It was a new day and the first streak of sunlight began to seep from behind the clouds.
A single bus was zooming through the highway, not an ordinary bus but an armored vehicle that belonged to the military rather than an academy. No vehicles could be seen across the entire highway, there was only this one bus.
Soon, the armored bus passed a warning sign.
'Warning! Only military personnel and Hybrid Association mbers allowed!'
Even then, the driver stepped on the gas and went past the sign.
It had been three whole days since departure and now the bus was nearing its destination.
"Can you like... stop touching ?"
"And why should I stop?"
"I don't know—maybe because the driver kept checking on us from the rearview mirror?"
"Let him watch, we're not doing anything perverted anyway. Or are we?"
Lucivar, shuddered on the seat near the mirror, like a cornered puppy—the reason? Ravenna was sitting right beside him and kept teasing him. She was bored and depressed from being separated from the others with the boring Bob so she was very excited to co.
Once she heard from Nerissa that Lucivar needed help, she ca uninvited.
Bakar and Bob couldn't co because of their training so only five of them were here.
It was barely an assault team but that'll have to do.
Moreover, Lucivar barely saw Ravenna much less talked with her so it felt like they had not seen each other for a long ti. Or at least, that's what Ravenna felt, and due to that—she couldn't get her hands off of Lucivar.
"Can you at least scoot over?" Lucivar asked.
But Ravenna pouted at him, "Do you want to fall over? It's already cramped as it is"
"Fall over?" Lucivar blurted, incredulously. "You've got enough room behind you, to host a tea party! And your leg—your leg is practically glued on my thigh—and your breathing is so close I might as well start charging rent for personal space!"
Ravenna had been bothering Mirel on the first day.
And on the second until now, she changes her target to Lucivar.
She was currently pinching his bicep as if it was plushy and put her leg on his thigh, acting as if the place was cramped when the bus was bigger, and had three seats worth of space—but Ravenna chose to practically sit on Lucivar.
"You've beco manlier in my absence, how can I stay away from you?" She laughed.
Lucivar could only lean against the window, "At least that's a complint"
Naturally—with Sutekh's Divine Blood, his physique has gotten better and toned.
His muscles were now more chiseled and Ravenna noticed it instantly.
Even though that was a good thing—this made him unable to shake Ravenna as not only was she stubborn but she was extrely strong. Her grip was so strong—and all Lucivar could do was hope to arrive at their destination faster.
No use in arguing with Ravenna, her head was as thick as a rock.
Out of nowhere, Sha appeared above the headrest in front of Lucivar.
Her eyes were glued onto Ravenna.
"Be careful, her bloodline is a decent one" She warned.
Not expecting to hear this, Lucivar frowned, "Decent...? I'm already alert, don't worry"
Going all-out Lucivar viewed himself as stronger than Bakar, Nerissa, and Mirel, equal to only Leandra and weaker than Bob—and Ravenna. He was equal to Leandra because he sensed a change in the air around her.
It was highly likely that Leandra had also beco an Acolyte-rank Hybrid.
He knew Bakar could accumulate his natural ether through physical exertion, but other than him, he had no insight—into how the others cultivated their Supernatural Egos. Now that he had uncovered Leandra's bloodline, he found her bloodline might be second only to his own in sheer power.
So it wouldn't be surprising if she also reached the Acolyte rank already.
'But for Sha to warn like this, what kind of bloodline Ravenna has?' Lucivar pondered, he looked at Ravenna who was now resting her head on his shoulder while still playing with his bicep.
Due to how she acted, he didn't suspect her to have a strong bloodline.
Several hours later, the armored bus ca to a stop.
Leandra—and Nerissa ca down first and stretched, the direct heat from the sunlight was a lot more pleasant outside, than inside the bus. Mirel, Ravenna, and Lucivar followed behind, it has been quite a long travel.
Unlike the others who were stretching to get their blood flowing, Lucivar had it worse.
His left arm was dead, it was completely numb.
"Man, Ravenna didn't stop playing the rest of the way. My arm is dead," Lucivar complained.
However, he was soon distracted by the sight in front of him.
"Is that...?" Lucivar gasped in utter shock.
Ravenna nodded, "Yes, that's the slash from the Great Separation—the Nihil Rift"
Everyone knows about the Great Separation, and its product, that split the entire world into two called the Nihil Rift. But this was the first ti Lucivar witnessed it first-hand, his ho village wasn't anywhere near this place at all.
Before him was a multi-colored warp wall that stabbed into the sky and stretched the entire world. Its surface churned with unfathomable chaos, a dense, rolling maelstrom of alien-like energy that defied comprehension.
Bolts of crackling lightning danced erratically across its length.
Streams and waves of pulsating energy radiated outward, heavily distorting the air.
All of the shifting, searing, and throbbing of the chaotic energy made it feel alive.
It was a tear in the natural order of the world, a warp wall that separated Humanity for good.
'How far is it...? A hundred? Two hundred miles?' Lucivar gulped, sweat kissing down the side of his face. 'It's still very far on the horizon but I could feel the energy it exuded from here, its power is beyond anything I've ever seen or felt'
Other than separating the world, the area near the Nihil Warp was completely forbidden.
Lucivar was unclear about the matter—but he heard from rumors that the area near the warp was turned into a no man's land, it was filled with everything, that lusted for murder. Not only Crossers but the energy from the Nihil Warp also mutated the land.
Eerie and deadly plants, toxic waters, basically a juxtaposed of otherworldly things.
Only inner mbers of the Supre Houses could venture into that land.
Averting his gaze away from the Nihil Warp in the distance—Lucivar turned to the other side, to another armored bus. It was the upperclassn team, Lucivar heard that there was also a student who would act as a ntor.
He and the others hadn't gotten the ti to et with them due to ti pressure.
All of them imdiately got onto their own bus and departed because of that.
From the governor of Kalinan City—the portal was going to burst any mont.
Because of that, the team must depart as soon as possible.
Soon, the senior academy hunters team ca out of their bus one by one.
Lucivar didn't recognize any of them and frankly speaking—he didn't care about them as he was planning on finishing the dungeon without their help. Naturally, once these seniors saw the other team, their expressions turned unfriendly.
"Hmm, there's only six of them? No, five? I think we better prepare five graves"
"Don't say that, I don't think these bums are even worthy to be buried"
"I guess when you don't have anything like them, death becos tantalizing. Hahaha~!"
Upon hearing this, Lucivar and the others didn't give them much thought.
All of them were already used to these kinds of people—who viewed themselves higher just because of being born in a big city, 'I don't get it. How can they be arrogant when they're so weak? Besides, even if they were higher by birthright, they still ended up here with us. Does not that make the worse?'
Lucivar could only sigh in ridicule.
So might say morons are not needed in the world but they are, to be a lesson for others.
Just as Lucivar turned his gaze away, goosebumps surged through his frozen body.
Glancing back to the side, he sucked in a cold breath at the sight of the last person to co out of the other bus. A man with a blinding light aura around him, equipped with fangs—and also ruby eyes, a Vampire Hybrid that could walk under the sun freely, Caldaros.
Imdiately, Lucivar turned his gaze away.
He wasn't as much suppressed by the radiant light as before, he did get stronger.
But he could feel the rage bubbling inside of him again.
Just the sight of Caldaros, made his blood boil to the absolute degree, the urge of wanting to attack Caldaros was barely contained. Now that he was not as suppressed made it worse, he could really attack Caldaros right now.
Not only that, he got nosebleeds as the light was still affecting him.
His darkness was still overwheld by Caldaros' light.
"S- Sabrina..." Lucivar called.
Upon hearing this, Sabrina saw Lucivar was having a nosebleed.
She instantly rushed to him.
"What's wrong?"
"Bring away, I can't hold back any longer..."
"O- Okay!"
Putting Lucivar's uniform over his head—an extra that she had brought in case he needed to change, Sabrina scanned their surroundings and spotted a military officer approaching from the direction of Kalinan's City's gate to their right.
Without hesitation, she pulled Lucivar by the arm and strode toward the man.
"What happened? Is there a dungeon along the way?" the military man asked in surprise.
He saw Lucivar was bleeding from the nose.
Instead of answering, Sabrina said, "Escort us inside and brief us on the situation"
"Hmm?" the military man was caught off guard but eventually nodded. "Okay, co with "
Seeing them going with the military officer, the others exchanged a look in confusion before they followed. Caldaros looked in Lucivar's direction and squinted before he too signaled for his team to follow the military officer.
Monts later.
Lucivar was finally able to get away from viewing eyes and stepped into a bathroom.
It was an officer's bathroom so it was quite big, but he didn't have the ti to care about that as he instantly went to the sink—and wiped the blood on his face with running water. Sabrina ca inside, holding a towel, and waited for him to finish.
She stole a couple of glances at Lucivar, seemingly wanting to ask a question.
But she refrained from doing so when she saw Lucivar's face was red from the reflection.
As red as a tomato.
And from the way he was breathing roughly, he seed to be outright furious.
Just then, as she gathered enough courage to speak, she stopped and gasped.
She saw a dark writing begin to form and cracked the mirror.
Upon seeing this, her eyes widened, 'It's the sa as back then! What is this...?'
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