Exploring the Duegon Part 4
Lotus was currently up in the air as smoke prison was starting to disappear due to the attack that Leo just inflicted on him.
"Oww what a thing to do to a pretty weak old guy" Lotus thought.
"My left arm is pretty much busted and broken and I think he took out a couple of my ribs as well,yeah I think I'm done fighting for today" Lotus said as he looked at Leo Noelle and Luck..
"Man would you look at that the clover kingdom next generation of mages are going to be super scary...but if they capture me then I could possibly die so" Lotus thought as smoke was covering all around him.
"Or not I'm running away" Lotus said "Smoke Creation Magic: Hustling Lazy Car Lotus said as created a smoke like car and ran away from Leo Luck and Noelle.
"Hey get back here!" Leo yelled but it was already too late as Lotus was already left the area.
"Damn it he got away" Leo said.
"I would've like to finish him off but now not the time,we've got to get to the treasure hall" Luck said.
You're saying that!" Noelle said shocked that Luck was actually prioritizing the mission over his love for battle at the moment.
"As much as I want to go after him Luck is right we need to head straight to treasure room right away Asta Ruben and the Golden Dawn members could be in a lot of trouble" Leo said.
"That's right those two powerful magic users at the treasure hall" Noelle said as she had a serious look on her face.
Luck began to sense Mars and Evanora magic "I see so there are two more strong people here" Luck said with a smile on his face.
"Is everybody ok?" Lotus asked his men who didn't respond while one was healing him with his recovery magic after he didn't get answer Lotus had continued speaking.
"Well it looks like we can't go treasure hunting after all haha but that's ok Mars and my lovely wife Evanora will do something about it after all she is the strongest of the old eight shining generals and Mars is the new secret weapon of the diamond kingdom" Lotus said.
Meanwhile back at the treasure hall Ruben and Klaus were facing Mars while Asta and Yuno were facing Klaus and Ruben they just saw Mars create a giant crystal sword.
"Mineral Creation Magic: Laevateinn" Mars said.
"This boy...what ominous magic and those jewels on his forehead...I've heard some rumors while on missions that the diamond kingdom are raising mage warriors with artificially amplified magic...they choose children who has powerful magic and put them in a fierce competition and put magic item inside of them to increase their magic power and at the end make them kill each other" Ruben said as he narrowed his eyes as he was disgusted that the diamond kingdom would force kids to kill each other for their own experiments.
"So this boy must be one of the survivors" Ruben said as he looked at Klaus and saw that his fist was shaking.
"Klaus don't be afraid remember we are magic knights from the clover kingdom, we belong to the two strongest squads of the clover kingdom this is an opponent we can easily overcome" Ruben said to the young magic knight.
Ruben's words had snapped Klaus out of his state and he had a determined look on his face.
"Yes sir" Klaus said.
Mars then threw the sword at Klaus and Ruben but the two magic knights managed to jumped to the side and dodged the attack.
"His attack is pretty slow and with out he controls the sword he is leaving himself wide open fit attacks" Ruben said as his Grimiore appeared in front of him.
"Sandstorm Creation Magic: Sandstorm Bullets!" Ruben said as he created sandstorm bullets but Mars has created a crystal copy to take the damage instead.
"Mineral Magic:Talos Doll" Mars said as the bullets pierced and destroyed the copy.
"A crystal copy" Ruben thought he looked and saw another copy that was about to punch him but Ruben flicked his hand up and the copy was in a sandstorm like rope bind.
"Sandstorm Magic: Death Binding" Ruben said he then cluched his hand into a fist and we went to destroyed the crystal.
At the same time Klaus dodged another attack from his sword and he created a drill like lance made from steel and fired it at Mars.
"Steel Creation Magic: Fierce Spiral Lance" Klaus said as the drill hit Mars sending him back quite a distance.
"Alright I got him" Klaus said but he gasp in shocked as be saw that Mars grab the lance and broke it he also saw the cover himself in crystal armor but their was a crack in the middle.
"Your magic isn't string enough to pierce me" Mars said Mineral Magic: Nemean Armor.
"No Klaus cloudnt pierced him fine then we will just have to sw-" Ruben saw that more crystal clones were being made and they attacked Ruben.
"Damn it more clones!" Ruben thought.
Klaus meanwhile had to keep dodging the swords and he fired multiple small steel lances at Mars but his armor was mostly protecting him only creating cracks and Mars was only adding some extra layers..
"Its no useless you two can't defeat me just stop" Mars said.
"No that's not and option" Klaus said.
"Move" Mars simply said.
"No I refuse as a member of the crimson lions kings I will endure and beat you!" Ruben said.
"Give up" Mars said again.
"No we're not giving up" Klaus said as he was breathing heavily he then looked up and saw that the sword was about to hit him and the crystals was starting to overwhelm Ruben however right before the sword could hit Klaus Leo had stepped up and he grabbed the sword with his hands covering with flames and Luck had sped up and zig sagged around the area as he destroyed the crystal clones.
Leo then went and ahead and destroyed the two into pieces with his bare hands and Klaus Ruben and Mimosa was surprised when they saw Leo and Luck.
"It looks like we've made it in time huh Leo" Luck said as he looked at Fuegoleon younger brother.
"That's true but regardless we're here now...alright pal as the second son of the vermilion household and a member of the crimson lions kings I will be your opponent!" Leo said as he pointed a finger at Mars.
During Klaus and Ruben battle with Mars and before Leo and Luck arrived Asta and Yuno was currently fighting Evanora and it wasn't long until the knights attacked at Asta and Yuno but Yuno and Asta were quick to strike first with Asta went and slash and completely destroyed the knights with his swords. While Yuno jumped up and fired up a attack.
"Wind Magic:Tornado Fang!" Yuno said as he fired a tornado like blast at the acid knights destroying them.
Asta then quickly ran up to Evanora and gotten close to her and was about to swing at her.
"This one is fast and he can wield that sword with ease but I should be able to protect myself" Evanora said as she used shield of corrosion to try to block the attack but to her shocked Asta slashed through the shield and slashing Evanora making her crash through the floor.
"Alright I managed to land a hit" Asta said with a smile on his face.
Evanora then slowly. got herself from the ground as their was a large slash on her dress and blood was dripping from her mouth.
"Impossible how did be break through my shield so easily!" Evanora said as she looked Asta.
"This boy...is this boy somehow negating my spells" Evanora said as she got up.
"Even so I won't lose so easily" Evanora said as a bunch of acid gathered behind her as she pointed her staff at Asta at Yuno as she created a three headed dragon with teeth made from acid.
"Acid Creation Magic: Venomous Dragon Hydra Charge" Evanora said as she fire the dragons at Asta and Yuno, Asta with little effort went dodged the attack by jumping up he then went down and quickly slash the dragon head off. But the other two dragon head went to Yuno.
"Oh no Yuno!" Asta yelled.
"While you may be able to negate my magic the wind magic user isn't so lucky" Evanora said with a smirk on her face.
Yuno barely dodged the first dragon head by going to the side but the attack managed to graze his leg to the side..
"Ah!" Yuno said as the acid was eating away his flesh but right when one dragon ahead was about to attack him but he managed to gather enough strength and used Tornado Fang to blow away the acid while Asta went and slashed the third head with his sword.
Evanora then appeared behind Asta and tried to attack him with her staff but Asta quickly turned around and blocked Evanora attack and the two of them clashed weapons with each other.
"My oh my you're quite the odd one you managed to negate my spells I wonder if your effected by my magic at all" Evanora said.
"Well I guess I'm full if surprises!" Asta yelled as he pushed Evanora back once he did he charged at her but Asta sensed something was wrong.
"Acid Magic: Acid Torrent!" Evanora said as she fired a blast of acid at Asta but Asta side step to the side and he trusted his sword at Evanora side cutting her and causing her to scream in pain.
Evanora then fell on her knees as she dropped her staff "damn to think that I would lose to a kid with no magic heh the clover kingdom really has a odd one" Evanora Asta went up to her.
"Sorry about that but I hope you can understand that as magic knights we need to accomplish our mission" Asta said as he went and knocked Evanora out with the hilt of his sword..
"Alright we did it!" Asta said as Yuno went up to him and saw that Evanora was on the ground he then used a spell and created wind like chains and tied Evanora up.
"There that should hold her up for a bit why we go through the treasure room" Yuno said to Asta.
"Right you know Yuno you gotten a lot stronger I'm going to need to catch up soon" Asta said.
"You got in reverse...Asta I'm the one that needs to catch up to you" Yuno thought but instead he said.
"Well by the time that happens I would have already been ahead" Yuno said with a smile on his face.
"Well it looks like I have to work twice as hard then" Asta said with a smile on his face he then looked and saw that Leo Luck and Noelle have arrived and saved Ruben and Klaus.
"Looks like Leo and the others arrived come on lets go see them Yuno" Asta said to his brother in all but blood.
"Right" Yuno said as he and Asta went to join the others.
At the same time Leo and Luck was currently facing Mars Klaus took a moment to look at Leo and Luck.
"Wha- Ruben and I were barely able to hold our own against this powerful magic and yet Leo was able to destroy his spell" Klaus thought as another crystal clone went and tried to attack him but Luck reacted quickly and attacked the crystal clone.
"Oops looks like I missed one" Luck said as he kicked and destroyed the crystal clone with his lightning creation magic boots.
"Its him, he the one who caused trouble at the entrance exam by thrashing his opponent more then necessary Luck the cheery berserker so he was the other black bull member who came here...to think that one of the Black Bull members would save me" Klaus thought.
"Mimosa" Noelle said as she looked and saw that Mimosa was busy healing herself inside of her cage spell.
"Oh I wish you hadn't seen this its just as you said I'm slow" Mimosa said.
Noelle didn't say anything at first until she said "true you've always been like that so" Noelle said as her Grimiore appeared in the air and she brought out her wand.
"So I'll just have to protect you" Noelle said.
"Noelle" Mimosa said.
Noelle then looked and saw that Asta and Yuno was running up to them.
"Asta, Yuno you two are here we sense another person here who magic was powerful were you two able to beat that person?" Noelle asked.
"Yeah we sure did it was a bit hard due to her acid magic but Yuno and I managed to beat her" Asta said with a smile on his face while Yuno didn't say anything at first.
"They managed to beat that other person who had powerful magic just how strong are these two" Noelle thought in awe as she looked at Asta and Yuno. Noelle quickly left her thoughts as she look and saw that Leo was speaking to Mars.
"So you're the one that has been giving my comrades some trouble" Leo said
"And what if I am" Mars said as he created a bunch of crystal clones.
"The weak are the first to go that's all there is" Mars said Mineral Creation Magic: Talks Doll Swarm
"Wha..." Luck said a bit shocked that Mars was able to create so many clones.
"So many numbers all at once" Ruben said as he sweated a bit.
"On the battlefield its pointless for the weak to exist I was born to break people like you" Mars said as Leo growled at Mars.
"Really then well its too bad that I won't break that easily!" Leo said as he ingulf his flames in fist and he went and punched the crystal sending it flying and destroying it Flame Magic: Inferno Fist!.
"As a member of house Vermillion I won't break that easily so come and try to break me!" Leo said.
"I intend to" Mars said as he created another giant sword and used it to attack Leo but Leo entire left hand was covered in flames and she shot flames from his hands towards the sword.
"Flame Magic: Explosive Bullet" Leo said as he created a bullet like stream of fire from his hand and shot it towards the sword causing a explosion and breaking the sword in half. But Leo didn't let up as he ran quickly right at Mars.
But Mars stomp his foot creating crystals causing Leo to not move for a bit due to the crystals trapping his right Leo had used inferno fist to punch down at the crystals destroying them and freeing himself at the process but he did get a few bruises on his legs due to the impact.
But Leo kept running at Mars until he was quickly in front of him and Leo engulf his fist with flames and he went and punch Mars square in the stomach breaking his armor with inferno fist causing an explosion and send him flying in the air.
"He's strong" everybody thought.
"No way this is a power of a royal" Klaus said as he couldn't believe that Leo was strong enough to deal damage to Mars.
"Of course Leo is part of the vermilion household after all" Noelle said.
"Yes not only that but he is captain Fuegoleoeo older brother so of course Leo would be strong in fact I believe he would be the next captain of the crimson lions king" Ruben said.
"Leo you really are strong...looks like I might have another rival soon" Asta thought as he smiled at Leo.
"I can't let my guard down I know that an attack like that wouldn't finish him off" Leo said.
Leo narrowed his eyes as he looked and saw crystals forming and he widen his eyes in surprised as he saw a wane of crystals coming right at him.
"Leo look out!" Asta said as he speed blitz until he was right in front of Leo and cut a few crystals to save Leo.
"Asta" Leo said as he was shocked at how fast Asta gotten here but he got over his shock and he used infernal fist to punch and destroyed a couple of crystals as well but it wasn't enough as the crystals completely engulfed Asta and Leo.
"Asta!" Yuno yelled "Leo! Asta!" Ruben yelled as both of them was concerned about Asta and Leo's well being due to them taking that attack from Mars.
"You two who and what are you?" Mars asked the what are you question was directed at Asta as he felt his magic being negated a bit when he went and cut through his crystals.
At the same time Mars incased himself inside a giant bulking crystal armor Mineral Creation Magic: Titan Heavy Armor
"I'm. the second son of house Vermilion and the member of the crimson lions king Leopold Vermilion and as a proud member of the crimson lions I will defeat you!" Leo said.
"As for me I'm Asta and I'm also a member of the crimson lions king and I'm a human who doesn't have any magic" Asta said shocking Klaus.
"He doesn't have any magic at all he must have lucked out on his abilities" Klaus said but he was shocked as he took a good look at Asta.
"Even though I don't have any magic I'm gonna become the wizard king I'm going to prove you can achieve anything even without magic and I'm not going to waste a chance captain Fuegoleon gave me" Asta said.
"His body...how hard has he trained his body to get to the way it is" Klaus thought as due to Mars attack half of Asta shirt was ripped opened showing off his muscular right arm and chest. Leo shirt was ripped opened as well showing off his muscular built but he wasn't as built as Asta was.
"He also said he wants to be the wizard king is he serious?" Klaus thought.
Asta words has triggered something within Mars has he was remembering something from his childhood.
"What do you want be when you grow up Mars?" a female voice said as Mars remembered that question.
"I only break things everything!" Mars said as he was about to attack Asta and Leo.
"So the reason you want to be strong is to break things sorry but our jobs at magic knights isn't to break things" Leo yelled.
"That's right we as magic knights and the wizard king protects things there no way we would loose to a guy like you" Asta said with a determined look on his face.
"We were born to protect everyone in this country" a young girl said to Mars when he was younger.
"You two are in my way get lost you pieces of gravel" Mars said.
"So you think we are pieces of gravel huh" Leo said as he created a flare which was in the form of ropes and he jumped up and wrapped the rope around Mars and his armor. restricting his movement shocking Mars a bit.
"I can't move not only that I can't cast any spells" Mars thought..
"You can call us gravel all you want but at the end Asta and I..." Leo said as he landed on the other side behind Mars.
"We're the gravel that shatters diamonds!" Asta said as he easily swung his sword and broke though Mars crystals and destroyed his armor with Anti Magic sending him flying until he landed roughly on the ground and soon Mars was knocked out cold.
Everyone but mostly Klaus was shocked that Leo and Asta had managed to defeat Mars.
"We win we the magic knights of the clover kingdom are going to the treasure hall" Asta said as he raised his sword up in the air and the symbol of a black lion appeared around him.
A couple of minutes later the group had gathered Mars and Evanora up together and Yuno decided to let Evanora go of her binding and have Klaus bind Mars and Evanora instead since his steel magic would be more effective then. his wind magic.
"That should do it" Klaus said.
"Excellent work Klaus that should keep them down for a bit while we go to the treasure room and get the rest of the treasure" Ruben said.
"Is it okay for you to be up?" Noelle asked her cousin.
"Yes I'm mostly recovered for the most part" Mimosa said.
"Man Leo our robes are ruined" Asta said.
"Oh you don't have to worry about that Asta ahaha" Leo said.
"Leo is right when we get back to the base the servants will fix it for you" Ruben said.
"Well since that's over with we need to go inside the duegon" Asta said as he and Leo was eating health recovery herbs as it was healing their injuries and Leo case it was healing his injuries and his magic.
"Well with that said thank you for saving...us but since we arrived here first we will let you black bulls and crimson lions members enter the duegon with us" Klaus said.
"Um thanks I guess" Asta said as he raised his eyebrow.
"Alright now to the treasure hall but how to we get in" Asta said.
"If I had to guess the door is probably made out of magic so Asta..." Ruben said as he looked at his fellow member of the crimson lion kings.
"Right I understand" Asta said as he took his sword from his grimiore and with a couple of slashes the door was cut down and once the door was cut down the group was shocked as they saw all types of treasure in the treasure hall.
"Wow this is awesome there is so much treasure here!" Asta said as he Luck and Leo ran to check out some treasure while Noelle and Mimosa did the same along with Klaus was about to say something Ruben placed a hand on his shoulder and gave Klaus a small smile.
"Let them explore and check out the treasures I think they and along with us deserve it after what we just been through" Ruben said causing Klaus to sigh a bit.
"I suppose your right" Klaus said.
Yuno at the same time saw a scroll and he went to it and picked it up he then opened the scroll and looked inside but all Yuno saw was some mysterious writing.
"What is this writing I've never seen it before" Yuno thought.
After that a light glowed that engulfed Yuno earning the attention of Mimosa and Klaus and when Yuno looked at the scroll again the writing was gone.
"The writing its gone" Yuno thought.
"What was that light?" Klaus asked Yuno.
"I don't know" Yuno said.
Nero poked Asta head a bit "ow what is it Nero!" Asta said as he rubbed his head and he looked at the direction Nero was looking at and he saw a wall with a symbol on it.
"Is something here or is it something behind that wall?" Asta said as he looked at Nero "is that what its trying to tell me?" he thought..
"I wonder if there anything fun around here-" Luck said as he and Yuno both sense something.
"This magic" both Luck and Yuno thought at the same time.
"Everybody ru" Luck started to say but Mars and Evanora exploded through the wall as Mars was in his crystal armor and Evanora who had dress was torn to the side as she was carrying her staff..
Mars wasted little time and trapped Yuno Luck Leo and Ruben and Evanora began casting a spell.
"Acid Magic Mana Zone: Multi-Angle Acid Bombs" Evanora said as multiple purple bombs appeared around Luck Leo Yuno Klaus and Ruben and she fired the bombs at them from all directions hitting them multiple times.
"AHHHHHHH! " the boys screamed as they were in so much pain as the acid was burning their clothes and skin.
"Impossible how did they recover in such a short amount time" Klaus said as he looked and saw that Evanora injuries was slowly healing up due to some flame magic and he saw that some flames was covering Mars as well.
"You kids put us through the ringer but playtime is over" Evanora said with a serious look on her face.
"Flame Recovery Magic: Phoenix Robe" Mars said..
"Flame Magic that shouldn't be possible not only that but this woman she was able to use Mana Zone!" Ruben said as he grunted in pain as the acid was slowly tearing his flesh in his arms and legs.
"No each mage should have one attribute mana from the four classical elements water fire earth and wind dwells within each mage, mages can only use magic from their own mana or from a signal attribute dervived from it" Klaus thought.
"But he ignoring that rule he has two types of magic not only that but he used recovery magic when he a attack magic user impossible!" Klaus thought.
"This is the result of the diamond kingdom experiments" Ruben thought.
"Mars thank you for healing me I appreciate that" Evanora said Mars didn't say anything he didn't really know why he healed Evanora he did it on instinct but he also realized he needed her to keep the other occupied.
"You're going to be a great warrior Mars I just know it, I'm sorry Mars this is all I can do" the girl said as Mars remembers more stuff from his childhood about that girl.
"I can put out those flames!" Noelle said as she was about to use Hydro Blast to put out the flames but Mars with his armor punched and hit Noelle sending her flying causing her to land roughly on the ground and her shirt was opened and her chest was bloody up.
"Noelle!" Mimosa yelled worried for her cousin.
"Oh no Noelle everyone !" Asta said as he glared at Mars and Evanora.
"Why you!" Asta yelled as he charged at Mars and Evanora..
"We have a better grasp on your abilities kiddo you can negate magic with that sword of yours" Evanora said.
"But can you negate magic that's faster then your sword" Mars said as he created a bunch of floating swords and used them to attack Asta.
Mineral Creation Magic: Harpe" Mars said..
"They're fast!" Asta said as he was doing his best to deflect and break the swords by swinging his sword around and thanks to his training with his tutors he managed to break and deflect most of Mars spells but Mars weapons with their speed got around Asta defenses and hit him sending him back and crashing into and threw the wall.
As he slid back Asta lost his sword and it was stuck on the ground.
"Oh my he handle Mars attacks well for the most part despite wielding a large and heavy sword...man do the clover kingdom have some scary and strong magic knights but Mars is strong as well when he healed me...I can tell that maybe he not completely brainwashed" Evanora said as she looked at Mars.
"Ah my sword..even if I gotten better in wielding my sword to deal with speedy attacks its still not enough...those two they were able to change their fighting style as a way to deal with my sword damn it!" Asta thought.
"If I don't hurry Noelle Leo and the others are gonna..." Asta shook his head not wanting to finish that thought.
"What am I going to..." Asta said as he saw Nero fly by.
"Nero" Asta said as he looked and saw that Nero landed on another old and rusty sword.
A/N: Hey guys sorry about that life and laziness got on the way but I managed to push through and finish the chapter. Anyway the magic knights has managed to beat Mars and Evanora at first and managed to reach the duegon but right when they was about to finish their mission Mars and Evanora came back and took out most of the heros and Asta was overwhelm due to Mars knowing how to counter his anti as Asta crashed into another room he found another sword what is that sword that he found and will he be able to beat Mars and Evanora well find out in the next chapter of Black Lion thank you guys so much for reading my story it really means a lot don't forget to read review and follow the story until next time guys see ya.