NAME: Ivan Von Charles

Talent Group: Primal Talent type: Wisher Talent: Wish card Read exclusive content at empire

Talent lv: SS AP: 49.73% Rank: PARTIAL LORD

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Leon glanced at the profile in his mind as he stood up from the ground, visible Nexus energy swirling around his body.

Around him were the corpses of five different monsters he had killed, including the void wraith.

He had absorbed the energy of five nervous crystals under the watch of the priestess who kept bringing one creature after another; he was currently waiting for the sixth monster to be delivered.

While the situation wasn’t one to be happy about, Ivan was fine with growing stronger quickly; he had gotten the four points that he was missing in a single day, wish he couldn’t have done without the help of the priestess, not even if he roamed the entire labyrinth for days or even weeks.

After all, the labyrinth was dozens of kilometers huge, and his chances of encountering these monsters separately were slim and entirely up to luck. He had only been able to accomplish what might have taken him months in a single day, people with lesser talent levels would even take years for this.

‘After this last one, I’ll enter the True Lord rank. Then I can handle the situation” Ivan thought to himself with narrowed eyes. He was just a step away from the rank and could only feel how much his strength had increased, he was confident of beating the Blightbeast to death with his bare hands with his current strength.

While this would not be enough to deal with this one-eyed girl who was able to snuff out his white flame with her bare hand, Ivan didn’t think that the situation would still be the same after he entered the next rank as he could already feel the level of power awaiting him; it was like coming out of a small village and entering a flourishing city with hundreds of opportunities.

“You’re done, good. I can feel it, yes! You’re almost ready to carry out the ritual, hahaha!” The priestess stared at Ivan and laughed like a lunatic into the air, her entire body shaking from her laughter and her pupils jumping around her eye.

With a familiar rumbling sound, the monster that would provide Ivan with his last crystal was delivered into the hall.

It was a creature that looked just like a human, everything about it was so human-like that Ivan would have mistaken it for a human had he met it somewhere else.

This creature looked like a middle-aged man with a bushy beard and unkept gray hair wrinkled on top of his head; he wore a dirty black cloak that looked tattered and told of years of suffering with the amount of tears and holes in it.

The man stared at Ivan with calm eyes that held faintly glowing yellow irises and red pupils; his nose twitched above a pair of thin, cracked lips that seemed to have not seen water for a very long time.

His hands had long, pointy fingernails stretched out from the sleeves of his cloak just a bit, and Ivan could see the dirt that was probably a mixture of dried blood and pieces of flesh on them.

“A human? Been a while since I’ve seen one, he looked better than this one that I’m wearing right now”

The cracked lips of the man opened and a disembodied voice rang out.

Ivan’s eyes narrowed even more when he heard those words, he instantly understood what was happening.

‘ So it didn’t have a human form but was wearing one instead, and it can talk’ Ivan thought to himself as a card appeared in his hand.

The yellow eyes of the man moved to the card in Ivan’s hand, and he raised an eyebrow.

“What’s that? Poker?” He asked with a hint of amusement.

“Never knew that Gene Banshees had such a sense of humor once they gained the ability of speech, or are you just different?”

The priestess joined at this moment, a small smile on her face as she blinked at the middle-aged man.

The two turned to stare at the girl with different expressions.

“Oh, it’s the guardian. I haven’t seen you in a while; why did you bring me here to this kid?” The man asked with a wicked smile on his face.

“Nothing really, I just need his help in killing you?” The priestess replied with a smile.

“Hahaha, how amusing. You think he’s capable of that?” The man’s shoulders trembled slightly as he let out a loud laugh.

” Well, there might have been a small accident, but I don’t think so now that he knows what you are,” She responded with a small giggle.

And she was right, Ivan, who was about to turn his card into a sword and dash toward the man, had been stunned to learn that he was a Gene banshee in a human form!

This revelation had honestly shocked Ivan, he was aware of what Gene banshees were and their Characteristics.

They were capable of assuming the forms of anything that they had consumed and perfectly mimicked their abilities and level of strength; their true forms were also terrifying because of their absurd speed and the fluid on their bodies that could eat up Nexus energy and corrode anything.

But he had never heard of a Gene banshee that could perfectly communicate like a real person, he might have been fooled completely if he encountered such a Gene banshee elsewhere.

‘Its power level must be very high by now; I will have to take it out with one strike to avoid uncertainties,’ Ivan said in his thoughts as he observed the man who was conversing with the priestess.

“So you think his chances of surviving have increased now that he knows what I am? Why don’t we find out then?” The man, whom Ivan had now confirmed was a Gene banshee, turned to face him before suddenly exploding with Nexus energy like a Nexulyte.

BOOM!!

The overbearing Nexus energy gushed out from his body and produced a powerful shockwave that shattered the ground around him, a small crater of four meters instantly formed as the Nexus crystal swirled around him like a red whirlwind and caused his cloak to flutter in the air.

Ivan’s eyes widened immediately after sensing the Nexus energy that the Gene banshee was letting out.

” A Domain Lord energy level,” Ivan mumbled seriously; this meant that the person that this Gene banshee had consumed was at the Domain Lord rank and was currently two ranks above him.

While this was not good news for Ivan, it wasn’t something that he was bothered about either.

The card in his hand flew into the air and scattered into light particles before forming a small white flame that floated in front of him.

The Gene banshee also moved at this time.

BOOM!!

It bent its knees slightly before shooting forward like a comet and leaving an even bigger crater on the ground as he made a beeline for Ivan, his dirty fingernails stretching out like daggers that would rip Ivan to shreds.

At the same time that he moved, the white flame shot forward.

The priestess smirked as she watched the white flame and the Gene banshee make contact.

The Gene banshee underestimated Ivan greatly because of their difference in ranks and didn’t bother to dodge the attack of someone who was two ranks below it.

It stretched forth one of its hands and attempted to slap the white flame away, but that was the greatest mistake of its life because the instant it made contact with the white flame.

BOOM!!

A strong explosion shook the entire place like the shifting of the labyrinth occurred; a violent shockwave followed and sent the Gene banshee flying away and crashing into the blood wall before making a huge crack in it.

Its entire arm that had made contact with the white flame had disintegrated completely and its shoulder was left with a bloody mess.

But that wasn’t all, the white flame stuck on the bloody shoulder before spreading to the rest of its body; the Gene banshee was soon covered completely by the white flame and began to burn!

“What is this? Stop it!” It screamed in its disembodied voice as it ran around the place in pain. It even transformed to its original form in hopes of using the slimy liquid on its body that could eat Nexus energy to stop the flame. After all, every attack that a Nexulyte produced was fueled with Nexus energy.

But it soon realized that it was pointless. Its true form was just as disgusting as the ones that Vladimir and his group had encountered back then, just that this one was several times bigger; it was as big as the abyss worm!

It kept screaming for a long time as it switched between forms of various creatures that it had devoured, changing size and shape in desperation but it was all pointless as the white flame was unquenchable.

Everything went silent after a few minutes. The Gene banshee had burnt to a crisp, and even its ashes weren’t spared.

The only thing left on the ground after the white flame disappeared was the small Nexus crystal which was the reason it had been brought by the priestess.

“The last one, take it, and let’s amend history!”

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