Screaming could be heard as explosions and fire billowed out of control. Toys added to the kindled, lasers hit the ground with ground-scouring intensity. Buildings fell down while many people looked out to the horizon to see what had been the cause as to why their beloved Clover Kingdom had been in shambles. Unknown to them it was the elven leader Licht using all of the negative energy he had built up due to his fellow elves and his human wife Tetia being killed

Man: W-W-W-What in the world is that creature?! WHERE DID IT COME FROM?!

Woman: RUN AWAY!

Man: WHERE DO WE RUN THOUGH!? EVERYWHERE IS A DEATH TRAP!

Licht raised his hand up, summoning a huge blast and firing it off which then broke into several more mini blasts all the more than devastating as a massive nuclear bomb level explosion rocked the place which in the future would become known as the Forsaken Realm.

Licht: RAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

He continued his unwilling rampage, summoning a mouth cannon. After spreading the areal effect, explosions scoured the surface, fires gleaming the grounds as those who were able to survive and reach the top of the buildings witnessed the carnage, many of their fellow Clover Kingdom citizenry being slaughtered before their very eyes.

Woman: Dear God.... the humanity.

Man: This is the end of all days!

Baby: WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Mother: It's okay sweet child! Shh... Shh...

Narrator: Threatened by a ruthless demon, humanity was on the brink of destruction. All seemed lost until a lone mage stepped forward and took up the fight.

Licht: Lumiere.... I have one last request of you as selfish as it may seem of me. I need you to kill me. Please!

Lumiere: Licht.... I hate to do this but I understand. I understand why I was born with so much magic power. But I won't allow my dearest friend to become a murderer, don't you worry. I will not let you.... turn into a hideous monster more than what you've become!

He summons an array of swords each bigger than the last while he then races towards his twisted and grotesque friend in a thunderous clash!

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CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Licht: RAUGHHHH! RAUGHHHH....

BOOOM! SHATTTTTEERRR!

Man: Is that...

Woman: It's Prince Lumiere! He's come to save us!

The battle between friends raged on as Lumiere's swords continued to be destroyed but to the prince it was all but a meager distraction for him to get the jump on Licht. Carefully navigating massive beams that at any moment could've popped up and fatally injure him, Lumiere whipped across the battlefield before he was frozen. He quickly shatters the ice magic spell inflicted onto him but even when he did the pressure was still cranked evidence enough by a massive stone hitting from below followed by Licht's hand clubbing him from an entirely different direction, causing yet another thunderous chain reaction to ensue. In spite of all the injuries he had incurred thus far however, Lumiere wouldn't be dissuaded in putting his best friend Licht out of his misery, emerging out of the rubble injured yet still focused on the one goal of making sure the Clover Kingdom remained intact.

Lumiere: HAAAAAAAA!

He connected from the heavens landing a vicious shot into the demonized Licht's third eye all in the meanwhile Secre observed the carnage the possessed Royal Silvamillion family had left behind including in the mass elven corpses were one of their own, her master's sister, Tetia who in secret married Licht and had been carrying their child. Dead on the ground, her growing belly on display now soaked with her blood. But that wasn't the only thing fucking up the Noblewoman's mind.... they killed these innocent people.... with a tool meant to help... something she and Lumiere created.

Secre: They used a item I created..... for the wrong and worst crimes you could imagine! They took away the elves magic.... and then slaughtered them to leave no trace behind. We built that item so that we could share all the magic in the world. To make lives better, not destroy them! My prince, Lady Tetia.... Sir Licht.... I'm so sorry! What could I possibly do now!?

The battle continued to rage forth between Lumiere and the Demon Licht. The last vestige of sanity within the Royal family fire heat-seeking light magic towards his opponent, only for Licht to throw up a shield to absorb the blast entirely. But it wasn't until Licht fired his next that severely injured his brother in-law and sent him crashing into the ground, that Lumiere realized the severity of the situation when Zagred reared its blobby, ugly presence.

Zagred: AHAHAHAHA! I really don't know what you're hoping to accomplish there. Clearly didn't work, foolish Royal. Oh... if only you had cooperated in giving your body earlier, this all could've been simply avoided. You wouldn't be nearly suffering as much, now would you? Then again, I wouldn't be able to make much use of your light magic... but another counterpoint, at this rate...... SOON EVERYTHING WILL BE OBLITERATED!

Licht unleashes another cataclismic explosion, lava flows soon developing underneath his feet, Lumiere teleports realizing the situation was only getting worse and worse from here on out.

Lumiere: Licht's magic... it was already strong before but. It's being amplified by the magic stones. If I don't stop him soon, the entire kingdom is... even if I do, what will become of my home... their home? It'll be crushed and reduced to cinders!

Secre: MY PRINCEEEEE!

Lumiere: Was that-

He notices a streak dancing in the air... that streak becoming more noticeable until he found it out to be Secre carrying the device that they had been working on in secret. The very same one used to exterminate the elven population.

Secre: OUR MAGIC ITEM! THE ONE WE MADE WITH THE INTENT TO PRESERVE PEACE AND EQUALITY! WE CAN STILL MAKE OUR DREAM WITH THE ELVES BECOME A REALITY!

Lumiere: Of course! I'm on it!

While Licht condensed a huge amount of mana into a sphere the demon intended to chuck in a effort to destroy more of the kingdom, Lumiere took the device from Secre.

Lumiere: I'll take the Secre and I created.... AND ABSORB HIS MAGIC IN ONE GO!

SHABOOM!

Secre: Will it work?!

The immense pressure he was facing threw the Prince for a loop, causing his bones to shatter and organs to shift around. The pain was indescribable but to Lumiere, it was nothing compared to what the innocents down below him were going through.

Lumiere: GAHHHHHHHH.... JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE!

And all seemed well... until the orb shattered.

Lumiere: I should've figured.... so much magic power wouldn't be able to withstand such a confined space!

But while the orb shattered beyond recognition? Licht's beam also stopped suddenly.

Secre: Licht's power... it's fading rapidly!

Demon Licht: Lum... iere....

Lumiere: Licht?

The Silvamillion Royal is then taken to a different memory.... not one of pain, suffering and death but rather of calm, peace and two friends enjoying the sunset.

Licht: Everything is at long last set. Soon I'll marry Tetia.... and then I'll become your brother. Thinking about it now, I'm sure there are some humans, even those close and related to you by blood that look down on that very notion.

Lumiere: I'm sure you're right Licht... but still with you by my side? We can BOTH create this peaceful and unified utopia we both have strived and struggled for. You've already taken a huge leap by help bridge the gap that much closer by bringing my unborn niece or nephew into the world soon. We're that much closer, I believe it.

Licht: I believe it too. I know the day I met you and your sister, it was fate that we were brought together. For this exact goal.

Demon Licht: This is your chance, please Lumiere! Do not hesitate in worrying if I will hurt. I know you'll make it merciful.

Lumiere: Licht.... I-I can't!

Tears stream down the Prince's face as he involuntarily twitches his hands....

Demon Licht: YOU.... are the future we believed in, I know you'll do what's right friend. You represent hope, Lumiere.

The tears continue to stream but this time a determine glare painted itself on Lumiere's face.

Lumiere: You're right... I WILL STOP YOU LICHT!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Massive light swords dance from the heavens, impaling the very ground beneath the demon and prince, breaking all the columns Licht had once place to deter Lumiere during his rampage.

Demon Licht: ROAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR!

He makes a move to cleave him in half but then he's restrained... the light swords bound the demon in place to where the twisted and warped Licht could not budge! And then... another massive light sword was conceived much bigger than the any of the support ones holding Licht prisoner.

Lumiere: Goodbye... dear friend.

He sends his entire arm forward.... AS THE SWORD IMPALES LICHT RIGHT THROUGH HIS DEMON HEART! And like fireworks strung together, the swords lit up in succession absorbing Licht and blowing him and the entire battlefield up with devastating impact. When all is said and done, Licht begins to crumble into ashes with the people celebrating their royalty's victory as nothing but the iconic skull in today's day and age remained.

Man: PRINCE LUMIERE DEFEATED THAT DEMON!

Man: The Clover Kingdom would've been doomed to hell if it weren't for him! OUR SAVIOR!

Lumiere takes a lasting look at the skull, the last remains of his friend's physical form in the living world..... all the meanwhile Secre quickly scrambled to gather the magic stones used to activate the chaotic fight in the first place. As Licht's grimoire plummeted on top of his skull, Zagred cackled not knowing of the immediate rising anger bubbling from within Secre.

Zagred: Ahahahahaha! You may have prevented me in securing the elf's body but his grimoire is a much different story! Quite the entertaining show after all, humans!

Secre: After what you pulled, I don't think so!

Zagred: What? What's your problem?

Secre: I will not allow you to make off with Licht's grimoire! Not after what you put him through, devil!

Zagred: OOOOOH! Magic Stones, AND WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT'S GOING TO DO TO ME, GIRL?! You're a mere human that wasn't loved by mana, if you attempted to use them, the consequences would be devastating, you wouldn't be able maintain your body for even the weakest spell, GIVE UP!

Secre: I will not... and you're wrong! I'll use the power of the magic stones to enhance my own magic! Sealing Magic, Eternal Prison!

Zagred was quickly horrified to see his taunting had not worked but equally just as much when her spell encased him.

Zagred: Wait a second... I KNOW THIS SPELL?!

Secre: MUST COMPOSE.... MYSELF!

Zagred: Sealing Magic?!

A horn begins to wedge itself forming from Secre's hair while she continues to bind the incomplete devil.

Zagred: Using forbidden magic while throwing away all concern for her mental and physical status?! Her sealing magic is a bit vexing to me still.... but I can still use the magic stones for reincarnation! ....."Come Here".

The magic stones begin to gravitate towards Zagred despite his prison.

Secre: No, the stones!

Zagred: Yes, the stones, girl! Even more despair and pain await the soul who's next to possess the four-leaf clover grimoire! Let's just go ahead and start the path now then shall we? Forbidden Magic, Noad Nepesh!

Unbeknownst to her, the elves corpses began to glow purple all the while Zagred took time to gloat towards Secre....

Zagred: Ahahahahaha! Next time I'll be sure to act more deliberate and careful. You've given me a lot to think about when it comes to humanity. I'll NEVER underestimate you again. And I'll enact my plan... IN AN ERA WHERE YOU TWO MORTALS DON'T EXIST! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha-

His laugh is harshly silenced with his vanishment...... Secre's thoughts without a second hesitation immediately going over onto her master.

Secre: MY PRINCE, YOU'RE ALIVE!

Lumiere: Barely... but you managed to seal that devil. Incredible.... kf... work, Secre. You continue to impress me yet.

Secre: I have.... he's a slippery one but I've managed to restrain him, albeit temporarily.... it won't hold for long I'm afraid Prince Lumiere.

Lumiere smiles but immediately falls into her clutches... a bloody gash still being absorbed into his navy robe. That's when her eyes widen in horror to see a long winding blood trail splatter on top of Licht's cranium.

Secre: No....

Lumiere: This is the way it should be.... Secre... I can't even begin to figure out where the remnants of my family are at... Licht, Tetia... all of the elves... slaughtered. What's one more death to the toll? I kept my promise to Licht... as difficult as it was. So... I'm at peace with everything..... my friend.

Those last words.... hit her like a ton of bricks that came to rest like a final wall... because these were Lumiere's final words... the tears stung Secre's face like swarms of angry hornets raining down hell in the form of protecting their hive. But she wouldn't let him die.... not now.

Secre: Don't talk like that. I'm going to use the Magic Stones to seal you.... It won't be perfect of course.... but the seal itself should be enough to keep you alive. If the devil's seal is broken however..... the peaceful future that you, Tetia, Licht and I sought to build on would be forever at risk of being lost for good and taken away from us.

Lumiere: Secre, no, I can't ask you to do that! If you use any more forbidden magic, you'll lose any more humanity you had remaining!

Secre bobs her head back and forth.

Secre: It's like I said.... I'd rather you not die here, my liege. It's just as Licht said before you mercy-killed him.... You're our last shred of hope until the next generation can stand and oppress this evil. You represent hope, love and integrity. Hope for a better future!

And with that, history had taken its course and over the next several hundred years, Secre as a consequence of using the forbidden magic to seal both Zagred and Lumiere for opposite reasons would be forced to assume the identity of an anti-bird.....

Secre: I've been spared.... but in this paltry form? I'll need help from the next generation of strong humans to quell the devils threat!

Secre: For five hundred years... I had been removed from the natural realm. I watched over the five leaf grimoire, preparing for the day the devil would emerge yet again to wreak havoc after his seal was broken. And the one who had ended up with his grimoire would be none other than... a boy born with no magic to his name. As soon as things had set into motion, momentum had shifted rapidly, and now that day has arrived quickly..... TODAY WHEN WE PUT AN END TO THIS LONG AND TIRESOME FIGHT!

Asta: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! RAHHHHH!

Thanks to the reinforcing of Asta's anti-magic followed by the back up in Patry's light magic and Tyrus and Yuno's respective spirit magics, they had reached the central most chamber Zagred has retreated into carving through his mysterious purple goo that could drain mana and life force in one go.

Asta: I KNEW WE'D FIND YOU UP, YOU LANKY, FREAKY BASTARD!

Zagred: Well, my, my! Aren't you the spunky little elf. You managed to break him out of his despair and dark elf form. Sadly I don't have the time in playing with used toys anymore.

Tyrus: Well, too bad. Make some time, devil. You don't get to run away after everything you've pulled for five hundred years!

Zagred ignores Asta's fellow Black Bull's threat continuing the analyze the growing numbers game....

Zagred: Hmmmm.... it seems that the spell I casted mere moments ago has no effect on anti-magic.... truly a most meddlesome development more than I ever could have imagined!

His train of thought is ruined when suddenly Lumiere and Secre burst through the mass, carving their own near yet destructive path through..

Lumiere: You're done for, devil. Five hundred years in the making and now... Past and Present will meet and cast judgement upon you!

Zagred: You again! To see you both.... I thought it impossible! But not at all unwelcome.

Asta: Hey Tyrus, Yuno... I know my eyes ain't playin' games with my mind but isn't that....

Tyrus: N-No... No way... If I didn't know any better guys...

Yuno: Yeah... you're right.

Asta: Call me insane but doesn't he look like the all-famous and mighty first Wizard King?

Tyrus: Yeah.... now that you mention it-

Asta: NO FREAKIN' WAY! WE'RE FIGHTING WITH HIM?! THE FIRST WIZARD KING, THE WIELDER OF THE FIRST FOUR-LEAF CLOVER GRIMOIRE?! I'M SO STOKED!

Yuno: Calm down, Asta. Blowing a gasket in the middle of a fight isn't gonna get this done any faster.

Tyrus: Pardon my doubts, Sir.... but are you really him? Are you the first ever Wizard King, like the one we've read stories and sing songs about?

Lumiere: Who are they, Secre?

Secre: The one to the far left is an elf revived by forbidden magic. The three next to him are Magic Knights of this era who helped in gathering the magic stones and are protecting the kingdom.

Asta is the first to notice the humanized Nero but Tyrus jumps on it immediately.

Tyrus: Wait a second.... Nero? Is that really you?

Asta: WAITTTTT, THAT'S NERO?!

Tyrus: How can you not tell? That stare is all too telling, Asta.

Secre: It's me.... but we can deal with my appearance later. My liege, we should take up assisting Licht first.

They teleport in front of the still catatonic but responsive Licht.

Lumiere: Licht...

Secre: I'm not sure but if I had to guess.... I'd say that the forbidden magic that was placed on him reincarnated Licht with his soul fully intact.

Lumiere: That's good to know... will you be able to wake him up?

Secre: Have no worries, Sir. He's dormant, but somewhere deep down in there, Licht's fully there. Back then my magic was only good for closing and opening things. But the more time I spent with the prince, my skills gradually over time began to improve. He always found ways to optimize my spells to the maximum potential.... and now thanks to Prince Lumiere's help.... I can break any seal with the state of my sealing magic and how it's currently set!

Tyrus: Whoa... what's she doing?

Asta and Yuno look, just as unsure as their united rival.

Lumiere: Licht.... can you hear us? Are you there?

Licht: !!!

CRACK!

Lumiere's face gleams brightly before it disappears thought the Demon-Dweller Sword, with Licht only then finally able gaining the words to form a sentence for the first time since he briefly awoke after clashing with the three young Royal Knights.

Licht: I finally found the words I could not say to you back then all those centuries ago, Lumiere... I'm very grateful to you. Thank you.

Their auras and in turn their magic powers rise as Zagred realizes the mounting danger despite his own overwhelming power kicking in.

Zagred: It seems your timing has rapidly improved. Good that you made it into this era. You weren't taking the chance of what happened five hundred years. Such tragedy and despair you two went through back then! And I have since learned a very valuable lesson.... THAT I NEED TO KILL THE BOTH OF YOU IN ONE GO!

Everyone meets up on the lone stone fixture high above Zagred pulpy purple mass as Licht and Patry meet for the first since the massarce.

Patry: Licht I-

Licht stops him, talking first.

Licht: Patry, while my soul had been locked deep away in slumber, I had seen everything.

Patry: Everything? I-

Licht: Five hundred years ago, we all fell victim to this devil's scheme... human and elven kind... while I drowned in the despair of having lost Tetia... my unborn children.... someone had the awareness to guide me out of it and to prevent myself from hurting more innocent people, which would let the pain and despair grow even more out of control. My dear friend, Lumiere. Regardless of how it may been done, it's clear someone was able to stop you just in time too, Patry. My dear friend, even though you believed you were wielding your magic and blade for justice.... but to the ones who took that blade to the body, it was an unforgivable crime...

He winces as his mentor's words cut deep but Licht is as quick to pick Patry back up.

Licht: Even if your transgressions cannot be forgiven.... I hope these words are of some comfort to you, Patry. I..... know you tried your best.

Patry feeling the waterworks come down, doesn't battle back but instead lets them come down..

Licht: All that's left for us to do now.... is to combat this unspeakable tragedy without letting our past grievances overcome or cloud our thinking and break our spirits. At long last.... five hundred years of suffering will finally come to an end.

Zagred: I couldn't agree more, filthy elf! Once I swallow up those pitiful feelings of yours, there'll be no more resistance on your end and I'll be free to rule this world now and forever more.

He sends portions of the mass after the group just as both Lumiere and Licht crackle with energy.

Lumiere: Light Magic: Mana Zone, Lamp of Avior-Gloria!

Licht: Sword Magic, Origin Flash-Rampage!

The royal and leader of the elven race destroy major chunks of Zagred's mass, leaving everyone shocked.

Zagred: Incredible, they managed to destroy chunks of my magic at a time, which have been devouring this world's magic like an appetizer! The one who used the most forbidden spell of them all and the other who absorbed all of his magic... The only logic is that they've been affect by THAT world!

He doesn't get a chance to finish when Lumiere and Licht blitz, the former throwing a sword one way with Licht absorbing it through the Demon-Dweller and proceeding to clock Zagred with it.

Zagred: They've gotten even faster!

CLANG! BOOOOOOOOMMMMM!

Asta: N-No way!

BOOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Lumiere: All we have to do to keep up this pace!

Licht: And we if hit him with this type of precision and brutality, he won't be able to counter us with his word soul magic!

Zagred: GA-GRRRR!

STABBBBB!

Tyrus: Son of a bitch, they really stabbed him!

However, it was nothing but a cruel joke played on the first Wizard King.

Zagred: Douve Nuutra Edde!

Summoning a blood trident, he shatters the light sword that had previously stabbed him and returned the favor by cleaning slicing Lumiere's left arm off.

Secre: LUMIERE!

Licht: Lumiere, my friend! That trident he just summoned... can it naturally decay spells!?

Zagred: I must give you both a lot of credit for being able to attack me this much... but it doesn't matter how powerful you might be... Now that I have my own body and grimoire, you have absolutely no chance in winning!

Asta: WANNA BET?!

CLANG!

Before he could kill Lumiere he found himself clashing with Asta, both Tyrus and Yuno breathing heavily after using their combined magics to send him after Zagred.

Zagred: Anti-Magic.....

Licht: Maybe....

Secre: That might do it!

Zagred: This trident was meant to break anything it touches but because he has anti-magic.... still he should be no threat on his own.... Now... GET BACK!

Asta: AHHHH!

Zagred: And I'm not done yet.... TEMPEST OF BLADES!

Asta is initially overwhelmed but is immediately assisted by his Spirit-Dive laden brothers, the elven duo and Wizard King of legend!

Asta: WHEW! THANKS GUYS, I OWE YOU BIG TIME!

Yuno given his elf reincarnation immediately senses Licht's power now that had been fully awoke and it hadn't been like when he, Asta and Tyrus got flat out embarrassed by him the first go around.

Yuno: His power is overwhelming, like this only a few drops in the buckets compared to where he was before.... but it doesn't feel at all menacing or oppressive this time. Almost like a well-defined blade without any weaknesses? So this... is the full power of the awakened elf leader? So then.... why do I get the sense and feeling that it's so nostalgic and warm being around him?

Secre: Sealing Magic, Closed Sorrow! There you should be good to get back to fighting, My Prince.

Lumiere: Amazing! You have my thanks, Secre!

Asta: SOOOOOO COOOOOL!!!! ARE ALL YOUR FRIENDS AS COOL AS THE WIZARD KING?! I still can't believe you're our actual Nero! Like your ki was familiar and all but-

Tyrus: Asta, I quite literally said it was Nero from the jump. Her stare is all too iconic... stop badgering the poor girl before- OWWWWW!

Asta: OOOOWWWWW OW! OW!

Secre: Focus on the fight you two.

Tyrus: I AM! I AM! PLEASE STOP PINCHING MY CHEEK, THAT HURTS!

Asta: WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?! I'M GONNA CRY!

Zagred: Ahahahahahaha! Well seeing as how you sealed me, I'm not surprised you were able to seal his arm back into place and make it look like it child's play. Your magic is still pitiful, like a weed in the garden full of sunflowers and roses compared to the magic inside of that of a Four-Leaf Clover Grimoire.

Secre: Silence, you stain of the world! Long ago, His Royal Highness found ways to utilize even my lowly magic and bring out even the most devastating and powerful possibilities. That I could make the world better than it already was before you showed up!

Lumiere: It's true I have a four-leaf grimoire and light magic.... so I'm always used to people telling my magic is amazing and what not. I really tend to not think of it anything special. To me, I believe everyone has just as much a right to be unique or amazing. We're all different, are we not?

Secre: I don't know.... all my magic is good is opening and closing things.... so I just feel useless.

Lumiere: Secre, what have I told you about thinking yourself in that way? I'm sure there are plenty of ways to bring the best out of your sealing magic. In ways you haven't began to think about. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from... there are only some things that you can do that others can't.

She was flabbergasted.

Secre: Things.... only I can do?

Lumiere: Yes... that's why we're making these magic items now, Secre. Think now, if every person tried to use their magic for everyone instead of just for themselves? This world, not just the Clover Kingdom would be a spectacular place.....

Secre: The only way you know how to survive.... IS TO STEAL FROM OTHERS AND MAKE THEM MISERABLE! But now those you stomped all over, made a mockery of and looked down upon for their happiness and bliss? ARE GOING TO DEFEAT TODAY WITHOUT ERROR!

Zagred: Well, you should probably get a move on it! No matter how many times you blow up my magic, twist it, distort, freeze or destroy... so long as I survive, there's no true and definitive way to beat it out entirely! And given the exit is on this very floor, and all your friends are on the lower levels unaware of what awaits them... the more likely you all will wither away together.

Asta: YOU WERE PLANNING THIS FROM THE START! YOU CONNINVIN' FREAK!

Patry: If not even Licht and Lumiere's magics were enough to stop him, what chance do we have all together in standing against him?!

Tyrus: Then..... we know what have to do.... WE KILL YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN, UNTIL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT!

Licht floats high enough to where he's a ways back of Zagred but can meet him eye to eye....

Licht: I agree with the young male human who wields ice magic.... my friends and I shall rid this place of not only this accursed magic of yours but you as well. And we shall do it with a blow mighty combined with all of our magics!

Patry: Be careful, Licht!

He raises the Demon-Dweller Sword...

Licht: I'll be borrowing some of your power....

Meanwhile with Yami and Charla....

Yami: Yeah.... thinkin' about it now, this was probably a bad idea in hindsight.

Charla: Yes, you think, human? This space is too cramped, you can't make it just a bit wider?!

The bad idea in question? His Dark Cocoon being continually absorbed and their space growing smaller and smaller due to the invading mass of Zagred's unknown incantation devouring the rest like it was nothing....

Yami: That's what you worrying about, Prickly Princess? You're seriously asking me that dumbass question when we're on the brink of death right now, and that's how you thank me? You're definitely Charlotte on the outside despite being someone totally different on the inside.

Plop! Plop!

Yami: Fuck.... at this rate, Dark Cocoon is just going to melt and break at this point and then chip away at my magic till I'm nothin' but skin and bones. Have it to give it you, had you not known recovery magic, our deaths would've really come that much faster. Good on you.

Charla: Tch... You're welcome brute. Hm?!

Yami: Um... so quick question, you always glow when you take a compliment in stride or-

Charla: No.... this must be!

An unconscious Lira having been beaten to near death by the Hybrid Charmy lay on his back as she gloated.

Charmy: THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR WASTING MY PRECIOUS FOOD, YOU CLOWN! BEHOLD THE POWER.... OF A NON-STOP APPETITE! Hm?

Soon every elf in the building began emitting the same strange glow as Patry, Yuno and Charla that had been in the Shadow Palace. Rhya had been the last to do so as the powers of the elves converged all on Licht and the Demon Dweller Blade.

Rhya: It's.... Him... He's awake finally!

Licht: At long last. Five hundred years in the making.... you will face the true wrath of the elven race, and I shall avenge Tetia and my unborn child! Ultimate Sword Magic, DEMON-DWELLER SWORD-CONQUERING EON!

He unleashes a blinding blast which incinerates Zagred and obscures everyone's vision.

Zagred: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! NOOO! NOOO! NOOOOOOO!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!

Tyrus: I-Inconceivable.... he decimated that devil like it was child's play...

Asta: NO WAY!

Yuno angrily gripped his knuckles...... while Secre utters the words.

Secre: We won....

Patry: He's dead.... YOU DID IT LICHT! AH!

Tyrus: No.... I just picked the faintest trace of evil energy... Licht did fuck him up for what it was worth but...

Thanks to their respective Spirit Dive, Tyrus and Yuno have enhanced vision and sight but it's Patry who sees it first.

Tyrus: You guys hear that? They sound almost like....

Secre: Heartbeats....

Tyrus: Exactly. But more importantly....
In the debris.... lay a lone heart thumping and pumping freely in the open space where Zagred had once roamed ever so casually.

Patry: No.... NO..... NOOOOO! It's that devil's heart....

Zagred: Heal Me, Now...

And as soon as the words were uttered, his ashes began surrounding the vital organ, that ever so uneasy cackle filling the room.

Zagred: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! WERE YOU ALL NOT LISTENING EARLIER?! I JUST SAID, THERE'S NO MAGIC THAT CAN KILL ME! At least not from magic in this world, that is!

Tyrus: BULLSHIT, AFTER ALL THAT THE ELF LEADER JUST DID TO YOU?! YOU'RE BLUFFING!

While everyone began to doubt the new challenge ahead, Asta looked at Licht with bewilderment.

Asta: Wait... is that the true power of the Demon Dweller sword? I thought I knew everything there was to know about it.... so if he unlocked it's true potential... maybe one of these swords... HAS A SECRET I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YET?! If I unlock, not only do we have a chance but I'm that much closer to catching up with Ty and Yuno! I couldn't erase that devil's spear but I was able to block his attack before he could kill the first Wizard King! It just probably means my anti-magic at that point was too weak to break it but at the same time it was still effective!

He looks at his brothers both in the Azure Dragon Spirit Dive and Yuno's unnamed Spirit Dive and the elf leader Licht as he lets the anti-magic pour out of him with his Black Asta state reaching its current ceiling.

Asta: Alright... If I can fight like those three as hard as they do! Then there's something only I can do and it's because.... I HAVE NO DAMN MAGIC!

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End of Chapter Ninety-Seven/LXXXXVII!