Part 68: Teamwork wins

"Earth magic, earth golem," Sol said from the top of her earth Golem as it tried to attack Mimosa who took cover behind a rock.

"Thanks to magic flower guide post I was able to find out that their crystal is being kept inside the golem," Mimosa thought staring at the golems chests. She then took out a small glowing green seed, "Thanks to this magic seed, if I can throw it in there I can control it and have it reveal the crystal," she thought before jumping out of the way as she dodged another punch.

"But this spell takes time to work and I need to act like I didn't throw it, can I really pull off something like that," she thought as a large plant grew behind her and aimed at the earth golem, "Plant magic, magic flower cannon," she said as the plant fired and the earth golem dodged.

"Nice try, Binding magic, mud cloth," Sol said as large puddle of mud shot at Mimosa. Mimosa was then revealed to be covered in mud and couldn't move, "Sorry I don't really have anything against fighting women, but I'm going to go win this bye," she said waving as the earth golem walked past Mimosa who looked worried.

"Oh no, I have go back there and warn the others," she thought.

Over with Asta who had climbed out of the hole where Kirsch was still knocked out with the demon slayer sword holding him down, Xerx looked down as well, "Well look at where that narcissist attitude of yours got you, hard to believe you're actually a vice captain and looks like that face of yours got beat up too,".

"Cmon its not nice to kick the guy while hes down," said Asta before looking at demon dweller sword, "Still I never would have thought to use my sword to dig, it actually worked out really well," he said.

"Yeah ill admit I was impressed by your speed, but just to be sure," Xerx said as his magic power surrounded one of his fingers and a magic circle appeared under it. The circle then landed on the ground before vanishing.

"Oh so that's how you use trap magic, cool," said Asta looking impressed.

"Just to be safe lets shoot down the ceiling," Xerx said blasting the caves ceiling making rubble fall around the hole in the ground.

"Hey my sword is still down there," Asta said looking down when he heard a loud voice getting closer.

"I'm coming for you," Magna said with flames surrounding his feet showing he was using reinforcement magic to help him run faster.

"Hey Magna, looks like your really bringing the heat huh," said Asta smiling as he held up his sword ready to fight.

"You know it Asta," said Magna coming to a stop, "But I know better then to attack you face to face, think of this as payback from your baptism," he said remembering the day he first met Asta.

"Here we go," said Magna throwing a fireball.

"I got this," said Asta swinging his sword, but before the fireball hit the sword it vanished making the anti magic user look surprised. Then the fireball appeared in front of the crystal and hit it creating small cracks.

"Nice try, but I new exploding fire ball has a nice ability where it vanishes before hitting its target," Magna said smiling as he held up another fireball ready to go.

"He's really going all out here," said Asta while from the stone stage the wizard king looked impressed by Magna's spell, "The only way to take him down fast is my black form, but that power still needs to cool down," he thought.

"Hey runt, give me twelve, no ten minutes to get ready," said Xerx.

"Yeah you got it," said Asta as he tired to block another fire ball.

While in the hole where Kirsch was still knocked out. He was remembering when he and Mimosa were shown a small village. He had told Mimosa how the way commoners lived had lead to even children committing crimes and would eventually lead to them becoming criminals when they grew up.

"Hey do you hear me, wake up," said Sol slapping Kirsch in the face to wake him up. He sat up holding a hand to his cheek.

"My beautiful face, injuring it is a crime that cannot be," Kirsch said before Sol interrupted him.

"Shut up, you know have right to use that word, the only person who deserves to be called beatiful is Char," Sol said as she began to tell the story of how she met the blue rose knights captain. One day when her village was attacked by bandits when most of the men were away, she decided to fight because she always saw herself as strong but when she went to fight she couldnt win. But Charlotte showed up and saved her.

"Did captain Charlotte really go that far to save a village," Kirsch said looking surprised.

"Yeah, but she didn't just save me she also gave me a goal," Sol said as she explained how Charlotte told her she could become both strong and beautiful. She told her to train her magic and would be waiting for her with the blue rose knights. That day she was determined to become stronger.

"So are you just gonna sit here and lose, or do you have the determination to win?" Sol asked Kirsch who looked determined as he stood back up.

Outside Magna was still throwing fire balls as Asta's teams crystal which was now more damaged, "Ahh," Asta said throwing a fireball back which Magna was able to dodge, "Looks like I finally got one," he said smiling.

"Oh yeah, well lets see if you can keep that up," said Magna as he started throwing fireballs faster and Asta was able to block more of them, "I don't have any fancy anti magic sword and I'm not a noble with great magic power, but what I do have is my fast spells," he thought remembering the past battles, "Asta you little twerp, you really are something, thanks for making not just me, but the whole lot of us stronger," he thought.

"Sorry but the final isn't going to be between you and Yuno," Magna thought, "Its going to be between me and Luck," he said throwing a fireball that damaged more of the crystal when Kirsch flew above Asta surrounded by a pink cloud.

"Damaging my beautiful face is a crime that can not be forgiven," he said.

"Not good," Asta thought looking nervous before Xerx yelled.

"GO AFTER THE FLOWER GUY,".

"Right," said Asta as he started running towards Kirsch.

"I win," said Magna throwing a fireball at the crystal. When a magic circle appeared and absorbed the spell making the fire magic user look confused.

"We cant stop your attacks directly, but when we put a magic circle on our crystal it gets easy," thought Xerx as the fireball shot out of the magic circle and back at Magna who was holding a flame bat.

"Ill just have to throw it right back," Magna said swinging but the flame ball vanished making him look surprised. The fire ball then exploded when it hit him, making him look surprised as he fell back defeated.

"Fine, ill wipe you and that crystal off the field," said Kirsch holding his right hand up, only for it to be trapped in a magic circle.

"Yeah I actually put a few traps in the air as well," Xerx said smiling as he held up a finger that was glowing with magic power.

"This will only take me a few moments to escape," said Kirsch looking annoyed.

"That's all the time I need to take you down," said Asta as he jumped up from a hill and hit Kirsch in the face with his sword. Kirsch had a surprised look on his face as he fell to the ground.

"Well looks like its up to me," said Sol with her golem standing in front of the crystal.

"Oh no," said Asta as the golem went to punch the crystal before it stopped making Sol look confused.

"Hey why aren't you moving," she said when plants started to come out from the arm.

"Yes, just in time," said Mimosa who was standing nearby with her hands glowing with magic power.

"Wait no," Sol said as the golem opened its chest revealing the other crystal.

"I got this," said Asta as he cut through the crystal, destroying it. The announcer then declared their teams victory.

Over on the stone stage, "Ridiculous, how could royalty lose to people like them," Augustus said looking surprised while Julius smiled.

"Yes this match was interesting," he said.

"Wow that was awesome, I cant wait till I get to fight," Luck said looking excited.

Over on the field, "How could we have lost like that," said Kirsch.

"If your not happy how about some advice from the victors," said Xerx, "You refused to fight with people who you thought were lower and look where that attitude got you,".

"You got ahead of yourself, if you were more focused you could have won," he said looking at Sol who was sitting on the ground.

"You were to reckless, though I guess that's normal for you," he said looking at Magna.

"Hey come on their already down," Asta said when Mimosa walked over to her brother.

"Mimosa please don't look," he said.

"Brother about what you said to me back then," she said referring to when they visited the village, "Its true commoners life's are different then ours, but that doesn't stop them from being good and the way you fought together at the end," she said.

Kirsch looked surprised to see Mimosa was smiling, "I haven't seen you act so beautiful," she said.

Kirsch then looked up at the sky, "I hate to admit it, but the way they fought really was beautiful," he thought remembering when he saw Magna throwing fireballs at Asta who was blocking them.

"Well looks like teamwork payed off after all," said Asta.

"It's surprising, but everything really did turn out alright," Xerx thought, "Yeah well it would have been easier if you hadn't destroyed my traps in the first place," he said looking annoyed.

Over on the stone stage, "Match two of the second round is about to begin," the announcer said.

Finral then had a serious look on his face, knowing what this meant, "Looks like I'm up and my opponent is Langris," he thought before looking over at his brother.