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'Heh, I can finally let loose a little.'
I realized this when I selected the Black Bulls as my Magic Knight Squad, but with how powerful I can be with my technically five magic attributes, and Infinity, if I was to handle everything, in the situations with weak enemies, like these mages that attacked the village, then it would not allow my fellow squad mates to grow in power. So I had to hold back more than usual and use almost exclusively my Wind aspect even though I could use more.
The good thing is now with Noelle powering up, I can just end this.
"Asta!, Magna! I can take care of these guys, go help Noelle protect the villagers."
"You sure?" Asta asked.
"Yes." I replied confidently
Asta nodded and moved back and many wind daggers took his spot in attacking the incoming icicles.
"ASTA WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!!" Magna screamed to Asta as he didn't think Asta would actually leave everything to Ranto.
"It's okay Magna, if Ranto says he can take care of them, I believe him and you should too." Asta said to try to convince Magna.
"Fine, I'll trust you Asta, but if you need help, you have to let us know and we'll jump in without hesitation." Magna said. He said the first part to Asta and the second part to Ranto.
I just nodded and walked foward toward the group of mages with a giant grin on my face.
"Now then, it's just you and me.
{Storm Magic: Raging Hurricane}"
As soon as I used that spell, rain started pouring down and the wind was picking up, I knew I was going to cause a lot of damage to the village, but at least the villagers would live and they could always rebuild, maybe I'll give a little of my paycheck to the village for repairs.
The wind started uprooting houses and scattering debris everywhere in front of me as I controlled the hurricane to stay in front of me.
"That's not all. {Storm Magic: Lightning Vortexes}"
After this spell, dozens of tornados made of lightning appeared and started to suck the mages inside, the only mage still on the ground right now was Heath as he had used his magic to anchor himself.
"{Storm Magic: Lightning Beast's Chase}"
With this spell I was covered with a transparent film of lightning that took the shape of a beast that was made out of lightning and I charged at the three fallen mages and slashed their hands to make them drop their grimoire and used lightning chains to bind them.
In my lightning beast form, I could run on the lightning bolts that were flying everywhere from the tornadoes and was so fast that Heath couldn't even see me before I was in front of him and I repeated the same thing I did to the other three before binding him.
'I see, so the Black Bulls got their hands on a weilder of a four leaf clover grimoire just like the master, he will have to be taken care of sooner rather than later.' Heath had these thoughts as I was knocking down his lackeys and were the last thoughts before he was captured as well.
'That power..... He was holding back with Luck and with me, is that the true power of a wielder of a four leaf clover grimoire' Magna thought.
'Argh. I am so much more behind him than I thought. I just hope I can catch up to him and that Yuno hasn't gotten this strong yet.' Asta was thinking about Ranto's magic power.
'He is so strong, he might already be at the level of a Magic Knight Captain or a least a Vice Captain.' Noelle thought to herself.
First I cancelled all my spells except the lightning chains, then I piled up the bound mages in a group off to the side. After that I took a look around and was happy to see that other than many destroyed buildings, there was no other major damage to the village.
After everything had settled down, we were waiting in front of the four mages. One of them tried to escape earlier, but my Binding lightning chains electrocuted him until he was unconscious. All four mages are now waking up.
"Heh, about time you sadistic bastards woke up. Now we just gotta wait until our magic comes back, then Crazy Cyclone is hauling you guys to the capital." Magna said to which Heath just scoffed.
"You're gonna pay I promise you! You're gonna spend the rest of your lives making up for what you did! Just wait you're gonna spill everything, who you people are, what you're after. The Magic Knights will get every last scrap of information from you." Magna continued.
"They will not. The end times are upon us." Heath said before he started to glow purple.
'What? He's got a magic item inside him?' Magna thought in shock.
"{Engage Ice Magic: Ice Burial}" Heath said as ice covered him and the other mages we captured before they shattered and scattered into the wind.
"They were willing to go that far? They must have some serious loyalty to someone." Magna said, mostly to himself.
"(Growls) What was he thinking?" Asta said in anger.
"To sacrifice them all like that.... just what was his game anyway?" Magna asked himself aloud.
"How could they? Treating life like it's something to throw away! Like death is nothing. I'll never understand these people, not in a million years!" Asta said in anger.
We then walked over later in the day to the new grave of Seihi, where we saw his grandson Nick in mourning.
"Nick we should go back now, please." The little girl Lou asked Nick.
Lou was the name of the little girl who was begging Noelle for help.
"In a little bit okay, Granpa always liked the view from up here." Nick said as he looked in the distance from the grave at the top of the hill.
"Yeah, I heard what happened, what Seihi did. He did what he could to protect the village. Your grandpa was amazing, he was a real man." Magna said to the grieving kid.
"You should've heard him tell the story, about gambling in the capital, he was so happy, because he'd beaten some magic Knights." Nick said.
"Yeah." Magna said fondly
"He even used some of the money to buy us presents and lots of yummy food for everyone in the village to share." The little girl named Lou said as she held up her doll.
Noelle comforted lou by rubbing her head with affection.
"He never got to become one, but grandpa would've loved to become a magic Knight, more than anything in the world." Nick said.
"Yeah, I know." Magna said sadly.
"And he regretted it his whole life." Nick continued.
"What did he regret?" Asta asked.
"He said he should've tried harder when he was young, then his dream would've come true." Nick said as tears fell from his face even harder than they had before.
"Nick..." Magna said comfortingly.
"But, even though he didn't get in, he was happy, cause you worked hard enough for the both of you." Nick said as he finally turned around to look at the group.
Magna paused and his breath caught in his throat as he didn't know that about Seihi.
"Yeah." Magna said happily.
"Magna... Could I... Do you think... Can I be a magic Knight too someday?" Nick asked hopefully.
"Of course you can." Magna answered.
I was never very good at comforting people, but all the sudden I felt I knew what to do. I walked up and gave Nick a very tight hug.
"I'm so sorry kid. I never met Seihi, but he seemed like a great guy. As for becoming a Magic Knight, you definitely can. Just look at me and Asta, we both come from Hage village, a place way at the outskirts of the kingdom, but we both still became Knights and Asta doesn't even have any magic, but he became a magic Knight. So don't worry okay, just do your best and no matter what, never give up. I think that's what Seihi would have wanted." I said as I pointed at Asta when I mentioned him.
When I said the last line, Nick started crying harder, but just gave me a tighter hug and smiled.
"Just remember: nothing's impossible. You can do anything Nick, your future's what you make of it." Magna said.
"He's totally right. Just look at me, like Ranto said, I'm a commoner without any magic, but just look at me now, a Knight. It won't be easy, get ready to sweat." Asta said
"You're gonna have to work hard." Magna said.
"And always do your best." Noelle said.
"It's not all fun and games either, you are going to have to push through, but I know you can do it." I said encouragingly.
"Just wait, by the time you get into the Magic Knights, I will have worked even harder, accomplished even more, and gotten even closer to becoming the Wizard King."
"Please, let's not get into that nonsense again. But hey, point is, dream big.... That's what a real man does." Magna said
Asta walked over to Nick and put his fist on his chest in an encouraging way as he said.
"We'll be waiting for you, got it?"
I put my hand on his shoulder. "Yea, and we'll be there if you need us, that's a promise."
"Yeah!" Nick said with a smile.
"Good!" Asta said as he smiled to.
Just then the anti-bird which is also Secre/Nero, came over with a stone in it's mouth and started to peck Asta's head causing him to scream in pain and then try to catch the bird while jumping around.
"Just what do you have against my head, feather brain!?! Oh it's on now! I'll get you!" Asta shouted as he took out his blade.
Asta then paused as he saw the stone.
"Huh? What's that stone?" He asked.
"Hey I recognize that, it's the charm grandpa used to carry around with him." Nick said which caused Asta to pause in shock again as if he realized something.
"Give it back you, this is something special! Come on bird just let it go,what do you even need a rock for?" Asta shouted as he struggled to get the stone out of the bird's mouth.
"Hahahaha, it's okay, your bird can keep it if he wants to. It's the least I could do after you saved us." Nick said as he laughed at Asta's antics.
"Yeah? Okay, thanks." Asta said as the bird made some kinda funny bird noise and landed to rest on Asta's head.
"Just look at those hateful eyes, he... Is so adorable." Noelle said about the bird as she had sparkles in her eyes.
The bird started pecking Asta's head again so Asta started to chase after it again, making everyone laugh.