Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Foreigner Treatment Chapter 40: Foreigner Treatment Meanwhile, in a room within the academy’s main building.

A group of people walked inside and sat at a round table-their attires suggested-that they were professors.

Naturally, these professors are the judges from before, they had finished in testing the new candidates’ abilities.

It took them a full day to finish the entire process, longer than usual.

Because of the sudden spike of people being attracted to their academy, they’ve been busy.

“That took such a long time to finish,” Clara stretched-feeling a bit sore, from sitting all day.

“It was because of those twins, they share their plan to apply to our academy in their socials-I guess it’s good exposure for us” Aeldric nodded in agreement, “Our academy score is dropping, this is certainly good for us” Just then, Victor intervened with a firm tone, “But only a few are exceptional” Despite the increase in number of candidates, the quality dropped compared to the previous.

“Even though that’s true, the exceptional ones, were quite dazzling.

Those twins for example, despite only being nineteen were already at the four-star Neophyte rank and had a red grade bloodline, light and dark fairies” Clara replied enthusiastically.

No Fairy Hybrids were in their academy, these twins were a big deal for them.

“Yes, we would definitely accept them.

Although it’s a shame that the older one was the only one, who has a named Supernatural Ego, the younger one’s bloodline purity was lackluster in comparison to her sister,” Another professor said regretfully.

Aeldric leaned back, resting his frail and old body, “Nevertheless, the twins are precious” “Speaking of exceptional, what about that kid, Lucivar?” Victor added.

Upon the mention of Lucivar’s name-all of the professors sitting at the round table instantly recalled what had happened earlier.

His bloodline purity was so pure, that the machine broke down, it was the third time this happened throughout the academy’s history.

Recalling that moment, Aeldric’s eyes widened as he recalled what he saw.

Despite having a meager bloodline, he knew something was up with Lucivar, he could feel it.

Something about that kid made his heart feel uneasy.

“Even though his bloodline purity is top-notch, his other stats are all over the place.

I’d rather the other more balanced candidates, I’d say we refuse him.

In case he could be something, it would be better to have him be an academy hunter” Clara was the first one to speak, voicing out her mind.

Just as she said that the door was opened, and Kalvin stepped inside.

“Excuse me for the intrusion, but the upperclassmen are ready,” He said, bowing politely.

Victor waved his hand dismissively, “Begin the initiation at night,” “As you wish, professor,” Kalvin replied and left, coming and going like the wind.

Meanwhile, on another corner of the academy grounds.

Lucivar stood in front of a five-story dormitory located at the backside, way smaller than the other buildings but still bigger than any building back in his home city.

Minimalist in design, it was essentially two structures merged, with a glass-enclosed lobby at the center.

No fences guarded the front, just simple stairs leading to the entrance.

Upon heading to the entrance, Lucivar was greeted by an automatic sliding door that opened by itself when he was near.

He walked inside, and was given his room key by Kalvin, his room was located on the second floor.

Heading to the right building, he followed the hallway and reached the room sections.

He passed by the lounge and was stopped when his eyes caught someone familiar.

“Lucivar!” Mirel waved his hand enthusiastically from a sofa.

Seeing him, Lucivar smiled a little-as the absence of someone he knew made him feel out of this place, he felt like he didn’t belong here.

As he reached the sofa, Mirel gestured for him to sit and asked, “How was it?

How were the tests?” “Ah…

it’s good, I pulled back a lot,” Lucivar replied, deciding to keep his failure a secret.

Checking the place out, Lucivar was once again stunned.

Even compared to the waiting room before, this place was mesmerizing in its own way.

It was not more lavish but certainly more shiny with the polished marble floor and walls.

As he was looking around, Lucivar asked, “Is there a place to train here?” “Come on, training already?” Mirel rolled his eyes.

“Every corner of this place-was covered with something called CCTVs-the academy could watch our every move in this building.

If you train and act exceptional, you’ll be accepted so relax and enjoy this place” Lucivar has nothing to retort with as Mirel’s excuse for being lazy was quite strong.

But he already decided to look exceptional, so that doesn’t apply to him.

Just then he suddenly remembered, he wanted to ask Mirel if he knew-what the academy’s purpose was to keep them here, for a night.

Before he could ask that, Mirel tugged his elbow at him while looking in a direction, “Hey, check it out, those two are the celebrities that made the crowd from earlier-they’re twins…

and both of them are extremely pretty” “What do you think?

I think they might be even prettier than Leandra,” He added dreamily.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar turned and looked at the twins.

Both of them were standing further away near the corner, their contrast striking.

From a glance, Lucivar could already tell which one was the older one and the younger one.

He had overhead from the staff and other candidates, that the older twin was named Elira-and the younger, Thalia.

Elira has cherry blossom pink hair, that framed her mature features, her frequent smiles, lighting up the conversations around her, radiating an infectious, cordial charm.

In contrast, Thalia had sharper features.

Most of the time, her expression remained passive, lips pressed into a firm line.

She chose to remain silent while her sister spoke.

As Mirel mentioned, these two were gorgeous young beauties, comparable to Leandra.

Leandra had a more natural beauty as she wore no makeup but the twins were the opposite.

Both of them wore light makeup, adding a touch of sparkling elegance to their features.

Out of nowhere, Mirel grabbed his hand and pulled him.

“Let’s introduce ourselves, it’s not fair if you’re the only one who got some action,” He said.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar raised an eyebrow, “Me?

When?” “You chose Leandra over me, asshole.

Shut up and accompany me talk to one of them” Mirel rebutted-and dragged Lucivar over to the twins.

But as they neared, Mirel’s eyes flashed, in excitement when he saw Thalia stand up and go sit on another sofa.

“Perfect!” Smiling brightly, Mirel stood in front of the pretty girl, “He- Hello…” “Can I help you?” Thalia asked, her expression barely changed.

Lucivar waited for Mirel to say something but realized that the words were stuck in his throat-he lost the ability to speak in front of Thalia, frozen in place.

Seeing this, Lucivar sighed, “If it’s okay, we’d like to get to know you” “A- Ah, right, what he said,” Mirel scratched the back of his head.

“My name is Mirel,” Smiling politely in return, Thalia replied, “Thalia, nice to meet you” Expecting Thalia to be disinterested, Lucivar was surprised that she was entertaining this as he knew the people here don’t like outsiders.

With their plain clothes right now, their identity as bums was clear to everyone.

Thalia then shifted her gaze towards Lucivar.

Nonchalantly, Lucivar introduced himself shortly, “Lucivar.” Upon hearing this, Thalia nodded before her gaze went over to their clothes.

“Can I ask where the two of you are from?” She asked.

Just from the question alone, Lucivar already knew where this was going.

“B- Both of us are foreigners, we’re not from this city” “Where?

Is it another big city?” “No…

No in particular,” Realizing that the two most likely came from slave cities, Thalia smiled politely-once again and retreated herself back, “I’m sorry, I can’t get close and be friends with you.

I hope both of you understand.

It’s best that we do not get to know each other as our path would differ eventually, in fact, don’t ever talk to me again, please” Not expecting her to say something like this, Mirel’s expression froze.

He was expecting a simple rejection but he got a vicious one instead.

Already expecting this, Lucivar nodded, “Sorry for wasting your time, we’ll take our leave” “Am I really that ugly?

Be honest with me,” Mirel asked with teary eyes.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar chuckled as he couldn’t lie, that rejection was quite a painful one, “I should say no here but you’re quite ugly,” He joked humorously.

“Fortunately enough-she rejected you not because of your looks so don’t worry about it” “Fuck you, man, what kind of friend are you?” Mirel retorted, forcing Lucivar to laugh.

As the two headed back to their place, Thalia looked at them from behind.

Her eyes were particularly looking at Lucivar’s back, ‘I can’t sense it, he doesn’t have an aura’ “Is he even a Hybrid?” She mused inwardly before going back to her phone.

Moments later.

Lucivar had already sweated-by putting in some exercises in the training area, and was now inside his temporary dorm room.

Inside there was only a lavish king-size bed, cramped to the side, a learning desk, a meditation mat on the corner, and also a window viewing outside.

It was nearing the night, the sun was already half submerged and golden.

He had taken a shower and was drying his hair.

Earlier he had met up with the others aside from Mirel and talked about his suspicion that the academy has something in store by keeping them here for a night.

Unlike Mirel, Ravenna, and Bob had also thought the same thing.

Awaiting the result could be done in their own homes, there was no need to stay the night.

On top of that, Lucviar had already walked around the entire dormitory, familiarizing himself with the place, in case of an emergency.

Being chased by Hybrids back in Veegend City, he learned that being familiar with the place greatly helps in perilous situations.

Due to that, Lucivar had already made a couple of escape routes.

Though it wasn’t perfect as Kalvin was everywhere.

If the interior of the building has CCTVs-to keep an eye on the candidates, the outside has Kalvin, but there were a couple of blindspots, “Whatever it is, it would start tonight.

And the chances are high that we are still being tested, which is a good thing for me” Other than a hunch, some of the candidates also talked about this.

Lucivar became even sure that they were going to be tested in some ways by the academy.

“Since we already did some tests earlier, this test should be a practical one,” He muttered in contemplation, figuring out the possibilities.

But then, his periphery caught something-was moving outside from the window.

Noticing this, Lucivar stood up and went over to the windows, still wrapped in a towel.

He narrowed his eyes when he saw something.

It was only then that a smirk crept to his face, “So that’s how it is…

this is going to be fun”