A unexpected ally
"What the heck just happened?!" Fillon shouted in "her" head as she and everyone else observed the battle between Liebe, Saber and Saikou verses Lilith/Naamah.
"That Demonic-Mana that was being produced…...could it be one of the Qliphoth Devils?" Domi thought, subconsciously tilting her head.
"….Are you saying that our side just managed to kill one of the Qliphoth Devils?" Fillon asked for clarification.
"It would seem so." Domi responded, nodding her head slightly.
"On another note, what the hell was red thing that appeared from nowhere!?" Fillion questioned.
What the the bows-woman(s) of the forest is refering to is that sometime before the Qliphoth Devils came flying out of the Spade Kingdom, something fiery red appeared in the sky before heading towards one the sections of the castle...the same one where Liebe, Saber, Saikou and Lilith/Naamah came from.
"I think it was a creature...a dragon perhaps?" Domi questioned, tilting her to the side as she attempted to recall the shape of the fiery red "object".
"Really?" Fillion asked, raising an eye-brow.
"Maybe. But for now, we have our own battles to fight." Domi pointed out, causing Fillon to nod her head before returning her attention to her surroundings.
"Although…..having said that…..I think it would be best we find another place to fight." Domi thought whilst sweat-dropping as she and Fillon observe Gram repeatedly punching a Devil with an ice-made knuckle-duster with runes surrounding him.
"…...Yeah. Gram has the area secured." Fillon responded in agreement before the bows-woman(s) of the forest started to move.
However, it was at that moment that a slash of Mana came flying out of nowhere, but Cortana was able to dodge the attack, although just barely.
"A sneak attack!" Fillon thought just as Cortana prepared to fired an arrow whilst turning towards the vague direction that the attack came from.
"I'm impressed. You're able to dodge that attack." Spartha commented, not feeling threatened by the Mana-created arrow that is pointing straight at him.
"So here you are, Spartha." Cortana stated as the "she" kept her eyes on the swordsman of gold.
"Yep. This is the best place to be right now!" Spartha responded with a wide smile underneath his helmet.
"You have a sick sense of humour, you know that." Cortana commented, causing Spartha to chuckle darkly.
"And what's wrong with that? The Zogratis siblings' desire is underway and with the help of that Diamond Kingdom's scholar Morris and the knowledge from your queen, the time of the completion of the Advent of Qliphoth is accelerating." Spartha explained, causing the bows-woman(s) of the forest to widen her eyes.
"What the hell have they been doing to Queen Lolopechika?!" Fillon demanded, becoming angry.
"They must have somehow managed to gain access to Queen Lolopechika's inherited wisdom and have discovered a method of increasing the speed of the ritual." Domi thought, biting her lips slightly as she realize that they don't have the luxury of slaying the Devils and gradually making their way further into the Spade Kingdom castle and defeat the Dark Triad, they need to do it as swiftly as possible.
"If you want to stop the ritual as quickly as possible, then I should suggest moving now, unless you you want the gate of the second level of the Underworld to open unexpectedly." Spartha pointed out, seemingly speaking out Domi's thoughts.
"Although, having said that, it's not like I'm just going to let you simply make your way into the Spade Kingdom castle, not like it matters since there are plenty of Magic Knights already within the castle." Spartha muttered before charging forwards.
This cause Cortana to immediately release her prepared arrow whilst jumping back.
Unfortunately, Spartha raised Golden Shield and blocked the arrow, letting the Mana get absorbed into the shield.
"Tch." The bows-woman(s) muttered in annoyance before observing the swordsman of gold swinging Golden Sword towards her head.
Acting quickly, Cortana used the bladed-pieces of Eien no Midori to block the incoming blade before kicking Spartha in the stomach, aiming to make the swordsman of gold to stagger back.
However, Spartha only took a few steps back.
"Mana-Skin." Cortana thought, a small frown appearing underneath "her" helmet.
With Spartha, he draw his sword-holding arm back before lunging forwards, aiming to stab Cortana with Golden Sword.
"Ghe!" Cortana grunted in shock as the sword unfortunately struck her, the attack having been enhanced with Mana-Skin.
"Just how Mana has this guy been storing?" Fillon thought, becoming concerned.
"We need to make space!" Domi shouted, causing Fillon nod her head in response before moving back.
"Trying to move? I won't allow it." Spartha said as he began to chase after the bow-woman(s) of the forest…...or at least his would have done if the swordsman of gold didn't got struck in the head by an ice-made knuckle-duster, sending him crashing into a wall instead.
"…." Cortana became silent as she just stared at Gram who has his fist thrown out.
"…...What?" The swordsman of snow asked in a blank tone of voice as he notice the bows-woman(s) of the forest staring at him.
Cortana blinked "her" eyes underneath her helmet for a few seconds before shaking her head.
"Sorry. I just found your attack unexpected." Cortana responded quickly just as Gram changed his stance.
"Oh…..okay." Gram said in a calm tone of voice.
"Eh…..If it wasn't for the helmet and Mana-Skin…...I would have certainly suffer some serious injuries." Spartha commented as he slowly got himself out of the small hole that the impact has created.
Reacting immediately, Gram changed the blade of Aerkurufuyu so that it resembles a small blizzard and swing upwards, causing Spartha to be engulfed in a much larger blizzard and was sent flying upwards.
"Forest Magic: Razor Leafs." Cortana announced, creating razor sharp leafs which she sent flying into the quickly disappearing blizzard which managed to strike Spartha, causing him to get smashed against the rooftops of a building.
"H-hey! Could you be more considerate about me!" The swordsman of gold demanded, becoming slightly annoyed.
"Why should we care about you health?" Gram questioned whilst Cortana made her up onto the roof tops and dash towards Spartha.
"This is for earlier!" Cortana said before started to swing Eien no Midori, attempting to hit the swordsman of gold with the bladed pieces of the bow in a quick manner.
Spartha didn't have time to use Golden Shield to defend himself, resulting in him having to back away whilst being careful of his footing.
Unfortunately for the swordsman of gold, his path was blocked by Gram whose has managed to make his way to the rooftops himself with his knuckle-duster know being replaced with a spear and there is a solid, razor-shape blade being present of Aerkurufuyu.
"Oh for f-" Spartha began to say, but was quickly interrupted as Gram started to attack him, swinging both sword and spear in a barbaric manner.
"And there he goes…." Domi thought whilst sweating dropping just as Cortana backed away.
"But this gave us a good opportunity to throw a few sneak attacks." Fillon thought as she prepared an arrow, putting more Mana into it, making it more stronger.
"Seriously?! Who the heck is this guy's trainer?!" Spartha demanded in his head, the swordsman of gold having some difficulty in not getting overwhelmed by Gram's fighting.
However, the swordsman of gold could still absorb Gram's Mana when his weapons make contact with Golden Shield.
On the other hand, the swordsman of snow is capable of "fixing" his weapons when they start to break down.
After at least a few minutes of Spartha and Gram fighting each other, the swordsman of gold started to become annoyed.
"Would you give me some space!" Spartha demanded as he suddenly swing his shield-holding arm, causing the snow-created spear to be flung out of Gram's hand, making a surprise expression to appear underneath his helmet.
Unfortunately, for the swordsman of snow, he didn't have time to recreate another spear as Spartha started to throw sword attacks towards him.
This resulted in Gram being on the defensive as he block and dodge Spartha's attacks.
The swordsman of gold draw his arm back and lunged forwards, preparing to stab the swordsman of snow.
However, it was at that moment that Cortana decided to released her arrow, striking Spartha on the drawn-back arm.
"Ghe!" Spartha grunted as the arrow somewhat managed to pierce through his Mana-Skin and armour.
This gave Gram the opportunity to perform an attack, creating a blade where one of the side as a jagged edge.
The swordsman of snow then dashed forwards and swing Aerkurufuyu, but stop when with the jagged edge just touching the swordsman of gold.
"Hm?" Spartha said, becoming confused before Gram suddenly draw his arm back, causing the jagged edge to rip through Spartha's armour.
Ice started to spread across Spartha's body, causing his eyes to widen underneath his helmet as his body started to freeze.
However, Gram took the opportunity to strike Spartha with a round-house kick, causing the swordsman of gold to slid off the rooftops and crash onto the ground.
"Good work." Cortana said as she approached Gram before glancing over the side and saw the swordsman of gold laying on the ground and groaning slightly.
"He will be back up soon." Gram said as he kept his eyes locked on Spartha.
"You know…...I'm a bit surprise that you're being a bit more of a team player." Cortana commented, glancing back at the swordsman of snow.
This cause Gram's body to stiffen slightly.
"I suppose that your wife managed to persuade you to work with the others?" Cortana guessed, noticing Gram's stiff body.
"…" The swordsman of snow became silent for some reason.
"Why has Gram become silent all of a sudden…..?" Domi thought, she and Fillon becoming confused for a few seconds before both remembering the night before they head into battle.
"We sh-" Gram began to say, but was cut off as heavy footsteps can be heard, causing the swordsman of snow and the bows-woman(s) of the forest to turn towards the source footsteps and saw a Devil.
"And here they come….." Cortana muttered as she glance over her shoulder and saw some more Devils appearing.
"Yes. We're still in the middle of a war zone after all." Gram commented as he prepared himself.
"I hope that Asta and Yuri has arrived in the Spade Kingdom by now." Olivia thought, a slight worrying expression appearing on her face.
It was at that moment that a small frown appeared on her face when she notice two people.
"I had a feeling that they would have some involvement." Olivia thought before heading towards the direction where the two people are placed.
"This is more like it!" Zoous said with a grin on his face as he and Storious watched the Sword of Logos Magic Knights fighting the waves of Devils, the two having decided to turn their attention towards Wonder World.
"Yes. The Devils are exiting the Underworld easily." Storious commented as he glanced towards a screen, originating from an orb, showing scenes from the Spade Kingdom.
"Although….." Storious began to say whilst turning his attention to something else.
"The appearance of the five Primordial Dragons was unexpected." The Megid General admitted as he recall the apperance of the Primordial Dragons who went on to destroy the Demon.
"Why is that? Didn't you thought that Saber would be capable of doing something like this?" Zoous asked, tilting his head to the side slightly.
It was at that moment that the earth beneath the two Megid Generals suddenly began to shake, causing the two Megid Generals to loose their balance.
"Huh/What?!" Both Storious and Zoous exclaimed in surprise tones of voice just before a figure appeared and hit the two of them with an origami-made hammer.
"Owowowowow." Zoous muttered as he clutched his head with Storious doing the same.
"Seriously? You two can't handle a tap to the head?" A voice questioned in a humours tone of voice.
The two Megid Generals glanced towards the source of the voice to see Olivia with a hammer in hand and the Earth Vellamental standing close by.
"Oh? So the witch ruler has started to get her hands dirty." Storious stated with a smirk on his face.
"Hmph. You need to pay for attacking the village." Olivia said with a small scowl on her face as she point her hammer at Storious whilst the Earth Vellamental stomp its feet in agreement.
"…...I don't feel threatened by someone holding a paper-made hammer along with a paper-made tortoise." Zoous said in a blank tone of voice.
This cause a tick-mark to appear on Olivia's forehead before the witch ruler dashed forwards and swing her hammer at Zoous.
In response, the Megid General swing one of his swords, thinking that his weapon would be able to easily cut through the paper.
Instead, however, a metallic-like sound is heard instead.
"What?!" Zoous said with widened eyes.
"You know. I have something called, Mana-Skin." Olivia explained before starting to repeatedly hit Zoous on the head with her origami-made hammer.
"…" Storious started at the scene with a blank expression on his face before sighing.
"I should better help him before he becomes brain damage." Storious muttered before opening his Grimoire.
It was the appearance of a bright light that caused Olivia to stop her assault on Zoous and turn her head towards the source of the light and saw Storious preparing to launch a fire-based attack.
Seemingly acting in response to the preparing attack, the Earth Vellamental slammed a foot into the ground, causing the section of the earth that Olivia is standing on to shoot upwards whilst Zoous jumping backwards, not expecting the sudden movement of the earth just as Storious released his attack, which only struck rock instead.
"Thanks, Earthy!" Olivia called over her shoulder to her origami-made creation.
"Who the heck called their creation "Earthy"?" Zoous questioned whilst tilting his head to the side just as the pages of Olivia's Grimoire began to turn.
"Origami Creation Magic: Shuriken." Olivia announced, creating an origami-made shuriken which she then throw at Storious, using her origami-made hammer to increase the spinning motion of the shuriken.
Storious attempted to throw another fire-based attack, but was prevented as the Earth Vellamental stamp its foot onto the ground, causing spikes to suddenly sprout of the ground, heading straight towards the Megid General, causing him to jump to the side whilst relaying on Mana-Skin to block Olivia's origami-made shuriken.
"Hmmm, the shot could have been better." Olivia muttered with a small frown on her face.
"Hey! I hope that you haven't forgotten about me." A voice said, causing the witch ruler to glance over her shoulder to see Zoous with both swords at the ready.
"Nope! I haven't." Olivia responded before doing a backflip off the stone pillar, which resulted in her foot striking Zoous's chin.
However, this didn't halt Zoous as he chase after Olivia who just landed on the ground before quickly hopped back to avoid getting stabbed the Megid General's two swords.
With the other Megid General, Storious is constantly avoiding the spikes are piercing out the ground due to Earth Vellamental's power.
"Why should I do?" Storious mused his options, not feeling worried about the origami-made tortoise.
"I know!" Storious thought just as his Grimoire began to glow.
"Writing: Earth Magic." The Megid General announced, using the same attribute that Earth Vellamental uses, before slamming a hand on the ground, causing it to become liquid-like.
This resulted in Earth Vellamental to slowly sink into ground.
"How do you like it? Getting defeated by your own attribute?" Storious questioned before returning the liquid-like ground to its original form.
A smirk appeared on Storious's face as he observe Earth Vellamental attempting to break out of the ground, but failing.
"Writing: Flame Magic." Storious announced, igniting his sword in flames.
"Earthy!" Olivia exclaimed in horror as she attempted to rush to her creation's side, but was prevented by Zoous.
"You have more things to worry about than a bundle of paper!" The Megid General shouted before swinging one of his swords at the witch ruler, causing her to jump back.
"Now. Time to put you ablaze." Storious said as he raised his sword and began to swing it downwards, aiming to release an arc of fire.
However, the path of Storious's attack was blocked by a drill-styled sword wielded by an armoured person.
"Huh?!" Olivia said, her eyes becoming widened at the new comer.
"Oh? You're Kamen Rider Laevateinn, the swordsman of crystals." Storious stated as he recognise Seiers Kristall.
"Yes. That's me." Laevateinn responded in a calm tone of voice whilst getting into a sword stance.
"Kamen Rider Laevateinn, the swordsman of crystals? I don't think I've heard of a Holy Sword of that attribute." Olivia thought, starting to frown in confusion.
"How did you get into Wonder World? I highly doubt that the Diamond Kingdom have the technology to travel here alone." Storious asked, becoming curious.
"…...I was recruited by someone who is keen on stopping on you. I only joined because our goals overlapped each other." Laevateinn explained, causing Storious to become even more curious.
"So who else has this…..person recruited? Or is just you and whatever remaining forces that makes up the Diamond Kingdom's army have decided to join the battle against humans and Devils?" Storious questioned, him knowing the state of the Diamond Kingdom's army between Zenon's attack and Morris taking soldiers with him.
"That's isn't of concern of yours. All you need to focus on….is me!" Laevateinn responded before charging forwards.
Storious hopped back slightly to himself some room before swinging his sword, which is still covered in flames, which connected with Seiers Kristall, the "blade" having started to turn.
This resulted in sparks flying in different directions, but this didn't last long as Laevateinn thrust Seiers Kristall to the side, causing Storious to loose his footing slightly.
Laevateinn took the opportunity and punched the Megid General in the face.
Even though Storious has reinforced his body with Mana-Skin, the punch did snap his head to the side slightly.
The swordsman of Crystals then jumped back just as his Grimoire began to glow.
"Crystal Creation Magic: Crystal Jormungandr's Heavenly Fangs." Laevateinn announced, causing a magic circle to appear underneath the Megid General's feet.
"Hm?" Storious said has he glanced down at the magic circle. Shards of crystals suddenly sprouted out of the ground, stabbing Storious.
However, due to his Mana like before, the Megid General didn't receive any damage.
"You know….You'll need to do better if you want to actually hurt me!" Storious said before swinging his sword, shattering the crystals.
"….." Laevateinn became silent whilst frowning underneath his helmet.
"Anyhow. My turn." Storious said before his Grimoire began to glow.
"Writing: World Tree Magic." The Megid General announced and tree roots started to sprout out of the ground, heading straight towards Laevateinn.
"This is the same magic that the captain of the Clover Kingdom's Golden Dawn wields…." The swordsman of crystals thought as he began to move back before the tree roots could strike him.
However, the tree roots soon started to become bigger.
"It will be difficult to get close to him." Leavateinn thought before an idea appeared in his head.
"Lets try this then." Laevateinn muttered just as the pages of his Grimoire began to turn.
"Crystal Creation Magic: Talos Cluster Puppets" The swordsman of crystals announced, creating multiple versions of himself.
"Creating multiple versions of yourself…...are you thinking that you could overwhelm me with numbers?" Storious asked, not feeling worried.
"Lets see about that." Laevateinn responded before and his copies started to charge towards the Megid General.
"Please be swift with your work, everyone." The swordsman of crystals thought just as the blade of Seiers Kristall began to turn again.
So there we go, we're shifting our attention away from the battles against the Zogratis siblings to other battles such as Cortana and Gram against Spatha and Olivia fighting against Storious and Zoous before being joined by Leavateinn, something that I bet is a surprise to some.
Chapters 377 and 378 of Black Clover have been released which involves the starting phase of Asta's and Yuno's battle against Lucius, who used his siblings magic. For the starting phase, I think that it went a bit too fast, it could have gone for another chapter. Adramelech is seen for the first time during the battle, yet simply been observing the different battles rather than taking part.
In Gavv:
1) Nyelv appeared and explained how the Vrastrum Gear is his creation through studying shoma/Gavv before leaving with Vram following him. Shoma revealed to Hanto more information about Stomach Inc, such as that it is run by the Stomach family with Hanto caming to the conclusion that Shoma knows the siblings of the stomach family. With Nyelv and Lago nine, they are seen visiting Kenzo who was shown the Vrastrum Gear who went on to see how Granutes are able to transform into humans.
2) With Granute Chooul, people are starting to run away from him due to comments on social media about how he is involved with the recent kiddnapping. Later, Granute Chooul began to complain to Lago Nine about needing the Dark Treats, saying how tasty there are. However, Lago Nine is uninterested with Dark Treats entirely just Granute Chooul started a hunting spree.
3) Shoma and Hanto caught wind of Granute Chooul's hunt, managing to find him before getting into a fight, with Vram showing a new weapon, the Vrambreaker. When Valen questioned if Vram is a member of the Stomach family, he became angry before dealing a heavy attack onto Valen.
Please review and until next time.
Red Reader Knight: We're not getting into that at the moment but things have started to shift as Leavateinn joins the invasion.
howard576:
1) Yep, Magna is showing what he learned during the six months.
2) That does seem likely and with his anger at the accusation as being a member of the Stomach family, Lago Nine holds some hatred towards them.
3) Hanto will be furious when he finds out that his benefactor is working with a Granute.
Dragstorm rider: Thank you.