bulk Locke the the grim head: I know and it'll keep getting better.
ShadowXZ2: Like I've been saying, I have plans for that!
BanRedfox: Yeah, you don't but you'll see it here.
As Asta and Leopold stood ready for battle, the hooded enemies stood still and didn't make any moves.
"Has he gone mad? Even against enemies of a higher number he still wishes to fight?" said a man named Geork with a strange scar on the left side of his face and pale blonde hair down the right side of his head, his hand raised with yellowish green magic surrounding it.
"Mad or not, it doesn't matter to me. I can still dissect him" said the same crazed girl, Sally, with a hand up, covered in purple magic.
All 5 enemies soon fired magic blasts, trapping our heroes and aiming to finish them off.
"Think again!" Asta said as the spikes on his sword started spinning around it. "Iron Shadow Dragon Sword! Slashing Wave!"
The dragon of iron and shadows swung his sword in a circle and sending a wave of shadow magic along with it, forcing Leopold and Noelle to duck to the ground as the waved countered the enemies magic attacks. The hooded enemies were surprised by this but quickly shook it off and kept firing, only to be met with the same result.
"Pointless resistance!" said Geork before as he and another fired again.
"Man, this kid doesn't know when to quit!" Rades said as he watched his comrades fire at Asta.
Asta ignored their words and continued slashing his sword and sending more shadow magic to destroy their attacks.
"Oh! I remember this one!" said Sally, the crazed smile still present on her face.
"This must be that "dragon slayer" boy that possessed extremely rare magic. The master told us of about him." said Geork.
The enemies ceased their attacks as Asta stopped his sword spike's from spinning and glared at them with heavy breathing. He remembered Fuegoleon's about his fearlessness and calm if he wanted to achieve his goals.
"Don't worry, captain. I can keep my cool and tear these bastards to pieces!" Asta finished with a smile.
"Unlikely, boy." said Geork, preparing to strike until he recoiled at a bright light.
"Flame Magic! Exploding Flames!" Leopold said as he rose to his feet and launched multiple fireballs in multiple directions.
The enemies were quick on their feet and began to dodge or countered the fireball with their own attacks.
"Don't think I've forgotten what you have done to my brother and expect to get away with it!" Leopold said with an angry scowl. "I swear that by the end of this, you all will be defeated!"
The young lion then set his right hand ablaze and went to strike one of the enemies but he was faster and quickly stepped back.
"How bout it, Asta?" Leopold asked, conjuring more fire in his left hand. "Let's take these creeps down together!"
"Oh, yeah!" Asta said while punching on in the face with his left fist. "Jump on in and start beating 'em!"
One of the hooded wizards then fire beam of green magic but Asta quickly turned into a shadow before speeding toward the wizard. As the beam stopped, Asta burst from the ground yelling and brought down his sword on the enemy but missed. Leopold, who was also giving a battle cry, soon followed suit with a flame attack to another before Asta charged at Geork and gave an uppercut, sending the man in the air until he flipped and landed on his feet holding his chin.
'These two are wild beasts, fighting with everything they have as if it were their last stand.' Geork thought as he saw Asta and Leopold back to back with their magic in their hands.
"RRAAAHHH!" they yelled.
'Even against odds like this, they hold no fear!' Geork thought.
Rades, who was behind Geork, was watching the fight happen but wasn't doing any fighting as he was still recovering from his beat down from Asta.
"Are you serious? How hard is it to killed a pair of idiots?!" he said in slight frustration.
"I wouldn't be talking since you couldn't even defeat one!" Geork countered as he and his other 4 allies powered up their magic, ready to fight another 5 point attack. "These two weren't part of the plan but they've made themselves target!"
The 5 hooded enemies soon fired their attacks, meant to destroy them but were met with a dome of water, Noelle's Sea Dragon's Lair.
"Nice work, Noelle!" Asta said as he and Leopold turn to Noelle, who was still protecting Fuegoleon.
"If they think I would let my friends die so easily, then they made a grave error!" she said, holding her wand out.
This surprised the enemies as they all stared the the dome of water.
"Well, I must say this is some nifty protection magic." Sally said as she stare and admired the dome.
"Indeed." Geork commented as he looked towards Noelle. "It seems this girl, by her looks, is of the Royal house of the Silva family."
This caught the attention of another hooded enemy who open his greenish white grimoire and turned the pages.
"In that case, I say we counter with a spell befitting her status." he said as his grimoire stopped turning it's pages. "Tree Creation Magic. Magic Draining Roots."
The enemy's spell soon made large roots appeared around Noelle's spell and slowly spread around it before sticking it's roots in.
"Asta!" Noelle said in a panic.
"I see it!" Asta said, staying on guard.
"What's it doing?" Leopold said as he kept his eyes on the roots.
His answer soon came as the roots started to about the water defense spell, leaving Asta and Leopold vulnerable.
"His spell. It's swallowing mine!" Noelle said, watching the act happen.
"Hm." the man said with a smug smile as his spell ACTUALLY belched from it's meal.
Taking a chance to attack, Asta and Leopold charged to attack him with iron, shadows, and fire but didn't get the chance.
"Impressive instincts in battle." Geork said as he opened his green grimoire. "But you'll need more than that to win!
He then summoned several spiral of spin in the air before him and called out his attack.
"Wind Creation Magic. Death by Tornado Needles." Geork said as he launched several, long needles of condensed air at them.
Asta saw this and quick tried to counter. "Iron Shadow Dragon Roar!" he commanded as he took and quick breath and unleashed a small breath attack, stopping only half of the needles and allowing the remaining half to pierce through Asta and Leopold's bodies multiple times. The two Magic Knight then fell to the ground with groans as their magic ceased, causing Noelle to worry.
"Are you two okay?! Please, say something! Anything!" she shouted.
Rades then gained a smug smile once again as he watch from behind Geork, who was powering up his attack once again.
"Now, to end this." he said as he was about to launch 5 more attacks.
"NO! Stop!" Noelle said, watching helplessly.
Suddenly, something came diving in from the sky and blocked Geork's wind needles. This caused everyone to gasp in shock and hang their mouths open as the object appeared to be some sort of giant, silver bubble.
"Oh! Cool! I've never seen this kind of magic before!" Sally said, still smiling.
A silence filled the air as the bubble popped and revealed all of the Magic Knight that were teleported away from the capital had returned.
"You're back!" Noelle said, equally surprised.
"The other Magic Knight!" Geork said in shock.
"Dammit!" Rades said in frustration and panic.
Up on the roof where Valtos had continued to view the battle and the arrival of the knight, Alecdora then landed on the roof next to the one Valtos was on.
"You'd have to be fools to belive such a distance can keep us away." he said, facing the man responsible.
"So, you've returned. But how?" Valtos asked, keeping his cool as he eyed the Golden Dawn Knight. "That distance was no joke."
"Through teamwork, we were able to return. Though cooperation wasn't easy and if I had to name the spell used, I'd call it Super Compound Magic." Alecdora said, remembering all of them riding on a strange tower with wings and a swirling tip.
Hamon, a Golden Dawn with blond hair and a chubby body, laughed a bit as he held his chin and stood next to Siren. "Combining our talents instead of fighting for dominance. What a marvelous idea."
"I guess a man isn't completely useless, huh?" Sol commented as she stood next to her captain, Charlotte.
"Indeed. They do have their days now and then." the Blue Rose captain said.
"An act such as this disgusts me." Solid said with a frown.
"Agreed. We Silver Eagles don't play well with others." Nebra said with a small smile.
"Even so," Nozel started as he stepped forward. "It is our duty to protect our kingdom, not matter the situation or our feelings about each other."
As the Silver Eagle captain stared at Geork and his allies, Mimosa noticed something and went to a down Fuegoleon, who grimoire was still in the same state..
"Oh my! What happened?!" she said as she kneel down to him.
"He was badly hurt. Can you help him?" Noelle said, feeling relive the Mimosa was here.
"It's horrible. Who could do this to such a strong captain like Fuegoleon?!" Mimosa wondered as he grimoire open and she started healing him in her plant dress with wings.
As she went to work, she gazed upon Asta and Leopold, who hadn't moved in some time.
"Please, check Asta and Leopold. Are they breathing?" she wondered as Klaus answered her prayer and went to Asta to help him up.
"Come on! Wake up, Asta!" he shouted in worry but kept his calm.
Asta then let out a small grown and moved a bit, relaxing Klaus worries that he wasn't dead.
"Good, you're alive." Klaus said as he gazed upon the enemies. "To defeat knight of their strength, how powerful are these enemies?"
As the question went unanswered, Valtos quickly opened a portal and appeared behind Geork.
"Our loses will be grave if we do not retreat now. We must go." he said, prioritizing the situation.
This didn't work as well as he thought it would as Nozel opened his grimoire.
"Leaving so soon?" he asked before commanding. "Mercury Magic! Rain of Silver!"
His attack of silver rain soon appeared over Geork and his allies, about to stop them until Sally opened her grimoire.
"Gel Magic! Sticky Salamander!" she said with both hands raised as a giant salamander made of blue gel appeared over her and her allies.
Though it was a surprise, it didn't affect Nozel in the slightest.
"If you think that is powerful enough to with stand my silver rain, then you are sorely mistaken." he said without batting an eye.
"Oh, well in that case." Sally said as she held up a giant hypodermic needle filled with pink fluid before sticking the needle in her gel salamander. "Dark Magic Item! Property Boost: Absorb!"
As the fluid enter the salamander, it turned the same color as the substance in the vile and as the silver rain fell on the the salamander, they weren't doing any damage and were being absorb by the gel creature as it's master cheered.
"Impossible! It's absorbing the captain's magic like it were normal rain drops!" Klaus said in shock as he still held Asta up.
'How? Where did she get that kind of item?' Nozel thought as gazed upon the item and Sally as the girl made her hand into a peace sigh with her thumb out.
This action commanded the salamander to raises is right front leg and use it to grab Asta from Klaus' hold.
"Asta!" he said in surprised as the salamander formed a gel bubble around him and dropped him in front of Sally.
"Gotcha!" she said, holding the bubble with Asta inside.
Geork saw this and asked, "What are you going to do with him?"
Sally just giggled and sang, "It's a secret!"
Without saying another word, Geork closed his grimoire and lean his head down to kept his hood over his face. "This is it for now, Magic Knights, but before we go remember this. We are the Eye of the Midnight Sun by our hands, the Clover Kingdom shall be at our mercy!"
As the warning ended, Valtos used his magic to create a portal large enough to swallow the grouped and the captured dragon slayer, only leaving residual drops of the gel salamander.
"ASTA!" Noelle said in shock as her crush was taken right before her eyes.
-Timeskip, Sunset. Location, Unknown.-
The group of wizard known Eye of the Midnight Sun with a still prisoner Asta exited their portal in front of a strange castle as Geork began to scold Rades.
"How could you put your need for revenge over the mission? And now, we are left with a less than satisfatory result." he said with a judgmental tone of voice. "It doesn't matter if the master has taken a liking to you, it's no excuse to get cocky!"
The ground then started making their way to the castle as Geork continued to scold Rades on his actions.
"Flaunting those creatures left and right, taking on a captain alone. Those are the actions of a fool who doesn't know his limits." he said, finally getting a reply from the corpse user.
"Just drop it, already!" Rades replied, not wanting to hear his failure.
"If you had stuck to the plan, things would've resulted differently." said Geork, not even looking at Rades as he continued to walk towards the castle doorway.
"I don't see why you have a right to complain since it was my puppets who did most of the hard work!" Rades said, getting angry at his fellow member.
"Now, now, let's not forget about Catherine." Sally said as she still held an unconciuos Asta in a bubble of gel. "She was capture, so we're not the bad in comparison."
"Heh! Like I care about that hag!" Rades said without care for his ally.
"Enough of your squabbling." Valtos said, walking behind Rades.
"I still don't see the problem. I mean we got what we wanted, right?" Rades said, ignoring Valtos complaint to stop the bickering.
Valtos then stop in his tracks and addressed a certain problem. "One more thing. Sally," he said turned to the girl as she was walking behind him. "This prize of your's can't come with us. He may be powerful but he can still be a problem, kill him."
This seemed to get a reaction out of the crazed girl as she waved her arms up and down while giving her point.
"Are you crazy?! There's no way I'm throwing away a specimen like him! He doesn't use simple iron or shadow magic, but he has dragon magic, a magic no one has ever scene before!" Sally said, going on about Asta's magic as the wizard himself was starting to wake up.
'Wh-where am I? What am I floating in?' He thought as he noticed the curse cut on his right cheek was healing. 'This stuff, it's healing my cut but how?'
He looked forward and saw the wizards that attack his home were discussing something but was muffled a bit.
"Only those who were chosen by the master my came, the likes of him are nothing but trouble." Geork said as he walked between Valtos and Rades. "Kill him before the master arrives."
"Aw!" Sally groaned as she didn't want to kill him but study him.
"If you don't want to, I could kill him for ya! With his power, he'd make an excellent addition to my puppets!" Rades said with a smile as she stepped towards Sally.
This seemed to get Asta attention as he finally was about to gather his senses.
'Oh no. That is bad! I've been captured!' He thought as Sally noticed that he was awake right as Rades said "No fair!"
"Oh you're awake! Great!" Sally said as she removed her hood, showing Asta her unkempt, short black hair.
'A girl?' Asta thought as he stared at her.
"You can help convince them that keeping you would be a good thing! I'll study you and you rare magic! And then I'll experiment on and dissect you!" Sally ranted as she looked with eyes filled insanity and curiosity at Asta. "You wanna help me, right?! You wanna help me with my research! I'll analyze every single cell and leave nothing unchecked, I promise! Just think of what we could discover about your magic!"
This sent Asta's advanced instincts to go into overdrive as he heard this girl ramble on and on about what she wants to do with him, drawing to one, rational conclusion in Asta's mind.
'THIS GIRL IS INSANE!' he thought with a look of shock before he tried to move or summon his magic to get out of this situation. 'Crud! I can't move and I can't summon my magic! Is this stuff I'm in responsible?'
The Midnight Sun group then entered the castle with Sally still begging to keep and study Asta.
"Come on, Geork! Don't make my beg anymore! Please, please, please, please, please!" Sally said, continuing to beg.
Geork finally accepted defeat and sighed before saying, "Just leave me out of it, and he's yours."
"YAY!" Sally cheered as Rades counted.
"No! Give him to me!" he said as Sally replied, "Not a chance!"
Their talk was soon cut short as someone stepped from behind a pillar to stop the group in it's tracks but they were all shocked, especially Asta, to see that the one who stop them was the Wizard King, Julius, himself!
"Hi, you know it's not nice to keep people waiting." he said with the usual smile.
"What?!" Geork said as he thought, 'The Wizard King, Julius Novochrono, is here?!'
"Oooh!" Sally let out in interest.
"No way! How did he find us?!" Rades said in slight panic.
'Why is he here? How is he here?!' Geork thought in worry as Julius kept smiling at him.
"I hope you all had a pleasant visit to the capital." he said, not acknowledging the mood of the room.
"Quickly, kill him!" Geork said as he got into a stance.
But the moment he said the, Julius moved and unimaginable speed and appeared between two hooded members of the Midnight Sun, holding up his hands and creating orbs of magic before firing them, taking out two of them in less than an instant. Everyone was left in a state of shock as the incredible display before them.
"How did you-" Geork started until he was cut off.
"Mu apologies but it's to restraint you all this way." Julius said, not even tired by his actions.
The Midnight Sun quickly retaliated and tried to stop him but the Wizard King was too strong as he simply blast a tree spell that was heading for him into dust. This caused the enemy group to freak out even more as Rades started screaming.
"This all started when you attack the capital and now you're scared? he stated, staring the the group of enemies and a trapped Asta. "You should've known that when you try to kill, you should be ready to die yourselves."
'I knew he had to be powerful to be the Wizard King but this is beyond my imagination.' Valtos thought in worry. 'And with my magic drained...'
"Hey, how about this?" Julius started getting the remaining people's attention. "Your skill is impressive but taking on all of you would be too exhausting. So, how about this? The first to surrender lives, how about it?"
This, which would easily be a good deal for a lucky person, lead the way to one simple answer from all of the Midnight Sun members.
"Not a chance." Geork, Rades, Sally, Valtos, and a hooded member said at the same time before attacking.
Geork attacked with wind needles, Sally attacked with gel blasts, Valtos with blasts of magic, and Rades with his blasts magic. Though, this soon proved to be pointless as Julius was moving at incredible speeds once again and dodging all of their attacks like they were nothing.
"Impossible, no one should be able to move that fast!" Geork said as he saw Julius stopped before disappearing again.
"How about a test then?" Julius spoke as he appeared behind them. "I wanna see if it'll work on this many."
The Wizard King then held his hand up and forming a bright orb of blue magic.
"Time Binding Magic! Chrono Statis!"
As he activated his spell, all of the member of the Eye of the Midnight Sun were suddenly placed in blue sphere with a single line of roman symbols on it, freezing their bodies in complete paralysis.
'What the hell?!' Rades thought as his body refused to move inside the floating bubble.
'My body won't move!' Geork thought as his and everyone else's bodies were frozen.
'I'm struck.' Valtos thought as Julius admired his work.
"Wow what do you know? I got you all! I guess I overestimated you guys." he said with the same smile he wore when he revealed himself. "I hope you all enjoyed this because you'll be like that for quite some time."
Due to Sally being immobilized, the gel bubbled holding Asta feel apart and Asta fell to the floor but he didn't feel the pain as he was too shocked by the power the Wizard King just displayed.
"Oh, Asta!" Julius said seeing Asta on the floor. "It funny that we keep running into each other but it's still nice to see you."
"Uh, yeah. I guess" Asta said as he thought. '7 powerful mages and he beat them like their were nothing. It's not possible but he did it.'
Asta was left in a state of shock as Julius made his way towards him.
"You wanna be the Wizard King one day, right?" Julius asked, bringing Asta out of his shock a bit. "If you do, consider what you've seen here because this is only a fragment of what you have to outmatch to achieve your dream."
This shocked Asta even more than before, realizing that this is only a small piece of Julius' magic power!
'So, this is who I'm working towards surpassing. The strongest man I've ever known' Asta thought. 'The strongest mage in the Clover Kingdom and the man I need to surpass one day."
Julius then his left hand and offered it to Asta while asking, "Can you stand?"
Asta didn't seem to hear him as he continued his thoughts and rose to his knees on his own. 'This is him and all of his might, the Wizard King, right before me.'
He rose his head and stared at the hand, bringing confusion to Julius as Asta slammed his fist into the ground, breaking the stone floor.
'Get a grip, dammit! Quit shaking and stand up!' Asta thought as he finally rose to his feet. 'This isn't the time to be weak!'
As Asta was on his feet and trying to regain his breath, Julius decided to speak his mind again.
"Well, it looks like you can stand on your own. Good." he said as he turned to the enemy mages frozen by his magic. "Though I hate to say it, you folks have so very interesting magic."
Julius then turned away from the and started walking further into the Eye of the Midnight Sun's castle. "Now, while we're here, I need you to answer some questions."
Julius then walked past Asta, who turned his head to follow and saw something very strange. A big stone tablet with multiple jewels embedded in it was standing in the middle of the hall with a light shinning down on it.
"This tablet with the jewels, what are using it for?" Julius asked, not getting answer due to the enemies being frozen in his time magic. "I've never seen writing or a patterns like this before. What were you trying to do with it?"
He then walked towards them and continued to talk, "Actually, you can't answer since you're trapped in my spell right now. We'll have to head back to the Clover kingdom first before we can have a nice chat."
It was then Julius stopped talking and lose his smile as both he and Asta felt a sudden rise in magic while the tablet behind them started to glow.
"Hey, do you feel-" Asta said in a low voice as Julius nodded and replied, "Stay on guard, something's coming."
It was then a bright light shinned in the room and Asta had to cover his face with his arms so he couldn't be blinded.
"Urh! This light!" he said looking down as Julius didn't even cover his eyes.
As the light shinned, a mage in the similar yet superior robe than other members of the Midnight Sun mages wore descended upon the tablet and looked down at Asta and Julius.
"This light and this power, where are they coming from?!" Asta wondered as he kept shielding his face.
The figure, who was a tall, slender-framed man with white skin, shaved eyebrows stylized as two red dots, red crescents with three buds framing the sides of his gold eyes, white hair is braided back into several long extensions with a Kippah covering the top of his head ending with a cross over his forehead with an eye etched into the center and wears jewelry, including looped earrings, continued to stare down at them with a small smile on his face, not showing an once of fear or worry at the sight of Julius and Asta.
Side Notes:
OC Spells, new number 5.
1. Iron Dragon Kunai. Metal Storm. Chapter 10.
2. Iron Dragon Sword. Spinning Slash. Chapter 13.
3. Iron Dragon Cage. Chapter 21.
4. Iron Shadow Dragon Crushing Fist. Chapter 21.
5. Iron Shadow Dragon Sword. Slashing Wave. Chapter 25.