THE STRONGEST NEXULYTE

Clint sighed, thinking that he was going to be separated from the Nightmaw.

But boy was he mistaken!

The Nightmaw was a resentful creature, it naturally held grudges.

Even though it had been thrashing around after a part of its body went missing, it wasn't planning on letting Clint leave just like that.

Immediately after the blood walls started popping up, the Nightmaw scattered into dark particles again and swarmed toward Clint and forming a ball of wriggling darkness around him.

The two fought throughout the duration of the shift and continued after the shift had already stopped.

The Nightmaw had reverted to its snake form and suddenly whipped out with its tail.

BAM!

The tail smashed into Clint's face and he was sent flying back, crashing into the blood wall.

Clint knew that he didn't have time to think about his aching body because the Nightmaw won't give him that time, he immediately rose to his feet after dropping to the ground only to see the huge mouth of a bottomless abyss in front of him.

The Nightmaw had reduced in size, so its mouth wasn't as enormous as it was previously, but it was still enough to swallow Clint in one bite.

Clint forced his body to move to the side while his left-wing slashed at the Nightmaw.

Arrchgg!!

The Nightmaw snapped at Clint but caught his wing instead.

With Clint's Wing in its mouth, it lifted its head before thrashing around again.

Clint found himself getting lifted into the air and the next thing he knew was his body smashing into things that he couldn't see clearly as the Nightmaw pulled him around like a toy.

It kept slamming Clint into things for a few seconds before tossing him to the side with force.

Clint landed on the ground heavily and bounced a few times; his body was screaming in protest, and his innards were churning.

He lay motionless on the ground, his dark cloak and wings slowly dimming into they looked like shadows instead of things that were made from darkness; Clint was reaching his endpoint.

The Nightmawslowly slithered on the ground toward where Clint was lying, its four eyes gleaming with the ferociousness of a beast as its body faded in and out of reality.

'Just a bit…closer'

Clint looked at the Nightmaw approaching, one of his eyes swollen while the other was back to normal; the black light had faded, and his blood-red pupil could be seen, albeit it was smeared with blood.

Clint patiently waited as the Nightmaw got closer, his body was too weak for any excessive movements anyway.

Immediately after the Nightmaw got into the range of 5 meters near Clint, his one eye that had gone back to normal suddenly burst out with black light again.

The Nightmawinstantly noticed that something was wrong, but it was too late.

Clang!

Fwoosh!!

A colossal wave of shadows suddenly surged into the air around them, locking the two of them inside it.

From around the shadow cage, countless shadow spikes and chains shot out from all directions and stabbed into the body of the Nightmaw.

They stabbed its body messily before letting out small layers of darkness that ran across the surface of the monster's body and fully circled it like a shell.

The Nightmawroared and tried to scatter into dark particles in order to escape, but the shell of darkness that had been formed around its body would knock back every dark particle that tried to separate from the monster's body, causing it to be unable to escape.

This created a scene of the Nightmaw exploding and forming together over and over again.

It repeated this routine several times before realizing that it was trapped, this shell of darkness around it was keeping it in one piece; it was like a sealed pack that prevented any parts of it from leaking out!

At this point, Clint slowly stood up and approached the struggling monster. He stood two meters away, just out of the monster's reach.

"Hehehe, cough! You didn't expect this, did you?" Clint laughed and coughed a mouthful of blood.

The monster kept snapping its mouth at him, but it wasn't able to move a single step further than the shadow chains and spikes allowed.

Clint stared at its eyes that were glaring back at him with hatred, a smirk appeared on his bloody face.

"I told you at the start, come and die" Clint chuckled with difficulty before throwing his staff into the mouth of the monster like a spear.

The spear entered its mouth and traveled down its body, the light of the red gemstones on the staff gleamed through the darkness that made up the monster's body, allowing its movements to be followed from outside.

The staff flew till it reached the middle of the Nightmaw's body, a soft mumble escaped Clint's mouth at this moment.

The light from the gemstones suddenly stopped moving within the monster's body, its light started to glow brighter and brighter.

The monster also began to struggle even more violently, breaking some of the chains and shadow spikes in a few seconds.

Clint fell on his knees and spat out blood but the smirk didn't leave his face as he continued to stare at the monster's eyes.

"It's too late to struggle"

He whispered.

BOOM!!

A thunderous explosion bloomed inside the body of the Nightmaw, the explosion causing the numerous shadow spikes, shadow chains, and the shell of darkness around its body to shatter.

A strong shockwave burst out and crashed into Clint, sending him back a few steps.

The monster that had suffered the full brute of the explosion naturally suffered worse. Like blowing on a speck of dust on a table, the darkness that made up the body of the Nightmaw evaporated light ashes.

What was left was a couple of meters long black snake with the thickness of a tree, its body looked like it was made of wriggling black worms.

On top of it was a small shining crystal, it was a Nexus crystal!

The eyes of the snake were still open and gleaming with green light, but Clint was certain that it was already dead.

Forcing his lungs to breathe, Clint slowly rose to his feet and climbed on top of the snake to claim his prize; he didn't forget to curse at the labyrinth in the process for letting this damned thing chase him mid-shift.