Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 87

Chapter 87: Found You Chapter 87: Found You Meanwhile, Mirel and Nolan were guarding the people who were waiting for their turns.

It took about twenty minutes to half an hour for Lucivar and Leandra to escort a group.

And since there were still a lot of people who hadn’t sent their prayers since yesterday-they were eager to go right now.

Mirel gazed at the empty street, in the church’s direction with his arms crossed.

He was on guard after what happened with Lucivar.

Despite supposedly being stronger than Lucivar, he now realizes that he could die.

If he didn’t take this seriously, he would be the next victim.

Bakar almost died, he was supposed to take this seriously from the start.

Just then, Nolan whispered to him, “I’m going for a bit, nature’s call” “Don’t take too long, scream if you need help” Mirel replied.

Separating from the group and heading away to the city’s entrance, Nolan looked around to see if there was anyone around before he nodded and opened his pants.

Holding back for a long time, around half an hour, he was dying to go.

However, as he was about to pee, he rubbed his neck-feeling that he was being watched.

Nolan checked for the second time and found nothing.

But he then suddenly heard rushed footsteps from the side.

He sharply turned and widened his eyes when he saw that it was Lucivar.

Oddly enough, Lucivar was holding a knife and was heading towards him quickly.

“L- Lucivar, what are yo-” Not even finishing his sentence, Lucivar already blasted forward with the intention to kill.

His green eyes glowed as he leaped at Nolan fiercely, his arm was crossing his torso, fueled with the power to stab Nolan with the knife.

Just as he was about to strike, his eyes opened wide when he saw a streak of lightning coming straight at him.

Static crackled through the air around him before he was struck-punched in the face.

Lucivar was hurled back before making a backflip and landed crouching on the ground.

“Mirel!” Nolan exclaimed when he recovered from the initial shock.

He saw Mirel landing in front of him and unsheathed his katana.

Despite Nolan’s shock, Mirel was completely composed as he stood strong, “Go back,” “Don’t say anything to the people, don’t create unnecessary chaos” He added.

Upon hearing this, Nolan hesitated but decided to go back anyway.

Just as Nola began running, however, Mirel frowned when he saw Lucivar smiling.

He stood up, pointed his hand at Nolan as if it were a gun, and said, “Bang!” Immediately after he said that, Mirel’s eyes widened and he sharply turned to his behind.

But he was greeted by Nolan, nowhere-replaced only by flying pieces of meat, that fell from the sky.

Mirel’s expression darkened, Lucivar exploded Nolan’s body into pieces with nothing but a single spell.

Mirel sensed the change in ether but he was too late to react.

Pivoting back towards Lucivar, he saw Lucivar blowing on the tip of his fingers mockingly.

“So I guess I don’t need to ask you to prove who you are to me” “I am Lucivar and believe me, I really am” “Right…

I believe you.

Thunder Steps!” Blitz!

Casting a spell in an instant, Mirel dashed, his footsteps left behind trails of lightning.

He managed to blow past the distance between them and struck Lucivar with his katana.

A savage ether slash empowered by his Lightning Elemental bloodline.

Despite his incredible explosive speed, Lucivar managed to tilt his head enough to dodge.

Mirel’s katana was only able to cut Lucivar’s cheek, prompting him to smile.

“Well come on, then!

I’ll see how you’re going to kill me!!” …

Meanwhile, back to the church.

Lucivar stood there with his golden eyes fixed on Leandra.

His shadowed appearance made him look menacing, the air around him was dark, almost as if his entire body was sucking the light around him.

Even though Leandra had spent more or less a month with him and getting to know him, it felt like she didn’t know him at all.

‘I know that he was somewhat crazy but this…?’ She thought in disbelief.

Most of the time, Lucivar was trying to survive.

He was forced to exploit anything around him in order for him to survive.

Although there were things that Leandra didn’t agree with how he handled things, he was in a life-or-death situation, she could not-judge him.

But now, at this moment, he was not in a similar situation, he was not in a life-or-death situation.

So for him to exploit the innocent like this was another big step for Lucivar.

“What are you trying to accustom to now?

You already accustomed to killing” She muttered.

Lucivar tilted his head and understood where Leandra was coming from.

She did see him trying to accustom to killing by killing that guard.

“Now that you asked that,” Lucivar rubbed his chin.

“I guess I’m accustoming to being numb” “Numb?

What do you need that for?” “To get stronger, of course.

Power demands an unbreakable will, and I’m shaping mine” Upon hearing this, Leandra gritted her teeth.

Her eyes glowed with a purple light as her power reacted to her heightened emotions.

“No, I refuse to believe that you want to be numb.

Then what was that kiss for?” “What about it?” “Is it another lie of yours?

Did you kiss me only to lower my guard?” Lucivar didn’t answer, and his silence was enough of an answer for Leandra.

She bit her lower lip hard, the kiss felt amazing and her feelings for Lucivar were also attuned to that, but she couldn’t believe Lucivar did that only to buy time so that the proselytes could kill the group inside.

Slapped by the bitter truth, Leandra didn’t want to believe it.

‘I feel something in that kiss, I won’t accept this.

Changing this much for a person is certainly not possible, he hasn’t gone completely numb yet, I can still pull him out of that dark space, I can still fix him!’ She pondered, looking at Lucivar determinedly.

On the other hand, Lucivar turned towards the church’s entrance.

He frowned when he sensed someone before he averted his gaze back to Leandra.

“Bring that kid and go to Mirel,” Lucivar said commandingly.

Upon hearing this, Leandra squinted her eyes, her gaze demanded an explanation.

“You wanted to know why I did this, right?

Then go to Mirel, I’ll show you,” He added.

Just as he said that Leandra could see his shadow begin to climb over his body, it was such a surreal sight that she thought she was hallucinating but she was not.

Lucivar repeated his words, telling Leandra to go to Mirel before his body was swallowed and disappeared.

Once he disappeared from his spot without a trace, Leandra snapped out of her trance.

She quickly went over to the crying boy.

“Come, it’s not safe here” “No!

I want to stay with Mom, I don’t want to leave her!” “Okay, I’ll take your mom later.

For now, you need to come with me” “No!

I don’t want to!” Having no other choice, Leandra apologized and grabbed the boy before rushing away.

She dashed out of the church and sprinted through the empty street.

…

Mirel circled the doppelganger, capitalizing on his speed to the fullest.

He realized that he was faster than the doppelganger so he mostly relied on his speed.

Stopping at the doppelganger’s behind, he stomped the ground hard and dashed in, lightning trailed behind him as he made a slash.

But the moment his katana was about to strike, a wing sprouted and blocked his attack.

It was the same emerald wing that Lucivar had, the doppelganger is identical to Lucivar.

Gritting his teeth, Mirel went down and made a perfect dragon tail sweep.

A signature move of his that he perfected.

Naturally, the doppelganger wasn’t able to react fast enough and got knocked down.

Using another Thunder Steps spell once again, Mirel turned into a streak of lightning and came from in front where there was no protection from the wing.

But that was the wrong move as the doppelganger already anticipated his attack.

Mirel took another step forward but was surprised when the ground exploded.

It was a Radiant Burst spell that the doppelganger did in anticipation of Mirel’s next move.

He got knocked upward, grunting in pain before emerald chains wrapped around his body.

‘Oh, no!

I can’t move!’ Mirel exclaimed, he was restrained in the air.

Just before he could try to overpower the chains, the doppelganger was already on him.

Holding the knife with both hands, the doppelganger leaped from below and arrived before Mirel, with a nasty smile on his face, “Now-you die…

I’ll see how that bastard oracle would react with me sitting on your corpse!” As he said that, he stabbed downward, aiming to disembowel Mirel’s guts.

Since he was restrained, he couldn’t defend himself or cast a spell to block this.

‘I’m dead!’ He screamed inside his head.

For a moment, time seemed to slow as Mirel gritted his teeth, his eyes locked onto the knife.

He saw the knife make a strong and lethal arc with its tip nearing his stomach.

But when he thought that he would die and even accepted it as he deserved it for not taking the situation seriously from the start, he suddenly felt a chilling sensation from his back, and to his surprise, a hand blocked the doppelganger’s strike.

Both Mirel and the doppelganger had their eyes wide open when they saw this.

Shock pulsed through their minds as this was unexpected.

Lucivar emerged from Mirel’s shadow, gazing at the doppelganger murderously, “Found you.” Just before the doppelganger could recover from the initial shock, Lucivar cast Radiant Burst behind the doppelganger, propelling him forward.

Lucivar pulled Mirel and flipped his body to make a powerful axe kick at the doppelganger’s head.

His heel was enhanced with ether, sharpening it.

Bam!

Due to looking up-the doppelganger got struck in the face and crashed to the ground.

It was a lethal axe kick that broke the bones of the left side of the doppelganger’s face.

“Bastard oracle!” the doppelganger cursed, coughing out blood.

“Tonight will be your death!” Lucivar landed gracefully across the doppelganger with Mirel beside him.

He was casting a mocking look at the doppelganger.

Recovering from the shock, Mirel looked at Lucivar in utter confusion, “How are you here?” “Why don’t you check your hand?” Lucivar replied, giving him a knowing smile.

Still confused, Mirel flexed his muscles to break free from the emerald chains-and checked his hand as Lucivar said.

Then, he gasped, the mark from the Soul Warden spell that Lucivar put on him was glowing golden.

Only then did Mirel understand the gist of what was going on.

“You planned this?” “Of course.

I told you to have the intent to kill, and that’s for a reason…”