Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: Bloodhaven Academy Chapter 38: Bloodhaven Academy Sabrina wanted to prank Lucivar but she was the one stunned instead.

As a second-star Neophyte Hybrid, the amount of strength Lucivar exerted was shocking, he was as strong as a Hybrid one rank higher than his current state.

Even for a Hybrid with a red grade bloodline, that kind of feat was extremely rare.

Not to mention, the hardness of the Reflection Meter was set to be higher than normal!

‘Had it been normal, what would the measurement be…?’ She thought in disbelief.

Lucivar raised an eyebrow, waiting for an answer.

Realizing that he was waiting, Sabrina cleared her throat, “It reads the first-star Acolyte rank” Upon hearing this, Lucivar nodded as the result was within his expectations.

Considering that he managed to stalemate a clash with Darwin, he expected this result.

Seeing that Lucivar was not surprised by the result, Sabrina bit her lower cherry lip-in utter vexation, “But how are you that strong?!

I even set the surface to be harder purposefully, so that the result would be lower than your actual strength!” Just as she said that she slapped and covered her mouth.

On the other hand, Lucivar squinted his eyes.

Caught red-handed, Sabrina exposed an innocent smile, sweating slightly.

Not expecting her to be this petty, Lucivar, pinched her cheek-and pulled on it, causing the poor maid to whimper from her burning cheek, “I’m sorry~ I was still annoyed and thought of a little prank, I won’t do it again huhu” “Are you even an actual maid?

I’ll report this to Tobias for sure,” Lucivar threatened.

But this made Sabrina plead further, putting on a puppy face, “Don’t do that,” Lucivar clicked his tongue in displeasure but then his eyes caught sight of a green energy, it was seeping out of Sabrina’s cheek, that was pinched.

He observed this green energy-and saw it being absorbed by his ring, the Gleipnir’s Echo.

It was Loki’s ether, a small amount of it came out of Sabrina’s cheek.

Pulling his hand away, Lucivar looked at the ring in contemplation, ‘So that’s how you feed it,’ ‘it feeds on mischief, I should do this often,’ He nodded in affirmation.

All he knew about the ring was that it would become stronger the more he fed it but he didn’t know how to feed it until now.

Nodding his head, Lucivar replenished-the versatile energy to five strands once again by absorbing Sabrina’s ether before he turned away.

He faced the Reflection Meter and gave it a go one more time.

However, unlike before, he didn’t use any strands of versatile energy, only his ether.

Bam!

He punched the Reflection Meter and the water turned bright yellow.

“Now is four-star Neophyte rank,” Sabrina uttered but then frowned.

“Huh…?

I feel weak” Glancing over his shoulder-Lucivar found her falling to the ground because her knees gave out.

It was definitely because of him sneakily absorbing her ether but that wasn’t a problem for him, he got what he wanted-his versatile energy strands were full.

‘It’s more like her problem for being too defenseless,’ Lucivar shrugged and left the room.

Moments later, Tobias gathered everyone and told them to apply to an academy.

An academy called the Bloodhaven Academy.

Since the assessment of Hybrids could happen at any time along the proper age, entries to academies are open all year round.

For an Acolyte-rank Hybrid-the age limit was nineteen for high-caliber academies so Lucivar and the others weren’t going to the top academies.

Instead of the top, they were going to go to a second-rate academy.

Bloodhaven Academy was located on the outskirts of sector 3 and was also the go-to place if aspiring Hybrids, were rejected by the top academies.

Upon arrival through taxis-Lucivar got down before he looked around-it was somehow packed.

“What’s going on?

Is the academy offering free food?” Mirel commented.

Upon hearing this, Nerissa chuckled, “We’re not in a small town anymore, there’s no way…” Ravenna glanced to the side and saw a poster there.

Reading the poster-she shook her head, and sighed, “The daughters of a celebrity, were applying to the academy today, these people came here to see and cheer them.

Just why does it have to be today?” Having no other choice, the group mingled through the crowd.

Along the way, Lucivar looked around and couldn’t help but gasp as the academy alone was as big as a small town.

Entering through the main gate, they were now within the academy’s ground with multiple buildings in front of them.

Unlike the outside, the academy grounds were not crowded, only students here and there.

And the students rode bikes here as the buildings were far apart.

Glancing to the side, there were multiple figures with the exact same features standing idly.

Judging from their attires, they should be butlers and could help the group to enroll.

Approaching one of them, Ravenna stepped forward.

“Excuse me, could you tell me which building I should go to for enrollment?” She asked.

It was then the figure in a black butler outfit turned, catching the others off-guard when they saw the butler’s appearance.

Initially, they thought these figures were people who work here but it turned out to be a living puppet powered by an ether core.

Lucivar saw one of these from the training chamber, but this one was more sophisticated.

Even though its face was a smiling mask, its movements were back with sentience.

On its chest was a name tag on a crimson frame, Kalvin.

“New students, how exciting!” the puppet, Kalvin said, enthusiastically.

“Please, allow me-to guide you.

My name is Kalvin and I am a homunculus of the Bloodhaven Academy, a pleasure to meet you all” Despite being caught off guard, Ravenna smiled back and nodded, “We’ll be in your care” Kalvin brought them along to the nearest building, the Admissions Center.

Riding a bike with the others ahead of him, Lucivar gazed at Kalvin and also the other Kalvins that he met along the way, bowing a little, when they met his gaze, ‘A homunculus, there was such a thing?

I never knew.

On top of that, they seemed to be able to handle themselves too’ “Slow down, the back seat is uncomfortable to sit on you know,” Leandra complained.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar glanced at her, sitting in the backseat of the bike.

“All that training and you couldn’t ride a bike?” “Are you going to mock me until we get to the center?” “If you don’t want to be mocked by me, don’t ride with me.

Bakar or even Kalvin is free” “Fine, just mock me all you want.

Bakar stinks and that puppet is weird” Eventually, the group reached the Admissions Center and was attended by a normal person.

Kalvin only escorted them and went back to his position once again.

It took about half an hour to go through the admissions-and register them to enroll in the academy, the person in charge of them was moving slowly and frankly didn’t seem to care about them thus taking a long time.

Fortunately, the paperwork was done.

Since this was a second-rate academy, the requirements to enter were not strict.

As long as one could pay the tuition then they could enroll.

Of course, there were anomalies when the potential student was too weak to be groomed- but that was a rare case.

Normally, one only needs to pay for the admission fee and go for a couple of tests before being able to be enrolled.

Tobias said that he would only cover the admission fee and gave the money to Ravenna.

It wasn’t weird for him to do this as they were not here to become students.

Other than that, everything went smoothly.

However, the person in charge did say that the quota for the academy was almost full.

Due to the publication of the celebrities who were enrolled in this academy, others decided to apply so the quota was thinning rapidly.

Unlike in normal times, being accepted is harder now because of the competition for a small quota.

‘Everything was aligned for us to become academy hunters, Tobias planned this’ He thought.

Considering that they weren’t here to become students, the events unfolding were too much of a coincidence-and Lucivar was quite sure this was Tobias’ doing.

All they needed-to do now was not be too spectacular to be given the opportunity to be academy hunters.

Lucivar was now in the waiting room, a cold room with sofas and carpets.

Golden lights decorated the room through chandeliers and the kind, there was a bar serving refreshments on the side, and there was also calming music in the background.

It was lavish-the most lavish place Lucivar had been in.

Compared to his house of wood and bricks, this place was in an entirely different realm.

Almost as if he was in a different world.

He was alone because the others had gone ahead before him.

‘I thought smartphones were special, everyone here has it’ Lucivar glanced around.

All of the participants here in this room were playing with their phones, only he didn’t.

Deciding to try his luck, driven by his curiosity-he scoots over to the man, sitting not too far from him on this long sofa.

Peeking at the man’s smartphone, Lucivar tapped on his shoulder-making the man take off a white bead machine from his ear.

“What’s up?” the man asked, raising an eyebrow.

Gesturing at the smartphone, Lucivar asked, “What are those titles for?” “Huh?

I’m listening to notify, isn’t that obvious?” the man frowned, the application he used for music was basically the only one that everyone uses.

But then, it clicked on him, “Are you not from around here?

A slave city?” “Oh, yeah…

I’m from a slave city quite far fro-” “Damn commoner, how dare you, a slave talk to me?

Get away now or you’ll regret it” Lucivar was caught off guard by this reaction-he had never been to a big city like this so he did not know that the people here were like this.

Glancing around-numerous eyes looked at him with judgment, talking behind his back after realizing that he was a slave.

‘I only asked a question…

I should’ve known,’ He mused and went back to his original spot.

Several minutes later, his name was called.

Lucivar got into a room and was greeted by an expansive room with three weird items at the center and three judges sitting behind a long desk at the opposite end of the door.

Gestured by the woman in an office dress to step forward, he did as he was told.

He stood at the center and faced the four judges.

Knowing from the banter of participants outside, Lucivar could guess that these four were the professors of the academy.

In a normal test, the participant would try to impress these four professors as there might be a chance that they would be tutored directly.

Being taken in by one of these professors would make the participant their disciple.

A disciple would gain a lot of tempting benefits.

One of them was resources, the professors would invest in their disciples.

Across the four professors, Lucivar’s eyes were fixed on two of them-the middle-aged man with a serious look, exuding a dominant air called Victor who was nicknamed the Sky Piercer-and a young woman in her twenties with silver hair, Clara, nicknamed the White Ghost.

Both of them were said to be the strongest and also the most influential.

Even then, Lucivar shrugged his shoulders, ‘I don’t know why Tobias didn’t tell us to be taken in as a disciple from one of those two and instead told us to become academy hunters-but I am sure he has his reasons,’ Just then, he straightened his back and introduced himself, “Lucivar Asarafall,” “I am a second-star Neophyte-rank Harpy Hybrid!” He said with a clear voice.

Compared to introducing himself as a Gargoyle Hybrid, he goes with a Harpy instead.

Lucivar has a small green wing protruding out of his back-it was a feathered wing so saying that he was a Gargoyle Hybrid, would raise suspicion.

He also had consulted about this, with Tobias, and he said to go with a Harpy.

Harpies has colorful wings and that would be more believable than Gargoyle.

Of course, there was a chance-that his bloodline would be checked but Tobias assured him otherwise.

Nodding his head, Victor then gazed at Lucivar with both hands clasped together-inspecting the candidate before him.