Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 226

Chapter 226: Broken Morality (1) Chapter 226: Broken Morality (1) Callista couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

At this very moment, the vast world felt unbearably small.

It was suffocating.

Her mind spun as she didn’t understand why the world seemed to be against her right now.

How did Lucivar escape?

Why did Zed turned on her and lied?

And since when did her husband was in the city?

Countless questions flooded her mind like a tidal wave of punishment, each one was a torment with no answer in sight.

Unconsciously, the pressure built until a sharp pain throbbed in her head, and before she knew it-blood trickled from her nose.

Her thoughts, driven like a whip-lashed workhorse, were reaching their breaking point.

As she paused at the entrance, Lucivar turned to look at Julian.

Julian met his gaze and frowned.

‘For the second request, I wanted the most right now is for you to not interfere with what was about to happen’ Recalling what Lucivar said to him earlier, Juliann glanced over to his wife-and then back to Lucivar again.

He could tell-that Lucivar was signaling him to leave, to not interfere.

Frankly, he was worried that Lucivar would try to hurt Callista.

Maybe Callista deserved it but she was still his wife.

He could accept if Lucivar wanted a payback but if he killed her, that’s going too far.

As if Lucivar could read what was going on in Julian’s mind, he spoke, “Don’t worry, it won’t happen” Upon hearing this, Julian kept his gaze on Lucivar for a second longer before he sighed.

It was a dilemma for him but he decided to truth Lucivar.

After all, Julian owed it to him for protecting his daughters from the Crimson Wolf Clan.

Pulling Ragnar along with him, Julian walked over to the entrance-and stopped right beside Callista who was still in a daze from everything that was happening, “I’ll take Ragnar to a safe place.

Soon, our clan’s name and my name would be cleared and we could go back home” Once he said his piece, Ragnar walked away without looking back.

He vanished into thin air at the third step.

Silence enveloped the entire space once again as Callista stared at where Julian disappeared.

She then trailed her eyes down before finally turning to look at Lucivar.

In her mind, she began piecing together what had happened and realized that Lucivar once again saved her daughters from the Crimson Wolf Clan.

He even managed to help capture Ragnar.

He did all of that while blindsiding her with a façade of victory.

Despite what she wanted to believe, she never won.

It was all fabricated to lower her guard.

Coming to that realization, Callista’s face hardened as she approached Lucivar.

Seeing Callista approaching, Elira and Thalia slightly positioned themselves to be in front of Lucivar.

Both were shielding him from Callista, which was a rather cute gesture.

“So this was your plan all along,” She stopped a few paces away and looked down at Lucivar-with an ugly expression. “You were planning to get on my husband’s good side from the start to get rid of me, is that it?

Your grand plan” Lucivar only smiled in response, still too weak to do anything other than sit down on the ground.

“Mom,” Elira stood up hesitantly.

“He saved us again and even helped us get rid of our enemy” “It’s time to drop all of this, mom,” Thalia backed her sister up.

“He had already done enough” Callista looked at both of her daughters who were defending Lucivar incredulously and she scoffed in utter disbelief.

She even cackled a bit, finding the situation-unbelievable, “Does the two of you even have my blood?

How could you two be this stupid?

He was the one who created the problem and came in like a hero saving the day because he needed you two to save himself!

Don’t fall for his tricks!” “He can’t screw us over and play hero next, mom can’t let him go!” She added exasperatedly.

It was clear to her that Lucivar managed to get them under his wraps.

Seeing how both of them were defending him like this, he clearly influenced them good.

Despite her attempt to help Elira and Thalia see reason, these two were already far gone.

None of them could see reason anymore.

None of them could see that Lucivar was using them to his advantage.

“Come on Callista,” Lucivar’s voice suddenly rang as he struggled to stand.

“Listen to your daughters.

Both of them had gone through a lot, they were almost killed tonight so the last thing they wanted was to fight with you about this.

Can you forget about your pride for your daughters?” “How dare you lecture me!” Callista exclaimed and channeled her ether.

Swish!

A gust of wind blew out from her hands and created a long-intricate green bow that hummed with an unrelenting power.

She grabbed the string and instantly, an arrow materialized from ether and was ready to be shot.

However, Elira and Thalia immediately went shoulder-to-shoulder.

Both used themselves as a shield to protect Lucivar.

“Please, mom…” Thalia mumbled meekly, tears streaming down her face.

“Don’t do this” “For us.

If you can’t do it for what he did then do it for us,” Elira added.

But their pleas fell on deaf ears.

From their point of view, their pleases might be the right thing to do but that wasn’t the case for Callista.

As Thalia and Elira spoke more, their voices intertwined like songbirds backing each other’s tune to chant Lucivar’s name, the angrier she became.

She could not fathom how her entire life had unraveled because of a single young man, and the mere thought of it sent heat surging through her face.

It was embarrassing, her pride couldn’t accept this-she needed to kill Lucivar once and for all.

Only then could she work through this without going insane.

Sparing Lucivar would be nothing more than a mental suicide for her mind, she couldn’t take it.

“I was hoping for you to be my sponsor, Callista,” Lucivar said, his voice steady, drawing her attention back to him.

“No ruin, no vendetta-only a simple exchange between two people.

A pact in exchange for glory that I would attain in the tournament.

I thought you may like the id-” “Stop!” Callista bit her lower lip so hard that it threatened to bleed.

“Say nothing more!” She knew that she was in the wrong back then, ungrateful.

But she couldn’t afford to admit that she was wrong or else all of this would’ve been her fault.

All she wanted right now was to kill Lucivar regardless of who was in the right.

Realizing the dark trail seeping out of Callista’s heart, snaking through the air to connect with Lucivar’s Supernatural Ego, his expression-tightened.

Nothing he said would get through Callista’s thick skull and it shows, “Drop this, swallow your pride for your daughters, and forget what I did for good-but if you insist, I’ll make sure you regret it” Upon saying that, Lucivar noticed Callista’s fingers tightening on the bow string.

“Be smart Callista, don’t be foolish,” He continued.

Even though he sounded serious, his lips were threatening to curl into a devilish smirk.

He was anticipating something.

Callista’s hands trembled, but her pride burned hotter than reason.

Despite Lucivar’s warnings that echoed in her mind, the weight of admitting fault was scarier.

She has gone too far to apologize right now.

Swoosh!

In a sudden burst of defiance, she summoned a violent gale from the side, hurling both Thalia and also Elira aside.

Her bow snapped into position-the string drawn taut as a shimmering arrow materialized, aimed directly at Lucivar’s skull.

One release and it would be over.

But as her fingers prepared to let go, her body seized.

“Mom, if you kill him right now then both of us are going to die too!!” Elira shouted loudly.

Upon hearing this, Callista glanced over to Elira and noticed that her face was serious.

She wasn’t kidding.

At that moment, Callista poked the arrow against Lucivar’s neck with bloodshot eyes, “What did you do to them?!” She shouted, demanding a clarification.

“Answer me!

What did you do to my daughters, you devil?!” Lucivar shrugged nonchalantly, “I turned them into my insurance,” “An ability of mine that binds them to me.

If I die, both of them would also die,” He added.

Callista was at a loss for words, a Harpy Hybrid shouldn’t have an ability that was even remotely close to that.

No records of such an ability existed.

But judging from Lucivar’s face as well as her daughters’ reactions, this seemed to be the truth.

“Until you understand that you will always be beneath me, they will forever be my insurance” He said.

Upon hearing this, Callista’s strength left her body.

Her arms dropped down and her ether bow disappeared once again.

“Okay… I get it,” She murmured lightly, there was a tinge of defeat in her voice.

From the looks of it, finally, she understood her situation.

Glancing over to her daughters, she sighed, “Come on, let’s leave.

Let’s go home…” For a second there, Elira and Thalia exchanged a look, surprised that Callista had dropped this as easily as that.

But inside, they were happy that she did for them.

Despite her pride, and arrogance, above all, she still values their lives more.

Above all, she was still their mother and their safety was paramount for her.

Pivoting around, Callista waited for them to come before she reached her arms over to embrace them.

Then, the three of them walked away-heading to the entrance.

Lucivar watched this with an unrestrained smile on his face, this wasn’t over, he could sense it.

As expected, once the three reached the entrance, Callista suddenly shoved them forward-causing the twin to fall to the ground.

Instinctively, Elira and Thalia snapped their heads to look at Callista and saw her summoning her bow again.

“Don’t worry, those earrings are going to nullify his ability,” She said nonchalantly.

Upon hearing this, Elira and Thalia reached for their ears.

Somehow, Callista managed to put an earring on them-a protection artifact.

Naturally, the acceptance was a fluke.

Callista only wanted to get her daughters to wear the earrings and also get out of the way.

Now that Lucivar has lost his two shields, there’s nothing stopping Callista from killing him.

In an instant, she pointed her bow at Lucivar and pulled on the string decisively.

“You overplayed your hand.

Now, you’re dead,” “Mom, no!!” As soon as Callista’s fingers were about to let go of the string and shoot the arrow, the sound of laughter seeped into her ears.

It was an eerie and unhinged feminine laughter that also sounded astral, almost as if it didn’t come from this world.

Then, her eyes widened when she saw something grabbed her arm.

And in the next second, her arm exploded.

Splash!