Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Dark Oath Chapter 53: Dark Oath Lucivar saw the guards guarding the entrance earlier.

Even though Fabio hasn’t explained the rules of the facility, it’s likely that hunters would not be able to leave the premises.

If that’s the case-Lucivar would be in a pickle, he needed to crack the opportunity.

How would he be able to do that if he was stuck here?

He needed some freedom.

Pointing his ring to the left mirror, he paid three essence bars.

He saw the other two magical mirrors disappearing, leaving the one he chose behind.

It shattered, exploding into a wisp of emerald energy, and shot toward Lucivar’s forehead like a bullet.

Instantly, rows of information, were forcibly injected-into his mind.

He had assumed he’d have a choice in the matter.

But he didn’t, a new ability was branded into his mind.

Recovering from the recoil, he arranged his mind and checked the new ability he gained.

‘Ah…

I thought of a perfect one but I got this,’  Seeing the rat, Lucivar was hoping that he would gain the ability to shapeshift.

He could turn into an animal, a rat for instance, and leave through the entrance as he liked.

Not that the new ability was not a shapeshifting ability, it was-but not the one he wanted.

Minor Morphing-allowing him to change small aspects of his appearance such as eye color, voice, or facial features for short periods of time.

It was an eight-sequence ability, much less than his Greedy Grasp ability but still quite strong.

Activating the Minor Morphing ability, he directed the ether to his eyes.

“Do you bring a mirror?” “Yes, I brought my stuff too because I’ll be living here with you.” “Give it to me” “Here, don’t break it, please.

It’s quite fragile and you’re quite strong” Not heeding her words, Lucivar took the mirror and looked at his reflection.

Using nothing but his thoughts, while maintaining the ether in his eyes-he could change his eye color rather easily.

His eye color changed from golden to deep blue, crimson, green, and end up golden once again.

It didn’t use too much ether either.

Moving on from that, he tried to make his nose bigger to see if it worked.

But as he flowed the ether into his nose, his eyes widened when his nose elongated fast.

He covered his long nose which made him look like the lying doll ninnochio.

“What’s your bloodline?

I don’t think I’ve ever asked.” “My bloodline?

In short, it’s NYB.” “NYB?

What kind of bloodline is that?

Never heard of it.” “Of course you haven’t.

It stands for ‘None of Your Business’ bloodline.” Sabrina could only roll her eyes when she heard this, she couldn’t believe she fell for that.

“Anyway, I’m going out for a bit” Lucivar stood up, heading towards the door.

Opening the door, he stopped, and glanced back, “I wouldn’t be long.

Don’t sleep in bed-it’s mine.

You sleep on the floor.

Also, if your horny ass masturbated again, make sure to not wet the bedsheet” “Just leave already!” Sabrina shouted, throwing him the blanket.

Next day.

Lucivar and the other new academy hunters were gathered and briefed about their situation.

Akin to the students, they have a routine to follow.

It was not as rough as expected, the routine only comprised of morning exercise that lasted two hours, and lectures by the professor’s assistants about dungeons and dungeon-related topics, group and formation training, before they would gain their free time.

Professor Fury was the one in charge of this place with a couple of assistants under him.

Naturally, this made Lucivar uneasy as it was not good for him.

Other than that, sparring matches would be held by the assistants occasionally.

Moreover, there are also rules to follow.

No leaving the premises, no skipping the routine, and no fighting outside of a duel.

Pretty straightforward and easy to follow.

If those rules were broken, the rule-breaker would be placed in the Black Box.

Although none of the new academy hunters knew what it was, it must be something horrific.

“Two hundred!” Lucivar was currently wearing a black and red training suit, sweating profusely, the morning exercise had already started, and he was now doing push-ups.

He goes down-to make his two-hundredth rep with relative ease.

He was way stronger now, this exercise is nothing.

Last night, he already made his usual trip to familiarize himself with the new area.

Other than the main entrance, he couldn’t find any way out of this cave.

If he wanted to leave, he needed to sneak out from the main entrance but it was impossible.

At the very least, six guards are guarding the main entrance.

Not to mention, they changed shifts three times a day to keep the guards on duty fresh.

Going through there wasn’t an option.

But as of this moment, that is the only option.

“Two hundred and one!” Scanning the area while still following the instruction from Fabio, Lucivar frowned, he sensed a couple of unfriendly gazes were directed at him.

He could tell-because a couple of people were looking at him blatantly.

None of them were even trying to hide their unfriendliness.

Fortunately enough, they were not the seniors.

‘Nevertheless, what did I do to draw attention?

I did nothing’ Lucivar pondered.

A couple of minutes later.

Lucivar went to the side, he was drenched in sweat-the morning exercise had just finished.

He went to take a plastic glass and filled it with water in the sink.

As he brought the glass over to his mouth to drink, someone bumped him from behind hard, causing his glass to fall and spill everywhere.

Seeing this, Lucivar glanced back sharply, and saw a group of hunters.

Leading them was Blane, a man with long green hair that was tied in a ponytail.

He has a condescending smile on his face.

“Oops~ Sorry, I didn’t mean to do that” “I- It’s okay…

It can’t be helped if it’s an accident” “Please, how about I give you mine?” Since the food and drink here were portioned for each hunter, this would be helpful.

But Lucivar shook his head.

“Don’t worry about it, you can go on ahead.

I’ll clean it up” Lucivar denied the offer, took a cloth from the side, and kneeled down to clean the mess.

Seeing this, however, Blane’s smile stretched wider.

“Don’t be like that, I insist…

Here, take my drink” “It’s ok-” As Lucivar was about to deny the offer once again, his eyes widened.

He felt water being poured onto his head, trickling across the side of his face before wetting the ground beneath him.

Blane tilted his glass-and poured the water on Lucivar’s head-he also laughed with his friends as he did this.

Despite garnering attention, he didn’t stop.

Blane kept pouring until his glass was empty, before throwing the glass onto Lucivar’s head.

“Now we’re even.

After all, I gave you my portion of drink in return” Upon doing that, Blane and his friends walked away as if they had done nothing wrong.

Lucivar paused for a moment.

None of the onlookers helped him, even the assistants who were passing by ignored him.

However, Leandra, Nerissa, Mirel, and Bakar came to him when they saw what happened.

Ravenna and Bob were stronger so they were separated.

“Curse these people” “I was also got cornered earlier, they’re doing it to us because we’re commoners” “What makes them special anyway?

I could beat them all easily” Compared to the other hunters-they were all way stronger-but had their hands bound, due to the rules.

Reacting to the provocation would only get them into trouble, and from the looks of it, this kind of behavior was condoned by the academy.

As opposed to saying anything, Lucivar stood up after he cleaned the mess.

“Sorry, I’ll be going back to my room to change” He pivoted to the side and walked away.

Naturally, the others looked at Lucivar’s back, wondering what he had got himself into.

Reaching back to his room, drenched, Sabrina was surprised.

She quickly took a towel and helped Lucivar to dry his wet body.

“What happened to you?

Is this some kind of training drill?” As opposed to answering or even stopping to let Sabrina help him, Lucivar kept walking.

He then stood underneath the shower.

“Turn around and face the wall,” He finally uttered commandingly.

Sabrina never heard Lucivar’s voice this serious, and she didn’t say anything and did as she was told.

She stood on the other corner beside the bed-and faced the wall, ‘Is he going to shower?

So suddenly?’ As expected, the sound of running water could be heard.

‘If he wanted to shower, he should’ve taken off his clo-‘ Just as she thought of that, her heart skipped a beat, startled when she heard a sound.

It was a sharp, dull sound that reverberated through the room.

Upon hearing this, Sabrina wanted to turn and check but stopped herself, ‘Is he, laughing…?’ On the other hand, Lucivar was laughing maniacally.

He banged his head against the wall in utter anger, hard enough to break the skin and make blood drizzle down his face, ‘Those motherfuckers must’ve thought I’m a pushover because of my act.

Do they really think they could do this to me…?

ME?!

This is his fault!’ “Fury…

I’ll kill him.

I’ll fucking kill him!” He thought aloud, grabbing his face like a lunatic.

Then, Lucivar’s eyes were drawn to a writing appearing on the white wall.

It was written with dark energy, glowing with power.

‘Fury…

I’ll kill him.

I’ll fucking kill him!’ Lucivar tried touching the writing but he was startled when the writing emerged out from the wall, and went into his body.

Soon, he felt the energy-from the writing bind him, making him feel breathless.

Gazing at his chest where the writing seeped into, he tilted his head in confusion.

“It felt like the dark trail that responded to killing intent, what does this mean…?” He mused.

But from the bind he felt inside of him, this felt like an oath.

A dark oath, and for some reason, he sensed that failing to fulfill it would cause bad things to happen to him.

But then again, he had no intention of going back on his word, Professor Fury was good as dead.

Moments later.

Lucivar had only changed his attire and sat on the bed in contemplation.

Beside him was Sabrina, tending to the wound on his forehead.

She surprisingly didn’t ask anything and only tended his wound, which was appreciated.

In this moment of silence, Lucivar got an epiphany.

He got up and headed to the door, the class was about to start so he needed to go.

But other than that, he had a plan in mind, ‘First, I need to find Fabio…’ Not even saying anything, he exited the room, leaving Sabrina behind once again.

Upon the door closing once again-Sabrina didn’t breathe easily and turned towards the wall on the side.

She narrowed her gaze and saw a writing there, blackened as if it was written by flames.

“Just what kind of Hybrid is he…?” She uttered lightly.