Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 60

Chapter 60: Second Round (1) Chapter 60: Second Round (1) Leandra’s eyes widened as her punch struck something that felt like a rock.

It was hard and unmovable.

She kicked Lucivar and made a somersault back and landed a distance away from him.

As she did this maneuver, her shocked gaze never left Lucivar even for a second.

Landing perfectly on her feet, she tilted her head.

“Did you reach the Acolyte rank too…?” She asked, disbelief dripping in her voice.

On the opposite of her was Lucivar, his face, and torso were completely covered by a regal emerald wing.

Having seen this wing-Leandra was not surprised but she assumed that he could summon it when he was not in the right mind, berserk.

Since he summoned it willingly now, she reckoned he reached the Acolyte rank.

It was at the Acolyte rank that a Hybrid would develop a unique feature to their bloodline.

Lucivar’s bloodline was an Angel so this made sense.

Peeking from behind the wing, Lucivar sighed.

Upon the visit from Thalia, he absorbed the remaining sphere-he gained from killing Blane and managed to reach the four-star.

His wings grew a lot because of that, and he was very mindful to hide them from view.

Since the academy hunter’s outfit was durable and tight, he had no problem.

But now that his wing had grown longer, it was hard to hide it.

“No, I haven’t,” Lucivar replied vaguely.

“Have you calmed down now and ready to listen?” Despite her reluctance, Leandra nodded and wore her shoes back.

She only wanted to vent her anger and now that she had, her mood returned back to normal.

Both of them went back to Lucivar’s room.

Since there was a CCTV in this training room, they couldn’t talk right here.

Along the way, Lucivar kept his eyes open.

He knew Professor Fury wasn’t happy with him being alive so he needed to be careful.

‘I only need to hold on one more attempt and this should all be over’ Luciviar thought.

Arriving at the room, Lucivar knocked on the door.

“Hey, it’s me.

Open up” Upon hearing his voice, a rushed sound could be heard from the other side of the door.

Sabrina must’ve been hectic when she heard his voice.

Lucivar heard a clicking sound before he pushed the door open.

But as soon as he opened the door, he was greeted by the surprising sight of Sabrina, sitting on her knees with her gaze down.

She then raised a wooden stick with both hands to hand it over to Lucivar.

“Master Lucivar, I’ll take any punishment for my wrongs” “Wait what?

Huh?

Why?

When?

How?” Hearing this, Leandra peeked inside from Lucivar’s shoulder out of curiosity.

In reflex, Lucivar covered her eyes with his hand but she quickly slapped his hand away.

Seeing Sabrina kneeling on the ground, she cast a judgmental look at Lucivar.

“Really?

Groveling and apologizing?

You have a dominant kink?” “I didn’t make her do this, don’t get me wrong” “Sure…

sure…

I never expected you, out of all people to have this kind of kink” Clicking his tongue, Lucivar returned his gaze to Sabrina.

“Stop this.

Stand up and get inside, you’re not amending for your mistakes being like this” “Eh?

I don’t know you have a visitor, sorry” “Don’t sorry me!

You’re only implying that I like this and it’s fine if there’s no visitor!” Moments later.

Lucivar told Sabrina to sit down facing the wall on the corner while he talked with Leandra.

He decided to tell her about his situation with Thalia and Professor Fury.

“So basically, you are in a life-and-death struggle, with Professor Fury?” Leandra shook her head, she was waiting to open up like this.

“You do know that we’re family, right?

If you had just told me and the others, we could’ve helped you” “Asking you guys for help?

After I led Darwin to his death?” Lucivar raised an eyebrow.

Even though the others looked and acted the same, they were definitely not.

Some are probably blaming him for Darwin’s death.

Of course, if they knew the truth then it’s natural to blame Lucivar as he killed Darwin.

“Tobias united us together, he wanted us to get strong together.

Even if some of us blamed you for Darwin’s death, they would never stay put, and watch you die” Leandra refuted, the others would help if Lucivar asked.

Despite her saying that Lucivar turned away and changed the topic.

“I do need your help.

If you help me now, you can ask me for anything, I owe you a favor” “Favor…?” Leandra could only sigh.

Even if there was no favor she would help but Lucivar wouldn’t like hearing that.

Not at this moment.

“Fine, I’ll help you.” “Don’t tell the others and I need you to have full trust in me, can you do that?” “Yes, I can do that.

Just tell me what to do” “Here’s what I wanted you to do…” Soon enough, after discussing the plan, Leandra excused herself and left the room.

It was about time the next lecture would start and she needed to prepare.

Lucivar also needed to get ready for the lecture.

Other than having his wing grow to near a full stretch, reaching the four-star also increased the maximum strand he could contain through the Greedy Grasb ability.

Now, Lucivar could have seven strands to use.

Despite Leandra overwhelming him earlier, he reckoned he could now fare well against her.

She might still hide the full extent of her power but he wouldn’t lose badly now.

‘If I could exert the strength of a first-star Acolyte rank through the use of five strands, now I should be able to exert, the power of a second-star Acolyte rank.

Not to mention, I also have the Radiant Burst spell, so I should be a lot stronger now’ Lucivar pondered.

Even though he was quite strong, there were academy hunters here that could threaten him.

He needed to pay attention as Professor Fury wouldn’t pull back this time.

“Sabrina, how strong are you?” Sabrina, who was making a hole in Lucivar’s outfit was surprised by the sudden question.

Nevertheless, she answered.

“I’m a first-star Acolyte Hybrid” “Hmm, that’s go- wait what?!

Acolyte?

Did you mean Neophyte?” “No, I’m an Acolyte Hybrid” Lucivar was quite surprised, he thought Sabrina was still at the Neophyte rank.

But then, he frowned at a realization.

‘I used Greedy Grasp on Leandra to fill all five strands-but she did not even notice.

When I used it on Sabrina, though, she went weak in the knees.

Is it because Leandra’s bloodline is far stronger, with more ether?

Must be…’ He was accustomed to using the Greedy Grasp ability on Leandra.

Due to that, she became his benchmark.

Knowing that Sabrina is a first-star Acolyte Hybrid speaks of Leandra’s bloodline prowess.

“Give me your hand,” “Hmm?

What for?” Despite questioning his reason, Sabrina still gave her hand to him.

Lucivar refilled the strands that he had lost from the black box incident-and the fight with Leandra earlier, it took a minute before his strands were full, leaving Sabrina weak and also breathing heavily.

After doing that, he spent his free time training his Minor Morphing ability.

In preparation for the inevitable confrontation with Professor Fury.

A couple of days passed since then.

Nothing much happened aside from the regular, exercising, lectures, and sparring.

An emergency happened yesterday, the siren blared across the place.

Of course, the emergency rang when a portal was opened.

But fortunately, the senior academy hunters were the ones sent to tackle it.

Lucivar and the others still need to finish the basic dungeon and formation course.

Other than that, his wing made him the center of attention.

Since it has grown way bigger than before, Sabrina created a hole for his wing-to fit into his outfit and made the wing practically visible to anyone.

Considering that this part of the place was reserved for new academy hunters, Acolyte-rank Hybrids were very few here.

In fact, other than Bob and Ravenna, there was only one more Acolyte-rank Hybrid.

Unlike all three of them, Lucivar’s bloodline characteristic was jarring.

A robust, deep emerald wing with glossy feathers.

So he was practically the only one who had an evident feature of his bloodline.

Also, as expected, Professor Fury was making his move.

Even though it was hidden well, Lucivar’s constitution of an Angel comes into play.

Keeping his Angel bloodline a secret was the best thing he did.

Several dark trails of energy slithered and connected to him, they came from several guards, roaming the establishment.

Certainly, they were tasked by Professor Fury, to keep an eye on him, and that’s expected.

But what worried Lucivar was the fact that these guards were getting closer to his room.

His reaction when Sabrina was bullied was uncalled for.

Now practically everyone knew that Lucivar was quite protective of his personal maid.

It was only a matter of time before the guards had the chance to do something to Sabrina.

Lucivar sat on the sideline uneasily.

Currently, it was the sparring session for the new academy hunters.

Not the regular sparring but one that would determine their grades-an assessment held by Professor Fury himself.

Keeping a watch on him, Lucivar was uneasy, because he seemed to be in a good mood.

Professor Fury didn’t even glance in his direction and that made Lucivar more uneasy.

‘Dylan didn’t report back to me,’ Lucivar frowned.

He glanced at Dylan who was sitting away from him through the crowd.

Even though Lucivar had scared Dylan, he didn’t come back to report.

But he knew that Dylan’s fear was true.

‘So the reason he couldn’t report to me must be because he can’t, he is being watched…’ Knowing what Professor Fury was planning is out of the picture.

And Lucivar also didn’t want to wait.

“Bakar Voss, the third place, stepped onto the arena” Upon hearing this, Bakar stood up and excitedly skipped his way towards the arena, he was always excited every time the sparring session came.

He loosened his muscles and stepped onto the arena, giving a respectful bow to Professor Fury.

Nodding, Professor Fury then asked the crowd.

“Who would step and challenge Bakar for the third place?” “I would!” Just then, the crowd turned to the voice and found a man with his arm raised.

It was Lucivar, daring to challenge the third place.

Seeing him, the other academy hunters burst into a discussion.

Most of them mocked Lucivar as he was in eighty-eighth place, a far cry from Bakar.

From the others’ perspective, Bakar was invincible, even the second place had avoided going against him in the last couple of sparring sessions, while the first place was another monster, Nerissa.

So the fact that Lucivar challenged Bakar was laughable.

Lucivar quickly continued when he saw Professory Fury was about to deny his challenge.

“I’ve gotten stronger and I want to test it out.

Are you scared to fight me, Bakar?” He taunted.

“Come on up, Lucivar…” Bakar gestured with his hand.

“I’ll take you on, anytime” Upon hearing this, Professor Fury showed a slight sign-of displeasure.

But there was no stopping this if Bakar already accepted the challenge.

Nodding, Lucivar stood up, climbed to the arena, and stood across Bakar.

All of the onlookers were disinterested in this battle, knowing the result already.

Unknown to them, they were in for a surprise.