Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 122

Chapter 122: Preparation Chapter 122: Preparation Pippa’s appearance helped Lucivar convince the two.

She came in at the perfect time and now the entire group has to go through with this.

Lucivar leaned back on his seat comfortably, his lips curled into a small smile-as he now did not need to worry about the others, backing away from this.

It would be a suicide mission for him to tackle this dungeon alone.

He would still do it alone because he has no choice but it’d be better with the others’ help.

‘Emotional attachment is oftentimes the first step to influencing someone’s decision,’ Lucivar pondered, gazing at the road ahead-as the SUV headed towards the blue dungeon.

Now all he needed to do was prepare.

Along the way, Lucivar closed his eyes and went into his Inner Chamber.

He went over to Loki’s statue and touched it, summoning a mirror.

“Absorbing the green sphere from Morriva’s city gave me three arcane points,” Lucivar noted, seeing the number three-at the bottom right corner-of the mirror.

“I have to be really smart about this if I want to succeed” Increasing his ability’s mastery from low to mid costs one arcane point, mid to high costs two arcane points-while high to perfect costs four arcane points.

Once his mastery was reached high, he could reach the next realm of mastery and it costs five arcane points.

Pretty straightforward but Lucivar has only three arcane points right now.

He needed to increase the abilities that would help him in this dungeon.

Contemplating for a few seconds, he settled on what he wanted to increase.

——  €¢ Greedy Grasp (Low Mortal) – Mid -> High   €¢ Radiant Burst (Low Mortal) – Low -> Mid  €¢ Major Morphing (Low Mortal) – High  €¢ Soul Warden (Low Mortal) – Low ——- Lucivar decided to increase the mastery of Greedy Grasp and also Radiant Burst.

He used the Greedy Grasp ability occasionally to replenish his God strands but since it was a powerful ability, increasing its mastery-was hard.

The only reason he achieved mid-mastery was because of his breakthrough to the Acolyte rank.

From that increase to mid-mastery, the range of the ability was increased.

Making direct contact was no longer necessary.

Lucivar only needs to be within ten meters or so to absorb someone’s ether.

Of course, the further the person was in that ten-meter range-the less effective the ability became.

So, now that it reached high mastery, the range should be exponentially increased again, as well as the absorption rate.

Battling against the Crossers, he would definitely need to spend a lot of God strands.

And increasing this ability’s mastery is a must.

Other than that, he also settled on the Radiant Burst spell.

It was his only offensive spell.

Considering he could blow a limb with that spell amplified with the God strands, there should be no problem tearing through the Rock Golems and Stone Orcs inside the dungeon.

As soon as he was finished, he opened his eyes and saw that they had arrived.

Once the SUV stopped, Lucivar and the others got out.

His eyes were immediately pulled toward a massive blue portal.

It was at least the size of a two-story house, towering over everything around this open field.

Lucivar approached the portal and placed his hands on his waist.

“Woah~ That’s a blue dungeon for you, I can feel the energy from the other side radiating out overbearingly.

I’m sure even non-Hybrid could sense the energy from the other side,” Lucivar muttered, taking in the sight of his first blue dungeon.

Soon, Ravenna, Mirel, along Caldaros’ group arrived and stepped out.

Ravenna approached Lucivar and also looked at the portal.

She could feel a shiver of excitement running down her spine, this was also her first time.

“How many proselytes?” “One proselyte, it had gotten strong enough to go inside the dungeon” “We passed a cemetery earlier, there were many fresh flowers there, I’m guessing they were new and this proselyte was the cause” “Most definitely, he must’ve devoured more than forty people already” Proselytes are people-who were corrupted by the Crossers’ energy, and they also had their own classification.

From the weakest-the first stage was Pawn.

Once corrupted, the person would instantly become a Pawn.

A pawn are stronger than normal humans and they also become thirsty for violence.

Other than that, they also obtained the ability to absorb life force.

It was the path that would make them stronger-and once they absorbed enough life force, they ascended into something called Nexus.

A Nexus is superhumanly strong, equivalent to Hybrids at the Acolyte or even Chrysalis rank.

Also, they could now enter the dungeon to take refuge.

A tactic used to eliminate the option of closing the portal without entering it.

Normally-a Pawn’s task was to kill people until the portal’s link to the world became strong enough for the Crossers to cross over.

But in most cases-several of them would be caught and killed before the link was strong enough.

And the responsibility would fall to continue lies on the shoulder of a single proselyte.

From the looks of it, the proselyte here was bearing that responsibility.

“Normally, a yellow dungeon would break even before a Pawn could become a Nexus.

But that was not the case, for a blue dungeon, it seems,” Ravenna said as she firmed her claw gauntlets.

Once she did that, the sharp blades hummed with heat.

Just like Lucivar, Ravenna also bought a weapon from the academy for herself.

“So, leader,” She said playfully.

“What’s our plan?

Go for the Teal Coin or the proselyte?” Upon hearing this, Lucivar raised an eyebrow, “What do you mean?” “Since the proselyte was inside already, isn’t the answer, should be obvious?

We should find the Teal Coin-to close the portal for good.

What’s good for aiming the proselyte?

We would break the portal anyway to go inside” He added in confusion.

As he was the leader of this team, he was given by the driver an item to open the portal.

It was called Shard Breaker, a crystal-shaped item used to break the portal.

Lucivar would use that on the portal and once the portal’s barrier breaks, it breaks.

Meaning that either Lucivar’s team or the Crossers could go through it.

It was precisely why the academy hunters were divided into teams based on their powers.

At that point-aiming for the proselyte would be less enticing.

It would take time for the portal to close after the proselyte is dead-and they would need to defend the portal from the Crossers still for a full day and that would be hazardous.

This was precisely why the academy hunters were divided into teams based on their powers.

If the portal was far from breaking, the target should be killing the proselytes.

On the other hand, if that portal was breaking like this one, they should aim for the Teal Coin.

Back in Veloria City, the reason they were split into dealing-with both targets was that there was a chance the proselytes were stronger, than the dungeon itself.

But in this case, the Teal Coin should be the answer.

Knowing what Lucivar was thinking, Ravenna chuckled.

She turned towards Leandra, “You haven’t told him already?

That’s cruel” “It’s not that I don’t want to tell him,” Leandra shrugged and headed towards the portal.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar looked at Ravenna questioningly.

It seemed he was the only one who was oblivious to what was going on.

Mirel and Nerissa also knew, they weren’t as puzzled as Lucivar.

“Didn’t you know about Leandra’s bloodline?” Ravenna asked, turning to look at Leandra.

Lucivar nodded, “Star Witch bloodline, I know,” “Yes,” Ravenna nodded.

“And since she has that bloodline, she could open the portal without actually opening it.

Unlike the Shard Breaker you’re given that shattered the portal, for either side to go through, Leandra could open a one-sided portal for only us to go through” Once he heard this, Lucivar nodded.

He then turned towards Leandra.

Now that he knew about this, he reckoned that back when they were handling-the yellow dungeon in that small town, the Crossers came way later.

He thought that Leandra made a mistake that caused the Crossers to pour out.

But it seemed the portal broke faster than anticipated.

She did something wrong but it wasn’t entirely her fault as Lucivar thought back then.

‘The Star Witch bloodline could open dungeons in the Crossers’ world, I guess it shouldn’t be surprising if she could also do this,’ Lucivar thought, this changes everything.

But as he came to realize this, he turned towards Caldaros and his team.

Ravenna nodded, it seemed Lucivar also realized what to do.

Since the Star Witch bloodline was very rare, if known, Leandra would definitely be taken.

It was too valuable and the Supreme Houses wouldn’t let her be wasted.

As it turns out, exactly like Lucivar, she was also hiding her identity.

‘I have the Angel bloodline as well as the Gods, Leandra has the Star Witch bloodline,’ Lucivar turned, towards the others.

‘Ravenna has a strong bloodline, that even prompted Sha, to give me a warning-and it should also be the case for the others…’ Realizing this, he squinted, ‘Just how can Tobias gather all of us?

What does he want?’ Shaking his head as Tobias is a man of mystery, Lucivar focused back on the moment.

“Before you help her, what should we aim for?” “We should still aim for the Teal Coin-the proselyte is a Nexus and it should be cunning and dangerous.

But still, we will keep an eye out for the proselyte.

It should know where the Teal Coin was” “Good decision,” Ravenna nodded.

“I so happen to be good at torture” Knowing how nonchalant and playful she was, this came as a shock for Lucivar.

He never expected her out of all people to be good at torture.

Once the plan was solid, Lucivar approached Leandra and took out the Shard Breaker from his pocket.

It was shaped like a crystal with a brilliant blue hue.

He stopped directly beside Leandra and asked, “Are you ready?” “Yes, I’m ready” Leandra nodded.

Since her bloodline was too valuable, Lucivar needed to pretend to open the portal with her.

Caldaros and his team shouldn’t know that she has the Star Witch bloodline.

Just as Lucivar was about to pretend to use the Shard Breaker, Leandra stopped him.

“By the way, just so you know, I haven’t told you about my bloodline because I forgot.

It’s not that I don’t trust you or anything so don’t get the wrong idea” She abruptly said without even making eye contact with Lucivar.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar smirked, “Okay, I understand.

Can we open the portal now?” “Yeah…” Leandra placed her hand on the portal’s barrier.

Once she did that, she channeled her ether.

A purple star symbol appeared on her forehead-forcing her to tilt her head down to not be seen.

Lucivar also pointed the Shard Breaker forward and pulled Leandra closer to him-he used his body to hide her from Caldaros’ line of vision.

Eventually, the portal cracked open.

Swoosh!

“So this is a dungeon, huh…?”