder, he could stay for one hour in the floors between the first and the ninth, two hours in those between the tenth and the nineteenth, four hours between twenty and twenty nine.

Finally, he could spend eight hours in the floors starting from here. At the same time, those floors were tailored for S Class individuals, making the monsters he faced become a little stronger.

The 30th Floor was again an Earth related floor, but it was a coincidence, the floors didn't seem to follow any pattern. But anyway, it wasn't very interesting for him since he didn't practice the Earth Concept.

He felt it was regretful Neith didn't enter, but she wasn't able to. The reason was simple, it was because of her size. The door inside the tower would be created using the power of faith, and so making a bigger door would be much harder.

And Adam couldn't bring her in with his Pet Space either because the space within the Blood Tower was restricted and one couldn't summon a monster from the monster pet. A Summoner would be able to use their summoned beasts though.

After blitzing through the 30th Floor, he reached the 31st Floor, and he was glad to see it was actually a lava world. This was going to be great. Although his fire attacks wouldn't be as powerful as his water attacks while in the game, his comprehension of the Fire Concept would be as fast as his Water Concept.

Soon, a few monsters appeared before Adam, and all of them were the same Lava Monsters. He could also see a few contestants of the past in the distance too.

[Lava Monster] (Chieftain, Level 50)

HP: 125000/125000

Well, they couldn't really be considered a threat, but at least they would make great dummies for him to train in his Fire Elemental skills since they were resistant to fire attacks. He didn't know any fire attacks yet, but with his understanding over the Concept of Fire, he could create a few quite easily, considering his great understanding of meridians.

The past challengers were a little stronger in comparison, but weren't much of a threat either. For them, he didn't have any patience and he directly killed them.

Time quickly passed in the tower, and soon it had almost been eight hours since he entered the Magma Floor. Normally, only eight hours of training wouldn't have allowed him to make any progress, but thanks to the great environment that bathed him in fire elements, he had been able to progress at an astonishing speed.

Apart from understanding a little more about the Fire Concept, he was also able to create a few skills. One was the [Fire Slash], which was basically the same thing as the [Aqua Slash], but it was a fire version.

A more original skill was [Lava Pool], or [Ash Spray].

Lava Pool (C): Change an area of ten meters by ten meters into lava. Enemies within the lava will become 70% slower and suffer 200% fire damage every second. Cost: 500 Aura.

Ash Spray (C): Blow ashes to cover ten meters in a 45 cone in front of you. Those in the ash will become blinded while in it, and standing inside will deal 150% damage every second. If anyone within the ashes breath, they will also suffer from internal burning. Cost: 500 Aura.

Both skills could be very useful, but him learning three skills and advancing in his mastery of the Fire Concept showed how great of a training ground the Blood Tower was.

If he had more time, Adam was confidant he could have even created B Rank Skills, and push his comprehension beyond the 1% mark but there were still higher floors.

The next floor, at first glance, didn't seem as interesting, as it was a Wind Floor. However, Adam then realized he had wind skills, so he might as well train them here.

Like that, Adam began spending more and more time within the different floors as he climbed the tower, not because the monsters were growing difficult to kill, but because he would always find something to train. Faced with this incredible training environment, Adam couldn't help but let his greed take over and he started practicing many, many skills.

Outside the tower, as the hours passed, the vampires could see on which floor the challengers were, as well as their names. This came from the power of faith they had infused in the tower, and the name tags were actually based on the names they gave worshiped.

Here, Adam was called Aqua Sovereign instead of Valiant Heart, but King Slayer was called King Slayer. But if one were to pose as either of them, and the vampires didn't see anything, although the tower would know the real identity of the person, the name shown would still be the ones shown now.

After an entire day, or 48 hours in this world, Adam had reached the 39th Floor, and had been there for some time, while King Slayer was already on the 51st Floor. This was because while Adam took his time, King Slayer was rushing quickly.

Another twelve hours, and Adam was on the 41st Floor, while King Slayer reached the 52nd Floor. Adam had skipped the 40th floor because it wasn't interesting to him, but the 41st was a floor filled with swordsmen, except for the past contestants, making this floor great for him to practice his swordsmanship.

Another thirty six hours quickly passed, and King Slayer was forced to leave the tower with a dejected face. He had successfully entered the 53rd Floor, but he didn't last long in there and was forced to flee out of the tower, if he didn't want to be killed. And something only he knew, was that he had only managed to reach this floor thanks to tricks.

Had he been relying on only strength, then even coming up to the 51st Floor would have been near impossible.

As he exited the Blood Tower, the Vampires looked a little disappointed, but their faces quickly turned into smiles to welcome King Slayer. That made the assassin smile and he turned around, to see where Adam was at. With a glance, he saw the latter was at the 44th Floor.

This relieved him, he himself knew he didn't have any chances of reaching the top floor, but Adam had all his chances. However, he was going to spend quite some time inside the tower, it seemed

Since he would have to wait for a long time, he decided to spend that time doing something pleasant, and he walked up to the Vampire Princess, the terrifying One Sword. Unexpectedly though, the cold assassin whose face is forever cold, actually smiled at King Slayer.

Meanwhile, inside the tower, Adam was learning the different Concepts at an incredible speed. He strengthened his knowledge of the Concepts he already knew, but he also learned now ones. Unfortunately, most of them were Advanced Concepts, not Sovereign ones.

But Adam didn't really care, as he could use his knowledge of the other Concepts to slowly transform this Advanced Concept into a Sovereign one.

It wasn't impossible to do so, but it was very hard, or even impossible to do for someone who never understood a Sovereign Concept, because they wouldn't know what a Sovereign Concept felt like. But once someone understood at least one Sovereign Concept, it would become much easier to transform other Concepts into Sovereign Concepts.

That was also why the Star Concept was so important to Thalia and her family, as this would allow them to grasp one Sovereign Concept, and use it to slowly push their Advanced Concepts to the Sovereign level.

However, one shouldn't have too many Sovereign Concepts. This was because even training a single one to the Essence Level was very hard, so bringing multiple ones would be even harder. Adam already had quite a few Sovereign Concepts, so he didn't want to have too many either.