Capítulo 189: Demon's Fall

The demons had been hit quite hard by this one, and were furious. Adam also saw a problem he had already guessed about earlier, and that was the demons' resistance to fire.

Although they had created such a big explosion, the demons hadn't taken much damage from it, meaning their fire resistance as very big. However, his Water skills used a lot of his Aura and didn't allow him to recover his Aura quickly.

His [Inferno] was better to fight such a big crowd, as it would allow him to deal a lot of damage and also recover his own Aura, but the effects would be lessened here.

Still, he decided to use this skill as it was the best environment to use it. Normally, it would use 100k Aura to use his [Inferno], but because he was in a very hot environment, and the demons had already lit the whole area on fire, Adam was able to launch the skill by using only 50k.

As the flames forcefully hit all the demons, they once again lost health, and they all only lost 200k HP. And even as the temperature remained extremely hot, it didn't continue dealing damage to them, they simply didn't care about the hot temperature.

Despite dealing only so little damage, Adam didn't care. His passive recovery speed had been boosted to 200 Aura per second, which was more than enough. Moreover, because of the environment he was in, the fire dome would remain for a much longer period of time.

To make sure he wouldn't disperse it, Adam didn't use his Water Skills, nor his Fire skills as they were too weakened, so he went for his Sword Skills.

Adam first activated [Swift Steps], a C Rank Wind Skill that made him two times faster, and only costed 100 Aura per second, before activating [Wind Blade], now perfectly mastered, that costed 10 Aura per second, and finally activated [Sword Aura], that made his attacks five times stronger, and costed 500 Aura per second.

All in all, with those skills, he consumed 610 Aura per second, but also recovered 200, so he was only losing 410 Aura every second. Since he had above 100k Aura remaining, if he didn't use any skills he would be able to stay in this state for more than four minutes.

With a speed so quick he looked like he used teleportation, Adam arrived in the middle of the demons and used [Sword Cry]. However, he didn't use his own version that would take some more of his Aura, but instead used the one engraved in his sword, that had a 30 seconds cooldown instead of a 10 000 Aura price.

As he used the skill, his sword began vibrating at a special frequency as a sound wave that seemed as sharp as a sword echoed from his sword, hitting all the demons in a 50 meters range.

-600 000 HP!

A bunch of damage appeared above the heads of all the demons in his range, and they wailed loudly because of the pain. Meanwhile, Adam appeared like a ghost as he slashed at the weak points of the surrounding demons.

While he was in his boosted state, he was a little quicker than all of them, and although he was weaker physically, he used his speed and sword art to overcome that as he hit all their weak points.

Critical Hit! -425 000 HP!

The demons' HP plummeted down, and soon the first demons began dying. In a couple of minutes Adam had even killed more than a hundred of them, but the situation was getting dearer and dearer.

Another two minutes passed, and Adam had been able to kill about half of all the demons. However, his Aura was about to disappear, and the remaining demons were the ones who were standing farther away, so while Adam killed the ones around him, those ones had the time to recover to full health.

Adam's current situation was him facing more than two hundred demons at full health and Aura while his own Aura had been depleted. He was forced to deactivate his skills, and he once again became completely weaker than the demons.

He had less Aura than them, he was weaker than them and he was slower. Even though his technique was much better than those demons, it was far from enough.

As the demons fired hundreds of B Rank skills at him, he knew he only had a single thing to do. He couldn't hope on a miraculous breakthrough, or a random helper. He either had to die, or use… his berserk skill.

He didn't want to use it, because he hated losing control. Moreover, using it would make him become much slower for a full day, and he didn't know if there were any more danger behind those demons. And he was still apprehensive toward something… but he had no choice. If he didn't use it, then he wouldn't even be able to face those dangers.

Gritting his teeth, Adam activated [Totemic Rage]. As he did so, his body quickly began transforming as Adam gave out to his instincts. Adam tried to hold on to his consciousness, and was able to last longer than last time, but in the end, as he was in the midst of his transformation, his mind gave out.

As for the demons, they knew that great danger awaited them if they let this Northman transform, and they tried to interrupt the transformation, but a single roar of Adam in the middle of his transformation had sent them flying.

What followed next was a terrible slaughter, and a change in the local landscape.

When Adam woke up, he was in the middle of a big hole, lying on the ground. Above him was the same black sky. He slowly got up, and his body ached with everyone of his movements, but he forced himself to get up.

Surrounding him were the ripped apart corpses of hundreds of demons, they had all died… Adam closed his eyes and began a quick meditation, to recover from his empty Aura as well as the HP he had lost.

He also looked at his condition through the system, and discovered that only an hour had passed since his transformation. When both his health and Aura recovered to full, which was right now half of their real value, Adam got up and jumped out of the hole.

Only when he did so did he discover how much destruction he had created. The hole he was in was only one of many, and some were hundreds of meters in size. Adam tried to slash at the ground without using any skill, but he was barely able to destroy a small piece…

While strange, this transformation of his was really powerful. It was more than worth losing half of his attributes for a day.

He ideal situation would be to now wait for his condition to disappear, but he knew he couldn't. That was because some distance away, a portal had appeared. And every minute, this portal was becoming smaller and smaller.

Although it would be a few hours from now the portal would close, Adam knew that it would definitely be closed in less than 48 hours. Since it wouldn't make any difference, Adam decided to enter the portal straight away.

This portal was clearly different from any other he had entered, Adam couldn't really say why, but he felt it.

The next instant, Adam appeared in a new area, but before he could observe his surroundings, several hundreds of red lights fired toward him at a speed so quick Adam had no chance to dodge.

However, right as they were about to hit him, they all slightly deviated and missed him.

"You really were able to reach the 60th Floor." Obviously, it was the Fallen Angel, Ardrith.