บท 94: Situation

"We are here to help Luck senpai !!!" Asta said swinging his sword at the smoke.

" We have to end this quick Asta, the more time we take the harder it will get to breathe, " said Luck.

Luck was happy that Asta and Noelle immediately acted to help him. ' Are you watching me mother, I have found people that have my back and won't abandon me .'

After fighting him for some time Luck could faintly sense the location of the enemy he formulated a plan and told Asta and Noelle and began their onslaught.

Seeing them in action Lotus didn't waste time and filled the area with dark smoke to cover their vision. Luck and Noelle continuously fired shots toward Lotus in the smoke. Noelle didn't have any detection skills and just attacked in the direction Luck attacked.

Julian didn't do a single thing and just stood at one corner watching everything. He had no intention to interfere.

Lotus could easily sense the two attackers and dodged them easily. ' Wait I saw four people, two attacked and one didn't interfere where did the other one go? Why can't I sense him? '.

As he tried to sense Asta's location he was hit in the ribs with a giant force and slammed into the chamber wall. Blood flowed from his mouth as he dropped to the floor.

" A boy with a giant sword …." His vision blurred but he didn't give up.

" I can't fall here .. My daughters are waiting at home ". He opened his grimoire and covered the room with his darkest and most potent smoke.

Everyone began to fend off the smoke and when the smoke cleared Lotus was already gone.

" Don't follow him. We have to finish the exploration soon. We don't know when Spade might interfere too . " said Julian removing the rest of the smoke.

"Why didn't you do anything? " Noelle asked Julian. Noelle complained as she was mentally tired from firing so many spells during the last hour. Her mana control is still powered so firing so many accurate spells take a lot of mental strain.

"If my knowledge serves me right, that guy is one of the people that are sane on the mind in the Diamond kingdom. " Julian said as the started telling them about the generals of the Diamond kingdom whose bodies are experimented with to make them stronger.

Hearing about the cruel method, especially the one in which a person had to kill all the people they trained with reminded them of the harsh world again.

They didn't waste time and went towards the final chamber. Their path was again filled with traps like arrows, spells, animals, reverse gravity, etc. Julian cast a phoenix robe on three of them to relieve them from injury and fatigue.

While Julian was explaining. Lotus was escaping with all the bodies on a stream engine-type thing made of smoke.

' Phew thank god that the last guy didn't interfere. I hope Mars can do something, ' thought Lotus.

As he was one of the high-ranking members of Diamond Kingdom, he knew who Julian was. The moment he saw Julian he had decided to run but Luck and Asta had already attacked by then.

He was not someone who wanted glory or fame but only money to take care of his family. The current situation of the Diamond kingdom was bad and becoming worse day by day due to a lack of proper resources and an idiot king.

" I hope I don't die before getting my daughters married to good families"

***

Meanwhile

Golden Dawn member's reached the door to the treasury. This was due to Mimosa creating a map of the dungeon with her plant magic.

'Heh ! he finally found the main treasury, we can take all the credits now' Klaus thought.

Just as they were about to try to enter it, spikers crystals emerged from the ground and impaled Mimosa through the abdomen before anyone could comprehend what happened.

"Mimosa !! " Kalus exclaimed with shock

She immediately drooped on the floor screaming with blood flowing from her stomach and mouth. She felt immense pain she never felt before.

Somehow she brought herself to cast a healing spell so that she didn't die of blood loss. A small chamber of flowers formed around her and started healing her.

" S-sorry. I became useless ….even ..before fighting," said Mimosa in a somehow audible voice.

'This is bad...the healer is down' as Yuno thought about if it was a trap or an attack, footsteps reached his ears.

Tap

From another corner of a room waked a man with a vest of general of Diamond Kingdom. A silver-haired Young man with magic stone embedded on his forehead and chest. He was Mars on the new shining generals of the Diamon Kingdom. The pressure was releasing was sending a chill to everyone's spines.

Yuno and Klaus were terrified by the emergence of the enemy especially Klaus as his mind went into a panic mode.

" Wh-What type of soldier are you attacking a woman from behind !!" shouted Klaus

" ….What are you talking about …its all the same to be ..woman or not they are all a pebble on a path to me .." Mars said by stomping his feet. As his feet touched the ground waves of spikes of white crystals shot toward Klaus who was standing near Mimosa.

Mars was one of the new shining Generals of the Diamond Kingdom who was modified to become a mindless soldier. The magic stones embedded on his head were the main control centers. Someone might as why doesn't someone use mind-controlling magic? , it is because mind control magic has a flaw that the person being controlled becomes weak and still retains his previous personality.

[Steel magic: dreadnaught's outer Hull ]. A wall of steel emerged from Klaus's hands and blocked the upcoming wave.

" Support me Yuno, we will show this Diamond scum the power of Golden Dawn "

" yes sir !!"

But the wall didn't remain for long and was broken. Yuno dodged and moved Mimosa to a corner . Klaus somehow dodged but was still hurt from the attack. Both Klaus and Yuno started bombarding spell but none of them reached Mars, his defense seemed impenetrable. Seeing this situation Klaus instructed Yuno to try to open the treasure door and he would buy time.

Mars made clones of crystals looking like himself and attacked from all around with different lethal spells. Klaus' body got filled with injuries and as he was about to be penetrated he was saved by Yuno.

" What are you doing! I asked you to open the vault !! "

" Three of us would go in together after we beat this guy, " said Yuno while dropping Klaus near Mimosa.

" I will fight seriously now, " said Yuno releasing a large about of mana.

Klaus was shocked to see that Yuno had so much mana.

'This guy was not serious till now !!!'

[wind creating magic: Wind of the while hawk and raining wind blades ]

Two spells formed behind Yuno simultaneously one being an eagle and the other being blades of wind and attacked Mars together.

Klaus didn't know how to react. Yuno's magic power was beyond his expectation and he hid his strength. Klaus realized that he was taking the matter too lightly and never asked his other teammates to give their full potential.

Spells of winds and Crystals met causing destruction all around. Yuno had very strong magic but very little experience in combat which was clear in this fight as he was unable to react to many spells Mars fired at him. Still, his mind was not able to penetrate Mars but spikes crystals were sticking out of every part of his body. Not a single attack till not had reached Mars as his defense was too strong for them to crack.

Klaus gritted his teeth and tried to defect the onslaught of crystal clones made by Mars.

Mars made a giant sword of Crystal and hit Yuno and threw him up to the wall.

" Your magic doesn't affect me. No matter what you do you are a pebble in my path . " said Mars in an emotionless voice.

Yuno coughed up blood but wasn't able to move and the sword was getting closure and closure.

"I can't give up here, I will not give up till I complete my dream ! " said Yuno but his magic wouldn't activate.

" ARE YOU GIVING UP SO EASILY YUNO ! " a familiar voice reached the ears of Yuno.

'Asta!...'

Asta ran towards Mars cutting the giant Crystal sword 10 times his size in half from the middle.

Mars's head moved towards the interferer.

" What are you saying, idiot !!. I was just doing it to defeat him but you interfered" said Yuno freeing himself as new determination filled him.

"Oh ? so let's see who can defeat him first," said Asta positioning his greatsword.

Klaus was shocked by Asta's power.

" We weren't able to touch his magic but this person from the slum did that.

Why does a peasant have such powers ! " muttered Klaus.

He lost his focus and let one crystal clone pass by his defense. As he was able to rush towards it was broken into pieces by a thunder kick from Luck.

'so this was the last member I was told about.

How shameful for me to be saved by the barbarians '

Seeing his clones destroyed Mars created 30 more clones. As they were about to go ahead, all of them were enveloped in red flames. The clones started melting altogether and the mana released from the clones further made the flames stronger.

"If you keep judging people based on their birth, you will reach nowhere Klaus.

All of us were sent here because we had the ability " said Julian who dropped near Luck with Noelle from the phoenix mount.

'Such precision ! ' thought Klaus to himself. Suddenly he felt a warm feeling and saw that his injuries were healing. He turned towards Julian and saw that he was pointing one hand to him and the other towards Mimosa. He swallowed his pride and truthfully thanked him.

Julian looked ahead and shouted. " I will get rid of all the distractions. Go get rid of that guy Asta, Yuno"

Under Julian's mana zone and Sharingan, she was constantly observing the magic stones on Mars's head.

'As expected forbidden magic. Seems like I need to take those stones with me'

"Noelle got and stand beside Mimosa, you are already getting suffocated " Julian commanded