Ivan stared at the crystal in his hand before turning to look at the priestess who was smiling at him; his expression was cold, and his eyes dull.

“Don’t worry about me playing any tricks on you while you absorb it; you can’t be any safer than you are here; I have no use for using tricks anyway,” She uttered calmly when she noticed Ivan’s hesitant and suspicious look.

The pupils in her eyes danced around as if reacting to her words.

Ivan’s expression didn’t change but he sat down cross-legged right after. What she said was true, she had no need to sneak up on him or do anything funny while he refined Nexus energy into AP; he might as well advance to the next rank under her

watch since no monster would bother him.

The red energy contained within the crystal soon started to rise and enter Ivan’s body at a fast pace, his AP immediately began to rise.

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Ten minutes passed swiftly as Ivan absorbed all of the energy within the crystal.

BOOM!

A small explosion took place inside his body at this moment, the energy inside the Nexus crystal had been completely drained and had now become a transparent crystal.

A powerful shockwave rocked Ivan’s Nexus chamber and spread outside his body, flying in all directions.

Ivan’s eyes opened, and his pupils flashed with a red streak of light that looked like passing lightning; he felt himself and the surroundings change.

His Nexus chamber had increased in size again, and his energy had become dozens of times more potent than before; he felt his strength soar to a new height and filled him with the feeling of invincibility.

Ivan called in his profile in his mind, and it immediately appeared; he carefully read through the changes on his profile.

NAME: Ivan Von Charles

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

Talent lv: SS AP: 50.23% Rank: TRUE LORD

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Ivan’s eyebrows eased as a small smile unknowingly crept up his face.

He had finally reached the True Lord rank, now he could be considered a top powerhouse in the world of Nexulytes.

But that wasn’t what Ivan was most concerned about; his eyes slowly moved and locked on the figure of the priestess in the distance.

After reaching the True Lord rank, Ivan could feel that his strength was more than five times what he used to be; it shouldn’t be difficult to get rid of this one-eyed girl now.

“Splendid! You finally reached a new level; you’re now fully ready to commence the ritual; now, let’s do the needful,” the priestess clapped her hands and exclaimed happily like a little girl.

But Ivan’s next words caused her to go silent and her face turned serious.

“What about we do something else?”

The girl stared at Ivan with confusion while tilting her head to the side.

“Something like what? Don’t tell me you don’t want to keep the original agreement anymore. I detest people who go back on their words the most” she responded with a hint of threatening in her voice.

Ivan wasn’t faced by her tone nor moved by her words. A card appeared in his hand, and he suddenly finished into a flicker of white and black light.

The priestess saw this and shook her head, a hint of sadness appearing in her one eye.

“I knew that your Vons were the stubborn type, to think I expected you to be different,” She said with a sad tone before taking a step forward.

Peng!

Immediately, space froze in place as time stopped flowing.

Ivan could be seen just a few steps away from the priestess, frozen in place as well; his hand was slightly raised, and the card was in the process of bursting into light particles.

The pupils in the eye of the girl jumped crazily in her large iris, it was as if they were going to burst out at any moment.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

She took slow steps toward Ivan and soon reached him. After a while, she stretched forth her right arm and covered Ivan’s face with her palm, her fingers locked around his face.

Time started flowing again at this moment and Ivan’s eyes immediately widened at the realization of what had happened.

He wasn’t aware that time had stopped; he only saw the priestess suddenly vanish when he tried to attack her, and the next thing he saw was her fingers on his face; he wasn’t able to move a single step forward after she clutched his face.

The priestess brought her face closer to Ivan’s and her lips moved next to his ear.

“Why don’t you…take a long sleep and let me deal with everything else?” She whispered before suddenly dashing forward with Ivan’s face still clutched in her grasp.

Ivan suddenly felt a strong wind against his back and his vision shifted before.

BAM!!

A mind-blowing pain assaulted his entire body as he was slammed into the blood wall by the priestess.

His head immediately split open, and blood gushed out like a lava spurt; Ivan wasn’t able to react before he blanked out from the pain.

“Sigh, just had to get the sacrifice bloodied; I hope my lord understands” the priestess sighed before tossing Ivan’s body toward the statue of the angel that was dozens of meters away.

His body flew in the air and left a long trail of blood in the air before crashing into the hard ground, his body bounced a few times and only came to a stop right at the foot of the statue.

The girl didn’t turn to look at the sight immediately as she kept admiring the large crack that had appeared on the blood wall after she smashed it with Ivan, a large net of blood painted the crack.

“At least he didn’t explode into meat paste; he’s quite resilient,” she mumbled before turning around in the direction of Ivan and the statue, only for her eye to flash with surprise.

“Ah, I forgot that there’s still ‘That’ to deal with; it was surprising that he would go down so easily.” The girl nodded as if she had expected this.

Standing opposite her in front of the statue was a bloodied Ivan, who was standing like a zombie. His protective body suit was covered in blood, and blood was still gushing out from the back of his head.

He looked just the same way as when the one-eyed monster had knocked all of them unconscious during their test at the tower; Ivan was unconscious as well when he killed the monster at that time.

His white hair was drenched in blood and covered his face so the priestess was unable to see his expression, not that she cared though.

She watched as two cards appeared in both of Ivan’s hands and burst into light particles.

One changed into a green light that covered Ivan’s body and slowly melted into his body.

Immediately after the green light entered Ivan’s body, the blood gushing out from the back of his head stopped and his injuries closed up.

The green light particles were healing essence!

As for the other card, it turned into particles of silver light that stuck to Ivan’s body. Unlike the green light, this silver light didn’t enter his body and instead remained on the surface of his skin.

Making him look like he had many silver insects walking around his body.

“Should be…about now?” The girl placed a finger on her lower lip and muttered softly.

Immediately after her voice fell, Ivan disappeared from where he was standing and appeared in front of her with his fist flying at her face.

A grin formed on the girl’s face, Ivan’s punch passed through her face the next second; it was an afterimage!

Ivan’s head suddenly turned to a part of the hall, there, the girl could be seen floating a few centimeters above the ground. A pair of black bird wings had appeared on her back at some point.

“You aren’t the only one with a second form.” She smiled, and the two of them vanished the next second.

BOOM!

A powerful shockwave erupted as the ground collapsed, pieces of solidified blood walls flew into the air like rain, and a crater that was twenty meters wide appeared on the ground.

Ivan and the priestess could be seen in the center of the crater with their fists joined together, they had destroyed the place with the shockwave from their clash!

“It’s not enough,” The girl muttered before suddenly disappearing and appearing behind Ivan; a short pitch-black staff had unknowingly appeared in her hand.

Ivan quickly turned around to face her but he was a bit too slow.

Swoosh!

Bang!!

The pitch-black staff flew through the air and smashed into Ivan’s chest; his body back instantly caved from the force, and his body was sent flying.

The priestess wasn’t done yet, she shot toward his body like a bullet.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

One hit after another landed on Ivan’s body as the girl smashed him around the place like a tennis ball, only stopping when she was sure that she had really knocked him out for good.

She grabbed him by the hair while holding her bloodied staff with her other hand.

“Now let’s start the ritual”

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