Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 134

Chapter 134: Snatching the Teal Coin Chapter 134: Snatching the Teal Coin As someone who was also wronged by his home city, he understood the proselyte’s feelings.

In order to appease the Supreme House and not be abandoned, slave cities are willing to do, absolutely anything for the better good of many.

Even if it would be unfair to one person, the city only viewed the well-being of the majority.

Reality often worked like that.

Had it not for the deal he made with Professor Victor, Lucivar might’ve let him go.

Killing the proselyte is barely a reward for Lucivar so there’s no point insisting on killing him.

But with his life on the line, he couldn’t let the proselyte go.

And the more he thought about it, the more that it was fate for the proselyte to die here.

‘Even if there’s no deal, I’d probably kill him for choosing evil too…’ Lucivar shrugged.

It was unfortunate, sheer bad luck-Lady Luck spat at the proselyte and placed him here.

So there’s no other outcome for him other than death.

Realizing that Lucivar was not going to be swayed by his pity party, the proselyte gritted his teeth preparing to battle, but his eyes widened when Lucivar vanished, from his spot.

It was sudden and the proselyte couldn’t react.

“Haah…” a voice seeped into his ears.

“you haven’t caught up yet?

Guess you die here” Splash!

Lucivar stabbed the proselyte with his dagger through the heart-causing him to vomit quite a disturbing amount of blood.

He was more or less on par with Lucivar during their first initial encounter earlier but now, with Lucivar’s breakthrough, he was overpowered.

Strength was drained rapidly from his system before his body collapsed forward.

His face planted against the snowy ground.

Earlier, Lucivar had already marked the proselyte with his Soul Warden spell.

It still latches onto the proselyte stubbornly.

So Lucivar could use that to teleport behind the proselyte and deliver the killing blow.

Once the proselyte was done, Lucivar scanned the area.

Some of the Stone Orcs were sneaking past him-to go to the portal, understanding clearly, that battling Lucivar would only be suicide.

Instead, they would contribute more by crossing to the other world and attacking it.

But Lucivar already knew what they were doing, he was ready.

Boom!

A golden ether shockwave exploded from his body, carrying with it the display of his might.

Doing this felt like his breath was taken away, he had never done this before.

Gathering his ether on his skin and letting it explode but it was clearly working.

Seeing the spectacular sight, the Stone Orcs who were already sprinting towards the portal stopped and turned their attention back, towards Lucivar.

“Like moth and the sun, you can’t help yourself when there’s this much ether, can’t you?” No Crossers would pass up killing someone like Lucivar.

His ether amplified with a God strand, it was too enticing for these Stone Orcs.

Roar!!

Allured by their natural instincts, the Stone Orcs turned and charged at Lucivar in a horde.

Lucivar smirked, “Okay…

let’s hope my ether could sustain killing all of them” Meanwhile, on the mountain peak.

Crash!

Charging her claw gauntlets with ether, Ravenna struck down at the Shaman who stumbled to its bottom but missed.

Her face twisted, in sheer annoyance, the Shaman wasn’t good at offense but incredibly good at defense.

It has multiple movement spells that could protect it from Ravenna’s relentless assault.

Ravenna didn’t miss but instead, struck a stone clone.

Glancing to the side, she saw the Shaman meters away-summoning walls of stone to hinder her vision, hiding its body behind these walls.

Moving expertly, Ravenna leaped and spun her body as she summoned a massive ethereal claw and struck at the stone walls.

Crash!

Under her ability, the stone walls shattered, revealing that the Shaman was already running.

“Tch!

Where’s Mirel and Lucivar?

It’s too agile” Ravenna clicked her tongue.

Earlier, once Lucivar went to the portal to handle the situation there, Mirel also departed from her-flaring his ether and sprinting to the Stone Orc’s village.

His move drew almost all of the Stone Orcs, afraid that Mirel would attack their village.

It gave Ravenna the opportunity to attack the Shaman and engage in a duel.

Not to defeat the Shaman but to steal the Teal Coin in its grasp.

But that proved to be an even more difficult task than she anticipated, the Shaman is strong.

Ravenna chased after the Shaman, keeping it in her sight at all times.

As the two played cat and mouse inside the forest, a sharp whistling sound came from above-it prompted the Shaman to look up, and quickly roll to the side-dirtying its robe with snow as it gazed at the spot ahead.

A steaming with gold ether dagger stabbed on the ground where it stood earlier.

Had the Shaman didn’t dodge, that would’ve pierced its temple.

Seeing this, Ravenna did not even bother to check, who was the one who threw the dagger, she instantly dashed in and attacked.

Her swipe was dodged-the Shaman leaped back but her follow-up attack, another ethereal claw managed to clipped the Shaman.

Splash!

Roar!

Feeling the sharp claw pressing on its body, the Shaman roared in pain.

And the glowing Teal Coin in its hand slipped from its grasp.

Ravenna leaped with both hands stretched to grab it but the Shaman blocked her way with a stone wall.

She was barred, but another figure was able to grab the Teal Coin in time, Lucivar arrived and stole the Teal Coin.

Once he was done with the Stone Orcs and secured the portal area, he made haste here.

“Good job, handsome!” Ravenna yelped excitedly.

Dismissing her compliment, Lucivar turned and quickly replied, “We need to go now!” “Go now…?

Why?” “The portal is opened-I already took out all the Rock Golems-but the Rock Sentinel is only knocked out, it would recover any time now.

Leandra and Nerissa are already outside, where is Mirel?” “He must be still at their village” “Come on, let’s call him and get out of here!” At this moment, time wasn’t on their side, the Rock Sentinel could recover any moment now.

It must end now, the dungeon needs to be closed now.

Once Ravenna understood the situation, the duo descended the slope swiftly and went into the woods-leaving the Shaman behind.

It was still stuck on the ground, pinned by the claw Ravenna summoned but it wouldn’t last long.

Despite the path down was easier than climbing the mountain, it remained hard.

Mostly because Lucivar and Ravenna were exhausted.

Both of them were breathing hard, their leg muscles were already screaming at them to stop, but the duo, pushed on.

“Akkh!” Just then, Ravenna made an exhausted misstep, causing her to stumble and roll down the slope.

Lucivar managed to seize her as they slid downward, his free hand clawing into the snow.

Upon reaching the bottom, Ravenna pushed herself up.

“Come on, teacher.

A little bit more,” Lucivar teased to lift up her spirit.

Ravenna smiled weakly and nodded, “I only slipped, don’t mind me.

Let’s keep going” Even though she brushed it off as nothing, Lucivar could tell that her stamina was empty.

She had been the one who made the most effort in this dungeon.

Lucivar might’ve been the one wounded the most but her tasks were the most exhausting.

Being the frontline against the Rock Golems, climbing the mountain, taking on the Stone Orcs to buy time, and even chasing the Shaman.

She had been moving around, non-stop-and her stamina surely bore the toll.

‘I’m also exhausted, and I can only use one or two spells again’ Lucivar pondered.

His God strands can’t replenish his ether and even if he infused God strands into his physical attacks, his stamina wouldn’t last as going back and forth using his wing was quite tiring.

But the end should be near.

Roar!!

A powerful surge of energy coalesced in the sky.

Lucivar and Ravenna glanced upward and saw the Shaman was already pursuing them.

Gritting their teeth, the duo sprinted in the village’s direction.

Multiple Stone Orc corpses could be seen littering the ground, Mirel has done work on them.

In a moment, the clash of combat reached their ears, drawing their attention to Mirel ahead, who was still locked in battle with the Stone Orcs.

His movements were still fast and strong, but their numbers were gradually overwhelming him.

Despite this, he had managed to take a female Stone Orc hostage.

Mirel was able to refrain the other Stone Orcs from attacking.

As he pointed his weapon at the female orc, two Stone Orcs in front of him fell forward.

Lucivar and Ravenna emerged, giving back light into Mirel’s eyes.

“Come on, we’re leaving!” Ravenna shouted.

“We got the Teal Coin already!” Once Mirel heard that, he ditched the female orc and ran through the path both Lucivar and Ravenna had created for him.

Just like that, the three of them-made a run for it toward the portal.

“When will we shatter the Teal Coin?” Lucivar asked as he sprinted.

“If the Teal Coin is destroyed, there would only be exactly thirty seconds before the portal is closed,” Ravenna replied in between her rough breaths.

“Give it to Mirel-he would be better at holding onto it since he’s still in a better shape than us” Just as Lucivar was about to give the Teal Coin, Mirel smiled in guilt.

He tilted his head down to his waist.

Lucivar and Ravenna followed his gaze and found that his uniform was drenched with blood.

“I’m sorry guys, I don’t think I can hold onto it” He stated with a pale face.

Clang!

Before anyone could react to the news, a loud metallic sound echoed through the forest, the kind of sound produced, from rusted steel.

All of them glanced over their shoulders to check where the sound came from.

None of them see anything behind them, the Stone Orcs were left behind.

Even the Shaman was nowhere to be seen.

But as the three were about to focus forward, they picked up growling and braking sounds.

Glancing back once more, their eyes widened in alarm as a horde of creatures surged behind them-these beings moved with incredibly fast speed, undeterred by the snowy woodland-that failed to slow their relentless pursuit.

It was as if they were made for this terrain.

One glance is all it takes for Lucivar and the others to number them in the fifties.

“Pets, they unleashed their pets!” Mirel shouted, he saw these creatures that had taken the shape of an oversized armored dog caged earlier in the village.

Now that the Teal Coin was in their hands, the Stone Orcs were becoming desperate.

“Snow Hounds!” Upon hearing this, Lucivar gritted his teeth as this was going to be a throughout battle.

As if their exhaustion wasn’t already bad enough, these Snow Hounds appeared.

Reaching the portal would be harder than it already was.