Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 178

Chapter 178: Caught in the Crowd Chapter 178: Caught in the Crowd Upon taking care of the blue dungeon mission, Lucivar instantly told Sabrina to resume her task.

He already told her to keep an eye on Axel and she did.

Even though tracing the academy grounds without an outfit made her eye-catching, none of the students knew that Sabrina was his personal maid.

Axel didn’t know so he wouldn’t suspect Sabrina-as long as she wasn’t making it too obvious.

Now that effort has paid off a little.

“How close exactly?” Lucivar asked, his eyes gleaming with a greedy glint.

Pondering for a second, recalling what she had seen, Sabrina then focused back on Lucivar again with a firm look as if there was no doubt in the words she was going to say, “Very close, like couple-close.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d become a couple” As soon as he heard that, Lucivar placed his hands against the wooden wardrobe and tilted his head down.

He seemed to be in deep contemplation.

‘Hmm, who should I choose?

Who should I choose…?

Should I go with Thalia’s father or Drake?’ He pondered inside his head, needing to come to a conclusion as soon as possible.

‘Elira does not seem to be lying earlier-but on the other hand, I could finish off the Feradith Family for good.

Decisions… decisions… Let’s weigh the pros and cons’ Lucivar contemplated for a full minute with his eyes closed.

In a battle between two lions like this, he could position himself to reap the benefits.

But the risk in a case such as this has always been picking the wrong side.

Nevertheless, despite the risk, he has to choose a side since without any risk, there will be no reward.

And since he now has a showdown against Caldaros in the South Hues Tournament, he also could not afford to stay passive.

He needed to make his move and reach at least three-star Acolyte rank if he wanted to have any chance against Caldaros.

Just from their exchange alone, Lucivar knew that Caldaros was a five-star Acolyte-rank Hybrid.

If he couldn’t reach the third star, he would have no chance.

“Okay… Let’s stick with the one I knew closely,” Lucivar nodded and resumed changing his clothes.

Once he was done, he grabbed his dagger and put it inside a duffel bag along with one uniform.

“Can I come with you too?” Sabrina asked as he grabbed the door handle.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar stopped and glanced over his shoulder, “No, you have your task back here.

Keep watching this Axel guy, I want to know who he’s working for.

Since he’s close with Elira now, I am pretty sure he would make contact with his employer soon” As he said that, Lucivar opened the door and left the room without waiting for Sabrina to answer.

Having the permission ready in hand, Lucivar made his way to the entrance of the cave.

Once there, he held the paper up to the guards and walked out-none of them could stop him this time.

Seeing the faces of the guards, Lucivar smiled inwardly.

‘Huh, it’s real good to have the overseer as a friend’ He thought, cracking a joke to himself.

“Lucivar!” A voice called out for him from behind.

It was Leandra-she ran to the entrance when she saw Lucivar was heading there but she was a tad bit too late as Lucivar was already too far away.

She tried calling her and stepping out of the cave but the three guards there barred her way.

“Can I go through for a second?

I only wanted to call him” She pleaded with puppy eyes.

But the guards stood firm, “Show me your permission, and then you can step out” “Just this one time, please?” “No.” Being rejected for the second time, Leandra could only bite her lower lip in frustration.

‘Eugh… I should’ve talked with him days ago,’ She regretted inside.

Even though she wanted to talk with Lucivar and confess that she wanted to understand him more, she couldn’t bring herself to meet with him and stare into his eyes after what had happened between them, she didn’t know how to behave in front of him.

Now that she has prepared herself to talk, Lucivar left going God knows where.

‘No,’ Leandra shook her head as she made her way back inside.

‘Instead of begging for his attention, I should pull his attention to me, somehow… I don’t really know how to do that but I know how to start.

Just wait for me, Lucivar’ … A couple of hours later.

Lucivar stepped out of a taxi and looked at the massive building in front of him.

It was the mall he and Thalia went to.

‘His secretary said that I could come by their office to meet with him in person but that would be me stepping into his territory, it’s not neutral but here…’ Lucivar pondered as he inhaled a deep breath.

‘It is neutral enough and I even know around the place’ Contract-wise, the Trading Union’s initial offer was a lot better than the other houses and clans.

From what he reads, they offered him 100 supreme coins as a downpayment.

If he won the South Hues Tournament, he would gain another 100 hundred and a lifetime discount if he ever dealt with the Trading Union, a 5% discount.

Such a thing would be beneficial for him for his growth but there’s still room for more.

Such as a rare and banned poison that would work on Vampire Hybrids called the White Blood.

Beating Caldaros is absolute and Lucivar would go to any length to achieve that.

Nodding his head, Lucivar ascended the staircase and headed for the lobby.

He came an hour early so that he could secure the area in case the Trading Union was going to test him.

As he neared the main lobby, he was stunned at the sight of a crowd.

Since it was Saturday, the mall was packed to the brim with families, couples, and friend groups, walking in and out of the mall.

Lucivar shrugged his shoulders and continued, squeezing through the crowd, which was busy with their own things.

Just then, however, as he was about to reach the entrance-someone grabbed his wrist.

Lucivar’s head snapped to his behind but he couldn’t see the person grabbing him.

He only saw a hand holding onto his.

Following that, his eyes widened when he noticed a delicate amount of ether seeping from this unknown hand.

Almost instantly, Lucivar pulled his hand to get away but he was too late.

It happened in an instant, his entire world shifted.

It was almost as if he was absorbed into a wormhole and appeared someplace else.

Once he blinked and recovered, he instantly yanked his hand away from the figure in front of him, an old man-who seemed to be blind and leaped away.

Alerted, he looked around the place, noticing that he was in some kind of abandoned parking garage.

‘Shit, I got teleported?!’ Lucivar’s mind raced.

‘Who?

Caldaros playing dirty tricks?

Callista?

Who?!’ As soon as he thought of that, five more men appeared around him.

All of them were wearing black and looked like tough guys with hands strapped with gloves, tight-fitting shirts, muscular arms, and even a mean-looking face.

Lucivar’s senses expanded and he found these five guys were Hybrids, most of them at the five-star Neophyte-rank-while one, the arrogant-looking guy with a mohawk is an Acolyte-rank Hybrid.

“I don’t know who you guys are but you don’t want to do this,” Lucivar declared.

He straightened his posture and dropped the duffel bag to the ground.

Instead of grabbing his dagger, he decided to raise his fists as these guys also didn’t have a weapon.

Or at least, no blade weapons-some of them were using enchanted brass knuckles though.

Exhaling through his nose, Lucivar activated his Triune Scarab ability.

Almost instantly, without the user of a single drop of ether-a scarab tattoo appeared on his forehead.

Finding that Lucivar was now ready, the five men surged forward with a chuckle in their throats as they closed in on Lucivar.

His golden eyes flared with cold intensity, locking onto the man at the front-a towering figure with sunglasses masking his expression.

Knowing exactly what to do, Lucivar lunged, his movements fluid yet explosive.

The scarab turned green as he sidestepped a lightning-fast punch, weaving effortlessly to the side.

In one smooth motion, he launched an uppercut aimed at the man’s chin.

Since the timing was impeccable, Lucivar was confident with this punch.

But leaned back just in time, evading the strike by a hair’s breadth.

Lucivar’s eyes narrowed when he saw this, impressed, ‘His reaction time is insane’ Not going to let go of this offense with three more men behind him, Lucivar grabbed the man’s stretched arm to hold him in place and drove a knee into the man’s liver.

Caught off guard, the man crumpled-a guttural groan escaped his mouth.

But this made Lucivar feel nothing, there was no time for him to linger.

Lucivar glanced over his shoulders as two more closed in from behind.

He ducked under their attacks in time and struck low, his elbows crashing into their crotches.

Both men dropped instantly, their faces twisted in agony.

In a battle, attacking the vital points was mandatory especially when outnumbered like this.

One needs to keep isolating the battle to face no more than two simultaneously.

Pivoting around, Lucivar found the fourth was already coming at him.

Unlike the others, this one came at him with a flurry of punches and kicks-each move calculated and sharp.

Both of them took on more space, the missed strikes cracking the pillars or walls.

But then, the fourth man made a mistake.

Lucivar blocked a roundhouse kick aimed for his head and grabbed the leg.

His muscles barely straining, “O, oh… A big mistake” He sneered.

Just then, the scarab turned red-changing from amplifying Lucivar’s agility to strength.

Bam!

Surprised, the fourth man’s head was whipped backward when Lucivar’s forehead slammed hard into his nose with a sickening crunch.

Blood sprayed as the man staggered back but couldn’t with one of his legs locked by Lucivar.

Realizing that it was the end, Lucivar turned and knelt on one knee.

He lifted the fourth man effortlessly and slammed him into the concrete.

Once he did that, however, a hard kick landed on his back and sent him hurling across the ground.

Lucivar stood back up, his gaze fixed on the last man with a mohawk.

“Alright, big man.

Come at me” Lucivar taunted.

Cracking his neck and punching together his knuckles, the mohawk man stepped forward cockily and winding up for a punch.

His ether, brilliant silvery blue swirled around his right arm.

On the other hand, Lucivar also stepped forward, winding for a punch-by charging ether, and three God strands were thrown into his right fist.

Upon reaching range, both of them threw a punch and their punch connected perfectly.

Bam!

However, unlike what the mohawk man expected, something surprising happened.

His eyes widened when he saw his fist broken and his arm bent in an unnatural way upon collision.

Raising his gaze to look at Lucivar, his pupils dilated as Lucivar’s fist drilled into his stomach.

Crash!

Surprisingly, the mohawk man was sent rolling and crashing onto the wall across.

As that happened, Lucivar turned to the pillar on the side.

 “Come out, I know you’re hiding there” “Wow… you exceeded my expectations.

I now knew how you did what you did”