{ Chapters 102-149 }
{ Episodes 66-96 }
{Following Asta's recovery and fights against the Diamond Kingdom as well as the Eye of the Midnight Sun, the Black Bulls attend the Star Awards Festival. After the event, Asta, Yuno, Yami, Charlotte, and Noelle attend a training session with the Crimson Lions led by their interim captain, Mereoleona Vermillion. Asta and some of his comrades enter a tournament with other Magic Knights to become a part of the Royal Knights, a squad that will be assigned the duty of attacking the Eye of the Midnight Sun's Base. During the tournament, a suspicious young man calling himself Xerx Lugner enters the tournament on Asta's team.}