Let the invasion...begin!
"Everyone's here, good." Natch said as he glanced at people who have been chosen to be a part of the spearhead in the Spade Kingdom invasion.
"…" Donna gained a small frown on her face.
"What's wrong?" Rin asked, she sensing Donna's discomfort.
"I'm just wondering if Rintaro and the others will make it on time…..and if Asta will be appearing….." Donna responded, saying the last part in a small tone of voice.
However, Rin and those close by heard her.
"I'm sure that Rintaro and everyone else will make it. With Asta….." Ryo said before trailing off.
The silence didn't improve Donna's mood.
"Really? Asta's not coming?" A voice suddenly asked, causing Donna and some others to jump.
"Why are you interested in Asta?" Donna and as she gave Sally a questioning look.
"It's just that it been soooo long that I've seen him…..plus I want to do some experimenting on him since he…..acquired something interesting." Sally explained, causing a dark expression to appear on Donna's face as she knew what Sally is referring to.
"Anyway! It be a great test for these Magic Items I made." Sally said as she gestured to the black robes that she and everyone else are wearing.
"These magic camouflaging robes….are they really alright?" Nozel asked a Magic Knight.
"Sally's a little off, but when it comes to Magic Item research, she's second to none! Rest easy, Sir." The Magic Knight responded in a confident tone of voice.
"Maxusa! Don't butt in just because this is about Magic Items!" Rades shouted in annoyance.
"Good grief…." Valdos muttered whilst shaking his head slightly.
Elsewhere in the group, a Magic Knight is shaking.
"Wh….Wh…..Why do I have to go on this super-uber-fiend-level mission with crazy dangerous dudes?! That lousy king!" Sekke shouted in his head.
"Sure, I spent the past six months living it up….but nobody told me I was heading into a hell like this one!" Sekke thought as he remembered the relaxing times he enjoyed as being the retainer for King Augustus.
"….." Tetsuo stared at Sekke in silence, hearing the fast-paced heartbeat that the Green Mantis Magic Knight is producing, before turning towards Jack.
"Why is he here?" Tetsuo asked as he point towards Sekke, causing the captain of the Green Mantis to raise an eye-brow.
"How the heck should I know why a loser like him is here! But if he's doing this, then he'd better get serious about it." Jack said, causing Sekke to flinch.
It was then that Natch approached Sekke.
"We know you don't have much in the way of skills…...but sacrifice yourself for the sake of the people who are right." Natch said with a small smile on his face.
"Say what?!" Sekke exclaimed, starting to sweat.
"Ryo. Get a tomb stone ready." Charlotte said in a blank tone of voice.
"Sure thing, Char." Ryo said whilst saluting slightly.
"Do these guys have no trust in me or something?!" Sekke shouted in his head as he saw how everyone else is giving him strange looks.
"Are you sure that they else will be making their way here?" Nozel asked as he focus his attention onto Natch, him and the others having talked previously about the possibility of another group of Mages coming other than the Heart Kingdom group appearing.
"I'm positive that they will come." Natch responded with a small smile on his face.
"Except I'm going to end it all before they arrive." Yuno said in a calm tone of voice.
"Haw haw! That won't be you! It'll be me." Jack responded with a wide grin on his face.
"It won't be you either. It'll be us!" Nozel pointed out, making Jack make a "Tch" sound.
"I know that you're the vice-captain of the Golden Dawn and the newly discovered prince of the Spade Kingdom, but there are things you cannot do alone." Ryo thought, becoming slightly worried as he glance towards Yuno.
"Shadow Magic: Shadow Corridor." Natch announced as he created a corridor using the pre-existing shadows before walking through, being followed by the others.
From within the Spade Kingdom's castle, the former scholar of the Diamond Kingdom, Morris spotted something on the monitors that he has been staring at.
"Well, well. They finally shown themselves. It's the resistance." Morris commented as he spotted a group of people standing on top of a clock tower.
"Listen up, Dark Triad! 17 years ago, you killed our lord Loyce and many of our comrades! Ever since then, you've used the citizens in abominable ways! We can never forgive you for these things!" One of the members of the resistance group shouted.
"He certainly have big lungs." Cupiditas commented from his observation post.
"We, the people of the Spade Kingdom, refuse to acknowledge your family as our rulers!" The member continued to shout, catching the attention of many members of the Spade Kingdom military Mages.
"We're counting on you, Mr Natch, Magic Knights of the Clover Kingdom and Lord Yuno. We'll create the diversion that you need, even if it's cost us our lives!" The speaker thought, becoming tense as he and the others felt the attention of the Spade Kingdom military force upon them.
However, it was at that moment that a rumbling sound can be heard.
"In the face of overwhelming power….sentiment and vengefulness are meaningless. Everything else is." Zenon muttered just as a large humanoid-looking monster with four arms, three eyes and two horns burst out of the snow.
"That's….that's the legendary Demon!" Another member of the resistance force said with a shock expression their faces which is matched with everyone else.
"Since rats have found their way into the castle, I thought the resistance would attempt something in regards to the ritual of the Advent of Qliphoth, but who'd have thought they just appear bold as brass?" Zenon questioned as he and Morris observe the Demon fully emerging from the snow.
"We were planning to use the Demon to exterminate the people of the castle town in any case. You are not citizens of the Spade Kingdom. That title is reserved for us, the strong. Let the ritual of the Advent of Qliphoth…..begin." Zenon explained in a cold tone of voice.
"This sound…..! it's stupendous magic! Are the ones outside all right?!" Fuegoleon questioned as he and the other Magic Knights ran down a corridor the Spade Kingdom castle, them having entered with the use of Natch's shadow magic, gaining a concerned expression on his face.
"They're fine." Natch responded with a small smile on his face.
Outside, the Demon raised an arm and prepared to bring it down upon the town.
However, it was at that moment that someone quickly made their way across the roof tops before jumping off one and threw a powerful, fire-covered punch towards the Demon, knocking it back.
Everyone stared at the feat with shock expressions on their faces.
"Impressive howling, resistance members! I, Mereoleone Vermillion, Clover Kingdom Royal, will lend a hand!" Mereoleone announced with a wide smile on her face, now possessing shorter hair.
With the Demon, whilst it did staggered back, it quickly recovered.
"It….it didn't work….." A resistance member muttered with a horrified expression on their face.
"We can't defeat a thing that…." Another resistance muttered with a matching horrified expression on their face.
"There's no way!" A third resistance member said as sweat began to trickle down their face.
With Mereoleone, however, the smile turned into a grin.
"Back then, I learned there were things my magic wouldn't work on. It showed me….that I could get stronger!" Mereoleone thought, remembering her previous battles just as the Demon focused it's attention on her.
"I will burn away everything! To begin….I will defeat a legend!" Mereoleone thought before activating a spell.
"Flame Magic: Hell-Fire Incarnate!" The former captain of the Crimson Lions announced and her entire body become covered in flames.
"What pheromone magic! It's as if her body itself….has become Mana!" The leading resistance member thought as he and everyone else watch as Mereoleone charged towards the Demon who attempted to strike the former captain of the Crimson Lions, but she was much quicker as she jumped about landing a punch on the Demon, dealing more damage than last time.
"Go back to sleep! This time…..forever! Mana-Zone Full Release+Flame Magic: Calidos Brachium Purgatory Abyss!" Mereoleone announced before releasing a powerful fire-based attack, completely burning the Demon's body.
"Wow. She certainly became even more powerful." Cupiditas commented, becoming impressed whilst everyone else gain stun expressions on their faces.
"I wonder what's going on out there? Must be a rough battle." Rin commented as she and everyone else felt the spikes of Mana outside.
"Keep focus, Rin." Ryo said, causing the wielder of Hayate to nod her head.
"Everyone remember the layout of the ritual? The ritual of the Advent of Qliphoth is a large magic circle, which is powered by four functions. One is the site of the Advent of Qliphoth in the centre and the remaining three are the Dark Triad, who will activate the ritual. We defeat all three members of the triad and make it so that the ritual can't operate. By doing so, we can stop the Advent of Qliphoth and prevent the gates from opening. If we attempted to stop the ritual through brute force, then it is highly likely that Yami and Vangeance will die." Natch reminded the plan to everyone whilst glancing over his shoulder.
"The Dark Triad are in three different spots on the perimeter of the magic circle. We'll split up into three groups, attack them simultaneously and crush them all! Even if there's a diversion outside of the castle, it will be likely that Dark Disciples may be encountered-!" Natch explained before getting cut off just as one of the walls close to them exploded.
Everyone stopped before they could get struck by the blast of Mana.
"You just have to jinx us, don't you?" Jack asked, giving the vice-captain of the Black Bulls a irritated look.
"Hehehe. Here to stop the ritual?" A voice asked and after a few seconds, the dust disappeared to reveal Desast.
"Donna, Rin. You two are up." Ryo ordered before moving again, which resulted in everyone else, apart from the two named, to move as well.
"…" Desast stared blankly at the quickly disappearing Magic Knights.
"What? Feeling rejected?" Rin asked with a smirk on her face.
The question caused the skull-faced swordsman to scoff slightly.
"Hardly, but I simply hello would be good." Desast responded as his sword suddenly appeared.
In response, Donna and Rin took out two Wonder-Ride books.
"Hm? What of books are those?" Desast thought in his head, tilting his head to the side as he stared at the two large Wonder-Ride books which possess a grey coloured-boarder and two crossed swords which has the title of "Holy Sword Strengthening" underneath it.
The skull-faced swordsman watched as Donna and Rin opened the cover of "Holy Sword Strengthening", revealing an empty slot.
"Ascending power! The Holy Sword breaks through the limit!"
The two voices announced whilst the two female Sword of Logos Magic Knights took out their personal Wonder-Ride books.
Lamp Do Alangina! Set!
Sarutobi Ninjaden! Set!
The voices announced before Donna and Rin placed the new Wonder-Ride books into belt buckles that appear around their waists, causing two standby sounds to start playing.
"Ready?" The wielder of Ikazuchi asked as she glanced towards Rin.
"Hell yeah!" The wielder of Hayate responded before she and Donna pressed the button that is located on top of the belt buckle.
Enhanced Awakening!
Evolving Power!
Rampaging Power!
Enhanced Holy Sword Rider!
Break through the limit!
The voices announced just as the two larger versions of "Holy Sword Strengthening" burst open and four swords, two for each Wonder-Ride book, came out of the pages and circled around Donna and Rin before fusing with them, donning the two in armour.
Espada's armour now consists of the main colour being white with a gold chest-piece and a gold skirt which covers her armoured legs.
With Kenzan, her armour has become more streamlined with blades-like pieces sprouting out of her legs and forearms.
With the "Holy Sword Strengthening" Wonder-Ride books on their belt buckles, shield-shaped guards slid over "Lamp Do Alangina" and "Sarutobi Ninjaden" protecting them.
"Hohohoh! You two and the rest of the Holy Sword wielders have been busy over the six months." Desast commented with a smirk on his face as he observe Espada's and Kenzan's new armour designs.
"You got that right. Now, prepare yourself!" Kenzan shouted before charging forwards, the twin blades of Hayate at the ready.
Desast raised his sword, preparing to block Kenzan's first attack.
"Wind Magic: Wind Ninja's Air Walk!" Kenzan quickly announced as she suddenly jumped into the and started to bounce around Desast.
"Is she trying to confuse me?" Desast thought as he attempted to keep up with Kenzan's movements.
"Wind Magic: Wind Ninja's Air Slash!" Kenzan announced as she twist her body, releasing wind-themed slashes from the twin Blades of Hayate and her armour's newly gained blades.
"Ghe!" Desast grunted as he raised his Mana-Skin to better protect himself, but his body still shook from the impact of the attacks.
"Where's a good time to launch a sneak attack?" Espada thought in her head as she observe Kenzan's movements and waiting for the right moment to move without getting hit herself.
Unfortunately, the swords-woman of lighting didn't got the chance as she suddenly felt a pulse of Demonic Mana, causing her to move out of the way just as large shards of crystals burst out of the ground.
"A Dark Disciple…." Espada muttered as she stared at the newly appeared Dark Disciple.
"Hehehe. We can't have those…..things have all the fun, can we?" The female Dark Disciple commented with a smirk on her face.
"It would have better if you weren't here in the first place." Espada inwardly responded just as her Grimoire opened and began to glow.
"Lighting Creation Magic: Lightening Genie's Lamp Buster." Espada announced, creating her lamp-style long-ranged weapon before jumping to the side of shards of crystals and began to fire lighting bolts at the female Dark Disciple.
Acting quickly, the female Dark Disciple created a shield made from crystals.
"Hey! Watch where your fire those lighting bolts!" The female Dark Disciple shouted from behind her shield.
"Do you think that I even care?" Espada asked in a blank tone of voice before moving, attempting to positioned herself behind the female Dark Disciple.
"No you don't!" The female Dark Disciple shouted as she began to fire shards of crystals at the swords-woman of lighting.
"Lighting Creation Magic: Lighting Genie's Thief Boosts." Espada announced and began to quickly move about the place, gaining the feeling that she shouldn't touch the Demonic Mana enhanced crystals.
"Earh! I can't even hit her!" The female Dark Disciple shouted in her head as she continued to fire shards of crystals, yet kept on missing whilst using her shield to block the lighting bolts that the swords-woman of lighting fired at her.
Before long, Espada managed to get close enough to the female Dark Disciple to start using Ikazuchi.
The female Dark Disciple somehow managed to create crystal-made armour to appear around the area that Ikazuchi was heading for.
"Tch" Espada said in annoyance just as multiple shards of crystals appeared around the female Dark Disciple.
"Let's see you try to dodge these." The female Dark Disciple said before sending the shards of crystals flying towards Espade.
With quick movement, the swords-woman of lighting somehow managed to avoid getting hit by the shards of crystals.
The female Dark Disciple started to giggle slightly.
"What?" Espada asked whilst becoming on guard.
"I'm just thinking how your acting like a dancer just now, you even look like a dancer if you removed the white armour." The female Dark Disciple explained with a small smirk on her face.
"….." The swords-woman of lighting became quiet as she envision herself just wearing the gold-pieces of her armour.
A blush started to appear underneath her helmet.
The female Dark Disciple then lunged forwards.
"Lets keep on "dancing", shall we." The female Dark Disciple said with a smirk on her face.
Back with the battle between Kenzan and Desast, the skull-faced swordsman dodged the shuriken-formed Hayate before the swords-woman of the winds herself appeared in front of him and started to use the bladed-pieces on her body.
"This is new, using a different combat style to fight." Desast commented as he dodged a punch from Kenzan.
"A new form, new fighting style I guess." Kenzan responded before throwing a kick, which Desast used the flat slide of his blade to block the attack.
"…" The swords-woman of the winds began to frown as started to feel the Demonic Mana coming off Desast's sword.
"So, the Dark Triad decided to give Desast a gift." Kenzan thought as she kicked off Desast's sword, not wanting to get into contact with Demonic Mana too long.
Desast then lunged forwards.
"Wind Magic: Wind Ninja's Air Walk." Kenzan announced before starting to move through the air and quickly make her way towards Hayate which has managed to get stuck in the wall.
"Need to be careful when throwing this inside here." Kenzan thought, a small frown started to appear underneath her helmet.
It was at that moment that Desast swing his sword, releasing an slash of Mana towards the swords-woman of the winds.
Luckily, Kenzan managed to reach the shuriken-formed Hayate and swing it, knocking the slash of Mana to side before throwing the "sword" of the wind towards the skull-faced swordsman.
Similarly, Desast swing his sword, deflecting the incoming shuriken-formed Hayate.
"Wind Magic: Wind Ninja's Clones." Kenzan announced, creating a second swords-woman of the winds who caught the deflected "sword" of the winds.
With the original Kenzan, she launched herself off the solidified air, heading towards the skull-faced swordsman, with the second Kenzan doing the same, splitting Hayate into its twin bladed form and throwing one of the blades to the original.
"Two against one, interesting." The skull-faced swordsman thought with a smirk on his face, watching the two swords-women of the winds heading straight towards him.
Elsewhere, each of the three groups of Magic Knights reached one of each member of the Dark Triad.
And there we have it, the invasion on the Spade Kingdom has started with Espada and Kenzan showing new Wonder-Ride books, granting them upgraded forms. The design of "Holy Sword Strengthening" is based on "Primitive Dragon".
Chapters 374, 375 and 376 of Black Clover have been released which involves the battle with Sukehiro, Ichika and Natch against Morgan and one of Lucius's clones where Sukehiro used a Demon Soul pill, managing to keep control along with gaining a set of horns, and Natch using new Devil Union combinations. I enjoyed the chapters, but I'm slightly unsure about Ichika's involment within the battle, I would have prefered if it was just Sukehiro and Natch fighting against Morgen whilst Ichika dealt with another enemy.
With Gavv, I wasn't able to find working subtitled video for the episode so I just have a vague understanding of the plot which shows Hanto being frammed as part of a romance scam, which is run by Granute Early, Lango deciding to confront Shoma and Shoma himself discovering Valen's real idenity as Hanto. So with Hanto's idenity as Valen known to Shoma, it won't be long for Shoma to reveal himself as Gavv to Hanto.
On Rider Wiki, there is a note saying that Shoma is inspired by "The Little Mermaid", with him being interested in the human world, thus showing that the show was originally supposed to have a ocean-theme to it, but changed to sweets instead.
Please review and until next time.
Farhan Nugraha:
1) Please don't get too excited about Durandal's partipation within the Spade Kingdom's invasion.
2) Yeah, it will a very awkward reunion between Asta and Noelle, plus the rest of the Magic Knights of the Sword of Logos.
3) I'd imagine that everyone would be shock that Ace is one of the strongest Kamen Riders of the franchise and belongs to the group with the most Riders, even though they are just DGP participents.
Red Reader Knight: As you can see, a new Wonder-Ride book is shown and with Noelle being under Vanica's/Megicula's control, who knows what will happen to her.
howard567:
1) Yeah...Nozel will certainly have a rough time fighting a corrupted/enranged Noelle.
2) Indeed, a tense conversation will occur when the truth is revealed, let's just hope that Hanto will be calm when Shoma reveals that he's half Granute.