Ascension of the Dark Seraph - Chapter 90

Chapter 90: You’re Not My Equal Chapter 90: You’re Not My Equal Broken bones, severed fingers, damaged internal organs, and marred with bleeding wounds.

If a normal person suffering from that pain, one would find them paralyzed.

However, that wasn’t what was happening with Lucivar-he was bleeding and in pain beyond measure, but as opposed to being paralyzed, he was laughing hard.

He could now see vividly the path to becoming stronger, it was right before his very eyes.

All of his senses, mind, and desires were fixed on killing the doppelganger.

Everything else other than this falls apart.

Despite his body swelling, and becoming more toned along with his human fangs elongating, he did not realize it, his senses had already narrowed to the doppelganger’s hard breath and beating heart.

As this transformation continues, a gathering of light can be seen meters away from him.

A pure white light gathered and morphed into a woman figure.

Had Lucivar retained his sanity at this moment, he would have recognized this woman as the one who appeared moments, before Delilah’s death.

She returned and saw Lucivar in his bad state, maniacal, and lost his senses.

Her entire body was made entirely of light but one could see the worry on her face.

In a hurry, knowing that time was not on her side, she rushed towards Lucivar.

“Lucivar, can you hear my voice?” She asked, caressing Lucivar’s cheek.

But even then, Lucivar didn’t respond and kept glaring at the crawling doppelganger.

Biting her lower lip in stress, the woman of light grabbed the halo above her head and placed it above Lucivar’s head.

She chanted a few words, causing the halo to glow brightly and took ahold of Lucivar’s body.

It shone from above, washing over Lucivar from top to bottom, cleansing him.

For a second there, it seemed to be working as the darkness from Lucivar was rinsed.

However, in the next second, Lucivar shook his head and returned to being feral.

“He rejected it?

He didn’t want to be pulled from the darkness?” the woman of light frowned, she could tell that Lucivar’s soul was being pulled deeper-into the darkness.

“Lucivar, I beg you…

you are the last of us!

Don’t listen to them-listen to me!

Focus on my voice!

Do not kill anymore, there are other ways to become stronger and help everyone!” “If you fall to the darkness, there will be no more Angels!” She screamed desperately.

Despite her tears and desperation, Lucivar didn’t answer and kept trying to stand up.

He couldn’t hear her anymore, there was only blood in his mind.

“You will not get away with this!” the woman of light shouted, looking around-as if she was talking to someone invisible.

“I’ll never stop fighting all of you!

One day, believe me, one day he’s going to return to the light!

Mark my words!” Responding to her declaration, the ground underneath her feet turned into red sands.

She was pulled inside, the sand clutched onto her and pulled her down.

No matter how much she struggled, she couldn’t break free.

In a last desperate attempt, the woman of light’s form glowed brighter than ever.

At the exact same moment-as that happened, Leandra’s eyes widened when she suddenly caught sight of the woman of light, being dragged down.

It was so surreal-she thought she was dreaming.

But she wasn’t, she was fully aware.

“Stop him!” the woman of light shouted.

“If you want to help him, don’t let him kill anymore!” “Eh…?” Leandra was perplexed, her mind trying to grasp the situation.

However, that moment lasted seconds as the woman of light was swallowed by the ground and disappeared.

Leandra blinked her eyes and focused back on the moment.

She was not sure whether what she saw was real or not but she was compelled to move.

“Stop!

It’s dangerous to get close!” Mirel shouted, seeing Leandra sprinting towards Lucivar.

She didn’t heed his warning and did what she felt like the right thing to do.

Cutting through the vicious rain that had become stronger, Leandra was soaked but she was able to reach Lucivar at the exact time he regained his footing.

Even with her barring the way-he pay her no heed and kept stumbling forward.

Leandra tried to reach for Lucivar but yelped when her hands got close.

She realized that Lucivar’s body was emanating heat-so hot that the rain evaporated before it touched his body.

Determined, Leandra channeled her ether, and pushed her arms through the barrier.

It was hurting her, the heat peeled her skin but she kept going and held Lucivar’s face.

“Snap out of it, Lucivar!

You’re destroying the city!” Leandra screamed.

Realizing that he was not stopping, Leandra teared up, it was heartbreaking to see Lucivar in this state, more animal-than human.

Deciding that she would go all out, Leandra, channeled her power.

“Graarggh!” She grunted as her ether became rampant.

Purple flashes flickered across her body, her eyes glowing as darkness seeped around them.

As she did that, a purple star symbol appeared on her forehead, a symbol of her bloodline.

For a second there, Lucivar was overwhelmed by her massive amount of ether.

He blinked his eyes and regained consciousness-only to see Leandra right in front of him.

Lucivar saw her panting heavily with her power exposed clearly, but the most surprising one was the symbol on her forehead, the purple star symbol-that he recognized.

As a matter of fact, the classes had explained her bloodline.

In class, he was told that whenever he entered a dungeon, he needed to pay attention.

Of course, there were several things that he needed to pay attention to.

But one of them was a Human with a purple star symbol on their forehead.

A long-lost Hybrid taken by the Crossers, a Hybrid with the rare Star Witch bloodline, having the ability to summon a dungeon into the Crossers’ world and have an immense suppression power-Lucivar was shocked to realize Leandra possessed it.

No wonder her ether reserve was so vast.

“What are you-” “Don’t kill the doppelganger, I don’t want you to kill him” “Let me go, I need to kill him if I want to be stronger.

You don’t understand” “I’m sure there are other ways.

Just please, don’t kill it” Upon hearing this, Lucivar looked down, he had a lot to lose if he didn’t do it right now.

Other than having a killer stalking him constantly, he also would lose more and more of his power the longer the doppelganger is alive.

Not to mention, he would also be stuck, at the Neophyte rank, which he didn’t want.

“Let me go or you’ll be my enemy too…” Lucivar finally said, his voice laced with warning.

Seeing the lethality behind Lucivar’s eyes, Leandra knew that he wouldn’t budge.

And the thought of being Lucivar’s enemy-it made her chest tightened.

Despite not wanting him to kill, she didn’t want that so she decided to compromise.

“Okay, I’ll let you kill the doppelganger,” She said, moaning in between from the pain, the heat was still scorching her arms.

“But if you want to kill him, you’d have to do it consciously.

Don’t lose your mind to this weird power of yours” Lucivar scoffed when he heard this, “Fine, get out of the way” He didn’t know why he was listening to Leandra’s request but he said it already.

“Here, use my knife,” Leandra tilted her body, showing her unsheathed knife on her waist.

She needs to keep her focus on Lucivar, his power is still rampaging a lot.

If there were more stimulus-she wouldn’t be able to suppress him, which was quite a shock knowing the kind of bloodline she has.

Fortunately, the doppelganger was already defeated, he wouldn’t be able to do anything to instigate Lucivar.

As opposed to taking the knife, Lucivar pushed her away, “I don’t need it” Going past her, he went over to the doppelganger who was still crawling on the mud.

The Viper Spirit’s bite sent venom coursing through him-slowly paralyzing his body.

“Stay away!” He shouted desperately.

Lucivar grinned, “Where is all that bravado gone?

I thought you were stronger than me” Upon nearing the doppelganger, Lucivar’s eyes mildly widened when something materialized on his hand.

It was a deep red staff, made of steel, featuring glowing hieroglyphs-across its entire form.

At the top, a stylized jackal head made of gold could be seen.

Once Lucivar gripped it tightly, the staff-emitted a faint glow of bronze light-and crackled with bronze lightning.

Lucivar didn’t do this, it was the now power inside of his Supernatural Ego that summoned this.

Even then, he accepted this weapon and stumbled towards the doppelganger.

He fell down to his knees, grabbed the doppelganger’s back, and flipped him over.

Helpless, the doppelganger couldn’t fight back.

Lucivar mounted on him and raised the staff with both hands, the pointy edge pointing at the doppelganger’s heart.

He was delivering-the last blow, “Even if I lose now, it doesn’t change the fact that you’re weak.

Deep down you still cared about these people-and that weakness would be the end of us” the doppelganger said.

Upon hearing this, Lucivar’s arms froze in place.

It seemed he was hesitating.

But as the doppelganger was about to say more, Lucivar’s eyes glowed bronze.

He tilted his head a little and looked at the doppelganger with pity.

“You said I would never beat you without killing myself,” Lucivar said, his voice filled with the essence of ridicule and pity.

“well-you’re wrong.

I do not need to kill myself to defeat you-because you’re not my equal.

You’re the weight I’ve already outgrown, and with your death, I am stronger” Listening to this, the doppelganger paled, shuddering under Lucivar’s intense, cold gaze.

“You’re not the best of me, you’re just nothing…” He added.

Gritting his teeth, the doppelganger was about to say something more but Lucivar didn’t give him the chance to say more, by stabbing his throat with the staff-breaking his win pipe, and silencing him for good.

In the last breath, the doppelganger only looked at Lucivar with unwillingness.

But death had already picked him up as his eyes dimmed.

Upon killing the doppelganger, the storm stopped and the night sky turned clear again.

Feeling that the enormous power coming from Lucivar disappeared, Leandra, let go of him and panted heavily.

Her ether reserve almost depleted completely from keeping Lucivar at bay, and thankfully it stopped.

Everything returned to silence once again, the city regained its peace.

Mirel and Leandra looked at Lucivar who was unmoving.

Just then, Lucivar’s body suddenly gushed with greenish ether, splashing like torrents.

Lucivar laughed aloud as the doppelganger’s body disintegrated-turning into Loki’s energy, empowering his body, rapidly.

Something inside of him was unlocked, his wing fluttered, and in the next second, a shockwave of ether exploded outward.

It was a strong shockwave that pushed Mirel and Leandra back.

Once both of them recovered, they saw Lucivar was now standing upright.

His wounds were still there but his entire body was now steaming with violent golden ether.

Sensing the aura that his body emanated, Leandra’s eyes widened, “He…

He broke through” “He reached the realm of Acolytes!”