Narrator: Within the Clover's fifth leaf, there lives the devil. Asta, born into this world without the ability to harness mana, was granted the mysterious and powerful ability called Anti-Magic from his five leaf grimoire, the talent to cancel or otherwise nullify all spells or attacks targeting him. Unfortunately-

Silhouettes of the Dark Triad's Vanica, Dante and Zenon are all shown with a brilliantly flaming tree of sorts behind them.

Narrator: The members of the Spade Kingdom's Dark Triad all possess powers granted to them by devils from the underworld and use them to launch a heinous invasion on their neighboring countries of Clover, Heart and Diamond. Gaining the strength from belief in himself and from the support of his friends-

Visuals of all the major players from Yuno, Tyrus and Noelle, and all nine of the Magic Knights Captain are displayed behind Asta as he races toward the Dark Triad and a malicious giant presence, riding on the Demon Slayer Sword.

Narrator: Asta continues to fight hard and passionately for the safety of this world.

Svenkin: Hahahahahaha! It doesn't matter to me how fast, gritty or determined you are, it ain't helping you now. So just give up. Your putrid Lightning Magic stands no chance against my body. You're bruised, bloodied and battered and you're not giving up? Seriously, give me a break.

Svenkin: Oh come now, kid, did you think that was going to work? Please. My skin can not only harden and materialize to my liking, but it can also pick up on your mana as well, you know. It's that reactive so it automatically protects me from harm- eh?

Luck: HAAAA!

Svenkin: He ditched a piece of his armor, did he? A pretty clever thing you did there, but it's not like you're still going to win the day, little man. In exchange for that little second tomfoolery, let me show you how clever I can get too!

Svenkin: Skin Magic, Skin Fort! MAGIC SHELLS FOR ALL, AND THEY'RE FREE!

Svenkin: If that's the case then- I'm just going to make my defense all that much more impenetrable and harder to get through. See if you can crack through this now that body is as solid as a rock wall! NEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA- What?!

Luck: More! More! MOREEEEEE!

Svenkin: Wait... hold on! Something isn't right about what you're doing, you should be exhausted, tapped out of mana, flat out gassed right now! Just what the hell are you up to, brat!

Luck: MOREEEEEEE!

Svenkin: I-I-It doesn't matter how many of those arrays you make- my skin magic will stand up to them and your paltry Lightning Magic no problem!

Luck: FASTER!

Svenkin: Whatever you're planning, IT WON'T WORK! I WILL NOT LOSE TO THE LIKES OF YOU! NOT WITH THE GLORY OF LADY VANICA AT STAKE!

Luck: TRUE LIGHTNING MAGIC, CERANOS!

Svenkin: Impossible... he went through me?! No way.... I could have been defeated so easily! Did he... did he use all of that mana stored inside of himself to turn himself into actual bolt of lightning?!

Luck: Heh.... that was fun. Thanks for the fight and pain!

Svenkin, a Dark Disciple under the charge of Vanica of the Dark Triad who attacked the Heart Kingdom under her orders and defeated Smurik, the Spirit Guardian of Wind had found himself locked in battle against Luck and was promptly defeated shortly thereafter.

Meanwhile back in the neutral zone that separated both the Clover and Spade Kingdoms, the Black Bulls hideout along with Asta, Henry, Gauche, Grey and Vanessa were violently ambushed by Vanica's older brother and fellow Dark Triad member Dante, who dealt Gauche a lethal blow through his abdomen.

Asta: STOP, DON'T DO IT!!!

PLSSSHHHH!

Vanessa: OH NO, GAUCHE!

Grey: HE HURT GAUCHE!

After recalling her chance encounter with her sibling obsessed squadmate and the trauma she endured as a child, Grey with the help of an unknown spell had miraculously healed Gauche and saved him from the brink of death.

Vanessa: Grey... what did you just do? She- she sealed the wound he just had! I didn't think her Transformation Magic could do something like this. What is this spell she's using?

Asta, his emotions twisted and manipulated due to his friends' suffering transformed into a more ravenous and malignant form of his Black State but even with a simple strike which drew blood from Dante, this alone was not enough to defeat him.

Dante: Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Magnificent, wonderful, how sublime! YET ANOTHER ARCANE STAGE FIGHTER THAT YAMI SUKEHIRO HAD IN HIS RANKS! Both of your abilities are going to rot in a place such as this. It's been decided then, both of you will be my women from now on!

Seeing this having already made short work of Asta, Dante boldly claimed he was going to take both Grey and Vanessa as his mistresses who would serve only his needs after seeing their magics in action. Then suddenly as if like a Guardian Angel, Yami had returned to the field of battle after the special Captains' Meeting!

Yami: Hey, Asshole! That's my squad you're trying to claim for yer sick purpose..... so keep yer fuckin' mitts off of them. Please and Thank You.

However what he hadn't realized was that the entire time, he was Dante's target all along and another vicious battle ensued. He believed with Yami's arcane level of Dark Magic, he was the key that would connect our world with t that of the underworld.

Yami: If Vanessa and Grey were "arcane-stage" at any point, then it's the first time I'm hearing about their asses reaching that territory. And another thing, you clown. They ain't here to serve me as you put it, I just brought them onto my squad because I happened to like 'em. Mana Zone, Condense.

Dante: AH HA!

Yami: Dark Cloaked, Iai Slash! Sorry to burst your bubble bitch ass boy.... but my people aren't goin' anywhere. Not with ya least of all, you damn creeper.

Dante: GAHHHHHHHHH!

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Asta didn't know where he was at, one minute he was leaving the Heart Kingdom with Finral Roulacase, his superior to visit with the Black Bulls as part of a break to prepare for the ever looming war against Spade. The next minute, the base situated in the neutral dead zone between the Clover and Spade Kingdoms witnessed itself get casually uplifted from its foundation by one of the Dark Triad in Dante Zogratis, another he found himself, Vanessa, Grey, Gauche and Henry in battle, the sister obsessed Black Bull suffering one of the most gruesome injuries a Magic Knight could find themselves with, a sword clean through his gut. Everything had been coming at the Intermediate Knight like a mana cyclone.... but now he found himself in a unfamiliar zone, where the pressures were hot like a volcano, and a sinister voice calls out to him saying the word....

Devil: KILL! KILL! I'LL KILL THEM ALL! I'LL KILL EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE OF THEM! THEY... MUST PAY! KILL. KILL. KILLLLLLLLL!

Asta wasn't sure what make of what his devil was saying, well of course he clearly understood the word it was spamming repeatedly. But as for the context, Asta was having the most difficult time figuring it out.

Asta: W-what? What do you mean, killing?

Devil: KILL THEM ALL!

The next minute, the heat subsides and the magic-less wonder comes back to the real world, finally gaining some sanity back from his berserker Black State. His eyes fight against the setting sun's rays, taking in the damages of the base thanks the Dante's shenanigans...

Asta: Ughhhh... what happened? My body won't move at all- WAIT WHAT ABOUT GAUCHE?! Ohhhh... thank God, I can still sense his ki from over here. Good he's alive! That fuckin' jerk from Spade-

His eyes fully open when everyone sees Dante suffer a gnarly chest wound courtesy of Yami's new spell, the Iai Slash who all but looks shocked that someone had succeeded in landing such a devastating blow.

Yami: You see by using my Iai blade, if I cast my Mana Zone with any amount of condensed mana... then it's never goin' to miss its target.

Dante: Oh? Is that correct, hahahahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

He turns around once more to face the Black Bulls' Captain, Dante's body armor completely destroyed as it crumpled underneath his boots, the blood loss not even striking fear into the Dark Triad's heart or even fazing him in the slightest.

Dante: I'm honestly surprised. I never thought anyone would force me into using this magic!

His Spade grimoire glows a violent purple with Yami looking intently as puffy liquids transmogrify all over his body, and soon.... his otherwise lethal wound disappears altogether.

Yami: What in the actual hell is he doing now?

Vanessa: This spell... is far more complex and different than the other techniques he was using against us earlier in the fight. What's going on now?

Dante: I love it... all this rage, this envy, malice, and hatred! I LOVE IT ALL! I JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THESE FEELINGS! You continue to find ways in impressing me, Yami Sukehiro!

Yami: Hm?

Dante: You see, I was bored with absolutely everything that this world had to offer me.... There was nothing in this world for I nay my brother or sister.

He thinks back to harder times when he had to fight as the eldest not just for himself but also Zenon and Vanica... killing a predatory wolf that had been on the hunt for human blood, his in particular, and another instance where a celebration had been held for a recent victory he had claimed for the Spade Kingdom during the rule of the Grinberryalls all the while he had begun to process his eventual ascension or rather rebellion to the top.

Dante: That could slake or extinguish this extreme malice... Yami, my dear prey.

He flashes back to the moment he started said rebellion, callously and inhumanely murdering Yuno's father Loyce and putting his mother, the true Queen in Ciel to unknown whereabouts..... before opening his eyes again and look directly at Yami with deadly, almost destructive lust stitched into his expressions.

Dante: Believe me when I say, this is only the beginning for what I and my siblings have in store for this wretched and sickeningly weak world. And soon, you're going to be the one who opens a brand new world for me!

Yami: If I have to say knock the creepy bullshit off again, I swear to God, I'm gonna off myself you damn creep. Speak normally, and your goatee looks like shit. But real deal, you keep talking about me and being this key to the underworld, so spill. 'Cuz I honestly have no fuckin' idea what the fuck you're raging on about. Pretty sure I'm not all that special, pal, you want special, go find my members that are royalty and long lost nobility, they'll get you right.

Dante: Don't flatter yourself, Yami Sukehiro. You're not the actual key to the underworld, per se, but rather..... it's your arcane magic I'm after. To give you brief summary so that your feeble mind can understand it, what I'm after is a magical channel referred to as the Tree of Qliphoth. And for us to bring that channel into the existence, we require two things. Dark Magic and World Tree Magic, both of which are at the arcane-stage. Which means- that are our two crucial players here are you... And William Vangeance, Captain of the Golden Dawn Magic Knight Squad.

Yami: Fuck, so these rampaging clowns already know about William's magic? All right, real talk, let's say Feathers and I actually do happen to connect our world to the the underworld. What happens next?

Dante: Hahahahahaha. Then your "world" as you so eloquently put it, is going to be wrought and infested with devils! And once they've taken over? MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! IT'LL BE A WONDEROUS AND BEAUTIFUL CELEBRATION OF BLOODSHED, EVERY POSSIBLE KIND OF MALICE YOU COULD IMAGINE YAMI, IT WOULD HAPPEN AND DESCEND UPON THIS LAND LIKE AN UNSTOPPABLE TIDAL WAVE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The Black Bulls stand shocked at his proclamation for what the Dark Triad was planning. They knew they were planning something by attempting to make off with Yami and now with William unaccounted for, now they realized if they couldn't beat Dante let alone the remaning of the Triad? The world as they know it with all people they've come to know and love, would cease to exist.

Dante: AND THAT'LL BE QUITE THE SPECTACLE, AM I RIGHT, YAMI SUKEHIRO?!

Yami instead of answering kick switches his Iai blade for his usual katana, anger now etched to his face ready for the second round between himself and the eldest member of the sinister sibling trio blowing the last of his smoke from his cigarette out.

Yami: That's fucking it.... No more chit chat bitch, I'm taking your ass down right now!

(Meanwhile in the Heart Kingdom...)

Charmy had split away from Luck, Leopold and Selene in an effort to assist the Spirit Guardians who had since been soundly defeated by their Dark Disciple opponents, the miniature yet obese glutton mascot of the Black Bulls found herself roaming the towering inferno that was the signature Heart Kingdom forest in search and rescue mode. And when I mean search and rescue with Charmy, not people but... you guessed her delicious noms.

Charmy: These jerks are out here burning the forest till there's nothing left meaning if I don't get going, there won't be anymore delicious noms for me to harvest, and they're all sick in the head if they think I'm just going to let that happen! WHOA!

She races towards to most intense and violent of the inferno as we get look at yet another Dark Disiciple, her hair roaming just violently and thuggishly looking to maim any and all who dare stand in her path and mission sworn to Vanica. And each coil of her thick, luscious and seemingly endless mane. Torches, which casually sparked the violent wildfire, this young lady soaking in the horror-filled screams of both animals and humans alike. Her appearance was easy on the eyes but her heart and mind, uglier than a witch having a bad face card and hair day. Her name was Halbet Chevour and she served the demonic and sadistic Vanica Zogratis.

Halbet: O lovely flames, engulf me and my gorgeous hair in your endless warmth!

Villager: This can't be happening... Not the Polnfrume Forest!

Villager: We're done for....

Those who watched helplessly as Potrof put up a valiant fight against young Dark Disciple were horrified to see in the manner in which the Plant Guardian was easily dismantled. Thanks to overconfidence in her victory, the villagers bravely fought back in getting Potrof out of the hellblaze which proved successful as there were no casualties on the commoners end.

Villager: These monsters took down a Spirit Guardian! WHAT CHANCE DO WE HAVE?!

Villager: If Sir Potrof hadn't diverted when he did to shield us, we would all be dead right now!

Halbet: Consider yourselves all lucky.... while it maybe true you're all going to die here today, take solace in knowing the immaculate and divine beauty of Dark Disciple Halbet Chevour was the last thing going to be engrained into your sad little existences-

Charmy: What the hell do you think you're doing here?

She turns around coming face to face with an absolutely irritated Charmy, who on her way to confront the Dark Disciple witnessed various torched tree and deceased wildlife she had intended on consuming before the attacks... but this hussy and her vagabond group prevented such a feast for Charmy happening.

Halbet: Oh? Well my, my, my... it seems an ghastly fatty has arrived on the battlefield.

Villager: Sir Potrof, Charmy's arrived!

Potrof opens his eyes bleakly, casting a shocked look at the Black Bull, his expression evident.

Potrof: Charmy.... I believe in you, girl..... take this demon down!

Charmy takes one last painful look at the exorbitant amount of fruits and vegetables that had been smashed either Halbet wickedness and hair magic or the peoples' desperation in getting themselves and Potrof out of the already unruly flames set ablaze. She thinks back to a time, the day after she accepted Potrof's proposal to help her and Rill in the art of Mana Method and Mana Words... and the memories all came back flooding in full speed... which only ever served to piss off Charmy even more.

Boy: Hey, look everyone, it's Charmy!

Villager: Well, how about that. You snuck away from your training again, didn't you?

Girl: You wanna take a snack break with us? Oh please, Charmy!

Potrof: I can tell how incredibly talented you are! And the thing, you haven't begun to scratch the surface there, Charmy! Let's continue to do our best so we can protect our homes!

Charmy: You... won't get away with this!

And just as suddenly as she threatened Halbet's life, a massive mana array appeared, producing her Giant Sheep spell which cocked back a massive cotton fist.

Sheep: BLEAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT!

Villager: Incredible, she summoned her magical giant sheep!

Villager: Please Charmy, save us!

However the Dark Disciple was none too impressed and even flipped her hair dismissively as to not even acknowledge the Black Bull.

Halbet: Fu... Fu... It seems your magic is just weak, pitiful and soft as you are.

Sending her follicles into an attacking frenzy, the mana-induced sheep cocks its fist back and smashes through Halbet's seemingly endless mane.... but this is what she wanted as the hair impaled albeit harmlessly the sheep every which way, given it was completely cotton.

Halbet: Well, it seems I was wrong to underestimate you. Our spells are completely phasing through one another. Perhaps this is what they mean when they say "affinity."

The sheep thunderously bleats out as it rares another attack towards Halbet....

Halbet: But you see my little stuffed friend, there's one major difference between the two of us in this present moment and that is-

Her hair shields her from the incoming fist of Charmy's Sheep, effectively negating all magic that would have otherwise damaged the glutton's extremely vain opponent!

Halbet: MY magic can protect me from incoming attacks like yours.

PLSSHHHHHHHHHH!

And in a storm of platinum blonde hair, several strands come together to form a storm of follicle blades, and begin ripping away at Charmy! Any part of Charmy that had been protected by a natural mana boost or from her magic was fair game and soon she found her own blood sprinkling the smoky and fiery skies of the Heart Kingdom.

Halbet: Meanwhile, your magic doesn't serve to shield or protect you at all... SO YOU'RE WIDE OPEN AND PATHETICALLY HELPLESS! And thanks to the devil's power that was bestowed upon I by Lady Vanica, my hair isn't just long, luscious or devastatingly beautiful, it's also impossibly strong and deadly!

The villagers watch in horror as Charmy falls to the ground with a thud, her sheep dissipating while Halbet continued to verbally assassinate Charmy's makeup, frame and character just in the same moment she whipped out a syringe, its contents unknown.

Halbet: Your disgusting roly-poly body stood no chance against me, let alone escaping from my clutches now. Why bother with something as annoying as food. Eating.... Is a foolish waste, little girl. I've found the only things you ever need in life are that of unlimited strength and maximum beauty. That is the proper nutrition a woman of my divine looks needs and requires. That being said, your unsightly fatness, is an eyesore to me.

She uses her hair to wrap around Charmy like a boa constrictor, seizing the endless eater in an cocoon of sorts as she began to celebrate her victory.

Halbet: So as token of my gratitude, I'm going to embrace you in my beauty until you breathe your very last breath....

Charmy: Hey....

Halbet: Uh...

Charmy: Didn't I tell you... when I got here?

Instead of suffocating like the Dark Disciple hadn't intended for Charmy to do, the lovable Black Bull instead morphed once again into her adult form and her wolf companion bursting out of it.

ROOOOOOOAAAAR!

Charmy: I won't let you get away with this!

Wolf: GRRRRRRRR!

It was this point Halbet actually began to sweat and unlike the commoners she had spent last thirty to forty minutes terrorizing after she soundly defeated Potrof who were baking in the fire and embers of the relentless flames.... this was pure fear the Vanica's Dark Disciple had been exhibiting.

Halbet: Impossible... what is that? This, this thing... she's not even devil-possessed and yet she can transform herself? HOW IS SHE DOING THIS AFTER THE WAY I'VE BEATEN..

Wolf: Is it time, yet my friendddddd?

Charmy: Yes... let's make this bitch pay for wasting all of these precious eats! Food Magic, GLUTTON'S BANQUET!

Wolf: ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAR!

The Mana Array glows intensely and the wolf's customary utensils come out to play and Halbet finds herself now the prey and not the predator. She dodges the fork and knife before coming to a stopping point.

Wolf: It seems as if we have quite the slippery and elusive opponent on our hands.

Charmy: Well, then...

She forms an overlapping mana array over her original and before knew it, multiple kitchen utensils sprung up out of nowhere and Halbet is seemingly sent to a dimension not in the Heart Kingdom.

Charmy: I'M JUST GOING TO COOK HER!

Halbet: What?! NO STAY AWAY!

But the antagonists' pleas go unacknowledged as a giant pepper shaker comes down on top of the devil-possessed.

Halbet: GAHHH! What's happening to me?!

Charmy: What you seem to fail in realizing is that the Mana Method IS MY KITCHEN! And when I use it to cook something-

She subjects Halbet to a scorching pot of pasta as soon tomato sauce, butter, salt and pepper are all added into the pot, her screams being drowned out by the sizzling nature of the dish.

Charmy: ANY DISH THAT I COOK UP WILL BECOME DELICIOUS! AND MY WOLF BUDDY IS SURE TO SCARF IT ALL DOWN WITH NO COMPLAINTS!

The pasta in question, now revealed to be the endless trap of Halbet's hair continued to sizzle and sizzle with the villagers and Potrof all watching on, her screams filling the fiery skies.

Potrof: I always knew her and Rill were powerful, but not even I would figure Charmy to be this terrifying. I can't believe she was capable of causing this much destruction against her opponent!

The wolf, after it and Charmy had completed their defeat of Halbet look at her, turned into essentially a plate of human spaghetti while she rants and raves about her mane being converted into pasta.

Halbet: Damn you! HOW DARE YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO SOMEONE SO GORGEOUS AND BEAUTIFUL! Wait, wait- NO, PLEASE!

Wolf: This dish... looks pretty TASTY! HERE WE GO, DOWN THE HATCH YOU WILL BE CONSUMED!

It begins scarfing her hair, like a gluttonous black hole devouring stars her screams not enough to quell the beast's appetite. When all is said and done, her screams are halted and soon the blonde devil-possesed hair mage is left with nothing more than a short bob, revealing the size of her horns. Halbet desperately wafts her hands through the air, in search of her locks but precisely as stated, she grabs nothing but air. But her nightmare is far from over.

Halbet: EEEEEEEEEEE-

Charmy: THIS IS WHAT YOU GET AND DESERVE FOR-

She begins battering the Disciple with a heavy calvacade of strikes, more missing than hitting but Charmy didn't care, so long as she felt she had gotten her pound of flesh against the villain and her loss, she would be satisfied.

Charmy: DISRESPECTING FOOD, YOU SHAMELESS ASSHOLE!

Halbet: GUHHHHHHHH!

Charmy: The ONLY way to gain true beauty and strength... IS FROM A BALANCED DIET!

The cheers coming pouring in for the Black Bulls' Black Hole, their lives intact and the threat neutralized.

Villager: Thank you for saving us, Charmy!

Villager: YOU ATE THAT WITCH FOR DINNER, NICE ONE!

While Charmy and Luck were successful in gaining ground against the partially-to-halfway powered Dark Disciples, it was little bit more difficult story for Leopold Vermillion and Selene Hail who were a long way away from the duo of Black Bulls. The Crimson Lion King and Blue Rose Knight.... having descended on their Spirit Guardian mentor Floga who he himself like Smurik and Potrof had been beaten badly by their darkened opponent. They described the already detoriating situation to the Magic Knights.

Villager: He took down the Fire Spirit Guardian, Sir Floga! If he couldn't beat these guys, what chance do they have?

Villager: Yes, I don't think I ever seen such a technique such as that before.

Villager: How are you even supposed to dodge it.... but we must trust these two young people from the Clover Kingdom, but even I must confess they don't stand a chance.

Leo balances himself against as he displayed some scratches on his face while Selene continued to breathe heavily in and out, the sister of Tyrus exhibiting a nearly destroyed Blue Rose Knights cape, a couple of blood trails, one from her forehead which was minor but dribbling down to her ear and making its way down to her neck and another, splotching the ground beneath her and her teammate from shoulder suggesting something much gruesome lay underneath her attire and armor.

Leo: How are you hanging in there, Selene? Are you sure you're not hurting, I can take over and you can go to Floga-

Selene: Ha! I get the whole trying to be chivalrous thing, Leo but trust me, I'm fine. I'm more worried about Charmy and Luck, we haven't heard from either one of them since we split up. But this guy right here, he's actually starting to grate my very last nerve.

They look up, stopping their conversation when they find a massive eyeball... just staring at them all weirdly. Little would you be hinted at the fact this eye is the major reason both Selene and Leo were on the run and hiding from their opponent when suddenly a blue bolt of mana hits the Intermediate Magic Knight under Charlotte Roselei's command in her right side.

Selene: GAHHHH!

Leo: Selene!

He soon feels something dig into his back too, when aggressive mana hits him at a high rate of speed. Shutting himself from crying out in anger and pain, he thinks internally, wondering JUST wondering where he and his ally's opponent was cowardly withdrawing themselves to.

Leo: WHERE ARE YOU?!

He locks into a decently unburned portion of the Polnfrume Forest and in that distance he finds the caster of magic responsible for battering he and Selene the way he had. His name was Sivoir Snyle who took great pleasure in dealing the damage.

Sivoir: Well, now! They're super resilient, those last couple of blows didn't even pierce their bodies. But my question is how long they can last. I predict the girl goes down first, since her mana's rapidly declining faster than the boy's. But in the next few minutes they'll both be dead and I'll gain Lady Vanica's favor that much quicker! Just remember it doesn't matter whereever you run you pathetic little neophytes, I'll always know where you're going, but please keep resisting! I like the smell of a fresh kill and you'll both be so riddled with holes, you'll be begging for me to kill you! ALL THANKS TO SIVOIR SNYLE, DARK DISCIPLE UNDER LADY VANICA ZOGRATIS! I'm casting an Eye Magic spell called the Catoblepas's Evil Eye.... My eyes are everywhere and will track you and that hussy's every step, boy. Not only that but they scout out your magic and stamina. And by watching your eyelines and the pattern of your muscle movement, I can predict what the two of you are going to do next.

Selene promptly discards her cape, not as a sign of disrespecting Charlotte and her Sister in Arms but because it mostly torn to shreds at this point and this..... it really pissed her off.

Selene: My robe.... my robe.... WHEREEVER THE HELL YOU'RE HIDING YOU CRETIN, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY BY WHAT YOU'VE DONE BECAUSE WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, YOU WILL WISH FOR DEATH! MY SISTER IN ARMS PULI ANGEL MADE THIS FOR ME! Leo!

Leo: Huh?

Selene: I know it's rude of me to uproot whatever plan we had, but I got a new one! Can you trust me?

Leo: We're Magic Knights, I'd hope you be offended if I didn't hear you out! What do you have?

Sivoir: Once I've locked onto my target, or targets in this case.... I'll fire at them using the shells that I create from condensed mana. Mahahahahahahahaha! AND MY BULLETS NEVER MISS THEIR TARGETS!

Leo: It's a crazy plan but it'd work better than anything we've tried! All right, I trust you!

Selene: Glad to know it, let's just hope this ends without either one of us getting killed!

Selene gets on top of the ledge where Floga had been right before Leo gets knocked off by one Sivoir's Magic Bullets, which sends him hurtling off of it.

Leo: GAHHHHH! Damn it all.

He takes a moment to look over at the prone and unconscious body of Floga, still knocked out...

Leo: Floga's down... and Selene's injured because I wasn't a good enough teammate!

Floga: I think you're bound to get better results as the training continues and if you try to simply focus on your strengths.

Leo: My strengths.... like what?

Floga: Leopold.... you didn't get this far just based on talent. You also did it with great pace, patience and determination. With Selene, her technique has grown as her power improves. It's the inverse with you, your power grows while your technique improves. With every day of practice. You're the type of person who has the strength and resilience to endure any obstacle put in front of them. I mean, you're you, am I right?

Leo: The strength to endure anything?

Leo: I just have to sharpen my senses, and buy her some time! KFFFFF-HAAAAA!

Selene: LEOPOLD!

She senses a bullet coming her way, narrowly dodging it as she continues to hatch her plan whatever it was.

Leo: I'VE GOT YOU NOW... YOU COWARD! ARE YOU READY, SELENE!

His head now bloodied, he calls out to the Blue Rose Knight who stood across from him on the platform their mentor was.

Selene: I WAS BORN READY, VERMILLION!

FLAME MAGIC....

Leo: PROFOUND SPIRAL FLAMES!

Selene: Magma Twister.... HELIOS IMPACT!

They fire their own long range attacks in Sivoir's general direction but after a few seconds of nothingness, Leo once again is hit hard but his magic.

Sivoir: Fools, did you honestly think I wouldn't see that coming from a mile away let alone dodge such a predictable. It doesn't matter whatever clever tricks you two may come up with that the Heart Kingdom taught. I am simply better than you in every way.

Leo: It took far longer for him to throw something at us than what he's used to... that's because he had to evade not one but two attacks.

Sivoir watches both attacks narrowly but at the same time sloppily miss and he begins making the mistake of taunting two Magic Knights of the Clover Kingdom, cackling in the same motion.

Sivoir: Please keep trying to close the distance, I'll just keep creating more of it.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

Leo: GAH! It's just as I figured... all three of us are moving, but we aren't any more further apart than what we were.

Selene: AHHH! So instead of trying to finish us off, it's more like he's trying to prolong our suffering because he thinks we're weaker so he's intentionally backing away but staying in range to fight!

Sivoir: Here's a little fun fact for the two of you, no one and I do mean no one's been able to critically injure me in battle yet. In fact I haven't tasted any pain at all.... so if you thought to bratty simpletons like you two would ever be able to hit anything remotely to a decisive blow.... are just plain hopeless and delusional!

BOOOOM!

Leo: Must.... Not.... GIVE UP! Have to trust whatever plan Selene has laid out, so that means enduring until we can find a way to bring him down!

Sivoir: You don't know when to quit, do you boy? You should have just rolled over.... DIEEEEEE!

More gunshots are overheard throughout the forest canopy and they are so thunderous in their reverberations, even Luck and Charmy could them.... the villagers and Selene were horrified at what they were witnessing.

Selene: Leo....pold.... I'm sorry!

He falls down, the blood now dripping from heavily from his present forehead wound was now being mixed with sweat...

Leo: Yeah.... you're right about something.... I'll never have as much talent as my older brother or sister. But even so, I'll still have them to look up.... I've held strong and continued to let my inner flame keep on blazing! It's the same with Selene and how she looks up to Tyrus. A burning, almost gnawing feeling of resolve!

Sivoir: I hope you two realize guts and endurance will not help save face or strengthen your odds here today! Time to finish- wait a second.

He realizes his Evil Eye spell were all submerged in water but even worse, he seemingly lost sight quite literally of the fire mages belonging to the Crimson Lion and Blue Rose squads. They desperately go on the search for Leo and Selene..... but fail in picking them up.

Sivoir: Where- where are they?

He then notices two mana arrays... one on top of him, and the other situated below his feet, in fact these two Mana Circles encapsulated the entire battlefield he had been torturing Floga, Selene and Leo not to mention his captives in, further shocking the Dark Disciple.

Sivoir: WHAT? THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! WHERE DID THESE ENORMOUS ARRAYS ORIGINATE FROM?! When did he have a chance-

Selene: Sorry to keep you waiting.

Leo: But as you can see, we're still standing and we've endured you so that we could take our time not only formulating our strategy....

Selene: But also we needed some time to create it, but to do so, we needed to give you the false sense that you had us both dead to rights. And you were so focused on keeping your eyes towards Leo, you had no idea what I was concocting!

Sivoir then realized he was too cocky in punishing the trio of the Spirit Guardian and in turn the Magic Knights that his awareness somewhat had dwindled from his original goal of killing them and the Heart Kingdom citizens as quickly as possible.

Sivoir: NO! I HAVE TO GET OUT OF THIS ARRAY!

Selene: Aww, why the harrowing look? Stay a little bit longer, we INSIST! LEOPOLD! Flame Restraining Magic, Magma Coils!

Leo: I hear you loud and clear! True Flame Magic, CRIMSON.... ERUPTION!

Suddenly from the arrays after Selene had restricted any movement from the Dark Disciple by pointing her fingers at him, Leo unleashed an earth rumbling disaster all over the battlefield restraining it, so it didn't hit the villagers they found themselves protecting..... they were simply taken aback at how much power the Royal had seemingly held by the wayside for just such an emergency.... meanwhile with Sivoir Snyle... shitting his pants was a massive understatement to one of the Dark Triad's prized possessions.

Villager: That has to be the biggest array I have ever seen in my life!

Sivoir: NAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! IT'S GOING TO BURN ME INTO A CRISP! I NEED TO ESCAPE BUT I CAN'T! I NEVER LEARNED HOW TO DEAL WITH PAIN BEFORE! I have gone my entire life without so much as enduring a scrap or paper cut! HOW DARE YOU TWO LITTLE BRATS DO THIS..... TOOOOOO MEEEEEEEE!?

Suddenly he hears footsteps running for his general direction!

Leo: Thanks for making so much noise!

Selene: Had it not been for you throwing that temper tantrum, Leopold and I would've never found you.... THIS IS FOR THE BLUE ROSE KNIGHTS, MY SISTERS TO THE END! I'LL BE SURE TO BILL YOU FOR THE DAMAGES TO MY ROBE AND OUTFIT!

He finds both Selene and Leo airborne..... then he began to cry as the fight was essentially over.

Leo: AFTER ALL THE PAIN YOU CAUSED, YOU DON'T GET TO WHINE ABOUT PAIN AND HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN IN AFTER ALL OF THE SUFFERING YOU AND THE DARK DISCIPLES HAVE UNLEASHED ON THESE PEOPLE!

Sivoir: NO, STOP! I BEG OF YOU BOTH!

Selene: If you're not strong enough to endure what two "kids" are capable of.... THEN YOU ARE NOT SIMPLY WORTH OUR TIME!

Leo: SO DON'T PLAY WITH TWO INFERNOS WHEN YOU WILL GET INCINERATED!

They launch dual attacks at him, effectively taking Sivoir out of the picture for the moment.... meanwhile in another part of the country, Gaja had just inflicted his most potent lightning spell on another one of Vanica's soldiers.

Gaja: You're finished here... Dark Disciple. Move and I will have no hesitation in finishing you off. Accept defeat and do not attempt to attack again!

Villager: AMAZING!

Villager: Thank you, Sir Gaja!

Sarado: I've gotta hand it to you, Gaja... you're really an incredible fighter. But this falls on me for failing to take him down. You truly are the best out of the Guardians.

Gaja silently nods at her, thankful that his Sister-in-Arms was nothing more than minorly injured but he looked around as the storm cloud indicative from the use of his Lightning Magic started to dissipate, the situation now seeming to be contained.

Gaja: I didn't think I would make it here on time.... Now I need to assure myself that Sarado and others are all right, get the innocents to safety and make it back to Queen Loropechika.

Back in her private chambers, Loropechika, Undine, Mimosa, Noelle and Tyrus all looked on at the action after the Magic Knights are remaining Spirit Guardians disposed of the Svenkin, Halbet and Sivoir.

Tyrus: HELL YEAH, THAT'S MY TWIN FOR YOU!

Loropechika: Yes... they have defeated all of the Dark Disciples! I'm glad you all were right in telling me not to underestimate Luck, Leopold and Selene!

Mimosa: Excellent fighting all of you!

Noelle: Yeah whatever! I guess.... they did all right. That was so amazing, I'm so glad they're all okay!

Tyrus: Aww, someone's a little mad they didn't get to fight-

She grabs his ear and begins twisting it painfully until her significant begins yelping!

Tyrus: OWWWW! OWWW! LET GO, SILVA!

Noelle: That'll teach you to never taunt me!

Tyrus: I'm your boyfriend, that's kinda in the significant other handbook, Noelle. Taunt, Motivate and Comfort!

Loropechika: In a manner of speaking, I'm glad that they were able to stand in place of the Spirit Guardians and defend the places the Disciples were targeting. And they were all zones where my water couldn't reach. No matter how strong the foe may be... the Clover Kingdom Magic Knights-

She finds Luck resting on a perfectly unharmed building staring at the now hole riddled Svenkin, Charmy being tossed into the air by villagers while the kids doted on her wolf, and Leo and Selene bumping each other fists-

Loropechika: They've showed they could hold their own in combat, evolving their skills even in mid-fight!

CRACK- CRACKKKKK! CRACKKKKK!

Tyrus: What the hell was that?!

Robero: MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

A long elastic pink trail decimates a cavern sized portion of Loropechika's war room....... and when the dust settles-

Robero: Oh, my! I sense the delicious the manas of some rather delicious ladies down here-

He then oozes disgust though his face can't really show it due to his tongue when he sees Tyrus among the litter of the ladies.

Loropechika: We knew you'd show yourselves eventually!

Mimosa: That's right we're all prepared!

Tyrus: You want the Queen, you're gonna have a hell of a time getting to Loropechika, get through us!

Mimosa fires off her Magic Cannon Flower at Robero who doesn't even try to move and takes the attack head on. They all look as the Plant stops its barrage to find.... Robero flat on his back and scalded to high heaven!

Mimosa: Plant Magic, MAGIC CANNON FLOWER! Serves you right for being creepy!

Tyrus: No... no way! I know she's been improving on her attack magic as of late, but Mimosa really packs a massive punch now!

Loropechika: Indeed, such a wonderful technique, Mimosa!

Mimosa: Thank you, but it wouldn't have been possible without all of that mana you sent me!

Tyrus and Noelle suddenly hear then the clicking of boots against the rocky surface....

Tyrus: Now that's the other sinister mana, I felt earlier along with this clown I'm assuming the other belongs too. The one that was completely lifeless, void of all emotion but bloodlust.

Her walking was purely intentional to continue building fear into the group's heart but her identity was all too obvious at this point...

Vanica: Oh.... YOO-HOO!

They all become stricken with shock and fear, daring not to move unless the lone female member of the Dark Triad murdered them without any issue. A range of emotions were displayed from Mimosa's shivering fear, to Noelle's shock, Tyrus's betraying look of anger mixed with sweat beads forming all over his to Loropechika as if she were about to faint. Vanica has broken into the Queen's Inner Most Sanctum.... and was to ready bring her brand of chaos to the closed off nation of Heart.

Noelle: Tyrus wasn't kidding. This mana.... it's so sinister and evil!

Vanica: I haven't seen you in so long.... so I thought I come play with you and your friends. Well are you happy to see me, Widdle Loropechika?

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