Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 212

Chapter 212: Second Vestal Chapter 212: Second Vestal Being reckless for the second time, Zibbo was done.

Too ashamed to keep on living.

It was best for him to die right now as being near Lucivar was making him feel embarrassed.

He wasn’t good enough to even pursue Lucivar’s life and he understands it very well now.

In Lucivar’s story, he wasn’t worth more than a few chapters, destined to lose badly from the very start.

Looking at Zibbo in amusement, accepting his fate to die, Lucivar smiled inwardly as he was expecting there to be a fight.

A last struggle before he finally killed Zibbo.

But that wasn’t what happened, instead, Zibbo surrendered out of shame.

“At least before I die, can you tell me how you got to me?” Zibbo uttered his final request.

Hearing this, Lucivar nodded, “A Diamond-class spell called Soul Warden, I marked you with it” “I see,” Zibbo nodded, smiling in ridicule.

“A tracker spell” As opposed to ending it, Lucivar sat back down on the chair and crossed his legs again, “Tell me, what did you do in the last couple of days while I’m imprisoned?” His eyes narrowed.

“From the looks of it, your bad karma has increased” “I vented on a few people for losing to you,” Zibbo replied, still kneeling.

Lucivar smirked as the glow in his eyes turned from golden to bronze, surprising Zibbo greatly.

“Seems like even near-death, you listened to my words.

Good, that’s good…” Lucivar rasped, a peculiar glint crossing his eyes as a thought came to mind.

He liked Zibbo and it would be a waste to kill him right now.

“Be grateful, you’re in luck!” “Hmm…?” Zibbo tilted his head in confusion as he watched Lucivar approach him again.

He watched as a dark bronze fang that exuded a sinister aura appeared in Lucivar’s hand suddenly.

Once Lucivar stood right in front of Zibbo, he extended his arm and activated the Fang of Ankh.

Swoosh!

In that instant, Zibbo looked left-and right as he saw the blood of his slaughtered men begin to glow and tremble weakly.

Gradually, the blood began to float and shot towards the Fang of Ankh, gathering every single drop of blood into it.

Like tendrils of a malevolent blood creature, the blood created a vortex as it was siphoned into the fang.

As soon as the last drop of blood was absorbed, Lucivar grinned as he tilted the fang.

He poured Zibbo with the corrupted blood.

Psshh!!

“Raarghh!

Wh- What is this?!” Zibbo exclaimed the moment the blood touched him.

Shocked, he exclaimed in sheer agony as the blood was steaming hot and sticky but Rex didn’t stop.

More and more blood was poured onto Zibbo and under his own gaze, he could see the blood turning black in color as it melted his skin, tendons, and muscles.

He was horrified at what he was seeing.

He even cast Lucivar a pleading glance, begging him to stop this torture.

But it sparked nothing from Lucivar.

In mere seconds, he was drowned in the blood-his scream echoed throughout the spacious room.

Hiding behind the scene was the man, he was completely horrified.

Even though he knew that there were students with enormous talent out there who could easily defeat Zibbo, he never knew an academy hunter who possessed such strength.

Mainly, those who did were quickly promoted to students.

So to think there was an academy hunter of Lucivar’s caliber was frightening.

Not to mention, killing Zibbo didn’t spark any emotion from him.

A cold-blooded killer who thought of others’ lives as nothing.

‘I need to get out of here!’ the man thought as he breathed heavily.

Once he noticed Lucivar was focusing on Zibbo, he scanned the area and found two more threats.

Above him on the mezzanine level was the oversized wolf who was still eating the two guards while another one was also feasting to Lucivar’s left.

Calming himself although hard, the man gazed ahead at a door that should lead to another room in front of him.

Since the entire place was square-shaped, the room behind the door must have another door.

It wouldn’t be a dead-end.

Bracing himself, the man slowly and silently made his way towards the door.

He crawled down to not pull any unnecessary attention to him.

Crunch!

Grauch!

Just not too far to his side, the sound of flesh from the oversized wolf to his side was loud and clear.

As he crawled, he made sure to pretend to be dead whenever the wolf glanced at him.

Surprisingly enough, it worked!

He managed to reach the door.

Once he got his moment, he quickly stood up, opened the door, and ran inside.

A hopeful smile crept to his face as there might still be a chance for him to survive this freak ordeal.

Meanwhile, Lucivar stopped once he emptied the Fang of Ankh.

As his lethal hand pulled away, what was left of Zibbo was a bubbling black, kneeling skeleton.

Seeing such a gnarly sight disturbed even him, “Eww… It’s gross.

Hey Sha, is he really fine?” “Just wait a bit,” Sha appeared beside Zibbo’s remains.

“It takes time you know” Lucivar glanced to the side and whistled, he was calling both oversized wolves but none of them even spared a glance at him.

Annoyed, he grabbed the nearest object and threw it at both of them.

Each throw landed on its mark perfectly-the back of their heads.

Instantly, the two wolves snapped their heads at Lucivar and bared their bloodied fangs in a growl.

“What?!” Lucivar taunted, casting them a glare.

“Come the fuck here before I ripped your ears off” As if both of them understood what Lucivar meant, they abandoned their meals and rushed to where he stood.

Sitting upright and their tails tucked, they growled as if they were military men saluting to their officers-and this only made Lucivar rub his throbbing forehead.

“Fine, name, name!” He exasperatedly exclaimed.

Glancing at the two wolves, he realized that they were almost identical.

Only the shape of their faces was slightly different.

“Your name is Oval, O-v-a-l,” Lucivar pointed at the wolf with a more oval, chubby face, spelling the name out loud before he turned to the other wolf.

“While your name will be Heart, H-e-a-r-t, Heart.

Make sure to remember it and answer me if you’re called or I’ll feed you to the other” Upon hearing this, Oval and Heart exchanged a glance before they howled.

Once that was done, Lucivar pointed to his behind with his thumb.

“Go out there and kill the rest of the people in this establishment,” He instructed.

“Leave none alive” Growl!

Instantly, the two rushed away-bursting through the wall and searching for anything alive to kill.

About three minutes later, Lucivar finally saw movements from Zibbo’s remains-but it wasn’t Zibbo who was moving.

Seeping out from the floor around him was steaming red sand, and it climbed onto his remains.

It took a few seconds until the entire black skeleton was now covered in red sand.

Under his gaze, the red sand began forming into new tissues.

Just like that, Zibbo was brought back to life with some slight changes to his appearance.

Naturally, finding it a waste to kill Zibbo, Lucivar decided to make him a Vestal.

Earlier while he was waiting for Zibbo to come out and after the slaughter, he obtained a lot of bronze spheres.

None of these men stood a chance against him-so he overpowered them all easily, rewarding him with Sutekh’s Divine Blood.

And for that, he achieved Sutekh’s first Divine Elevation.

Lucivar thought that there would be a test as Loki did but there was none.

Sha said that the trial back then was already a test for him to reach the first Divine Elevation for Sutekh, but he attributed it more to Sutekh liking his growth.

Of course, that was extremely unlikely but who could tell him otherwise?

He could think whatever he wanted.

Achieving the first Divine Elevation granted him several things.

First, the second layer of the Stone Table of Physique-opening the path to enhance his muscles, tendons, skeleton, eyes, ears, and blood vessels.

Secondly, he got five essence bars with deeper shades of bronze, which Sha briefly mentioned as high essence bars.

It was basically a higher version of the normal essence bars.

Lucivar has had one before with Loki’s essence bars.

Five normal essence bars equate to one high essence bar and now he has five high essence bars.

He could use it to upgrade his physique but that could be done at another time.

And lastly, Sutekh now allowed him to create a Vestal.

As of now, he spent one high essence bar to turn Zibbo into a Vestal to Sutekh.

‘Morriva has been providing me with quite a bit of Arcane Points.

She’s working hard, probably quite desperate to meet me again.

Now, with Zibbo, I could also create a channel to amass Sutekh’s essence bars,’ Lucivar thought inside with a smirk.

‘He’s involved with the underground world-he could easily be an asset to me’ Looking at Zibbo right now, there were some changes.

He still retained his monstrous appearance but he was now leaner-his belly was smaller, his green skin was now closer to brown, and the structure of his face was a mix between a Goblin and a Jackal.

Quite a bizarre appearance that would make him stand out.

But then again, as a mutant, everyone would dismiss his appearance as a bad side effect.

“Welcome back,” Lucivar greeted with a wide smile.

Blinking his eyes, Zibbo turned to Lucivar in absolute shock, “You… You can also access Hell?” “What are you talking about?” Lucivar cackled humorously.

“I may have the bloodline of Gods inside of me but that doesn’t mean I could also go to Hell.

No, you’re not in Hell, you’re still in the real world.

I wanted to turn you into something else and unfortunately, to do that, you need to die first” “I… I saw a desert, people screaming, jackals,” Zibbo muttered stutteringly.

His soul must’ve gone to Sutekh for a moment and then come back after being corrupted.

Clearly, he needed time to recover.

However, before anything, Lucivar turned to Sha, “What’s his rank?” “Initiate, what do you even expect?

That he’s going to be like Morriva?” Sha snorted and disappeared.

Of course, Lucivar was hoping that at least Zibbo awakened to the Keeper rank so that he could give Zibbo the Triune Scarab ability but it seemed he was asking for too much.

Zibbo is a Goblin Hybrid and needed to become a mutant to get stronger so he was clearly lacking in the talent department.

‘I could ascend his rank to the Keeper rank but that’ll cost me high essence bars…’ Lucivar thought.

For now, he decided to let Zibbo as he was.

Once he earned his way up, Lucivar would reward him.

“Now that you’ve reborn anew, I’ll bestow you a name,” Lucivar smiled.

“Sethis, that’s your new name”