When Izuku "wears" the DKL-01, his alchemical and magical abilities increase at least a part of ten to a thousand times more effective, and allows certain spells such as Black Sabbath and Halloween to increase their destructive power, and halve them the regeneration time (it's still a few weeks).
It also allows Izuku to summon spells like Giran Ira, which literally consumed Zorin in a "magical" black hole.
Meanwhile, it last more one chapter to end the Hero Internship arc on North Korea! I hope that will return the focus to Yuuei!
The next chapters will return the main canon, that was the final semester exams arc, and maybe an alternate version of the Summer Camp arc, leaving some potential surprises.
The chaotic battle aftermath...
Izuku could fell a terrible, but not excruciating, pain, once the adrenaline drops and could notice the wounds and bruises on his skin that was not covered by the original base marmour, or the new DKL-01 prototype that appears to start to break apart, once the magic release of the insane Giran Ira spell quickly decays.
However the magic heralding discs, that Izuku once called them Magical Overboard starts to fade away, and Izuku decide to land on the outside, before this spell breaks, and everyone would fall straight to their death.
Fortunately, Izuku managed to fly straight along the opened hole that resulted from the insane fight with Zorin Blitz, and bring everyone safe to the outside.
The violent impact of Giran Ira may have damaged the foundations of the outside building, or even bringing the entire bunkers infrastructure into the brink of collapse.
Even with those catastrophic aftermath, Pip Bernadotte knew that the enemy still had the capability to send a distress call to the nearest military units to the affected site. The prideful North Korean Army may had lost one important research centre, but until their enemy still lurks inside their territory, all Wild Geese members will be easy targets.
"Midoriya...", Pip Berdanotte still dare to ask, "You had some magic energy left to make the last step ?"
Izuku was exhausted from the fight with Zorin Blitz, and probably the most challenging foe that Izuku ever face on his entire life. Even on Yuuei, his colleges barely could fight against him more than some seconds, before Izuku takes down with powerful spells. After all, the fight with Zorin was hellish, and only won due to a barely controllable magic weapon prototype.
"This magic weapon can help to this…", but he is not convinced, when notices the cracks along the armor structure, "However… In my honest opinion... Our real problem is to cross almost 300 km of hostile terrain...", and Izuku sighs when remember all the options to a viable escape route, where none of all are truly safe, "And by the way… I think my magic vitality, in order to restore my natural elemental pool, it will reset fast by casting my final technique..."
Pip Bernadotte nods, more when Izuku was worried about the escape route. So far, Pip was trying to ensemble his military satellite radio communication device, actually a kind of laptop with a strong military-grade hardware encryption module with a satellite antenna, in order to communicate to his trustful allies around the globe.
Gara intervenes fast, in order to Izuku not wanders along the assigned mission, "You mean… That you can use the remaining magic energy left to finishes at all..."
Terzieff-Godefroy was a little worried, "Why to burst the remaining magic energy on such spells, and save on other things instead ?", but not a single one answers.
Endeavor swallow dry, just to mumble, "What… What kind of final technique this WTF monster still have ?!"
Serpico and Silver Fang, who wanders around during the briefing, returns with an alarmed face, "It appears that we have company!"
Pip Bernadotte quickly turns his face, and detects under the dark night, the strong lights delivered by a swarm of military helicopters that was quickly arriving on the damaged military base.
The captain vampire swiftly makes orders, "Gara, Serpico, Silver Fang… Both you… Scatter around, and try to find any warehouse that contains at least weapons and ammunitions… And it will be nice, if those bastards rent a car!"
The three vampires nods and reply, "Yes… Sir!", before the three vampires dashing quickly at random destinations.
"And by the way… Rohellec… And you, clown below Schwarzenegger...", making Endeavor annoyed, "Stay behind from Midoriya...", before asks directly to Izuku, "What final techniques you can cast at this moment ?!"
"If I taking care the helicopters first, since they attack from a single vector, I can drain my magic energy pool with a ritual, and then cast an Halloween spell against them...", while makes a slight pause to breath, "However, I think that I can use this device called DKL-01, or whatever they called it, to destroy the whole site, using my most powerful magic spell, Black Sabbath… For the second time on my life!"
Pip Bernadotte, who already had some knowledge forehand, makes a smirked face, "Excellent… I always wanted to see cast that magic spell that resemble a detonation of an atomic bomb!", making specially Endeavor under awe and shock, "If you managed to maximize your magic on that Black Sabbath, even cities like Tokyo or Shanghai, or Pyongyang, since we are on North Korea, would be simply obliterated, killing millions on a blink of an eye…"
Izuku makes a sad smile, followed by an angry face, "Unbelievable… I'm not the heir of Dark Schneider's wills to become a doomsday pawn!", baring his fangs and hissing furiously, "Since even I have to kill, is to protect everyone..."
Silver Fang nods positively, and warns, "Don't take some rant too much seriously from Pip, since he knew that the limits of insanity better than everyone", without an annoying remark from the putative vampire.
The younger vampire, either way, drops his giant sword, who has been used to cast the ritualistic spell that craft the Sword of Hell, straight deeply on the cracked and dusty ground, and use his extreme concentration to meditation, in order to prepare to use with another ritual.
Before everyone dare to ask, Pip Bernadotte smiles when ears a noisy engine from an mixture of armored personal carrier and a lighter tank, and quickly recognize that was a modified Chinese made APC-2045 model that resemble the US Army tank M1A3 family models produced on 2020's years:
"Even this stuff had almost half a century, at least should roll at the utmost..."
Less a minute later the remaining vampires bring some crates of rocket propelled grenades, ammo clips, and anti-tank bombs, placing swiftly inside the vehicle.
"For now, I will stay here, and then fly using my Raven spell...", spoke Izuku while tries to gather magic energy, "Due to the infamous Black Sabbath, you should run away… otherwise the black flames will destroy everything..."
"OK...", said Pip, while delivers a portable radio device, "But use this radio in order to communicate, and find you...", before delivers, "Good luck, and kill those bastards!..."
Gara also requests, "Before you cast the second spell, wait until ten minutes in order to gain some distance", but notice from a map, "Or better… This road follows the mountain range, and within this time range, some mountains will shield for sure, the blast impact...", where remembers some crash-course of nuclear warfare, and the best strategies to use a shelter in order to survive.
The captured vehicle runs fast from the enemy base, fortunately with the enemy guard still confused with the havoc, and more focused to recover from the blast caused by Giran Ira, than stop the enemies fleeing. The few menaces was easily overcame when Gara and Serpico use the stolen weapons to shoot every soldier that appears on from of them.
With this factors, the Wild Geese escape without much resistance, if it exists at all.
Nuclear Doomsday...
Meanwhile, Izuku raises his sword against the group of helicopters, that appears to start to divert or scatter from Izuku's point of view, prompting him to seal a ritualistic spell, "Vetus regni mediocris tales autem perfusa flexuosis plenam lunam quaeruntur … Arcanis tua et voluntatibus supplantare gressus.", releasing a magic circle around the vampire sorcerer, "Ordinatores et stratores laguncularum bellatorem, perdidit phantasia in te regna", that energize the raised sword, "Gloriam tuam non oblitus imperii factis pactionibus!"
Less than a second later, a pillar of dim greyish light, with blue tones was released from the magic circle straight to the sky, linking the mage with the moonlight.
Endeavor and some other vampires, listens the radio, and watches from the back window when possible, the magic ritual been unfolding. The whole scene couldn't avoid by itself some strange feelings of admiration and fear, when Izuku uses his special abilities.
The brief spectral light release makes the increasing gathered enemy soldiers, who was reequipping and regrouping, annoyed and mesmerized with the strange phenomena.
For Izuku, it's the adequate time to finishes this at all, and strike hard.
"Kayzard! Halsard! Kiske! Kay! Hansen! Grosskopf! Sielck!", Izuku releases his aura along the raised sword, creating a kind of lightning plasma and follow the upward pillar of light straight to sky, once the incantation prelude was cast.
Seconds later, a magic thunderstorm forms on the middle. "Cast all wise men of Hades and Gather the Seven Circle's Keys of Hell!", where the magic magic thunderstorm swirls and brights red, accumulating magic energy like a vortex.
Pip Bernadotte, who even spoke the incantation by reflex, was interrupted by Gara, "Mister… If you spoke incantations randomly, you may be cursed!", just to Endeavor snaps, "WTF is the Seven Circle's Keys of Hell ?!".
The Izuku releases the magic thunderstorm energy straight to the helicopters swarm, "Open the Gates of Tartarus and Unleash total destruction!", where Izuku also directs the sword like a compass, targeting the enemy at maximum precision possible, "HALLOWEEN!"
Pip Bernadotte spoke the rest of incantation, without great problems, since he never learn the actual spell, but the effects of that kind of magic plasma flare was terrible destructible.
The release takes about two seconds, an improvement from the USJ incident. Either way, the destruction was immense, since the giant dark energy plasma once unleashed, destroys the helicopters like them made by soapy foam, and been instantaneously ionized at the point to form a nuclear plasma.
Then the barely confined plasma explodes, creating a cascade event that brings down the remaining helicopters, and burns everyone on the ground when the heat wave released by the plasma or the secondary explosion hits the ground.
Izuku swiftly casts a flying magic spell, in order to escape from the unleashed chaos, "Wah-ko… I pledge the Sacred Mountain's Wind Spirit to became my Flight's Mage!… CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!"
"So that's the famous Halloween ?!", Silver Fang delivers an bewildered remark, before everyone snaps off the shock, "Unbelievable!"
"How… many people would be killed... if he casts that WTF thing during the Festival ?!", Endeavor was frightened.
Even Izuku hovers several meters above the ground, while notice the random panic and fury of the surviving military units, and the easiness that Pip escape from the disarrayed enemy base, makes him confident to unleash the most powerful magic spell he could cast.
The chaos endure several seconds, accumulating some minutes of havoc, giving enough time to the escape vehicle hide from Izuku's point-of-view, when the road passes beyond a mountain.
First, Izuku synchronizes his ancestors spirits along the Demon Knight Lucifer DKL-01 magic armor, casting an alchemical ritual, "Tribus maioribus heroico!… Spondeo in sanguine tuus!...", crafting the once cast magic circle that link the Geralt's seven Signs with Dark Schneider's Black Chaos Magic, "Magno animo vinculum inter caelum et inferos antiquis... Sit vetus testamentum Tenebrosi Cicero!… Magia Erebia liberatio!...", while needs to use his own blood to flow magically to each sign, and seal the enchantment, "Qui excieo septem antiqua incantamenta ab Lupus Alba … Et sanguinis sacramentum signum!..."
Finally, Izuku raise his right arm straight to the sky, before rotates his torso, and his head, and swings the right arm directly to the opened hole on the ground, linking the magic circle and the earth. Meanwhile, some soldiers tried to fire their machine-guns, or even use their quirks against Izuku, but without avail, much due to the magic barrier that forms during the formation of the current magic ritual circle.
At this stage, Izuku's eyes flashed red, and his dark aura unfolds, beginning the enchantment, "Hear me, the dark ones! Hear me, the void!", while the dark aura release collide against the the bottom of the hole, shaking the entire ground, "OH! The Great Obscure Flames of Chaos! Under your Dark Pantheon, I pledge you Death Sacrifice!", while the DKL-01 somehow increases the magic energy output, compared to the first time Izuku could cast such thing.
Either way, a portal from Hell was opened, forming a magic domain between the ground, and above it, due to the giant hole, and the magic circle itself, releasing magic fires that makes everything, no matter the actual composition, catches fires, and spontaneously combust.
"Awaken the Great Chaos of Underworld and the Omnipotent Inferno of Darkness!", making the point where the DKL-01 starts to crack, and the confined magic magnetic field begins to wobble dangerously, spilling death and destruction, while the temperature rise, "From the Hades flames and Sabbath lies… Eternal Idols of Heaven and Hell, Paranoia Dreams that never Die... Guided by Iron Man's cast spell!..."
Pip Bernadotte already drive some kilometres away, but they barely could listening the new incantation, and some ever could see the effects at such distance. Even Endeavor not spoke until now, "I knew that this monster are the Devil!...", just to be been slapped by Silver Fang, "Be respectful! And rational!..."
It was the point when the black miasma self-ignites, and raises the temperature above several millions of degrees, while the magic domain begins to compress, "Under the Dark Pact of Chaos… Release the Hades flames! Dai Idol! Dai Omni! Gizeh! And brings everything destroyed by the Nuclear Doomsday!...".
And Izuku delivers a sudden arm stroke against the ground, or more realistically the aura projection of an actual limb instead the real one. This projection technique, similar to the ancient ki techniques made from warriors that once lived on Ancient China, was one of the power enhancements made possible more easily with the DKL-01. With this trick, Izuku could maintains hovering on mid-air, and avoiding a real direct contact of the ground.
Finally, Izuku yells, "BLACK SABBATH!", making the magic domain explodes, and also everything underground and above ground, releasing a flashing dark and then white flare, where temperatures goes beyond ten thousand million Kelvin (10^10 Kelvin!) for an instant, before cools down and the convective and thermal plasma release expands and cools.
During one second, even the lighter atoms fuse together, releasing deadly nuclear radiation in form of gamma rays, thermal neutrons, or high energetic electrons. Izuku manage to craft a mixed fusion/fission bomb using magic, with a little help of the DKL-01, and detonate successfully.
Izuku himself was propelled upwards, while notices that the armor breaks and cracks in several parts, while suffer a sudden magic loss, since it was put too much pressure on his body.
On a radius of two kilometers, everything on the ground was killed and destroyed. Essentially, everyone who on the path of the nuclear detonation was simply volatilized. The entire bunker system collapses, killing everybody, either by the nuclear radiation, the debris failing or the explosion itself.
Between two and five kilometers from the explosion, any survivor receive a lethal radioactive dose, or the burns caused by the thermal wave, dying quickly afterwards.
Izuku itself was shielded by is own magic barrier, but suffer some radiation damage, healed by his inhuman vampiric regeneration powers. The giant recoil delivered by the magic barrier collapse, propels Izuku like a rocket, in the way that experimental nuclear thermal rockets should work, using small nuclear bombs to propel the rocket forward. The thermonuclear explosion itself enables Izuku to fly at higher altitudes, before starts to fall at higher speed. Izuku notices that his magic powers was fading away, that a terrible consequence of a magic spell that had a full month recovering time.
The shockwave of the explosion still make several damages at distances up to 30 kilometers, but the mountainous terrain will cut the real range by a smaller value. Izuku, during the propelled flight, could notices from the vision of the atomic mushroom that left from their own magic spell. Izuku estimates that will land somewhere about 20 kilometers away the explosion, and only could maintain the same vector route of the Pip.
Pip Bernadotte sighs when notice that was about 10 to 15 kilometers away when the Black Sabbath spell cools down. Apparently, the radio survive the explosion, more because Izuku was sent to another place, than the magic explosion itself. And the mountainous terrain helps Pip to survive the explosion impact, since he stops once he passed beneath a mountain that shield them from the explosion and radiation.
"Jesus Christ!", Serpico who tried to understand the aftermath, "WTF, honestly, was that ?!".
"A tactical thermonuclear weapon...", answers Pip, "Of about up to two megaton yield."
Gara makes a mad whistle, "Enough to wipe out Central Tokyo..."
"This boy deserves a Military Medal of Honour!", as Pip refers to Second World War Japanese medal Jugun Kisho, "About twenty thousand enemy soldiers was killed, and an enemy base was razed to the ground!"
Endeavor overacts with pain, "Your monster… Band of murderous monsters!", and scream with agony, "That's your fault that uses a young citizen, who only wants to be an Hero, acts like a mass murderer machine...", just to receive a stroke on the back, leaving unconsciousness.
"It will sleep a while...", said Pip, annoyed, "We soldiers, never go back when we need to kill, in order to save another's..."
Izuku then try to use several magic spells when falls straight against that appears to be a peasants village, layered by rice fields, from the upward point of view. Izuku, like other vampires, had an excellent night vision that supplant the humans, but the real problem was to avoid his death at impact. At this stage all Dark Schneider's magic spells won't activate too soon, and the last resource was the Witcher Signs:
"Please… May this spell works!… Witcher Sign Heliotrope !...", blasting a magic shield against the floor in the same way that help to slow down before impact during the Yuuei's Entrance Exam.
Fortunately, the Heliotrope work somehow, and the dangerous free fall speed was reduced to a safe value, enable to embrace for an impact straight on a muddy rice paddle, without suffering serious injuries. And the rolling around the mud also help him to reduce the impact, until he finally stops. The younger vampire was filled with mud and herbs, but was alive after all.
Rescue...
Meanwhile, Pip Bernadotte notice that the radio breaks down, but manage to use his portable computer embedded on a military communication device to find the last position, "It appears that Midoriya falls about seven kilometers away!".
Gara also requests, "It's possible to request a rescue mission ?"
Pip Bernadotte thinks while drives along the desert road, even it had four lanes, and without any transit sign or road marks!
"I will text first to our HQ, and wait further instructions!...", where in reality, he also made contact to some irregular militias that was longtime allies.
Meanwhile Izuku managed to walk around the darkness of night, and find the nearest road, while tried without avail to contact the rest of the team.
"Just great! The radio is broken down, and I left alone on the middle of nowhere!", yelling at every possible angle.
But the first person was sighted wasn't Pip, but a North Korean Army military soldier running against him, ordering him to surrender or face death.
Since the Witcher Signs still works, Izuku casts the Axii in order to confuse him, or trying to switch sides, but the magic left was not strong enough to cast an advanced spell.
It left a single option out, Izuku runs straight against him, and bite their neck to drink blood, while wrestles the bewildered soldier to take him out.
Once neutralized the first threat, Izuku notices the lights of a vehicle about 500 or more meters away, just to notice that was from Pip Bernadotte. At least, Izuku could heave a sigh of relief.
Once Izuku was rescued, and bring along the vehicle, Pip delivers the following order:
"Due to high state of alert caused by some North Korean Navy submarines that cause a little havoc on Sea of Japan, the best they could delivered to us is to catch a military flight from an US military base located on South Korea..."
"WHAT ?!", Izuku screams, "After all, what's the havoc ?!"
"It appears that even one of your classmates suffer a direct strike on a submarine torpedo, but without causalities...", said Gara when read the attachments, delivered by a satellite link.
Izuku's aura was murderous, "Very nice… news… My nation suffer an attack… much due to your incompetence..."
Pip Bernadotte tried to overcome this issue, and counters, "However, driving all along North Korea, when the army will certainly chase us, until the frontier of South Korea are out of question… It's about 500 km!", and receive a message that change his mood, "But I contact a group of smugglers that operate along the Chinese border that delivers a nice option..."
"And what option ?!", everyone asks.
"If I continue to drive to north, there's an old propelled plane that those smugglers wants to dispose!...", while the driver makes an insane smirk.
Gara understands and sighs, "Remember the movies called The Expendables, or Tropa de Elite, also called Elite Squad ?!"
Izuku don't remember such movies, until Pip Bernadotte speaks, "I suggest you, Izuku, to watch all those movies on your weekend, once you return safe to home…"
"And why you suggest such old stuff ?!"
"It's because our real saviors are like the Mr. Church own private band of bastards...", and everyone, except Izuku of course, and the unconscious Endeavor, babbles, "We are the Wild Geese, the worst mercenaries of the damn rotting world!", and laughs after that.
Probably Izuku will never understand such brotherhood shared by this crazy band of mercenaries vampires!
To be Continued...