章 49: DownFall

Patolli then began to laugh while swinging his whip, destroying the cave. The rocks from the ground came up when in contact with the whip. The whip managed to destroy the cave in a matter of seconds. Madara made sure before the rocks from above fell on him, he copied his light whip.

Rocks fell where we stood. When the rocks fell, Madara erased his presence to make it believable.

"Oh, dear... I held back most of my magic, but it's all too fragile... Both this world and you fools." Patolli said irritating Madara.

"You're amazing, Master Licht! Your strength is practically divine! Those Magic Knight were nothing but ants!" Valtos said as Yami, Asta, and Madara appeared from the rubble.

Hearing Valtos words, Madara glared at him and released some of his killing intent, making him cower.

Patolli then looked at the three with a hateful, disdainful, loathsome look. He truly did despise them.

Madara inwardly smirked to himself as he put on a hurtful and sad look. Patolli's eyes widened for a split second, then filled with sadness. If what he was saying was true, Patolli just disrespected, attacked, and blamed one of his people because he was too blind to see the bigger picture.

Madara faced then returned to normal, seeing the look on Patolli's face. It took a lot not to start laughing, instead, he kept his poker face.

'He fell for it. How easy is it to manipulate people?'

Seeing the sad look on his face for a moment, he planted the last seed in Patolli's mind. It was all apart keikaku.

"If you concentrate like that, you can sense the ki of natural objects, too. That way, you will never be killed by stuff like falling rocks." Yami said focusing his attention on Asta.

"Ki is awesome! Hooray for ki!" Asta said feeling happy he learned ki.

"Now go after the white-haired dude with the round eyebrows!" Yami said pointing his sword at Patolli and Valtos.

"Yeah! I think I can do it by using ki!" Asta said walking to the two.

"Wait, never mind. I told them that I'd show them the power of a captain, so I'll do it. Plus, if you did it, you'd die." Yami said to Asta who had a look of shock.

"Then what am I supposed to do with all this extra energy?!" Asta said not knowing what to do.

'How should I approach Vanessa? She loves to drink, so should we talk and drink?' Madara thought not caring for the situation before him.

"You can take that scrawny line faced dude," Yami said.

The veins in Yami's arms then began to show as he released his mana, Yami used reinforcement magic and shot toward Patolli.

What seemed like teleportation, Patolli appeared in the air. Yami used and dark slash to destroy the light shards. They then again, begin to engage in combat.

"Hey, you were in the middle of some weird story, but that wasn't the end, was it?" Yami asked continuing their fight.

"That grimoire means you're a citizen of the Clover Kingdom, right? Why attack your own country?" Yami asked slicing through light shards.

*Shing!*

"Shing!*

"Since you're a foreigner, I'm sure you've noticed them, too. The distortions in this country. Some are on the brink of death due to starvation, but others have so much excess food that they throw it away." Patolli said making a valid point that exists in every world.

"People are ranked by how much or how little magic they have, but some have great magic, yet others are discriminated against for reasons of birth. Some are hurt in the name of justice because they were born in another country. We were born with these distortions... In order to correct them." Patolli said making Madara sigh.

"Aren't you trying to do what the same thing these distorted people do? Are you sane?" Yami asked looking at Patolli like a crazy person.

"Perfectly sane," Patolli said.

At that point, Madara tuned them out. He was now in his own world, thinking about serious matters. On the outside, it would like as if he were completely normal, but on the inside, he was having trouble.

'Charlotte. How should I go about it with her? Even the blind could see she still is in love with Yami, but how do I change her feelings?'

He then snapped out of it when he felt a concerning amount of mana gathering. Madaras' eyes shot open blood red and copied this magic.

The number of times he had to forcefully hold his grimoire shut to not make anything suspicious was tiring. He got a few spells off both Yami and Patolli, but he wouldn't be making it known that he knew these spells. At least, not until later when he had some mastery over them.

The bright light emitting from Patolli was almost blinding. Madara slowly made his way in front of Yami. He was telling Madara to get inside his dark dome.

"There's no need. Just watch." Madara said as his grimoire shot open and a handle with badges wrapped around it poked out.

"A fan? That fan must have some extraordinary power or we're dead." Yami said in a slightly concerned tone.

'We're?'

"Light Magic: Light Shaft of Divine Punishment." A large column of light shot toward the three at immense speed.

Yami had a bored look while taking a long drag from his cigarette, Madara had an uninterested face and Asta had a look of fear and shock seeing the light approaching.

Once the light was in range, Madara swung his fan just as Finral and Gauche were coming through a portal. The fan glowed a bright yellow color for a second, then went back to its caster.

Taking the full attack head-on, Patolli landed on the ground severely injured. Yami then congratulated Madara along with Asta.

Yami then, put dark restraints on both Patolli and Valtos, hindering their movements. While Yami, Gauche, Asta, and Finral sat on a rock, Madara suddenly disappeared into the ground.

Either of them could sense or feel his presence. While they were confused about why Madara left and more so the ability he has, Madara was directly under where the three would land.

'I wonder if I throw a fireball at him, will his fur catch on fire?' Madara thought while waiting for the three of them to appear.

Yami, Gauche, and Finral stood up when they felt the sinister mana approaching them. Asta didn't know what was going on, but he stood up as well.

Vetto, Fana, and Rhya came through the same black portal that looked exactly like Vatlos portal. As soon as they touched the ground, Madara jumped up from the ground with large bright red fireballs atop of his hand.

'How did he?...'

'When?...'

'I hate you...'