Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 124

Chapter 124: Battle in the Snowfield Chapter 124: Battle in the Snowfield Lucivar managed to shatter the Rock Golem into pieces.

He focused his golden ether onto the tip of his dagger using his delicate ether control-while also infusing it, with one God strand.

Since the Rock Golem was weakened, its body cracking from their attacks, this was enough to take it down.

Upon doing that, the entire group sighed in relief.

Despite needing to put in a lot of effort, they eventually took the Rock Golem down.

At the center of the Rock Golem’s shattered body was a golden sphere.

‘Good, killing Crossers dropped me golden spheres’ Lucivar nodded.

In the real world, he was restricted by the rules of society.

Since the change in his Angel bloodline, he could obtain his natural ether to cultivate from killing others.

His very first kill was the Fire Primordial, a Crosser, but the Primordials are a race of intelligent beings.

Lucivar was worried that the golden sphere only acknowledged killing intelligent beings.

Something like the Rock Golems or other monsters wouldn’t be counted.

But it doesn’t seem to be the case.

‘Dungeons are the way for me, I can get stronger here faster than outside,’ Lucivar thought.

Grabbing the golden sphere, he put it into his Inner Chamber and stood up straight again.

At the same time, the ground beneath him began to tremble hard.

Regrouping with the others, he saw the mounds of snow scattered around, that he thought were boulders-but they weren’t actually boulders, they were Rock Golems instead.

Due to the ruckus, these golems were wakened up from their slumber.

Four hulking rock creatures surrounded them from all sides.

“Each take one,” Ravenna instructed.

“If you can’t beat it, buy time for the others” Once she said that the group moved, picking one Rock Golem to fight.

Nerissa was the only one left behind, preparing to heal and aid those who were in need.

Aiming at the Rock Golem that was more slender than the others, Lucivar sprinted-his eyes were already glowing golden.

His feet were blurry, leaving behind a trail on the snow until he got close enough to make a leap.

Holding the dagger in hand, he felt weightless.

It seemed the wind element property from his dagger was making him faster.

“Raargh!” Lucivar struck, his dagger slicing through the air in a vibrant green arc.

Clang!

His dagger’s powerful arc was stopped abruptly on impact, barely leaving a scratch as the Rock Golem’s impenetrable skin absorbed the blow without flinching.

Gritting his teeth, he landed back down and pressed on, channeling his momentum into relentless strikes.

Each strike was lethal, aimed to pierce the unyielding surface.

Of course, the Rock Golem retaliated, trying to grab or even hit him with its massive arms.

It was unsuccessful.

In terms of strength, the Rock Golem along with its weight has the edge by a lot.

But since it was made entirely of rocks, it was clunky and slow.

Lucivar had an easy time dodging its attacks, he was too nimble for the Rock Golem.

It was helpless before Lucivar’s speed.

Even then, this situation goes both ways.

Lucivar realized that the task proved to be more tedious than he anticipated.

Mid-air, Lucivar checked the result of his attacks.

‘I can’t…

I can only scratch the surface but nothing is going through!’ Unlike Ravenna’s kick earlier or Leandra’s bombardment, his offensive capability was lacking.

Annoyed, Lucivar grabbed the dagger with both hands and swung down vertically.

He put his weight and power into this slash and the Rock Golem blocked it with its big arms.

Sparks danced from the friction between steel and rock, despite his strength-he couldn’t do anything against this hard defense, ‘I guess the only way I could pierce its defense is through using God strands’ Nodding his head, Lucivar was about to move, his ears caught a sharp whistling wind.

Swoosh!

His dagger began to shake uncontrollably, its green-tinged edge unleashing a raging torrent of wind-that shot past the Rock Golem.

The whirlwind, coalesced into a phantom form of a green panther, its claws flaring with fierce energy and struck the Rock Golem from behind.

It struck with brutal force, causing the Rock Golem to stumble forward, before dissipating.

Upon seeing this, Lucivar’s eyes flashed.

‘I forgot about the dagger’s ability…’ He smirked.

Recalling the dagger’s ability, Echoing Phantom, Lucivar made his move again.

Circling the Rock Golem, he reached its back and swung once again-this time-he used one God strand to boost his attacking power.

Like earlier, the Rock Golem’s skin was too hard but that wasn’t a problem anymore.

Another phantom gushed out and struck it from the front with even more power than before.

And this time, the attack cracked the Rock Golem’s torso.

Lucivar smirked at this sight, he could smell his triumph already.

He remembered the chance of activating the Echoing Phantom was 20% but this chance will increase the harder the initial attack hits.

Using two hands earlier, he was able to trigger this ability for the first time.

Following that logic, if he used two hands in every strike the chance would always be more than 20%.

But there was no need for that-Lucivar could use the God strands to propel the chance from 20% to close to 100%.

Coupled with the fact that the phantom’s strike is stronger than his initial attack, it’s perfect.

‘It almost felt like this dagger was custom-made for me,’ Lucivar smiled.

Flapping his wing, he shot upward as the Rock Golem fell to its back.

Lucivar dived back with his dagger pointing down-stabbing the Rock Golem, with incredible force.

Using two God strands in this strike, the phantom came out bigger than before, and as it struck, biting with its fangs, the Rock Golem shattered.

“Huff…

Huff…” Upon killing the Rock Golem, Lucivar panted heavily.

Making consecutive all-out strikes is very stamina-demanding-he was breathing hard.

Checking the others, he found Ravenna and Leandra were helping Mirel take down the Rock Golem, he was facing.

He had time to breathe because of that, “Had I decided to come here alone, I’d be in trouble as soon as I stepped here” Asking the others to come was the right choice.

He would need to fight six Rock Golems on his own, had he come here alone.

Just then, as if it wasn’t enough, more Rock Golems woke up in the distance.

Lucivar watched them approaching slowly with a tired gaze.

But his eyes were pulled to the portal, there were some Rock Golems that tried to come out.

Fortunately-the portal remained sealed-its barrier holding firm and preventing any breach into the real world.

No matter how hard the Rock Golems pounded, it wouldn’t budge.

It was all thanks to Leandra.

Also, because of this, there was no need for anyone to be guarding the portal.

None of them need to stay behind, they could stick together and focus on the Teal Coin.

“I think it’s time for us to move!” Lucivar shouted, seeing at least a dozen more Rock Golems.

On the other hand, Ravenna dived from above-and stomped the Rock Golem, shattering it under her foot before turning towards Lucivar.

Fighting six Rock Golems were sapping their stamina already, a dozen would be too much.

Better for them to save their strength as the Stone Orcs were the main threat.

“Nerissa!

Come quick!” She called.

Mirel was hissing in pain, some of his fingers were broken from trying to slash his katana and cleave the Rock Golem.

Nerissa immediately came, and began healing him, coating his entire arm with healing water.

Seeing this, went over to Lucivar and stood by him, “We need to buy time,” “Can’t Nerissa heal Mirel while we move?” Lucivar shot back.

She shook her head, “Not that she can’t but we don’t know what lies behind that precipice” In order to reach the Stone Orcs and the Teal Coin, the group needed to go through a narrow path, passing a precipice.

From their position, they couldn’t see what was beyond so it would be better for Mirel to be healed first before moving.

Rock Golems are slow anyway so they can take their chances.

Upon agreeing on what to do, Leandra’s eyes glowed as she took a step forward.

She lifted her arms slowly and used her telekinetic ability.

Swoosh!

Lucivar glanced around and noticed the snow in the area rising, swirling toward the front.

Initially, it was a light drift but it quickly grew into a massive, cloud-like mount.

Once she found the amount was sufficient or rather, this was the best she could do, Leandra gathered the immense pile and hurled it forward with a sharp grunt.

She hurled an avalanche directly at the approaching Rock Golems.

Upon impact, the Rock Golems were halted-the snow reached above their knees.

‘So much ether…

Her ether is double or even triple that of mine,’ Lucivar gasped.

Despite absorbing a lot of Loki’s Divine Blood, Leandra still has him beat in terms of ether.

Shaking his head to focus, he snapped out of his trance and pointed his hands forward.

He pointed at two Rock Golems that were leading the group and used Radiant Burst.

As soon as he made the sequence to unleash the spell-Lucivar saw a gathering of light that swirled in front of these two Rock Golems.

He gasped as the vortex was even bigger than he expected, it was at least as big as the Rock Golem’s torso.

Once ready, the vortex exploded with a massive energy explosion.

His spell pushed the two Rock Golems back and the avalanche dragged them away.

Seeing that it was working, Lucivar continued using his Radiant Spell.

Boom!

Boom!

None of the Rock Golems were able to get close under their combined effort.

“Great, a bit more and Mirel would be patched up!” Leandra said, stealing a glance behind.

Just as she said that, however, the ground shook.

Both Lucivar and Leandra stumbled because of this, it was a hard shake that made them lose their center of balance.

Lifting their gazes-both of them were surprised when the avalanche suddenly exploded.

Its rush was halted and after it exploded, the avalanche was dispersed instantly.

Leandra was knocked back, her telekinetic connection was cut.

Before she could fall, Lucivar caught her by the waist while keeping his gaze ahead.

Peering from the mild snow haze ahead-Lucivar saw several sets of glowing eyes belonging to the Rock Golems approaching.

But his gaze was fixed on a pair of eyes taller than the rest, way taller.

Each step this being took made the ground shake, causing Lucivar and Leandra to sweat.

Soon, a creature emerges, twice the size of the other Rock Golems.

Not only that, jagged ice spikes jutted out, adorning its entire body like a frozen armor.

It was as if the Rock Golems had a big brother and this thing was their big brother.

As soon as this creature emerged, even Ravenna paled.

Her face turned as pale as a sheet of paper.

“Shit…

It’s a Rock Sentinel!”