THE STRONGEST NEXULYTE

"Hmm? What happened here?" The reptile monster was surprised by the sight of that red tree demon's territory.

Signs of fightings cough be seen everywhere, it almost thought that it was in the wrong place.

The eyes of the monster soon landed on Ivan, it immediately turned over; a human!

"Hey, human. Where's that old withered tree, tell me were it is and I'll kill you painlessly after killing it" The reptile ordered Ivan while licking its teeth with its huge tongue.

Ivan just stared back expressionlessly, he took a few seconds to observe the reptile.

While Ivan was doing this, the monster thought that he had become mute from fear for it and began to stride toward him.

"All these punny humans, immediately loosing their minds to fear. I'll just eat you then and come for the old tree another time," the monster growled.

" Dead"

A calm voice suddenly sounded in the monster's head, it stopped and looked at Ivan who was the source of the voice.

" What did you just say, human?" It asked in its beastly voice.

" I said it's dead, I killed it" Ivan looked at it right in the eyes and uttered.

"Hahaha, humans sure know how to tell a joke. You're telling me that you killed the old tree demon? Do I look like a fool to you? Since you killed it, why don't you come kill me too?" The monster laughed hard, stomping its leg on the ground repeatedly; it found Ivan's words to be very ridiculous.

Forget how a human managed to sneak into the territory of the red tree demon, the old tree was in par with it. Their only flaws being that it was slower than the red tree demon while the latter was weaker than it in terms of raw strength.

But this little human was saying that he killed the old tree demon? A monster reptile had fought against for years without any side winning? He even looked unharmed, then he killed the tree demon in one strike? How hilarious!

"Ok, if you want to die too, I'll kill you" Ivan replied casually, a card appeared in his hand before transforming into a dazzling golden sword with animated golden luminance; this was a weapon that Ivan had never used before, a sword that he had never shown anyone.

Gripping the sword handle, Ivan took a stance before lifting the sword.

The expression of the reptile monster instantly changed, it felt a dreadful feeling from the the sword in the hands of the human before it.

The monster immediately tried to charge at Ivan but it was already too late because Ivan disappeared from its sights suddenly and reappeared in the air front of it the next moment with his golden sword swinging down on the monster.

"Now, die" Ivan's calmly said as he slashed down.

A burst of golden sword wave flew from the blade of the golden sword and shot at the monster, growing larger by the second.

The monster opened its long snout to say something but the sword wave was faster.

BOOM!!!

Like a bomb, the sword wave crashed down on the monster. The later was immediately pushed down to the ground, the monster had crossed its enormous arms in front of its body at the last moment before the golden sword wave had touched it.

"Grheeee!" It made a thunderous growing sound as the Sword wave pushed it deeper and deeper into the ground, busting craters that were larger than the previous at each push; the monster was soon five meters deep I to the ground and the sword wave was slowly inching deeper into its flesh, blood began to gush out.

Ivan had already landed on the ground by then and was watching the scene with a poker face, his eyes lowered as he gazed at the golden sword wave that seemed to be getting brighter by the second; it was as if the sword wave was charging.

"Should be about time," Ivan mumbled to himself as the golden sword he was holding scattered into light particles.

At the same time, the golden sword wave that was pressing down on the monster suddenly burst out even brighter, it was like a small sun had appeared in the pit that the monster was pressed into.

And like a meteor.

BOOM!!

An even louder explosion rang out, the sword wave created a ten meter long sword mark on the ground.

The ground was split open and the reptile that had been struggling previously was slashed in two without being able to resist; its body parts laid in the tower as fountains of blood pumped out and quickly covered the crater, turning it into a small pool of blood.

Blinking once, Ivan's expression remained unchanged as his eyes fell on a glistening object that had floated to the surface of the blood pool.

He bent over and deepd two fingers into the blood pool, his finger tips were smeared with blood as he pulled out the object.

It was a Nexus crystal!

Another Nexus crystal, adding to this to the ones that he got from the red tree demon, he had found nine Nexus crystals from killing two monsters!

"Tch, poor thing. The other one has given me 8 and you only give one" Ivan scoffed after looking at the Nexus crystal for a while but still stored it after; he was only disappointed that this monster hadn't devoured other monsters with Nexus crystals like the tree demon did, he wasn't going to reject it even if it was on.

At this moment, Ivan suddenly heard sounds of footsteps approaching rapidly; the owners of these footsteps seemed to be in a rush.

Thinking it was about set of monsters, Ivan turned around and prepped to fight. His expression turned into confusion when he realized that the footsteps were coming from the direction that led to where he came from.

This meant that whatever was coming should have passed through Ralph and the rest.

"Or could it be them?" Ivan wondered.

Soon enough, multiple faces appeared in Ivan's line of sight and he haved a sigh; they were Ralph and the rest of the team.

Ralph had summoned his two undeads, Glen was riding on top of his snake that was still in the process of recovering, Karin waa dragging her huge mallet behind her, and Clint just stood there; the area around him visibly darker than other places.

They had all arrived battle ready.

They immediately spotted Ivan when they arrived, they saw the pool of blood beside him next and their expressions turned serious.

"Ivan, are you alright? We heard a huge explosion come from this side and trembling even reached our position, we were unable to find you so we came here as fast as we could" Glen

cried out while jumping down from the back of the snake.

" I'm fine," Ivan calmly said.

"What happened here? So much damage" Karin mumbled aloud as she looked around the place.

Her eyes roaming where Ivan had pinned the tree monster, the new craters, the large split on the ground, and the pool of blood.

Everyone immediately turned to Ivan for explanation, he was here before then after all.

Ivan went mute for a few seconds before casually making up a story.

He explained that the red tree demon had been attacked by another monster and they had fought, causing all of the destructions that they were seeing.

"The other monster managed to kill the tree demon but was left on the brink of death"

"Them where is it?" Glen yelped and looked around vigilantly.

"I finished it off" Ivan added with a straight face