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Warning- Gross descriptions of zombies are in this chapter. Just a warning in case you aren't into that kind of thing.


After only 2 weeks of waiting, Izuku had a new and magical coat, a slightly darker shade of brown than his last but it was absolutely worth handing over the scroll he found and gave him the perfect chance to upgrade his costume. He swapped his tie for a darker green one and had his detective fedora changed to match his darker coat with the felt strip being the same green as his tie. His shoes had also gotten damaged from so much parkour so he got some black ones that still matched his detective style look while being more durable. He also added gloves to his costume, white in colour but with decorative gold accents of Celestial runes to add some matching colour with his suit shirt and enhance the magical feel about him.

Most of this was just to match his new coat though, with stitched in runes of gold thread to achieve the same enchantment as a Bag of Holding, it was as much of his image as Warlock as the magic detective aesthetic. It also broke him away from his roots of just copying a hostage negotiator's outfit which was good but it wasn't good on his allowance. After the upgrade and buying the supplies he now kept in his coat he was going to have to stop buying Hero merch for a while to financially recover.

Currently, Izuku had his eyes locked on a Villain in an alley that was linked to some Trigger smuggling ring. After the cultists had taken an apparent interest in the drug he felt it would lead to a way to take down two birds with one stone and he had been right. The Villain in question had some kind of crab mutation Quirk and was currently looking around frantically for any Heroes or Police outside of what looked like an abandoned building, using Detect Magic Izuku was able to confirm that nobody was nearby the wall inside or it was thick enough that no commotion could be heard.

Izuku watched intently as from around a corner, a Hero he didn't recognise had turned the corner into the alley: Likely male, one million in numbers printed on the chest, cool red cape. 'Is this a sidekick or are they new?' Izuku thought. He watched as they called out the Villain for his known crimes, Izuku couldn't hear much from this distance but he did see the Villain quickly but subtly inject himself with something and run at the Hero. Izuku was about to intervene until the Villain was thrown back by something small, he looked back to the Hero and saw Sir Nighteye talking with the other Hero.

Izuku was about to internally fanboy but noticed the Villain get up and grow in size slightly before the Heroes did, he jumped down just as the Trigger boosted Villain started his attack and launched an Eldritch Blast at them, hitting his face in between the plates of shell armour formed on his body and knocking him down after taking the damage before. "Why don't you take a rest. You'll be less crabby once the Trigger wears off." he joked.

He heard at least one of the two Heroes snicker behind him, he pulled out more rope than could logically fit in his coat pocket and tied the Villain up for arrest. He turned around to see the two Heroes looking at him. "Well this is certainly on odd way of meeting, but I am a huge fan, Sir Nighteye!" Izuku said with a small bow. The stern and serious face of Nighteye went unchanged as he expected, he faced the other Hero and something clicked in his mind after seeing his face close up "Ah, you're the one who could move through the ground from UA's second year sports festival this year, allow me to introduce myself. I, am Warlock." Izuku bowed again.

The blonde Hero pointed to himself "Well, I'm Lemillion, because I'm going to save a million people!" he said proudly with a smile on his face.

"Amazing! But no need to stop at just a million." Izuku said, earning a powerful smile from the boy "Well there's no time to small talk, there's a Trigger deal going on in this building. Hopefully we didn't make enough noise to arouse suspicion." Izuku pointed at the wall of the abandoned building, "No signs of life behind the wall so they're further in or the walls are over a meter thick. Thankfully our chitinous friend here was going to enter this building so we have a quiet way in."

"Do you know who is involved in this deal?" Nighteye asked.

"Three members of the Villain group, the Undying King's Faithful, One unknown Villain who was guarding the dealers and two unknown Villains, who are the dealers." Izuku looked over at the unconscious crab Villain, "At least, that's what I was able to gather." Izuku looked further down the alley, "There's a steel door down there that leads inside, I was going to coax the Villains to open it."

Lemillion looked at him curiously "How do you plan on doing that?"

Izuku chuckled before placing a hand over his face as he cast Mask of Many Faces and spoke in Lemillion's voice "I have many ways." he said before casting it again and changing his voice back to Warlock's deeper voice.

"Your Quirk can perform quite a lot." Nighteye commented.

Izuku chuckled "I get that a lot. So will you be joining me or shall I continue on my own?" he asked, he got confirmation from both Heroes that they would be helping, Lemillion in a much more enthusiastic way than Nighteye, who contacted his sidekicks to assist in clean up.

Izuku cast Mask of Many Faces again to sound like the crab Villain and knocked on the metal door in the secret way he learned from his stakeout. After a few seconds he heard a voice from behind the door. "What do you want?" Izuku responded in the crab Villain's voice "I got's an appointment with the boss." He heard some locks behind the door come undone and the door opened, the guy on the other side looked confused but was quickly grabbed by Izuku and thrown behind him, with a single Eldritch Blast he was out cold and ready to be tied up for Nighteye's sidekicks to pick up.

The two Heroes saw Warlock's eyes turn from green to glowing white from behind the perpetual shadows hiding his face when they walked into the building, he then stared down and mumbled incoherently to himself before turning to them. "All 5 life signs are one level below us, Quirks are unknown but 2 likely have mutation Quirks." He looked to Lemillion, "The floor is less than a meter thick if you want to phase through as a sneak attack but you should do so on a signal. Listen for a loud boom." he explained quietly, earning an exaggerated thumbs up from the blonde Hero.

Izuku and Nighteye found a staircase leading to the lower level and followed it until they heard the deal going on, the stairs overlooked the lower level so they could both get a good look at what they were dealing with. Two well dressed men with briefcases were the dealers and the cloaked individuals were Izuku's main focus, he activated Detect Magic again and examined the magic from them. One dealer with horns had illusion and the other conjuration, two of the three cultists had transmutation with obvious mutations and the third was Quirkless, they all had melee weapons. 'Credit where credit is due, the death cult is at least inclusive.'

Izuku turned to Nighteye and whispered "Deal with the dealer with horns first, his Quirk might try to trick you. I'll take the cultists." Nighteye looked at him curiously for a moment before acknowledging his advice. Izuku then did what he does best and jumped directly into the problem from high enough to hurt his legs but rolled once he hit the ground.

He landed behind the two mutated cultist while chanting quietly in Celestial before the air started to slightly smell of ozone and gently hum. [Transmuted Thunderwave] The two cultists were engulfed in a blast of electricity and thrown away from Izuku, he was so glad he finally figured out how to transmute into lightning damage without electrocuting himself. "Shocked to see me?" he joked, mostly as a distraction to Nighteye jumping down afterward and throwing a metal stamp at the illusion Quirk Trigger dealer which knocked him away.

Izuku took the fight to the last Cultist as the remaining dealer summoned a knife of ice, Izuku figured it was made from the water vapour in the air but quickly focused on his own fight. Quirk or no Quirk the Lich's forces were still tough for anyone to deal with, especially when they came at you with dual wielding swords like the guy Izuku was currently fighting was. Izuku reached into his pocket and pulled out an elegantly carved wooden staff that had no logical way of fitting inside and started using that to block and redirect attacks.

The cultist was confused as to why his swords didn't so much as chip the wooden staff but Izuku knew, only magic can damage a magic item. Granted, it was basically the absolute minimum for a magical weapon but it was still the most reliable thing Izuku had for close quarters combat. He did have plans for a cooler one though, if Sylvar would make it for him. He was like Warlock's support company who supplied him with gear, now that Izuku gave it some thought.

Izuku swung the staff and disarmed the cultist before swinging from below and hitting his jaw, they stumbled and tried to swing again before Izuku swung faster and hit them in the back of the head and knocked them unconscious. Izuku turned to look at Nighteye but had to duck as one of the cultists was still up, now once they were close up did he notice the eel like face of the cultist. Izuku figured they had some kind of electric eel based Quirk seeing as he resisted the electric attack.

Izuku was back to blocking and redirecting attacks until he found his opening, which thankfully came from Lemillion popping up from behind the Villain and hitting them in the side of their torso, dazing his opponent and letting Izuku hit the side of his face and knock him unconscious. After Nighteye beat the last Villain, Izuku pulled out a lot of rope from his Coat of Holding which made Nighteye amused, then impressed and then just confused at how much rope he was able to fit into a trench coat. They tied up the Villains and escorted them out of the building where Nighteye's sidekicks were waiting.

Izuku slid his staff back into his pocket before he spoke, which earned curious glances all around "Do we know who the Trigger is coming from, because these guys don't seem like they are the suppliers with only a handful of cheap stuff." Izuku noticed the Sidekicks and bowed while Nighteye debated on how much to tell Warlock.

"We have theories but not a definite answer, a likely candidate is the Yakuza, but again, we don't know for sure yet." Nighteye said.

Izuku nodded before tipping his hat to the company around him "Well, you seem to have things covered." he said before running at the side of the building and climbing up any ledges to reach the roof and running away into the mid day and vanishing without a trace as he is prone to do by using Mask of Many Faces. He stopped in an farther away alley and disguised himself as an average middle-aged Japanese man with a slight mutant Quirk and casually started walking away into the streets.


Mirai was pleased that Warlock seemed to not realise that he had used his Quirk on him. The HPSC president had told him to find out Warlock's identity if the two were to ever meet and now all he had to do was look into Warlock's past or future.

He watched the vision created by his Foresight, like a movie of the moments they just had together. He pushed to go further forward but as he did, his Quirk could only make static. He couldn't see anything. Did Warlock have no past or future? Or were they somehow hidden from his Quirk? He tried to push harder to see but a horrible throbbing in his head made him stop.

He snapped out of using his Quirk to see Mirio looking up at him, concerned. "Sir, are you alright?"

Mirai said that he was fine, playing it off like nothing had happened and continued in the arrest of the Villains of the Trigger bust. He noticed a moment later that alongside a headache, his nose had started bleeding after using his Quirk.


Hero Watch- Home to Anything and Everything Heroes

Thread name: Warlock Megathread (Updated 2hr ago)

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SoQuirky29: We got some news from the Nighteye agency! They got help from Warlock on a drug bust! Check out the report for yourself Here. Recorded footage of Warlock during this incident can be seen Here.

DarkestShadow30: Still such a mystery around this occult Hero, though from the security footage he seems to have improved his wardrobe since his last incident.

WattAShocker: He do be looking pretty slick though.

steponmemiruko: How do we still know nothing about the guy? Hasn't he been around long enough that some paparazzi would follow him home or something?

SoQuirky29: Warlock likes to show up only when he's needed and vanish like a ghost when his job is done. It's part of what makes him so cool!

SpinLizard: At least he clearly isn't like those other Heroes, only in it for the fame and money.

WattAShocker: Hold up, if he's that unknown does he even get paid? Like does the government even give him the money if they don't know who he is?

DarkestShadow30: To change the subject, I have noticed a number of possibly occult symbols on Warlock's new costume. Does anyone wish to assist me in deciphering them? Perhaps he has left hints to his identity for the keen eyed observer.

ThePoltergeist211: Sounds as if eldritch secrets may be unlocked. PM me and perhaps together this arcane mystery can be solved.

steponmemiruko: Oh that's nice, the edgelords are getting along.

TheBetterJeanist: What a marvellous revelation, this clearly supports my Multiple Warlocks theory.

SoQuirky29: Jeanist, please refrain from spamming this thread with your theories. Again.


The HPSC president was getting impatient. Hawks had continued to find nothing after losing Warlock! All communications were still lost with Nabu Island! And Warlock just showed off two more Quirks that, according to Sir Nighteye's report, detected life signs and the other was a type of storage Quirk! She was close to snapping when Sir Nighteye revealed he couldn't use his Quirk to see the identity of Warlock, but it was reportedly because he had already used it on a dangerous Villain earlier in the day so she let it go. 'One problem at a time.' she thought before sighing deeply.

She would send another group to Nabu Island. Clearly there was more than a natural disaster wiping out communications so she would send a group focussing on reconnaissance with a camera drone to give her a visual as well as a way of communications.

Regarding Hawks, she would have to rely on him to catch Warlock until they could find any more evidence to know who he was. He was the fastest Hero they could send out to apprehend him so how did Warlock keep evading? She may have to end up using plan C and setting up bait that Warlock would be forced to take in order to corner him but that would mean actively releasing those cultists from prison or bribing the ones who aren't. She wasn't that desperate yet but it was still a plausible plan.

Then came Warlock's newest revealed Quirks. Once again, not related to his other Quirks and further cementing him at the very least having a Quirk that could copy others and at worst, he was associated with All for One and was playing the long con, tricking the world into thinking he was a Hero before striking when they least expected it. The best course of action if he was with All for One would be to eliminate Warlock before he became a problem but they could not gauge the amount of Quirks he had access to or how he could copy those Quirks in the first place. Of course if he wasn't on the side of evil then Warlock had the potential to become a very useful asset to the HPSC, but the first step is catching the menace before him not being a licenced Hero is revealed and becomes a pain for everyone, not just including the HPSC.

She would also look into any missing person reports and see if any people had Quirks similar to what Warlock uses. If so then it can be safer to assume that Warlock is stealing Quirks.

First, she would deal with the Nabu Island problem, but if there was a legitimate threat who would she send?


A loyal servant for the Undying King and one who managed to deal more damage to the troublesome Warlock than any other of his Brothers and Sisters, he had no name anymore and simply went by his Quirk's name for convenience. Martialist, a Quirk which gave him the knowledge and skill to use any melee weapon as long as he held them, however he preferred using guns, simply due to how satisfying it felt to end a life with as little as a single finger movement.

Now was not the time to think about his Quirk though, Martialist was currently being interrogated, yet again by the same prison officers and he, yet again didn't reveal anything to them. 'Why do they choose to fight the inevitable?' he thought as one of the officer's radios went off suddenly and sounded as if a shout was quickly cut off.

The officers looked startled and prepared for a break in, this was a high security prison so a break in was a huge deal, they were trying to contact anyone on the radio to only receive the white noise of the radio's crackle. One cursed to himself before they both heard a thud, then another thud, and another as heavy footsteps slowly reached the interrogation room. The other officer kept her gun in hand, approached the door and opened it suddenly with pistol drawn only to immediately be thrown to the back of the room from the force of a dark metal sword flying into her chest.

The other officer was in too much shock to draw his gun as a tall man with incredibly pale white hair and skin walked into the room wearing a deep dark purple suit of studded leather armour adorned with skulls. He resembled an armed and armoured human corpse, his frantic, sunken eyes burned with malevolence. The leathery, desiccated flesh was drawn tight across his bones and his teeth looked like sharp jagged needles.

The remaining officer snapped to his senses as he drew his gun, firing a shot at the head of the corpse man, passing through his head with a spray of blackened blood. The officer seemed relived for half a second until the man turned and grabbed him by the throat after having a bullet through his head, he could feel his body getting weaker and weaker until the last thing he saw was the pale man's bullet wound closing and his own skin rotting and then blackness.

Martialist watched with a slight smile as his Brother came to his aide and slew the non believers, at least now they would have a use in their new world. The Wight was a special undead that the Dark Lord could make that was fully intelligent and could speak and understand languages, unlike the inferior Zombies and Skeletons, nothing less than perfect work by the hands of the Undying King. The Wight approached the woman who was pinned to the wall by his sword and pulled it out of her torso but grabbed her by the throat as well, rotting her body in the process and unceremoniously dropping the decaying body to the ground.

Martialist looked to his hands, still cuffed to the interrogation table and the Wight sliced through the chains with his black metal longsword. "It's good to see you Brother, have we any more siblings in the building?" he asked and got a slow nod and gruff hum from the Wight. "Excellent, then shall we depart?" he got a displeased grunt and a head shake, pointing to the woman's corpse on the ground as it slowly lifted itself up.

Rot bloated the flesh of the corpse and what blood remained ran black. Her body would normally have had no right to stand, let alone shuffle forward on dragging feet, her head leaned sickly aside of its right position atop the neck. Lungs that should not work pushed out a gurgling wheeze from the corpse's collapsed throat, sending a gout of dark fluid from between her broken lips. The male officer rose similarly not a few seconds afterward and both Zombies shambled on rotting limbs next to the Wight before he himself began to walk away with his mission complete.

Martialist scoffed at the Zombies for having no respect for their siblings before grabbing the discarded guns of the officers and following shortly after, no doubt that the Undying King has formed a plan for him and his siblings.


The next day, Izuku was still curious about the Trigger trade and who was supplying who with the drugs. His current theory, thanks to Sir Nighteye, was that the Yakuza was selling it to various dealers and that they had some kind of connection to the Lich. He had been researching as much as he could on his computer about Yakuza gangs, he only rarely came across reports of raids but they didn't hold much information that he wanted.

Frankly, that was annoying. Any Yakuza member didn't just have their information plastered on a Wikipedia page unless they were already caught, the only way he could get close enough to gather information would be to infiltrate on the inside and he didn't want to break the law that much. Vigilantism was enough for him, he didn't need to become a Yakuza member as well.

Izuku sighed, he shouldn't be thinking about all of that, right now he needed to act like a normal person instead of Warlock. Kirishima had invited him to "hang out", something he hasn't done since he was roughly 4 or 5 years old. Apparently he would also be meeting with another of Kirishima's friends. A girl, which despite near constant magic training to keep emotions and body in check, had made him nervous but Kirishima assured him that the girl would be nice.

Kirishima was out waiting by the beach Izuku trained at for whatever reason, Izuku walked up to him as he talked with a tall and very skinny man. He wondered what his Quirk was if he had one.

Kirishima noticed him and waved "Hey, Midobro. You got here fast. I was still packing up with my personal trainer Mr Yagi over here." Kirishima said pointing to the frail man who gave a kind smile and wave. Izuku wondered for a second how a man like that could be a personal trainer but quickly ignored it, he'd personally made weirder things happen.

Izuku thought for a second why his trainer would be here unless they trained here. "Do you train on this beach?" he asked.

Kirishima enthusiastically raised his fist to the air "Yeah man! I got a plan to clean this whole beach before the UA entrance exams!" he looked out to the trash coating the sand "I think someone else had the same idea too, trash keeps disappearing when I'm not here," he chuckled "Not that I'm complaining, it makes my job easier."

'I knew someone was moving parts of my obstacle course! I'm going to need a new place for physical training. Would Sylvar know a place? No, I don't think he leaves his library.' Izuku thought before snapping back to his senses, "Well that's a pretty big goal, I hope you can do it."

"Thanks man!" Kirishima said with a smile before helping Mr Yagi load the last of his stuff into his truck "Alright I think that's the last of it, safe travels, Mr Yagi."

The man smiled "Thank you, young Kirishima. You have fun now and don't forget your training schedule." he said before driving off.

Kirishima waved goodbye and sighed in exhaustion "Man, Yagi might look skinny but he sure knows how to make a work out routine."

Izuku chuckled lightly "Yeah I get that, a...friend of mine figured out all my training for me and it is brutal."

"I mean, I guess you do have to go pretty hard considering, you know what." Kirishima said gesturing slightly to Izuku, and pretending to shoot an Eldritch Blast by making a pew sound like a laser gun, Izuku just cut him off with a hum. "Why are you even training for UA anyway? Aren't you already a secret Hero or something?"

Izuku awkwardly shrugged "Eeh, it's complicated. Also I'm still only 14. Wait, no, it's the middle of July now. I'm 15, my birthday was last week." he started rambling but caught himself, "Whatever, my point still stands, I'm a teenager and I still need an education."

"Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Happy late birthday by the way, you should have called me for it."

"Oh, sorry. I don't really celebrate it too much for...reasons," 'Not a weird way of saying it at all Izuku.'

"Alright, change of plans, today is going to be a late birthday celebration for you." Kirishima said with a smile. Izuku didn't protest, thinking it might be nice to celebrate his birthday with friends for the first time in years. They waited for a few minutes and chatted until a cheerful female voice called out for Kirishima, Izuku looked to where the voice came from and saw a waving girl with pink skin and horns being the most eye catching thing about her.

"Hey, Mina!" Kirishima called back with a wave, the girl ran up to the two with a smile on her face. She looked over to Izuku who gave a nervous smile, "You've gotta be Midoriya, Right? I'm Mina Ashido, nice to meet you!

Izuku took a deep breath and calmed himself down "It's nice to meet you too, Ashido."

Kirishima quickly took Ashido aside "Mina, change of plans. We're celebrating Midoriya's late birthday." he said, making Ashido gasp in excitement.

"We could throw a party!" she called out "Oh wait, that takes a whole bunch of time to prep." She thought for a moment before perking up with energy again "We'll go to the arcade!"

"Alright! I know there's one in the next town over, does that work for you Midobro?"

Izuku smiled and was moments away from crying but was able to supress it, "That would be great!"

Izuku, Kirishima and Ashido spent the afternoon enjoying themselves at the arcade and competed in some of the games, finding out just how good Ashido was at rhythm games in the process. After managing to collect a surplus of tickets, they put them all towards a plush All Might for Izuku's late birthday present. He didn't manage to hold back the tears that time.

Once they were walking back they heard a commotion coming from nearby and smoke rising, shortly after people started running away screaming. Izuku threw Kirishima his stuffed All Might and, to Kirishima and Ashido, disappeared suddenly as the two students shouted for him.


Izuku was now running across rooftops as Warlock toward the commotion, if this many people are running then it must be worse than your average Villain. He soon reached the scene and looked down on the ruined and flaming street. Three Heroes were overwhelmed by several cultists with a familiar looking Cultist leading the charge, an armoured man with a sword and several shambling corpses.

Izuku stared longer at the walking rotted Zombies. He knew the Lich could do this but to see it in person was different. Disgust and hatred swelled in Izuku's soul, knowing most of those were more than likely innocent people forced to fight after death.

'My God.' were the only words Izuku could utter through the heavy uncomfortable feeling in his chest.

'Izuku, it is time. This threat is too strong for you now, yet it must be stopped. You shall now ascend to Level 3 to gain the power necessary.' Couatl said in his mind. Izuku didn't even get a chance to say anything as the magic inside of him swelled and grew across his whole body. Unlike last time it, the heat inside started feeling slightly uncomfortable until Izuku's magic settled back into his chest, burning hotter than before. He knew three new spells which were all stronger than his previous ones as well as some more cantrips.

Izuku looked back down at the scene with a serious look on his face. Win and live. Lose and die. The first rule, one that applied to both sides of a fight. Now, it was time for them to learn first hand.

Izuku felt the new magic flow through him as he went to cast one of his latest spells, already knowing how to cast it and what it should do. Izuku pulled out his magic staff and focused magic into it while chanting in Celestial. The tips of the staff ignited in small flames and Izuku spun the staff, creating a ring of fire in the air and placed a hand in the centre with one last word.

[Flaming Sphere]

The ring of fire collapsed into a tiny bead before rapidly expanding to almost Izuku's own height and burned with divine magic. The sphere fell from the roof and landed on one of the Zombies before rolling as if it had a mind of it's own and slamming into another, both turned into nothing more than ashes. Izuku let out a short prayer for their souls and leapt off the building, smacking a cultist unconscious with his magic staff once he landed.

A collapsed Hero behind him looked up in shock, Izuku recognised him as Baseball Hero: Slugger. "W-Warlock! Oh thank God! We're going to live!"

Izuku turned to face him, piercing, serious eyes glowing through the shadows on his face. "Don't thank anyone just yet. Evacuate any remaining civilians."

One of the cultists laughed, he looked over and saw one wielding two pistols, one Izuku had fought before. "I was wondering if you would arrive, I hope to bring your head on a platter this time."

Izuku didn't throw back some witty one liner like before and instead rushed the Cultist, they exchanged blows but without a melee weapon the cultist was seemingly weaker than before. Izuku continued to block as many bullets as possible with his enchanted staff and coat and beat the Cultist across the face between blocks.

"You dare try to stop us! You're all fools! The Dark Lord will-!" The Cultist shouted before Izuku pointed the tip of his staff in their face as green energy crackled off of it and fired a point blank Eldritch Blast to his face. The force knocking them down and out.

The rest of the cloaked cultists watched as their pseudo leader for the mission had been taken down without damaging the target. Some were then knocked out by baseballs flying at them from Slugger and other attacks by the present Heroes after ensuring no civilians remained in the area. Some watched as a ball of raging inferno tore through the undead forces their brother, the Undying King's undead minion, had provided.

The thing that Couatl had told him was a Wight, was slammed by the Flaming Sphere but survived and approached a Cultist. Izuku watched as burns on their body healed as they ripped the life force of the Cultist out, leaving a rotting, zombified husk in it's place.

"...What the fuck." One of the Heroes behind Izuku whispered in horror.

45 seconds had passed after Izuku had summoned the Flaming Sphere, meaning he still had it for another 15. 6 Cultists, 3 Zombies and a Wight remained on the battle field. He would make the most of this time.

The Flaming Sphere rolled through the Zombies as Izuku rushed the Wight into the street fires, a sword of black metal clashed against his staff as malice filled eyes glared at him. The Heroes were fighting as best they could against the Cultists until help arrived but they were still out numbered 2 to 1. Izuku launched a Sacred Flame from his staff hitting the Wight's face, burning it with holy fire as they hissed in anger and pain.

The Wight swung it's sword one more time and knocked Izuku's staff out of his grip and grabbed him by the throat. He felt his life force drain out of him and actively felt weaker afterwards, the undead had healed some of it's wounds but it made the mistake of locking Izuku with him. Light pulsed from his chest and up his arms in veins of holy energy. [Guiding Bolt] The blast of divine energy hit at point blank range, the 2nd level spell was stronger than it had been before and caused the undead to scream as it's unholy body burned and glowed with holy light.

The Wight, in a fit of rage had tried to stab Izuku through with his sword. For a corpse, it was surprisingly strong, strong enough to pierce through Izuku's body with his sword, causing a deep wound but Izuku broke free of the Wight's grasp and chanted as red clouds of smoke and crackling green energy formed around his arm. An Agonising Blast was launched, and with the secondary effect of Guiding Bolt in effect, it hit the weakest point of the Wight. A shot directly to the neck.

Green energy and red smoke coalesced around it's head as the force of the Agonising Blast struck the undead monster, the Wight's head exploded and the headless corpse fell backwards to the ground before burning igniting into blue flames and turning into ashes not long afterwards.

"Rest in peace." Izuku said solemnly, with a brief prayer for the lost souls of the undead. He also quickly healed his stab wound with a use of Healing Light as the ball of fire burned through the last Zombie and faded out.

Izuku turned around to face the remaining Cultists. The shadowy figure of Warlock stared at them, backlit by the fire, coat drifting in the wind as the flames crackled around him. Despite standing in the inferno, his coat refused to catch fire and his face was still blocked by impenetrable shadow. The image was burned into the minds of both the Heroes and Cultists as what this monster of a man was capable of.

Some Cultists with magic didn't give up after seeing that display but were quickly subdued by him with a few Eldritch Blasts. Izuku walked up to Slugger and the other Heroes and helped tie up the conscious Cultists, after which he gave a slight bow to the Heroes, "I apologise for the collateral damage, allow me to help clean up."

Izuku walked back into the fire and picked up his staff, hidden behind the flames he cast a new cantrip he learned and swung his staff. [Control Flames] The Heroes watched as most of the fire on the street vanished near instantly as well as Warlock. Seconds later the Police, Fire Department and other Heroes had finally got there only to see the aftermath.

The firemen were already putting out the remaining fires as a police officer looked out among the carnage, "What the hell even happened?" he asked the Heroes.

Slugger looked to his companions who were also trying to put what they witnessed into words before trying himself "I think...They got on Warlock's bad side."

The officer looked back the absolute wreckage of a street and the dark ashes spread all over "How many were there?"


"You mean to tell me that he defeated most of an entire platoon of over 20 of the UKF's forces including a general whose Quirk was that they could absorb the life of others and puppet their corpses to fight, and he did so in less than two minutes with minimal help?" The HPSC president asked to get clarification, she was getting a report of the prison break yesterday, and then the attack by the UKF group that had occurred just moments ago involving some of the escapees. "I see, well thank you for your report. Dismissed." she hung up the phone and put her head in her hands.

"Just what is your goal? You've only ever wounded Villains before at worst, and yet you killed around half of the Villains this time without hesitation." she said to herself before looking at the report on her desk "You only killed the ones who were affected by that general's Quirk and this general themselves. What do you know that we don't?"

She looked over the report of the battle once again "More Quirks, as usual. Controlling fire and the red smoke around the usual Force Laser Quirk, is that a new Quirk mixed with it or have you simply been holding back with it?"

She was drawn out of her thoughts as her computer flashed with a notification, the small reconnaissance group who went to investigate Nabu Island had activated their camera drone.

What she saw when it was activated was the ruins of civilisation, like a post apocalypse. Most buildings were either left in ruins or barely standing aside from a dark, ominous tower looming over the island, one that had never been there before. As the drone was flown higher, she saw among the ruined buildings that more puppet corpses were either moving in random directions or nearly completely still. Were there more people on this Island like the general that Warlock had killed.

Among them were other people, seeming affected by a similar Quirk to the one of the general killed by Warlock. The camera wouldn't zoom in far enough to make it out in great detail but she saw that the corpse puppets had no issues with these other people, they also moved on all fours and primarily stayed in the shade.

She ordered her group to stay as far away from them as possible and to search for anyone unaffected by the Quirk or Quirks while the drone flew behind them. She watched the screen intently as the team manoeuvred around abandoned buildings until she heard one of them scream, one of the individuals affected by a Quirk had appeared from out of frame and pinned a member of the group to the ground.

The drone got a good view of the person, a man whose skin was decaying but pulled taught against his skin and his fingers were tipped with claws. The man's eyes were sunken but burning like hot coals and filled with madness. She was about to order the group to run but the man was knocked off the reconnaissance member by a spear of bamboo piercing his side.

The drone watched as a familiar man ran into frame, Fuyasu Takeshita, otherwise known as Bamboo Hero: Bambloom. He was covered in bandages and had his Hero costume torn up, he was repeatedly stabbing the affected man with a Bamboo spear. He stopped once the man stopped moving and looked to the recon group with a giant sigh of relief.

"I would like an explanation as to what is happening here, Takeshita." The president said through the drone, catching the man's attention.

"Madam president? What a relief. I hope that thing has the battery life to get through this explanation. To put it simply, almost everyone on the island is dead and controlled by a Quirk. Nabu Island desperately needs to be abandoned." Takeshita looked around anxiously for a moment and stared at the corpse for a moment too long "Let's not talk here, it's safer in the ruins. Follow me." he said to the recon group before leading the group away from the streets as he took paranoid glances around every corner.

The group trudged through the outskirts of ruins until they eventually crossed over onto the smaller island that housed the ruins, once inside the camera drone was able to see the survivors, so few from the population of Nabu Island. It was here that Takeshita explained what happened on the Island.

He explained that almost 4 months ago, a man with a Quirk showed up on the Island, the surviving witnesses say that he looked like a skeleton wearing royal robes and that his Quirk had allowed him to transform corpses into mindless monsters that followed his every wish. Using that Quirk, he was able to take over and destroy the Island in a matter of hours and captured many other residents that he didn't kill. He must have used one of the islanders Quirks to build that villainous looking tower that oversees the island and recently more intelligent monsters are showing up, which can only mean that he is getting stronger somehow.

When the president had asked who this horrible Villain was, a different voice had answered. "He goes by many names. The Dark Lord, The Whispered One, The Arch-Lich, The Undying King." The camera drone swirled around to catch a glimpse of the cave entrance where a man in cultist robes stood holding a large piece of paper in one hand and what looked like playing cards in the other. Many other zombified figures stood behind him. "But when your corpses rise, you shall only be calling him Master." he finished before the paper burned in blue flames and a ball of regular fire shot out from the cultist's palm which exploded and engulfed the camera drone, cutting the video feed for the president, only capturing screams before the drone was fully destroyed.

The Undying King had enslaved an entire Island in hours and kept the survivors alive just to send a message to anyone who tried to save them, that was what the president thought. If this "King" was worthy of a cult then they were clearly in the same sort of power range as beasts like All for One, sending in All Might on his own as he is right now would be foolish. At least now she knew what she assumed Warlock knew but didn't reveal.

However, having knowledge now didn't change the fact that Nabu Island is extremely off limits and that she would have to contact the families of all the Heroes she sent to Nabu Island.


Izuku sat on top of his apartment building that night, looking out to the street in his Warlock outfit and thinking back to the Zombie attack earlier in the day.

"I knew I had to do it...I'm just surprised I did. I didn't think killing them would come to me so naturally." he said out loud, turning his gaze upwards to the sky.

'They were not alive Izuku. What you did was a mercy to those tortured souls.' Couatl replied in his head.

"Still...it just felt strange how quickly I made the decision." He sighed and chuckled softly, "I guess that's the whole point in all this training, huh?"

'Your actions were not without good reason. Pride could be felt in how far you have come.' Couatl said, Izuku grinned slightly after hearing their weird way of saying they were proud of him.

Izuku stood up and looked out to the street again "So, training or patrol?" he asked.

'Before that, with your 3rd level achieved you have earned something special. Aside from your spells being cast at a 2nd level instead of a 1st. Your desire to note your thoughts have made it seem like a useful boon.' Couatl said, suddenly Izuku felt a strange thrum of magical energy emanate from his shadow, he crouched down and put his hand over it and it seemed to ripple like water at his touch. He pushed further and his hand sunk into his shadow as he felt something suddenly enter his hand, it felt like a thick hardcover book. He pulled his hand out and with it came a book.

The thick book was bound with dark leather and decorated with ornate gold decorations and celestial script. The fantastical way the characters were written made it look beautiful and incredibly important but only translated to "Property of Izuku Midoriya" which would be bad to just have out there but fortunately the only people on Earth who can read Celestial are him and Sylvar. The last decoration of gold on the cover was an image of a Couatl in a ouroboros position, biting it's own tail. When Izuku opened the book, he found that all the pages were blank.

"I was kind of expecting something cool inside the book, not that the book itself is a bad thing of course, it's great and of super good quality. I just thought that-" Izuku started rambling.

'Izuku.' Couatl said, in many stern voices.

"Right, rambling, sorry."

'The book is made of your reflection upon the earth. Like your own mind, what you know is locked inside, you simply need to look deeper to find what you require. The Book of Shadows. A book of your shadow. A book made from you. It knows all that you do.' Couatl cryptically explained.

Izuku, still getting used to Couatl's weird poem explanations, opened the book again. He stared at the pages, thinking about different things. He thought of the concept of magic and words appeared in Celestial, as an index of everything he knew about magic like the front page of a text book, everything from spell classification to the different types of magic were found on different pages.

He though about spells, specifically spells he knew and the letters changed again to an index of every spell he knew. Each cantrip, 1st level and 2nd level spell had it's own page, describing what the spell did and how to cast it, it even gave a visual aide for the hand movements. He decided to flip to his newest spells to see what they could do. He started with the Cantrips

Control Flames, incredibly versatile in a fire scenario and allowed him to control fire within 20 meters, from snuffing out an inferno to making one from a spark, changing it's brightness, colour and even it's shape.

The next cantrip on the list was Ray of Frost, an elemental beam of cold damage that can slow down those hit by it. With an elemental cantrip it would make practicing the different Transmuted Spell metamagic a lot easier. The thought of a spell called Ray of Frost being transmuted into fire damage was kind of funny to Izuku.

The final cantrip was Izuku's favourite as it seemed to most useful and interesting, Spare the Dying. A cantrip that can be used on any person in a critical condition, like bleeding out from a knife wound, and stabilise them for the time being. Definitely useful in a disaster scenario.

Izuku flipped over to his other latest spells, the 2nd level ones, Flaming Sphere was one he already used, a telekinetically controlled ball of fire. He would have to learn how to control it properly and not have it move on instinct as that could be dangerous.

One of the others was Misty Step which immediately interested Izuku, a short distance teleport of 10 meter range. Warping Quirks were so rare that any people with them are usually urged to become Heroes by the HPSC so being able to do it himself was something interesting. That could definitely be useful in any scenario, the only downside was that it was could only be used on himself so he can't teleport with another person but he could use it while carrying something.

The last spell was an absolute surprise at what it could do. Lesser Restoration. There was a list of things he could cure with this spell. Paralysis, poison, blindness, deafness and any disease. He was going to save way more people than he could before with this spell. It didn't even need some materials to cast with or a hidden price, just a few words and a wave and someone is cured of blindness. If this was the lesser restoration then he wondered what the greater restoration could do.

Izuku closed the Book of Shadows, and started climbing down and around the building to get near his room's window. As he looked inside he spoke a few words in Celestial as smoke started creeping off his body, this spell was naturally a faster one to cast than his other spells, like a Quickened spell.

[Misty Step]

In a puff of smoke, Izuku had teleported into his bedroom, which was an admittedly strange feeling. He changed out of his Warlock outfit and laid in bed. 'I think it's time to train these new spells.' he thought, ironically before falling to sleep. With these new spells at the ready, he had a busy dream ahead of him.


Thank you for reading! Leave a review if you like! Feel free to make anything based on this work if you want, as long as you let me know about it so I can enjoy it with you!

Sorry for missing the last couple of deadlines, personal stuff happened.

Anyway, we got to see some Zombies! And I don't know if I should change the rating to mature because of it.

RIP Nabu Island and Takeshita, you handsome bamboo man.

Also, Level 2 spells! To anyone who doesn't know the D&D rules on Warlocks this is that part that you look at to be less confused. So, all of Izuku's spells (that are not cantrips) are now cast at 2nd level, including his 1st level spells, hence them feeling more powerful than before. All this does is make them stronger. Some spells get added effects when cast at higher levels though, like Cause Fear being able to target 2 people instead of 1. I hope that cleared that confusion up.

Also to clear it up, spells go up to a max level of 9, which are extreme things like stopping time or summoning meteors but are more than likely a once a day thing. We'll worry about Izuku getting that much power later. A person's level however, maxes out at 20, but that's not to say they cannot continue to improve after reaching this milestone. Magic, health and other attributes also usually change with level increase.

I was also thinking of adding another page to this story that just lists all of Izuku's abilities which I update when he levels up, because we are only at level 3 and he already has like 15 different spells. Not to mention his other abilities. It's no wonder the HPSC wants their grubby hands on him.