Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 149

Chapter 149: I’ve Fixed You Chapter 149: I’ve Fixed You Lucivar was taken aback.

He clenched his teeth so hard as the trial couldn’t get any harder than this.

Once the blue light abated, the supposed Falcon Champion stepped out of the sarcophagus.

A monstrous humanoid figure with a flawless, sculpted body wearing a steel falcon helmet.

Just the sheer presence of the Falcon Champion alone puts pressure on Lucivar, it radiated with combat prowess that was way beyond his current level.

Meeting its glowing blue eyes, Lucivar could tell that he had no chance against this thing.

On top of it being strong, Lucivar wasn’t near his full strength.

He was riddled with scratches and also exhausted, it’s simply an unfair fight.

“Don’t shit on me!” Lucivar barked, he had gone through enough-he had died ten times and was also tortured mercilessly to reach here.

Sutekh should’ve acknowledged him already, he had done enough.

“Stop being arrogant and hand me your power!” Sutekh was amused.

It has been eons since anyone dared to speak like this to him.

Not even the other Gods were brazen enough to demand something from him.

Instead of being the one answering, the Falcon Champion stepped down from the stage with deliberate, slowness.

His armor made a clanking steel sound-with each step.

As he stepped down, the sky-blue aura around him skyrocketed.

Swoosh!

A gush of wind blew against Lucivar, forcing him to raise his arm to cover his face.

Keeping his ground, refusing to step back, Lucivar fought back the aura, while his mind raced in search of a solution, ‘Impossible…

the difference between our powers is too much.

Even if I use the scarabs, all three of them at once, there’s no way I could win against this thing’ Lucivar had sensed the sheer power of a Chrysalis-rank Hybrid-Professor Fury and Aeldric.

But they were nothing compared to the Falcon Champion in front of him.

It was clear that the Falcon Champion belonged to an even higher rank-Paragon or perhaps even Grand Paragon rank, there was no way Lucivar could defeat-someone at that level.

He is an ant in comparison.

Soon, as the Falcon Champion stood in front of him-Lucivar’s pupils dilated.

‘So damn tall too…’ He mused as he gazed up.

Lucivar wasn’t that short, he was a tad bit taller than six feet but even then, this thing was at least four or five heads taller.

The Falcon Champion outclassed him in every aspect, and as if that wasn’t obvious, Sutekh wanted him to defeat the Falcon Champion.

Shring!

Looking down on Lucivar overbearingly, the Falcon Champion’s steel wings flared.

A hint of fear began to grip Lucivar’s heart.

He had already died ten times in the second trial-and now, faced with the daunting task of defeating the Falcon Champion, he couldn’t help but dread how many more deaths it would take to succeed.

Being the Blessed Oracle, Sutekh wouldn’t let him die-that’s for sure.

At this point, it was dubious whether being revived again and again was better than death.

Crack!

Out of nowhere the Falcon Champion’s aura spiked-it focused on Lucivar and pressed him down to the ground, causing the stone floors to crack.

Seems like it wanted to kill Lucivar- with its aura alone.

Despite the overwhelmingly bad odds, Lucivar blinked his eyes.

He commanded the scarabs to merge together and activate all of their effects to help him.

Even though his move barely helped in the face of absolute power-Lucivar scowled and got into his fighting stance.

If there was no way around this then he would face it head-on-with only his mettle.

As seconds passed, the tension crackled in the air.

It was a tense face-off before the battle.

A peculiar flash crossed his eyes as he kept eye contact with the Falcon Champion.

‘Come on then,’ He taunted inwardly.

‘show me what you got!’ Just then, the world around him began to shake under the Falcon Champions’ might, and his heart pounded, in response.

But as he was about to make his move, and strike first, the aura that pressed on the air around him suddenly vanished.

Lucivar tilted his head a little in confusion when the Falcon Champion retracted his aura.

Upon doing that, it lingered on Lucivar for a few more seconds before finally turning away.

“You passed, Blessed Oracle…” Sutekh suddenly intervened.

Once again, sweat covered his entire body as sustaining the Falcon Champion’s aura was no easy task, but when he heard the words, that came out of Sutekh’s mouth-a surge of relief, brewed inside and he could finally breathe again.

Lucivar didn’t answer, he watched as the Falcon Champion went back into his sarcophagus.

And once he was inside, it was closed shut again.

It was only then did he turned to Sutekh.

“I’ve fixed you,” Sutekh continued, his celestial eyes narrowing.

“now you’re truly ready” “Is that the last trial?

It’s finished now?” Lucivar asked again.

But as opposed to answering his question, Sutekh flicked His fingers.

SWOOSH!

Almost instantly after he did that, the desolate desert erupted into motion, churning into a violent vortex.

Lucivar’s head darted left and right-frantically trying to make sense of the chaos, only to realize he was standing at the very eye of the storm.

He couldn’t even do anything as red sand began to swirl circle him.

Lucivarr was trapped at the center and before long he hissed and that hiss quickly turned into a scream as the red sand infiltrated his body.

It felt like a thousand burning ants were inside of him, walking inside his blood vessels, muscles, and bones.

As opposed to strengthening his physique, the red sand was scorching him into ashes.

It was a slow and painful process.

Lucivar looked at his hands and saw them turning into ashes.

Not stopping at that, the red sand gnawed at his flesh, with relentless ferocity and he soon lost his vision and vocal chord-silencing his screams into a haunting-voiceless agony.

He was once again tortured, now with the excruciating pain of burning.

“Use my power well, Blessed Oracle.” Sutekh’s voice echoed.

“Duat awaits for your failure” Just as His voice rang, Lucivar was reduced to nothing but ashes.

He disappeared from the Sutekh’s realm.

…

“RAARGGHKK!!!” Lucivar shouted at the top of his lungs.

Being kicked out of the realm through being burned to ashes was even more painful than the vicious death by crushing, his pain nerves were stimulated to the zenith, by the searing burn, and that was the worst pain Lucivar had ever felt before.

Even though he saw that he was back in his room, he screamed a couple of seconds longer.

His nerves were still feeling the phantom pain from the burn.

Sutekh didn’t give him a warning, He was even too arrogant to explain what the last trial was.

It was a test to see if Lucivar was still wavering in front of the strong.

He didn’t and because of that, he passed.

Once his mind and body realized that he was no longer inside Sutekh’s realm, Lucivar panted-he began calming down.

Looking around the room, he found that he was completely alone, even Sabrina was not here.

Grabbing his head, Lucivar sighed, “I must’ve passed out once I got teleported,” “How is it?” “Waah~!” Lucivar was startled, flinching by flapping his hands weirdly when he heard a voice.

On the side, lying on the bed was Sha who seemed to be amused.

“Of course, you’re happy to see me suffer,” He clicked his tongue in displeasure, the smirk on her face was undoubtedly directed to earlier.

Sha was definitely watching from the shadows, as he got bullied by the trials.

“I’m supposed to be on your side, remember?” “I can’t help it,” Sha giggled, finding his flushed face funny.

“But at least you succeeded” Just as Sha said that Lucivar’s spine straightened suddenly.

A torrent of information tears into his mind, bringing along the information of his new ability.

Lucivar’s eyes glowed bronze for a second before he returned back to normal again.

Exhaling roughly, his body slumped as his mind adjusted to the new information.

“Triune Scarab…” Lucivar muttered whisperingly.

Upon being accepted by Sutekh, he obtained the Triune Scarab ability which as he tested before in Sutekh’s realm, summoned a black scarab that has three aspects, or modes that brought along different effects to his physique.

Similar to the Greedy Grasp ability, the Triune Scarab ability used no ether.

But it used his stamina instead.

More importantly, casting this ability would use twenty Ego Points, Lucvarr wouldn’t be able to use any ability simultaneously, while he was using the Triune Scarab.

Or at least, not until he became stronger and grew his second wing.

‘Let me test it out…’ Lucivar pondered.

it would be taboo to not instantly try out a newly acquired ability.

Lucivar wanted to use it instantly-but stopped as a sharp pain stabbed into his chest.

“Tch…” He clicked his tongue in displeasure.

“My body is still too exhausted to try it out” Just then, Lucivar noticed that Sha was still looking at him intently.

“What are you looking at?

Is it that fun to see me hurting?” “If you’re done digesting your new ability, check your wrist” Upon hearing this, Lucivar raised an eyebrow and looked down at his wrists.

He turned his attention to his right wrist, seeing that there was a weird tattoo there, a sharp, fang-like design-starting at the edge of his wrist-and curved inward.

Its glossy bronze tip, rested just above his veins.

It shimmered faintly, radiating an ethereal energy that was exactly like Sutekh’s.

Because of that, he was the only one who could see this energy much like the dark trails of energy, that came from his main Angel bloodline.

Looking at this tattoo, Lucivar glanced, at Sha who seemed excited about it.

“What is this?” He asked questioningly.

As opposed to answering, Sha instructed, “Try willing it to activate” Lucivar doesn’t know what to expect from doing that but he did it anyway, also curious as to what this tattoo could be.

But once he willed the tattoo to activate, a bronze energy shot out and went to his palm.

It summoned a very dark bronze fang that was half the length of his arm.

Just from seeing that alone, Lucivar could tell that it was of celestial prowess.

Something that a mortal shouldn’t possess.

“It’s the Fang of Ankh, an artifact from my Lord,” Sha replied, her eyes starry.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar nodded in affirmation.

He got Gleipnir’s Echo from Loki back then-and it was very useful.

Now, Sutekh had also given him an artifact called the Fang of Ankh.

“What does it do?” Lucivar asked-he was also excited to see the artifact’s power.

“An artifact befitting of my Lord, it has many abilities-but there’s one that it was known for,” Sha said before looking over Lucivar’s dagger, Sabrina placed neatly, on the side.

“Grab your dagger and will the fang to it” Lucivar climbed out of bed and did exactly as Sha told him.

He grabbed his dagger and willed the Fang of Ankh towards the dagger.

Under his gaze-he saw the artifact turning into a bronze goo and enveloping the dagger in its entirety.

Lucivar watched as the goo molded and became one with the dagger, and once the process finished-taking only a few seconds, he gasped at the product.

“Isn’t this cheating?” Lucivar commented with an acute smile.