THE STRONGEST NEXULYTE

"Looking for me?" A cold expressionless voice sounded behind the priestess.

Her body froze and she swiftly turned around, only to see Ivan standing in the air with red and blue wings poking out from his back. His eyes were glowing and he almost felt like a different person.

"No, he's not conscious; his body is moving instinctively, it's like that form!" The priestess exclaimed in a low voice upon realizing that Ivan was actually unconscious.

Her staff immediately appeared in her hand as she prepared to attack again, the multiple pupils in her eyes jumped around crazily.

She suddenly dashed forward, she left afterimages in the hall as she arrived in front of Ivan and swung her staff at his face.

But unlike last time when Ivan had been unable to keep up with her movements, she suddenly saw Ivan turn his neck and stare at her face just before her staff could reach him. Her body trembled, and she felt cold all of a sudden; she immediately retracted her staff and pulled away, distancing herself from Ivan and stopping on the other side of the hall.

"Hmm?" Ivan made a sound before his wings suddenly shook.

He disappeared from the girl's field of vision and appeared right in front of her face the next moment, he was so close that their noses were almost touching.

The eye of the priestess widened as her multiple pupils shrank to needle sizes, she didn't see Ivan's movement at all; he was too fast for her, who was three ranks higher than him!

She immediately tried to retreat but Ivan's hand suddenly flashed as a card appeared in it before disappearing.

"Ahhhh!"

The priestess suddenly let out a piercing scream as her body was blown away with force and she crashed into the blood wall, making a large crack on it.

A part of her stomach was missing, and blood poured out from the ghastly wound; it was as if a beast had bitten off a chunk of her flesh.

Ivan slowly drifted over and gazed down at the girl, ignoring her condition or the large amount of blood that was gushing out from her body.

"I… remember you," he mumbled softly as strong killing intent spread from his body and formed a visible dark wisp in the air.

He stretched forth his right palm and another card appeared in between his fingers.

Immediately when the priestess saw this, she gritted her teeth and forced her pupils to move. The mini-map of the labyrinth in her eye shifted as a loud rumble shook the labyrinth.

Blood walls suddenly began to appear from different locations in the space, each bringing along a strange monster with it.

Soon, the hall was filled with monsters that released terrifying pressures.

There was the howling banshee, a huge eyeball, a huge shadow giant that faded in and out of existence, an enormous octopus monster with multiple tentacles, and many other monsters that were not weaker than the previous ones.

They were all champions of the priestess!

"Kill him!" The priestess roared like a mad beast while pointing her staff at Ivan.

Immediately after giving the order, all of the monsters turned their attraction to Ivan who was floating in front of her. A mixed sound of roars, screeches, and growling filled the hall for a moment before all of the monsters charged toward Ivan.

Ivan didn't turn around to look at them and scoffed in a low tone.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Noisy."

Swoosh!!

The card in his hand burst out with light before disappearing, the next moment, the single eye of the priestess widened in horror.

Right in front of her eye, she saw the monsters suddenly bursting into blood mists. Some were shredded into pieces by an invisible force, and a rain of flesh and blood fell to the ground behind Ivan.

Her lips trembled.

"I-impossible! You're only a True Lord, how can you be so strong?!" She screamed crazily, it was as if she was about to go mad. Nothing made sense to her anymore; nothing about Ivan made sense!

Ivan only stared at her with his glowing eyes; his hand was still stretched out, and another card appeared in his fingers at this moment. This caused the body of the priestess to tremble again, the appearance of the cards had left her with a sort of trauma.

" I won't die without a fight!" She shouted before suddenly dashing toward Ivan with her staff raised high in the air.

The card in Ivan's hand also burst out with light at the same time and a small multicolored bead appeared in front of him before shooting forward.

Ptui!!

The bead flew out at a shocking speed and pierced the forehead of the priestess, blood immediately gushed out and ran down her single eye as her body came to a stop.

She looked at Ivan with an open mouth and trembling lips for a few seconds. It looked like she wanted to say something but her words were stuck down her throat.

Thud!

She fell to her face, her body became motionless; she was dead!

After killing the priestess, Ivan turned around and his gaze locked on the statue that had now turned back to being a Statue. Its body was made of finely molded stone and looked smooth.

He floated over and stopped a few centimeters away from the statue, he raised his right hand before reaching out with his fingers.

The instance his fingers made contain with the statue, a loud boom resounded and shook the entire labyrinth. Ivan was pushed back a few meters as he lost balance in the air, it took him a few seconds to stabilize himself.

"Strange…statue" Ivan mumbled before flying back to the statue. This time, he didn't touch it with his bare hand. He took out a card and turned it into a small black ball that was only the size of a tennis ball before slamming it on the surface of the statue.

Woom!!

A Strong shock wave spread out as an invisible forcefield suddenly appeared around the statue and blocked the black ball. Ivan frowned slightly before pressing down with more force.

After many seconds, cracks finally started to form on the forcefield, and the black ball pushed through and reached the statue.

BOOM!!

A thunderous explosion spread out through the labyrinth immediately after the black ball made contact with the statue; the shockwave of the explosion was so strong that Ivan was sent flying like a broken kite, and many blood walls were destroyed.

After everything settled, Ivan flew back to the location of the statue and saw that it had been shattered by the black ball and only its legs below the knees were left.

Ivan stared for a whole minute before moving his gaze away and turning to look at his surroundings, a sad expression formed on his face.

His eyes suddenly stopped glowing at this moment, and the wings on his back gradually vanished like dust particles that drifted into the air; Ivan's body slowly drifted to the ground.

Thud!

Immediately his feet made contact with the ground, Ivan's body fell to the ground and he passed out.

While he was unconscious, the labyrinth was going through a shocking change.

The ground rumbled, spreading through the entire labyrinth. The blood walls slowly started to sink into the ground and the red mist in the air gradually vanished.

After twenty minutes, the two-hundred-meter-tall blood walls of the labyrinth completely vanished into the ground, and the red mist was nowhere to be seen.

What was left was an enormous empty space with a red floor that stretched for kilometers in all directions, hundreds of monsters could be seen scattered around different points in their large space and so were the unconscious bodies of Ivan and his friends; they were all lying on the ground a few hundred meters away from one another.

These monsters obviously saw them but for some reason, none dared to approach the unconscious five. Instead, they turned in the other direction of the space and dashed toward it, they quickly disappeared and left only the five of them in this empty space that used to be the labyrinth.

Millions of miles away from the mountain range where the labyrinth was located, an eerie-looking temple that was surrounded by thousands of tombstones and had blue cold light flickering in the air could be seen.

A grunt was suddenly heard from within the temple and caused the blue flames to flicker violently as if reflecting the emotions of the being that just grunted.

"You…are…helping him…mother, that's…against…the rule." a hoarse voice sounded from the temple; minutes passed, but no response came from anywhere.

"I…see, I…see." The owner of the voice didn't seem to be awkward after being ignored, he voiced out once more before turning silent as well.

In a garden with blue skies and beautiful butterflies flying from one flower to another, a small hut could be seen in the middle of the garden; no one would imagine that such a place could exist in the dreamscape since everywhere else had red skies.

A woman in a simple dress sat on a chair in the hut, she opened her eyes when she heard the voice before closing them again; time froze because of this casual action of hers.