Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed the last chapter and the little changes I made to it. Now we get into the fight scenes where the Magic Knights show off their magic and we'll get to see Nebra using her Sea God Slayer Magic for the first time.
"…" Character P.O.V.
'…' Character thought.
"…" Spells.
"…" Animal P.O.V.
'…' Animal thought.
[…] Over-voice.
Now then on with the new chapter.
Chapter 26: Magic Wild Dance
In the Northern District of the Noble Realm of the Clover Kingdom continued to be covered in fires and strange, undead enemies, Asta stood in front of the mystery mage with his undead corpses laid out on the ground, unmoving, as he stood in front of the still trembling and scared little girl.
"I knew some Magic Knight would show up but a Black Bull, really?" The mystery mage asks more to himself out loud. "Although I have to say, the magic power I'm sensing from you is like nothing I've ever felt before. So tell me, what kind of magic is it that you us?" He asks.
"Not gonna happen you psycho! Now get away from her, she's just a kid!" Asta shout barring his fangs.
"Ha! You're joking! You're just a Black Bull with a rusty old sword and some strange magic to boot! You can't stop my army with an attack like that!" The mystery mage shouts as he mentally orders his corpses on the ground to rise, however, they do not. "Hold on…did he…" He begins to ask as the young girl rushes past him and heads to Asta.
"I was so scared!" The girl cries hugging Asta's waist as he places a comforting arm around her.
"I know but you did great." Asta says soothing her in a calm voice while rubbing her head. "I need you to get behind me now." He tells her.
"Okay." The girl says moving behind Asta.
"Oh I see, you must be that supposed Anti-Magic freak who also possesses a weird ancient magic known as Dragon Slayer Magic which earned you the title of the 'Anti Dragon Slayer'." The mystery mage says.
"Oh, so you've heard of me?" Asta asks holding up with Anti-Magic broadsword as his body gives of electric sparks.
"Hmm, yeah but this can be right." The mystery mage says scratching the side of his head. "You a rare find, possessing two grimoires, and I can feel your magic power is on the level of a captain's at best, but you chose to be in the Black Bulls? What a waste of potential! WHAT A WASTE OF A WIZARD!" He yells crazily as he slams his right hand to the ground and a black portal opens in front of him allowing more strange, undead corpses to rise out of the portal. "Kill them both, my corpse army!" He yells as he watches the corpses with a crazy smile surround Asta and the little girl.
'Idiot. These things are controlled by magic…' Asta thought as he swings his broadsword into an incoming corpses. '…which means this sword will render them useless.' He finished his 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.
"Look it's the Silver Eagles!" A man shouts in excitement.
"The Magic Knights are here! They'll save us!" Another man shouts.
"And do you see that?! The captain himself came!" A third man shouts.
"Sir Nozel!" A woman shouts in excitement.
"Sir Solid!" Another woman shouts in excitement as well.
"Lady Nebra!" A man shouts in excitement as well.
"We are here, now everyone step aside." Nozel orders the citizens.
Meanwhile in the Western District, Klaus used his Violent Rotating Lance to destroy several corpses in front of him, but they get right back up.
"What are these fiends…?! We cut them down, and they just get right back up!" Klaus says loudly.
"Unfortunately it appears I shall have to pass on dessert after all…" Hamon says looking around at the corpses surrounding him and his squad mates. "I find these creatures have ruined my appetite." He says.
In the Eastern District, both Charlotte and Sol were surrounded by corpses but neither seemed too worried, only disgusted by the rotten flesh walkers.
"Oh wow, whatever these things are they're really gross, huh Char?" Sol asks her captain.
"Yes they are. Just looking at them makes me sick to my stomach." Charlotte says before taking a pause. "And call me Captain, Sol." She says.
"Ugh…oh yeah, sorry." Sol apologizes.
"Stay back filthy wretches!" Charlotte shouts as the corpses close in on her.
In the Northwestern District, Yuno, Mimosa, and Alecdora were surrounded by corpses as well.
"There are just so many of them." Mimosa says observing the number of enemies around them.
"A corpse army…I wonder if they have any weaknesses." Yuno wonders observing the enemies.
"Hmph, so cautious. If you're strong enough the enemies weaknesses don't matter." Alecdora says as his grimoire hovers in front of him.
Back in the Northern District, Leo had saved the citizens from the corpses allowing them to escape as more arrive but fortunately Fuegoleon and Noelle arrived to assist him.
"How really creepy." Noelle says covering her nose in disgust from the smell the corpses were giving off up close.
"I hope my rival is doing alright." Leopold says panting slightly from the magic he's already used against the first wave of corpses.
"If what you told us is true and he's on the other side of this building's plaza, we'll assist him as soon as we're done with these fiends, Leo. There's magic power inside them…but while they can move they're aren't living beings. Which means…" Fuegoleon begins to say.
"TO MAKE SURE THEY STAY DOWN WE MUST DESTROY THEM!" Fuegoleon, Leopold, Noelle, Yuno, Mimosa, Alecdora, Sol, Charlotte, Klaus, Hamon, Siren, Nozel, Nebra, and Solid shout at the same time from the districts they are in.
[Northern District]
"Let's see how you like this spell!" Leo shouts as his grimoire flips its pages. "Fire Magic: Spiral Flame!" He shouts as he generates flames from the palm of his hands and holds his arms in the corpses' direction causing the flames to come out in a spiraling motion, which creates a tornado-shaped blast of flames.
"Fire Magic: Sol Linea!" Fuegoleon yells as he manifests a small sun-like sphere of concentrated flame and then manipulates the sphere to shoot an intense beam of fire towards the corpses.
The two fire spells crisscross each causing at least thirty corpses to burst into flames.
"That's incredible but now it's my turn!" Noelle shouts as her grimoire turns to a certain page. "Sea Dragon's Leviathan Constrict!" She yells as she swings her hand and subsequently generates a large and powerful tornado.
The large, powerful tornado another thirty corpses as they are completely destroyed while inside the water tornado.
"She took out our combine total with just one attack. Amazing." Leo says in shock.
"Indeed." Fuegoleon says. 'So this is the strength and power of a Lost Magic user. And Yami already has three in his squad.' He thought with a smile.
[Western District]
Siren summoned serval rocks infused with magic power and sends them straight at the corpses at blinding speed, crushing and destroying ten of them at the same time.
"Steel Creation Magic: Violent Spiral Lance!" Klaus yells creating three steel lances and sends them at the corpses destroying six at once.
"Oh dear, this won't do. You needn't fight like savages. Though I suppose that's what you are." Hamon says as his grimoire glow white and hovers in front of him. "At least you can die with grace and beauty." He says as the pages of his grimoire turn to a certain one. "Glass Creation Magic: Verre Fleur!" He shouts as he throws his hands up in the air and a series of sharp glasses rises from the ground that are of similar blade-like shapes but in different sizes as they form together into the shape of a flower.
[Northwestern District]
"I'll rip these mindless sacks of flesh to piece! Feel my wrath, you filth!" Alecdora yells with a large armored guardian made of sand behind him. "Sand Creation Magic: Sand Armor Guard!" He yells as the guardian slashes and destroys the corpses in one strike.
"Wind Magic: Towering Tornado!" Yuno yells as generates a tornado near the cluster of corpses, sending them flying while also destroying them.
"Plant Creation Magic: Dream Healing Flower Basket!" Mimosa shouts creating three at once. "If you've been injured or wound please come see me right away." She says while healing three citizens already.
[Eastern District]
A group of corpse make their way towards the Blue Rose Magic Knights but are suddenly whipped backwards by thorny vines.
"Is there no end to these creatures?" Charlotte asks holding a sword handle with thorn vines attached to it.
"You creeps had better keep your hands off of Char!" Sol yells as her grimoire opens flips its pages. "Earth Creation Magic: Rampaging Mother Earth!" She yells as she summons a golem that consists solely of earth from underfoot that is highly muscular with a simple design and crushes the corpses with its mere hands.
"That's captain!" Charlotte shouts before whipping more corpses away with vines. "Not one step further! No one is permitted to touch me!" She says as she summons a large sword hilt from her grimoire. "Thorn Creation Magic: Corpse-Hunting Briar Tree!" She yells as she unsheathes her weapon and transforms it into several thorn-covered vines, which extend to considerable length as they surround her, the thorny vines actively hunt the corpses and once these vines have caught them, they converged together and rise to create a tree of thorns while the target are still trapped between the thorns.
[Central District]
"How revolting!" Solid says with a crazed look on his face as his grimoire flips its pages. "Water Creation Mage: Death Drilling Sea Serpent!" He yells releasing a serpent-shaped stream of water that attacks the corpses, mowing down the ones in Solid's vicinity by circling around him as it moves at such a considerable speed that it mutilates the corpses just by charging towards them. "Ha! I'd like to see Noelle beat this spell." He laughs until he feels a surge of magic power from the Northern District.
Solid looks to the north above the buildings and sees a large, powerful water tornado rising up higher than the buildings. Nozel and Nebra also notice which causes Nebra to smile with pride knowing that it is Noelle who created that water tornado. Nozel however, remains silent showing no signs of emotion on his face at all but on the inside he is indeed impressed.
"I told you, Solid, Noelle's magic never really suited her but her new magic does." Nebra says to her little brother.
"Wait, you're saying that's our failure of a little sister's spell?" Solid asks in shock.
"Of course, and now it's time to see what my new magic can do!" Nebra says as her grimoire opens and flips through its pages to a certain one. "Sea God's…" She begins to say as she summons black water into her right hand, taking the form of a large trident. "Trident!" She yells as she throws her water-based weapon towards the corpses at great speed, creating a large, highly destructive explosion upon impact, destroying twenty-five corpses at once.
Nebra and Solid stare in amazement at the power she just unleashed while Nozel once again didn't show any emotion but was slightly impressed by his younger sister's display of power.
'So that's the power of a Lost Magic user, huh.' Nozel thought.
"This is amazing! My magical power level is huge!" Nebra squeals in excitement. "Sea God's…" She begins to say as her grimoire changes pages. "True Mist Clone!" She shouts as seven large balls of black water take her shape and form as she began blasting corpses with black water bullets while her clones mimic her movements. "Too bad. These dumb brutes are hardly a match for a Lost Magic user." Nebra and her clones say together as they turn their head towards their older brother, Nozel, who was facing down another twenty-five corpses.
"Receive your punishment!" Nozel shouts as his grimoire turns to a certain page. "Mercury Magic: Silver Rain!" He shouts as he summons countless droplets of liquid silver down from the sky and due to the high density of silver and the momentum it gathers as it falls from the sky, each droplets has enough force to breakthrough all the corpses on its path, without a single droplet hitting him even though he was standing in the middle of the rain. "This is what happens to those who dare to rise up against our land. We crush them." He says.
[Northern District]
"Fire Creation Magic: Leo Rugiens!" Fuegoleon shouts as he generates a great amount of fire which takes the shape of a lion, because of its considerable size Fuegoleon mounts its head as he commands the lion to unleash a huge blast of flames from its mouth and due to the size of the lion, the flames it releases covers a huge area and takes out twenty-seven corpses at once. "Burn to ash!" He shouts.
However, once again unknown to anyone in the Noble Realm, inside hidden chamber under the streets was lite up again by a flashing light only this time it was the scroll on the far left was glowing a blue color.
"Sea Dragon's…" Noelle begins to say as her grimoire flips through its pages. "River Claw!" She shouts as she generates large waters from her feet and swings her right leg down on the corpses with the force of a raging river, destroying twenty of them at once.
"Fire Magic: Wild Bursting Flame!" Leo yells destroying the remaining ten corpses.
"That was amazing." A man says observing the fight.
"They're so powerful." A woman says in awe.
"Is there anything they can't do?" A man asks.
"Whoa, they're incredible!" A man shouts.
"Iron Dragon's Roar!" Asta's voice yells a large, powerful tornado made of wind and sharp metal objects is seen on the other side of the building.
"That's Asta's magic." Noelle says.
"Ha ha! So this is what my rival is capable of? I need to see the results!" Leo shouts as rushes to the next plaza with Noelle following as Fuegoleon watches the dragon roar die down.
'To be capable of that much power at his age…that boy is going to go far as a Magic Knight, but he seems to be lacking a few things. Guess I'll have to teach them to him.' Fuegoleon thought smirking.
As Leo and Noelle round the building, they are greeted to a shocking sight; Asta having taken down hoard after hoard of the undead and knocking them into five piles of unmoving corpses or just ripping them to shreds.
"AARRR!" Asta yells slashing another corpse with his broadsword knocking it into one of the five piles. "Iron Dragon's…" He begins to say as his Dragon Slayer grimoire flips its pages. "Lance: Demon Logs!" He yells as his left arm is transformed into a large spearhead and fires a large number of iron spears in rapid succession towards remaining corpses.
"Amazing…he's mowing down hoards of those things with just that huge sword of his and as well as his magic." Leo says. 'So much raw physical power. And what a straight forward way to fight.' He thought. "You're almost too entertaining and that's exactly what I'm looking for in a rival.
'Asta, you thoroughly are amazing. After this invasion has been stopped I'm going to make my move.' Noelle thought blushing while clenching her fist in determination.
At that moment two corpses attempt to attack the two Magic Knights but are blasted away by a burst of water and fire magic.
'My Wrath Magic allows me to channel my mana into corpses and control them however I wish, my every own puppets.' The mystery mage thought watching Asta blast another corpse with an iron spear. 'But this boy's sword instantly cut through the mana, making it disappear and severing my puppet's strings while his magic is tearing through them and destroying just as fast as they come.' He thought gritting his teeth seeing Asta slash the last corpse into one of the piles.
"That's the last one for now." Asta says as his left arm turned back to normal.
"T-That was amazing. Thank you." The little girl behind Asta says with gratitude as Nero lands on her head.
"I wouldn't thank me just yet." Asta says turning his gaze to the culprit responsible for all this chaos. "You gotta be a real monster to attack innocent people like that. And I'm gonna make sure you don't do it again!" He yells pointing his broadsword at him before charging forward but ceases when a portal opened in front of him and a small blast of magic hit his cheek.
From the portal stepped a very tall man with a pair of long arms. It is covered entirely with bandages with its head, chest, and lower arms and legs are wrapped with black bandages. It also wears numerous black belts on its chest, upper arms, and feet. Furthermore, it also has a pair of eye-shaped ornaments attached on its face. The creature also had several orbs of magic surrounding it as it looked at Asta.
"No.4 – Jimmy." The mystery mage says as a different kind of corpses stood over Asta. "Innocent you say? These people fail to see how powerful I am!" He shouts.
The little girl let out a yelp of fear as Nero used his wing to cover his eyes at how ugly Jimmy was.
"Oh my god, that's the ugliest thing I've ever seen." Nero says after taking one look at Jimmy.
"So they're guilty to me!" The mystery mage shouts.
Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed this chapter as well as Noelle and Nebra showing off their magics. Also hope you all like the sneak peek of the surprise that will come in the future chapters of this arc. Stay tuned to find out what it is. Also please be sure to review and tell me what you think.