The sword wave shot through the air and sliced through the body of the monster and a part of the building, cutting them cleanly off.

The monster hissed in pain as blood spurted into the air and rained down, it came spinning to the ground as it wasn’t able to keep itself in the air anymore while the severed part of the building fell along with it.

Bang!

The beast smashed into the ground violently, along with pieces of concrete and metal rods, and a large crater immediately formed on the ground. The crater was several meters deep and many meters wide, blood soon gathered inside the crater and almost submerged the body of the monster.

The four were stunned, and they all looked at Ivan’s back with wide eyes; they were shocked by his strength; he had killed the monster with a single sword slash!

Of course, their astonishment didn’t make them forget about the bigger issue that was behind them, the herald of silence.

They only stared in shock and didn’t make a single sound.

Ivan released his grip on the sword hilt and let it scatter into light particles that vanished with the wind, he then turned back and gestured for them to follow him.

He looked past them and saw that the herald of silence was still watching them attentively while reciting its phrase; it showed no reaction to the ruckus that he and the monster had caused just now.

Just when they were about to continue moving, they heard the sounds of monsters roaring and explosions in the distance.

The ground trembled, and it seemed like some of the monsters were coming in their direction; the expressions of the group immediately changed.

Ivan quickly scanned his around them before pointing in one direction, it was an opening in a nearby building.

The group immediately rushed toward the opening and entered the building, prepared to face whatever was inside.

Of course, the herald of silence hopped after them as well and followed them inside.

Ivan and Ralph led the others as they moved into the building and climbed a flight of stairs to go to the top floor.

They encountered some monsters on the way but Ivan easily dealt with them.

After reaching the second floor of the building, the group moved toward one of the large windows and looked down.

Monsters were gathering from all directions to the place that they were standing just a while ago outside, more than a hundred monsters of various sizes and weird shapes soon surrounded the crater where the corpse of the monster that Ivan had killed was.

‘So many!’

The members of the group thought to themselves. The monsters gathered around the crater were not only many but they were also powerful. Each of them having a power level that started at the True King rank to the Domain Lord rank!

There was no way they would have been able to fight them had they remained outside.

This was obviously Glen’s, Ralph’s, Clint’s, and Karin’s thought. To Ivan, those monsters on the ground would only take him a few minutes to get rid of, but there was no need for that.

Accidents might happen, he couldn’t take the risk with the herald of silence following them.

Moving his gaze away from the window, Ivan gestured for them to follow him. He used hand signs to tell them that they should leave through the back.

Just when they were about to leave.

“So this is weird you rats were hiding. It’s finally the fusion, and you’re all hiding instead of celebrating with us?” A beastly disembodied voice rang in their ears from behind.

Their eyes widened when they heard the voice, and they felt the cold wind brush against their necks; the head of the herald of silence also snapped in the direction of the voice.

“I.CAN.SEE.YOU…I.CAN.HEAR.YOU!”

It shrieked in its voice of multiple people.

The five of them were spooked and turned to look in the direction of the voice.

Right in front of them, a transparent figure clamored into existence in front of the window and took form. It was a tall skeleton in heavy bronze armor; it carried a huge halberd, and its eye sockets burned with red flames.

The skeleton was six meters tall and a torn cape was attached to the back of his armor.

Immediately after appearing, it slashed its halberd toward the group; its attack was very fast.

Ivan’s eyes flashed, and he rushed forward while a card appeared in his hand. At the same time, the card quickly changed into a golden great sword which clashed with the halberd of the skeleton.

BAM!

A strong shockwave spread out in all directions the moment their weapons met, the window behind the skeleton shattered and glass fragments were sent flying to the ground outside while Ivan and his group were pushed back several meters.

” You blocked that?” The voice of the skeleton sounded surprised, the red flames that acted as its eyes suddenly flickered as it looked toward the herald of silence.

” Eh? What’s this annoying bitch doing here? What tricks are you playing here, humans?” The skeleton grumbled, it sounded extremely annoyed by the presence of the herald of silence.

But it was only given a short moment to express its feelings as the herald of silence hopped into the air and vanished the next instant; it appeared in front of the skeleton, and its hair rose into the air like long needles before stabbing at the skeleton.

” Tch!” The skeleton made a sound before lifting its halberd and spinning it in front of him with lightning speed.

Ting! Ting! Ting!

Sounds of the hairs stabbing at the halberd filled the place as the skeleton was pushed back constantly and was on the verge of falling outside from the window, the herald of silence stood in front of it and attacked aggressively with its long hair.

Meanwhile, Ivan and his group members had already rushed out of the place after the herald of silence attacked the skeleton.

Ivan was able to tell that either of the two were powerful beings that were stronger than the one-eyed priestess, and he would need to go all out if he wanted to stand a chance against any of them; that was something he was unwilling to do.

He felt his blood surge after he exchanged that clash with the skeleton, and he almost coughed up blood; he forced himself to swallow the sweetness in his throat while using the great sword to support himself.

“Let’s leave quickly while those two fight each other!” Ivan urged as he charged out of the place, the others followed behind him.

“Is it all right to speak now? Won’t that scary herald of silence hunt us down after killing the skeleton?” Glen asked in fear, the image of the herald of silence had become a nightmare in his heart.

“That shouldn’t be the case, that skeleton isn’t necessarily weaker than it. And from its words, this isn’t their first time meeting each other.” Ivan explained.

” Don’t worry, as long as we get very far away from it before it finishes fighting that skeleton, we’ll be fine; the herald of silence usually doesn’t focus on anything else after finding a target,” Clint added as they ran.

They reached the stairs but found a bunch of monsters climbing up, the group immediately abandoned the idea of using the stairs; they rushed to another room before bursting its window open and jumping out.

Most of the monsters that had gathered outside had rushed into the building after the skeleton found them, the few that were still outside were very weak monsters that they did not need to bother with.

Loud explosive sounds rang behind them from the top of the building where the skeleton and the herald of silence were fighting, the group didn’t look back and dashed into the distance.

They jumped over the remaining monsters and quickly disappeared into the streets.

“Where are we going now?” Glen asked while they ran.

“Our original destination,” Ivan responded.

After running for a long time, the group finally decided to stop. This wasn’t because they were tired, it was because they had found under people.

In front of them, a group of ten to twelve people were fighting some monsters that seemed to be able to fuse with the ground and appeared at random places.

The group was made up of adults, and they all seemed to be in their 30s to 40s; there were only four men in the group; the rest were women, and they were all in clothes that were not fit for combat.

The fusion had caught them off guard as well.

As for the monsters that the group was fighting, they were some sort of green slime that drilled into the ground and shot out from random locations; they could also shift their bodies into various forms.

“Should we help them?” Karin asked.

The people were outnumbered but were holding fine, but that was only for now.

They could already see that only one of them was at the Partial Lord rank; it was only a matter of time before the rest ran out of Nexus energy and were killed, and then the Partial Lord would have to face all the monsters alone.

They would definitely die if they didn’t get help.

Ivan looked for a while before saying.

“No,”

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