A few power levels I never did
Mimosa (Current) - | Magic: 1195| |Strength: 20| |Spirit: 430| |Total: 1645|
Julius - | Magic: 25k| |Strength: 60| |Spirit: 3.5k| |Total: 28,560|
Licht (Current) - | Magic: 5k| |Strength: 40| |Spirit: 500| |Total: 5,540|
And of course, I don't think it's too necessary for the third eye's stats. They have high power but vary between each other. Vetto has higher strength than the other 2, Fana has the highest spirit and Ryha is a jack of all trades. They all have a total 9k for their stats.
And if you think Licht is too weak to actually give Julius the fight we have during the manga and show, I plan on him getting stronger as the story progresses. I plan to cap him at the end of the Base raid ark, so a long while from now.
That reminds me... Because how I calculated stats for certain characters... be ready for a lot of power creep... yeah, turns out when you use 3 "growing" values to determine a character's stats, they become pretty strong.
Just wait for Black Asta, that's when stats are gonna get wonky and that's when Ill do a SDS and stop doing publishing their power levels.
Capital looked absolutely incredible when he got there!
The streets were filled with tasty vendors just like the last time he was here. Granted, the amount of people here is a little smaller than the last time he was here a few days ago, but that's probably because the magic knights exam isn't being held anymore and a lot of the people there originally were perhaps tourists, there to observe the soon to be knights in action.
Even though no citizens were allowed to enter the arena so they were hurt in the exams being held.
"Asta! Is that you?" He turned his head and he saw Vanessa walking towards him with Noelle in tow. Noelle seemed to have a wand in her hand as she walked closer. Dread filled Asta. If Noelle had a wand, then he had to be late. He shouldn't have used his arms to use his wings! He should have just flown here like he normally could have. He could have been here way sooner!
"Oh Asta! Your just on time!" Vanessa said as she walked towards him.
On time? There was no way he was on time. There was at least a 30 minute time left for him to get to from Hage to the Capital before he became late and there was absolutely no way he cleared nearly half the country in less than 30 minutes.
"On time? But I left for Hage only a bit ago. There is no why Im on time." He said as they stood near him.
"Well your about 4 minutes early so whatever you did was fast! We still have about 12 hours of our day off!" Vanessa cheerfully said. Asta released a breath he never knew he was even holding. He was ecstatic that he actually managed to be on time and didn't manage to be late somehow.
Maybe making his wings on his arms was a good idea. Only issue is that they lock up his arms and leave them stiff. Maybe when he grows to control and add more power into them, he could keep them on his shoulder blades so he can attack easier.
"What even happened? How was your hometown?" Vanessa asked. Asta grimace. He didn't know how to explain what actually happened so he has to think out what happened without them worrying.
"Well Hage had a bandit attack. I was overwhelmed and my friend's squad came and cleaned it up." Well, he knows Yuno and his two squad mates never even saw the attacker so he thinks if they actually got there quick enough, they could have a chance.
"Wow, are you alright? If I remember, Noelle said your magic can heal?" She asked and Asta nodded. Although, he thinks his magic could only heal the injury, not the pain caused by the injury he just healed. He thought back to try and remember who that orange haired girl name was. Mimosa, if he was correct.
"Yeah a girl named Mimosa healed me fully. She made a flower cage for me since I think my magic can only heal the injuries, not the pain itself." He said. Noelle stiffened and her eyes grew.
"Mimosa?! Asta, she is my cousin!" Noelle told him. He looked at her and tried to see if he noticed any similarities.
Nope, no similar traits between them.
"Me and my siblings got our hair and eye color from our mother. Her mother is my aunt." She explained. "And their father is the uncle of the other Vermillions, like Fuegoleon." She finally concluded.
"Fuegoleon?" He asked.
"Crimson Lion's captain." Vanessa told him. Asta flashed back and remembered the man who burnt his demonic tree to dust. He looked intimidating but had a kinder stare than the other captains.
"Oh is he nice?" He asked. Noelle nodded.
"Unlike most nobles and royals, a majority of the Vermillions don't see status as a determiner for magical and battle prowess. Thus, they are typically more kind to commoners than most. Usually they just give tips on how to become stronger to others." Noelle told Asta.
"Although, my cousin Kirsch isn't kind to commoners though. But Mimosa is kind to just about everyone." Noelle sighed, thinking about how Mimosa was the only person who was every kind to her as a child.
"Oh cool! Maybe if I ever see them I can ask if they can give me tips!" He proclaimed. Noelle and Vanessa just snickered at his positive attitude.
('Why does Yami even want us to keep him in check? He is an angel' She thought)
"Anyway, what now? You want to grab something to eat?" Vanessa suggested. Asta actually did feel hungry too.
"Yeah, where could we eat?" He asked.
…
A man was looking over a large circle inscribed onto the floor. Runes were inscribed on the outer circle before they met another. 3 smaller circles were connected to the innermost one by thick lines. In the dead center lay a small hole, about the size of a small stone.
A magic seal, a banishment one at that. But there were too many questions.
In order to banish with this type of circle, you needed to write about the person's life and personality. The older and more powerful the person the bigger the circle must be, along with more powerful components to activate.
But a circle this big, just sitting under the capital made him shiver. If it wasn't for the 2 languages written on the circle itself, he wouldn't worry. He glanced at some of the symbols, some were graceful looking while the other looked sharp and rigid.
It made him uneasy, there was nothing about this place in the royal texts and the circle looked ancient. Was this were old mages did rituals? It was just to unpredictable. Whatever it is, he hopes it never activates. Whatever this circle is keeping away must have been threatening.
'It couldn't be the soul of that monster the first Wizard King fought.. Could it?' He thought. He rolled his shoulders, the packets in his hands starting to cramp his palms.
He looked behind him as a glow enveloped. He saw his assistant, Marx Francois, face pop up with his magic. His face was panicked, and he turned his attention towards his friend.
"Sir, we have reports that a dungeon surfaced on the border of the diamond kingdom! If we don't send someone to search it, we will be at a disadvantage to protect ourselves if they find any magical weapon there!" He shouted. Julius thought about this.
"Do you know how old the dungeon is?" He asked. Marx shook his head. Julius thought for a second before smiling.
"Alright, I have an idea on who can take this dungeon." He opened the packets with a smile. Two boys, each from the same village.
Very interesting cases indeed. A boy with a magical prowess far better than a royal with a four leaf grimoire and a boy with seemingly two magical attributes with one allowing him to modify his body for flight and swords that can nullify magic.
Both with the same goal as well.
"Send the new Golden Dawn member Yuno with his squad and Asta of the Black bulls with whatever squad Yami gives him." Marx's jaw dropped. Julius expected this, who else couldn't?
"B-But sir! They have been magic knights for only a few days and not only that, but one of them is a black bull! You know how they can be more destructive than the threat themselves! Are you sure this is wise?" Julius nodded, and gave a sly smile.
"I want to test them. Maybe see if they have the qualifications to be a great knight." Marx sighed and then nodded and he faded as his communication spell ended. Julius took one more look at the circle before he headed out.
…
"So what do we name you?" Asta looked at the bird resting in his hair. He was sitting in the corner on the couch. Noelle sat next to him, drinking from a wine glass filled with the crimson drink. He wasn't even sure if that was allowed for their age but he didn't know for sure since no one in Hage could even afford it, let alone let a teenager casually drink it.
Well, maybe that's a perk of being a noble. No one would care if you drink wine.
"Well, I would guess we would need to know it's gender before we name it." Noelle stated. Asta mentally agreed. It would be embarrassing to give the bird a masculine name only for it to lay an egg.
"Well besides the obvious way to check, how can we check it's gender?" Asta asked. Noelle set down the wine glass and brought her hand up to think. An idea seemed to click and she looked at the bird.
"Can you tell us your gender?" Asta stared at Noelle with a puzzled look. The bird couldn't talk as far as he knew, nor could it write. Although he could barely read to begin with since the church attempted to homeschool the children but he was always distracted by the beautiful face of Sister lily and never retained much knowledge on whatever she was trying to teach him.
The bird chirped and flew off his head. It flew in a few circles before awkwardly landing on Noelle's head. It seemed to try and get comfy, but Noelle's hair didn't provide the amount of cushioning that Asta's did. It let out a chirp before flying back and nesting itself into Asta's hair.
"Female. The bird is a she, no doubt about it." Noelle said.
"Alright, so we need a female name. Any ideas?" He asked her.
"No, I don't have any off the top of my head. You?" She replied. He thought for a second. He couldn't think of one that moment also. He sighed and brought out his grimoire. He just opened it's pages, with no intention to actually summon his weapons. The weird text sat there, text that no one could understand.
"Wait, what are you doing?" She asked as she leaned over. "What does your grimoire even say?!" She questioned and Asta shrugged. His grimoire only had two pages with written text, and the letters were twisted. He stared at the letters, trying to make sense of what they were saying.
"Wait, something's happening.." He mumbled as he saw the letters move. They rearranged themselves and moved across the two pages. He gasped as they finished moving since the text was different. It looked more familiar before he realized that the letters were the very same that he saw on signs all over the kingdom.
Did..Did the words change into the standard alphabet?
"What? What happened?" Noelle looked over the page and saw nothing. Asta was just staring at the foreign text that did nothing.
"The letters! They shifted and changed. It looks like it's in the normal alphabet." He said with starry eyes as he held out his grimoire. Noelle was confused at this discovery. Maybe only he could see it? Maybe she just wasn't a weird dual magic wielding commoner like him.
How did he even manage to have power like that? No one in the history of the Clover Kingdom had two magical affinities and meanwhile Hage, the farthest you can get in the Forsaken realm somehow produced two incredibly powerful knights.
They have to be nobles, there is no way they can't be some form of nobility. Maybe even royals.
Asta stared at the text at the top. They were bigger than the other letters and seemed bolded. He couldn't make out a vast majority of the text but he could make out that one line.
"Demon Slayer Blade" the text read.
Wait, that's exactly what that man said earlier, except he said sword instead of blade. Maybe Blade implied that there were more of these swords, and the man just used the term sword to specify that particular one.
The idea of another sword sounded awesome. He just needed to know how to get another.
"Hey, do you know how you get new spells in your grimoire?" He asked her. Noelle thought for a bit. She remembered when she got Sea Dragon's Nest back during the fight with that red devil thing. If she recalled correctly, he grimoire wrote down the spell when she wanted to protect the children and others there since they believed in her.
Even though she was going to abandon them, they still asked her to help them. They still had faith in her when she held no faith in herself.
That is what gave her the drive to protect them. Faith.
"I would assume it's when you have a strong desire to protect someone. I don't know how correct that is but that's how I got my last spell. I mean, maybe ask someone like Finral or Vanessa. I'm not really the go to person for magic." She said with flushed cheeks. Asta looked down and closed it. He looked back up and the bird was looking at him with her hostile looking eyes.
"So, what do you want to be called?" He asked, knowing he wouldn't receive an answer from her anyway. She cooed before retreating into the confines of his hair. He sighed before he stood to leave for a bit.
He walked around the table to leave to his room as Noelle started to pour her another glass of wine when the door opened. Yami stepped in and he didn't look happy. Asta gulped as Noelle just stared at him, wine about to pour into her cup. Yami looked at them with his cigarette slowly burning as he looked down on them menacingly.
"It's good your both here. You guys have a mission. There was a dungeon that appeared near the border of our enemies, the Diamond Kingdom. The Wizard King himself wants you, Noelle and another to investigate and "take" any magical items and gold you can carry. I think I'll bring Luck to supervise you, that's alright?" He said. Asta and Noelle's jaws drop.
"T-THE WIZARD KING?!" They both yell. To receive a mission from the most powerful wizard in the country seemed like.. An honor.
"But.. Why Luck and not Magna?" Noelle asked. Asta nodded. Luck's attacks hurt a lot and was a little.. What was the word?
Crazy?
"Usually, I wouldn't send him with you but his ability to read magic is unparalleled among even the highest knights, which should be useful for finding items and traps." Yami sighed. He really didn't want Luck to supervise Asta.
"And that makes you guys leaving in.. right now." He grabbed Asta faster than he could react and somehow grabbed Noelle in the nick of time too before she could run away. He grabbed their heads with painful force. Their cries for him to stop and let go went unheard as he dragged them outside.
"Now.. GO SURPASS YOUR LIMITS!" He yelled as he threw them towards a tree. Asta hit the trunk first followed by Noelle hitting him afterwards.
"Man, that must have sucked?" Luck chuckled, watching them slump to the ground. He giggled while they groaned.
("I wonder if I should have told them about that Julius sent another small group to the dungeon.." Yami thought.)
…
"So, I heard you wanted to name the anti-magic bird!" Luck said as they walked down a dark stairwell into the darkness of the dungeon. They arrived a few minutes prior and didn't notice if anyone entered. Asta couldn't feel anything with that detect ability Yami has nor did Luck feel anything. They were probably the first ones there.
"Oh yeah, but we can't think of a name to do for her. Why do you ask?" Noelle said. Since none of them had a utility spell that allowed them to see in the dark or create a light, they had to rely on some old torches they brought. They all had on in their hand as they descended, which Luck had to light with some of his lightning.
"Well, I was thinking of a name for the bird! How about Nero?" He asked. Asta thought it sounded cool although Noelle didn't seem as happy.
"You mean that tyrant from those horror stories that burned his own citizens bodies to a crisp?! NO, we aren't going to name her after a functional murderer!" Noelle yelled. Asta just stayed silent as Luck giggled like it wasn't a big deal.
Well, he never read that story since he pretty sure it wasn't a part of whatever religion Sister Lily and Father do.
What even is their religion, now that he thought of it. He doesn't think they actually tried to teach anyone what the religion was, they did most of their church stuff after they went to bed so he never learned.
"Then I'm out of names because that name is cool. It's from my favorite book after all!" Luck crackled. Noelle just sighed like it seemed normal, for Asta he wasn't too familiar with everyone antics.
"Well, I mean what if she already has a name?" Asta asked. Luck peered over his shoulder, and Noelle looked at him.
"It's not like we could ask her for her name." Noelle looked at the bird at question as she sat on Asta's head. She was looking at Noelle with her unusual slanted eyes.
"Well, then it's a secret." Asta smiled before something dawned.
"Let's name her secret!" He said.
"Yeah no. But that couldn't be bad. Let's just say Secre." Noelle said before the bird started to flip her wings. She started to peck Asta, who dropped his torch in response.
"I don't think she likes that name.." Noelle mumbled. The bird began to peck her head in response as Luck started to laugh.
"I don't think that, I think you guessed her name correctly!" He said cheerfully. The bird stopped to nod before pecking Noelle more. Asta smiled. He was enjoying his time with the Black Bulls. They were quirky sure. Finral's flirting, Gauche's weird obsession with his sister, and Charmy's love for food.
He would have never imagined how much his team would be a great family.
I'm really reneged huh?
Since I didn't plan on the background stuff for going on for so long, I decided to just make the dungeon one big chapter... That will happen in 2 chapters since the next chapter will be a short or average length prologue!
-Zalde