Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 73

Chapter 73: Diamond-class Spell Chapter 73: Diamond-class Spell “Someone you do not mess with, for your own sake,” Andre said, gulping harshly as Lucivar’s face that night flashed in his mind.

“I know you’re strong Cathleen, but do not mess with that guy or you’ll sorely regret that decision” Finding that Andre was being for real, Cathleen frowned.

She didn’t expect there to be strong academy hunters in the academy.

If they were really that strong, Cathleen didn’t understand how they ended up here.

Andre glanced at Leandra and sucked in a cold breath.

“He has a friend too…?

I’m sure that pretty girl is also strong as heck” He whispered.

Cathleen’s attention was also pulled to Leandra’s back, and she rubbed her chin in thought.

“Purple hair…” She muttered inwardly.

“Oh, is that the girl Thalia was talking about?” Meanwhile, Lucivar and Leandra reached the third level.

Unlike the first and second level, the third has its floor covered in soft white and blue carpet, and the sound coming from the levels below was also silenced-as the entire floor was quiet and serene.

Lucivar looked around and found three tubes that stretched from the ceiling to the floor.

Inside of each one was a spellbook, levitating and radiating with an aura.

“Welcome, how may I help you?” Out of nowhere, the homunculus, Kalvin approached from the side seeing their arrival.

“We’re here to see and perhaps borrow a Diamond-class spellbook” “Right this way” Kalvin led the two toward the tubes with steady steps.

Arriving in front of the left tube, Kalvin presented them with a manuscript in front of it.

Just as they initially expected, this manuscript was the description of the spellbook.

“Since both of you I assumed are not a Vampire Hybrid, this is the only spellbook, you could borrow from the library.

Attempting to use the other two spellbooks would be dangerous so it is best to not attempt it” Kalvin explained, donning an assuring smile.

Lucivar nodded his head, he already knew about this.

Averting their gaze from Kalvin, the two read the manuscript curiously.

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Soul Warden A Diamond-class binding spell, Soul Warden is a formidable spell aimed to latch onto a target-binding their soul through an intricate sigil.

The spell requires an immense amount of ether to form the mark, drawing heavily-from the caster’s reserves.

Once anchored, the mark will be eternal, persisting until the target manages to unbind it from their soul.

It has three stages and the effect could vary depending on the Hybrid’s bloodline.

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Reading the manuscript, Lucivar was instantly in love with the spellbook.

‘A spell that binds the soul?

Heck yeah!’ He thought excitedly.

Knowing that his bloodline also consists of different Gods including Loki the Sly One, he was excited to have this spellbook, as that would mean the effect of the Soul Warden spell would vary depending on which God’s power he used.

It was the perfect spellbook for him who has multiple bloodlines in his blood.

On the other hand, Leandra was disinterested.

She turned to Kalvin, “Can I see the other Diamond-class spellbooks?” “As I said it will be dangerous for non-Vampire Hybrid,” Kalvin replied.

“If the Soul Warden did not suit your taste you could browse many strong Gold and Silver-class spells below.

I do not recommend trying the other Diamond-class spellbooks” Upon hearing this, Leandra waved her hand.

“Don’t worry about it, I’m going to be fine” “Very well…” Before going, Leandra turned to Lucivar who was still fixed on the manuscript.

“Are you taking the Soul Warden spellbook?” “Yes, I am.

No doubt about it” “I should’ve expected, soul binding spell is more suited for your taste” Leandra checked the other Diamond-class spellbooks, while Lucivar asked Kalvin to borrow the Soul Warden spellbook.

Instead of giving the book itself inside the tube-glowing with a grey aura, he was given a copy of it instead.

He was then brought to another room behind the tubes by Kalvin.

It was a spacious square-shaped room with what seemed to be a stone altar at the center.

“Since Professor Aeldric gave you the permission-you could train here and hog the book for yourself for three days maximum.

Food will be delivered to you through the door there to the left, and the remaining time will be displayed on a holographic clock above you,” “What if I want to stop before the three days are over?

Will the time be saved?” “No, the moment you step out of the room, you will also burn your chance” “So I have to stay here, huh…” “Yes” “How about that altar?

What was that thing for?” “It’s a tool to help you learn the Soul Warden spell, the instructions are written there” Upon hearing this, Lucivar nodded his head.

“Is there any more question you want to ask me?” “No, that’s enough” “Understood.

Now, I will start the timer.

Good luck to you, Hunter Lucivar” As soon as Kalvin said that, he exited the room and when the door was closed, Lucivar saw the timer instantly appearing above the altar.

He has 72 hours to learn the spellbook, he did know that Hybrids needed time to effectively use a new spell.

Most would probably need weeks or even months to learn a new spell.

Especially when the spell is a Diamond-class spell.

Heading to the altar, Lucivar found a ball-of stone embedded in the table-and there was a carved-out shape there, a sigil that he suspected to be the sigil the Soul Warden spell would leave behind if it was successfully established.

Reading the instructions on the side, it was as he expected.

He would need to make the sigil exactly like the one on the ball to activate the spell.

However, before he started, he read through the spellbook first.

Just like the Versatile Blooming Hyacinth Technique-that Delilah taught him, the content of the spellbook was a manual.

In the first few pages, he learned of the spellbook history-and also the effect of the three stages.

Historically, the Soul Warden spell is a complex twenty-sequence spell-created by a strong Paragon-rank Hybrid of the White Revenant bloodline.

Designed to bind the very essence of a soul, this spell was originally made to inflict physical-or mental damage after establishing an unbreakable connection between the caster and the victim.

It was not strong enough to damage other’s souls but still extremely useful.

As for the stages, the spell consists of three stages.

First is the Locator stage, second is the Debilitating stage, and last is the Offense stage.

Since the spell is not unique to any bloodline and could be used by anyone-the effect would vary, but still within the stages’ scope.

For instance-the spellbook mentioned that a Vampire Hybrid at the first stage of the spell would be able to locate the target if their heart raced.

An Elven with the power of the wind could locate the target if they moved fast, and so on.

No matter the bloodline, the first stage’s purpose remained the same-to locate.

Lucivar reads through the entire book and can’t hide his smile anymore.

“Twenty-sequence spell…?” he mused, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

“That’s five times more than my Greedy Grasp, isn’t it?

I should not be surprised.

Loki did say, the energy from that ability was insignificant” Even then, the Soul Warden is definitely an upgrade to his strongest spell or ability.

“Not to mention, I also have an Angel and Loki’s bloodline,” He whispered silently.

Knowing that the effect would vary, he was curious as to how his two bloodlines would fare.

Standing in front of the altar, he placed his hand above the ball and closed his eyes.

Soul Warden spell, unlike the Greedy Grasp ability, doesn’t need direct contact.

It could be created from a distance but couldn’t be too far.

Returning to the Inner Chamber, he stood in front of the Supernatural Ego and focused.

Swish…

Channeling his ether, all twenty ego points gleamed in response.

Lucivar recalled the twenty-sequence before he began making it-connecting one ego point to another with precision.

He could feel, that making the sequence was easy, there were not a lot of hiccups.

All of the green sphere, Loki’s Divine Blood, brought two effects.

One is increasing his ether reserves, the other is increasing his mastery over ether control.

Because of that, making the sequence was not hard at all for him.

One sequence, two sequences, third sequences, everything went smoothly.

However, that drastically changed when Lucivar reached the thirteenth sequence.

He could see that the ether stopped mid-way, it was gradually getting harder to control, and in this sequence, moving the golden dot became extremely hard, it was as if he was pushing on a boulder with only his mind.

Despite the increasing weight, he gritted his teeth and pushed further.

Lucivar could feel his mind and Supernatural Ego throbbing from being exerted this much.

“Kahkk!” Blood suddenly climbed to his throat and out of his mouth.

It instantly causes him to lose focus and the ego point dimmed once again.

He failed his first attempt spectacularly.

“Learning a spell through a spellbook is harder than I thought,” Lucivar panted heavily, this was not what he had in mind.

“compared to the Radiant Burst-I learned it almost instantly due to how easy it was” Just then, he remembered what Mirel explained to him.

He said that higher ego points meant one could use more spells at the same time.

Casting the same spell two times is possible but Lucivar hadn’t seen anyone doing that.

Even the others, Lucivar had seen them fight but none of them were able to do that.

Only then did he realize what was going on.

“So that is it…

having a high number of ego points makes it possible to do that-but the more ego points one uses, the harder it becomes” Lucivar frowned, he had not told anyone-about his Greedy Grasp ability other than Sabrina so nobody had taught him this.  It seemed he was going to learn it the rough way.

Nevertheless, a smirk crossed his face, “But that’s for normal people, not one like me,” “I have Gods inside of me,” He added and closed his eyes once again.

Lucivar made another attempt to make the twenty-sequence of the Sould Warden spell-but when he reached the thirteenth sequence, the golden dot, refused to move again.

Instead of forcing through, he channeled another energy of his.

Tapping onto the versatile energy strands, he used it on his own Supernatural Ego.

A green beam shot from Loki’s statue and struck the egg state at the center.

Almost instantly, Lucivar felt the golden dot become lighter-and pushing through the rest of the sequences, was way easier for him.

One strand was enough-to allow him to achieve the twentieth sequence.

Making the full cycle, Lucivar opened his eyes and saw his hand was glowing golden.

He then saw the golden light carving the mark on the ball slowly.

But as this continued, Lucivar suddenly felt his arm trembled violently.

A rush of ether entered him and caused the glow to glow even brighter, “What’s happening?!”