Ascension of the Dark Seraph-Chapter 266: Not Being Helpful

It took the whole day for the first round to end.

Now, out of the thousand participants, a whopping seven hundred of them were eliminated.

Earlier, about two hundred participants forfeited, knowing that there was no chance for them to beat the first ninja. Approximately, each battle took around a minute to three minutes to finish. Of course, there were some fights that ended in less than a minute, but even then, the first round lasted the entire day.

Once it was over, the announcement was made for those who passed.

Then, the events for today ended.

For the second round, it will start tomorrow morning.

Among the people who exited the stadium, Leandra and the others emerged.

"I didn't know the second round would start tomorrow…" Bakar complained.

"Yeah," Nerissa smiled acutely. "We barely saw Lucivar and Mirel."

Not even entertaining their talk, Leandra reached for her pocket and took out a key card.

"Here's our key," She said, handing it over to Nerissa. "Master Tobias already booked us a room in the Mercury Hotel nearby—so that we don't need to go back and forth from the academy to here. I already checked in earlier for us, you guys could go straight to the room."

"What about you? Aren't you coming too?" Ravenna intervened and narrowed her eyes.

"I will," Leandra turned towards her. "But I need to go to the toilet first. I'll see you guys in the room."

Leandra didn't wait for the others to reply and walked away.

She squeezed through the crowd and separated from the others.

On the other hand, Ravenna watched until Leandra's figure disappeared into the crowd.

Then, she turned to Nerissa, "Speaking of going to the toilet also made me want to go too. Go on ahead without me. I'll come back with Leandra later. Oh, also, I'm tagging the left side of the bed. Don't you dare use that side."

Just like that, Ravenna also walked away, disappearing into the crowd.

Nerissa and Bakar exchanged a look as they got left behind.

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Meanwhile, Leandra was fixing her eyes on a hooded person ahead.

It was the woman she presumed to be the one who attacked Lucivar back in the night market.

From the moment she noticed the woman, she has been keeping track of her.

'Keeping her hood down like that, she's acting suspicious,' She thought.

Leandra kept her ether tightly suppressed—as she shadowed the woman from behind, trying to discern her identity, but it was proving difficult. If she wanted a clear look at the woman's face, she needed to see her from the front rather than from behind.

But the woman was walking fast, and the crowd also made it difficult to approach her.

'I could use a spell, but that would attract attention,' Leandra clicked her tongue. "This is frustrating.'

Having no other choice, she continued to follow the woman.

Soon, the woman reached the street and quickly made her way to the bus station.

On the other hand, Ravenna, who was also stalking, followed Leandra and noticed something.

'Hmm…' She frowned, smelling negative energy in the air. 'Someone is watching Leandra.'

Even though she couldn't sense exactly what the negative energy represented like Lucivar could through killing intent, this constitution of hers was still quite handy. It was one of the reasons—she could notice Lucivar was the source of negative energy and decided to approach him back then.

Glancing to the side, she reached for a beanie on the ground and wore it.

'If someone is following Leandra, they might also know me.' She thought, pulling the beanie down.

At least with the beanie, she could change her appearance a little.

Just then, out of nowhere, the hooded woman that Linthia was following sprinted.

She sprinted past the bus station without looking back.

Leandra was stunned when she saw this, but she recovered quickly and chased after the woman.

Several paces behind, Ravenna didn't sprint.

Instead of chasing after them, she focused, looking around to see who the person who was watching Leandra. She remained composed and natural, and sure enough, she passed as a passerby since on the other side of the street, three men fast-walked in Leandra's direction.

Upon seeing this, Ravenna's eyes gleamed with a dangerous glow of crimson.

"Found you." She mumbled.

Moments later.

"Haahk!"

A man in a black trench coat fell to the ground in shock.

One could see both of his eyes opened wide, fear clearly displayed as they fixed on a woman.

A woman who towered in front of him.

A few minutes earlier, he noticed a pair of glowing orbs in the shadow.

Initially, he thought nothing of these glowing orbs until he came to realize that these crimson orbs were actually a pair of eyes. Before he could even react, a woman leaped out of the shadows and killed one of his friends, the strongest one, in an instant before killing the other one.

Each died from having their windpipe ripped from their throats.

Now, the man was the only one left.

Ravenna tracked them down into an alley where the woman Leandra was following ran into, and quickly intercepted these three men. She killed the other two smoothly, thanks to the element of surprise, and let the last one alive for an obvious reason.

"How many of you are there?" She asked with a cold tone.

Hearing this, the man's eyes sharpened with clarity.

It was only then that he realized this woman, Ravenna, was among the group.

He was too caught up with Leandra earlier that she didn't realize Ravenna was nearby.

Considering that Leandra seemed to be separating from the group, he thought she was going to be alone. Even if someone from the group changed their minds and decided to go with Leandra, they would've caught up to Leandra before they exposed themselves.

Who would've taught Ravenna to also follow Leandra silently?

"If you expect me to talk… You will have to kill me first!" The man growled fearlessly.

Ravenna tilted her head, "Okay, thanks for telling me your resolve."

Splash!

Not even hesitating, she lunged, grabbing the man's throat and ripping it with one swift motion.

She killed him instantly without a second thought.

"I wouldn't waste my time on you," Ravenna continued before he straightened her back.

Seeing the three corpses around her, she scratched the back of her head.

"Now what am I going to do?"

Meanwhile, Leandra's brows furrowed.

Even though she was really running, not using any ether or anything, but certainly much faster than any other normal person out there, she couldn't catch up to the woman. As a matter of fact, she was a bit slower than the woman.

'She didn't have a trace of ether in her, so how come she's this fast?' She thought in disbelief.

Then, she decided to use her ether to boost her speed.

As expected, she began to catch up to the woman.

Just then, once the woman took another left, she stopped when she realized it was a dead end.

She has no time to turn around as Leandra already appears from around the corner.

"Who are you?" The woman asked, straight to the point. "What do you want from me?"

"You're the one who attacked Lucivar in the night market, aren't you?" Leandra replied with a question.

"And…?" Ciri raised an eyebrow. "He was about to attack innocent people, and I stopped him."

"Stop him?" Leandra's eyes narrowed as her ether, transformed into starlight attribute, seeped out of her body like sizzling steam. "You almost killed him! I know he's sometimes a bad person, but he can still change. You managed to stop him, so why go to such lengths to kill him?"

"Change…?" Ciri's brows were raised in shock.

For a second there, she was frozen still, and when she recovered, her eyes narrowed.

"You knew what he is, and yet you still believe he can change?" She asked incredulously. "Are you also an avatar? His Vestal? Or are you maybe someone who he groomed—and manipulated with his devious tongue?"

Leandra was confused.

She was supposed to be angry that Ciri said those things, but some parts of what she said were weird.

'Avatar? Vestal?' She thought in confusion.

Noticing the confusion behind Leandra's eyes, Ciri realized that she didn't know anything.

She didn't know that Lucivar was Loki's avatar.

Or perhaps, she didn't know anything at all.

"Are you going to kill me?" Ciri asked, her eyes glowing with the blaze of the sun.

Upon hearing this, Leandra raised both hands, "Anyone who threatens my family paid the price."

"Family…" Ciri repeated and scoffed. "Even if the Devil's family is good, they're still wrong."

Swish!

Leandra forced her eyes shut when Ciri's eyes glowed with a blinding light.

She was late to react for a second—her eyes caught a glimpse and were now throbbing.

Upon opening her eyes again, she saw Ciri was already sprinting up the wall and leaping over her.

Instinctively, Leandra tries to grab her hand, but her hand turns into sunlight.

She couldn't stop Ciri.

Gritting her teeth, starlight ether surged from her body as she prepared to chase after Ciri.

However, as she was about to dash, Ravenna reached her and stopped her.

"What are you doing?!" Leandra barked, her nose flaring in anger.

"Don't," Ravenna shook her head. "Caldaros was close with a woman outside of the academy. Bob saw the woman, but couldn't describe anything about her other than her light power. Since this woman has light power, I'm guessing it's her."

"Even so, she's the one who almost killed Lucivar! We can't let her go!" Leandra argued.

"You're being reckless," Ravenna sighed, pushing her back hard. "I'm not doing this because I don't think that woman deserved to die for what she did. I'm doing this because if she's close with Caldaros, then Lucivar must have a plan in motion for her. Killing her here would only mess his plan."

"Do you want to do that, Leandra?" She continued lightly. "Do you want to mess with him again?"'

As soon as Leandra heard that, her mind was thrown back to Kalinan City.

She recalled how Lucivar also warned her back then.

"Fine," Leandra reluctantly averted her gaze. "I'm going to get some fresh air."

Meanwhile, oblivious to them, a man was standing at the alley's mouth with his arms crossed.

Had they turned to look at the man, they wouldn't have realized that it was actually Lucivar.

'Leandra… you stupid fucking idiot,' Lucivar cursed inwardly—hiding his anger behind his stone-cold face. 'Ciri thankfully came, but you scared her away! Now I don't know if she will come tomorrow or not. Fuck! I already sowed doubt in her, and now she's chased away.'

Glancing to where Ciri ran off to, Lucivar clenched his jaw, 'I need to make sure she'll come again.'