THE STRONGEST NEXULYTE

Clank!

A dull sound suddenly rang out in the space, and the banging of the monster's axe on Ivan's barrier instantly came to a stop; the next thing that followed was the dripping sound of something hitting the ground before a loud bang of another crashing into the ground.

Looking over, one could see Ivan, who had come out of his barrier, standing three meters behind the monster with one of his hands stretched out and his fingers straightened like a spear while being covered in Nexus energy that constantly swirled around it.

The priestess immediately beamed a smile, she had seen what had happened just now clearly.

Immediately after the anguished scream from Ralph, Ivan's eyes had turned bloodshot, and his Nexus energy had exploded out of his body like a fountain; he flashed from inside his barrier and stabbed his fingers through the hard scale of the monster, creating a hand-sized hole in the monster's chest and killing it instantly.

Ivan lowered his arm and turned to look at the priestess.

"I don't care if they're fake or not; I'll do it, so stop!" He snorted coldly at her.

The girl's smile grew bigger at Ivan's words and she clapped her palms together.

"Splendid! I knew you only looked cold-hearted on the surface, but actually soft inside; you descendants of Von are always the strange ones," She happily said before snapping her fingers.

Immediately after the snap of her fingers, the shadow arms that were slamming Ralph around the place stopped moving and held the boy suspended in the air. Ralph was a bloody mess with a lot of cuts on his face.

The soul drinker also stopped pushing Clint into the ground but had already created a ten-meter-deep crater with Clint's body. Blood stained every corner of the crater as Clint lay at the bottom motionlessly.

The howling banshee also stopped screaming at Glen and released his grip around Glen's neck, letting the boy fall to the ground; he was unconscious and blood was flowing out from his ears and nostrils.

Karin was the same; her limbs had been terribly twisted in the wrong way, and her bones were sticking out of her flesh; she had also lost consciousness from the pain and was now hanging on the tentacle after it loosened its grip around her body.

Ivan stared at the projections with great fury in his eyes, but his face still managed to remain calm; he called his profile in his mind.

NAME: Ivan Von Charles

Talent Group: Primal Talent type: Wisher Talent: Wish card

Talent lv: SS AP: 46.23% Rank: Partial Lord

Ivan took a look at the amount of AP he had; he was just four points short of reaching the next rank.

'You want to use me as a sacrifice and kill my friends? Just wait till I reach the True Lord rank, I'll make you go through hell' Ivan thought to himself as he turned his gaze from the projections to the priestess.

The priestess didn't know what Ivan was thinking but was able to see the anger in his eyes, she smiled softly before giving a polite bow.

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"Don't worry, I'll release them and let them go out of here safely after you help me with what I want. Your great contribution will be recorded throughout history and spread to every part of the world as the one who released my master and brought salvation to this cursed world" She said with an honest voice.

Ivan completely ignored her and walked over to the monster on the ground that now had a small pool of blood under its corpse, his eyes immediately landing on the small crystal in it.

Ivan picked up the crystal and sat beside the corpse of the monster, he began to absorb the energy within.

He didn't have to worry about the priestess trying something funny while he absorbed the energy of the crystal. She was stronger than he was and could easily get rid of him if she wanted, she wanted his help so he could absorb Nexus freely.

The girl's single eye blinked at Ivan once before turning around and walking toward the statue; she resumed drawing symbols around it; the symbols would soon disappear into the statue, and she would draw another one.

Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, Ivan was already done with absorbing the energy from the Nexus crystal and was currently standing on his feet with both eyes gazing at the priestess with a cold glint.

"Done, I see; here's your second meal," the girl giggled before the mini-map of the labyrinth in her eye shifted.

A low rumbling sound followed before another creature was brought into the hall by blood walls.

This new creature floated a few centimeters above the ground.

It looked like a zombie in metal armor with tentacles for limbs, its eyes were dangling out of their sockets and were held by a red vein that stretched from its brain. Its mouth opened and revealed a rotten maw with brown large teeth.

It made growling sounds that were similar to that of zombies, and it looked a bit transparent as if it was an illusion.

It was a Void wraith!

Ivan's eyes immediately narrowed, he knew about this monster.

Void wraiths were ghost monsters that were capable of going through obstacles and were partially immune to physical attack. Every physical attack that landed on them would have 90 percent of its damage deflected, and only 2 percent of it would affect the void wraith.

Void wraiths were also capable of sound attacks just like the howling banshees, just that their sound attacks were different from that of the howling banshee.

The dangling eyes of the void wraith moved while still connected to the red veins; they rolled disgustingly, and the two pitch-black eyeballs gazed at Ivan.

The monster floated forward a bit before opening its mouth and opening a low growl.

Ivan flashed before he suddenly disappeared into a gust of wind.

He didn't actually disappear, his speed was just so fast that it looked like he had disappeared to the void wraith.

Immediately after Ivan left the place, space around that place formed obviously cracks before the ground exploded as many invisible spikes shot out from the void behind the cracks in the air and stabbed into the ground.

One could only see the invisible spikes if they were far stronger than the void wraith or only feel their presence with their senses.

This was the difference between the sound attacks of the two creatures. While the howling banshee drove people to insanity with its screams, the sound attack of a void wraith was to summon invisible spikes from the void.

Ivan appeared behind the void wraith the next second after the invisible spikes had stabbed into his previous location. A card in his hand changed into a streak of red lightning that flashed toward the monster.

This was the weakness of the void wraith; they might be partially immune to physical attacks, but magic attacks had an over two hundred percent damage rate toward them.

Crack! BOOM!!

The red lightning shot through the air and slammed into the chest plate of the monster's armor, the lightning easily pierced through the armor before exploding within the monster's body.

The body of the void wraith immediately blasted into pieces and parts of it flew everywhere in the air while bringing out smoke.

Ivan had killed it easily.

Without waiting for the priestess's irritating compliments, Ivan walked over to the Nexus crystal lying on the ground a few meters away and picked it up.

The thing was really one of the most sturdy objects in existence; the explosion just now didn't even leave a dent in it.

With the crystal in hand, Ivan walked to a corner and quickly started drawing the energy from the crystal.

AP +0.01

AP +0.01

AP +0.01

….

Similar notifications immediately started to appear in his mind for the next ten minutes as Ivan absorbed the energy within the crystal and refined them into AP.

He opened his profile again, he was already at 46.90% and would reach 47.23% AP after he finished with this crystal.

'A little more' Ivan thought to himself as he crazily absorbed the energy from the crystal.

Ten minutes quickly passed, and Ivan had finally reached 47%; he could already feel his strength growing significantly, but he felt that it would still not be enough; he would only act after reaching the True Lord rank.

"Good, you've finished that one, here's the next meal"

The mini-map shifted within her eye again, and another monster was brought over by the blood walls.

This monster was a humanoid-shaped monster with its entire body covered in bandages, and it carried a scythe on its shoulder.

Two yellow lights that Ivan assumed were its eyes gleamed through the bandages around its face.

Ivan didn't know what sort of monster this was, but he didn't care; a card appeared in his hand before turning into a long silver sword with a thin blade and a long handle.

"Five more crystals" Ivan mumbled under his breath before disappearing from where he was standing, leaving an afterimage behind.

Clang!