Meanwhile, back inside the Eye of the Midnight Sun's Hideout…
"This is no good. His magic power! It's intense." one of the grunts said facing Nozel and his mercury magic.
"Mercury Magic: Silver Bullets." Nozel said as bullets of mercury hit the grunts. "Silver Blades." he said changing the mercury into swords as they cut into the surviving grunts.
"Have a taste of this!" A grunt said sending a stone arm at Nozel.
"Silver Shining Regal Spear!" he said as it pierced through the arm and the grunt.
"He makes this look so easy." Arthur said chuckling a bit.
"Indeed. These captains are something else." Amir said. "Think we could take them."
"All at once with all of us...probably not." Arthur said. "Hopefully Lan is holding up with the other half of the thieves."
Elsewhere in the fortress…
"What the heck...are these things?" one grunt said facing strange armored creatures with gemstones in them.
"What's wrong? Never faced Gem Knights before?" Lan asked with a smile.
"We can take them." a grunt said firing a fireball at them.
"Sorry, but no way. Activate! Gem Knight Fusion! Fuse Gem Knight Garnet and Gem Knight Crystal and create...Gem Knight Zirconia!" he said creating a large knight as it bashed through the grunts.
"Not going for another Immortal?" Mach asked.
"I've decided to give them a break for a bit." Lan said. "Besides, I've been looking for an excuse to test some of my fusion based decks."
"Who cares anyway? We've got these guys beat anyway." Bloody Rose said.
"So what if you beat us? It won't matter anyway once we all are reborn and attain our true forms." one of the defeated grunts said.
"What are you talking about?" Kumo said before the grunt passed out.
"Come to think of it...they said Mammon was making the tale of the Elven Revenge come to life. But...how would elves even take their revenge anyway?" Cricket pondered. "There's no way something from 500 years would imprint. So...what's the end game here?"
Elsewhere in the base…
"Your traps are pathetic. I could see right through them." Zora said.
"And your spells I could easily deflect with my anti magic sword!" Asta said.
"You guys don't have to one up each other all the time, seriously." Starlight said, the two mages in front of them in fear before Meroleona crashed down on them.
"She just keeps getting to them before us." Eijiro asked.
"Why are we even here?!" Asta asked, but to everyone's surprise, there were two of him.
"Oh lord! He multiplied." Nami groaned.
"Wow! Did you use magic to copy yourself?" Zora asked.
"Come on. You know I can't use magic." they both said.
"If Asta didn't clone himself, that means one of them's a fake." Sci-Twi said.
"Not to point out the elephant in the room, but how are we gonna tell them apart? They Are exactly alike and both seem to have the same non magic factor." Rainbow said.
"I'm the real Asta!" the one on the left exclaimed.
"No, I'm the real Asta!" the one on the right said.
"Shut up, you're the fake one and you know it!" the one on the left said.
"Okay...this is easy." Mereoleona said before lighting both Asta's on fire.
"Whoa whoa! What the heck? Are you trying to kill me?!" Asta said nullifying the flames on him.
"You just survived a trial by fire." Mereoleona said. "Not bad."
"Hey, now that was just twisted!" Asta said.
"I'll say. She's some twisted woman all right." the other copy said. "Copy Magic: Aqua Curtain!" they said as a veil of water put out the flames and revealed the fake as Rhya.
"So it's you." Asta said.
"You know him?" Jexi asked.
"He's part of the Third Eye, one of their strongest guys. Rhya the Disloyal. His magic lets him copy others' magic." Asta said.
"That's a lot of magic power I'm sensing from him." Lucy said.
"Okay...think it's about time you all went out. Copy Magic: Dark Cloaked Black Blade!" Rhya said drawing a black katana.
"That's captain Yami's spell. I know what's coming next." Asta said.
"You all...its time you went. Copy Magic: Dark Cloaked Lightless Slash!" he said sending a slash at them before Mereoleona punched the slash and inflamed it, making it vanish. "What the?"
"Nice impression, but Yami's has more power." Meroleona said before flash-stepping to Ryha and punching him right in the face. "I'll show you what true destruction looks like! Flame Magic: Calidius Brachium!" she said sending Ryha flying into another room bathed in flames.
"What a punch! That was almost like Natsu's attacks!" Happy noted.
"No...that was way stronger than anything I've ever done." Natsu said.
"This is...incredible." Jexi said seeing her demolish each of Rhya's copied spells with ease. "She's...like a wild beast!"
"You...you no good humans. I can't forgive any of you. You killed him in cold blood. He was kind and thoughtful. All of you...can just die!" Rhya said pulling out a familiar looking sword.
"Nice try!" Mereoleona said breaking the sword in half. "So you can't copy Anti-Magic after all."
"She didn't know if I could and she still went for the punch?" he said in disbelief.
"Calidius Brachium...BARRAGE!" she shouted delivering a barrage of punches against Rhya without breaking a single sweat.
"She's incredible…" Sci-Twi said. "None of us...not even David could match this woman."
"Yeah...she's...superhuman." Jexi said. "But still...something about this place…"
"You felt it too, huh? I've been feeling it since we got in. Almost like...a heartbeat." Elementa said as further inside the fortress was a figure floating in a large sphere.