Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 123

Chapter 123: First Blue Dungeon Chapter 123: First Blue Dungeon Purple ether coiled around Leandra’s arm and went into the portal, tearing through the fabric of dimension-and creating another colorless portal.

She was imitating-the Shard Breaker’s process of opening the dungeon to avoid suspicion.

Leandra must’ve been trained to do this as she opened the dungeon easily.

Once the one-way portal was opened, Lucivar could see the dungeon that lay beyond.

His senses were alerted, and the cold air coming from the dungeon licked his neck-instilling unease, into his very essence.

People always feared the unknown.

Lucivar also felt uneasy in his very first time confronting a proselyte.

So the feeling he felt right now was only a primal instinct, he could overcome it.

“I’ll lead.

Keep your guard up, and stay close,” Ravenna walked on ahead.

“I’ve been into a lot of dungeons-in the last week.

One thing I learned is that dungeons are always consistently, inconsistent” Bob and Ravenna were grouped with the senior academy hunters.

Because of that, she had undergone a lot of missions.

It wouldn’t be surprising if she had already finished three or even four missions already.

Lucivar didn’t argue-he knew when to step back and for this moment, Ravenna would lead.

Following closely behind, the others followed Ravenna into the dungeon.

Caldaros watched the group step into the dungeon closely-a complicated expression could be seen decorating his face, “I feel colder when I’m near him-I wonder why…?” He squinted, recalling the sensation he felt from being near Lucivar.

“Also-those people are all weird.

Too strong for them to merely be academy hunters” Shaking his head, he turned to his team.

“Get ready to intercept the Crossers that would come out, work together with the military” “Yes!” Meanwhile, Lucivar stepped into the dungeon and could feel the change immediately.

He could feel the temperature drop-significantly, it was really as if he had gone into a whole new world.

Knowing the Crossers inside to be Rock Golems, and Stone Orcs, the terrain, was as expected.

It was a rocky mountainous area with snow decorating the peaks.

Lucivar was aware that dungeons are literal pocket dimensions, created by the Primordials to attack their world.

But he never knew that dungeons-could be this big, he could not see the end of the dungeon from where he stood.

Once all of them got inside, the one-way portal disappeared.

Recovering from his sightseeing daze, Lucivar checked on Nerissa.

“Stay in the middle of us,” He instructed.

Nerissa nodded, she was holding a staff on one hand-as well as a backpack behind her.

Other than being the healer of the team, she would also be collecting the power crystals.

Ravenna scanned the surroundings meticulously.

Currently, the group was standing in an open field with a few dead trees around and snow as deep as their shins.

Nothing was moving around them but that does not mean that they were safe, in fact, they need to be alert in this kind of situation the most.

Just before the group moved, Lucivar stole a glance at Mirel.

Mirel hasn’t said anything and has been unusually quiet ever since their mission.

Usually, he was the flower of the group that could melt any tension but he now changed.

‘Later, I’ll try talking to him.

I need to know what’s in his mind,’ Lucivar nodded.

Something must’ve been in Mirel’s mind and it was most likely about him.

Because of that, Lucivar needed to know.

“Remember, the Teal Coin is a glowing orb of light and is always hidden.” Ravenna said.

Upon hearing, the others nodded.

It should be easy enough to find with their eyes in that case.

“Hidden?” Nerissa mused in confusion pulling the others’ attention towards her.

She then lifted her arm, and pointed to a mountain peak to their left, “If it’s supposed to be hidden, what is that glowing thing?” Instinctively, all eyes snapped to the mountain peak, where a radiant blue light blazed.

Going with Ravenna’s description, this radiant blue light should be the Teal Coin.

“Didn’t you say it should be hidden?” Leandra turned to Ravenna.

“It’s right there” “I was wondering about that too…” Ravenna frowned.

Just then, Lucivar squinted as he saw something moving on that mountain peak and before long, he could tell, that it was the Stone Orcs.

Even from afar, he could tell that these Stone Orcs were massive in size.

As one would expect, these Stone Orcs have burly bodies and wielded blunt ice weapons.

Ice axes, ice clubs, ice hammers, amongst other massive weapons.

Raahh!!!

“Are they dancing?

What are they doing…?” Leandra mused.

Instead of attacking them right away-these Stone Orcs, were staying on the mountain peak instead, raising their weapons to the sky and cheering towards the group.

A weird sight, one that confused not only Leandra but also Nerissa and Mirel.

Lucivar and Ravenna, on the other hand, could tell what they were doing.

“No, they’re not dancing,” Lucivar sweated.

“they’re taunting us to come at them” “I’ve never been in a situation like this before,” Ravenna added-she found this situation a bit more troublesome than normal.

“I’ve never been in a dungeon where the Crossers inside of it weren’t hiding the Teal Coin but displayed it like this instead” Even though her tone seemed to be troubled, her lips curled upward a little.

She certainly accepted the Stone Orcs’ challenge, without hesitation inside.

On the other hand-Lucivar made a mental note of the Stone Orcs’ number.

‘Roughly a hundred of them and there’s possibly more behind that peak, I can’t tell…’ Lucivar thought, he could tell that taking down this dungeon would be way harder than he prepared, the Stone Orcs outnumbered them by at least ten to one.

“We should separate them someh-” Boom!

Just then, Lucivar was surprised the ground below his feet suddenly moved and elevated.

He wasn’t ready for this so he stumbled and fell to his back.

A humanoid rock creature-twice his height emerged from below, it was buried under snow and woke up when Lucivar stepped on it.

Looking at the puny human in front of it, the Rock Golem lifted both of its hands above its head and swung down powerfully.

In the nick of time, Ravenna arrived and caught the attack.

Bam!!

Her entire body was sizzling, with crimson ether-her bloodline’s unique characteristics were already activated.

Despite that, she fell to one knee upon catching the hammer fist, the force behind the swing was enormous.

Lucivar’s eyes widened upon sensing the ether coming from Ravenna.

She has gotten way stronger since they last met.

“Get out of the way!

I can’t hold it any longer!” Ravenna shouted, glaring at Lucivar.

Recovering from his initial shock, Lucivar wanted to summon his wing, and flapped out of the way but a water tentacle already grabbed him by the arm and yanked him out of the way.

He landed several meters back, right next to Nerissa.

Only then did Ravenna tilt her body, allowing the Rock Golem’s arms to strike the ground.

And beyond expectations, the ground cracked from receiving that blow.

Ravenna said that it was heavy but none expected the Rock Golem to be this monstrous.

Glancing to the side, the Rock Golem changed its target, fixing its glowing yellow eyes on Ravenna.

Just as it began to move its heavy body, an unseen force gripped it-locking its torso in place, and holding it immobile.

As it was held in place, stuck-a streak of lightning blitzed toward it.

Mirel sprinted, amplifying his speed with ether-holding a katana with both hands.

Obtaining the academy points, from helping take down Professor Fury-as well as from the mission they completed, the group had the exact same thing in mind and bought a weapon for themselves.

In Mirel’s case, he bought a katana with its blade shaded by a yellow hue.

Blitz!

Charging the katana with ether, sparks of yellow lightning began to appear along its length.

It crackled with power and once it did, Mirel threw it upward.

He kept his eyes fixed on the Rock Golem and made a powerful clap with both hands.

One of Mirel’s signature abilities-his clap unleashed a fan-shaped lightning shockwave-its raw power forcing the Rock Golem to take a step back.

Using this window of opportunity, he then leaped forward, catching his katana mid-air and delivering a mighty swing.

His swing landed directly on the Rock Golem’s head, firing a lightning strike in a straight line.

Despite pouring a lot into that attack, he could only manage to crack its skin.

Mirel clicked his tongue in displeasure when he saw this.

Following up on the attack, Leandra’s eyes glowed purple, as she summoned multiple purple stars above her-five to be exact, and fired them at the Rock Golem.

Each time these purple stars landed on their mark, they created an explosion that blew the Rock Golem.

It was forced to stagger multiple times as the barrage continued.

One by one, the shooting star struck the Rock Golem.

As this continued, Ravenna charged in with relentless ferocity, her clawed gauntlets slashing in a rapid flurry, at the staggered Rock Golem.

Each strike left steaming trails, across its rock form but none were powerful enough to break through its hardened skin.

‘It’s so hard…

I can’t quite pierce its skin’ Ravenna pondered.

Just as anticipated, the group would have trouble fighting this kind of Crossers.

She would need more time until she could make the finishing strike.

“Ravenna!” Suddenly, Ravenna heard her name being called-prompting her to glance back.

Lucivar could be seen charging an immense amount of ether to his dagger-so much so that the air around the dagger became wobbly, and distorted.

Seeing this, Ravenna quickly made her way back to the Rock Golem again.

She came right as the last purple star exploded on the Rock Golem, weakening its rock skin.

Moving nimbly like a cat, she dodged the Rock Golem’s attacks perfectly.

Her right foot was garnering a lot of ether, causing it to burn with a deep crimson hue.

In a couple of seconds, Ravenna reached below the Rock Golem and gritted her teeth.

“Hyaah!!” Bam!

Ravenna landed a vicious uppercut kick-right on the Rock Golem’s chin, it was an ability of her from the looks of it as the impact echoed hard, and propelled the Rock Golem off of the ground, surprisingly.

Upon seeing this, Lucivar made his move.

He flapped his wing and dashed at the Rock Golem.

As he glided in the air, the very tip of his dagger trembled with intense golden ether.

Because of his high ether control granted by Loki’s Divine Blood-he could condense as well as concentrate his ether, only at the tip of his dagger-amplifying his striking power twofold, and coupled with adding two God strands, he was confident with his attack.

Lucivar’s eyes glistened as he thrust his dagger forward.

Crash!

Upon impact, the Rock Golem’s body shattered into small rocks.

It was obliterated-the very first kill in this dungeon.

Landing on the ground softly, Lucivar turned towards the others and smiled.

Even though they needed to make some efforts-the Rock Golem was finally killed.

Before they could celebrate or even catch their breaths, multiple mounds of snow stood up, revealing more Rock Golems in the area.

Seeing this, Lucivar and the others regrouped, and put their backs on one another in a circular formation.

“Great…

One down and now it’s four more to go”