Assault on the Golden Dawn
"Keep up, Tetsuo!" Ryo called over his shoulder towards Tetsuo.
Currently, the two Sword of Logos Magic Knights are heading towards an area where their sensors sensed a suddenly appearance of Demonic Mana and immediately move.
"I'm trying my best, you're the one whose going fast!" Tetsuo shouted in response has he attempted to keep up with the speed of Ryo's broom.
"Have the Spade Kingdom decided to make the first move? And why there?" Ryo thought as he turned his head back around just as a small frown appearing on his face.
The location of where the Demonic Mana is coming from is that of the Golden Dawn headquarters.
"Another question what sort of Devil host is attacking them?" Ryo thought, seeing how it must be a Mage wielding the powers of a powerful Devil.
Before long, the two Sword of Logos Magic Knights could see the headquarters of the Golden Dawn appearing in front of them where the sound of battle can be heared.
"Prepare to jump." Ryo said as he got Gekido out of his Grimoire.
"Pardon?!" Tetsuo questioned, not sure if he heard the vice-captain of the Sword of Logos clearing.
"We're not landing, we're jumping into the battle." Ryo explained, causing Tetsuo to pale, but took out Sezume out of his Grimoire.
From within the Headquarters of the Golden Dawn, where a large chunk of a wall has collapsed, many Golden Dawn Magic Knights are fighting against a single Spade Kingdom Mage.
"W-what the heck is this person?! Non of our attacks are effecting him!" A Golden Dawn Magic Knight thought whilst sweating slightly.
"Hahahaha! Is that all you Clover Kingdom Magic Knights can do?! We heard that your squad is supposed to be the strongest. Hah! You're just a bunch of weaklings!" The Spade Kingdom Mage commented with a cruel smile on his face whilst rocks covered his arms.
"We're seriously need to some back-up, has Captain Vangeance managed to contact the other Magic Knight squads?" The Same Golden Dawn Magic Knight thought, starting to become slightly scared.
Fracture the enemy/Jam with the Bayonet!
Two voices announced, causing the Spade Kingdom rock Mage to pause his advancement before glancing upwards.
Becoming surprise, the Spade Kingdom rock Mage quickly raised an arm to block the incoming attack from Gekido, causing the ground underneath him to crack.
"Whoa! You managed to withstand that attack?!" Buster asked in a shock tone of voice, his eyes widening underneath his helmet.
"Oh? Some more Clover Kingdom Magic Knights have decided to join the fu-" The Spade Kingdom rock Mage began to say, but was interrupted when he sensed an attack coming his way.
Acting quickly, the Spade Kingdom rock Mage used his over hand to grab Gekido before throwing Buster into Siren, who is holding a rock-made axe in his hands, causing the two of them to crash into a wall.
"Buster!" Slash exclaimed in a shock tone of voice.
"Ow….." Buster groaned weakly in response.
The Spade Kingdom rock Mage turned his attention towards Slash.
"Music Magic: Rhythmic Distortion." The swordsman of sound announced quickly, creating sound waves.
When the sound waves passed through the Spade Kingdom rock Mage, he did have a look of dizziness, but it quickly disappeared.
"Really? Is that all?" The Spade Kingdom rock Mage questioned with a smirk on his face.
"Who the heck are you?!" Slash demanded, causing the Spade Kingdom rock Mage to chuckle darkly.
"What does it looks like? We're Mages of the Spade Kingdom, serving directly under the Dark Triad." The Spade Kingdom rock Mage responded as he raised his fists.
Acting immediately, the pages of both Slash's and Buster's Grimoires began to turn before stopping.
"Music Magic: Sonic Echo!/Earth Creation Magic: Earth Tortoise's Shell Bullets!" Both Slash and Buster announced, releasing their attacks at the Spade Kingdom rock Mage whilst he seemed not to be fully focused.
"Now then…." Buster said as he turned his attention towards the Golden Dawn Magic Knights, at least the few ones still standing, since Siren has become knocked out.
"Can you explain what is happening?" Buster asked, becoming concerned at the state that the Golden Dawn Magic Knights are in.
"Those Spade Kingdom Mages just appeared out of nowhere and started to attack us." The Golden Dawn Magic Knight responded, causing Buster to raise an eye-brow underneath his helmet.
"Those?" The swordsman of the earth asked, becoming on edge.
"Yes. They are three of them with the leader heading towards Captain Vangeance's office." The Golden Dawn Magic Knight explained, causing Buster to pale slightly.
"And all three of them are Devil hosts?" The swordsman of the earth thought, thinking about the vast amount of Demonic Mana that the sensors picked up.
"Where's your Vice-captain?" Slash asked, not picking up the Mana of the wind spirit.
"Vice-Captain Yuno has went on a mission towards Hage village." The Golden Dawn Magic Knight responded, causing both Sword of Logos Magic Knight's eyes to widen underneath their helmets.
"Is everything okay over there?!" Buster asked, becoming alarmed.
"I don't think anything major has happened from the sound of the request…." The Golden Dawn Magic Knight responded before trailing off, causing Buster and Slash to glance at each other.
"Hey, hey, hey!" A voice called, causing everyone to become edge as the voice of the Spade Kingdom rock Mage said just as the smoke began to disappear.
"You're being disrespectful towards Lord Zenon, one of three leaders of the Spade Kingdom." The Spade Kingdom rock Mage explained, causing everyone to become tense.
"It doesn't matter who has come, Captain Vangeance will take care of him easily." Slash commented, attempting to put everyone at ease.
However, the Spade Kingdom rock Mage laugh.
"It's true that the captain of this squad is an Arcane-Stage Mage, but Lord Zenon is able to crush him easily. And for me and the other person that have come, we of the Dark Disciples are able to crush you guys easily." The Spade Kingdom rock Mage explained with a smirk on his face.
"Dark Disciples?" Buster asked raising an eye-brow underneath his helmet.
"The Dark Disciples are Mages who work directly underneath the Dark Triad. When an average Spade Kingdom Mage receives Demonic Mana, they can only release 5% of it whilst those of Dark Disciples can release up to 40%. but the Dark Triad, who receive their powers directly from their hosted Devil can release up to 80%!" The Spade Kingdom rock Mage explained with a gleeful expression on his face just as a dark aura started to surround him.
"Only 80% for the Dark Triad? Why is there a limit for their Devil powers?" Buster questioned in his head and a quick glance towards Slash could tell that the swordsman of sound must be thinking the same thing.
"Enough of this chit-chat! Time to crush the rest of you!" The Spade Kingdom rock Mage shouted before starting to attack.
The resulting onslaught have caused the remaining Golden Dawn Magic Knights to become knocked out, just leaving Buster and Slash remained standing, if just barely.
"Still standing? It's probably because of those Holy Swords you wield." The Spade Kingdom rock Mage commented as he stared at Buster and Slash, him noticing how his Demonic-Mana has been fluctuating when fighting the two Sword of Logos Magic Knights.
"This guy…..is seriously taking…..centre stage….." Slash commented in a weak tone of voice whilst gripping Sezume, in it's gun form, tightly.
"And he said that he's wielding 40% of Demonic Mana. There are two more, one also being able to wield 40% Mana Demonic Mana whilst their leader is able to wield 80%! things are seriously looking bad for us…" Buster thought as he grip Gekido tightly.
"Now then. Time to-!" The Spade Kingdom rock Mage began to say, but was cut off when he and the two Sword of Logos Magic Knights felt a new source of Mana approaching.
The three looked up to see a figure riding a wind-made hawk quickly approaching.
The newcomer closed in and his eyes widened when he saw the state of the place and his fallen comrades.
"Oh? Someone else decided to join the party before I could crush this two." The Spade Kingdom Mage explained with a smirk on his face.
"You….My friends….What did you do?!" Yuno shouted whilst activating Spirit Dive.
"What do you think? I think that half of your squad are dead whilst the rest are almost there. They would be dead if it wasn't for these two." The Spade Kingdom rock Mage explained whilst gesturing to Buster and Slash.
"Wind Spirit Magic: Spirit Storm!" Yuno announced before firing a beam of green energy towards the Spade Kingdom rock Mage who, unfortunately, managed to block the attack by crossing his arms and letting the attack strike the rock instead.
"Oho….so you got yourself chosen by the wind spirit, huh? I like it!" The Spade kingdom rock Mage exclaimed as he threw his arms out, dispelling Yuno's attack.
"My stone magic is amped up with Demonic Mana, it's harder than iron or steel! Can you break this down with wind?!" The Spade Kingdom stone Mage questioned before firing multiple stone shards at the vice-captain of the Golden Dawn.
"Mana-Zone+Wind Spirit Magic: Spirit's Hushed Dance." Yuno announced before quickly moving around the place.
"That little….he's rescuing the ones who aren't dead yet, plus those two Holy Sword wielders, and dodging my attacks. And the arcane stage captain is going up against Master Zenon now, so…." The Spade Kingdom stone Mage thought before a wide smile appeared on his face.
"Well, look at that! So there was a tier-0 besides the captain here! This just got real good! The name's Gaderois! Who're you?!" The now named Gaderois introduced himself.
"I have no name…..to give to a scum like you!" Yuno said before unleashing numerous attacks towards Gaderois.
"Dwah ha ha! You hate my guts huh! Come on, don't act like that! Let's be friendly and kill each other!" Gaderois said as he began to move.
"Why did you attack us?!" Yuno asked as he launched an attack.
"Huh?! Man, who even cares? I dunno exactly, but the Dark Triad need Arcane-Stage Mages. As long as I get to cut loose with my magic, I'm good!" Gadious responded as he blocked the attack.
"Arcane-Stage?" Yuno, Buster and Slash thought, becoming confused.
"It don't get better than the Dark Triad! Our last king was a peace-loving idiot, so they butchered him...and we wanted to fight, so they gave us even more power! That king was a moron. The strong are the big shots! They get to do whatever they want!" Gadious explained in a gleeful tone of voice.
"When you….hurt and kill people….how does that make you feel?" Yuno asked in a calm tone of voice.
"…..Huh? Like I'm electrified! It's the greatest feeling ever!" Gadious responded with a mad expression on his face.
"He has some screws look." Slash commented, making Buster nod his head in response.
"That's why I can't quit! You're plenty high-powered yourself. It's the same for you, ain't it?!" Gadious questioned as he lunged towards Yuno.
"As if I'd ever be like a scumbag like you! Wind Spirit Creation Magic: Spirit of Zephyr." Yuno responded before creating his light-green sword and swinging it at Gadious who managed to block the attack.
"Dwah ha ha ha ha! Good one! But I called it! You can't beat me with your magic!" Gadious said as he saw how Yuno's attack doesn't seem have any effect on his defence.
"I get it now. The world gets warped because it has people like you in it. That's why the chain of curses never ends." Yuno commented as he pressed on with his attack.
"What are you muttering abo-" Gadious began to ask, but stop when he realized something.
"My rock….he's eroding it at an astronomical rate!" Gadious thought as he watched as Yuno's break through his defence before the vice-captain of the Golden Dawn broke through, cutting him down.
Silence filled the air just as Gadious feel onto the ground.
"You two okay?" Yuno asked as he turned his attention towards the two Sword of Logos Magic Knights.
"I hope so. Good work with taking him down." Buster responded, making Yuno nod his head slightly.
"What happened here?" Yuno asked as he glanced around at his fallen comrades.
"We don't know the full story, but we picked up a large amount of Demonic Mana some time ago, causing the both us to rush here as quickly as possible.
When we arrived, that guy already have already beaten up most of the others in this room." Buster responded, making a frown appear on Yuno's face.
"And where are the others?" Yuno questioned, seeing how not all of the Golden Dawn Magic Knights are present within the destroyed room.
"They must be fighting the other member of the Dark Disciples." Buster responded, causing Yuno's eyes to widen.
"There're more of them?!" The vice-captain of the Golden Dawn asked, making the wielder of Gekido to nod his head.
"Yes, three in total with the leader heading towards Captain Vangeance's office." Buster continued to explain, making Yuno nod his head before starting to move, being followed by Buster and Slash.
"What happened in Hage, is everything okay in your and Asta's village?" Slash asked, him and Buster starting to become worried.
"…" Yuno became silent.
Further in the Golden Dawn headquaters, a large space is completely covered in fog with multiple Golden Dawn Magic Knights laying on the ground.
"What an insane wide-ranged spell! On top of that, the enemy's location is impossible to pin down!" Klaus thought as sweat trickled down his face as he and two other Golden Dawn Magic Knights are hiding behind steel-made walls.
"Say…..that's some nice solid magic….you're using." A voice suddenly spoke just as Klaus noticed a person appearing in the gaps of the steel-made walls.
"Steel Magic: Blazing Spiral Lance!" Klaus announced quickly, firing a steel-made lance towards the Spade Kingdom fog Mage.
However, Klaus's attack went straight through him.
"Too….bad. Spells from a guy like you….will never hit me!" The Spade Kingdom fog Mage explained just as multiple copies of himself appeared through the fog.
"All right. Next….I'll….hit you a little….harder." The Spade Kingdom fog Mage said before firing multiple attacks, breaking through the steel-made walls.
"I'm tier-zero. A genius chosen by the Dark Triad. No matter how many of you peons there are...you'll never win." The Spade Kingdom fog Mage explained with a cruel smile on his face just as a Golden Dawn Magic Knight fell onto the ground.
Elsewhere, Letolle is protected through one of her spells.
"One after another, everyone's magic is….!" Letolle thought as she felt more of her fellow Golden Dawn Magic Knight falling.
"I have to do something or they'll annihilate us! Only...I can't even tell where the enemy is! Inside his spell, "Useless North" won't respond….and this is as big "Another Atlas" can get!" Letolle thought with a slightly terrified expression on her face.
"After half a year training, although we still aren't at the elves's level, we'd somehow manage to make it our own. But….the enemy's magic is too powerful!" Letolle thought as she faintly recall William encouraging everyone to use the remaining Mana of the elves as their own.
Meanwhile, the Spade Kingdom fog Mage is laughing.
"You're spell's broken. You're body is a mess. Just give up." The Spade Kingdom fog Mage commented as he observe the heavily injured Klaus.
"Boy...you look pretty smart. You can tell, right? You don't have a prayer….of beating me now!" The Spade Kingdom fog Mage commented in a mocking tone of voice.
"…..My will…..hasn't been broken!" Klaus responded with a determined expression on his face.
"Hah! Then….hurry up and die. Trash." The Spade Kingdom fog Mage commented as the multiple copies of himself prepared to attack.
However, it was at that moment that a whirlwind appeared, disrupting the mist.
"Klaus!" Yuno shouted as he appeared through the whirlwind.
"Yuno…." Klaus muttered, starting to feel relieved.
"He blew my mist away! He's my natural enemy. But…." The Spade Kingdom mist Mage thought as he turned his attention towards Yuno.
"Mist Creation Magic: Sealing Spectral Hands." The Spade Kingdom mist Mage announced, creating hands which grab onto Yuno.
"This..." Yuno muttered as he glanced at the newly created spell.
"Now, just die like everyone el-" The Spade Kingdom mist Mage began to say but was cut off as Mana-Bullets fly through this mist, almost hitting him.
"We're here as well!" Slash's voice shouted through the mist.
"Thanks to Yuno and that pink Sword of Logos Magic Knight, I know where you are now!" Letolle thought as she charged forwards.
"I'll do the moving…..and bring "Another Atlas" to you, then I'll strip off that illusion armour!" Letolle thought just as the Spade Kingdom mist Mage was brought into her spell, disrupting his own spell.
"You...lousy….scum!" The Spade Kingdom mist Mage thought just before sensing two presence behind him, causing him to turn around to see Klaus and Buster.
"Steel Magic: Blazing Spiral Lance/Earth Creation Magic: Black Tortoise's Rock Hammer!" Both Klaus and Buster announced at the same time before throwing their attacks at the Spade Kingdom mist Mage, knocking him out.
"You good?" Buster asked, not bothered to look at the fallen Spade Kingdom mist Mage.
"I can still keep on going. Thank you for coming to our aid, and you Slash." Klaus said as he glance towards the swordsman of sound.
"What are you doing here?" Letolle asked as she, Yuno, Klaus, Slash and Buster.
"We detected the appearance of Demonic Mana in the area and got here as fast as we could…..although we had a difficult time against that rock Mage.
It was thanks to Yuno that he's finally put down." Buster explained, causing a relieved expression to appear on Letolle's face.
"Guys. This isn't over yet." Slash commented as he glance at the ceiling where he can hear the sound of battle.
As soon as the swordsman of sound said that, the ceiling sudden break apart, causing everyone to back away just as stone crashed onto the ground.
When the raising dust disappeared, everyone's eyes widened when they saw a mass network of bones with a certain Golden Dawn captain trapped within the bones.
"So….They aren't all dead yet, huh?" Zenon commented as he notice the Magic Knights's presence.
"Captain Vangeance!" Klaus exclaimed in a shock tone of voice.
"So he's the leader of the group." Buster commented as he grip Gekido tightly whilst feeling the Demonic Mana coming off Zenon.
"He's….?!" Yuno thought, he's eyes widening even further.
"Yuno! You recognise him?!" Slash asked as he hear Yuno's heartbeat quickening.
However, Yuno didn't respond. Zenon noticed the fallen Spade Kingdom mist Mage.
"Foyal got eliminated. I suppose that Gadious would likely be in the same state. That figures. They were only at 40%. so there's no point in bringing along anyone who isn't over 50% then." Zenon commented in a cold tone of voice.
"Keep your guards up everyone! This guy's dangerous!" Buster shouted whilst starting to sweat underneath his helmet.
The bones surrounding Zenon suddenly moved.
"There's no space to evade!" Everyone exclaimed in their heads as they stare at the quickly approaching mass of bones.
The five Magic Knights attempted to destroy the bones, but were no match, just leaving Yuno standing by himself whilst everyone else got pierced by bones.
"Klaus…." Yuno muttered just as memories started to filter through his head.
"You Bastard!" Yuno shouted before dashing towards Zenon and swing Spirit of Zephyr, which Zenon managed to block.
"Spirit of Zephyr can't cut it?! No! He's regenerating faster than the erosion!" Yuno thought as he examine what's he seeing.
"Tier-0, hm? In that case, I'll show you a little of my Devil's power! 55%" Zenon said before releasing his Demonic Mana which took on the form of a horned figure that possess two wings.
Yuno started to sweat as he stared the horned person.
"You aren't week. I'm simply far stronger." Zenon commented with a smirk on his face, now possessing horns and wings himself.
"All for the benefit of the Spade Kingdom!" Zenon stated before attacking Yuno.
A lone figure, possessing short red hair, rode on broom quickly approached the mostly destroyed building of the Golden Dawn headquarters.
The red hair male landed on the ground and slowly made his way through the ruined building before stopping when he saw a person laying on a slab of rock, a sword made out of bone sticking out of his chest.
"Master Yuno!" The red hair male shouted in a shock tone of voice.
So instead of the chapter being about the battle between Dante and the Black Bulls, this chapter focused on Zenon's assault on the Golden Dawn, with Buster and Slash getting involved as well.
In Gavv:
1) As Shita and Jeebh are attempting to locate Shoma/Gavv, Nyelv appeared and questioned them with the response being that they are meeting a new part-timer. Nyelv commented on checking the modded part-timers before leaving the twins and then wondered if Shita and Jeebh are starting to catch on. With Hanto, he was invited to Kenzo's place where he explained his research on the Granutes and there method of kiddnapping humans to create Dark Treats. When Hanto commented how his mother was abduted rather than being compressed, Kenzo commented that human compression is possibly a recent development before showing Hanto the captured Chocodan and Chocodon Gochizos, saying that they will allow someone to combat the Granute.
2) With Shoma, he has been spending the day with an elderly couple before getting attacked by two agents and then encountering Shita and Jeebh with him revealing that they are his siblings. Shita and Jeebh revealed that they'd managed to found Shoma due to his one-of-a-kind Red-Gavv and commented on how his mother is most likely been eaten already before ordering the two agents to attack. Shita and Jeehb became confuse when spotting the Poppin-Gummy Gochizo where Jeehb wondered if him arriving on earth is due their appearance. Shoma/Gavv used the newly created Fuwamallow Gochizo to transform into a new form before using the Marumallow Gochizo to further enchance his marshmallow form. Later Shoma made the decision of not making any future interactions before falling unconcious where he is found by unknown figure.
So more of Shoma's background is revealed with him being the half-sibling to the Stomach family. This reveal will certainly bring up some questions such as how Shoma was born in the first place, the only small piece of information that I can see is that the previous head of Stomach Inc acted differently than the siblings, different enough to have a child with a human despite owning a company that use humans to create the Dark Treats. Another thing that I spotted from people's comments is that the Agents of Stomach Inc are colour-coded based on who they work for such as Shita's and Jeehb's Agents being black and white whilst a orange coloured Agent is seen observing Hanto and his boss. Shoma's Gochizos are his versions of Agents since he and Jeebh called them "minions".
Please review and until next time.
howard576:
1) With the chapters surrounding the invasion on the Heart Kingdom, it will have a slight altered ending.
2) I think that humans being filled with negative emotions when being turned into a Dark Sweet will likely cause it to taste bad, such as how Shoma's mother was placed in a different pile when turned into a Human Press. Kenzo's knowledge on the Granutes is also questioned during the episode.
