Answers at last
Its the next morning and Mimosa is heading for breakfast.
"I wonder what Fiona has made, her cooking tastes good." Mimosa thought with a small smile on her face.
"Maybe we can work together at some point, I'm good at making stuff." Mimosa thought before noticing that a door is slightly opened.
"That's the door to the library…" Mimosa, tilting her head to side before deciding to investigate.
When the Vermillion hair girl entered the library, she saw Asta leaning over a book and Nero sitting on the table.
"Good morning Asta, Nero." Mimosa said, causing the ash-white hair teen to look up.
"Oh! Morning, Mimosa." Asta greeted, whilst Nero made a "coo" sound, just as Mimosa approached the table.
"Doing some early-morning research?" Mimosa asked as she glanced at the book that Asta is reading.
"Yes, but I'm turning up with nothing." Asta responded before releasing a light sigh.
"I see…." Mimosa said with a slight sad expression on her face.
"The answer should be the library somewhere, otherwise Storious would have giving us some sort of cryptic clue…" Asta muttered with a frown on his face.
It was then that Mimosa gained a thought.
"Are there perhaps….secret books that hiding in the library?" Mimosa asked, earning her a confused look from Asta.
"Since this "Avalon" is most likely a secret location, any possibly information would likely be kept hidden from anyone else." Mimosa explained, causing Asta nod his head.
"I guess that's a possibility. But where do we start looking though." Asta commented as he glanced around the library.
"Good question…." Mimosa said before trailing off.
It was then that Nero started to flap her wings and took flight.
"Nero? What's wrong?" Asta asked as he look at the anti-magic bird who started to head in a direction.
"Do you think she may have thought of something?" Mimosa guessed, causing Asta to shrug his shoulders slightly before he and the Vermillion hair girl chase after Nero.
After a few seconds, Nero stopped at a bookshelf.
"….You want me to look here?" Asta asked, glancing towards the anti-magic bird who nodded her head.
"What sort books are these?" Mimosa asked as she look the books.
"They're mostly about myths and legends, but I don't see any books related to Avalon." Asta responded as he scan the "A" section.
Nero started to peck Asta's head.
"H-hey! What did I do wrong!?" Asta exclaimed as he waved his arms above his head to stop Nero pecking him.
Thankfully, Nero stopped pecking Asta and started to hover around a certain point on the side of the shelf.
"Hm? Why is Nero hovering around there?" Asta questioned in his head as he reached a hand towards the space that Nero is seemingly pointing out.
"Asta? Is there something wrong?" Mimosa asked as she watch Asta run his hand along the side of the shelf.
"It seems that Nero has took a fancy to this part of the shelf for some re-!" Asta began to respond but stop when his hand seemed to press a button of some sorts.
A series of clicking sound started to be heard and after a few seconds, a section of the shelf began to move, causing both Asta and Mimosa to jump slightly.
Once the shelf has finished moving, it revealed another shelf behind it.
"A secret shelf…..?" Mimosa asked just as a Asta gingerly pick up one of the books and opened it.
"This is….." Asta muttered as he read the text and after a few seconds, a grin started to appear on his face.
"You know where Avalon is?!" Everyone exclaimed in a surprise tone of voice.
Currently, everyone is in the meeting room once they had finished breakfast, something that was strongly advised by Fiona.
"Yes. Nero showed us a secret shelf that contains books showing the location of Avalon and how to find it." Asta replied, causing everyone to glance at the table where a few open books are spread out.
"When the world unravels, a bright light and two dragons will come together, revealing the path to a chasm in the world's midst. The king slumbers in the rift of time. When the 13 stories are connected by a sword, the world's rift shall be reached. These are verses found in the books." Asta explained, but met with confused expressions.
"That...doesn't really gives us a clear answer…" Sol said as she tilt her head to the side.
"Are all these places, "The world's chasm, the rift of time and the world's rift" are all connected to each other?" Rill asked, glancing at the others.
"Those three places are different sayings, but they all point to the same place. It would seems that Avalon is set within an alternate dimension." Asta explained, causing everyone to become shock.
"A d-different dimension?! You're not serious, right?" Moulage asked with a raised eye-brow.
"You are aware of the existence of Wonder World, so its likely that even more different worlds exist." Ryo pointed out, causing Moulage to nod her head slightly.
"So what's this part about a king?" Sol asked, a slight frown appearing on her face.
"The name Avalon appears within the legends of King Arthur, an island that he was taken too when nearing his death." Tetsuo responded, causing Sol to look at him.
"Are you telling me that you knew from the start about where Avalon is!?" Sol asked with a slight glare on her face.
"I only knew the version from the stories of King Arthur, not the version that you have been searching for.….." Tetsuo responded whilst avoiding eye-contact.
"Did it further explained about this part about the "two dragons", Asta?" Klaus asked, deciding to get on with discussion.
"I believe that the two dragons are based on these." Asta responded as he place "Brave Dragon" on the table.
"That's just one, where's the other dragon?" Moulage asked, becoming confused.
"The other dragon is Jakuu Dragon, which is already in our enemy's possession." Sophia responded whilst glancing towards Asta who nodded his head.
"So that's why the two dragons resonated back back during the invasion on the Royal Capital." Noelle commented, remembering how Brave Dragon and Jakuu Dragon reacted to each other.
"So Storious is doing this all in order to help Calibur reach Avalon to gain that power for himself." Rintaro commented said in a grim tone of voice.
"We also need these to reach Avalon." Asta said as held two books where one contains sword movements and the other a diagram of some sorts.
"Now that we know how to reach Avalon, there's no point waiting. Asta, it is likely that since Brave Dragon and Jakuu Dragon are connected to each other, Calibur will likely know that you are heading to Avalon. So you, Noelle and Donna will be heading there together." Sophia instructed, causing Asta to nod his head, Noelle to gain a surprise expression on her face whilst Donna twitched slightly.
"Tetsuo, will you mind getting 13 Wonder-Ride books and Noelle, are you up for the task of following these sword movements?" Sophia asked, causing Noelle to glance down at the page showing the sword movements before nodding her head just as Tetsuo left the meeting room.
After a few minutes of getting the preparations sorted, everyone stood along the walls of the meeting room whilst Noelle, now transformed into Joyeues, prepared herself along with 13 Wonder-Ride books sitting on a small table that was brought into the meeting room.
"You can do this, Noelle." Mimosa cheered with a smile on her face.
"Please don't talk. I'm trying to concentrate." Joyeues responded whilst glancing over her shoulder.
"Sorry." Mimosa said with a sheepish smile on her face. Joyeues took a stance before closing her eyes and took a deep breath.
When the swords-woman of steel opened her eyes again, she started to swing Argent-Couronne.
The 13 Wonder-Ride books immediately started to react to Joyeues's sword movements, flying into the air and taking the form of a circle.
With some more sword swings, the circle of Wonder-Ride books changed positions, taking on a different shape.
With a final thrust, lines started to appear within the spaces of Wonder-Ride books which are then encased within two triangles, in the shape of a star, and a hexagon.
The final piece then flew towards the doors of the meeting room before merging with it and then opening by themselves.
However, instead of the familiar corridor, a white portal stood in front of them, causing the Magic Knights, plus maid, to shield their eyes from the sudden brightness whilst Nero hid in Asta's hood.
"Well done, Joyeues. You did it." Ryo said with a grin on his face.
"Of course I would succeed, I'm royalty after all." Joyeues responded in a confident tone of voice.
"Don't hang about you three, get going." Sophia instructed, causing Asta, Joyeues and Donna to nod their heads before heading into the portal and after a few seconds, it disappeared.
"So….what now?" Klaus asked as he glanced at the others.
"I guess it's just a waiting game now." Rill responded simply, causing the Golden Dawn steel Mage to nod his head slightly.
Meanwhile in another location, Calibur was practicing some sword swings when he noticed that "Jakuu Dragon" is glowing.
"So, they found the means of getting to Avalon then…" Calibur commented as he turned his attention towards the large book and the 13 Alter-Ride books.
Before long, with the large book in hand, the swordsman of darkness began to chant.
"The 13 stories knock on the forbidden door as they call upon me." Calibur chanted as he raised Kurayami into the air.
The 13 Alter-Ride books then floated into the air and took on the shape of the same diagram that Joyeues created.
Before long, a purple portal stood in front of Calibur.
"Now, to attain that power which sleeps in Avalon." Calibur thought before entering the portal.
"Let get this straight, Calibur just packed up and left?" Rhya asked in a blank tone of voice.
"Yep. That pretty much what just happened." Zoous responded, making Rhya blink his eyes.
Currently, the remaining member of the "Third Eye" is speaking with the three Megid generals, wondering about the disappearance of the swordsman of darkness.
"Why are asking? Are you looking for a sparring partner, or is Licht looking for him?" Storious asked, causing Rhya to shake his head.
"Nope. I was just wondering about his absence." The member of the "Third Eye" responded, making Storious nod his head slightly.
"So what are you three planning on doing?" Rhya asked, becoming curious.
"Now that Calibur is heading towards the chasm between worlds, I thought that it would be interesting to have some fun of our own." Storious responded whilst glancing at Legeiel and Zoous.
"Let me go." Zoous, in his monster form, said as he slammed a hand onto the table, a, evil grin appearing on his lips.
"No. I would love to give the honors to...Legeiel." Storious spoke as he place an Alter-Ride book into of the named Megid general, causing Legeiel to start grinning.
"If that what you want…" Legeiel said with a small smirk on his face as took the Alter-Ride book and opened it.
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The Alter-Ride book announced, causing a Megid that has a white snake's head, with gold snakes acting as hair, a gold chest-piece, that has a red book-like emblem set in the middle, gold shoulder-pads and gold gauntlets, along with silver armor-pieces, to appear.
"I just have to ask." Rhya thought whilst sighing.
Back within the Sword Of Logos headquarters, Rintaro is currently within a room that contains shelves that are used to store Wonder-Ride books.
The swordsman of water is staring at a Wonder-Ride book in one of his hands.
Flashback Start
"Wonder-combo?" A much younger Rintaro asked a man with short black hair and is wearing the Sword Of Logos Magic Knight robes and uniform.
"Yes. Wonder-combos allows a Holy Sword wielder to gain more power whilst using three Wonder-Ride books of the same colour." Kenshin Nagamine explained, making the young Rintaro to nod his head.
"However, mastering the Wonder-combos is a difficult task, especially using three Wonder-Ride books at the same time." Kenshin explained in a serious tone of voice.
"Do you…..do you think that I'm capable of using a Wonder-combo once I'm skilled enough?" Rintaro asked in a nervous tone of voice.
The question caused Kenshin to blink his eyes slightly before a small smile appeared on his face.
"If you trained hard enough, then yes, you would be able to utilize a Wonder-combo." Kenshin responded, making Rintaro nod his head.
Flashback End
"Master Nagamine…." Rintaro thought sadly has he clutch the Wonder-Ride book tightly whilst closing his eyes.
It was then that the door to the Wonder-Ride book storeroom suddenly opened, revealing a slightly out of breath Sol.
"There you are! Mr Daishinji is calling everyone, well, the Sword Of Logos Magic Knights anyway, saying something about the Megid appearing." Sol explained, causing Rintaro to gain a serious expression on his face.
"Right. Thank you." Rintaro said as he walked out of the storeroom, still having the Wonder-Ride book in his hand.
"Hm? What Wonder-Ride book is Rintaro holding?" Sol thought, recognizing the rectangle-shaped object in the swordsman of water's hand, back can't see anything else.
"Well this is the place." Ryo said as he, Rintaro and Rin stood in front of blank space.
Surprisingly, Mimosa has decided to join them.
"Are you sure you want to join us?" Ryo asked, glancing towards the Vermillion hair girl.
"Yes. There could people getting hurt by the Megid, I want to help out as much as I can." Mimosa responded in a determined tone of voice.
"Right, just be careful though. We picked up strong readings in this area." Ryo pointed out, causing Mimosa to nod her head.
"I understand." Mimosa responded, causing a small smile to appear on Ryo's face before turning his attention back onto the blank space.
"Now, let's get going." Ryo said as he took out a "Gate Book" Wonder-Ride book and opened it, causing the book/portal to appear.
The Magic Knights walked through the book/portal and found themselves in a village of some sorts.
"…..It's awfully quiet." Rintaro commented with a frown on his face, expecting to immediately hear screams.
But no, complete silence filled the air.
"And I can't sense any Ki." Rin said as she glanced around.
This cause Mimosa to gain a slight frightened expression on her face whilst Ryo tighten his grip on the shoulder strap of Gekido.
"Okay. We split into two groups. Rintaro and Rin in one with me and Mimosa in the other." The wielder of Gekido explained, causing the other three Magic Knights to nod their heads before going separate directions.
Ryo and Mimosa have decided to investigate the backstreets of the village.
"Heh. This feels like being in one of those ghost stories." Mimosa commented, attempting to ignore the rising fear of the silence.
"Little girls like you shouldn't be reading ghost stories." Ryo commented as he glanced around a corner.
The comment caused a frown to appear on Mimosa's face.
"I'm 15! Plus I'm royalty, I think that I can handle a simple ghost story." Mimosa explained whilst crossing her arms, causing Ryo to chuckle slightly.
"You're just like Noelle with that "I'm royalty" phase." Ryo said, causing Mimosa to blink her eyes slightly.
"Oh yes, Noelle usually makes that comment….along with someone else that I know." Mimosa said, gaining a frown at the last part.
"Really? Who?" Ryo asked, becoming curious.
"There's no need for you to know this person, he's super annoying." Mimosa said, causing Ryo to gain a confused expression on his face, not expecting the Vermillion hair girl say something like that.
It was then that Mimosa notice something.
"Have you realized that there are many statues about the place." Mimosa pointed out, causing Ryo to blink his eyes and looked around.
"Odd. Why would they just be randomly placed…." Ryo commented before trailing off.
It was then that Mimosa approached one of the statues, a man that has a horrified expression on his face.
"Mimosa! Be careful!" Ryo warned as he got Gekido at the ready just as Mimosa placed a hand on the statue's chest.
The Vermillion hair girl's eyes widened in shock.
"Vice-Captain Ogami…..I can sense Mana coming from the statue…." Mimosa said in a low tone of voice, but the vice-captain of the Sword Of Logos managed to hear her.
"What?!" Ryo exclaimed as he walked up to Mimosa and placed a hand on the statue's chest as well.
Sure enough, the wielder Of Gekido felt Mana coming from the statue.
"W-what does this mean?" Mimosa asked as she glanced at the other statues.
"It looks like that we're facing a Megid that is capable of turning people into stone." Ryo responded as he became tense.
"Correct." A voice suddenly said, causing both Ryo and Mimosa to spin around just in time for a humanoid being with the appearance of a dragon wielding a sword coming out of a side-street.
"Legeiel…." Ryo said with a frown on his face.
"As in same Megid that appeared during the invasion on the Royal Capital?" Mimosa thought, having read the reports.
"Oh? You decided to bring a royal flower to the battlefield?" Legeiel commented as he notice Mimosa's presence.
This cause Mimosa to take a few steps back whilst Ryo took a few steps to the side so that he's in front of the Vermillion hair girl.
"What are you doing here?" Ryo asked as he kept his eyes locked onto the Megid General.
"Since Calibur has taken a trip to Avalon, we decided to have some fun." Legeiel responded with "grin" on his face.
"Where is the Megid that has turned these people into stone?" Mimosa asked in a brave tone of voice.
"She's somewhere. Probably have already finished turning the villagers to stone." Legeiel responded whilst shrugging his shoulders, causing Mimosa to shudder slightly.
"Enough talking. Time for you to die!" Legeiel exclaimed before creating some large boulders which he then threw towards the two Magic Knights.
However, before the boulders and made contact with them, a brown light appeared and the boulders shattered.
"Attacking me with rocks? Do you know who you are facing?" Buster asked as the broken pieces of rock fall onto the ground.
"He's quick for someone wearing bulky armor!" Mimosa thought in surprise.
"Hehehehe. Of course I know who I'm fighting." Legeiel responded before charging towards Buster.
"Is this town big on sculpturing or something?" Rin asked as she stared at a statue.
"I'm not sure. But they look life-like." Rintaro responded as he glanced around, being on guard.
The swordsman of water and the swords-woman of the winds are patrolling the main streets of the village and haven't come up with anything yet.
"But why an expression of horror?" Rin thought confusedly before placing a hand on the statue's chest.
Rin's eyes widened when she felt the Mana coming off the statue.
"Rintaro….I think I know where the citizens have gone…." Rin said, causing Rintaro to perk up slightly.
"Really?! Where?" Rintaro asked, causing Rin to point towards the statue.
This cause the swordsman of water to become confuse before approaching the statue and touching it.
His eyes widened as well when he felt the Mana.
"What sort of Megid has the ability to turn people into stone?" Rintaro commented with a frown on his face.
"Oh? Do you really want to know?" A voice spoke, causing the two Sword Of Logos Magic Knights to immediately turn around…..just in time to see two red eyes starting to glow.
And there we have it, the gang have managed to find the means of reaching Avalon with Asta, Noelle and Donna heading there along with Rintaro, Rin, Ryo and Mimosa going on a joint mission. This chapter also revealed a younger version of Rintaro talking to his master.
With Black Clover, I've watched a video recently which talks about how Asta and Liebe could be referencing Baphomet, a devil that has a head of a goat but a body of a human. A few of the reasons because of this is that the number 5 in demonology refers to Baphomet, the Devil Union form now having five horns, along with the devil representing the duality of opposites, possibly linking to how humans and Devils are opposites of each other within the world of Black Clover. There is a statue of Baphomet which include a boy and a girl looking up at the Devil, which can be consider a reference to how Asta is looked up to the children at Hage village's orphanage and some of the children at the orphanage that is run by Sister Theresa and Baphomet also represents a tradition which results in a perfect social order, a reflection of how Asta wants to become the Wizard King to make the Clover Kingdom a better place, continuing on Julius's work.
If Asta was a Devil Host like the Dark Triad instead of focusing on Devil Unions, then the Black Clover version of Baphomet would be a likely candidate for Asta to host. For Baphomet's magic, a few ideas that I have come up with is:
Fire magic: because Baphomet is drawn with a torch between his horns.
Light magic: due to him symbolizing astral light.
Moon magic: because of a illustration of Baphomet pointing to the white moon of Chesed whilst the other is pointing to the black moon of Geburah. Both Chesed and Geburah are placements on the tree of life, meaning that if Baphomet wields moon magic, then he will likely be able to resist the magic of Mages who have attained saint stage.
Personality wise, I can see Baphomet being neutral due to his duality of opposites aspect.
In Revice, Ikki and Vice transforms into their Thunder-Gale Genome, granting him the ability to wield the element of thunder along with increased speed, whilst George transforms into Kamen Rider Demons, which is surprising that he's capable of fighting against a Phase-4 Deadman. Olteca transformed into the Anomalocaris Deadman by merging with Giff before getting killed by Giff himself when he decided to consume Olteca because of how he used him, leading to his revival. Even though we couldn't see his entire appearance, Giff's mouth is the same to that to the Giff Juniors. George finally get's to meet his father after 30 years with Sakura saying that need to work together now that Giff has revived. So it would seem that we won't be seeing Kamen Rider Vail until a future episode since Genta decided to go into hiding with the help of his friend. Finally, I wonder what will happen to Aguilera since she has been brutally rejected by Giff.
Please review and until next time.
Dragon Rider 66:
1) Well, you know the saying, "every cloud has a silver lining".
2) With the future conversation that Noelle with have with Mereoleone...it will be interesting. With Rintaro and Sol, they seemed to be getting along well.
3) That will be an interesting possible future arc.
4) Yep, I have some ideas with Donna and Klaus in the future.
5) Even if they managed to defeat Lucifero, there's still Adrammelech to consider who's interest seemed to have lifted slightly at the appearance of the five-horned Devil Union form.
6) Yep, the Thunder-Gale Genome certainly helped to return Revice back to normal along with beating Olteac, who had merged with Giff. I'm starting to think that some of the producers of Kamen Rider Revice are fans of Black Clover and decided add Demons into the story.
7) Yep, you shouldn't let your guard down when confronting a Megid General.
8) Well, Nero somehow knew when the books containing information on Avalon is. I haven't come up with an idea with what the Black Clover version of king Arthur and his knights will be, but I think about it.
9) The fifth sword will likely contain the full essence of a Devil rather than anti-magic being infused into a normal magic sword.
10) That would be interesting, Kagero making a surprise appearance near the end of the series.
11) That is another possibility, Asta still processing who Richita is, apart from being Liebe's mum.
12) The siblings will have to be sneaky then if they want to make sure that Rebecca has some alone time with Asta.
13) Mimosa asking Tetsuo to forge her a Holy Sword? That will be a shocker for everyone when they witness her transformation.
14) If they absolutely have to kill their dad, then the three sibling Riders will likely show anger towards Masumi since he's the one responsible for implanting Giff's genes into Genta in the first place, regardless that Sakura was recruited by him.
15) If Mimosa did tell Noelle about what happened between Asta and Rin, she will go bright red before demanding answers from the two.
Farhan Nugraha:
1) I'm guessing that this will be during the Royal Knight selection exam since that is the only time that Alecdora and Solid will be standing next to each other. Reaction wise, I think that everyone would be shock since I can't see Acier simply throwing those two to the side, unless this Acier is from the past who have traveled to the future and acted differently before becoming a mother.
2) Everyone will be surprise if that happened, along with Nozel possibly starting to feel protective.
3) I haven't seen Magi, but that could be a possibility.
4) Whilst Solid and Nebra gained shock expressions on their faces, Nozel and Noelle will likely threaten Deneb, when he's not possessing Acier, to never possess their mother.
5) Like I said, I haven't seen Magi, so I'm not sure about the power scale.
6) I just came up with a thought about Nozel's inner demon. I can see him being full of regret because of blaming himself for Acier's death and being a siscon towards Noelle. Everyone will be shock at Nozel's inner demon's behavior...especially when he becomes a siscon and chasing after Noelle, wanting to hug her. Yami or Vice will comment on Nozel being a siscon himself.