Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed the last chapter, especially Solid getting his ass handed to him, which he totally deserves. This chapter we get into the attack on the capital.
"…" Character P.O.V.
'…' Character thought.
"…" Spells.
"…" Animal P.O.V.
'…' Animal thought.
[…] Over-voice.
Now then on with the new chapter.
Chapter 25: March of the Dead
The Noble Realm had corpses walking through the streets attacking the citizens while the one controlling them was one a steeple laughing maniacally.
"HA HA HA HA HA! BREAK IT, BREAK IT, BREAK IT, BREAK IIIIIIIT!" The purple haired mysterious mage yells.
"EEEEEK!" A woman screams running away.
"Why…why are you doing this?!" A man asks.
A woman was on the ground frozen in fear as three corpses close in on her. Another corpse caught a man and held him in the air while four other corpses were taking bites out of the citizens they managed to catch.
"All those who failed to recognize my worth prepare for destruction! Ha ha ha ha ha!" The mysterious mage laughs maniacally.
Just then a blast of magical wind takes the arms of two corpses while a blast of magical water puts a hole in a corpse's chest.
"Such revolting creatures. I wonder where they came from." A hooded man, with a wand and a green glowing grimoire, says.
"Invading the Royal Capital…what were they thinking?" Another hooded man, with a wand and an orange glowing grimoire, asks as a third hooded man on a broomstick with a wand and a blue glowing grimoire hovers behind him.
Unfortunately the corpses continue to move towards the three hooded men.
"Wha…what are these things?!" Hooded mage 1 asks frantically blasting the incoming corpses.
"They've been shoot clean through, but they just keep coming!" Hooded mage 2 shouts blasting the incoming corpses as well.
"Stand firm! It's our duty to protect the Clover Kingdom!" Hooded mage 3 shouts.
"You will?" The purple haired mystery mage asks jumping off the steeple. "Right! You're not protecting anything today!" He shouts landing on the ground and placing his hand on it as well. "You're nothing but scum! Get lost, scum. Scum! Scum!" He yells as his magic flares up.
'My god…what kind of power is this?!' Hooded mage 1 wonders with a freaked out look on his face.
The purple haired mage was then surrounded by another hoard of corpses and attack the three hooded mages.
"AAAAAUGH!" They scream as the corpses began eating them.
"HA HA HA HA HA HA! You're so sure you're stronger than me, right? Right?! Then come out and show yourselves, Magic Knights!" The purple haired mysterious mage yells.
Back in the banquet room, everyone had a look of confusion on their faces at what they were just told by the hooded mage.
"What do you mean the Royal Capital is under attack?!" Fuegoleon asks.
At the moment Siren Tium's grimoire that has a checkered cover hovers in front of him and flips through its pages.
"I'll use my Rock Creation Magic: The World through a Rock Model, it'll show us what we need to see." Siren says as he manifests a rock formation of a location that he would like to observe, which in this case was a model of the entire Noble Realm.
In a matter of seconds a small replica of the Clover Kingdom's Noble Realm was created, showing various fires and people screaming on it.
"That looks like…a three-dimensional model of the Noble Realm." Klaus says in shock.
"Now that's impressive." Asta says, standing on Klaus' left, in awe as was Yuno, who was beside him.
"It's even reproduced people's voices and magic. He must send mana through a given area creating a replica here simultaneously." Klaus deduces.
"The spell's is much more advanced and detailed than my Magic Flower Guidepost." Mimosa says standing on Klaus' right.
"For troops with this much power to strike five places at once without us noticing…" Alecdora begins to say.
"Yes, a skilled spatial magic user must've transported them inside simultaneously." Fuegoleon says. 'Except, how could that happen? The Noble Realms guardian mages maintain a constant magic barrier around it. Which should render it impervious to invasion by spatial magic. Did they analyze the mechanism of that barrier and break it?! Did they pass a bribe to the guardian mages?! Either way…they must be phenomenally skilled!' He thought. "We need to decide how best to acetate our resources." He says.
"No, first we need to guard the area around the castle…" Alecdora begins to argue.
"No!" Asta shouts gaining everyone's attention. "The ones we need to help are the ones currently in trouble not the ones already behind protected walls! So you all do whatever you want but I'm going!" He yells running off.
"Asta, wait!" Noelle shouts trying to stop her crush from running off.
"Where do you think you're going?! We still don't have a grip on the situation yet…" Klaus shouts. "And how do you plan on finding the one responsible if there is more than one magical power source?!" He asks.
"Being a Dragon Slayer Klaus gives me multiple ways of finding the one causing all this. So to find that person I'll start where the biggest source is and go from there!" Asta answers with Nero perching himself on his shoulder after he halted his running.
"Sounds like a plan, Asta." Nero says.
"What are you, some kind of animal?!" Klaus asks with a yell.
"Did you really just ask him, a Dragon Slayer, that?" Noelle asks feeling slightly insulted given that she was a Dragon Slayer too.
"Ohh…right." Klaus says blushing from the embarrassment.
"Bwa ha ha ha! Now we're talking! I'll go with you too! I'm not going to miss seeing my rival in action!" Leopold shouts excitedly.
"Alright then! Lightning Dragon Slayer Mode!" Asta shouts activating his magic as his hair gains yellow highlights and he grabs Leopold's wrist. "Hang on tight, this will feel a bit straight at first." He says and then they both turn into lightning and flash through the open door.
"It's really amazing how dumb guys can be sometimes, huh Char?" Sol asks with a smile on her face.
"Yes, it is. And call me Captain." Charlotte says while Hamon laughs.
"Really Leo…he's still very much a child. I'll have to thoroughly retrain him later." Fuegoleon says mainly to himself. 'But still, Yami certainly has a rare find in his squad.' He thought after observing how Asta transported both himself and Leopold. "I'm sure you find it irritating to take orders from me…" He begins to say turning to the remaining Magic Knights. "…But listen well, Magic Knights! I'll take the Black Bulls', Noelle Silva, and the two of us will go after Leo and the Black Bulls', Asta. After we've joined them, we'll head to the North District!" He shouts as his grimoire, that has red covers with an intricate flower design, which is decorating the border of its covers and an ornament of leaves arranged in a shape of a sun at the center of the covers, opens and creates a magic lion made of fire.
"Yes sir!" Noelle shouts using her magic to propel herself beside Fuegoleon.
"Silver Eagles, you take the Central District! The enemy's magic is strongest there!" Fuegoleon shouts.
"Very well…" Nozel says standing on a water eagle made by Solid, who was kneeling in front of him, with Nebra beside him.
"Blue Rose Knights, take the East District!" Fuegoleon shouts.
"As loath as I am to take a man's orders, we must." Charlotte says standing on an earth creature created by Sol.
"I'm ready whenever you are, Char." Sol says kneeling with her hands planted on the earth creature's head.
"Call me Captain, Sol." Charlotte says.
"Golden Dawn, split into two teams and head to the West and Northwest Districts!" Fuegoleon shouts.
"We will safeguard the people of the Noble Realm." Alecdora says standing on Yuno's Heavenly Wind Arc with Yuno and Mimosa behind him.
"Let's hurry." Klaus says creating a steel chariot with Hamon and Siren.
"I hate to leave before dessert, but I guess we can come back for it latter." Hamon says.
"If we fail to protect the capital we'll bring shame on the Magic Knights! Whatever you do, don't let the enemy escape!" Fuegoleon shouts.
"Right!" Everyone shouts and a second later the transports they've created take off through the open windows in different directions.
Meanwhile back in the banquet room, one of the cloths on a table begins moving as the sound of munching is heard as an unexpected person appears from underneath the table, Charmy Pappitson.
"I only arrived with Asta and the gang for the fancy food but now it looks like something serious is going down." Charmy says stuffing the last of the food in her hand into her mouth. "It's time to get out there and make a grand Charmy entrance! Who knows, if I do really well maybe I'll get some fancier food as a reward!" She says but then catches a whiff of something. "What is this delicious smell?!" She asks excitedly. 'Where is it?!' She thought. "I'd better fuel up before going to battle!" She says following the smell. 'The cause of this outrageous smell!' She thought.
In the Central District, citizens were fleeing for their lives as the corpses continuing coming after them.
"You…you won't get away with this! Gyaah!" A man yells as a corpse attacks him.
"What is it you want?! Whatever it is you can have it! I'll give it to…aaah!" Another man yells about to be attacked by a corpse until it explodes in front of him.
At that moment, Solid's water eagle flies over the Central District as Nozel, Nebra, and Solid jump off and land between the surviving citizens and the corpses.
In the Eastern District, a group of five citizens are fleeing from a hoard of corpses and as they close in Sol and her earth creature appear and pummel the front group of corpses.
"There are civilians. Careful, Sol." Charlotte says landing between her squad member and the citizens.
"Oh yeah, sorry about that Char." Sol says rubbing the back of her head.
"Call me Captain." Charlotte says as the citizen look on in awe.
In the Northwestern District, Yuno, Mimosa, and Alecdora arrive and spot a group of corpses chasing a group of citizens. Alecdora jumps off Yuno's Heavenly Wind Arc and hits the ground hard creating two armored fists made of sand.
"This cowardly invasion ends now! You will scatter before our magic!" Alecdora yells as the two armored fists transform into a Sand Armored Guard.
A one man flees for his life but unfortunately trips as the corpses attempt to attack him.
"Wind Creation Magic: Crescent Kamaitachi!" Yuno yells sending his wind blades at the corpses but doesn't stop them. 'Whatever these creatures are, half-hearted attacks will have little affect on them. In which case…' He thought as his magic power flares up and creates multiple mine tornados that start growing in size.
In the Western District, Klaus, Hamon, and Siren arrive.
"Ha ha ha! Desserts waiting, so let's work up an appetite, shall we?" Hamon asks as he and Siren jump own to assist while Klaus takes in the situation.
'Don't think you'll get away with this. We will annihilate you.' Klaus thought before jump down joining his fellow squad members.
In the Northern District Fuegoleon and Noelle arrive in the air on his fire lion and are observing the chaos below them.
"What are they? All I can smell off them is decaying flesh." Noelle says disturb by the smell.
"Some strange army…I've never seen anything like them." Fuegoleon says. "Do you see either Leo or your squad member?" He asks.
Noelle takes a whiff of the air and catches a familiar scent a little to her left. As she turns her head, she spots the flash of lightning streaming through the air, over the building and taking out corpses along the way to an open plaza.
"Over there. I know Asta's scent anywhere." Noelle says pointing towards the lightning.
As the bolt of lightning continues to take out corpses, Asta notices two situations ahead of him and Leopold.
"Hey Leopold!" Asta shouts to his new rival.
"Please Asta, no need to be so formal. In the spirit of friendship and rivalry you can call me Leo." Leopold says with a grin.
"Alright then Leo, up ahead I think I found the mage responsible for this madness about to attack someone with a bunch of those corpses." Asta says.
"Okay, then let's take him down." Leo says.
"However, there are a group of citizens who need our help at the same time, so we'll have to split up for now and meet up later." Asta explains.
"Sounds good. I'll handle the citizens here, you go on ahead since you're faster." Leo says.
"Alright, the guy is around the building separating the two plazas. Join me when you can." Asta says.
"You got it. So how does this work on me getting off?" Leo asks.
"Once I let go of your wrist you'll return to physical form, so just kept your feet under you and you'll be fine." Asta says letting go of Leo as he slips across the ground halting in the middle of a group of corpses as Asta bolts over the building towards the mystery mage.
"You think he'll be okay by himself, Asta?" Nero asks his partner.
"He'll be fine. Besides Noelle and the Crimson Lion Captain, Fuegoleon, are right behind him. So if he needs help, they'll provide back for him and catch up to us faster." Asta says.
"Good point." Nero says.
"Evil will fall before me!" Leo yells as his grimoire opens to a certain page. "Fire Magic: Wild Bursting Flame!" He shouts thrusting his hand downward as a burst of flames manifest on the ground, surrounding him and causing multiple fireballs to manifest from the flaming circle launching in every direction, striking the corpses.
However, unknown to anyone in the Noble Realm, a hidden chamber under the streets was lite up by a flashing light revealing three scrolls on pedestals with the one on the far right glowing a bright orange color.
Meanwhile a young girl is corner by the mysterious mage with eight corpses behind him.
"Tell me little girl, do you like it here in the Clover Kingdom?" The man asks.
"Yes, I do, I love it…" The girl says with tears in her eyes. "So please sir…please you need to stop…!" She begs.
"I can't! I hate the Clover Kingdom!" The man yells causing the girl to cry in fear. "So I'm going to take this town…it's people…and you little girl…and destroy you all!" He screams moving towards her as she shakes in fear.
Asta meanwhile returns to his physical form as Nero flies over his shoulder and watches as his partner pulls his Anti-Magic broadsword sword from his Anti-Magic grimoire. Asta then quickly slashes the corpses at blinding speed and bursts through the flames shocking the mysterious mage.
"Alright, then I'm gonna protect them!" Asta yells in anger.
Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Next, we'll get to see Noelle and Nebra show off their Lost Magics. Also I've decide to change Fuegoleon's fate slightly as well as make this story have lemons in it. Stay tuned for the surprises I have in store for the future. Don't forget to tell me if I show add Sol to the harem or not. Please be sure to review and tell me what you think.