Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 158

Chapter 158: Two Against One Chapter 158: Two Against One Having no time to idle, Lucivar poked his head out of the room and checked the corridor.

It was clear, nobody was around.

“I’m going to distract Leandra,” Lucivar said, glancing over to Ravenna-who was still inside, leaning against the wall until her legs recovered.

“Don’t take too long.

I don’t know what you are going to do but I can only buy a little bit of time” “Go,” Ravenna nodded.

“this shouldn’t take long and a moment is all I need” Nodding his head, Lucivar closed the door behind him and went to his room.

He turned the doorknob and pushed the door open, only to see that Sabrina was nowhere to be seen.

“Tch!

Where did she go?” Lucivar clicked his tongue-he needed Sabrina since she could buy a lot more time by acting clumsy.

But she wasn’t available.

“I guess it’s all on me now.

I’ll scold her when she gets back” Closing back the door, Lucivar strode along the corridor quickly.

Since Ravenna managed to coax Leandra to inform the others, Lucivar knew where she was heading.

Caldaros and the other hunters have no say in this since they are the ones who close the dungeon.

So Leandra was either informing Nerissa or Mirel.

Lucivar didn’t know if Mirel had already come back yet but Nerissa must be here.

She was also the closest, her room was only a couple doors away so he went to knock on it.

However, no matter how much he knocked, there was no answer.

‘Are they hiding from me inside?’ Lucivar pondered dubiously, Leandra could’ve told Nerissa to not open the door for him and kept silent.

Of course he was tempted to bust through the door but he stopped mid-way.

‘No, Nerissa would rather talk it out with me rather than hide from me.

She must not be in her room’ Finding that it was unlikely, Lucivar headed downstairs.

But at the same time, Ravenna walked out of her room and their gazes met.

Just from his look alone, she could tell that he couldn’t find Nerissa and Leandra.

If not in their room then they must be outside somewhere.

Considering that the city was quite big with many places to visit, finding them would be hard, Lucivar did not have anything to locate them-other than waiting in the hotel until they came back.

But that was not a problem for Ravenna.

Almost instantly, red markings appeared around her eyes as she activated her Predator Oculus ability.

Ravenna went to the nearest window and scanned across the city.

“Can your eyes even look through stones?” Lucivar approached from behind.

Upon hearing this, Ravenna shook her head, “No, but my Predator Oculus-has a lot of utility usage.

It could also mark people as prey which would allow me to locate them wherever they are within a couple of miles radius” “You marked Leandra and Nerissa as prey?” Lucivar raised an eyebrow.

Realizing what he meant, Ravenna waved her hand, “It’s not like that.

I was testing my ability and they were the closest ones to me so I tried it on them.

Besides-having to know exactly where they are at all times will come in handy at bad times” Despite considering what she said bullshit, Lucivar nodded his head.

He then rubbed his chin, amazed by her ability, ‘If I absorb her life essence, can I get that ability?’ Finding that her ability was quite powerful, he deliberated to take it.

It would be extremely helpful if he had that kind of ability.

Even though the Greedy Grasp was extremely strong, there were limitations because of his low mastery, which was quite annoying.

For instance, in this case, Lucivar would need to fight Ravenna and stop her from moving while he used the Greedy Grasp ability to absorb her life essence.

Doing that would be quite impossible, knowing that absorbing her life essence would take a long time.

Until now, Lucivar only absorbed two abilities-one is from a low-rank Hybrid and the other is a rat.

He needed to upgrade his mastery before he could absorb abilities from strong Hybrids.

“You’re thinking of killing me and taking my ability, aren’t you?” Ravenna suddenly asked.

She didn’t even turn to look at Lucivar when she said that.

On the other hand, Lucivar was taken aback, he didn’t expect Ravenna to guess him that precisely.

“How did you guess that?” He gasped in shock.

“Can you also read minds?” “Hah!

I wish.” Ravenna giggled.

“It’s not that I can read minds but I can sense negative energy” “You could deduce what I was thinking only through sensing my negative energy?” “Well, yes.

A little bit” “Fascinating…” “And I also overheard what you said to that proselyte before I got out” Upon hearing this, Lucivar’s face froze before he smacked his lips in annoyance.

Back when he was still in the dungeon, right before the Rock Sentinel’s last attack, he pinned the proselyte down-and said that he liked the proselyte’s stone manipulation-and aimed to take it.

That is where Ravenna got the idea.

It’s not that she could read negative energy that precisely.

Realizing that Lucivar caught up, she giggled in amusement again before pointing ahead.

“There,” She said, pointing at a bunch of houses a few streets ahead.

Seeing this, Lucivar looked at her again, “Do you expect me to know where just by you pointing at a bunch of random houses?

Do you think I could look through the houses like you?

Did I pound your brains out last night?” “I wasn’t finished!” Ravenna rolled her eyes.

“Leandra is in the main market and Nerissa is there too” Upon hearing this, Lucivar nodded his head before the duo came down and rushed to the market.

Both of them walked past Caldaros and the other academy hunters, who were relaxing in the lounge, playing, and watching something on their phones, and exited the hotel.

But based on their conversations, it seemed they already knew they would return to the academy today.

Leandra must’ve informed them already.

Just then, Caldaros lifted up his gaze and noticed them rushing somewhere.

Seeing this, his eyes squinted-fixing at Lucivar.

But Lucivar didn’t see this, he rushed out with Ravenna by his side.

Along the way, Ravenna split up with him-going in a completely different direction.

“Is she heading to the main entrance of the city?” Lucivar frowned.

“What is she planning?” She hadn’t told him what she was going to do to stop Leandra’s plan but he trusted her.

Whatever it was, Lucivar would trust her.

‘All I need to do is distract Leandra,’ Lucivar nodded and quickened his pace, focusing on the objective.

It didn’t take long for Lucivar to find Leandra.

However, by the time he found her, she already talked with Nerissa and was heading somewhere.

He managed to catch her attention in time.

Noticing Lucivar ahead, Leandra paused in her steps.

Both of them looked at each other through the passing crowds, making strong eye contact without breaking it for half a minute.

Lucivar was the first one to break the eye contact and he turned his gaze to the side at a small merchant stall that sells drinks, and even provides seats for the customers.

Lucivar went there with slow steps, nobody recognized him with the hooded jacket on from last night.

He ordered two drinks and sat down, placing them both on the table.

Soon, Leandra came from behind and took a seat beside him.

It was an invitation and she bites it.

Remaining silent for a second, Lucivar sipped on his orange juice calmly under Leandra’s gaze.

She has a mixed feeling now inside her eyes upon looking at Lucivar.

“Did you come here with Nerissa?

To accompany her to the market?” He asked lightly.

Upon hearing this, Leandra narrowed her gaze and answered, “Yes, Nerissa is shy and since we’ll go home soon, she really wanted to go check the market, and buy some souvenirs.

You know, for Master Tobias” Lucivar glanced at her, noticing her cheeky play of words.

It was clear that she hadn’t noticed that he knew about what she was planning.

Chuckling lightly, he gazed ahead again, “Is this how you show you’re giving up on stopping me?” “Maybe…” Leandra answered, sighing deeply, and took a sip of the orange juice herself.

Despite trying to hide it, she was certainly stoked inside, the corner of her lips almost curved upward-multiple times already.

And for some reason, her elation-and cockiness from being or rather, thinking that she was ahead of him was a cute sight to see.

Even Lucivar couldn’t hide his smile.

“Why don’t you get to it?” She suddenly said.

“I know you invited me here to say something” “So I can’t ask you for company now?” Lucivar asked back cheekily.

“You still can, even after everything.

But not now, I know you wanted to say something” “Well, you’re right about that.

I wanted to ask you a question that might lead to another question” “Ask away, I’m listening” Upon hearing this, Lucivar nodded before he pivoted his body to face Leandra.

He bent down, elbows on his knees, and looked up at the confused Leandra.

“Do you like me?” He suddenly asked.

Naturally, this question caught Leandra off guard-she did not expect him to ask something like this when the situation between them was tense.

But Leandra quickly snapped out of it, averting her gaze away, “No-I only care about you since we are a family.

Nothing more and nothing less” “I see…” Lucivar nodded, averting his gaze too.

“Then shouldn’t family stick together?” “Family also pulls one back into the right lane,” Leandra retorted instantly.

Lucivar chuckled when he heard this, Leandra is headstrong.

“You do know that by doing this, you’re pushing me away, right?” He finally stated.

But this made Leandra snap, “No, I’m certainly not pushing you away.

Once I’m done, you will be yourself again.

Once I’m done, you will break out of this-dark influence.

Once I’m done…” She paused, looking at Lucivar intently.

“you will be thanking me” Once she said that Leandra stood up and left without looking back.

Lucivar was left sitting alone, he was rooted on his spot-his body extremely stiff.

Splash!

Just then, the glass he was holding shattered, splattering the orange juice everywhere.

However, he didn’t seem to care.

“Thanking her?” Lucivar raised his gaze, exposing his bulging, bloodthirsty eyes.

“I will loathe her instead” Soon, the day was slowly reaching its end.

Once the night neared, Caldaros, the other academy hunters, and Nerissa were already in the lobby.

All of them are ready to depart as requested by Professor Aeldric.

Nerissa looked left and right-a sense of unease dwelling inside of her as she could not find the others, not even one of them.

She was the only one left from their group.

Even Caldaros and the hunters were asking her where the others were.

She couldn’t give an answer, she also didn’t know where they’d gone to.

But she knew that they were still here, their belongings were still in their rooms.

Just then, however, Nerissa’s eyes lit up when she saw Leandra stepping into the lobby.

Her expression was exhausted and discouraged.

“Leandra, where did you go?

Where are the others?” Nerissa rushed to her and asked.

Upon hearing this, Leandra wanted to say something but stopped.

She glanced over her shoulder and found both bus drivers coming towards them.

Entering the lobby-one of the bus drivers scanned the group before he announced, “There has been a mistake, we’re not going to depart today.

Go back to your rooms, tomorrow we’ll depart.

Our schedule will return back to normal since we’re missing one person” “What…?” Nerissa muttered in confusion.

But when she turned to look at Leandra, she was surprised to see Leandra devastated.