The cursed Valkyrie
In one part of the Spade Kingdom castle, Yuno, Langris, Ryo and Tetsuo have encounter Zenon.
"You're…..How are you three alive?" Zenon asked with a slight glare on his face as he stare at Yuno, Ryo and Tetsuo.
"Through the power of Captain Vangeance's spell. We're taking him back…..after we take you down!" Yuno responded before firing his "Tornado Fang" spell.
"I know Zenon's abilities. He uses bone magic as an absolute defence." Yuno thought as he and the other three watched as Zenon summoned a large quanity of bones which surround him in a spider web-like design, blocking the attack.
"Overwhelming hardness and regeneration speed. It keeps most physical attacks from getting through." Yuno thought as he and the other three watched the bones quickly regenerating themselves.
"I see…..a foolish endeavor. If you stayed quietly at home….you would have survived a little longer." Zenon commented as he activated his Devil powers.
"They tell me….you went on quite a spree whilst I was away." Langris began to say whilst orbs of spatial magic started to appear around him.
"I'm not the type who sit idly by whilst a guy like you is on the loose! Spatial Magic: Archangel's Crash." Langris announced, letting the spatial magic orbs fly straight towards Zenon.
"A spatial Mage, hm?" Zenon commented as he calmly observe the orbs heading straight towards him.
"Through the Devil's power….absolute space." The male Dark Triad member thought as the spatial magic orbs became trapped with cubes where they slowly disappear.
"Is he able to control the Mana within that space using his spatial magic!?" Tetsuo thought, his eyes widening.
"If I didn't exist….it's likely you would have been the ultimate spatial Mage." Zenon commented as he stared at Langris.
With the former vice-captain of the Golden Dawn, a small smile appeared on his face.
"It's been a long time since I met anyone who talked down on me. Spatial Magic: Archangel's Destruction." Langris announced as a much larger orb of spatial magic appeared behind him before throwing it at Zenon.
"I understand that you're here because they hoped you'd cancel out my spatial magic, but….Spatial Magic: Spatial Mana Domination." Zenon announced and the four Clover Kingdom Magic Knights felt a change within the air and Langris's spell simply disappeared.
"A spell this huge, without even moving?" Langris questioned as he observe how Zenon didn't even move from his spot.
"Did pity turn your head? Accompanying people who lost before sheer folly. You're just like your captain. You make foolish choices. Trivial pride and dreams. Because you have those things….you'll die without even having accomplish anything." Zenon explained as a huge number bones appeared.
"Heh. You really are simple-minded." Ryo commented, causing Zenon to raise an eye-brow.
"What do you mean by that?" The male Dark Triad member questioned, staring at the wielder of Gekido.
"Do you think that we would simply charge into battle without any preparations?" Ryo questioned back just as he and Tetsuo took out two "Holy Sword Strengthening" Wonder-Ride books.
"Hm?" Zenon said, raising an eye-brow as he, Yuno and Langris watched as the two Holy Sword wielders open the covers of their new Wonder-Ride books and insert their personal Wonder-Ride books into "Holy Sword Strengthening" before placing them within newly appeared belt buckles.
After a few seconds of letting the standby sound to play, the two Sword of Logos Magic Knights pressed the button, causing the two versions of "Holy Sword Strengthening" to open.
Enhanced Awakening!
Evolving Power!
Rampage Power!
Enhanced Holy Sword Rider!
Break through the Limit!
The two voices announced and the other three watched as the two don new armour which consists of Buster possessing more defensive plating on his shoulders and chest along with large knuckle-style gauntlets whilst Slash also possess added armour pieces, which include extra plating on the chest. On his shoulders are small cannons.
"Well. I see that you two have been making preparations for the battle." Zenon commented as he stared at Buster's and Slash's strengthen forms.
"You got that right! Now, prepare yourself!" Slash responded before firing a Mana-Bullet from Sezume.
Zenon tilted his body to the side, letting the Mana-Bullet fly past him.
"There's no need to waste Mana on a small attack like tha-" Zenon began to say but stop when he saw Buster dashing towards him, fists at the ready.
The male Dark Triad member sighed slightly before making the bones move, blocking Buster's path.
The swordsman of the earth draw a fist back before sending it forwards, striking the spider-like bone formation.
"…" A small frown appeared on Zenon's face as he felt something going through the bones.
Buster pulled back his other fist and throw it forwards and this time cracks started to appear on the bones.
"And that's how you do it!" Buster exclaimed with a smile underneath his helmet.
"Its too soon for you to celebrate." Zenon said just as the bones started to regenerate.
In response, Buster raised Gekido, which has been strapped to his back, and swing it downwards, causing the spider-like bone formation to shake and more cracks started to appear.
"I suppose that the "Strengthening" part of that book's name isn't just for show…." Zenon thought, yet not overly concerned.
"Get out of the way, Buster!" Slash shouted, causing the swordsman of the earth to jump out of the way just as Slash fired musical-shaped bullets from his shoulder cannons.
Due to the speed that the bullets are going at, Zenon couldn't fully make the musical-shaped bullets disappear, letting them strike the bones with a more "softer" impact than intended.
"….." A small frown appeared underneath Slash's helmet.
With Yuno, the vice-captain of the Golden Dawn sighed slightly.
"If you want the job done, let me handle this." Yuno said as he took a few steps forward.
"Let's go...Bell." Yuno said just as the wind spirit appeared.
"Right!" Bell said before focusing her attention onto Zenon.
"There you are, you bony looser! Nobody does that to us and gets away with it! Yuno and I are taking you out!" Bell said just as she and Yuno began to glow before merging with each other.
"Spirit Dive: Spirit of Boreas." Yuno announced just as two wings rather than the usual single wing and his crown is fully formed. In his hands is an axe.
"Hm? So Yuno has managed to fully master Spirit Dive." Buster commented in his head, seeing how Yuno's previous Spirit Dive form seemed to be in a half-formed state.
"What is this pressure and that spell form?" Zenon questioned in his head as he stared at Yuno's new form.
"Even so, in this space….they can't wield any power." Zenon thought as he sent bones heading straight towards Yuno.
"I am the man who will become the Wizard King. I can't you keep your victory over me!" Yuno said just as the bones quickly started to quickly disintegrate around him.
This cause everyone to become shock.
"What?! The Mana inside "Absolute Space" isn't under my control! Has he taken control over it with even greater power?!" Zenon thought before realizing something.
"No. He's simply beloved by Mana!" Zenon thought just as Yuno appeared in front of him.
The male Dark Triad member quickly summoned bones around himself just as Yuno thrust the tip of his newly gained axe forwards.
"We'll die without even accomplishing anything. Was that what you said?" Yuno asked just as the bones suddenly got destroyed and the attack struck Zenon, resulting in a giant hole to appeared on his chest.
"You were talking to the wrong guy." Yuno stated as he stared at the stunned expression that Zenon has on his face.
"I swear. You are lethally a poor loser." Langris said, yet a slight amused expression has appeared on his face.
"He's managed to deal a good blow towards the Dark Triad!" Both Buster and Slash thought at the same time, becoming shock.
"Die while regretting the fact that you laid your hand to the Golden Dawn." Yuno stated again just as blood started to trickle out of Zenon's mouth.
"We can defeat him….! After defeating him and stopping the advent of Qliphoth, we can save Captain Vangeance." Langris thought, a bead of sweat trickled down his face.
"Ah…..ha. So these are the intruders that managed to infiltrate the Spade castle." Vanica stated as she stared down at Charlotte and Rill from on a chair that is floating within the air.
"Well, show me if it is fun to fight with you guys! First, we can't even start if you can't defeat the eight insignias so." Vanica explained in a slight bored tone of voice as she referred to two Diamond Kingdom soldiers.
"Why are Diamond Kingdom soldiers are here?" Charlotte thought in confusion before deciding to make the first move.
"Briar Magic: Corpse-Hunting Briar Tree." Charlotte announced, creating a mass of thorny vines.
In response, the two Diamond Kingdom soldiers activated their magic.
"Well. I bet these two will be strong with the curse I put and the renovations that Morris did." Vanica commented just as the two Diamond soldiers launched their attacks, completely destroying the incoming mass of thorny vines, causing a frown to appear on Charlotte's face.
"Painting Magic: Wave of Steron/Mischief of Sirenu." Rill announced, performing two spells which manage to counter the magic of the two Diamond Kingdom soldiers.
"Mmm…..Painting magic is something fun because you can bring out different elements, but….well, it's just that, I guess." Vanica commented before shifting her gaze towards Charlotte.
"Briar magic is just wrong. There must be some compatibility issue, but it's catching you down." Vanica commented, making a calm yet deadly expression to appear on Charlotte's face.
"Ah….I remembering how one of your Clover Kingdom's Mage became a host to an almighty, yet berserk, dragon. I want to fight him and dark magic mister who defeated Brother Dante." Vanica began to whine.
"I wanted to add them to my collection. Well, I should suppress it since thanks to his death, the door to the Underworld is opening. But then Zenon caught him and brought him here. Maybe he wasn't that out-standing guy after all." Vainca said, a cruel smile starting to appear on her face.
"…" Charlotte started to become silent.
"While doing captain's work for the past 6 months, I learned Heart Kingdom's Mana-Method has suggested by Miss Domi. The intense power of curse stuck in my magic, I've been using by controlling that…..That's what I thought, but I was wrong." Charlotte thought, remembering her training regime and studying.
"The curse is a strong shackle that suppresses my magic. After reaching the extreme of Mana-Method, I finally found the proper usage of cursed rose." Charlotte before staring to summon an array of runes.
"Mana-Method+Briar Magic: Paradise of Blue Briar." Charlotte announced as she started to create a "garden" of blue roses.
"I grew well with high quality Mana and water. The stronger the curse of the enemy….by sucking their curse up, a beautiful flower blooms." Rill commented with a small smile on his face.
"The curse I placed on her got weaker?" Vanica questioned in a stunned tone of voice.
"That human….she estimated the curse on her, and used it as anti-curse special magic…..?!" Megicula spoke just as Vanica removed her eye-patch.
"To think that a person could pull it off exists…..interesting." Megicula spoke again as they stare at Charlotte.
"Missions inside Magic Knights, polishing. Reincarnation of an elf. Mana-Method of Heart Kingdom. Everything became my nourishment." Charlotte thought just as Mana began to build around her.
"This is blue briar that I have right now…..and this is the red briar that I had originally….And now I can….control both the red briar and blue briar. True Briar Magic: Briar Queen." Charlotte announced as she whipped the two Diamond Kingdom soldiers to the side, now wearing a dress that consists of thorns and two types of roses.
"Charlotte became a captain without using her original powers?!" Rill thought in a shock tone of voice.
"AHAHAHHAHAHAHA! I found the perfect enemy!" Vanica said in an excited tone of voice as she activated her Devil powers.
The female Dark Triad Member prepared to launch herself at Charlotte, but was prevented as briars started to wrap around her.
"Huh?! Vainca said, becoming stunned.
"It is unfortunate, but I'm not fighting with you." The captain of the Blue Rose Magic Knights said in a calm tone of voice.
"What are you talking about! I'll remove this right….away?!" Vanica said before starting to notice something.
"That briar isn't something one can do little about with power. It binds stronger for the ones that have stronger power of curse." Charlotte explained in a calm tone of voice.
"Don't tell me...by using my power…! Wait! Let's play! Have fun with me!" Vanica exclaimed as the briars started wrap more tightly around her.
"Being careless, conceited, excited and not being alert put you into that." Charlotte explained in a calm tone of voice.
"Don't say that! If it's us, we probably do the best feeling fight/I'm tired of a woman like you. Wither away with your ungrateful wish. That's the punishment I give you." Charlotte cut off Vanica in a cold tone of voice just as the briars slowly began to consume Vanica.
However, it was at that moment that a black blur appeared and cut the briar trapping Vanica, freeing the female Dark Triad member.
"W-what?!" Charlotte exclaimed in a shock tone of voice.
"So there was another one of Vanica's henchmen laying in wait?!" Charlotte thought as she and Rill turn towards where the black blur landed.
"N-Noelle?!" Rill exclaimed in a shock tone of voice as the captain of the Aqua Deers and the captain of the Blue Rose stared at Noelle who now wearing black instead of the usual white-coloured clothes.
However, the biggest change is the Devil-like features that Noelle possess, which also include red eyes.
"What did you do to her?!" Charlotte demanded in an angry tone of voice as she whirl back round to Vanica.
"I didn't really do anything. It was Megicula's idea of wanting to experiment on Noelle-sweetie. I must say that I like her new look. But…." Vanica explained as she moved so that she's now standing next to Noelle.
"You're a bad girl, Noelle-sweetie. I didn't requested you to move." Vanica said, yet there is no anger in her voice as the female Dark Triad member draped one of her arms around Noelle's body whilst the other stroked one of Noelle's cheeks.
"Get your hands off Noelle this instant!" Charlotte shouted in anger as she sent some briar flying.
Vanica and Noelle easily moved out of the way, with Vanica releasing Noelle.
"Hey, Noelle! You do know that Vanica is the enemy, right?" Rill pointed out, a nervous expression starting to appear on his face.
"…" Noelle didn't respond with almost blank expression on her face.
"She won't respond to anything you say to her. Noelle-sweetie is completely under our control." Vanica explained in a cruel tone of voice.
"Damn you…." Charlotte muttered darkly, gripping the handle of her "sword" tightly.
"Now then, Noelle-sweetie. Why don't you show these two that new form that we give to you." Vanica suggested, causing Noelle to slowly nod her head before taking out a Wonder-Ride book which consists of a black boarder with red lining. The cover of the Wonder-Ride book shows a Valkyrie with demonic features underneath the title of "Cursed Valkyrie".
Noelle then flipped open the cover of the new Wonder-Ride book.
"The powers of the divine god's warriors is cursed by a devil."
The Wonder-Ride book announced before Noelle closed the cover and placed it within the belt buckle, causing dark standby sound to start playing.
"…..Henshin…" Noelle spoke before pressing the button, causing "Cursed Valkyrie".
Demonic Rising!
This cursed power shall mark the path of ruin!
The voice announced just as a black-mechanical, possessing black "skin" and deep red armour, Valkyrie burst out of the pages and danced around Noelle before merging with her. Joyeues's new form looks identical to her Valkyrie's Legacy form, yet possessing red armour instead and Argent-Couronne has a black tint added to it. A red-coloured visor glared at the stunned captains.
"Well? What do you think?" Vanica asked with a smile on her face.
"W…..what?" Rill managed to say in as he stared at Joyeues's Cursed Valkyrie form.
"This is seriously bad." Charlotte thought, starting to become worried for Noelle's safety due to the exposer of Demonic Mana.
"Death Scythe: Lunatic Slash!" Jack announced as he swing is Mana-created blades at Dante, causing a good amount of damage not just to Dante, but also the stone wall behind the male Dark Triad member.
"Morris's sorcery science has improved my body's regenerative abilities even further. Nothing, except that Devil's anti-magic, even has a change of hurting me." Dante explained in a calm tone of voice as he activate his Devil powers.
"I thought as much. If we're going to win, we have to gamble on Jack's magic. The magic that cuts things that can't be cut. However…." Natch thought, him and Jack being the only Magic Knights being able to reach Dante, before starting to trial off.
"Hey, we're just getting started." Jack said with a small grin on his face.
"That just how it is. I have no use for you. Gravity Magic: Presence of the Demon King." Dante announced as he raised an arm before increasing the gravity in the room, causing both Natch and Jack to fall onto the ground.
"Ghk!" Jack grunted as he fought to prevent himself from completely falling onto the ground.
"Will Jack even be able to attack inside a gravity spell?" Natch wondered just as one of his contracted Devils appeared behind him.
"Devil Union: Mode: Equus." Natch announced, fusing with the Devil known as Slotos, cladding the vice-captain of the Black Bulls in heavy armour where he is equipped with shield-like pieces which are floating to his sides. Another thing is that he's standing perfectly normal despite the increase of gravity.
"Oho. So there's a Devil Host within the Clover Kingdom." Dante commented with a smile on his face.
"What's this? You were showing so much spirit. What happened? Are your height and your attitude all that's big about you? Captain of the Green Mantis." Natch questioned Jack who is still struggling against the increase gravity.
"Talk is cheap. How about letting your skills do the talking instead?" Natch suggested, a slight glare appearing in his eyes.
"Why you little…." Jack muttered in annoyance.
"Don't…..ignore me." Dante said as he appeared next to Natch and threw a punch towards him which is blocked by the floating shield-like pieces.
"Do you mind? I'm talking with the captain over there." Natch said before kicking the male Dark Triad member in the stomach.
However, instead of showing pain, Dante gained a smirk on his face.
"Hahahahaha. Good! Show me more of that malice! Will you keep me entertain until the gate opens?" Dante asked as he activate more of his Devil powers whilst laughing.
"I can trade blows with him, but I can't land a critical hit. I can't kill this man!" Natch thought, starting to become concerned.
"I have to get Jack to attack somehow, or else/You on the other hand, the crawling one, I heard him call you "captain"….but you're boring." Dante commented as he stared down at Jack, cutting of Natch's thoughts.
"Get lost." Dante said as he threw a punch towards him. Luckily, Natch blocked the punch before noticing something.
"This man….he's manipulating the blades on the surface of his body, sharpening them?!" Natch thought, becoming slightly surprise as he spotted tiny blades sprouting out of Jack's back.
"Grovelling. Being protected. That's just pathetic. Yami Sukehiro was a captain too, but he kept me entertained." Dante explained in a cruel tone of voice.
However, it was a that moment that Jack suddenly got back onto his feet, the blades all over his body becoming bigger.
"He slashed through gravity!" Natch thought, feeling hopeful at the situation.
"Let's test that body of yours, loser!" Jack said before repeated throwing much stronger slashes than earlier.
"No matter how much you attack….no mere insect could kill me!" Dante said, not feeling concerned with the attacks as he formed a black orb within one of his hands.
However, it was at that moment that Jack managed to perform a critical hit, causing blood to spill out of Dante's body.
"Yo. Don't mess with insects!" Jack shouted with a mad grin on his face.
"It appears….I underestimated you." Natch muttered as he stared at the scene in front of him.
And there we go, Buster and Slash using their Holy Sword Strengthening forms whilst a Devil-corrupted Noelle uses a dark form. The idea for Noelle's Cursed Valkyrie form started when people have been asking about if Asta himself will gain a Devil-based form which then lead to Noelle gaining a dark form instead.
In Gavv:
1) Shoma/Gavv managed to escape with an injured Hanto before wondered if he should take him to a hospital, but Hanto refused due to the Granute organ in his body. Hanto requested that Shoma/Gavv revealed his idenity now that he knows his, which Shoma/Gavv agreed to, yet Hanto was subtly surprised about since he had idea about Shoma/Gavv's idenity beforehand. Whilst resting at Hapipara, Shoma realized that Hanto is in fact human who has undergone surgery rather than being a Granute and when Hanto woke up, he revealed to Shoma, after being angry due to how Shoma didn't killed Granute Early, how his mother was kiddnapped by a Granute where Shoma explained how his own mother was used as a spice for Dark Treat production.
2) With Lango and Getta, the two of them talked about increasing the number of part-timers before confronting a Granute who was planning on stealing a Dark Treat rather than paying. The next morning, Sachika managed to discover who is Emi is meeting and when Shoma contacted Hanto, the two of them laid out a trap to draw out Granute Early. In the following battle, Valen used the Doumaru Gochizo to transform into his doughnut-based form. Later, Shita and Jeebh, who were talking about the marrige that Lango mentioned to them, are seen getting kicked out of Stomach Co, swearing revenge against Shoma.
So there we have, Shoma and Hanto knowing each others idenities, even though Shoma is keeping the fact that he's part of the Stomach family a secret. Something interesting occured which is that Shoma reacted strangely to Hanto's photo of his mother, hinting that he's somehow connected with the wolf-based Granute...which just so happens to be the same motif for both Shita and Jeebh.
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Dragstorm Rider:
1) I'm not planning on making Liebe a Kamen Rider.
2) Since Xross-Saber is the most powerful Holy Sword, you expect that it will effect Asta's Grimoire in someway.
howard576:
1) Hopefully, The Rider's Holy Sword Strengthening forms will help them combat the more powerful foes during the rest of the invasion.
2) Yes, the pacing of the manga is a bit frustating, but I'm predicting that the next three released chapters will involve the final battle between Asta and Yuno against Lucius, or at least the introduction/starting phase.
3) For Shita and Jeebh...I don't think that the marriages are going to happen at all since the two got brutely kicked out out of Stomach Co and onto the streets, but from the looks of things, the two of them have started to become angry towards Shoma.