Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

Chapter 81: Trap

The uninjured one looked behind him, into the town, and said to another gang member who was nearby and had come hearing the other one scream "There's an intruder, looks strong. Gather a unit, we are going to kill him."

The one below blinked and asked "A whole unit?"

"Do as I say!"

He nodded and ran off to warn the others. A few minutes later, 100 of them got passed the gates. Adam grinned and threw another stone at them, hitting one of them, before bolting off.

The gangsters roared in anger and followed him like dumb minions, away from the town. Adam had to lower his speed so he wouldn't loose them, but not by much, showing how strong those NPCs were.

Actually, Adam knew he didn't much a chance even against 100 of them. Maybe if he activated all his skills he would be able to win, but that would make him waste more time than anything.

Instead, he had a plan. After covering some more distance, Adam revealed a smile as he looked ahead. He ran a few more meters and stopped, staring at the gangsters after him.

The ones in front looked at him confused, but they didn't stop and continued running. A few steps later though, the ones in front all started falling, forcing those behind to stop.

However, it was too late, they had fallen into the trap. What had made them fall was an invisible thread Neith had specially made. It had lost its stickiness but had an incredible strength which allowed it to make them fall, instead of breaking.

The ones on the ground tried to get up, but before they could numerous spears of earth rose from the ground, impaling them. As for the ones behind, Adam appeared behind them and used his incredible strength to push them toward the spears of earth.

They tried to attack back, but Neith soon appeared from the ground and using her eight legs she was even faster than Adam to kill the gangsters.

In under a minute, the ground was littered with corpses, with big holes in their bodies or missing limbs, depending on who killed them.

As for Adam and Neith, they were almost unscathed, especially Neith since she had a much bigger vitality. Adam wasn't much hurt, but he was covered in blood from head to toe, making him look especially fearful.

He looked at Neith and asked "You can make tunnels in the earth? Can you sense what is above you?"

'I do.' He smiled and said "Wish I had known earlier, it would have made everything simpler. I want you to travel underneath the earth and search for the egg."

'But they will sense me if I move underground.' Neith replied.

"Don't worry about that, I will grab their attention. When a large part of them has left the town, find the egg and take it out safely. Go."

Neith nodded her gigantic head and burrowed underground, not leaving much of a trace despite her size. Magic.

As for Adam, he looked at the corpses and began his work. After losing a hundred of their members, they obviously won't get out of their safe fortress easily. That's why, a little provocation was needed, and their friends' corpses were perfect for that.

Adam first decapitated all of them, and then attached all the heads together with Neith's web. Then, with one hundred head dragged behind him, Adam walked back toward the fortress.

When he came back in sight, the gangster he had injured earlier gritted his teeth and warned the others, and as expected none of them came out of the town. After all, for all they knew an army of thousands could be hiding.

Instead, the rangers of the gang gathered to the wall and were ready to shoot Adam as soon as he came within range.

However, as if he knew their exact range, Adam stopped right outside of it. Then, he took one of the heads and threw it toward the town. He didn't really aim, all he wanted was for the head to get inside the city.

Then, he threw head after head into the town, infuriating the gangsters, and by the time he was throwing the last ones, the gates finally opened. Unexpectedly, a single man had come out, he was on top of a fierce looking tiger and had a spear in one hand, and a tower shield in the other.

As they approached Adam was able to see his and the tiger's status.

[Ludo, Serpentine Gang Leader] (Silver, Level 75)

HP: 70000/70000

[Iron Fur Tiger] (Lord, Level 60)

HP: 400000/400000

Those two were strong, Adam could feel Ludo had opened the Gate of Healing, meaning he was probably an S Class, and the Tiger was a Lord. No wonder he could create such a big gang, with such a strength.

As he approached Ludo sneered "At least you didn't run you rat. What are you doing here?"

Adam smiled and replied, as if they were friends "Nothing much really, all I want is to take back what you have stolen Well not everything, I can't store a whole town, but the snake egg will do."

At first Ludo looked angry at Adam for mocking, but when he mentioned the egg his pupils dilated as he slapped the tiger under him, making it attack Adam.

This surprised Adam, Ludo didn't even know if he had allies with him but he attacked straight away. The two were also quite fast, faster than Adam at least, he wondered whether it came from a skill or if the tiger's agility was just higher than his.

Anyway, Adam admitted that this was a dangerous situation, and taking the two of them on would be dangerous, so he activated his berserk skill from his armor set. It would only last 10 seconds, but that was enough.

Now 50% faster and stronger, Adam also activated [Wind Blade], which was already Level 9, and once again used his special movement technique by using his weapon's weight to jump at the two.

Ludo was shocked at Adam's speed, this was only a Level 25 after all, and he didn't even have the time to react as Adam swung his sword against one of his mount's front legs, creating a deep slash in it, followed by three ice blades that completely severed the limb.

-50250 HP!

-50250 HP!

-50250 HP!

-50250 HP! Cripple!

Ludo didn't even have time to get off the tiger as it fell to the ground due to the hit and the missing limb. Having lost half it's health, the tiger became scared of Adam, but it barely got back on it's feet when it sensed something crash into the back of its head, and a wave of frost erupt from there.

-70 500 HP!

-5200 HP!

That was an [Icy Stomp] from Adam, which was able to hit both the tiger and Ludo. However, the damage they took was completely different.

That didn't surprise Adam much though, as this was how this world worked. Monsters had way more stamina and health than humanoids, up to absurd point. For example, Neith had 750k HP despite only being Level 30.

Even an SSS Knight or Monk wouldn't even near that amount of HP. However, Neith's defense was bad, and she would take the full strength of every hit, whereas a player or NPC would only take a fraction.

This was also the case here. Adam's damage on 0 defense was of around 72k with this attack, and the tiger had taken 70k out of its 400k HP. As for Ludo, he had only taken 5k damage, but that was out of 70k, not 400k.

Still, that was a lot of damage, and that made Ludo look at Adam in shock, but the latter didn't care. His last attack had slowed them down by almost 10%, so they were even slower than before. He roared due to how much he enjoyed the fight, activating [Barbarous Roar], and jumped to the tiger once again, first using [Crushing Blow], before hammering it down to death with his sword.

-29 000 HP!

-16000 HP! (*7)

In his current state, Adam was so fast that the tiger didn't even have the time to counter attack before it died. As for its master, Ludo, he was so shocked by what he just saw that he didn't even move to protect his mount, but rather began to run away, shooting at the guards at the gate to open the gates and shoot him.