Ascension of the Dark Seraph-Chapter 246: Preparation Complete

Lucivar remained silent for a while, staring at the wall as Leandra embraced him tightly.

She wept and cried, unlike her usual cold self.

Blinking and recovering from his daze, Lucivar shoved Leandra away, sending her to the ground. Then, he looked down at her, irritation clearly etched across his face, "Quit crying, you piece of shit. Do you think I want to wake up to you bawling like a damn baby? Is that supposed to make me happy?"

Leandra was stunned for a second, looking up at him in confusion.

"If anything, this only shows how little you view me." Lucivar scoffed. "You really think I'd die easily?"

In a rushed manner, Leandra wiped her tears and stood.

She could only smile acutely inside—it was so like Lucivar to take this as an insult.

Instead of seeing that losing him was devastating for Leandra, he took this as an insult to his strength.

Before Leandra could say anything, Lucivar had already turned away, "How long have I been out?"

"Ekhm…" Leandra cleared her throat and answered. "About ten minutes, not that long."

"Is it over?" Lucivar asked again.

"No," Leandra shook her head, glancing in a certain direction where Ravenna went earlier to check on the others. "I'm quite sure there's only a handful left and the strongest one, a Chrysalis-rank Hybrid, is still being handled by Bob."

"Bob is a Chrysalis rank?" Lucivar frowned. "What has he been doing? Do you know?"

"I think you should ask Ravenna or Bob directly if you want to know." Leandra shrugged.

Nobody was close with Bob, the only ones close enough were Ravenna and Darwin, since those two were the earliest to be taken in by Tobias and also the older ones. As for the rest, Bob was the only person who lingered in the background.

"Tch!" Lucivar clicked his tongue and dashed away. "Let's go."

From behind, Leandra watched his back going further away.

'I want to know what happened earlier...' She bit her lower lip. 'How can he revive like that?'

It took a moment for Lucivar and Leanndra to find the others.

Nerissa, Bakar, Mirel, and even Ravenna were cornering who seemed to be the last thug, a mutant.

A mutated Goblin Hybrid with dark skin.

Crash!

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Bakar threw a hard punch but missed, shattering a wooden stall as well as cracking the ground.

Then, a whip of water hacked the mutant Goblin Hybrid from below, lashing onto its face as it dodged Bakar's attack. In the next second—before the mutant Goblin Hybrid could recover, a yellow lightning shockwave struck it and sent it stumbling backwards.

Despite the vicious attacks, the mutant Goblin Hybrid was still standing.

Its body was hard as a rock, but there was no chance that it could win against his opponents now.

Raising his gaze, the mutant Goblin Hybrid's face turned devious.

His eyes burned with fury, his ether swirled in a rampage—and his body swelled even further.

"My patience has its limit and it has reached it," the mutated Goblin Hybrid said. "I've had enough."

Despite the threatening aura, the others weren't afraid.

"Ravenna." Mirel glanced at her and nodded.

Since their attacks were barely causing any damage, it was Ravenna's turn.

She has the strongest attacking power out of them all.

Ravenna doesn't seem to have all her mind in this moment, it took her a second before reacting to what Mirel said, and she bent her knees a little. She was about to strike, but stopped when a figure appeared out of nowhere and tackled the mutant Goblin Hybrid.

"This one is mine!" Lucivar declared.

Seeing this, the others, especially Ravenna, were stunned.

"Where did he come from?" Mirel scratched the back of his head.

"I don't think there's going to be a problem if it's Lucivar." Bakar shrugged nonchalantly.

"Right…" Nerissa smiled helplessly.

Mirel was slightly annoyed that Lucivar took the mutated Goblin Hybrid when it was a great sparring partner, while Nerissa—and Bakar were not complaining since this whole thing was surely orchestrated by Lucivar, and they already benefitted from it enough.

On the other hand, Ravenna froze.

Her chest tightened as she stared at where Lucivar crashed—alive.

No words escaped her lips, no audible sigh of relief, yet the tension in her shoulders unraveled.

She might have looked fine, but the stress weighed heavily on her, and due to that, her Predator Oculus wavered, her attunement to those she marked slipping, which was why Lucivar's sudden appearance—still caught her off guard.

Even the tightness in her chest, the pressure she hadn't even realized she was holding, finally eased.

'Right… As expected.' Ravenna thought and smiled lightly.

Ravenna didn't believe Lucivar was dead like that, but still, waiting for him to come back was unnerving.

It was a huge relief to see him fine and alive.

Meanwhile, Lucivar kept going, destroying multiple stalls along the way.

Once he reached quite far from the others, a great distance away, he abruptly shoved the mutant Goblin Hybrid—Zibbo. Stumbling but quickly regaining his footing, Zibbo spun around, ready to lash out, only to freeze the moment he recognized who had tackled him.

"L- Lord?!" Zibbo exclaimed.

"Did you forget what I said?" Lucivar raised an eyebrow. "I told you to leave once you're done."

"I was running, but that bastard, the one with yellow lightning, was fast enough to catch up to me. I didn't even fight back, but three others came and attacked me," Zibbo protested, his chest still heaving up and down rampantly. "If anything, I did well for not attacking them back."

"Huh…" Lucivar shook his head. "I guess you are Sutekh's Vestal. And for that, I know you won't be able to calm down without venting your anger out, so why don't you move on your own against your own gang? Destroy them, but only attack when you have the upper hand and can't lose."

"You mean attack the smaller bases?" Zibbo raised a brow, but then he smiled.

He didn't need Lucivar to answer as his mind was already anticipating doing exactly that.

"Go now," Lucivar waved his hand and turned around. "I'll call you when I need you."

"Oh, right…" Just as he was a few steps away, he stopped—and turned to look at Zibbo once again, "If you're slacking, not doing what I want, I will know. And best anticipate the punishment I'd give, a visit to Hell again perhaps."

Almost instantly, Zibbo's expression tensed.

His mind was thrown back to when he was first turned into a Vestal, and he dreaded that time.

It was excruciatingly painful.

Moments later.

As expected, the Hybrid Association came in cars full of Hybrids and swarmed the night market.

Lucivar and the others were questioned about the incident, but they answered without much problem, explaining to the officers that a group of rogue Hybrids had launched a blind massacre out of nowhere at the night market, slaughtering everyone in sight.

Fortunately, they had managed to take them down.

"Good, I don't think Ciri lingered around and caused problems for me." Lucivar nodded.

As planned, he got away with the murder of the thugs as well as some innocent people who were left behind.

None of the officers were suspicious of him, and that's good.

It was all thanks to the Morality Constellation.

Rudy's morality was twisted into a hostile and reckless one, forcing him to tell his people to attack the night market. Lucivar didn't know exactly how the Morality Constellation worked but judging from how it influenced Leandra, he could assume that it reacted to what he was feeling inside.

Inside, he was blazing with fury, all because of Caldaros.

Having to live a thousand lives of Loki's previous avatars made him seethe inside.

And with that, the Morality Constellation twisted others' morality according to his current emotion.

In Rudy's case, it turned his composure to blind anger.

Based on Zibbo, Rudy was a calculated person, and he relied heavily on that to rise in the ranks of the gang, being known to be the most level-headed one. But that was thrown out of the window, all due to the Morality Constellation.

Now, Rudy was dead, killed by Bob while his men were killed by the others.

Since their stories were consistent, and Bob, being a Chrysalis-rank Hybrid, they were let go.

Lucivar peered into his Inner Chamber and smiled at the piles of spheres.

Piles of emerald, gold, and bronze—waiting for him to absorb,

"It's a shame that I couldn't kill that Chrysalis-rank leader and also more of the people," Lucivar mused as he turned to the survivors whom healers now treated. "But I suppose this is enough for now. I can safely reach the Chrysalis rank with this."

"Everyone got stronger…"

Suddenly, a voice rang from behind.

Lucivar didn't need to turn to know who it was—Ravenna.

"Hmm… that's good." Lucivar answered and turned around, meeting her gaze.

Ravenna paused for a second before she opened her mouth again, "So do you… You got a lot stronger."

"Are you angry that I made the others stronger, not only you?" He asked.

Considering their deal, it was unfair for Ravenna that Lucivar was making the others stronger too. Not fair since she needed to make an attempt to get close to Lucivar while the others didn't, and if she was really angry, Lucivar wouldn't find it unreasonable.

"I'll sleep with you until the tournament starts, how about that?" Lucivar suggested.

Upon hearing this, Ravenna smiled a little in acknowledgment.

"What happened to you earlier?" She suddenly asked, recalling his death.

Of course, this question didn't surprise Lucivar.

It was quite bizarre that he was clinically dead earlier with no heartbeat for the sake of getting stronger.

"Did I worry you?" Lucivar smiled—and scratched the back of his head. He then approached, walking slowly towards Ravenna, and stopped right beside her. "Something about my bloodline, you don't have to worry. All you should know is that I'm now stronger than ever."

Crack!

Ravenna's eyes shot open when the ground underneath them suddenly cracked.

Once he did that, Lucivar walked away, leaving Ravenna stunned in place.

"What is that…?" She mumbled, eyes wide in absolute shock. Slowly, she glanced over to the side and found a small crater there where Lucivar had stood earlier. "He didn't move a muscle, and he didn't even use any ether, so how… how did he crack the ground? It's not an attribute either, he hasn't reached the Chrysalis rank."

Steps away, Lucivar smiled cheekily.

He knew that Ravenna was surprised and confused right now.

'My body is so much stronger now. I also retained a sliver of the red sand's aura, Duat's aura. A simple flex from my muscles could produce energy, one that no Hybrids could sense…' Lucivar chuckled inside, this is going to surprise Caldaros for certain. 'I'm looking forward to fighting you, Caldaros.'