Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Aware of the Doppelganger Chapter 67: Aware of the Doppelganger Professor Aeldric has a lot of questions in mind.

It could be seen through his eyes.

Lucivar nodded and excused himself to Leandra and followed the professor to the side.

He knew that he needed to give an explanation for this.

Reaching a safe enough distance-from having their conversation being heard, Professor Aeldric stopped, and turned to Lucivar.

He spent a couple of seconds staring directly into Lucivar’s eyes and arranged the questions in his mind.

“Explain to me what happened,” “Before that, I need to know what Fabio told you” “He told me that you needed help because Fury was trying to kill you, that’s it” Upon hearing this, Lucivar nodded and explained the situation.

Starting from the assassin who attacked Thalia that he killed, to the killing attempt during the inauguration, the black box incident, and also the assistants’ ambush.

He has no reason to lie or keep this a secret so he told Professor Aeldric everything.

Lucivar could see the frown on Professor Aeldirc’s forehead deepened as he went on.

But then again, an assassination attempt on academy grounds is a big deal.

If exposed, the academy’s credibility would plummet.

And that is also one of the reasons why Professor Aeldric was fixed on killing Professor Fury.

‘He loved his academy, I can tell since he even asked me to participate in the tournament.

It wasn’t that surprising for him to go this length,’ Lucivar pondered, seeing the professor was extremely troubled by this.

Just then, he raised his gaze.

“Why didn’t you tell me about the ninja?

You knew that by stepping in, you’d be in trouble” “Huh?

What do you mean?

You don’t know about the ninja?” Considering that Professor Aeldric knew about Andre, Lucivar expected that he knew about the ninja too as the incident happened right after he dealt with Andre.

So if Kalvin or anyone was watching that reports back to Professor Aeldric, they would also see the ninja.

Lucivar was a bit confused as to why Professor Aeldric didn’t know about that.

Upon throwing those questions, their conversation was interrupted.

A group of people came inside the building.

From their outfits alone, they all were definitely academy hunters.

But amongst them, there were a couple who were restrained.

Seeing that the ones who came were familiar, Lucivar turned to Leandra.

She gave a confirmation nod, it was she who arranged this.

Mirel, Bakar, and Nerissa came along with the restrained academy hunters.

All of the restrained hunters were the ones who were helping Blane.

With sheer excitement, Mirel skipped over, waving his hand as if he hadn’t seen Lucivar, for a long while.

Mirel went over to him-but didn’t forget to give a polite bow to Professor Aeldric, “I captured those who took part in Blane’s scheme.

All of them confessed already” “Oh, really?

Is that all of them?” Lucivar asked, scanning the restrained academy hunters.

One of them was Dylan and he was staring at Lucivar with pleading eyes.

Glancing to the side, Mirel cringed at the sight of Professor Fury’s corpse.

“Eughh, gross…

Is that the stupid professor?” “Yep, he tried to kill me but failed” “He’s a Chrysalis Hybrid…

you become more and more annoying” “What?

How did trying to survive make me more annoying?” “Girls flocked around you and now you also have a halo effect?

Not fair!” “Halo effect?” “Not that kind of halo effect, you know…

being lucky and looking cool all the time” Upon hearing this Lucivar could only shake his head, he didn’t have that kind of thing at all.

Had he not made preparation, he would’ve certainly died at Professor Fury’s hands.

Alas, he did get lucky when Sabrina helped him take down Namira.

“Okay, all of you listen to me,” Professor Aeldric suddenly said, forcing all of them to stand in front of him in an orderly manner, including Leandra, who had gotten a bit better.

“remember this well, none of this happened.

Do you understand?” All of them nodded, they weren’t planning on telling this to anyone anyway.

“I will deal with the academy hunters, and assistants affiliated with Professor Fury’s scheme, so you youngsters can focus on returning to your normal, supposed lives,” He said before he turned to Lucivar.

“And no, you can’t kill these hunters for trying to kill you” “What…?

I didn’t even say anything” Lucivar was at a loss for words.

He didn’t need to be singled out like that.

Listening to this, Mirel raised his hand.

“Then can I do it?

I can do it instead of Lucivar” “No…

Nobody is killing anyone-enough blood on the academy grounds.

I will expel them” Mirel chuckled, he was only playing around anyway.

“Go back to your dorm now, I’ll assign a new professor to take over Professor Fury’s position and also do an investigation into this matter.

I’ll also prepare a compensation for all of you to mend for this inconvenience” “Don’t forget to bring the affiliated hunters to Fabio, I’ll handle them after I handle this place” Just like that, Professor Aeldric handled the situation expertly.

As instructed, the others returned back to the dorm.

Lucivar grabbed Nerissa’s hand and nudged toward Leandra.

“Can I ask you to heal Leandra?

She was hurt.

I already healed her a bit but just to be sure” “Of course.

I’ll also check on you after, and you can’t refuse me.

Just to be sure” “Alright, alright.

I’ll be in my room” Before leaving with the others, Lucivar went back to Professor Aeldric once again.

He still has questions that he needs answers to.

“Professor, you still haven’t answered my question.

How did you not know about the ninja?” “No CCTVs or Kalvins around that area, how could I know?

He chose that place” “Then how did you know I messed with Andre?” Upon hearing this, Professor Aeldric turned towards Lucivar, raising an eyebrow.

Professor Aeldric looked at Lucivar as if he was asking whether Lucivar was joking or not.

“Stop acting like you didn’t know how I came to know” “I really don’t know, I messed with Andre in that garden right before the ninja incident” “Are you still trying to deny it?

The academy has some blindspots around the garden but we are pretty packed when it comes to our buildings-barely any blindspots.

One of the CCTVs caught you sneaking into Andre’s room so stop trying to deny it” Lucivar was completely at a loss for words.

He did visit Andre’s room but that was exactly before he went to Professor Aeldric.

So it was most certainly not that one.

“Professor, are you even sure that was me?” He asked again, doubtful.

Slightly annoyed, Professor Fury took out his phone and opened a video in his gallery.

He then handed his phone to Lucivar, “Still trying to deny it now?” In the video-Lucivar saw a person leaping from the back side of the third-year building and into an open window of the second-floor.

Due to the angle of the CCTV, it was hard to really see if it was him or not.

But, when the person leaped, Lucivar paused it as his face was exposed for a brief second.

‘It’s really me?’ He pondered in utter confusion, he didn’t remember doing this at all.

Zooming on it, Lucivar’s eyes widened at the clear sight of the person’s face.

Despite the person being undoubtedly him, the person’s face was uncanny.

He was using a face that Lucivar never used before.

Even though it was him in the flesh, the face and actions made it obvious that it wasn’t him.

‘That’s definitely not me…’ Lucivar frowned.

Lucivar handed back the phone in deep contemplation, his mind racing to figure this out.

Although there is a possibility that someone has an ability that could morph themselves, akin to Lucivar’s Minor Morphing ability-the chances are too low.

He doubted that it was another person from the Crimson Wolf Clan.

He was quite sure that this had something to do with Loki.

Such a perfect physical mimicry was definitely befitting of the Sly One.

“Still going to deny it now?”  “Ah…

Yes, I only wanted to know exactly how you caught me” “Don’t do it again, I’m not giving you any leeway anymore” “I’ll keep it in mind” Lucivar walked away, he was still in deep thoughts.

But he soon snapped out of it as there was only one action to find out more about this.

It was through asking Loki himself and he would when he got back.

Stepping out of the building, Lucivar took a deep breath and stretched his sore body.

He did heal his wounds but the soreness was still there.

Not to mention, he also felt a stabbing phantom pain from his crushed leg.

One that he needed to get rid of from his conscience.

Despite everything that had happened to him in these last days, he was quite satisfied with the result as he had now gained a massive sphere of Divine Blood.

One that would give him enough power to reach the five-star or perhaps even the next realm.

Lucivar still needs to consolidate himself after breaking through the four-star.

However, with the green sphere increasing his mastery over ether-it shouldn’t be hard.

“Meddling in people’s business is amazing but really risky,” Luciver mused.

“I hope a dungeon will soon come.

I want to see if I could obtain a big gold sphere, or a green sphere from killing Crossers.

But I guess it would be harder to gain Loki’s power from feral animals” As he said that, he looked down at his hands, “My ether is exhausted,” “I need a meditation technique as soon as possible” He added.

Just as he was about to go back to the Bastion of Blades, his eyes caught sight of a figure.

Thalia emerged from the corner, she must’ve been very nervous for this day.

‘Ah…

right, I also need to figure out her situation’ Not even going to her, Lucivar walked ahead, ignoring her presence altogether.

Seeing that Lucivar wasn’t coming to her, Thalia clicked her tongue-and ran after him.

She stopped him by grabbing his hand.

Lucivar glanced back at her saying nothing because there was nothing to say.

On the contrary, Thalia seemed to have a lot to say.

But she has no guts to look Lucivar in the eyes, she keeps her gaze down to the ground.

“Is it done?” “I’m alive, aren’t I?

It’s done, you’re safe” Upon hearing this, Thalia nodded, her grip on Lucivar’s hand tightened.

“Are you hurt?” “A bit sore, but nothing that I couldn’t handle” “That’s good…” Thalia stayed silent-for a solid minute after that exchange, but she didn’t let go of Lucivar’s hand for some reason.

She still gripped it tightly.

As Lucivar was about to pull his hand away-she stopped him and continued.

“I called Fabio as a favor for you but I don’t think that’s a favor enough for repaying you” “It’s fine, I don’t need anything from you” “Still, there must be something I could do for you.

With this, you saved my life twice.

Ask me for something, anything, please.

I’ll do anything you want.

Owing you made me feel guilty so ask me for something” Lucivar raised an eyebrow, it seemed Thalia really didn’t like owing someone.

Finding that he couldn’t make her let go until he asked for something, Lucivar pondered.

He tapped his chin with his finger a couple of times before an idea came to mind.

“How about you introduce me to your sister, Elira?” “Eh…?”