“One sword separates the heavens”

The female knight called out the name of a sword technique before stabbing her slim sword into the air.

Ivan suddenly felt the sky turn dark, an oppressive pressure pressed down on him from the sky and caused his knees to bend a little.

Looking up, Ivan saw the image of a massive sword splitting the clouds as it fell down toward him; the lard sword brought along with it a cry of countless swords.

This scene was enough to have a strong impact on one’s mind.

Ivan’s eyes narrowed and his body immediately exploded with Nexus energy, instantly shaking off the pressure that was pressing down on him.

Taking out a card, the card exploded into a dazzling light before spreading out around Ivan and began to connect like lines of a net; they soon formed a barrier of three colors around Ivan.

Shortly after the barrier formed, the large sword fell down on it.

A thunderous sound akin to a thunderclap echoed throughout the virtual space; the ground trembled and split open under the impact of the clash.

A huge crater that was over fifty meters wide appeared after the large sword disappeared; Ivan was standing in the middle of the crater, unharmed.

His barrier was still there as well, the sword didn’t manage to destroy it.

The blue eyes behind the helmet gleamed with surprise upon seeing that the barrier was still there.

She bent over and…

BOOM!!

She shot toward Ivan, forming a silver comet that left a long line of destruction behind her.

She appeared in front of Ivan’s barrier within a split second, one of her arms arced backward as her gullets clenched into a fist.

She threw the punch at the barrier.

BAM!

The punch landed on the barrier, and a loud sound followed; the ground between the female knight and the barrier split open from the strong shockwave as the female knight was pushed several meters back from the impact.

On Ivan’s side, small cracks began to appear from the point where the punch had landed before spreading all over.

Crack!

The barrier collapsed.

Ivan’s face didn’t change even after this, he continued to stare at the female knight with narrowed eyes.

The latter, seeing that the barrier protecting Ivan had collapsed, gripped her sword and dashed toward him again.

Ivan also created a sword and met the female knights head-on; they locked each other in a sword fight.

The ground was split open whenever they clashed and space shook from their speed as they moved around as if they were teleporting.

This kept on for a few minutes without any of them finding a gap in the other party’s attacks. They could only try to create an opening, but it was proving difficult.

The female knight suddenly pulled back after clashing swords with Ivan and using Ivan’s sword as a springboard to jump back.

While still in mid-air, the female knight made a strange movement with a sword.

“Thousand swords formation!”

She called out. Hundreds of sword shadows immediately filled the sky in front of her before raining down on Ivan like bullets.

Ivan immediately flashed away and dodged the falling sword shadows.

Each sword’s shadow created a small pit in the ground whenever it struck down. While this might not hurt Ivan, he was sure that it would be painful; a thousand such attacks landing on one person would not be pleasant.

While Ivan was focused on dodging, the figure of the female knight suddenly appeared in front of him.

“Never forget about your opponent in a fight” she snorted coldly before she attacked Ivan with her sword.

Ivan, who had been focused on dodging the sword shadows all this time, suddenly revealed a smirk and a card suddenly appeared in his hand.

“And don’t fall for a bait so easily” he scoffed back before suddenly grabbing onto the sword of the female knight and slamming the card on her chest.

Spurt!

The card transformed into a long black spear that stabbed through her chest and came out from her back.

All of the sword shadows that had been chasing Ivan immediately disappeared, and the sky was clear again.

Letting go of the Knight’s sword, Ivan watched as her body staggered with the spear still stabbing through her body; fresh blood dripping down the body of the spear.

Thud!

She fell on one knee and stabbed her sword into the ground to support herself, her other hand trembled as she tried to reach for the spear.

“…I tr…”

She tried to speak but suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood before her hands fell down and her head hung low.

She died in that kneeling position.

[Level 31 cleared. Proceed to level 32]

[Yes/No]

Ivan stared at the kneeling corpse of the female knight with an expressionless face, but his eyes revealed a look of acknowledgment; even in death, she still looked honorable.

” Yes,” he said after a while.

Two seconds later a new monster appeared in the virtual space.

[Level 32, begin]

Roar!

” Hellfire, detonate!”

BOOM!

Roaaar~

” Lightning wrath!”

Kaboom!!

…

Outside in the training room, Ralph and Glen stared at the glowing level list with shocked faces.

Ivan’s name was currently under level 33 and level 34 was glowing, meaning that he was currently attempting to clear level 34.

He had beaten Alaric Vladimir’s record and set a new one!

“Wow, so cool! That’s my bro!” Glen placed both hands on his waist and laughed proudly, his nose pointing tilted upward.

James looked at the boy with a glint in his eyes.

This brat was the least talented of the group but he liked to show off the most. Had it not been because of Ivan and Ralph, James would not have bothered recruiting someone like him personally even if he had an A-level talent.

‘Sigh, he can still be of use, so I’ll tolerate him,’ James said to himself before turning his gaze to look at the list; his expression immediately turned to one of satisfaction.

A while later and a door opened, Ivan walked out of it. In the end, he failed to clear level 34; he had to face a group of strange monsters that were able to reflect attacks!

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“Satisfied now?” James asked while staring at Ivan.

“Hmm, I want to use the Nexus chamber one last time,” Ivan said after nodding to his question. He wanted to refill his empty Nexus chamber before leaving the tower.

“Of course, you can even use the Nexus chamber for first place,” James said with a smile and gestured for Ivan to go on.

“Can we use it too?” Glen immediately asked, seeing how James had easily allowed Ivan to use the Nexus chamber.

James turned and stared back at him with a forced smile, the veins on his neck were threatening to explode.

He would have outright rejected Glen and even scolded him sternly, but he couldn’t do so in front of Ivan as he didn’t want to leave a bad impression on him.

“Of course, you can,” James squeezed out through the gaps of his teeth.

“Great!” Glen clapped his palms and caught up to Ivan, ignoring James’ weird expression.

Only Ralph seemed to notice the look on James’ face; his eyes narrowed as he looked at James with judgmental eyes.

The three of them headed for the Nexus chamber together.

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