Leandra brandished her sword in a beautiful arc, she was a master of the sword and was one of the strongest people in weapon mastery amongst Tobias' family. She was only second—to Bob in raw weapon wielding.
Her minimal movent showed that she was used to sword-wielding evidently.
It was easy for her to decapacitate the blood priests with one gentle arc.
Blood rained down from above.
Lucivar was drenched by it while not even a single drop managed to touch Leandra's clothes.
She landed on the side with grace, her purple hair fluttering beautifully.
"I'm going to stretch to a length and say that this was definitely on purpose"
"No, it's not. If you don't want to get drenched, you should've tossed them sowhere else"
"Right... of course, it's my fault"
Glancing over to the blood priests, Leandra lifted an eyebrow in confusion.
None of them were Hybrids, their blood weapons were not made of ether, and despite that, they were able to match them in strength, which was quite surprising. Of course, the healer nuns are already odd but this is beyond odd.
If Leandra had to guess, they might used a dark ritual to make themselves stronger.
"What happened here? Why did you attack the pastor?"
"It's a hunch but the pastor is definitely doing sothing to the citizens of the city"
"Making a sacrifice?"
"Yes, probably. It would explain how they have their powers"
"Is he working with the two proselytes?"
"Maybe. For now, let's catch up to Mirel and find where the pastor hid the citizens"
Nodding her head, both of them sprinted towards where Mirel and the pastor were.
Considering Mirel's speed, he should be able to catch the pastor.
Both of them traced the edge of the city, bordered only, by a fragile wooden fence, they ran for several minutes but found no trace of Mirel or the pastor. Along the way, Lucivar recalled sothing and asked, "By the way, what happened to the others? Why are you here?"
"Sleeping pills, they were fed sleeping pills. and Mirel were too on guard to eat the food"
"All of them are asleep?"
"No, not all—the leader of the assault and defender team are guarding the others"
Lucivar nodded, he had anticipated the pastor to do sothing like this.
'If Kaki and the pastor wanted to kill us, then who submitted the mission to the academy?'
A thought crossed his mind.
Since the academy hunters would only be sent to those who submitted a mission, there must be soone who sneaked and submitted the mission. If there wasn't—the academy wouldn't send Lucivar and his party here.
'Could be that woman, I should go and talk to her after this' Lucivar nodded.
Eventually, Lucivar and Leandra halted when they saw Mirel coming out of an empty house.
He looked around in confusion before he sighed.
"Did you lose him?"
"I'm sorry, that bastard is nimble. He also knew the cityscape, I don't"
"Understandable"
Despite expecting Mirel to be able to capture the pastor, Lucivar had also expected this.
It was the pastor's city so it would be hard to find him if he went to hiding.
"What should we do?" Mirel asked, turning to Lucivar for an answer.
Upon hearing this, Luciviar nodded, "Let's go have a look around and et back here in ten"
Just like that, the three separated, searching for the pastor in the nearby houses.
But as each one of them already expected, finding the pastor is an unlikely case right now.
Having no luck in finding the pastor, the three of them ca back to the church where the others were. Lucivar saw that there were a couple of dead bodies around, it seed both, the defender and assault team were also attacked during their absence.
All three of them entered and instantly went to where the lodgings were.
Lucivar, however, stopped in front of the altar.
"Aren't you coming?"
"I have sothing to check here, go on ahead without . See how the others are doing"
"Okay, scream if you need any help"
Mirel walked on ahead while Leandra, cast one glance before she also followed Mirel.
Seeing that the two disappeared into a hallway, Lucivar turned to his right—and headed for the door. He pushed open the door that wasn't even closed properly, and was greeted by a chamber.
It was completely empty and on the corner was soone, a woman in a nun uniform.
Lucivar probed the woman with his eyes and saw multiple bruises poking from her clothes, a weighted handcuff locking her hands tightly—and seed to be frail—and malnourished. He closed the door behind him and approached the woman.
Despite seeing him approaching, the nun didn't whimper and stayed on her spot.
She was sitting on the cold floor, hugging her knees.
"Are you an academy hunter?" She asked, her voice was hoarse and weak.
Upon hearing this, Lucivar grabbed a bottle of water from his bag and tossed it to the nun.
Lucivar gestured for her to drink while keeping his distance.
Realizing what he was giving him, the nun quickly grabbed the bottle and chugged it down.
Dehydration seed to be one of her many problems.
Once she was done drinking, the nun extended her hand, handing back the bottle to Lucivar.
Approaching nonchalantly, Lucivar took the bottle and looked into her eyes.
"Let guess, you're the one who submitted the mission?"
"Yes..."
Nodding his head, Lucivar then traced his gaze down at her bruised body.
But she ignored his inspection and asked.
"Have you co to free us? Tell ... is there salvation in your arrival?"
"I'm here to take care of the dungeon, not deal with what was happening with your city"
Upon hearing this, the nun's eyes widened—and she quickly groveled before Lucivar's feet.
She wanted to hold onto Lucivar's legs but with her weighted handcuff, she couldn't.
All she could do was grab his leg with one hand.
"Please, don't leave us! Don't leave here! I beg you, kind sir!"
"If I help your city, what good there is for ?"
Lucivar tilted his head a little, he ca here to tackle, his first dungeon—and even though he was a part of the outcast team, he wanted to enter the dungeon. He wanted to see if he was able to extract divine blood from killing the Crossers.
He didn't co here to deal with what was going on with the city.
Of course, he wanted to kill the pastor for attacking him.
But killing the pastor would only give him a ager reward at best, it's not worth it.
If he go after the pastor and also the proselytes, he wouldn't be able to tackle the dungeon.
From the start, the pastor has no chance of killing him so he wasn't petty about that.
"Our city will repay you back with everything we have, I'll make sure of it"
"Who are you to promise that? You're nothing but a helpless nun"
"Then would you take my body as paynt?" the nun asked, her grip tightening hard.
Upon hearing this, Lucivar laughed hard, his laughter echoed throughout the chamber.
"Do you take for a pervert? Huh?" Lucivar asked, gazing at the nun—mockingly. "Even if I was, what body are you talking about? Do you an that body that's nothing—but bone and skin? Nothing you have tempts , nothing"
Naturally, the nun has no answer, she's desperate and her body is the only thing she has.
Just then, however, Lucivar's eyes caught sight of sothing peculiar.
He saw a dark energy seeping out of the nun's body like flas.
Initially, he thought the nun was about to attack him but that wasn't the case.
Lucivar squinted and realized that the dark energy was similar to his Angel constitution.
Seed like the power inside of him favored the nun.
Realizing that the nun was perhaps soone unique, he decided to investigate.
Putting his hand on her chin, he forced her to look into his eyes gently.
Despite her appearance, a stark contrast to how beautiful Leandra or even the other won around him were, he couldn't help but praise the pale crimson color of the nun's eyes. It was sowhat hypnotizing to see.
"You know what? I'm feeling generous today..."
"Really? Are you going to help ?"
"Tell what had happened to you. Tell everything. I will deduce if you're worthy of help"
"Okay, I'll tell you everything!"
As she said that, the nun began her story.
Her na was Catherine and she was birthed and lived in this city throughout her life.
Catherine told Lucivar how her husband beat her regularly—and how the pastor encouraged her husband to do it, saying that it was her duty to endure the pain and suffering. One day—she decided that she had enough.
But on that sa day, the portal appeared nearby.
It sent a spiral of chaos throughout the city as there were no combatants amongst them.
Even the Blood Sisters were no good, they were only able to heal soone, not fight.
Of course, the people asked the pastor to submit a mission to the Sunhold City.
Days passed and yet, no academy hunters ca to help them.
Many questioned this but the pastor convinced them that he had submitted a mission, but it seed Sunhold City abandoned them despite their contribution. Sohow, the pastor was able to convince the people that they needed to fend for themselves.
He said that the elderly, won, and children were going to be placed in a safe house.
But Catherine, doubtful, sneaked out and decided to submit the mission for the second ti.
"I slipped away and found that the able-bodied n had been slaughtered by the pastor and his loyal priests in the Blood God's na," Catherine explained, her voice frail. "I managed to hand the docunt to a friend in the neighboring city, before they caught . I thought they would kill but they didn't. Turns out my husband was one of them..."
Getting those words out seed to be hard for Catherine, Lucivar could feel that.
She was a victim of a cult led by the pastor.
'Only the won gained the blessing from the Blood God and beca Blood Sisters, I'm sure the pastor was frustrated, as he felt like he should also be blessed as the leader and did this. Understandable' Lucivar nodded, he has no right to judge the pastor.
If he were in the pastor's shoes, maybe he would've done the sa thing. Who knows?
"So? Do you want to stop them and save the people?"
"No..."
Lucivar raised an eyebrow, utterly confused by her answer.
But then suddenly, he saw Catherine looking at him with conviction and malice.
A light behind her eyes that was familiar to Lucivar deeply.
"Saving the people is not the priority," She continued, her voice—profound. "Please do kill my husband and make it as painful as you can... that is the sole thing that I want. Kill him—that is the priority"
Upon hearing this, Lucivar grinned, 'Oh, I can see now why she's favored'
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