THE STRONGEST NEXULYTE

"Knight, finish that damned thing off; you have five seconds, I'll hold this worm till then!" Ralph shouted desperately before the Ghoulshade could break free from the energy arrow

...

He usually didn't need to voice out his commands to his undead, but the situation didn't allow Ralph to think much about his; he subconsciously thought it would be better this way.

Immediately after hearing Ralph's words, the undead knight turned its head and gazed at the Ghoulshade pinned to the wall as its eyes blazed with light.

As if sharing the same mind with its rider, the shadow horse turned around and shot toward the Ghoulshade.

The monster saw this and let out a scream while stretching both hands toward the incoming knight and horse, small magic circles formed on both palms and flickered with black light.

Bzzz!

Swoosh!!

Black lightning and black flames shot out from both palms and flew toward the undead knight.

The latter dodge the black lightning swiftly by turning its body on top of its horse before slashing the black fireball with its sword.

BOOM!

The black fireball exploded into a black cloud that fell on the undead knight and swallowed it along with its shadow horse but this was only for a brief moment as a sword slashed through the black cloud and the undead knight emerged without a scratch, its sword blazing with a large wave of dark aura as it continue toward the Ghoulshade.

While this happened, the minions of the Ghoulshade were not playing around. The previous scream of the monster seemed to have been a command for help as the skeletons and abyss worm immediately abandoned their opponents and chased after the undead knight like crazy zombies that smelled fresh blood.

But of course, Ralph wasn't going to allow this; he only had five seconds before the energy arrow that was pinning the Ghoulshade to the wall disappeared.

Immediately sending a mental order to the undead General, he turned and faced the abyss worm.

4 seconds!

The undead General flung his robe open, and a wave of red energy gushed out and pushed the skeletons back; it instantly turned into a red shadow that shot through the center of the skeletons like an arrow.

Dozens of skeletons flew into the air and exploded into pieces.

3 seconds!

The abyss worm had just reached in front of Ralph, his body was already coated with ferocious red energy. He immediately bent his body before punching out with every single strength that he could muster.

BOOM!

A huge hole exploded on the body of the abyss worm from which the view behind it could be seen; black blood immediately poured out as parts of its body fell like chopped meat. It was pushed back by a few meters and crashed into tens of skeletons.

2 seconds!

The undead knight reached the wall that the Ghoulshade was pinned to; its sword exploded with even more black aura, with some of it fusing into the body of the shadow horse.

It tapped its front hooves on the ground and leaped into the air with the undead knight still on its back.

1 second!

They reached the same height as the Ghoulshade and the undead knight slashed out with its sword, leaving a large wave of dark aura in the air.

Clang!!

The sword smashed into a large pentagon-shaped black pattern right beside the monster's neck, blocking the sword from touching the monster's neck.

0!

The energy arrow began to disappear and the Ghoulshade was about to fly away again.

The eyes of the undead knight suddenly burst out with bloody red light that pierced through the body of the Ghoulshade, the light was just so dazzling; it had no attacking effect.

But with the sudden burst of energy, the dark aura on its sword changed and became a wave of red and black aura.

Crack!

Immediately, the sword slashed through, breaking the magic pattern that was blocking it and passing through the monster's neck at a blurry speed.

Immediately after the sword flashed past, the undead knight and the undead General disappeared from the space, returning to Ralph's Nexus chamber; that last attack of the undead knight that turned its sword into a wave of red and black aura had used up what was left of Ralph's Nexus storage so they were unable to stay any longer.

As for the Ghoulshade. The energy arrow finally disappeared completely, and it flew into the air while letting out a mocking scream; all of the skeletons and the abyss worm immediately turned on Ralph.

The Ghoulshade also stretched his skeleton hand toward Ralph, and a black magic circle formed on it, but it suddenly broke; the skeletons and abyss worm also stopped moving.

Confused, the Ghoulshade tried to create another magic circle, it suddenly felt its vision turn upside down and saw its minions scattering into red dust.

In Ralph's POV, the head of the Ghoulshade, along with the top of its robe, had suddenly tilted to the side before falling off.

Only now did the effect of Knight's sword slash take place.

Thud!

Ralph fell to his butt, breathing heavily.

"I got scared there for a second," Ralph mumbled to himself while watching the body of the Ghoulshade fall to the ground; he suddenly noticed a small shiny object gleaming within it.

"It was a Nexulyte crystal!"

Ralph's expression brightened a bit, at least he had gotten something in return for using up all of his Nexus storage.

BAM!!

The body of the Ghoulshade crashed into the ground with a loud sound, Ralph stood up and staggered over to retrieve the Nexus crystal.

He held it in his hand and began to draw out the energy within it while waiting for the next shift of the labyrinth which was still minutes away.

.....

On Ivan's side, several minutes ago.

Shin!!

Ivan stabbed his sword into the body of a turtle monster on the ground before pulling it out.

Blood sprayed out of the wound and the monster immediately stopped moving.

He retreated a few steps and slashed his sword to the side to get rid of the blood on it.

Looking ahead, one could see that Ivan was in a spacious section of the labyrinth, and over fifty corpses of similar monsters were scattered across the place.

Some had been stabbed to death, had wide gashes on their bodies, signs of being crushed with brute force, or had been split in half. Their bodies littered the place and their blood formed a small stream in the place.

These creatures were earth turtle dwellers; they had turtle bodies and huge shells, which they usually hid in. They were each over five meters tall and had webbed feet which were unusually very sharp.

They had fast movements and sturdy bodies and were very troublesome creatures to deal with for low-ranked Nexulytes.

Unfortunately for them, their opponent was Ivan.

Ivan had easily massacred the entire group within five minutes, and he had done so without breaking a sweat; none of them were able to resist him.

"Not a single Nexus crystal again" Ivan sighed and walked to a corner to sit on the shell of a dead earth turtle dweller.

Ivan felt that he had been very unfortunate during the past 3 days. He had lost count of the number of monsters he had killed, but he didn't find a single Nexus crystal!

Well, nobody ever said one could find Nexus crystals by simply killing a million monsters anyway; those things were really hard to find.

Rumble!

Ivan's eyes widened slightly, startled at the sound that he just heard.

The ground shook and blood walls suddenly burst out from the ground around him.

'Another shift? But there shouldn't be another shift for the next one hour' he thought to himself, feeling suspicious.

He only realized that only the spot he was standing on was experiencing the shift; there were fewer blood walls this time, and the trembling wasn't as intense as usual.

"What the…" Ivan was about to speak when the space around him changed and started spinning, he immediately shut his mouth and stabilized himself.

While spinning, Ivan had confirmed that the blood wall seemed to have targeted him as even the monster corpse that he had been sitting on wasn't taken with him.

Rumble!

With another rumbling, the walls stopped spinning around Ivan and everywhere went silent.

The silence was immediately pierced by the sound of gentle footsteps that echoed in the place.

Ivan's head snapped in the direction of the sound.

He saw that he was in a hall-like part of the labyrinth and a few meters ahead of him was an alter, the altar had the statue of an angel in a long garment and six pairs of bird wings folded behind it; one of the wings were broken and the broken piece was lying on the ground in front of it.

The sounds of footsteps were coming from there!

In front of the altar was a petite figure that resembled that of a young girl. She was dressed in a white garment, and a white piece of silk material covered her head, her back facing Ivan as she walked about on the altar around the statue.

"Welcome to my place, descendant of Von"