The path that leads to despair

"I'm getting a bad feeling about this. What sort of Alter-Ride book is that?" Buster questioned in his head as he examine the Alter-Ride book that Vetto is holding in his hand.

The Alter-Ride book is much larger than the normal Alter-Ride books which the colors is mainly blue, with a dark hue, and some gold linings along with a symbol on the front cover.

"Now. Let's test out this present that Storious made for us." The three-eyed Vetto spoke before opening the cover, revealing a person surrounded by animals with demonic-like appearances.

"The opening of this book will unleash the blood covered fangs upon this world."

The Alter-Ride book announced before Vetto closed the cover and placed the book within a belt buckle that appeared when the member of the "Third Eye" opened the book.

A creepy standby sound started to play, along with a giant version of the Alter-Ride book appearing behind Vetto, causing everyone to become tense.

"I want to home…" Finral thought with tears running down his face.

"Wimp." Gauche thought as he notice Finral crying, but couldn't blame the Black Bull spatial Mage since his hands are slightly shaking.

"Are you all ready to see what's waiting for all of you?" Vetto asked before pressing the button on the belt buckle, causing the both versions of the book to open again, but this time showing an image of an armoured person.

Unleash the demonic force!

The Alter-Ride book announced and multiple demonic-like animals burst out of the "page" before circling around Vetto.

Hunt! Kill! Cover the ground with blood!

Demonic Animals!

There's no escape when the fangs glitter in the moonlight…..

The Alter-Ride book finished it's announcement and the animals merge onto Vetto, covering him in a dark blue armor over a black under-suit, that has a dark red hue added to the mix, snarling wolfs as shoulder pads, boots that are shaped as clawed feet and gauntlets with sharp claws protruding from the ends. Vetto's head is covered in a helmet in the shape of a snarling wolf as well.

"Hehehehe…..I like this new feeling…." Vetto commented as he examine his new armor.

"S-seriously? Where is this malice-like Mana is coming from?" Joyeues thought, sweat dripping down her forehead as she focus her attention onto Vetto's newly gained third eye which is covered by his helmet.

"I have been told stories about servant of evils that use to exist this this world long ago and the strongest of those servants used forbidden magic to transform themselves into a demon, the same three-eyed demon that was slain by the first Wizard King. Did this guy used that same demonic Mana on himself and that Alter-Ride….was it imbued with demonic Mana as well…." Joyeues thought, starting to gain a bad feeling.

"This is bad, I can't even conjure up another "Sea Dragon's Roar" again." The swords-woman of steel thought, gritting her teeth slightly.

"Joyeues! Stand back and recover, let us deal with Vetto. At this point, the others will most likely be picking up the pace and reach this place very soon…..hopefully." Buster explained, saying the last part to himself, not sure if the others are dealing with other followers of the Eye Of The Midnight Sun that Vetto brought with him.

"Right!" Joyeues responded, not wanting to sound relive at being able to rest, but it slipped out.

"Just rest as much as you want, Joyeues. The others will take your spot." Kenzan said as she got herself ready.

"Kenzan….." The swords-woman said in a slight stunned tone of voice.

"If you guys have finished saying your final words…...then die!" Vetto said as Mana started to surround him.

"Demonic Beast Magic: Snake's Venom!" Vetto spoke, creating a snake's head out of Demonic Mana.

"Everyone! Dodge!" Buster shouted, causing everyone, mainly those closes to Vetto to dive out of the way, as Finral activate his magic to allow Gauche and Tetsuo to rescue Magna, Luck and Kaito.

The snake created from the demonic Mana released a ray of energy that ripped up the ground before breaking down the wall on the other side of the room.

"W-where is this guy getting that power f-from?!" Finral demanded in a scared tone of voice.

"I can guess that it's that Megid group has been giving the Eye Of The Midnight Sun a little help, right?" Gauche explained before asking the question to Tetsuo who has a deep frown on his face.

"Yes….I think that's what happen…." Tetsuo replied but Gauche raised an eye-brow, not sure to believe the Mechanic of the Sword Of Logos or not.

"Earth Creation Magic: Earth Tortoise's Earth Fangs!" Buster shouted, creating spikes that burst out of the ground, heading towards Vetto.

However, the member of the "Third Eye" easy destroyed the stone spikes with his clawed gauntlets that he covered with demonic Mana.

"Is that all? Quite-" Vetto began to say but was cut off as the swordsman of the earth suddenly appeared in front of him and swing Gekido.

"So that spell was just a detraction." Vetto thought as he caught the orange blade with his hand.

"Huh?" Buster said in a confused tone of voice before getting pulled towards Vetto and receiving a punch from him, causing sparks to fly off his armor due to the claws.

As Buster crashed onto the floor, a presence appeared behind Vetto, causing the member of the "Third Eye" to whirl around and became slightly surprise as he saw Kenzan whose right side is clad in black armor molded in the shape of a Hydra.

"What's the point of using a new Wonder-Ride book at this point? It's too late." Vetto explained as he through a punch towards the swords-woman of the wind.

Everyone became shock as Vetto's attack successfully connected with Kenzan but became confuse as Kenzan seemingly split into two versions of herself.

"What?!" Vetto demanded as he glance towards the two Kenzans who landed on the ground.

"Thanks for the present, Joyeues." Both Kenzans spoke at the same time as the glance towards the swords-woman of steel, she having giving the "Hundred Headed Hydra" Wonder-Ride book to Kenzan whilst Vetto was busy with Buster.

"Just focus on the battle." Joyeues responded, causing the two Kenzans to nod their heads before turning their attention back onto Vetto.

"This seriously looking bad! Where did Vetto gained that power?! Did the Megid gave the Eye Of The Midnight Sun access to forbidden magic?" Saber wondered as he stared at the battle that is happening in front of him whilst thinking back to any point in the past that he was told that the Megid themselves use demonic Mana.

"There's no time to think about that. I need to heal this wound." Saber thought as he glanced down towards Kahono's throat injury.

The swordsman of flames opened his Grimoire and was about to cast "Fire Healing Magic: Flame Dragon's Heart", but was stop as a hand grab his arm.

"N-no…..use all…..of your…..Mana…..on that…..creep…" Kahono explained in a weak tone of voice.

"A-are your sure?" Saber asked, his eyes widening under his helmet.

Kahono simply nodded her head with a determined expression on her face.

"Right! Lets me get you out of the way first." Saber said as he turned his attention towards the entrance that he and Kaito arrived through earlier.

As the swordsman of flames slowly made his way towards the tunnel, something came bursting through, causing Saber to widen his eyes as he recognized who it is.

"Seriously? Is that all you got? I guess this new power is completely out of your league. What a shame, and you're supposed to belong to a Magic Knight squad that existed for two centuries." Vetto explained to his opponents who are breathing heavily.

"Just you….wait. The rest of the Black Bulls and Sword Of Logos will be making their way towards this location and appear pretty soon….." Buster explained as he held his ground.

"Now your just rambling for a piece of hope to suddenly appear. I'm sorry, but this is the end for you!" Vetto shouted as he raised a fist and prepare to strike the swordsman of the earth.

However, before the member of the "Third Eye" can properly execute the attack, a jaw belonging to a mechanical blue lion suddenly bit down on Vetto's arm.

"What the?!" Vetto exclaimed in a shock tone of voice as he felt his arm getting dragged down.

"Lion Senki?!" one of the Kenzan's shouted in a shock tone as she, along with everyone else, stared at the partner of the swordsman of the water.

"But where is/Water Creation Magic: Water Lion's claws!" Kenzan began to say but was cut off as a person clad in blue armor attacked Vetto from the air.

"Gah!" Vetto exclaimed in pain as the claw struck his face, causing deep gashes to appear.

"Sorry I'm late!" Blades, who is in his Lion-Tsuki no Himi Kaguyan form, said as he landed on the ground just as Lion Senki roughly released Vetto, throwing him away slightly.

"We're just glad that you managed to make it, things have grown much dangerously." Buster explained in a slightly weary tone of voice.

"What is happening, I felt demonic Mana coming from this area…..?" Blades said before becoming confuse at Vetto's appearance.

"It seems that the Megid decided to give gifts to the Eye Of The Midnight Sun. the armor came from an Alter-Ride book whilst the third eye came from Vetto himself." Buster explained grimly, causing Blades to frown under his helmet whilst getting into a battle stance with his two claws, with Nagare stored in his Seiken Sword-driver.

"So Zoous decided to leave the battlefield then? No matter, it doesn't matter how many there are of you, I will crush ever single one of you, humans." Vetto explained just as his Grimoire opened and flip through the pages before stopping.

"Demonic Magic: Spider's Web." Vetto announced and the shape of a spider's web spread from his feet.

"Whoa!" Both Kenzans exclaimed at the same time as they and everyone else backed away from the spreading web.

"So, now what are you going to do? I advised that non of you step into the spider's web." Vetto explained with a vicious grin on his face as the spider's web, which has a dark red hue colour to it, pulsed with demonic Mana.

"I'm not planning to!" Finral shouted in a scared tone of voice, earning him a kick from Gauche.

"So he's limiting our foot-space, hm? This is a bit troublesome….unless." Buster thought as he glanced towards Saber and saw that he's isn't alone.

"Who is that girl standing beside Charmy? Is that Grey?" Buster thought in a confused tone of voice.

"Blades….who is Grey transformed as?" Joyeues asked, noticing the blue hair girl along with everyone else.

"Well….that's Grey's true form." Blades replied in an awkward tone of voice.

"…..WHAT?!" The Magic Knights shouted at the same time in a shock tone of voice.

"D-don't look at me! Its embarrassing!" Grey exclaimed as she hid her face in her hands whilst hiding behind Charmy.

"S-seriously? Grey is in fact a cute looking girl?" Finral asked, gaining a stunned tone of voice.

"Why are you two confused? She's your friend, right?" Tetsuo asked in a confused tone of voice.

"We didn't know that Grey is a girl. She always appeared as a big fat man that let off smoke all of the time." Gauche replied in a blank tone of voice, making Tetsuo blink his eyes.

"Really? Have these humans forgot that they're about to die?" Vetto questioned in his head with a raised eyebrow underneath his helmet.

"If you don't mind, now is the time that you die!" Vetto shouted as he charged towards the Magic Knights, causing them to scatter…..with some difficulties.

"No! No! No!" Joyeues exclaimed in her head as she hopped on one foot in order to stop herself from touching the "web".

"Phew! That was a close one." The swords-woman of steel thought, letting out a sigh of relief.

"Hey! Have you forgotten that some of us can use long range attacks?" Gauche asked before firing rays of light towards Vetto, which split into two thanks to Tetsuo's magic.

Smoke raised into the air as the attack(s) hit him.

"Did that do anything?" Tetsuo asked, although he apart of him knows that attack will do little damage.

"What was that? That barely tickles." Vetto commented as the smoke disappeared revealing that he's completely fine.

"Figures." Gauche muttered with a frown on his face.

"Cotton Creation Magic: Strike Of The Sleeping Strike!" Charmy's announced and a giant sheep rose behind Vetto.

"Oh? What sort of Mana does that small girl has?" Vetto thought as he turned around and saw Charmy with her Grimoire open.

"Now my sheep, strike him! I want to go back to my food hunting!" Charmy ordered, causing the Mana-made sheep to start approaching Vetto.

However, when the sheep touched the "web", it's white "coat" started to turn purple whilst seemingly froze in one place.

"For anyone foolish enough to touch my spell, poison will quickly spread throughout their body, along with a parallelizing effect." Vetto explained as everyone watched as more of the sheep's "coat" turned more purple.

"Out of the all of the times for Gordon for not being here. He would have beeen perfect for this situation." Gauche thought in slight annoyance.

However, it was at that moment that something red came flying pass the sheep and headed straight towards Vetto.

"Is that…." The member of the "Third Eye" thought as he swipe the incoming person who managed to dodge the attack.

When the person can be proper observe, it is revealed to be Saber in his Dragon-Eagle form.

"Hah! Your spider web spell isn't useful against someone who can fly!" Saber said with a grin on his face as he float in the air with his crimson wings.

"Don't get cocky, human-" Vetto spoke before spotting Blades coming towards him and saw that his still present water-made claws are covered in moonlight energy.

"He's managing to make his way through the "web"?!" Vetto thought in a surprised tone of voice as he looked down at Blades' quick footsteps.

"Nothing is stopping me from keeping this world out of harms way, not even by some demonic spell!" Blades said in a determined tone of voice as got close to Vetto and swiped a claw towards the member of the "Third Eye".

Vetto raised his arms and let the attack hit his gauntlets, making a loud clanging sound.

"You may have impressive footwork to get near me, but you have limited room to defend yourself!" Vetto said before kicking Blades which successfully hit him.

However, a black portal suddenly appeared, causing the swordsman of water to fly through that instead.

"Tch." Vetto said in annoyance before sensing an attack approaching him.

"Haya!" Saber shouted as he attempted to strike with a flame covered Rekka.

"And you have some nerve using the wings of an eagle whilst in a confined space." Vetto commented as he step out of the way of Saber's attack before attempting a counter attack.

Luckily, the swordsman of flames managed to dodge the attack with his wings.

"Don't make comments on my decisions! Fire Creation Magic: Flame Dragon's Fangs!" Saber shouted as he threw the attack towards Vetto.

The member of the "Third Eye" stumbled back at the close range of the attack.

"Water Magic: Aqua Bullets!" The voice of Blades called out and Vetto got pelted with the water attack.

"Grrr. Back for more, huh?" Vetto commented as he glanced towards the direction of Blades' attack and saw the swordsman of water coming out of a portal that Finral created.

"You got that right. No one is stopping until you are down for good!" Blades responded as he unsheathe Nagare from his Seiken Sword-driver and swing it towards Vetto.

"You can say that all you want, but all of you will fall into despair." Vetto retorted back before aiming an attack at the incoming Nagare, aiming to knock it out of Blades' hands.

"Don't forget about me!" Saber exclaimed as he attacked with Rekka.

The member of the "Third Eye" gritted his teeth slightly, not being able to block Saber's attack and not able to knock Nagare out of the swordsman of water's hands as he attended.

"Why don't you do me a favor and fly away!" Vetto shouted before suddenly throwing a backhand attack towards the swordsman of flames.

The attack successfully hit Saber, causing him to be loose control over his flight and "stumble" in the air.

"Saber!" Blades exclaimed in a shock tone of voice before ducking under a fist that was aiming for his head.

"Be more concerned for your own well being rather than the others!" Vetto exclaimed as he threw demonic Mana covered punches at the swordsman of water.

If it wasn't for Vetto's spell, then Blades would have an easier time dodging and blocking the incoming attacks, but in this case, he was struggling.

However, it was at that moment that a silver sword struck Vetto, causing him to become unbalanced this time.

"Need a hand?" Joyeues asked, making Blades nodded his head slightly.

"Yes please." Blades responded in a slight pleading tone of voice.

"So, your back in action, huh?" Vetto said as he observe Joyeues.

"Absolutely! I hope your prepared!" Joyeues responded in a determined tone of voice.

"I just need to avoid steeping on that purple stuff and I'll be fine." The swords-woman of steel thought, feeling worried.

"Then come at me then!" Vetto exclaimed before lunging towards Joyeues and Blades. As the two fought Vetto, Saber is still spinning around in the air.

"Come on, come on, come on! I thought that I have good control whilst in the air." Saber thought as he tried not to feel dizzy.

After a few seconds, Saber managed to straighten himself.

"Right! Now to get back into the battle." Saber thought as he observe the battle that is happening below him.

"From the looks of things. The best place to strike Vetto is between the sections of armor or the neck area." Joyeues thought as she observe the member of the "Third Eye", trying to see where the good places to deal damage are.

"Ther-ack!" Joyeues began to say within her head before recoiling in shock as she notice how one of her foot is extremely close to the purple "web".

"Joyeues?! Are you okay?" Blades asked in an alarmed tone of voice, taking a quick glance towards the swords-woman of steel.

"Y-yes. I'm okay. Just focus on the battle." Joyeues responded quickly, causing the swordsman of water to nod his head before ducking under an incoming fist.

"Now to resume what I was about to do." Joyeues thought just as her Grimoire opened.

"Water Creation Magic: Sea Dragon's Spikes!" Joyeues shouted and sent the spikes flying towards the areas she selected earlier.

As Vetto was busy attempting to land a solid hit on Blades, he was only aware of the incoming attack just a few seconds before the spikes pierced his skin.

"Yes! That's how you do it, Joyeues!" Buster exclaimed in in a joyous tone of voice at Joyeues' achievement just as Vetto growled in pain and it was then that Blades noticed something.

"The spider's web. It's disappeared. I guess that it disappear after a period of time. Now for the time to strike!" Blades thought before removing the "Tsuki no Himi Kaguyan" Wonder-Ride book and scanned it on he tip of Nagare.

Tsuki no Himi Kaguyan! Hmm hmm!

The sword announced and moonlight surround the blade of Nagare before the swordsman of water pressed the trigger.

Learning flash!

The sword announce again and Blades swing Nagare, causing an arc of moonlight energy to fly through the air before striking Vetto, making him stumble even more.

"And now to finish this!" Saber shouted as he sheathe Rekka into his Seiken Sword-driver and pressed the trigger.

Final Page

The Seiken Sword-driver announce and Saber became wrapped in flames before the swordsman of flames began to press the trigger again.

"Saber! Look at me!" Gauche shouted, causing Saber to jump slightly before looking at the Black Bull mirror Mage and saw that his left "eye" is glowing.

"Mirror Magic: Mirror Brigade!" Gauche announced, causing multiple versions of Saber to appear, which is enhanced further by Tetsuo's "Duet" spell.

"Eh?" Joyeues said in a stunned tone of voice at the sight of multiple Sabers.

"Right! Let's continue." All the Saber said at the same time before pressing the trigger.

Dragon! Eagle!

Volume 2-Strike: F-F-Fire!

The driver announced and the Sabers prepared their attacks.

"Burning Claw Strike!" The Sabers announced as they basically drop down, aiming for Vetto's head.

However, Vetto some managed to recover and his Grimoire opened.

"Demon Magic: Wolf Howling!" Vetto announced, causing a shock-wave comprised of dark red energy to burst outwards, knocking everyone off their feet.

Exclaims of pain filled the air as everyone got knocked off their feet and crashed onto the floor.

With Saber, the swordsman of flames watched in horror as his clones disappeared.

"Darn! There goes the chance of finishing Vetto with multiple hits." Saber thought in a frustrated tone of voice whilst recovering his balance within the air.

"What the hell, Saber?! Don't you know how much Mana it takes for me to pull that spell off?!" Gauche asked in an angry tone of voice.

"Well excuuuusssseee me! I didn't know that Vetto has a spell prepared to use!" Saber shouted back, causing everyone present to sweat-drop.

"If they have this much energy, then they should be spending it on fighting rather than arguing with each other…?" Vetto thought before noticing that Joyeues haven't been thrown backwards like the rest of the Magic Knights.

The main reason for this is that the swords-woman of steel had stab Argent-Couronne into the ground, preventing her from getting blown away.

"That's a nice trick you did, girl. However…." Vetto began to say as he started to approach Joyeues.

The swords-woman of steel looked up and gulped slightly as she stared at the menacing grin that Vetto is giving her.

"You really should have let yourself get blown away because now….you going to be suffering in despair! Demonic Magic: Curse Claws!" Vetto announced and his gauntlets started to become covered in demonic Mana.

The swords-woman of steel froze in fear just as Vetto brought his hands towards Joyeues.

However, before Vetto can lay a finger of Joyeues, something came swooping in and push the swords-woman of steel out of the way.

Joyeues crashed onto the ground and when she looked up, the swords-woman of steel widened in horror as she and everyone watched as Vetto grabbed Saber's arms instead.

"AHHHHHHHHAAAAA!" The swordsman of flames shouted in pain as demonic Mana spread through his arms.

"Hahahahaha! So you decided to suffer in pain instead of your friend? How brave of you. Now suffer!" Vetto said with a malice-filled grin.

"W-w-what is happening to me?!" Saber exclaimed in his pain as he started to gain nasty feeling from his arms.

It was at that moment that an orange blade cut off Vetto's arms, hitting the spaces between the pieces of armor whilst the member of the "Third Eye" had to jump back to avoid getting a sword pierced into one of his eyes.

"Saber?! How are you feeling?!" Buster asked in alarmed tone of voice as he and Blades looked at the swordsman of flames.

"I-I'm-!" Saber began to respond but stop when his armor suddenly disappeared and the ash-white hair teen was about to fall onto the ground, but was caught by the swordsman of water.

"Yeach! That looks nasty." Blades commented, shivering slightly as he glanced down at Asta's arms which look broken.

"You don't have to worry. I can fix myself my later with my healing spell-owch!" Asta explained in a reassuring tone of voice before wincing in pain.

"Asta! How dare you push me, royalty, out of the way just like that!" Joyeues demanded in angry tone of voice as she marched towards the ash-white hair teen.

"S-sorry. It not like that I have all the time in the world to get you out of the way unharmed. Are you okay?" Asta asked, sounding concerned.

"Hmf. What a silly question, I'm perfectly fine." Joyeues responded in a high-mighty tone of voice.

"Worry about yourself, Bakasta! Your the one more injured than me!" Joyeues exclaimed in her head, freaking out.

"Asta, you stay back. Those injuries looked serious, it will unwise for you to continue fighting." Buster explained and Asta was about to protest but stop himself knowing that the vice-captain of the Sword Of Logos is right.

"Hehehehe…..it doesn't matter if you retreat, there's nothing you can do apart from fall into despair." Vetto explained, his arms having grown back due to the demonic healing magic.

"What is wrong with you, saying "despair this and despair" that all of the time?" Buster asked in his head, sweat-dropping slightly.

It was at that moment that the member of the "Third Eye" charged towards the group of four Magic Knights.

However, it was at that moment that lighting suddenly hit Vetto before continuing to bounce around the space.

"What the-!" Vetto exclaimed in a shock tone of voice before getting struck by the lighting again before it dispersed, revealing a familiar person.

"Espada!" Everyone exclaimed at the sight of the swords-woman of lighting.

"Sorry for the wait! we ran…..in…..to…...trouble…" Espada began to say before trailing off.

It was then that multiple footsteps can be heard, causing everyone to turn around and saw Sophia, Yami and Vanessa appearing from a tunnel.

"Finally! We manage to make it." Vanessa said with a small smile on her face.

"Yep. You lot look likes you been through hell and back." Yami commented with a smirk on his face.

"Don't say that, Captain Yami! We could have died multiple times in just a short about of time!" Finral exclaimed with anime tears running down his face.

"Stop whining and toughen up." Yami responded in a blank tone of voice, causing Finral to whimper slightly.

"I'm glad that all of you are alive, we felt a lot of dark Mana when coming here…..!" Sophia said before her eyes widening as she saw Asta's injuries.

"Asta…..did Vetto guy caused you that injury?" Espada asked in a low tone of voice.

"Y-yeah." Asta responded, a bit startled at Espada's tone as the swords-woman of lighting glanced towards Vetto.

"I see…." Espada said before turning her attention towards Kenzan

"Asta, can you please give me "Brave Dragon"?" Espada instructed, causing the ash-white hair teen to become confuse before giving the swords-woman of lighting his main Wonder-Ride book..

Espada then sheathed Ikuzachi, along with closing the cover of "Lamp Do Alangina, and took out "Needle Hedgehog".

"Hey, Vetto….." Espada said as she turn her attention back onto the member of the "Third Eye" and began to walk towards him.

"You made one of the greatest mistakes ever….." Espada began to say in a low tone of voice as she place "Brave Dragon" and "Needle Hedgehog" into the empty slots on her Seiken Sword-driver.

"And that's hurting my little brother!" Espada shouted in anger before removing Ikuzachi from her Seiken Sword-driver.

Unsheathe the lighting!

Spikes on spikes, Lamp Do Hedgehog!

Extra Volume: Dragon!

The Seiken Sword-driver announced and Espada is in her Volume 2 form along with her right side channeling the power of the "Brave Dragon" Wonder-Ride book.

The transformation caused everyone to become shock and amazed.

"So cool…..!" Asta exclaimed in an excited tone of voice.

"Great! The Sword Of Logos have their own protective elder sibling." Finral thought, seeing the similarities between Espada and Gauche.

"Prepare yourself, Vetto. Lighting Creation Magic: Lighting Genie's Thief Boots." Espada announced as her feet became clad in lighting and charged towards the member of the "Third Eye".

Seeing Espada coming straight towards him, Vetto prepared a fist that is clad in demonic Mana.

"You're making yourself an easy target!" Vetto said before throwing the fist towards the swords-woman of lighting.

However, Espada evaded the attack before striking Vetto multiple times with a lighting covered Ikuzachi.

"Grrr." Vetto grunted slightly as he felt his body becoming stiff.

"Die…." Espada said in a low tone of voice as she thrust Izukachi towards Vetto's neck.

However, demonic Mana suddenly flared around Vetto's body, acting as some of barrier.

"Tch." Espada muttered in a low tone of voice as she decided to jump back, not wanting to touch the demonic Mana.

Vetto suddenly gave chase, making the swords-woman of lighting's eyes to widen.

"In a hunt, backing away is a sign of cowardice." Vetto explained as he prepared to strike Espada with the claws on his gauntlets.

"What about the rest of us?" A voiced asked, causing Vetto to turn his head slightly to see Yami preparing to strike with his Katana.

"Dark Magic: Dark Cloak Lightless Slash!" Yami announced before swinging his katana now clad in darkness.

Vetto wasn't quick enough to block the attack, letting the sword hit the space within the armor plating on his arm.

Vetto became confuse as the single attack seemed to do more damage than the other attacks.

However, before the member of the "Third Eye" can make any internal comment on the matter, Espada prepared an attack.

"Lighting Creation Magic: Lighting Genie's Lamp Buster!" Espada shouted before firing bolts of lighting towards Vetto.

The member of the "Third Eye" decided to jump back rather than face the attack head on.

However, that didn't stop Espada from charging towards Vetto, using Lamp Buster to distract him as she got Ikuzachi at the ready.

"This time, you die." Espada said in a deadly tone of voice once she got close to Vetto and prepared to swing a lighting covered Ikuzachi at his neck.

However, Vetto just smirked underneath his helmet just as his Grimoire opened.

"Demonic Magic: Snake's Venom." Vetto said and Espada's eyes widened as a snake's head appeared in front of her and prepare to fire a beam of demonic Mana.

However, before the swords-woman of lighting can get hit by the attack, which is toned down then the previous time that Vetto used the spell, something pulled her away.

As Espada landed on the ground, she examined herself and saw string wrapped her body.

"Thanks!" Espada called, glancing towards Vanessa who had her Grimoire.

"Just keep your eyes on the battle." Vanessa responded, causing the swords-woman of lighting to nod her head.

Back with Yami, the captain of the Black Bulls swing his Katana repeatedly, keeping cloaked in darkness, having a suspicion that his dark magic is more effective due to him sensing Vetto's confused Ki.

"I must say, I thought that by now you would be dead tired from fighting the others. But you just seemed to be full of energy." Yami commented as he throw a horizontal slash with his katana.

"Hah! As if some lowly humans can beat me when it comes to endurance!" Vetto said as through a powerful fist towards Yami.

"I don't think I can dodge this." Yami thought as he prepared to block the attack.

At the last possible second, a gold portal suddenly appeared, letting the attack go through it instead.

"Could you have activate your spell just a few seconds before Vetto could have hit me?!" Yami asked as he turned his head towards Sophia who, despite the situation they are in, smiled slightly in response.

With Vetto, the member of the "Third Eye" growled in annoyance that his attack failed and prepared to strike the captain of the Black Bulls again.

"This is going to be close one again!" Yami thought, gritting his teeth.

However, another of Sophia's portals appeared and Yami jumped through it, seeing where the exit is.

"Really? He just jump through without thinking where he would appear-!" Vetto thought before suddenly sensing a presence behind him, causing the member of the "Third Eye" to turn around just in time to receive a cut from Yami's katana.

"Darn. I had a perfect spot to stab you, but you just had to move." Yami commented, him having just hit Vetto's armor rather than a weak point that he spotted.

"Why you-" Vetto said as he attempted to hit Yami, but the captain of the Black Bulls entered another of Sophia's portals.

"Tch. I'm going to end up repeating this over and over again." Vetto thought in annoyance as he spun around a deflected an attack from Yami.

As the captain of the Black Bulls stumbled backwards due to Vetto deflecting his attack, the member of the "Third Eye" covered his claws in demonic Mana and prepared to strike Yami.

However, his arms suddenly felt that they are wrapped in something.

"What….?" Vetto muttered in a confused tone of voice as he took a closer look and saw that pink string have wrapped around his arms.

A swishing sound altered Vetto that an attacking is coming, causing the member of the "Third Eye" to tilt his head to the side, letting Ikuzachi to strike his shoulder instead.

"Don't you think that's getting old, aiming for my neck every time?" Vetto questioned Espada as he glanced over his shoulder.

"How about this for a difference?!" The swords-woman of lightning responded before aiming a kick, that is still clad in the "Thief's Boots" spell, straight at Vetto's head and successfully hit him.

Vetto ignored the pain that came with the lighting that spread throughout his body and attempted to strike Espada with his arms.

However, Vetto's arm are still wrapped in the pink string, preventing him from moving them.

"Get these strings off me!" Vetto shouted in annoyance as demonic Mana burst around him, making the pieces of string disappear.

Luckily, Espada managed to jump out of the way before the demonic Mana can hit her.

As the demonic Mana died down, Vetto's eyes widened as he saw Yami lunging towards him, katana at the ready and wasn't fast enough to get out of the way as the captain of the Black Bulls's sword pierce him.

"Gah!" Vetto exclaimed as he coughed up some blood.

"I'm guessing that I managed to land quite a devastating blow if you acting like that." Yami commented, him having plunged a darkness cloaked blade in a vital point on Vetto's body.

"…...Demonic Magic: Cursed Claws!" Vetto announced, letting his arms get covered in demonic Mana.

"Don't get touched by that spell, Captain Yami! That's the same spell that damaged Asta's arms!" Buster called, causing Yami to widen his eyes, him having seen the state of Asta's arms.

Before the captain of the Black Bulls can do anything, he felt multiple strings wrapped around his body and pulled him away.

"You're not going anywhere!" Vetto exclaimed as he lunged his arms forwards towards Yami, attempting to touch him.

However, it was then that a black portal appeared, causing Vetto's arms to go through that instead.

The member of the "Third Eye" started to become confused as he felt his arms touching something and suddenly felt pain shooting throughout his body.

Looking down, Vetto's eye's widened in shock as he saw that the exit of the portal is directly behind of him and his arms are touching his body.

"GHAAAAAAA!" Vetto exclaimed as he felt the pain increasing.

"Wow. I didn't realize that Finral has a sadistic side to him." Vanessa thought in a stunned tone of voice as she glanced towards the Black Bull spatial Mage who is breathing heavily slightly.

"Hehe, have a….taste of your own...spell." Finral said through deep breathes.

"I'll kill you!" Vetto said, who has deactivate his spell before it can kill him, in a dangerous tone of voice as he glared towards Finral.

This cause the Black Bull spatial Mage to flinch.

Final Page!

A voice suddenly announced, causing Vetto to turn his head towards the source of the voice to see Espada preparing a finisher move.

"You'll be the one who will die, Vetto." Espada said as she removed Ikuzachi from her Seiken Sword-driver.

Unsheathe the lighting!

Dragon! Hegehog! Alangina!

Volume 2 strike: T-T-Thunder!

The Seiken Sword-driver announced and Brave Dragon appeared, covered in spikes and lighting appeared, glaring down at Vetto.

"Golpe de cien agujas." Espada announced in a calm tone of voice before the lighting covered Brave Dragon charged towards Vetto.

Vetto froze as the lighting covered dragon quickly coiled it's body around him and spikes sprung out of it's body.

"Gah!" Vetto exclaimed as he got electrocuted.

"All right! We've won-owch." Asta said before wincing.

"Don't get excited or you get hurt, Bakasta." Joyeues responded in a blank tone of voice.

"She's right, Asta. He may haven't fallen just yet." Buster pointed out just Espada's finisher attack disappeared, leaving silence to fill around the room.

"He….he is dead, right?" Kenzan asked, looking at the frozen form of Vetto before glancing at the others.

"I hope so! I want to leave this place as quickly as possible!" Grey exclaimed in a scared tone of voice.

"There, there. Everything's alright, Grey." Charmy said in a reassuring tone of voice as she pat the blue hair girl on the leg.

"Who has Grey transformed as?" Espada, Sophia, Yami and Vanessa thought in a confused tone of voice, knowing that Grey usually transform into one of the others when using "his" magic.

"…" A small sound is heard, causing Tetsuo to widen his eyes.

"I….won't…...let this…..end…..like this!" Vetto shouted before closing the "Demonic Animal" Alter-Ride book and pressed the button on the belt buckle again.

Demonic Animal…..Execution.

The Alter-Ride book announced and huge amount of demonic Mana suddenly burst out of Vetto, causing everyone to cover their faces due to the rushing air that somehow appeared.

"I'm going to kill every single one of you…..along with the rest of the Seabed Temple!" Vetto exclaimed his voice becoming more demonic-like.

"This is bad! We can't even get close to him." Buster said, noticing how demonic Mana is surrounding Vetto like some sort of barrier.

"I guess it's my time to shine." Yami spoke as he walked towards Vetto has his Grimoire opened.

"What is Captain Yami doing?!" Gauche asked as he glanced towards the others who were with Yami.

"I think Captain is going to use his new spell." Vanessa responded, causing Gauche to widen his right eye.

"I hope you're ready, because this is where you die. Dark Magic: Dimension Slash!" Yami exclaimed as he brought his katana in a downwards swing and everyone's eyes widened as they watched as Yami's sword attack easily slipped past the demonic Mana and cut Vetto in two.

"How do you like that, Mr Despair?" Yami asked with a smirk on his face whilst leaning the blade of his katana against his shoulder.


And there we go, the battle between the Magic Knights and Vetto has come to a close with The member of the "Third Eye" using a Alter-Ride book to don new type of armor and Espada using the Extra Volume form. Originally, I was planning on making this chapter two separate chapters, with the first ending when Vetto used his "Wolf Howling" spell, but since we're almost at the end, I decided to combine them. The idea of Vetto donning armor came from one of the readers, so thanks to them.

For Revice, the appearance and name of Sakura's Kamen Rider is revealed, Kamen Rider Jeanne's, whose name originated from a saint of the same name. However, its a shame that Sakura's transformation failed, possibly because she doesn't possess a Demon of her own just yet. For the Cobra Genome, it looks interesting how the visor is shaped as a cobra, not sure about the bright orange colour against the dark blue and black colours though. I find it a bit ironic because the saint Jeanne was falsely accused for hearing the voice of devils before getting executed, so having a demon as a power source for Jeanne makes things interesting in that regard. Demons also used the "Condor" Vistamp which is based on kamen Rider Joker. The wings that Demons used to fly are a purple version of Jin's Burning Falcon ones.

New images have been released which shows a better look of Revi's Braid Rex Genome, revealing that it is more armored than his base for. Whilst Vice himself doesn't change, he's equipped with a shield. For Jeanne, it is shown that when she uses other Vistamps, she gains a weapon. The first two Vistamps that she will using are the "Peacock" Vistamp, granting her a fan, and the "Turtle" Vistamp, granting her a cannon. Jeanne's inner Demon has been revealed and...it looks like one those mascots that you see during a sports event. With Live, he will be using the "Jackal" Vistamp and Evil will be making his return, I hope that Daiji will be okay.

The trailer for "Beyond Generations" has been released and it looks interesting with multiple Rides appearing and it looks like Century is a villain whose identity is still unknown but created his Driver, probably basing it on Ichigo's. There was a shot with all the Saber Riders all the current Revice Riders, including Sakura, which looks awesome.

Kamen Rider Saber's Final Stage has started(?) with Kamen Rider Tassel in fact being a dark Rider. I was confused at first when I heard a clip of Tassel's transformation announcement, being completely different from his usual cheerful self, but found out that it's a dark version of Tassel. Whilst Saber's Ultimate Bahamut form looks cool, despite being a repaint/remodel of other parts, its a shame that it doesn't have it own unique transformation announcement, it being based on the standard one programmed into the Driver. At least Ultimate Bahamut is the only form to have that transformation announcement, but if Ultimate Bahamut has it's own unquie transformation announcement, what will it be?

...I'm not sure what I'm reading at the moment, Black Bull or Super Sentai? So using his ability to possess lower-rank Devils, Lucifero combined with all the currently released Devils to transform into a giant form and the Black Bulls enlarging their base to fight him. Its a shame that we haven't seen the proper form of Lucifero, but it could be a possibility that the Black Bulls may completely destroy Lucifero's current form, revealing his true form.

Please review and until next time.

KnightSpark: The only thing that I can think of is that Evil and Live are complete opposite of each other yet reside in the same body, which is shown how Kagero repersent the negative side of Daiji.

Dragon Rider 66:

1) Whilst there was no Megid appearing in this chapter, I think the armor made for a interesting final to the battle.

2) Kamen Rider Jeanne's form seemed to be light-based, fitting for Sakura's fighting style. I heard a theory that the Libera Driver is a proto-type version of Revice Driver, probably because both have the same hand grip, but it will be interesting if the Libera Driver does form some sort of attachment for the Revice Driver.

3) I guess that we just have to wait and see what happens with the Riders anniversaries films.

4) I guess Finral will be using his spatial magic to run away from Reika.

TheOkWriter: Yeah, sorry about that.

worseman:

1) Well, your right about Vetto using the Alter-Ride book on himself.

2) Sorry about that not happening, but Donna did something similar.

Farhan Nugraha:

1) No, Yuri won't be appearing any time soon.

2)...I think its probably best if we don't talk about that, you don't know if Noelle is listing or not.

3) I haven't thought about that, I'll think about that.

4) I guess its due to her petting skills.