Sekke and the black bull rookies soon reached the room where they could feel the fluctuations of mana, except for Asta.
All three of them really peeked inside the room and saw Luck trying to attack a middle aged man with back hair and being surrounded by smoke.
Sekke looked at Luck who was not even able to land a single hit on the diamond kingdom mage and then said, "Luck is at a disadvantage.....and it seems like that man has a Debuff type magic as well, since Luck is moving so slow."
"So that's why Luck was moving so slow in a fight? I thought miss Vanessa made him drink some booze which is making him wobble like that." said Asta.
"...How the can you call that slow...?" said Noelle as she looked at the fight where she cannot follow Luck's movements at all.
"Now then let's think of a way to hel-" said Sekke but before he was able to Asta jumped down and took out his sword.
"...."
"...And there goes the idiot." said Sekke as he looked at the mana less boy.
"That idiot Bakasta!!" said Noelle with an annoyed tone.
"What should we do now?!" asked Noelle as she looked at Sekke.
"Well seeing that the idiot had gone straight ahead, let's do the same as well, no need to sneak attack now." said Sekke as he grabbed Noelle like a sack and jumped down as well.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?" said Noelle in an angry and embarrased tone.
"Shut up or I will drop you." said Sekke as his Grimoire started flipping pages.
[Bronze Creation Magic: Helping hands]
Soon a large amount of mana gathered near Sekke getting the attention of both Luck and the diamond kingdom mage as they looked at Sekke.
"Good grief more black bulls and youthful ones and that." said the diamond Kingdom mage.
"ORAAA!!!" yelled Asta who appeared above the diamond kingdom mage with his sword ready to smash the guy.
"My my that's a huge sword you have their" said the diamond Kingdom mage as he jumped back and avoided the sword.
*BOOM*
Just as the sword crashed on the ground a huge crater formed there making the diamond kingdom mage looked at Asta with a deadpan expression on his face.
'....He was about to hit me with that...'
Sekke who was now standing on top of a huge hand's palm with Noelle beside him looked at black haired man and said, "Mosquito killer!!!"
Just as Sekke yelled the name another huge hand made of his bronze magic appeared above the diamond kingdom mage and smashed towards the ground.
"Seriously what's with smashing elderly to the ground...*sigh* youth these days." said the black haired man as his Grimoire flipped and a thick cloud of smoke appeared around him slowed the huge hand giving him enough time to dodge the attack.
"Would you do me a favour and let this old man catch his bre-"
"Giant's flick!" said Sekke as both him and Noelle descended to the ground while still being on top of the palm.
The other hand which was near the old man immediately flicked it's finger sending the old man flying.
"You all right Luck?" asked Sekke as he came to the ground and deactivated his magic making the giant hands disappear.
Luck who was yelling at Asta for interrupting his fight and was attacked by his [Protagonist's Talk magic], had a change in his heart and looked at Sekke with a smile on his face.
"Yeah, I am fine. I was just about to defeat him but you interrupted me." said Luck.
Sekke just shrugged his shoulders and said, "You were taking too much time."
"Eh? It's only been 30 minutes though since I left?" said Luck.
"Yare Yare, you really don't show mercy to this old man. I have three daughters to take care of at home you know?" said the Diamond mage as he stood up with some blood coming out of his mouth.
"Then you should take care of them and stay back at home old man, these days people are not that good who knows what can happen to them in your absence." said Sekke as he looked at the black haired man.
"By the way what's your name?" asked Sekke.
"Hmm...thanks for your advice....and you should introduce yourself first before asking others about their name. My name is Lotus, from the diamond kingdom, a kind and peace loving old man." said Lotus as he looked at Sekke.
"You can call me the Dark Lord." said Sekke as he walked beside Asta and smacked his head.
"Ow!!!"
"Who the hell told you to jump just like that?" said Sekke as he looked at the mana less idiot.
"Ehh?!?!" said Asta.
"Hmph, can't you just use your brains for once and not just run in to a fight." said Noelle as he looked at Asta.
"Ehh?!" said Asta totally shocked hearing what his friends said.
"Haha, well it was fine though. It's good to jump into fights." said Luck.
"Luck..." said Asta with a grateful look on his face as he glanced at Luck.
"Don't encourage the idiot." said Sekke as he looked at the old man who suddenly slammed his hand on the ground.
[Smoke Creation Magic: Prison of the fallen king.]
Smoke suddenly started to surround the black bulls seeing which Sekke narrowed his eyes and looked at the old man.
"Well you made the old man get serious, you know." said Lotus.
"And you made a huge mistake by making the dark lord a bit serious."
[Bronze Creation Magic: Swords strike]
Multiple swords appeared behind Sekke and shot forward towards Lotus who immediately made some smoke clouds and hid inside it to dodge the attack.
"Argh!!" yelled the old man from behind the smoke.
"Looks like he got hit by one of them." said Sekke as he and his teammates got surrounded by the smoke.
Asta and the others tried to push away the smoke but soon realised that it was not just normal smile and that it was solid.
Even Asta's anti magic was not working since the smoke immediately shifted to cover up for the lost smoke.
"Well then farewell youths of the black bulls. It was nice meeting you all.... specially you dark lord-kun." said Lotus from behind the tower of smoke.
Sekke who heard the sound turned his head to look towards the direction from where the sound came from and said, "Where are you going?" asked Sekke.
"Well I need to finish my mission soon and go back to my daughters afterall I cannot leave them back at him alone for a long time, right?"
Sekke who was now sure from where the sound came from smirked and said, "Yeah, right." and took out his sword.
"Extend" said Sekke making the sword's blade lengthen and then looked at the others.
"Run at full speed once the path get clear."
The three of them nodded seeing which Sekke rapidly moved his hands cutting through a huge chunk of the smoke wall, dispersing the smoke and making a path for them.
"Retract. No time to waste." said Sekke as him Asta and Luck shot forward at full speed leaving behind the royal I'm dust.
"H-Hey!!" yelled Noelle as she was left behind and immediately Sekke's scared gear tentacles wrapped around her and pulled her out.
"Don't leave like that old man, you will make me sad." said Sekke as he looked at the old man who just facepalmed and said, "*sigh* You are forcing me to use my trump card, you know."
"Sekke, Asta and Luck immediately got ready to take on the attack which was about to come towards them as they saw the aura around the old man turn serious in an instant.
"I only use this technique when I know nothing else is going to work on my enemy, so brace yourselves." said the old man in a serious tone hearing which Luck got excited while Noelle gulped her saliva.
Sekke prepared himself to immediately form a shield in case he need to block the attack and thought, 'What type of attack is it going to be? A concentrated attack, an Aoe attack or some kind of debuff or something?'
Lotus smirked as a lot of smoke gathered around him alerting Sekke and the others.
"Nigerundayo!" said the old man as a vehicle made of smoke shot forward from the huge cloud of smoke and rushed towards the exit.
"....YOU DARE PULL A JOESTAR ON ME!!!" yelled Sekke as his Grimoire started flipping pages.
"Yare yare." said the old man as he increased his speed as he felt a large amount of mana gathering behind him.
Lotus also gathered his fallen subordinates from the ground and then looked behind to see what was happening.
[Bronze Creation Magic + Lightning Debuff Magic: Gaster Paralysing Blaster]
A huge animal head made of bronze appeared in front of Sekke as mana started gathering inside it.
'...That doesn't look good...' though Lotus as he looked at the huge animal head.
Lotus immediately used his magic to make a huge smile screen blinding all of them.
"Haha, we can still sense yo-" said Luck with a smile but all of a sudden it vanished as he muttered, "...His mana just splitted all of a sudden."
Sekke frowned at that but then he realised something and smirked.
"A good technique indeed. But it's useless in front of the Dark Lord!!" said Sekke as he fired the blast at the smoke screen.
"""AHHHH!!!"""
Multiple screams came out of the mouth of the diamond mages as they were hit by the blast.
"Next time hide the mana of your subordinates as well." said Sekke as he saw the mana disappearing and soon saw a group of heavily injured diamond mages inside a barely standing smoke vehicle.
All of a sudden Lotus came out of the group of mages with a lot of wounds on his body and said, "I will keep that in mind Dark Lord-kun."
"I hope you will." said Sekke as he saw the man collapsing on the ground along with the smoke made vehicle.