Epoch: A Berserker's Rise

When Adam confirmed his choice, he felt a burst of energy stream out of the altar into his body. Quite similarly to the opening of his 3rd Gate, Adam felt the energy strengthen his body.

However, this change was much more thorough, his entire body was strengthened. Moreover, his body wasn't just getting to its limit of strength, rather it directly strengthened it.

Not only his fleshly body upgraded, his Qi was also getting strengthened. Adam also felt the very nature of his Qi was changing, but he didn't know into what.

Half a minute later, the stream of energy finally was completely absorbed by his body, which was now much stronger than earlier.

[Congratulations for changing your class to Aqua Sovereign(SSS)!]

[All attributes +100%!]

[XP Gain: -66%]

[Cold Resistance is changed to Aqua Resistance, and is now valued at 75%.]

[Cold Damage Multiplier is changed to Aqua Damage Multiplier, and is now valued at 100%.]

[Basic Aura has been changed to Aquatic Aura.]

[Intelligence and Wisdom Attributes disappear, all AP refunded.]

[Will Attribute inserted.]

[Learn skills 'Icy Stomp(C)', 'Misty Escape(B)', 'Totemic Rage(B)']

[SS Quest 'Chased' Completed!]

Due to an increase in difficulty, your quest rewards are one rank higher!

Reward: +5 Levels, +500 World Fame, +1500 Fame with all forces enemies with Blackheart Alliance, -1000 Fame with Demon's Cult and Aemon's Cult, Barbarous Roar (B).

The list of notifications was long, but it served to show how much stronger he had become. However, the negative XP Gain was a surprise, and not really a great one. That meant he would have to collect three times as much as other players to level up. That was probably put in place to balance out the game.

Despite that, there were a few things he had to check, positive ones this time. As he was about to check though he heard a ripping sound behind him, and looking back he saw that space itself had ripped apart.

"Pass through this rift when you want to come back to my temple in Fjora. Also, the sword is a gift. Take it with you and it will reveal itself to you when you return to Fjora." Enya's voice sounded in his head. Adam smiled and took a look at his status first. Even without his equipment, it had become incredibly strong.

Name: Valiant Heart

Level: 25

Title: Monster Slayer

Race: Northman

Class: Aqua Sovereign

Rank: Bronze

HP: 6500/6500

Aura: 8160/8160

Strength (+30 per level): 1150

Agility (+10 per level): 650

Endurance (+10 per level): 650

Will: 816

Free AP: 275

Skills: -Mighty Strike (E, Perfectly Mastered)

-Charge (E, Level 10/10)

-Wind Blade (D, Level 9/10)

-Parry (D, Level 8/10)

-Lunar Smite (C, Level 7/10)

-Crushing Blow (C, Level 5/10)

-Icy Stomp (C, Level 1/10)

-Totemic Rage (B, Level 1/10)

-Barbarous Roar (B, Level 1/10)

-Misty Escape (B, Level 1/10)

Adam had become a literal monster with this upgrade. Even without any armor, his stats were stronger than his past self's stats when he entered the temple. Moreover, the addition of the four skills and the perfect mastery of [Mighty Strike] made him even more powerful.

Icy Stomp (C): Strike the ground deal 120% frost damage to every enemy within a 5 meters radius, as well as lowering their movement speed by 5% for 5 seconds. Cooldown: 60 seconds.

Misty Escape (B): Transform your body into Vapor to become invulnerable to physical damage for one second. While in Vapor form, movement speed increased by 10%, and touching any enemy deals 110% of vapor damage. Cost: 1000 Aura. Cooldown: 1 hour.

Barbarous Roar (B): Use your voice to project your violent will onto your enemies and empower your allies.

Totemic Rage (B): Summon the power of your totemic animal to be strengthened for a short period of time. All stats +100%, Damage +100%, Defense +100%. Duration: 10 seconds. Cost: All stats -30% for 4 hours. Cooldown: 6 hours.

Aqua Aura (No Rank): Every attack dealt using Aqua Aura is two times more powerful.

As expected, the skills he got were very powerful, although the [Barbarous Roar] was unique since its description was unlike any other skill. Then there was also his Aqua Aura, which wasn't a skill but rather a new attribute he got.

His Will attribute, which replaced Intelligence and Wisdom, couldn't have any points put in it. Instead, it was an average of the three other attributes. Using his Aqua Aura would lower his Aura stat.

Mighty Strike (E): Dig into your hidden strengths to deal 300% of your normal damage. Cost: 10 Aura.

His [Mighty Strike] has also changed. Now there was no more cooldown, but everytime he used it he would lose 10 points in Aura. The cost was negligible compared to the amount of Aura he had.

For his stats, they were able to become this strong thanks to the several upgrades he got. For example, his Strength. In the beginning, it was at 100. Opening the Gate of Limit pushed it to 500, and then the bonus from promotion made that number go to 1000. Finally, the 5 levels he got each gave him 30 AP to his Strength.

Normally, an Iron Rank Northman gets +3 to their Strength every level, and a Bronze Rank gets +6 every level. But since everything was now multiplied by 5, every level gave him +30.

Finally, the last change were his Resistance and Damage Multiplier.

Aqua Resistance: All damage coming from Water type (Solid Ice, Liquid Water, Gaseous Vapor) attacks are reduced by 75%.

Aqua Damage Multiplier: All damage dealt with Water type (Solid Ice, Liquid Water, Gaseous Vapor) attacks are doubled.

Adam couldn't wipe off the grin on his face, he was just too happy. This upgrade was so massive, he would be able to kill anything that is Bronze Rank. He was confidant he could take on even a Level 50 S Class Bronze Rank right now.

Adam looked at the sword in his hand, this sword was even more powerful than he thought. Somehow, when he opened the Third Gate, not only his body, but this sword also became stronger and sharper. Moreover, its blade hadn't dulled at all despite all the killing.

With the sword resting on his shoulder, since he had no sheath, he walked through the rift in space.

Back in Fjora, in Enya's Temple, the Volva was standing next to a group of people, all waiting for the participants to come back from their Promotion Test. Amongst them was Johan and Skade.

As time passed, the first participant came through a spatial fracture. He had only received a C Class. After him a few more appeared, all of them only getting a C Class.

Those people didn't have much of a future as warriors and would mostly work in different conditions. Out of the 22, 14 of them got this class rank.

Then a second wave arrived, this time they were all B Class. Those could be considered to have potential, they would mostly become the average members of their organizations. This time, there were 5 of them that were B Classes.

Finally, a third wave, this time much smaller, arrived. Everyone expected there to be 3 of them, since there were three remaining, but were surprised to see that only one came, with an A Class. This A Class was a noble from the capital and he had the potential to become an elite member of a kingdom.

Then, after some more waiting, another fracture appeared in space. The participants who had finished earlier were stunned by the powerful feeling this participant gave them. He was a young man, seemingly a peasant, who had actually gotten an S Class! He had broken through while inside the realm.

Everyone was impressed as an S Class was the real deal, anyone with such a class could be considered an Elite no matter where they went, and he would be given a high position in the Empire with enough time and contribution, if he didn't die of course.

As he was feeling good about himself and visualizing his future though, the young S Class heard a rip behind him, and before he could even turn around he felt all his hair stand up. He felt an incredible danger behind him.

He turned around slowly and saw a bare chested youth come out of the rift. He could feel that if he ever tried anything against this man, he would die before even seeing him coming. The peasant youth felt like even his Silver Rank uncle who had trained him since he was a child wasn't as powerful as this man!

This was of course Adam, who had just come back from the Bronze Promotion testing grounds. He was stunned to see so many people, but as he was looking for familiar faces, he felt a strand of energy coming from his sword. Looking at it, runes had appeared on it, and under his eyes one of them broke apart, before revealing the sword's attributes to him.