Apocrypha - Book 1: Conquest Chapter 26: Saga 26: House of 1,000 Corpses Part 3, a black clover/ブラッククローバー fanfic

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Saga 26: House of 1,000 Corpses Part 3

Magic Knight Headquarters, Hospital Wing, Clover Kingdom Capital Quatre, Noble Realm, Clover Kingdom (Late Afternoon)

Four Magic Knights, against one rouge [Spatial Magic] user holding a fifth as his hostage.

Two of them were missing a limb (Yuno and Corrin), one of them just pissed their pants (Finral), and the last was exuding murderous intent (Jericho).

"Everyone..." Yuno spoke out. "Let's go!"

Jericho charges in with Finral and Yuno acted as supported.

Corrin meanwhile, was holding Yuno held upright as the four-leaf shot his [Wind Blade Shower] towards Valtos.

"Useless."

Valtos then opens multiple portals around himself to redirect the wind blades back towards Jericho's direction.

Finral opens a massive [Fallen Angel Gate] in front of the reflected blades, sending them elsewhere.

On where they went, well...

Clover Kingdom Capital Quatre, Checkpoint D, Noble Realm, Clover Kingdom (Late Afternoon)

Charlotte was fending off against [#1: Carl] and his endless (and surprisingly lethal) [Barrier Magic], while the Five Divas were fending off [#9: Sawyer] and [#13: Catherine] along with the other thralls, and Captain Vangeance of the Golden Dawn was occupied on keeping the [Bird Box] from compacting the civilians inside the checkpoint.

For one, the utilization of his [Barrier Magic] was basically hair-pulling.

For one, it's not the durability of said barriers, but rather where they keep popping up.

Her thorn whips were being cut from the base from [Carl]'s [Antonomy] were popping out from her vines, severing from the inside out, rendering her attacks useless upon being cut.

Two, the directions that [Carl]'s attacks were coming from were completely random.

Frontal and area control were of no issue to her, but [Carl]'s attacks literally come out of nowhere.

So on top of dodging his attacks, she also has to predict where the next attack will come from.

She then feels a concentrations of mana building up inside her neck.

Charlotte quickly leans back, preventing the barrier from popping out from her throat.

[Carl], however, points his finger down, and flattens Charlotte with the barrier above her, pinning down her arms and legs with [Barrier Binding Magic: Waxwork].

The barrier then begins to slowly crush her like bug under a boot's heel as the barrier on top of her became more and more dense and heavy.

The Blue Rose Knight Captain struggles to free herself as her own bones began to break under the increasing pressure.

But just as she was about to be smothered to death, a portal opens behind [#1: Carl]'s back, sending out blades of wind towards the papal zombie, staking its back, causing its [Barrier Magic] to cease.

Charlotte the takes this opportunity to lash out her [Conqueror's Brandish] around [Carl]'s neck, and snaps it off of its socket.

The [Bird Box] around the Blue Rose Magic Knight Headquarters dissipates, and the citizens inside cheer.

"I'll watch the civilians." William stated. "Run wild, Queen of Thorns."

"Don't tell me what to do, Vangeance."

Charlotte then begins lashing her whip towards the hordes of the oncoming undead.

Back at the Medical Wing...

"[Platinum Creation Magic: Star Finger]!"

An elongated finger of platinum unrelentingly speeds towards Valtos.

"Useless." Valtos then opens a portal right in front of him to redirect the finger elsewhere.

A portal then opens underneath Yuno, revealing [Star Finger] heading towards him.

"Oh no you don't!" Finral then fires a miniature [Fallen Angel Gate] towards the [Star Finger]'s trajectory.

Valtos smirks.

"Like I said." He stated. "It's useless."

A portal opens on Finral's gate, canceling it out.

Yuno quickly leans back from the [Star Finger], but the metal attack strikes his chin like an uppercut and sends him flying off of his feet along with Corrin.

"You alright, Yuno?" Corrin asked.

"I'm fine." Yuno answered.

"Not for long.

Serrated black discs of [Spatial Magic] then begin to run across the walls and ceilings.

"[Spatial Magic: Dimensional Cutters]."

"GET DOWN!"

Corrin tackles down Yuno, with [Sylph] flying above the black saw of death.

"What kind of sick bastard comes up with this crap-"

A portal opens in front of [Sylph], with Jericho's [Stardust Knuckle] barreling towards the fairy's comparatively puny frame.

Now normally, a [Spirit] can easily phase through physical attacks like the oncoming punch.

But that is only applied when said [Spirit] is at full power.

And Yuno lost a lot of blood and mana a week prior.

Ergo, it was a miracle itself that [Sylph] was even intact upon contact.

"[Sylph]!" Yuno cried out the tiny [Wind Spirit] was sent flying.

"So that's the famed [Wind Spirit: Sylph]..." Valtos mused as he kept redirecting Jericho's attacks with his portals. "... Pitiful."

"EYES ON ME, YOU BASTARD!" Jericho then continues punching towards Valtos.

Another portal absorbs the punch and redirected it towards Corrin.

The chestnut-haired girl dodges the punch over her nose.

"FINRAL!" Corrin cried out.

"I KNOW!" He cried back. "BUT MY [Spatial Magic] CAN'T KEEP UP WITH HIS!"

Finral's [Fallen Angel Gate] can only opened for so long so fast compared to Valtos's own.

"Dammit!" Finral cursed. "I can't keep up with his speed! At this rate..."

He then catches eye of Luck's cot slowly descending deeper into Valtos's portal.

"At this rate..."

The image of Luck being never seen again begins to crawl into his mind.

"... NO!"

Two bright orbs of [Spatial Magic] form in his hands.

"I WON'T LET YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

A new spell is inscribed into Finral's Grimoire.

"[Spatial Magic: Fallen Angel Wingbeat]!"

A blast of green mana shoots towards one of the portals opening up in front of Jericho's attacks.

The portal dissipates upon being hit by [Fallen Angel Wingbeat].

"HOW'S THAT!?" Finral shouted upon him besting Valtos.

"Fool."

A portal opens behind Valtos as escape.

"You'll never hit me." Valtos declared. "You're all putty in my fingers under my [Spatial Magic]."

Finral smiles.

Valtos takes notice, and sees that his escape plan was foiled by another [Fallen Angel Wingbeat].

Valtos looks back, and sees [Stardust Knuckle] speed towards his face.

"... Oh dear."

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Jericho then speeds up his barrage.

"CHEEEESSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Jericho pitches Valtos up and continues his barrage.

As Valtos floated midair in a messy heap, Jericho sharply inhales in a deep breath of air before one, final.

"OOOOOOOOOOORRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The platinum gauntlet digs into Valto's entire face, sending him flying towards the windows, breaking every single panel of glass upon impact.

"Hahh... Hahh... Hahh..." Jericho breathed out. "Fuck you... black-eyed peas."

"... Really?" Corrin pointed out.

"... Sorry. Tired."

Jericho then takes a knee as the other three mages come running towards him.

"So..." Finral stated. "What now?"

It's too dangerous staying one place." Corrin pointed out. "We need to keep Luck moving."

"[Sylph]!" Yuno cried out. "Where are you!?"

A cough was heard.

"... Over... here..."

The weak voice came from the vase.

Finral brings the vase towards Yuno.

"[Sylph]!" Yuno cried out as he scooped the bruised [Wind Spirit] from the flowerpot.

"Need... to go back... inside..."

Yuno's grimoire then opens on its own, and [Sylph] floats back inside of its pages.

"... I think it's recovering." Jericho stated. "Anyway, someone take the cot and move. Yuno, sit next to Luck. Finral, make sure that the life support is still on him, and Corrin, you mind pulling the trolley with me?"

"No questions here." Yuno stated.

"I keep an eye out." Finral replied.

"Leave it to me." Corrin answered.

The four then drive the cot out of the ward and into the hallways.

Clover Kingdom Capital Quatre, Checkpoint B, Noble Realm, Clover Kingdom (Late Afternoon)

The Vermilion siblings were still fighting while balancing to make sure that the civilians are still not bit.

"MAN, THESE ASSHOLES ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS!" Mereoleona roared out. "STOP DODGING ALREADY!"

[#8 Heath] was scaling the walls like a leopard in treetops, deliberately targeting civilians with its [Ice Magic] projectiles, now focusing on killing civilians rather then turning them into the undead on the spot.

"I'LL HANDLE THE WOLF!" Fuegoleon roared out. "YOU KEEP THE OTHER REVENANTS AT BAY!"

"YOU BETTER NOT FALL BEHIND, GOT IT!?" Mereoleona shouted out.

She then heads where Leopold was at, with [#10 Seth] wailing away at the Crimson Lion King Knight with its [Titan Punches] and [Titan Boots] against his [Lion Tamer's Whip].

"LEOPOLD!" Mereoleona roared out. "YOU ALIVE!?"

"AND KICKING-"

Leopold was then kicked to the other side of the plaza.

[#10: Seth] then pounces upon the downed Leopold.

Mereoleona thinks about intervening, but [#3: David] and [#7: Kerry] catches her attention.

[#8: Seth]'s [Titan Punch] lands where Leopold was at.

Mereoleona however, was not fazed in the slightest.

"A weak-ass punch like that ain't gonna kill Leopold." Mereoleona grinned.

From the dust, [Titan Punch] landed next to Leopold's head.

... With his arm punched through [#8: Seth]'s stomach, along with the [Omega Parasite].

"Gotcha bitch."

The [Earth Magic Specialist] then burst into flames along with the worm, kill it.

"One down..." Leopold snarled.

He then stomps on the ground, cracking the stone panels.

"... AND THE REST TO GO!" Leopold roared out. "SIS! SAVE ONE FOR ME!"

"THAT'S THE SPIRIT!" She roared out. "AND IT'S MEREOLEONA TO YOU, JACKASS!"

She then slash-kicks [#3: David]'s stomach open, burning the worms crawling inside of its stomach, killing it.

Leopold then dashes towards [#7: Kerry], parrying its barrage of [Emerald Splash] and [Verdiant Bolts] with his own [Fire Magic], and dodging its [Green Webbing] that was aimed at his feet.

"I KNOW ALL OF YOUR MOVES NOW!" Leopold roared out as his whole body began to emit flames. "NOW CHOKE ON MINE, YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

"OI!" Mereoleona roared out while finally catching [#8: Heath] with her [Leo Palma]. "HERE'S ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD!"

Leopold roars out louder as he begins to pick up speed with Kerry and Heath now all lined up.

He then takes into the air with a flying kick.

"[Fire Magic: Leo Rugiens Capiensque Calcitrant Meteorum]!"

The Young Lion rips through the two of them like a hot knife through a block of butter.

Leopold appears on the other side, with the two [Specialists] now having holes once where their chests were.

The flames around Leopold peter out as the two behind him disintegrate.

"HELL YEAH!" Leopold roared out in triumph.

A massive wave of fire from both Mereoleona and Fuegoleon eradicate the remaining thralls around Checkpoint B.

"And that's the last of them..." Fugeoleon muttered. "MEREOLEONA! HOW IS IT ON YOUR END!?"

"NOW ASHES BENEATH MY FEET!" She cackled out. "ALRIGHT YOU BASTARDS! LET'S GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE! REMAIN CALM AND FOLLOW OUR INSTRUCTIONS!"

The civilians then hustle in a orderly fashion towards the Clover Castle.

"KEEP THE LINE MOVING! MAKE SURE NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND-"

A glimmer shone from a distance from the corner of Leopold's eye.

"BIG BRO, LOOK OUT-"

A massive ray of lights descends upon the evacuees, disintegrating them in an instant.

"BIG BRO! MEREOLEONA!" Leopold cried out.

A pile of burnt rubble bursts open, with Mereoleona and a few civilians emerging from the pile.

"It'll take more than that to kill me..." She grimaced with her rib bleeding. "More importantly, where's that idiot-"

Both of the Vermillion siblings find their eldest alive.

... Minus one arm.

"BIG BRO!" Leopold shouted out while running towards him.

"I'm fine..." He breathed out. "... But... the civilians-"

He then coughs out for a moment before passing out.

"Shit." Mereoleona bit out while she tore a stitch of cloth from her cape. "Don't you fucking dare dying on me you son of a bitch, YOU HEAR ME!?" She roared out as she was applying first-aid.

Leopold then looks around in hopes of finding other civilians that are still alive from that bombardment of light.

"Shit..." He panicked. "They're all gone..."

He then spots another ray of light being fired towards elsewhere.

An explosion was heard and seen at the same spot where the ray of light struck at.

"... That was Checkpoint A." Leopold muttered out.

"Tch, about time the enemy has gotten serious." Mereoleona spat out.

Clover Kingdom Capital Quatre Outskirts, Noble Realm, Clover Kingdom (Late Afternoon)

"About damn time." Sally pointed out. "... So what got you all riled up?"

"Like I said earlier." Rades grimaced. "I'm finishing this today."

Behind Rades was a bandaged figure cloaked in an ornate white robes, with a white veil with a single eye symbol over its face.

"[#0: Licht]..." Rades snarled out. "... Kill every last ONE OF THEM!"

[#0: Licht] then charges a ray of light on its eye symbol on its veil.

[Light Magic: Divine Ray of Judgement] fires upon Quatre.

Flames and explosions were heard behind the walls of the capital.

"... I can hear their screaming and I love it." Rades licked his lips.

A portal opens behind Rades, with Valtos thrown out of his own magic.

"Dude, what the fuck happened to your face?" Rades asked.

Valtos tried to mumble out something, but his words were stifled by his broken jaw and bumps.

"... I got it." Sally sighed out. "[Gel Recovery Magic: Soothing Axolotl Gel]."

A bulb of mint-green gel forms onto her hand.

"Here. Drink this." Sally instructed.

Valtos sips on the bulb of gel through his puffy lips, and upon ingestion, his bumps and broken bones begin to mend themselves back together, with the sounds of his bones popping back together in a sickening crunch and snap.

"... Thanks." Valtos thanked. "By the way, I found someone of my interest."

"Talk to me." Sally asked.

"His mana was like an undying ember, desperately trying to light itself back into a bonfire." Valtos stated. "Even with his soul absent from his battered body, the mana was still present."

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Rades asked.

"I left in the first place for that exact reason." Valtos grinned. "Permission to go back to the front?"

"Before you go..." Sally then opens her grimoire. "[Gel Creation Magic: Chameleon Cream]!"

A glob of pearl-white gel slathers all over Valtos's body, slowly turning his whole body transparent.

"There." She stated. "This should hide your entire presence for about ten minutes. Now off you go."

Valtos then then jumps into his portal, with no one seeing him.

"... So how's Crowley doing?" Sally asked.

"Dunno, don't care, gonna get back to burning down the capital." Rades stated in an apathetic tone.

Magic Knight Headquarters, Hospital Wing, Clover Kingdom Capital Quatre, Noble Realm, Clover Kingdom (Late Afternoon)

The four fresh Magic Knights were rolling Luck's cot down the hallway.

Four were keeping vigil around the halls, looking out for around the potential chance for running into the black-eyed mage once more.

"Careful!" Jericho stated. "He can pop up just about anywhere!"

The four Magic Knights remain vigilant, not willing to lose Luck for the second time around.

Jericho was watching forward, Yuno was watching the left, Corrin was scouting the right, and Finral was watching the rear and Luck's cot.

Then the four of them hear a massive explosion from the outside.

"... Holy shit." Corrin whispered out. "... Was that just me, or did I just see about a quarter of of Quatre go up in flames!?"

"It's not safe here to keep him here." Finral spoke out. "We need to take him elsewhere, and fast."

Finral then opens a [Fallen Angel Gate] leading towards the Black Bull's Base at the Common Realm.

"THIS WAY, HURRY!"

They drive the cot into the portal leading back towards home base.

"WE MADE IT!" Finral cried out after their feet touched the brick floorings of his home base. "WE MADE IT-"

Finral catches himself upon seeing that Luck was gone from his cot.

"LUCK!" Finral cried out. "LUCK! WHERE ARE YOU!?"

As the others begin to scramble around to look for him, Valtos was where Luck was still at, but at the same time, not really.

[Spatial Magic: Parallel Plot]. A magic that allow the user to remain in two different realities at the same time, but one allows the user to exist as a sort of an undetectable specter, while the other allows the user to exist in another realm where no one but the user and target exists.

It was Valto's ultimate spell, which he originally planned to use with his Lord Licht to kill Fuegoleon, but after his passing, he was forced to revise his plan after shelving it, and taking it out and reworking it into his current plan.

"Either way, my job's almost done." Valtos thought. "All I need to do is to make sure that I escape-"

A table flies towards his head. Valtos ducks out of its way.

"... Oh dear." Valtos thought. "I thought I forgot something..."

The thing he forgot?

[Parallel Plot] does makes him completely invulnerable, but the other world can affect the other, such as other objects flying towards him.

They can't hurt him, with the emphasis on "they".

It didn't mention anything about "other objects", and vise-versa.

"Okay." Valtos thought. "As long I don't bump into anything, I should be able to..."

He then realizes that the front door was shut.

"... Really didn't think this through." Valtos thought.

Normally, he would just open up a portal and be done with it, but [Parallel Plot] was a one-way-in and one-way-out deal.

Basically, he opens a portal, he can only transport himself back into where he was at (i.e., certain death).

"... This could not get any worse-"

A beam of light runs through the stone halls of the Black Bulls Base, sending everyone (in both dimensions) flying.

"Rades, you damned idiot..." Valtos cursed internally.

At the first reality, the Black Bulls and Corrin were reeling.

"Holy shit, that almost fried us..." Corrin heaved out.

"EVERYONE OKAY!?" Jericho asked.

"... Still alive." Finral groaned out.

"Same here..." Yuno moaned out.

*THUD*

Behind the cloud of dust, a rectangle was seen through the cloak.

Once the dust clears, it reveals a restroom stall door, without the rest of the stall.

*CRRRRRREEEEEEAK*

*THUD*

... Captain Yami was seen, with his pants down to his ankles, and emitting a murderous intent.

"... Oh shit." Corrin whispered out in horror. "We've awakened 'The Titan'."

"Captain Yami, can you explain to all of us on what you're doing here?" Jericho asked. "Last we saw you, you were at the Magic Knight Headquarters-"

"Finral took me here after I left you two after the decoration." Captain Yami stated. "More importantly..."

He draws his katana and throws it at where Luck's cot was, nearly hitting Valtos's crotch in the parallel dimension.

"The enemy is right there." Yami pointed towards where the sword was. "But magic can't hit him, but non-organic physical objects will."

The Captain was perfectly able to see Valtos run off with Luck in tow with his ki-enhanced vision.

Yami then turns his head towards Yuno.

"Yuno." The Captain order. "I want my katana back afterwards. Understood?"

"Y-Yes Captain!"

Jericho then picks the footless Yuno up into his arms as Yuno plucks out the katana from the cot. The others then grab whatever they can find to use as their stand-in for their magic.

Finral grabs a broomstick. Corrin digs through the cupboards to find a box of spare nails.

"Is the base gonna be okay?" Corrin asked Jericho.

"Don't worry." Jericho replied. "The base literally fixes by itself. Though never figured out why..."

Clover Kingdom Capital Quatre, Checkpoint D, Noble Realm, Clover Kingdom (Late Afternoon)

Charlotte was simply devastated.

Checkpoint D was completely disintegrated along with the survivors in it.

The Magic Knights were still alive, but so are the remaining [Specialists].

"Whoever is controlling these revenants, it knows how control the battlefield flawlessly..." Charlotte commented. "It's not out to kill the Magic Knights, it's out to kill everyone in order for them to multiply in numbers..."

[#9: Sawyer], with all of its eight arms, was holding off all Five Divas with its sewing needles, staple guns, sewing threads, and its bronze bell, thrashing and flailing about with its arms and spider-like mobility, that not even Captain Vangeance's [World Tree Magic] can even catch it.

Not helping the fact that the undead thralls were still sprawing about, and maiming everyone else that were still around and (partially) kicking.

The situation was becoming more dire, as before, the revantents were either flat-out ignoring the Magic Knights, or been extremely picky for their selection of which Magic Knights that they should convert.

i.e., Them.

"Dammit." Charlotte cursed as laid low the last of her former Blue Rose Knight. "You want your grubby hands on me?"

Her [Conqueror's Brandish] the continues to lash out towards the zombies.

"THEN OVER MY DEAD BODY, YOU PIECES OF SHIT!"

To Be Continued...

Author's Notes: This one has been on the backburner for a good while now.

I mean, with other shit going on both online and IRL, not to mention, the Black Clover fandom in FanFiction has been rather... slow, as of late.

I dunno, I want more traffic for all of my fics, but nowadays, I feel like my ROTSH-SI-fic has been syphoning all of my traffic as of late.

Either way, please continue to support this fic by leaving a comment or a review, for I'd love to hear what my audience has to say!

Oh and P.S., I'm changing Apocrypha's reading format in the next Saga to fit in with more of my latest content.

The change will occur around the time after this Saga has been uploaded.