Chapter 8: Chapter 8 - Black Bulls Begin Their Training
After they did the baptism, Magna is showing Asta his room with Fred following behind them.
Magna opened a door, leading to a small, cramped, dirty, and unclean room, saying to Asta.
Magna: "Here it is, your room."
Asta walked in, looking around the room and becoming increasingly excited.
Magna: "Dank, huh? Not to mention oppressively cramped and filthy. Hahaha! You should see mine. It's twice this siz—"
Asta became extremely excited and whimpered in excitement.
Asta: *Whimper* "My room! No way!"
Magna and Fred were surprised.
Magna: "Wait, you're actually happy?"
Fred: "How hard has your life been?"
Asta got up into their face with happy tears streaming down his face.
Asta: "This is the first time I've ever had a space of my own. Back at the church, everybody crammed into one room. We were all lined up like sardines." *Wail*
Asta turned backwards with tears streaming everywhere. Asta then quickly began to clean the room.
Asta: "So long, dust! Dirt and grime, get outta here! Hahaha! See ya, cobwebs!"
Magna: "Go on, scrub all ya want. We're free till the next mission, anyway. Hahaha."
Magna then began to leave, before he remembered something.
Magna: "Oh, hey, one more thing, Asta."
Asta: "Yeah, what's up?"
Magna: "Make sure you take some time to write."
Asta: "Huh?"
Magna: "The folks back at the church deserve a letter. They're your family, right? So, they'll wanna know that you're okay."
Asta: "Right!"
Magna: "You can't go making anyone worry. That's what bein' a real man is all about. Later. Just hit me up if you need anything."
Magna then walked away.
Asta: "Will do! Thanks, Magna."
Fred then walked up to Asta, with a serious face.
Fred: "Asta! You might not know this but inside your grimoire resides a devil. This devil also gives you the magic attribute of Anti-Magic, but will also try and take control of your body if you aren't strong enough."
Asta: "What! Then what do I do?!"
Fred: "At this moment the devil doesn't have much malice towards you, however it doesn't change the fact that it might try to possess you. You are going to have to train your body to greater heights than you have currently, and you will have to learn how to use the devil's power to become stronger in the meantime."
Asta: "That's what I've always been doing! What do you mean that I should learn how to use the devil's power to become stronger? Shouldn't that make it easier for it to possess me?"
Fred: "While it doesn't have much malice to you, it has great malice towards other devils, so I think that as long as you help it get revenge against devils, it might decide to also help you become the Wizard King. Tomorrow you are also going to join the week long training, and you will only work on your physique, pushing it to the current limit you can reach, before you will work on using the devil's power."
Asta: "Okay! I'm going to help that devil get revenge, but only if it has a good reason and we meet a devil."
Fred: "We will. In a few years at most, the door to the underworld will open, because someone is manipulating the result to become that. You, your friend Yuno, and I should be the only people that have a chance at stopping the mastermind behind this, so you need to get stronger."
Asta: "Why are there only us 3, and why do you think that only we can?"
Fred: "You have Anti-Magic, which will make the person unable to see the future that you have interfered in, and at your peak, you will have the possibility to reach the strength 1 grade above the Wizard King. Yuno has Wind and Star Magic attributes, allowing him to have the possibility to reach the same level of strength as your peak, if he is pushed enough, while also being extremely favoured by mana. And I am a hybrid of High Human and Angels, possessing the rarest Magic attributes of both races, Spirit and Holy Magic, with both being extremely effective against devils, and at the peak of Spirit Magic I can have a contract with 10 Great Spirits, and at the peak of Holy Magic I can resurrect people that have recently died with no restrictions or side effects, except being a drain of magic power, making it able for the three of us to have a lot of leeway for mistakes."
Asta: *Yelling* "Alright! I'm going to become stronger than you and Yuno, even if you both possess dual Magic attributes and become the Wizard King!"
Fred: "All right. I will leave you to do your own thing, however please come to training tomorrow? Goodnight Asta."
Fred then left, hearing Asta say goodbye to him behind him.
Asta then went and began writing a letter to the church, with Fred in his own room writing a letter to Acier, Nozel, Mimosa, and Fuegoleon.
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Golden Dawn Headquarters.
In a room that is now Yuno's room, Yuno and Klaus are speaking.
Klaus: "It's better than you deserve. A room like this is wasted on the likes of you. Now, tomorrow I'll explain your duties as a Magic Knight. I don't particularly wish to be your tutor, but since it's on Captain Vangeance's orders, so be it. Are you listening, boy?"
Yuno: *Annoyed* "My name is Yuno."
Klaus: "Hmm."
Yuno: "My name is Yuno, Klaus. Not boy."
Klaus: "Enough. Watch your tone. I outrank you. You are to address me as 'sir.'"
Yuno: "Yes, sir."
Klaus: "Better. Don't be late tomorrow or I will be displeased."
Klaus then left, shutting the door behind him.
Yuno then sat down and began writing a letter to the church.
Not long after he began to write, he heard the door open and looked behind himself.
"Hello! You are Yuno, correct? Do you have some spare time to talk to me?"
It was Mimosa who had come to find Yuno.
Yuno: "I have some time. Who are you and what do you want?"
Mimosa: "I am Mimosa Vermillion, and I have come here at the request of Fred, my boyfriend, to tell you something about yourself and invite you to train with him."
Yuno: "I know everything about myself, what could your boyfriend know that I don't?"
Mimosa: "Well, he knows that you actually possess 2 different Magic Attributes, Wind Magic, and Star Magic. This is because you have 2 souls inside you, 1 which is yours, and the other which can be considered half yours, which is a hybrid between Elves and Humans, which allows you to possess 2 different magic attributes. He said that you should have been born in the Spade Kingdom, with their being a possibility of you being the illegitimate son of a member of the Spade Kingdom royal family, because you possess Star Magic, and you will only get the Star Magic grimoire if you enter a grimoire tower in the Spade Kingdom."
Yuno: "It doesn't matter who my parents are, and I don't care who they are either. Just tell me, will I get stronger if I am able to use Star Magic?"
Mimosa: "You will get stronger, however Fred is going to train someone called Asta, who he said has the same potential as himself, but I think he is exaggerating, because he currently has the strength to compete with and defeat most Magic Knight squad captains, and has only gotten his grimoires from this years grimoire ceremony."
Yuno: "It seems that your boyfriend doesn't have a bad vision for seeing the potential of others, but he might be a bit arrogant, as Asta is my rival, and it is between us to see who will become the Wizard King!"
Mimosa: "He's not arrogant, he is the possessor of 2 four leaf clover grimoires, and possesses the rarest Magic attributes of the 2 races in his lineage, Spirit Magic of the High Humans, and Holy Magic of the Angels. He would be able to easily become the Wizard King if he wanted to, but he doesn't and says that he will give it to you and Asta if you both help in saving the imminent doom of this world that will commence in around 3 years at the latest, which he can't stop from commencing but has a chance to stop, after it has commenced and before it is finished."
Yuno: "Why can't he stop it from commencing if he is that strong?"
Mimosa: "He said something about a human in the Spade Kingdom has achieved a devil contract with the Time Devil Astaroth, who can control all aspects of time, allowing him to turn back time till he gets the results he wants, making it pointless to stop it from commencing because he will turn back time and start again."
Yuno: "Okay, I will meet him when I have time."
Mimosa: "Thank you! I want to be able to help him, but he says that unless we are able to activate the potential stimulation of our grimoires to the fullest, we won't be able to become strong enough to stop the devil contractor in time. While he says that because you and Asta both have a good chance of growing quick enough to assist him, he will try and accelerate both of your growth."
Yuno: "But aren't the Magic Knight squad captains able to help?"
Mimosa: "He said that to be even remotely useful, you would need to have the strength of a Wizard King, and to have a big impact on the situation like you 3, will need to reach the strength beyond the Wizard King."
Yuno: "But we have 5 Magic Attributes together don't we, why is it so hard?"
Mimosa: "Because, in the prophesied future, the devil contractor has 6 Magic Attributes, Soul, Time, Gravity, Blood, Bone, and Body Magic, being extremely hard to kill."
Yuno: "I understand now. I will go see him when I can. However, if I find that he can't help me become stronger, I will train by myself."
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Morning, Black Bulls Base
Asta has woken up and ran out of his room, running into a pillar.
Asta: "Right. Yeah! I'm ready to—" *Groan*
Fred saw this, while scratching his head, his long golden hair extremely smooth.
Fred: "Asta, the base changes all the time, you'll get used to it eventually. I'm preparing to make a permanent portal to the training ground, after you are able to easily lift the current weights, tell me and I will make heavier ones."
Fred then walked into a room that Henry has prepared to keep the same, and had his Spirit Magic grimoire turn the pages.
Henry is a member of the Black Bulls that controls the hideout and changes its structure.
"Spatial Spirit + Earth Spirit Creation Magic, Teleportation Monument of Udaeus."
A large hexagonal base appeared in the room, with 8 rectangular pillars appearing in each corner, rising about a meter.
In the middle of the base, a large and detailed pillar appeared, rising about 3 meters. Various runes appeared on each of the pillars, as arches also formed connecting the 8 rectangular pillars to the ones next to them, rising until they reach 2 meters.
As the runes are completed, the entire structure turned pure marble white, shining a radiant white glow.
After this has been finished, which takes 30 minutes, Fred teleported to the training ground and he did the same thing.
Fred went back to the Black Bulls base and gathered everybody, showing them how to use the teleportation monument, and took them to begin training.
Fred: "I consider grimoires to be items bound to their possessors soul, that liberate your potential the more intense their desire is. This desire can be emotion, will, dream, etc. as long as it is intense enough. The potential that is liberated includes all things that encompass magic, and physical growth."
Fred began to explain them how grimoires work and their greatest use.
Fred: "I consider royals and nobles or anyone that is blessed by mana to have a higher upper limit and lower limit than others in their mana reserves. However, as long as someone possesses at least an average mana reserve compared to all commoners, they can have their maximum mana reserve capacity to reach 3rd class, which is what some of the weakest Vice-Captains of the Magic Knight squads possess."
Fred then began to explain his thoughts and discoveries about mana and Magic.
Fred: "Most Magic Knights should be able to have the mana capacity to at least reach the weakest Magic Knight squad captains level of mana reserves when they reach their full physical and magic potential. Everyone in the Black Bulls should be able to reach at least the 1st class, which is what most Captains of the Magic Knight squads possess, with a few of you able to reach 0th class, which is what I consider a requirement to reach the strength of a Wizard King."
Fred finished explaining his discovery on mana reserves, and began to explain about magic power usage.
Fred: "Most people don't care about their magic power usage, which is the efficiency and power of spells. Most Junior Magic Knights have it at around 15-20%, Intermediate Magic Knights have it at around 25-30%, Senior Magic Knights have it around 35-45%, Vice-Captains have it at around 50-65%, Captains have it at around 70-89%, and Wizard Kings have it at around 90-99%. If there is someone that can have 100% magic power usage, they should be able to have one of the requirements to reach a strength beyond Wizard King level. The higher the percentage, the less mana consumed when using spells, and the stronger the spells will be when using the same amount of mana."
Fred then began to explain what he knew about spells.
Fred: "Spells are the embodiment of the mages will and emotions, and the stronger the will and emotions are, the better the effects of the spell. This can be seen with the effect of Captain Jack the Ripper of the Green Praying Mantises, as he can cut through anything as his will is strong enough. I believe the reason that people learn spells when doing intense training is because you sharpen your will to a point where the spell gets added to your grimoire, when going through life and death because of the intense focus of your will and intensity of emotions will have the spell suited for the situation will be added to your grimoire. I believe that a requirement to reach the level of strength beyond the Wizard King is to imbue your actual mana and magic power itself with will."
Fred then began to explain why he believes that mana and magic power reserves and maximum capacity can be changed.
Fred: "The reason why most people haven't reached their full potential in mana and magic power reserves, is because their vessel or body has reached its capacity limit. The limit can be increased by increasing the strength of your body, however it is still a fact that nobles and royals will have a higher limit as they have higher potential, with the vessel being larger when compared to a regular commoner with the same physical strength."
Fred then began to explain what he knew about mana and magic power control.
Fred: "Lastly, mana control when it reaches the limit, it allows for someone to control the mana in the surrounding area, with a state called Mana Zone. Mana Zone can be considered an enhanced form of Mana Skin, and can be considered the limit of using regular mana. In the Heart Kingdom they are able to use natural mana through runes, which is what they call Mana Method, allowing them to use the elements in nature like natural lightning. The limit of Mana Method is called Ultimate Magic, which both are extremely useful when fighting devils, at least low class devils for Mana Method and below High Class Devils for Ultimate Magic."
Yami: "You smartass! How the hell did you manage to figure all that out?! Huh?! Answer me pretty boy smartass!"
Yami yelled and asked Fred, extremely surprised at how he has figured out this stuff.
Fred: "It's when I was training in different Strong Magic Regions before I got my grimoires. I didn't have anything to do and got bored, so I figured that I should figure out the different functions and way of growth of mana and magic power. I traveled to Heart Kingdom and used my detection magic to see and hear everything within the Heart Kingdom for about a week to learn about Mana Method, Ultimate Magic, and Mana Stages, learning the rest through the journey that I have went through."
Yami: "Okay. Then all of you get to training."
The Black Bulls all began to train intensely for a week, with Fred using his healing magic to make them all able to continue training after their body gave out do to fatigue.
In this training, most of the Black Bulls' Mana Stage has increased by 1, and their physical strength have at least doubled, with most of their physical strength having increased about 5x.