Kapitel 20: Wizard King's Request
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5... Woah! Your grimoire really has 5 leaves! How has no one mentioned this yet?!"
Sitting in Asta's room, Grim was looking at Asta's grimoire and counted the clover leaves.
Hearing Grim's questiom, Asta looked a bit lost before shrugging and countinuing his push ups.
'Seriously, how has no one said anything about this guy having a 5 leaf grimoire?'
Remembering how crazy people were acting at the magic knight's exam after discovering that Yuno had a 4 leaf clover, he found it quite strange that no one was going crazy over Asta and his 5 leaf book. Yeah he might not have any mana or magic power, but for a kingdom that judges someone's potential based on their clover count and mana capacity, it was weird how ostracized Asta was.
Never the less, Asta was taking all of this in stride so he had no reason to interfere.
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*Deep Breathing*
'Feel the magic... Remember its composition... Relive the pain...'
Sitting on the floor of his room in a lotus position, Grim had his eyes shut tightly and concentrated on his breathing. Since he didn't want to ask Noelle for help and didn't know any water mages, Grim came up with the idea of drawing on his past battles in order to stimulate his breath styles and awaken more spells. After the countless number of sparring sessions he had with Luck, he figured that if he was able to recall the feeling he got whenever he was hit by Luck's lightning, he'd be able to unlock a new lightning spell... Unfortunatley this hadn't gone to well. After an hour and a half of meditation, he was no closer to unlocking a new spell than he had been before.
After beating Yami and the others out of their money a couples of days ago, Grim had focused his attention on enhancing his reaction speed by sparring with Luck. As a result, Grim found himself slowly adapting to Luck's speed and started to see through his movements.
*Sigh* "This isn't working... I need to get more comfortable."
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"Hey Grim, Yami wants to tal- WHAT THE FUCK!!" Bursting into Grim's room with undisguised gusto, Magna was shocked at Grim's current attire.
"Why are you naked!"
"Hmm?" Opening his eyes, Grim was surprised to see Magna in his room.
"Hey Magna." Still sitting cross legged, Grim let everything hang.
"Why are you naked? Did you lose at cards?"
Shaking his head, Grim quickly explained. "I'm relaxing."
"Oh... I get that. Anyway, Yami wants to see you."
"I'll be there in a minute." Watching Magna leave his room, Grim let out a breath as what looked liked steam escaped from his body.
'Its not lightning... but I guess I can't complain.'
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"What's up?" Being the last one to walk into the room, Grim nodded at Luck and Asta while giving Noelle a cursive look before focusing on Yami.
"Humph!" Seeing the look Grim threw her way, Noelle's expression was not pretty.
Seeing that everyone was now here, Yami pulled out a report that he had recieved from the wizard king.
"Listen up brats, according to this report a new dungeon's been discovered within the Clover kingdom's territory."
"A dungeon?" Not knowledgeable about such a place, Asta and Grim had confused expressions on their faces as they turned to look at Vanessa.
"To put it simply, a dungeon is the ruins of an old civilization filled with ancient artifacts and relics just waiting to be pillaged." She explained.
"Ancient civilization!" Asta exclaimed.
"Artifacts..." Grim mumbled.
"Yeah." She nodded. "But getting these relics aren't easy. Dungeons are usually filled hundreds of different kinds of traps that stop explorers from reaching these treasures."
'Explorers? Nice way of not calling themselves treasure hunters.'
Seeing that the conversation was coming to a halt, Yami continued reading from the report.
"While the dungeon is technically within the kingdom's territory, it also borders on the edge of an enemy kingdom's territory. So to ensure that they don't get any of the good artifacts that could be used against us, our job is to clear the place out before those fuckers get there."
'Enemies from another kingdom... Chances are that they'll send strong mages in order to make sure that they get the artifacts without a hitch.'
Thinking about how there could be people stronger than him appearing in the dungeon caused Grim to feel an uncomfortable amount of annoyance.
"I volunteer."
"ME TOO!!" Asta jumped in.
"Obviously you two are going."
"Huh?" Both of them said in union.
"I don't know how you did it, but for some reason the wizard king personally picked you two for this mission."
"EH!!" Everyone looked at the two boys before surrounding them.
"When did you guys meet the wizard king!"
"Did you get to fight him!"
"How could the wizard king meet peasants like you and not me!"
Looking at the situation at hand, Yami couldn't help but laugh and turn to look at Luck.
"Hey Luck, why don't you go with them?"
"Really?! Hell yeah!!" He cheered.
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"Hey captain." Vanessa smiled and closed in on him with a bottle in hand. Now that Grim and the rest had left for the dungeon, the place had become awfully quiet.
"Does the wizard king really know about Asta and Grim?"
Taking a puff of his cigarette, Yami answered her while reading a newspaper.
"He's the wizard king, he's got eyes everywhere."
"I get that, but why would he single out Grim and Asta?"
"Who knows, that old man's in a world of his own."
*Sigh* "I hope they'll be okay."
"They'll be fine. With Luck escorting them I'm sure they'll be able to deal with any problems if they pop up."
"Yeah but... This is Luck we're talking about. We'll be lucky if him and Grim don't start fighting each other."
"...I'm sure they'll do it in moderation."
"..."
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