The Sage Bear looked at Adam like he was an idiot when he asked for her help. Being polite to a stronger person was a given, but did he really think she was going to fight for him? Others, way more powerful than him, had already tried before, but there was a reason if the demons were still dominating.
The worst was that Adam didn't just want her to fight for him, but also take her resources. Who exactly did he think he was?
Adam said helplessly "Of course I won't let you go unrewarded. In exchange of your resources and services, once that Tazolos has been killed, I will let you leave this dimension. Once in the bigger world, Epoch, I can even give you shelter. For you, and your cubs."
The female bear frowned, now that was more fair… She didn't really care much about herself, she could live just fine, but she didn't want her cubs to be restricted to this small dimension. And the chances of them dying in here were quite high with the demons chasing relentlessly after the resources.
The reason the demons had so many Heroes was thanks to the boundless resources in this dimension, allowing the demons to level up with relative ease. Seeing she was hesitating, Adam added "You don't have to take your decision right away, the fight won't be for now anyway. I will come back when the time is right."
With those words, he got up and walked out of the cave, leaving a pondering bear behind. He was worried others would find this cave and take the treasures, since the bear was much stronger than what the people who entered could fight.
Although the ten or so geniuses who entered with him were able to fight against weak Heroes, that was really restricted to the weaker Heroes. For Monsters, those of Ancestor Rank and below weren't very strong individually.
However, for Sage and Legendary Beasts, each of them were comparable to great human geniuses because they were either Grade 2 or Grade 1 monsters, meaning they were among the most talented in their level.
Although those who entered alongside Adam were powerful, they were only Gold Rank and for the best they were SS Classes. They could manage against a Level 150 Hero, but even a difference of five levels set quite the difference for them.
Unless they decided to work together, it wasn't possible for anyone else than Adam and the natives of Providence to harm the Sage Beasts in here.
Anyway, since he now had made a plan, Adam flew at a leisure speed, scanning attentively his surroundings. Although they wouldn't help him with the final fight, Adam still wanted to find the people from Epoch.
Quickly, two weeks passed, and they were quite fruitful for Adam. First, his biggest achievement was reaching Level 70. He only spent a small part of his time actively searching, for most of the time he was cultivating.
Reaching Level 70 meant it would once again become harder to cultivate, but he became once again a little stronger. His mastery over his Concepts also became stronger, with all his concepts.
Other than this, Adam and Neith were able to find various interesting things. Among them were five Sage Beasts. Of them, Adam was able to defeat four of them with difficulty, but the last one was surprisingly strong.
Neith had found a volcano, and an ancient beast was sleeping in there. That monster turned out to be a Level 198 Sage Beast, meaning it was one of the strongest in the entire map. Thankfully, it was asleep so Neith was able to leave without having to fight.
After defeating them, he gave them the same deal he gave to the Mountain Shattering Bear.
Finally, Adam had been able to find people from Epoch. Neith had, to be precise. She found them hiding in a cave underground, too afraid to roam the world. Adam suspected that most of the people who entered alongside him were like that.
They probably believed that the demons were on their trail and the Heroes were searching the entire dimension for their lives. They thought too much of themselves.
Tazolos and his subordinates didn't even care about them, most of them were still in the demon city. Adam had actually encountered one of the demons, but it was only Silver Rank. Using one of his news skills in the Spirit Concept, Adam was able to interrogate it.
As it turned out, the natives of Providence had long been blocked here, and they were aware of Epoch, it was just that there was no way for them to leave. When the dimension opened up, the core of the dimension also appeared, and Tazolos was the one who absorbed it.
Their initial intention was to leave, but by the time Tazolos refined the core of the dimension, the scouts of the different powers had already started to explore the world. Among them, were some demonic faction explorers.
They concocted a plan together, but Tazolos never cared about the geniuses of the different factions. It was the Demonic Faction of Epoch who wanted them dead.
Moreover, Tazolos and his demons also learned they would be unable to leave for now because only those below Gold Rank were able to leave and enter Providence, so he decided to focus on becoming a Legendary Demon before anything else.
As for those people who entered the dimension? If they wanted to go back to Epoch, they couldn't breakthrough from the Gold Rank, so they would always remain weaker than him. It didn't make a difference whether he killed them or not.
The only one who annoyed and, but he would never admit it, scared Tazolos, was Adam. He had clearly seen that Northman was only Silver Rank, and yet he clearly had the combat prowess of a Hero. If he was allowed to break through to Gold Rank, then he might very well endanger him.
But that was only a single individual. Searching for him in the entirety of Providence was nearly impossible, and Tazolos had more important matters to attend. The rumors said that Tazolos would very soon become a Demon King, a Legendary Demon.
Those were bad news for Adam, but there was nothing he could do against it. Back to the people he found, they were actually a group of Lizardkin coming from one of the powers under Cassifon. They were obviously relieved to see him, as they had all seen him fight against the demons to save them.
After speaking a little with them, Adam learned that they actually had an artifact that allowed them to know the position of all the other groups under Cassifon who all had a similar device.
The main group, those directly sent by Cassifon, had an even better device which allowed them to sense the position of all the other devices, but also send them a message. However, for now none dared to move so they were not moving.
Since that was the case, Adam accompanied this group to the main group. As expected, they had used the same tactic, except that they were hiding inside a mountain's rocks instead of under the dirt.
Adam didn't intend on hiding himself, knowing Tazolos didn't care about them, and thus he had Neith carve a small city out of the mountain they hid in. The Lizardkins were scared, but they didn't flee.
While Neith was doing this, Adam also got to talk with the leader of the group, who was a Level 150 SS Class Gold Rank. His name was Jafar.