Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 194

Chapter 194: Reveal of the Replacement Chapter 194: Reveal of the Replacement Axel’s heart tightened inside his chest.

He saw Elira smiling devilishly, the kind of smile that she never wore or will ever wear.

It was an unhinged one.

However, as her eyes changed color into bright golden-he realized who he was facing again.

“L- Lucivar…?

Is that you?” A mumble escaped his lips.

Even though his mind hadn’t fully grasped who this Elira was, that name already came out of his lips.

Realizing that something was wrong, the Goblin Hybrid moved to grab Elira but he was a second too late.

Viciously, Elira grabbed the jaw of the gangster to his right and ripped it completely before freeing herself, landing a safe distance away, several steps behind Axel.

A golden sphere dropped to the ground from the gangster’s death but Elira’s focus was on Axel.

“You should’ve accepted the deal I offered,” She suddenly said, tilting her head a little while looking at Axel condescendingly-as if he was nothing more than a piece of human trash.

“At least that way, you are on my side and a penny richer” Upon hearing this, Axel turned around-his expression twisted in anger and humiliation.

‘He’s a Harpy Hybrid, the academy’s data stated that clearly so how come he has mimicry ability?!’ He thought inside as his mind reeled with confusion.

‘A perfect mimicry, even, I can’t tell the difference.

Also, when did he swap with Elira?

Is it from the start?

No, that can’t be.

If that’s the case, I should’ve been able to tell that something was off’ ‘It’s at that moment…’ Axel’s eyes slightly wide.

‘It was when they entered that emergency staircase!’ Other than that time, there was no way Lucivar could’ve swapped Elira out.

And before knowing that he was planning to betray, Elira wouldn’t want to be swapped willingly.

“Just why…” Axel grinds his teeth, his eyes glaring with unrelenting flame of wrath.

“Just why are you always getting in my way?!

I never planned anything bad against you, I stayed away from you!

So why, why are you doing this?!” Elira slowly straightened her back, looking at Axel dead in the eyes.

Then, her eyes became hollow and her uncanny smile spread wider on her face, “Because I want to” “What…?” Axel was taken aback.

“Because… you want to?” He couldn’t believe that his effort, his brother’s life-all of that were destroyed because of that reason.

Because of such a stupid and unreasonable reason.

“Then pretending to be Elira and asking me that, asking me of my reason, is that because you wanted to?” Axel asked again, his ether flaring, responding to his-bubbling anger.

“Is that why?!

To see me suffer for your damn amusement?!” Hearing this, Elira chuckled in scorn.

“No… Not because I want to,” She shook her head.

“But because I’m curious how Elira would react” Just as he said that a figure emerged-it was the real Elira.

She wore a glowing emerald ring on her ring finger, the Gleipnir’s Echo.

In order to perfect the swap, Lucivar gave his ring to Sabrina and Sabrina made her wear it.

The Green Shroud ability of that ring suppressed Elira’s aura.

Not even the Goblin Hybrid could sense her easily while she was wearing that ring.

Elira walked out from her hiding, looking at Axel with a devastated gaze-one that clearly displayed her heartbreak.

She took a couple of steps stiffly, tears streaming down her face, “Money…?

You did this…

Played me, and put on a fake face-all of that only for money…?” Despite trying to be strong, her face was teetering on the verge of breaking.

All of the times Axel consoled her, listened to her problems-and whispered to her that everything was fine.

All of that was a facade to gain her trust, for the sake of money.

“If it’s about money, why didn’t y-” “He extorted your family!” Axel shouted defensively-his voice hoarse with desperation.

“Lucivar extorted money from your family.

I saw the revised offer, I saw how much he was going to get!” He continued, looking at Elira right in the eyes.

“Do you really think your Mother would agree to help me after giving out so much?!

Had it not been for him, I wouldn’t need to resort to this!

But now, I have no choice, okay?!” Observing this situation unfolded, the Goblin Hybrid’s face darkened.

He then stepped forward, his steps heavy and forceful.

Upon reaching Axel’s behind, he raised his massive and muscular arm and swatted him away.

Crash!

Axel’s eyes bulged as blood burst from his mouth, creating messy arcs.

His internal organs rattled and his bones broke from the impact.

“Do you think this is a fucking love story?!” The Goblin Hybrid barked, breathing roughly like a bull as he couldn’t believe this drama unfolded on his very important night.

“I don’t know who the fuck you are, but that girl, is mine!!

Go kill that thing and get the girl!” Almost instantly, two gangsters rushed towards Lucivar who was reverting to his own form.

Smiling inwardly, Lucivar drew his dagger and coated it with the Fang of Ankh’s power.

Swoosh!

Making a cleaving arc, an energy wave flew like a blade and decapitated both gangsters in mid-air.

Blood squirted out of their headless bodies, raining down on Lucivar.

But at the same time, Lucivar’s eyes narrowed when he saw seven green coins land around him.

He frowned in confusion but all of those coins suddenly exploded with energy, turning into seven small and green creatures that climbed and bit into him.

Lucivar, caught off guard, tries to break free but he catches sight of the Goblin Hybrid running past him “Shit!” Lucivar cursed as deactivated the Fang of Ankh and used Greedy Grasp.

Almost instantly, these seven ether goblins were drained-converted into God strands.

Fueling two God strands into his legs, he dashed like a bullet at the Goblin Hybrid.

Noticing his move, the Goblin Hybrid suddenly reached out his hand-and grabbed Lucivar’s body and stopped his momentum instantly.

Such strength caught him off guard and before he knew it, he got his body slammed into the ground.

“I should kill you right here,” the Goblin Hybrid said and tightened his grip with a crushing force.

He gripped so hard, intending to crush Lucivar’s body completely.

However, that doesn’t work.

A smile crept on Lucivar’s face as he grabbed the Goblin Hybrid’s index finger and with a brutal motion, he bent it all the way until it touched the back of the Goblin Hybrid’s hand.

Such a brute force came as a shock and forced a painful howl from the Goblin Hybrid.

Gritting his jagged fangs, the Goblin Hybrid wanted to throw Lucivar away but he couldn’t.

Lucivar held onto his hand without any intention of letting go.

Furious, he threw a bunch of green coins at Elira, summoning a dozen of ether goblins.

Elira wanted to defend herself but she was distraught, her emotions were still everywhere from Axel’s betrayal, and her vision was still clouded in tears.

Seeing this, Lucivar tried to break free but he couldn’t, he couldn’t help her.

In that three-second window, his options were extremely limited.

“Elira!

Snap out of it and defend yourself!” He shouted, snapping Elira back to reality.

But it was too late.

Graah!

Just then, as one of the ether goblins was about to bite into her-a flash of yellow lightning appeared.

Blitz!

Lucivar was blinded for a moment but with a blink, he saw the goblin was cut in half.

Following that, the other ether goblins were also destroyed on a whim.

A figure appeared in front of Elira, the one who protected her, in time.

Flashes of yellow lightning could be seen dancing across his form as he looked at Lucivar firmly.

Lucivar charged four God strands into his dagger and slashed the Goblin Hybrid who was also stunned by the man’s appearance.

His cheek was sliced open as he got hurled away, crashing into multiple cars before slamming against the wall.

Once he did that, Lucivar climbed to his feet and glanced at the familiar man.

“I must say, you managed to surprise me,” Lucivar said, squinting his eyes.

“Mirel…” “Don’t act like we’re a family,” Mirel suddenly said, casting a confident smile.

“At this moment, I am not Mirel but Elira’s bodyguard, the Feradith Family’s bodyguard,” He paused, letting the words seep into Lucivar’s head.

“Your replacement…” Upon hearing this, Lucivar’s eyes widened-his shock was palpable.

But then, a humorous laughter escaped his lips.

“I’m a fool to think that it was Caldaros,” He said amidst his laughter before looking at Mirel again.

“It was you who made the Feradith Family pull their contract on me, you the one who replaced me, you the one who tailed me from morning.

Is this your way of showing me you’re better than me?” “One of the ways, yes,” Mirel turned his gaze away.

“But this is not a good time to talk” As he said that, two gangsters appeared from behind-attempting to grab Elira.

In the next second, Lucivar and Mirel moved like phantoms-swatting them away with a simple slap.

Boom!

Both of them were trashed, out for the count.

“Bastards!” the Goblin Hybrid climbed back to his feet-as he straightened his broken index finger, his eyes glaring at the two people who were getting in his way.

“Both of you have some balls to get in my way but no matter… Tonight will be your last night breathing!” As he said that, Sabrina appeared from the emergency staircase and rushed to Lucivar.

She was wounded but it didn’t her too much.

“Master, a lot more people were coming up,” She whispered in trouble.

“There are more of them” “More…?” Lucivar frowned.

Hearing what she said from afar, the Goblin Hybrid laughed.

“Do you really think-that I’m not prepared for something like this?” He mocked, grinning from ear to ear like a maniac.

“I’m kidnapping the eldest daughter of the Green Tempest Clan’s previous leader and you think this is all I brought?!” Just then, the sound of rushing footsteps could be heard.

Lucivar and the others glanced at the ramp and saw a crowd of people reaching their floor.

Each one of them was a gangster and a Hybrid-a bunch of outlaws.

“About a hundred of them,” Mirel muttered, scanning the area as they were surrounded from all sides.

“It was not their number that was worrying,” Lucivar muttered as he nudged his chin ahead at another monster emerging from the emergency staircase.

Instead of donning a goblin’s face, this one was more like a lizard with brass-colored scales.

“We have two juiced-up Acolyte-rank Hybrids to deal with” Hearing their conversation, Elira shuddered.

She has only entered a dungeon once and she has never killed anything or anyone before.

So this situation was nerve-wracking for her.

“Are we going to be fine…?” She mumbled in between Lucivar and Mirel.

Lucivar has her front while Mirel has her back.

Upon hearing this, both Lucivar and Mirel glanced over their shoulders to look at her.

Both of them then smirked the same kind of smirk, a confident smirk.

“Fine?

We’re going to be more than fine, this is nothing” “Just shut up and stand there like a good little high-profile trophy you are, we’ll take care of this”