Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 185: Sword Floor

It had already been four days since Adam entered the Blood Tower, and Adam had finally reached the end of the 49th Floor. Actually, passing every floor wasn't that hard, but he wouldn't waste such a great opportunity to train.

But even though they didn't endanger him, the floors he went through still allowed him to understand how the floors worked. The monsters, by themselves, weren't very strong compared to the challenger, but they would always be gathered in groups.

Apart from those monsters, there were also the past challengers that were very powerful. The reason why most failed wasn't because of a lack of strength, but rather because of fatigue. Some would have to spend almost the maximum amount of time on a floor to pass it, and this would wear one out.

Adam had met some challengers on the 47th Floor, for example, who could most probably pass the 48th Floor, but that was because their ghost was at full strength and weren't tired at all. That's why, in every floor, the most dangerous beings would be the ghosts of the past challengers.

As for his fatigue Although Adam had already been in the tower for four days, he had been meditating for most of the time, which was even better than sleep so he was totally fine. The only problem in the real world might be his smell, but no one would enter his room so he was the only one who would have to suffer

Anyway, those few days allowed Adam to understand a lot more about all his Concepts, and now they all had went past the 1% boundary, making Adam eligible to learn A Rank Skills.

Unfortunately, Adam hadn't learned any yet, as he had focused on first mastering his B Rank skills before turning to the A Rank ones. Now, he was confidant he could do so, so he was only waiting for the floors from the 50th on to learn.

As Adam set foot on the 50th Floor though, he was overjoyed. The floor's appearance was very simple, he was in a metal cube. Within the cube were different kinds of houses and buildings, as well as individuals. From where he was, he could see that most of them looked human.

Such a sight didn't tell him much on the nature of the floor, but the sword elements in the air couldn't lie to him. This was a Sword Floor, meant to practice with the sword.

Not only would all the monsters here be Sword Monsters, allowing him to practice through real sword fight, but even the elements in the air would make his progress much faster.

It was just like meditating in the ocean to practice water elemental skills, it would be much faster than meditating in a random place. The tricky thing though, was that not every element was easy to find.

If one wanted to search for a natural element like fire, water, wind or earth, then it was easy, one just had to head to an area where there were a lot of those elements in the material world. However, if one wanted to cultivate in a place with abundant sword elements or saber elements, it quickly became much harder.

That's how Sword Sects, where only Sword Skills are taught, came to be, but even then they weren't very popular. That's because the only way to intensify the density of sword elements in the air was to have a lot of people practice with the sword in a certain area. But that was very hard to find.

That's why, finding an area like the 50th Floor was very hard, and one would have to practice for countless days to see progress when they searched for weapon concepts.

And the best thing was that the elements weren't just average elements here. After all, there were other sword floors in lower floors, but they were meant for lower ranked Sword Concepts, not Sovereign Concepts.

Only on the 50th Floor would Adam's swordsmanship level up faster. So without wasting time, Adam moved forward. He didn't take long meet his meet his first opponent, who was, unfortunately, only a ghost of a past challenger.

Faced with the Level 45 Vampire, Adam only needed five swipes of his sword to kill the vampire. This was obviously an SS Rank Vampire who had successfully passed the 49th Floor and managed to get on the 50th Floor, but was killed just as he entered.

This wasn't very surprising, as a Level 50 Bronze Rank SS Class who opened the 3rd Gate wasn't that far behind a Level 50 Bronze Rank Sovereign who didn't yet open the 4th Gate, so the fact this vampire was able to climb here wasn't very surprising.

Of course, Adam didn't know what level or rank it was at when it ascended the tower since it had been weakened.

Anyway, after this first monsters, Adam finally got to see the Sword Monsters. It was a group of ten Level 100 Elder Rank monsters. Honestly, if he used all his strength then crushing those ten monsters would be very easy, but that wasn't his goal.

First, from what he understood, this would trigger the other monsters of this floor who would form much bigger groups, but he didn't want to do that for now. His current aim was to fight using only his swordsmanship.

Only when he felt his swordsmanship was strong enough would he trigger a large amount of Sword Monsters and fight against all of them using what he learned, and all of his strength.

By now, Adam had four Sovereign Concepts: Water, Fire, Self and Sword. Of the four, the one he had the less skills derived of was the Self Concept, as he only had his [Totemic Rage]. But this was because this was a very unique concept that wasn't really made to create skills.

Then, it would be his Sword Concept as he only had two Sword Skills. As for his Fire and Water skills, he had much more of them, and he had even perfectly mastered all of them. Well, now absolutely all his skills were perfectly mastered, as those he hadn't yet mastered weren't hard to master, and he had used those four days to do so

But he was diverging. Although he only had two skills, that was a sane choice. He already had many B Rank skills, and he didn't have much use for anymore. He would rather focus on A Rank skills now, and for his Sword Concept, as long as he was able to awaken his Domain by awakening his 5th Gate he would gate multiple skills coming from his Sword Art.

But he couldn't only count on that, so he was going to use those 32 hours on the 50th Floor to master one A Rank skill.

Ten minutes later, Adam was stepping on the corpses of the Sword Monsters. As expected, they weren't very strong. But he was worried about a lack of difficulty. This was only the earliest of the floors for Sovereigns, and he was much better than any other Sovereign he knew so he should expect difficulty only in the higher floors.

Unlike the Elemental Concepts, Weapon Concepts didn't need to be meditated much on to be understood, one rather had to fight. So although meditation was also a necessary component of understanding the Sword Concept, it wasn't the main point. And what he was doing now was creating an A Rank skill, so he fought against all the opponents he saw.

As the hours passed, the Sword Monsters began gathering in bigger groups while the ghosts became stronger and stronger. As they did, Adam gradually used more and more strength, but only on his sword, and somehow began creating his own skill as he understood more and more about his sword.

Finally, it was 30 hours after entering the 50th Floor that Adam killed the last monster barring his way to next floor. Around him, hundreds of Level 100 Elder Rank Monsters laid on the ground, all of them bisected. More shocking though, was the ground, as a gigantic split had appeared in it, and it was hundreds of meters long.

This was the result of Adam's new skill.

Chop (A): Chop with your sword to deal 2000% of sword damage. Can be projected and can't be dodged. Cost: 100 000 Aura.