THE STRONGEST NEXULYTE

"Welcome to my place, descendant of Von"

An elegant female voice rang out from the figure of the girl who was walking around the altar.

Her long multicolored hair fell from underneath the silk covering her head and dragged on the ground as she moved.

Ivan froze, staring at the figure without saying a word; for some reason, he felt uneasy even when this person appeared to be minding her business.

After a few seconds of doing what seemed like drawing inscriptions around the statue of the angel, the figure finally stopped and turned around to face Ivan.

Ivan was finally able to see her face: a straight pair of pink lips that poked out beautifully under a straight, elegant nose. Her cheeks were full, and she looked cute with slight reddish blush makeup; her skin was pale as that of a corpse that had been lost in water for weeks but radiated with beauty.

The large crack with golden eyelashes that took up the rest of her face till her forehead didn't hinder her beauty in the slightest.

She was the prettiest one-eyed female that Ivan had ever seen in his life, not like he had been any before her, but this girl… if she could be called as such, was prettier than most females that he had encountered in his entire existence.

But this didn't distract Ivan from the main matter, she had one eye and was in the dreamscape!

Ivan looked at her, his eyes narrowed and his expression asking everything that his mouth intended to say.

"Not the chatty type, I see; Vons do have different traits," The girl muttered in her cute voice as she brought her slender white hands together and pressed both palms against each other; she looked like a nun sister.

Ivan's eyebrows raised when he heard this, an intense feeling of curiosity exploding within him.

"You don't have to worry about what I meant by that…or why I called you a descendant of Von; you have it in your name, don't you? But what I can tell you is why I have brought you here" The girl said with a smile as her golden eyelashes fluttered gently before her eyelid slowly raised.

A dazzling golden shine burst out immediately after she opened her single eyes, forcing Ivan to cover his face with his palm and bring out a card in his other hand; he thought that she was attacking.

Strangely, he didn't feel anything from the golden light that had burst out from her eyes, it seemed to be just harmless light.

Ivan lowered his hand but still kept holding the card in his other hand after the eyes of the girl stopped glowing; he was now able to see what was behind her closed eyelid.

On the upper half of her face was a large oval-shaped eyeball with multicolored pupils jumping around; there were red pupils, golden pupils, blue, green, indigo, yellow, every color that Ivan was familiar with, and even some unfamiliar colors of pupils were present in her eye.

Underneath these jumping pupils was a small layer of a labyrinth made out of blood. Despite the small size of it, Ivan was able to tell how large it must be in real-time; he was able to recognize it as the labyrinth that they were currently lost in!

His eyes sparked with realization at this moment as he stared into her eyes.

"You've guessed correctly, I am the guardian of this labyrinth. You may call me priestess of the fallen Angel." The girl smiled brightly, held the sides of her garment, and gave Ivan a courtesy bow while lowering her head slightly.

"And I brought you here because I need your help" She added after standing up straight again.

"Help with what?" Ivan asked in confusion.

The girl smiled as the pupils in her eyes slowly calmed down and stopped jumping around.

"I've been watching you and your group annihilate residents of the labyrinth for the past few days, even killing some of my champions. I've taken notice of a few of you and watched with close attention but discovered that they were only average with the only exception of you.

Even when I send you a champion after killing one champion on purpose, you still manage to end it easily since you stopped holding back; your talent isn't of this realm" She said with a look of reverence on her face.

"What…do you mean?" Ivan was only getting more confused by her words. The only thing that he had was that she was the guardian of the labyrinth and killing her would stop the labyrinth from functioning and let them out.

"You do not have to be flustered…well, you should, but it will be of no use, so I will advise you to be calm. Since you don't seem to know, it is not in my position to tell you as that might affect my Master; you see, sharing knowledge might be a high form of treason" The priestess smiled before slowly walking toward Ivan.

" Why I brought you here after noticing how peculiar you are is that…I need your help," She said while approaching him in slow steps.

Ivan's expression turned even more perplexed by her words.

Without hesitation, the card in his hand flew into the air and burst out with light before transforming into a small white flame; more than half of his Nexus storage was used up immediately after this white flame appeared; it consumed even more Nexus than the golden sword that he had used to kill the Blightbeast.

The white flame floated in the air quietly, a small seven-colored halo surrounding it as it made space around it to crack.

The lips of the priestess shaped into a small smile at the appearance of the white flame, she suddenly moved forward before Ivan could send the white flame out.

Swoosh!!

It was as if time had stopped moving; the priestess moved as if she had teleported and appeared right in front of Ivan before stretching out one of her hands and…grabbing the white flame.

Ivan's eyes widened, and the feeling that was very unfamiliar to him formed in his heart immediately.

Fear!

A feeling that Ivan could count how many times he had felt it.

His eyes moved and stared at the priestess that was standing right in front of him, her eyes staring right into his eyes and a small smile on her lips.

She vanished again and appeared in front of the altar the next moment, Ivan wasn't even able to see her movements!

Her palm that had grabbed the white flame opened, the flame had died out and there was not a single scratch on her smooth palm.

"Now, now, at least listen before you try to kill me; you are very different from the others I've heard of." The priestess giggled softly at Ivan's expression.

Unable to say a word, Ivan could only stare at the girl with wide eyes.

"Don't look at me like that, it's not like I'm going to kill you…you won't be living here alive, but I'm not going to kill you; you are going to help with the resurrection of my Master," She said in an apologetic voice.

"But you are currently out of shape for the ritual, I'll have to feed you so you'll be able to fulfill destiny. When my Master is awakened and rules the dreamscape into the real world, your brave act will be recorded throughout history!" She added in a low shout as her face blushed harder.

Ivan heard this and a strange feeling suddenly mixed with the feeling of fear within him, as if a screw had been driven into his head. His face suddenly turned cold and expressionless, and his eyes turned dull as if they had lost all meaning to life, fading all colors instantly.

"And why do you think I will help with that?" Ivan uttered in an empty tone that lacked any emotions.

The priestess paused and stared at Ivan, the smile on her face fading and being replaced by a sinister smirk.

Suddenly, the image of the labyrinth in her eyes shifted and Ivan felt a rumble under his feet as the space shook.

The next thing he saw was blood walls suddenly bursting out of the wall around the hall he was in, and a monster was brought to the place.

It was a large red-scaled monster with bulging muscles and two large twisted horns; it had the face of a bull and stood on both legs like a man. In its hand was a large blood axe that was several meters long.

The monster looked around in confusion before suddenly settling its red eyes on Ivan, it roared into the air before dashing toward him.

Another card appeared in Ivan's hand before flying out into the air, with a burst of light, it formed a transparent golden barrier around him.

BAM!

The axe of the bull smashed on the barrier, and a loud sound rang out as the ground trembled. The axe of the bull flew back from the rebound force and the monster was pulled along with it.

"This won't work. Kill it and absorb its Nexus crystal; only then will you be in shape for the ritual," The priestess shook her head and said to Ivan from behind the monster.

The monster seemed to ignore her existence and attacked Ivan's barrier again.

"I refuse" Ivan stated coldly and continued to stand still inside the barrier.