CHAPTER 12: Dungeon Part III
YUNO: "I'm going to get serious now."
KLAUS: "What are you..."
Yuno's grimoire started glowing a bright green color with a powerful power behind.
YUNO: [Wind Creation Magic: Swift White Hawk & Wind Blade Shower]." Both his sides, appeared a wind hawk and various wind daggers.
KLAUS: "Simultaneous spell activation?! And this power... H-He's..." He and Mimosa were shocked at the powerful Yuno was.
YUNO: "It will be the Golden Dawn that reaches the treasure chamber first!" Sending his caster magic to Mars.
-Back to the Black Bulls team-
ASTA: "Take that!" He started cutting through the smoke there wasn't an ending of it. "I cut an cut, but there's no end! It keeps coming back!" Everyone else did the same, trying to make a hole to the smoke only to fail at it. Asta was hit by a smoke ending up coughing. *cough x2*"I'm getting dizzy..."
NOELLE: "The smoke just keep getting thicker. At this rate, we're going to suffocate. This isn't good. We have to hurry and defeat that mage."
LUCK: "I can pretty much tell where he is with my magic, but he'll probably dodge, even if I attack. Thinking back on our battle so far, he's able to travel at high speed within the smoke. And his ability to sense magic is high. If we're to land a hit on him, we'll have to surprise him. But how do we do that without him noticing our magic?"
AKIRA: "Luck-senpai. Maybe I can think something about it." Pointing a thumb at Asta.
LOTUS: "The downside of this magic is that it drains my powers a lot. My magic level is still fine, though. Well, that and the fact that I can't see the enemy. But that's no problem. Because I can sense your magic just fine." He then notices two sources of magic.
There was Luck using [Lightning Magic: Thunderclap Crumbling Orb] and Akira using [Fire Magic: Flaming Javelin] to shoot straight at him.
LOTUS: "Whoa, there! Wow, a barrage. Are you getting desperate?" He said while dodging to a side. "That's not going to hit me or get rid of the smoke. You're just wasting magic. I think the difference in our experience levels is starting to show. After all, I've fought far more mages than you have." He stated but suddenly he felt a solid hit from the other side. "Huh?"
Asta managed to hit him, sending him to a wall. And the smoke started clearing up
LUCK: "We chased him over."
NOELLE: "And I suppressed my magic so he wouldn't notice, and then..." Shooting Asta with her water ball.
LUCK: "He can't sense Asta, so Asta attacked."
AKIRA: "It went well."
LUCK: "I guess teamwork really is important."
Lotus was hiding inside the smoke as he felt like his arm just broken by Asta's swing.
LOTUS: "Ow... How could you do that to a defenseless old man like me? Man... It's definitely broken. Pretty sure he got some of my ribs, too. I won't be able to fight anymore. There sure are some oddballs in the Clover Kingdom. A boy with no magic who wields a giant sword... I can safely say that even I've never met someone with no magic on the battlefield. *sigh* If I'm going to end up a prisoner... I'll di-" He then was surprised that his grimoire opened. Or just run away. He created a ferry-cart like to escape.
ASTA: "Hey!" He started running to him.
NOELLE: "Wait!" She followed from behind.
AKIRA: "We're not gonna let you run!"
LUCK: "You're not getting away!" He charged toward him.
Lotus used his smoke to grab his subordinates meanwhile he was escaping from the Black Bulls mages.
LOTUS: "[Smoke Creation Magic: Hustling Lazy Car]."
LUCK: "Caught up with you!" He was just behind the vehicle but the smokes pushed away and getting away as fast as possible. "Aw..."
ASTA: "Damn it! We lost him!" He barely got next to Luck and Akira when reached to them got on his knees.
AKIRA: "Damn it! I couldn't copy his [Smoke Magic] affinity!" He sobbed out of failure he couldn't do it.
NOELLE: "You three... *pant x2* ...are way too fast." She was breathing heavily as they were more faster than her. Then Luck turned around to the recruits and said.
LUCK: "I wanted to finish him off, but I know we have more important things to do. We need to hurry to the treasure chamber."
AKIRA & NOELLE: "YOU REALLY HAVE THE NERVE TO SAY THAT?!" They yelled at him, annoyed.
ASTA: "Oh, yeah! Let's get going!" Then suddenly, Luck noticed with his sensor something more powerful.
LUCK: "What is this magic? It looks like there's someone even stronger here."
ASTA: "Oh, right! Akira did say that the Golden Dawn were being attacked. Does that mean they are fighting them?"
AKIRA: "We have to hurry!" Everyone nodded and marched toward the treasury.
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LOTUS: "Are you all okay?" He wondered as his subordinates were recovering and one of them was casting a healing spell on his broken arm. "I guess the treasure chamber is the least of our worried right now. Ow... Well, I'm pretty sure Mars will take care of the rest. I mean, he's the Diamond Kingdom's secret weapon, after all."
-Meanwhile the Golden Dawn Team-
The members of the Golden Dawn were shocked at they just saw. Yuno's simultaneous attack failed to do any damage to the Diamond Kingdom mage.
KLAUS: "H-How can this be?" He saw how Yuno was badly injured as the other was intact, standing with a huge crystal sword over him.
Yuno was breathing heavily out of exhaustion but noticed the strange design of his grimoire.
KLAUS: "Such ominous magic... Yuno's at full strength, and even he stands no chance... Those stones embedded in his forehead... I've heard of them before. There's a rumor that the Diamond Kingdom is raising mage warriors with artificially amplified magic. They choose young children with powerful magical abilities, put them in fierce competition with each other, embed magical items that amplify their powers into their bodies... And finally, they have them fight one another to the death. The last survivor of that death match... is HIM? He clenched his fist. No matter who the opponent is... Is this really acceptable? What is happening here? I'm a noble. A member of the Golden Dawn! I let my comrade get hurt so easily. I'm being protected by my subordinate, who's a peasant." He gritted his teeth. "This... This cannot be right! [Steel Creation Magic: Fierce Spiral Lance]!" He shot straight to him, passing next to Yuno.
YUNO: "Klaus-senpai!"
Smoke appeared when the steel lance but when the smoke cleared up, a crystal statue of Mars named [Crystal Creation Magic: Talos Puppet] was holding the drillings of the lance.
KLAUS: "A mineral clone?" The only one that shattered was his steel lance. The clone ran toward Klaus and tried to punch him but he managed to create a defensive spell, protecting himself from a deadly hit.
YUNO: "Klaus-senpai!" He then noticed the gigantic sword falling down straight to him. He managed to fly around Mars but each time he gets an opportunity, he crystal sword tries to thrust to him. When he got the chance, he used [Wind Magic: Crescent Moon Blade] to slash him but his attack were no match for him.
MARS: "Your magic has no effect on me. [Crystal Creation Magic: Nemean Armor]." Yuno didn't rest and continued using the same spell over and over to him. "I told you, it's no use."
Yuno remembered when Yuno and Asta were children and the moment Yuno was winning against him with his magic during training. Asta, even thought, he was losing and had wounds all over. He simply didn't gave up until he hits him.
MARS: "Stop your useless attempts-"
YUNO: "I WON'T!" He shot another wind blade.
MARS: "Move."
YUNO: "I won't move!"
MARS: "Give up." He said with a diabolic tone while raising his gigantic sword.
YUNO: "I won't give up!" The sword was falling down to him and even though Yuno kept shooting the wind blades, nothing would stop it.
KLAUS: "Yuno!" He shouted while being busy with the clone.
MIMOSA: "Yuno-san!"
Asta ran fast, summoning his sword and cutting through the gigantic magical sword as butter. Leaving the Golden Dawn member speechless as they just saw someone cut through the sword that sword easily.
ASTA: "Hey, pale guy. Hands off! Yuno's my... RIVAL!" He stated. Yuno, behind him, smirked.
YUNO: "Unbelievable... and I thought I finally repaid my debt to you."
ASTA: "I finally catch up with you, and look at you! What the hell are you doing, Yuno?! Damn it! Who said you could get your ass kicked?" He then was hit by Akira's lariat cross.
AKIRA: "What the hell are talking about to a wounded, you dimwit!" Then looked at Yuno. "Hey, Yuno, was it hard?"
YUNO: "Hmph. Hard? Why'd you get in my way? I almost had him."
ASTA: "LIAR!" He got up onto his feet. "You're all beat up! You were about to die!"
YUNO: "I was just about to unleash a ferocious counterattack." He lied with a straight expression.
ASTA & AKIRA: "You're such a liar!" They said in unison.
YUNO: "I was about to do it."
ASTA: "You're always like this!"
YUNO: "Did you come to get in my way?"
ASTA: "What~?"
YUNO: "You can go home now."
Akira was the only one noticing that they were ignoring Mars completely. But for Mars to see them both arguing, in his forehead, he felt a throbbing sensation remembering his past.
ASTA: "Fine, then." He then turned around. "Let's see who can take this guy down first!"
AKIRA: "Finally!" He groaned next to him.
KLAUS: "Wh-What's going on? We, the Golden Dawn, didn't stand a chance against his magic, and yet... That peasant from the Black Bulls..." Without his notice the clone managed to approach to him. "Oh, no!" But Luck managed to deal a kick on his head.
LUCK: "Weak." He commented after kicking the crystal clone.
KLAUS: "He's... The one who made trouble at the Entrance Exam by beating his opponent far worse than necessary! Luck the Cheery Berserker! This was the other member of the Black Bulls that guy said before? How could I end up being saved by the Black Bulls?!" He placed his hands on his head and started complaining.
NOELLE: "Mimosa! How's he?"
MIMOSA: "It's like you said, I'm a bit slow. He saved me before I got into that mess."
NOELLE: "Yes. You've always been like that. That's why..." She opened her grimoire creating a her water dome over them. "I'm going to protect you."
MIMOSA: "Noelle..."
LOGAN: "T-Thank you..."
ASTA: "Are you the one who beat up the Golden Dawn?" He questioned him.
MARS: "What if I am? The weak will perish, and only the strong will remain."
AKIRA: "That's how the Diamond Kingdom taught you?"
MARS: "Who knows. But I'm not going to be here what happens to you people. [Crystal Creation Magic: Talon Puppet Cluster]!" He was summoning the same clone it was dealing with Klaus.
KLAUS: "He summoned so many at once!"
LUCK: "Wow!" He was excited for that many enemies.
MARS: "There is no reason for the weak to stand on the battlefield. I was born to break people like you."
ASTA: "Oh, really?" He pressed his legs muscles and charged toward him. "Then go ahead... and try to break me!" He got behind Mars and slashed him. But he changed himself with a clone and jumped up.
MARS: "I intend to." He sent his sword, cleaving from up to down toward Asta.
He managed as always to cut his magic and stand over the gigantic crystal half-sword, charging toward Mars but he locked his movements creating crystals on his feet but Asta just stabbed the crystals holding him and jumped up cleaving him on his abdomen. Mars' armor wasn't able to defend himself for Asta's anti-magic sword that was sent toward the ceilings then falling down to a river.
EVERYONE: "He's so strong!"
LUCK: "Aw, man! I wanted to be the one to fight him!" He said while kicking the clones with ease.
AKIRA: "You said you would fight him in two or three years!" He remarked while shooting fire bullets to the clones. Yuno kept using his wind blade to cut through the clones now that Asta was dealing alone with Mars.
KLAUS: "Impossible... How could a peasant that I can't feel a shred of mana from do all this!" He gritted his teeth not noticing a clone approaching him but Noelle hold the clone and said.
NOELLE: "All you've been doing is whining. Negating magic... That's Asta's power." She stated.
KLAUS: "N-Negating magic? How can he have a power so unfit for a peasant?! So he just got lucky and ended up with this power." He said while holding his glasses.
NOELLE: "Just watch him, and you'll find out if it's just luck or not."
ASTA: "Hey, come on! Are you finished already, you jerk?" He roared, pointing his sword to him. Mar's grimoire, which was floating over him, changed pages and then started glowing. Its power created a enormous crystal-berg with spikes which emerged from the river, went straight to Asta and trapping him inside.
AKIRA & YUNO: "Asta!"
From the river, it emerged Mars but he was wearing a titanic crystal armor named [Crystal Creation Magic: Heavy Armored Titan].
MARS: "What... are you?" He looked at the guy who now was laying down with injuries all over his body.
ASTA: "I'm someone who was born without any magic!"
KLAUS: "He doesn't have any magic?! So it really was just luck-" He said but then noticed something on his body.
ASTA: "But even so, I'm going to become the Wizard King! And I'm alive... to prove that!" He roared showing, under his half-torn clothes and robe, his muscular body. Akira slightly took an opportunity to take a memorial photo of him fighting Mars in his armor.
KLAUS: "What is going on with his body? How much has he trained?! The Wizard King? Does he truly..."
Mars was recalling some memories of his past.
FEMALE CHILD VOICE: "Mars! What do you want to be when you grow up?
MARS (Child): "I'm..."
MARS: "I'm just going to destroy everything!"
ASTA: "Destroy everything? The Wizard King protects everyone!"
FEMALE CHILD VOICE: "We were born to protect everyone in this country."
ASTA: "Like hell I'm going to lose to someone like you!" He stated proudly, as the others were watching profoundly at the battle.
MARS: "You're in my way..." He raised his crystal arm. "Begone, pebble!"
ASTA: "I may be just a pebble, but I'm..." He charged to him. "...a pebble that shatters diamonds!" He slashed the crystal titan, shattering completely with Mars being knocked out. Asta roared the Clover Magic Knights victory shout.
After dealing with what the clones remained, the Magic Knights put themselves in front of the treasure chamber with Mars being restrained with Klaus' magic. Akira did touch him before being restrained by Klaus. [Crystal Magic] attribute added.
KLAUS: "That should do it."
AKIRA: "Maybe but we'll have to hurry with it."
ASTA: "Is this actually going to keep him restrained?" He asked while he was eating a medicinal herb.
KLAUS: "Of course it is! My magic is not so weak that it'd be broken by someone who's injured. Look! We've taken his grimoire, too."
ASTA: "Don't get so grumpy. Want some medicinal herbs?" He said while giving him one.
KLAUS: "I don't want your leftovers!" He rejected it.
ASTA: "What about you, Yuno?" He gave him a poker face and replied.
YUNO: "Not a chance."
MIMOSA: "I'm glad that you're all safe."
LOGAN: "Too bad I couldn't take part of it. I'm such a disgrace." He cried a little.
NOELLE: "Should you be moving around now?" She wondered.
LOGAN: "It's alright. Thanks to Mimosa-san, I feel much better."
MIMOSA: "It's all because you protected us, Noelle."
NOELLE: "I-I didn't protect you. You're just so helpless that I couldn't leave you alone."
AKIRA: "You say?" He took out a recorder and played her voice saying "I'm going to protect you" to her.
NOELLE: "W-Wait a minute! I-I just did as any other Magic Knight would do." She got flustered but tried to say truthfully.
MIMOSA: "Right. Thank you very much." She said with a bright smile.
NOELLE: "M-More importantly, Asta, do something about your clothes!" She got embarrassed looking at his body.
ASTA: "Well, what am I supposed to do?"
NOELLE: "Aren't you embarrassed?
ASTA: "Why are you the one turning red?" He asked.
NOELLE: "I'm not turning red!"
While they were arguing, Akira grabbed his camera and made a selfie with the group which gained the attention of Logan.
LOGAN: "Mind if I ask, what is that item? It isn't something I have seen before."
AKIRA: "Well, I did say before. This is my camera which is a small box that can contain pictures in it. See this?" Showing all the pictures he had taken inside the dungeon. "This is just to make memories of it."
KLAUS: "I see."
ASTA: "Actually... My robe's ripped to shreds... Magna-senpai's gonna kill me..."
LUCK: "Vanessa will fix it for you when we get back."
ASTA: "Well, that's good, I guess."
KLAUS: "To think that we'd be saved by the Black Bulls..." He placed his hand between his glasses and stated while being between the Golden Dawn members. "We were the first one to arrive, therefore we win this competition, but I will allow you four to enter the treasure chamber, also."
ASTA: "Why do you always sound so arrogant, four-eyes? Well, thank you very much, you jerk!" He spat back.
KLAUS: "You're very welcome! Watch how you speak to me!"
ASTA: "Well, excuse me, Lord Four-Eyes!"
KLAUS: "Who are you calling 'Lord Four-Eyes'?! Hmph! I don't have time to argue with you!"
ASTA: "Well, excuse me, Lord Four-Eyes!"
KLAUS: "Shut your mouth!"
ASTA: "Keep it up and I'll break those glasses of yours!"
KLAUS: "That's just cruelty!"
ASTA: "I wouldn't say that, Lord Four-Eyes!"
AKIRA & YUNO: "They sure like wasting each other's time."
KLAUS: "That's enough! Let us head to the treasure chamber!"
ASTA: "Yeah!" He raised his sword. "It'll be the Clover Kingdom's Magic Knights who get to the treasure chamber!" He stated putting himself in front of Klaus.
KLAUS: "You're so annoying!" He moved aside and shouted. Akira took a picture of that since he thought it was funny.
NOELLE: "You're the one who's annoying!"
LOGAN: "Hey, don't fight." He tried to calm down the situation.
AKIRA: "But how?" He wondered.
The Magic Knights stood in front of the giant door just as they made a poker face while looking at the doors.
ASTA & KLAUS: "How do you get in?"
KLAUS: "There must be some code to open this door somewhere." He said looking at the doors.
ASTA: "You can do it! Think harder, four-eyes!"
KLAUS: "Shut up! Stop calling me that! My name is Klaus!" Luck walked toward the doors to feel it.
AKIRA: "You found it?"
LUCK: "It appears this door is made with magic, so just cut through it. Like, swoosh." He said to Asta.
ASTA: "... All right!"
KLAUS: "Hmph. There's no way you can open it."
AKIRA: "Hold your horses. Asta, do it!" He did as Akira asked, summoned his sword and cut through the door.
ASTA: "Yes!"
The doors started glowing and disappearing, when the doors finally disappeared and darkened, it showed the vast of treasures the chamber held from the decades intact.
ASTA: "That's awesome! It's a mountain of treasure!" He ran straight to it.
NOELLE: "Hey! Be careful!" The others did the same to see the treasures.
AKIRA: "Maybe it's time to use the pouch Sakuya-sama gave me before." He thought while looking at the pouch being held in his waist, that can be detachable.
Asta picked up a capsule that when opened his showed Luck that was in another place.
LUCK: "Heya, Asta."
ASTA: "Luck popped out!"
Others were checking the artifacts that where inside. Mimosa picked up a splendid red cape. Noelle was looking at a gravitational sphere. Logan was checking the magic swords that were among the coins. Akira taking pictures as they find and speak. And Yuno picked up a vase that inside appeared a green sphere floating and flying around to guide him somewhere.
KLAUS: "All of you! Stop touching things without permission! They might be magical items worthy of being national treasures!" He shouted.
ASTA: "A little bit won't hurt, 'crabbypants'."
KLAUS: "Who are you calling 'crabbypants'?!"
ASTA: "Then we'll just go back to 'four-eyes'." He said leaning on him.
KLAUS: "Stop calling me that!"
ASTA: "Then 'glasses man'."
KLAUS: "You bastard!"
ASTA: "See? You are a crabbypants!"
KLAUS: "You think that makes you clever or something?!"
AKIRA: *cough x2* "Um... if you two finished. Maybe I can help by bringing the treasure to the Kingdom." He stopped the squabble of these two.
KLAUS: "And how do you plan to help with this?" He composed himself and asked to him.
AKIRA: "With this." Showing him a medium pouch on his hand.
KLAUS: "That thing?! How could a pouch could-" He was then cut off when he saw Akira vacuuming the treasures from the pouch.
ASTA: "A-Awesome! What is that? And how can that pouch could suck the treasure away?"
AKIRA: "A gift." He replied while the pouch kept vacuuming the treasures. The others help him by bringing him what they could.
Meanwhile, while he was being guided somewhere by a green sphere, Yuno discovered a scroll. He decides to open the scroll and read the writings.
YUNO: "What are these symbols? I've never seen them before."
But then his grimoire and the scroll started glowing and the writings disappears in a flash of light. Everyone notices the glow and pay attention to where the source was. After the light disappears, Yuno notices the scroll being empty.
YUNO: "The symbols..."
KLAUS: "What was that just now?" He asked while himself and the others of the Golden Dawn approached him.
YUNO: "No idea."
KLAUS: "Don't go around touching things. Put that back." And so Yuno did as ordered.
Meanwhile, Nero was pulling Asta's hair to guide him somewhere.
ASTA: "Ow, ow, ow, ow! Stop! You're gonna tear it out, Nero! Hey!" Nero let the hair and flew to show him a some kind of golden shield or plate that was attached to the wall. "What about it?" But because of his ignorance, Nero pecked him on his forehead.
KLAUS: "But this is a rather rare, strange grimoire. It's as though it's stitched together." He wondered while looking at the strange design of Mars' grimoire. "Well... We have two four-leaf clovers, and a grimoire so filthy you can't even read it." He looked at Yuno, who was standing looking around, Akira, who was vacuuming the treasures and, Asta, who was being pecked by Nero. "I have four oddities on my hands."
LUCK: "Isn't there anything interesting here?" He wondered while looking around the chamber. Then suddenly, Klaus notices the grimoire of the enemy glowing and flew toward the entrance of the chamber. Luck notices it and says. "This power... Everyone, run!"
AKIRA: "Shit! I was too centered in the treasure that I forgot about it!" He managed to grab the 60% of the treasure but it was still abundant.
From the entrance, a gigantic shadow could be seen and then the doors were destroyed as the rumbles of it created smoke. After the smokes dissipated, Mars appears wearing his titan armor, furious of what happened. He locked the movements of Yuno, Luck, Klaus, Logan and Akira.
MARS: "[Fire Recovery Magic: Phoenix Robe]." A fire robe was over his body, healing any damage the Clover Kingdom's mages have done to him.
KLAUS: "I-Impossible! My binding magic... And in so little time... How could he have revived?! Th-That's..." From the titan, Klaus notices flames covering Mars' body. "Fire recovery magic? That's impossible! Everyone should have only one magical attribute! Except for Akira since we know it but chances of encountering another one are zero! Mages have mana from the four classical elements: fire, wind, water, and earth. Fire is strong against wind, and weak against water. There are compatibilities between each element. Mages can only use magic from their own mana or from a single attribute derived from it. He's breaking all of those laws to have two different kinds of magic! Not to mention, he was clearly a user of offensive magic, but now he's using recovery magic! That's inconceivable! Are these the results of the Diamond Kingdom's experiments?!"
FEMALE CHILD VOICE: "I'm sure you'll become a great warrior, Mars." Then another flashback. "I'm sorry, Mars. I have no other choice. Please die."
NOELLE: "I'll put that fire out!" He raised her wand to him.
AKIRA: "Noelle! No!" He tried to stop her but she created a water ball that flew straight to him.
Mars notices her and give her a crystal punch.
AKIRA & MIMOSA: "Noelle!" She flies back and when she slides to a path, she shows a grave wound on her chest while being knocked out.
ASTA: "NOELLE!" He summons his sword and charge straight to him. "You bastard! How dare you do that to my friend?!"
MARS: "I know your abilities now. If that blade is able to cut through various magics, then what about magic that's faster than your blade?" He summoned crystals daggers around him and went straight to him with a spin. Asta did block what he could but they were too fast for his eyes.
ASTA: "So fast!" He thought while blocking the daggers. Then Mars charges at him, giving him a punch that flew back where Nero pointed before, destroying it and entering a different room.
AKIRA: "Asta!" He was trying to break the crystal that was holding him with a magic hammer he found.
Mars walked toward him showing no hesitation that he would kill him.
MARS: "The strong will survive, and the weak will die."
MIMOSA: "Noelle."
MARS: "The strong will survive..." He mumbled.
MIMOSA: "Noelle!" She shouted but that gained his attention and turned to them. Mars saw her healing the one he attacked before.
KLAUS: "Hey, you idiot! Get a hold of yourself!" He shouted to deaf-ears of Asta.
MIMOSA: "The Dream-Healing Power Cradle won't be fast enough!" He mumbled while concentrating of the healing spell then looked at her grimoire which changed pages to another spell. "[Plant Recovery Magic: Princess-Healing Flower Robe]!" She was now wearing in some kind of plant kimono accelerating the healing spell. "This is the strongest spell I can use right now. Please don't die, Noelle!"
She remembered the time they were children, she was clumsy and Noelle was always beside her to help. When she was at the age of being part of the Magic Knights, her magic powers were fundamental to be a healer that the royalties complimented her but then mocked Noelle as if she was a failure. But even so, Noelle kept trying her best to control her magic and Mimosa was envious that if she was in her shoes, she would have given up.
MIMOSA: "Royals mock hard work. It's something only those who aren't born into power do, not something that royalty does. But..." She paused. "I admire you for the hard work you do." Noelle's wounds started healing as her hands were twitching. But what she didn't know, it was Mars approaching them as she was healing Noelle.
LOGAN: "Mimosa-san!" He shouted to her.
MARS: "The strong will survive, and the weak will die. The strong will survive, and the weak will die." He continued repeating the same words and Mimosa finally notices him.
YUNO/LUCK/LOGAN/KLAUS/AKIRA: "If only I could use my grimoire..."
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Asta, wounded, wakes up after being dealt a heavy hit and landing across a wall. He tries to lift himself up but still wounded, he staggers of pain.
ASTA: "My sword..."
He sees the entrance of his landing that his sword was planted at the entrance then sees Mars walking toward someone.
ASTA: "Noelle... Mimosa... With my big, heavy sword, I won't be able to beat his magic's speed. He changed the way he fights, and the magic he uses while doing it. "What am I supposed to... Nero?" Then notices Nero flying toward him, passes from above and lands on a different tattered sword but much smaller and thinner than what he had.
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Mars continues remembering his past when he was taking part of an experiment the Diamond Kingdom did to the children.
MARS: "The strong will survive..." He raised his crystals daggers while spinning. "...and the weak..." The daggers flew toward Mimosa. "...shall perish."
KLAUS: "MIMOSA!" But then Asta appeared cutting through the daggers. This time, his slashes where much faster than before.
AKIRA: "Asta!" Mars notices the new sword he was carrying.
MARS: "What is that sword?"
ASTA: "This sword will work. Your opponent... is ME!"
Mars threw more spinning daggers toward him but Asta managed to defend himself since he different in size could swing more swiftly. Asta jumps up and cut through the armor Mars was, noticing the cut wound on him.
ASTA: "How's that?" Mars takes notices that his titan armor have received damage.
MARS: "Disappear!" He punches Asta far away where Mimosa and Noelle where.
ASTA: "Even if I can cut through his attack magic, as long as he has that recovery magic, I won't be able to finish him off! What should I do?" He panic in his thoughts while breathing in exhaustion. Then a voice called him.
NOELLE: "What are you doing, Stupidsta?"
MIMOSA: "Noelle-san!"
ASTA: "Noelle..."
NOELLE: "You're the first peasant... that I, a royal, ever acknowledged. Hurry up and defeat that guy, Asta!" Asta then notices his swords was glowing blue.
ASTA: "Yeah, leave it to me. I'll throw enough at him from the both of us!" He raised his sword. Akira smiled in anticipation and prepared his camera, now and later.
MARS: "Move. I'm going to make that girl, that weakling, disappear!"
ASTA: "Like hell I'll let that happen! I don't have any magic, but I've got... my friends!" He started swinging his sword to him, a steam of water comes out from his new sword.
MARS: "This is nothing!" He roared as he defended his attack with his armor. But his defenses and healing were neutralized by it.
KLAUS: "Wh-What just happened? He's not supposed to have any magic!"
LUCK: "A water magic attack? He then glimpsed on Noelle. He borrowed Noelle's powers?"
KLAUS: "What in the world is that sword?" Then the lights that had in the sword disappeared. Everyone were speechless as they were shocked at the sudden magic Asta just used.
ASTA: "I don't really get it, but I did it!" He chuckled but then he notices a wound that pierced in his stomach. He spits blood because of the wound and falls down. I messed up...
AKIRA & NOELLE: "Asta!" The others were also shocked by the sudden fall of him.
TO BE CONTINUED
Akira's Copied Magic Acquired:
[Chain Magic]: Lvl. 16
[Fire Magic]: Lvl. 17 - Lvl. 18
[Water Magic]: Lvl. 15
[Wind Magic]: Lvl. 15
[Gold Magic]: Lvl. 9
[Bronze Magic]: Lvl. 9
[Spatial Magic]: Lvl. 9
[Transformation Magic]: Lvl. 6
[Ice Magic]: Lvl. 6
[Mist Magic]: Lvl. 6
[Dark Magic]: Lvl. 8
[Lightning Magic]: Lvl. 1
[Crystal Magic]: Lvl. 1 (New)
