Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 89

Chapter 89: Second God Chapter 89: Second God Lucivar bit his lower lip hard, holding his bleeding left hand.

His eyelids were trembling uncontrollably from the pain from having four of his fingers, sliced was nothing to scoff at, this was the bloodiest battle he had ever been in.

Lucivar very much hated the traditional confrontation like this, and this is the reason why.

Raising his gaze, he saw that the doppelganger was in the same condition.

As an exact copy of himself, the doppelganger also hated this situation.

But even then, the doppelganger was the first one to stand.

“I expected no less from you, bastard oracle, you tricked me to come out but in the end, you would never beat me,” He said, stretching his arms to the side menacingly.

“I am you and for that, you would never beat me without killing yourself!” “Raarggh!” Lucivar shouted furiously and rushed ahead again.

Every step was a painful step and yet he forced himself forward, fueled by his bloodlust.

Once again, their blades met in brutal, heavy strikes.

Each one was slower, dripping with blood and exhaustion.

Lucivar’s dagger carved a path across the doppelganger’s side, leaving torn flesh and a trail of searing red.

In return, the doppelganger’s knife answered with a deep thrust, lodging into Lucivar’s shoulder.

Both of them panted but they kept swinging, each swing more deliberate.

It was clear that each swing was intended to be the last.

Mirel and Leandra watched painfully as they saw Lucivar becoming weaker and weaker.

Lucivar’s blade sliced across the doppelganger’s collarbone and he stumbled-blood could be seen dripping down his chest.

In the next second, the doppelganger replied with a more violent slash, leaving a long crimson line from Lucivar’s face to his thigh.

“Graarggh!!” “Raarrgh!!” Gripping their weapons tightly, they struck each other and their blades collided.

Surprisingly, their blades snapped, flying into the air.

Not even needing a pause, both of them exchanged into a brutal fistfight, raw and feral.

‘Stronger…’ Bam!

‘I want to be stronger…’ Bam!

Lucivar vomited blood-he was caught by a punch that snapped his neck to the side, blood and even a tooth, flew out of his mouth.

It was a fierce blow, and before he could recover, a Radiant Burst spell exploded behind him.

Knowing that would happen, he also cast Radiant Burst, pushing the doppelganger away.

Both of them fell into the mud, coughing and groaning in pain.

But it was clear that Lucivar was disoriented more from that last, perfect punch.

‘How do I defeat myself if we have the same thoughts, skills, and abilities…?’ ‘How do I do…

that…?’ Pushing himself up, the doppelganger raised his gaze, and smiled when he saw that Lucivar was still on the ground, unmoving, “We both understand-that those who are evil inside are going to be favored by the world and become stronger.

It was the law of the world, only the strong survive…

Give up and let me take over your life, I’m the better version” “You’re weak because you’re not evil enough, and you can’t be the strongest if you’re not the most evil.

Look at the Gods, all of them are exceptionally strong and they are all evil beings-out of everyone you’re supposed to understand that” He added.

“Sunna!

She’s not evil if she’s slaying Loki’s avatars!” Lucivar refuted, gritting his teeth hard.

Not expecting to hear this, the doppelganger was stunned.

“Huh?

Really?

Is that really what you think?” Soon, the doppelganger’s stun turned into an overbearing laughter.

“She’s slaying Loki’s avatars because they got in the way of her-of something she wanted.

You’ll see.

Once Caldaros knows who you are, he’ll root you out” Lucivar couldn’t refute what the doppelganger was saying.

It was true since the serpent warned him of being under Caldaros’ radar.

“Just remember your failures,” the doppelganger added as he stood upright.

“your only family doesn’t love you and sold you out because of your weakness.

You could’ve prevented Delilah from dying if you understood your power sooner, but you did not, once again, it was because of your weakness” “My evil is more developed than yours, I’m not weak-the victor is decided!” He laughed.

Just then, however, Lucivar grimaced as he clutched the mud hard.

He was clearly influenced by the doppelganger’s words.

But then, his eyes widened.

“D- Developed…?” He muttered as a sudden realization struck him.

Several scenes flashed in his mind, giving clarity to his realization.

“It’s not fighting like you at all.

It spat at me and headbutted me like a maniac” Bakar’s voice rang inside his head.

Additionally, the fact that the doppelganger was manipulated into attacking also crossed his mind.

Lucivar’s eyes widened, as he slowly pushed himself up from the muddy ground, ‘I get it now…

Loki’s test, this doppelganger, he was meant to race me to see, which one of us can develop the most’ Lucivar realized that the doppelganger was an exact copy of him at that moment.

From the moment the doppelganger was formed, it was a separate individual.

It has the thoughts and abilities of him but after that, all the development is separated.

‘Just like the Soul Warden spell.

He was fooled not because I angered him by impersonating him, but because he does not have that spell, he doesn’t know.

Likewise, the doppelganger could enhance his wing and I can’t so I was caught off guard by him’ Coming to that realization, Lucivar who was prostrating, smiled, showing his bloodied teeth.

On the other hand, oblivious to this, the doppelganger stood before him.

He flared his wings to the side and bent it, aiming to pierce Lucivar’s body and end this.

Seeing this, Leandra pointed her hand forward, intending to help but Mirel pushed her hand down, “Don’t stop me, Mirel!

Are you really going to stand here, and watch him get killed?

Is that really what you want?!” “No, wait, something about him changed!” Mirel rebutted, trying to hold Leandra back.

But as the two were fighting, the doppelganger struck.

As his wing was about to puncture through Lucivar, however-Lucivar moved, throwing mud at him.

Seeing mud flying to his eyes, the doppelganger turned and that made his wing miss its mark.

Still laughing maniacally as his victory was in sight, the doppelganger threw a punch.

His punch landed but in the next second, an excruciating pain assaulted his crotch.

Lucivar smiled savagely as he kicked the doppelganger on his crotch.

It was so painful that the doppelganger instantly fell to the ground, screaming in pain with his hands holding his crotch.

Helped by adrenaline coursing through his veins-he stood up even with the pain.

“That’s a cheap shot!” the doppelganger complained, glaring at Lucivar.

But then, the doppelganger gasped when he saw Lucivar was already wearing his ring again.

Gritting his teeth, he turned and rushed towards his ring.

Lucivar slid and pointed his arm forward, a green spirit snake coiled around his arm and was able to whip the doppelganger’s hand in time-blocking him from getting his ring.

Surprised, the doppelganger looked at the spirit snake in confusion.

Since the key was ‘development’, Lucivar quickly summoned the magical mirrors.

He spent three essence bars to buy another ability and obtained this ability, Viper Spirit.

Now that he knows the doppelganger couldn’t obtain his new abilities, there was no need for him to hold back.

Eyes laced with malice, Lucivar leaped high above and swung his arm hard, aiming to punch the doppelganger to oblivion.

Bam!

Caught off guard, the doppelganger ate the punch with his face.

Lucivar’s punch was so hard that the mud underneath the doppelganger’s head splashed.

As he did that-his entire body began humming green but he was oblivious to the change.

Not stopping at that, Lucivar sunk his fingers into the wound on the doppelganger’s side, he pushed his fingers deep-and tore the skin, causing the doppelganger to scream.

But, as he did that, the doppelganger’s body melted into liquid.

Seeing this, Lucivar turned to the side and got back-handed on the face.

He was thrown away, rolling across the muddy ground.

Of course, exactly like him, the doppelganger also had bought another ability from Loki.

But as the doppelganger tried to run away, the spirit snake rushed towards him-and bit his shoulder, causing him to stumble and fall.

He grabbed the spirit snake hurriedly and twisted its neck, killing it instantly.

Even then, he felt dizzy, the venom was already in his blood.

It seemed the battle was nearing its conclusion.

Mirel and Leandra watched this brutal fight from the sight but were startled when Lucivar on the side, began to chuckle.

It gradually became louder and louder, beginning from a chuckle, and turning into an outright laughter.

Lucivar grabbed his face with his fingerless hand, his expression maniacal.

He could feel a tingle coming from his Inner Chamber.

“I can feel it!

Killing you is making me stronge- Karhkk!” Before he could say anything, he was thrown back and pinned to the house wall behind him.

Desperate-the doppelganger grabbed a sharp wooden stick submerged in the mud and did the most sensible thing to survive-enhanced it with ether and threw it at Lucivar.

The sharp wooden stick stabbed Lucivar in the chest and pinned him to the wall.

However, even then, the doppelganger shuddered when Lucivar kept laughing.

Even with a wooden stick penetrating through his chest, he kept laughing.

“I don’t know if I could win against you or not earlier but I was a fool,” Lucivar said-breaking the wooden stick.

Inside his Inner Chamber, the serpent saw the darkness of another statue was breaking.

“Not a chance.

I don’t care if you’re wearing my face or wielding my skills.

Not a chance I’d lose, not even to myself!” Rumble!

Upon hearing this, Leandra and Mirel jumped when they heard the sky thundered.

Both of them looked up and saw a hurricane was brewing and it instantly began to rain.

“It…

It’s clear before, when did it suddenly turn like this?” Mirel mused in disbelief.

Just minutes earlier-he was quite certain that the sky was clear, there were no clouds-and the sky was filled with glowing stars.

But all of that changed in an instant, storm clouds were now covering the sky, the air turned chilly suddenly, and rain began to fall.

Something was wrong, he could feel it.

Brought by the wind was also something rough-textured, forcing Mirel to raise his hand.

Looking at his hand to check what it was, he frowned, “What’s this?

Red Sand…?” On the other hand, Leandra kept her eyes fixed on Lucivar through the chaos.

She could feel a chill run down her spine, seeing him maniacal, almost as if he were a Demon.

Not to mention, she took a step back and gasped when she saw Lucivar’s wing grow bigger, and the feathers were flickering between the color emerald and dark bronze.

Blood squirted out because of this but Lucivar didn’t seem to realize it.

Lucivar’s eyes bulged as he became more unhinged.

He was becoming more feral with all the blood across his body.

“I’m weak because I’m not evil enough, you say?

Your evil is more developed than mine, you say?” Lucvar snarled, each word dragging blood from his lips.

“Good!

If I tear you apart right here, that means I’ve surpassed your evil, right?!  His laughter spiraled into a howl, eyes blazing with frenzied delight.

“I am Lucivar, the Blessed Oracle!” He screamed, smiling like a lunatic.

“You are just a cheap imitation of me, a mere speck pretending it can stand and withstand my darkness!” Immediately after he said that a lightning strike struck down.

And for that brief, searing flash, Leandra’s breath hitched.

Her pupils dilated-reflecting Lucivar’s maniacal form, his face replaced by something primal, and royal.

His eyes glowed intense gold, almost feral, and his face, was that a muzzle?

Fangs glinted, sharp and predatory, while pointed, upright ears crowned his head.

All formed in a shimmering bronze energy that seemed alive.

But then, as quickly as it appeared, the vision was gone, replaced only Lucivar’s actual form.

In her mind, that flash from the lightning strike revealed Lucivar’s true form.

However, in actuality, it doesn’t, it only reveals another part of him.

On the other hand, the doppelganger, also saw this flash, and from the way Lucivar’s wing was flickering, he knew exactly what was happening, “Did…

Did another God react to him?

Another one?!” Lucivar laughed hard and pushed himself out, freeing himself.

He could feel his Supernatural Ego infiltrated by another energy, a new source of energy.

Another God energy.

Within his Inner Chamber, another statue trembled and exploded, showcasing its form.

At the bottom, a glowing bronze writing could be seen.

“Set, Lord of the Red Sands”