Ascension of the Dark Seraph-Chapter 339: So Much For Being Reasonable

Leandra already talked to Ravenna earlier about this.

Both decided to wait until Lucivar came back before confronting Master Tobias.

It seemed like her, Ravenna, was also edging on finding out more about the situation—but she failed to restrain herself from doing something. But Leandra wasn’t that mad knowing Ravenna had spent more time with Bob than she had.

Naturally, Bob’s disappearance affected Ravenna more than her.

"Sigh... She has always been free-spirited. I should’ve expected she’d do this."

She shook her head and turned around, already thinking of what she would say to Lucivar.

But then, she stopped.

Chirp!

Leandra snapped backward and frowned.

She heard something hitting the edge of the window frame, and it sounded like a bird.

As expected, there was a bird, a night songbird, sprawled on the floor.

It was a species of songbird that could be found a lot in Sunhold City, one that was active at night.

"What happened to you, little bird?"

Leandra approached and squatted down, patting the bird’s head with her index finger.

She played with it for a moment, finding it rare for one to be stationary like this since most of the time, the night songbird always flies away whenever anyone gets too close. And during that time, she noticed something odd.

"Are you hurt...?"

For a couple of times already, the night songbird has tried to fly away.

But it couldn’t.

Every time it tried, it always fell flat against the floor, as if its body were too heavy for its wings.

Leandra grabbed the night songbird gently and stood up, inspecting it under the moonlight—searching if there was any wounds on its wings. But there was none; the night songbird was completely fine, which caused her to frown in confusion.

It was then, she noticed something.

More night songbirds fell.

Leandra could see some passing the window, plummeting, as they flapped their wings desperately.

She poked her head out the window and looked down.

"Hmm, what’s going on?"

On the ground, right beside the dormitory’s side, there are at least a dozen night songbirds sprawled.

All of them were in the same exact condition as the night songbird in her hand.

Feeling that something was eerily off, Leandra circulated the ether inside her Supernatural Ego.

She closed her eyes, tapped into her starlight attribute, and expanded her senses.

But not even two seconds, her eyes snapped open again.

"I can’t sense anything... What is going on?"

As soon as she said that, her eyes flicked ahead when she saw a shooting star in the very far distance.

No, not a shooting star, a rising star instead.

Leandra spotted a brilliant dot of light in the distance, not far—seemingly within the walls of Sunhold City, judging by its size—slowly ascending toward the heavens. She tilted her head, observing the rising star with quiet intrigue.

"A firework? Is there a festival?"

Even though it was quite close, the radiance from it made it hard for her to see what it was.

Soon, however, another smaller dot separated from the rising star.

It was then followed by a distant explosive sound that even reached Leandra.

One that sounded like something breaking the sound barrier.

In her hand, the night songbird struggled to break free with fervor, almost like its life depended on it.

Leandra began to understand what she was seeing, but she tilted to look at the night songbird.

Just then, her eyes widened in shock.

Crash!

Suddenly, she felt a sting.

A sharp pain bloomed in her right hand—the hand that was cradling the night songbird.

And at the same time, a sudden breeze swept across her cheek, strangely warm for something so gentle.

A thunderous crash erupted behind her.

She flinched, her pupils trembled as the peaceful moment shattered like glass, the trance broken.

Instinctively, she looked down at her hand.

Blood trickled from a deep, fresh cut across her palm.

Confused, she touched her cheek and hissed.

Another cut—shallow, but precise.

"What in the...?"

Leandra gazed ahead, realizing that the walls in front of her were shattered, along with the window.

Then, she turned, and her breath was instantly caught. free𝑤ebnovel.com

However tidy Ravenna’s room was earlier, almost like nobody was sleeping here—it was all gone.

Now, the room was no longer the quiet chamber she had entered minutes ago.

It looked as though a storm had detonated within its walls. Furniture lay shattered, fragments of stone and splintered wood scattered across the floor. The once-gleaming walls now bore deep cracks, and at the far end, a single object burned with otherworldly presence.

A spear—sizzling, divine, and thrumming with a power that defied logic.

It stabbed into the corridor’s floor, the air around it warping from heat and devastating force.

Right beside the spearhead, the night songbird lay broken, lifeless.

Leandra staggered back a step, her voice caught in her throat. Slowly, her gaze turned back toward the sky where the star had risen. And in that instant, the pieces fell into place. It wasn’t a star. What she was seeing was a person.

And the dot that had separated from that person mid-ascent was the spear.

Thrown with such force that it broke the sound barrier.

Thrown from that impossible distance directly at her.

"Who...?" Leandra’s face turned pale, realizing that had it not been for the night songbird—struggling, her head would’ve been impaled by that spear. But she quickly recovered, guessing who it was, "Another one who’s aiming for Lucivar? Do I look like an easy prey?!"

Fuming, Leandra channeled her ether as her eyes instantly turned purple.

She glared at the brilliant dot hovering in the sky.

"No," She shook her head. "Fighting that thing alone will be stupid of me. I’ll call the others, no, the professors. Did that thing not think? I’m at the academy, and there are stronger people around. You should have picked a better time!"

Leandra turned around and ran out of the room.

But as soon as she stepped out, the feather that looked like an ornament on the spear’s handle glowed.

Splash!

"Grghh!"

She looked down at her thigh and saw the feather seeping into her skin.

And soon, a mark was formed.

"Great..."

Crash!

Leandra hurled herself sideways with a burst of telekinetic force, throwing her body low and shielding her head with both arms, right as hundreds of glowing feathers tore through the air—fired from outside of the building, ripping through the walls of the floor he was on right now with deafening speed.

They came like a divine barrage, relentless and precise, hammering the structure like a rattling gun.

Still covering her head, she crawled towards the staircase.

Pushing her body to crawl faster with the help of her telekinesis, which is stronger during the night.

’Where is everybody? How come I don’t hear any screams?’

Once she reached the staircase, she rolled her body and got down.

A few grunts escaped her lips before she continued.

Confused, Leandra kicked a door open and saw a fat student inside sitting on the bed, her hand.

Her hand hovered in front of her open mouth, a sandwich in hand, just about to take a bite.

She was not moving.

It was almost like time had stopped for her.

But Leandra soon realized time had truly stopped—the long hand of the clock stood frozen, unmoving.

"Great... turns out I’m the fucking moron," Leandra muttered with a humorless laugh, mocking herself for ever thinking the attack had a bad sense of timing. "Of course—they could stop time. It’s Lucivar’s enemy, most likely a damn God’s underling too."

She scoffed, bitter heat rising in her chest.

"I tried to be the reasonable one by staying put—and somehow I’M the one who gets attacked!"

Crash!

Leandra winced when the windows shattered as the glowing feathers returned.

But unlike earlier, she didn’t run.

She raised her hand, creating a purple translucent barrier, and blocked the incoming golden feathers.

Cracks appeared along the barrier, but she successfully blocked the barrage.

"Since I’m the only one who could move, there’s no other choice. I have to go on the attack..."

Leandra’s eyes narrowed, fixating on the brilliant dot of light that was getting closer.

Outside of the student dormitory.

It was rather serene despite the distant chaos.

Birds flopped on the ground, attempting to soar back into the sky but couldn’t, pressed down by a force that was naked to the eye but present every time they flapped their wings. It was almost as if something or someone didn’t want them to fly.

Just then, the chaos spreads.

Crash!

Leandra burst through the window of a room on the third floor, golden feathers following behind.

She plummeted down fast and crashed against the ground with a painful groan.

"Okay, what kind of God am I facing now?" She protested as she pushed herself to stand, bleeding cuts already marring her body from head to toe. "That fall wasn’t supposed to be that hard. Gravity shouldn’t be that strong."

Once she stood up, she tried jumping.

And as she expected, she could barely jump one foot from the ground.

Her body was extremely heavy, and that’s when she realized why the birds were acting that way.

Leandra glanced around, gritting her teeth—there were people everywhere.

A quick mental count told her there were at least eleven students nearby, and eight of them were couples.

Of all places, she had landed right in the middle of the academy’s infamous lovey-dovey spot.

"I need to get out of here, or else these students are going to die."

Leandra was about to run, but she realized an eye right above the student dormitory.

Not an actual eye, but an intricate symbol of an eye.

"Lucivar... you’re clever, aren’t you? No chance you wouldn’t see this coming, right? I’m in trouble here," Leandra bit her lower lip as she sprinted forward, having the main gate in mind to leave so that nobody would get hurt in the crossfire. "Surely, you anticipated this, right? We are important to you, right?!"

Behind—the barrage of golden feathers came out and rushed towards her.

Biting her lower lip, Leandra channeled her ether into her legs and sprinted with all her might.

She leapt over obstacles, zig-zagged between cover, and rolled across the ground—all to dodge the relentless golden feathers chasing her like guided missiles. It was the mark on her thigh—they were clearly locked onto it.

She had tried to tear it off, dispel it, force it away—nothing worked. It wouldn’t budge.

Once she reached the main street, panting heavily, she turned left and right.

It was then—her heart sank to her stomach.

Ten students were grouped on either side of the street, blocking the way.

Leandra would’ve been stoked if there were other people who could move, but she wasn’t stoked.

All of these students had one eye glowing golden.

It doesn’t need a genius to figure out that they were possessed.

"How am I getting out of here now...?"

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