Dense branches covered the Golden Dawn Squad's headquarters, forming a giant protective shield.
William pushed his magic to the limit, but unfortunately, he was not an offensive grimoire user; World Tree Magic was more suited for support.
Especially since William was not on the same level as Dante at all.
Simple World Tree Magic could not stop Dante's attack.
With a loud 'bang,' Dante slammed directly into William, and the dense branches were crushed by the gravity.
A huge crater was formed in the ground, and with a 'gush,' William spat out blood. He used his last ounce of strength to bury the World Tree's seeds underground, hoping his magic could save his squad members' lives.
The Golden Dawn suffered heavy casualties; besides those out on missions, no one present could stand up.
All were left on the verge of death by the gravity, and several had already died.
"Caught one..."
Dante dragged William up. He was now very confused, not knowing where to find that guy, Yami... Dante, holding William, flew towards the Black Bulls' base. He refused to believe that Yami could just stay away forever, could he?
He planned to use the most foolish method—waiting for the rabbit by the tree stump!
...Spade Kingdom.
Nacht had already arrived at the underground laboratory. He suppressed his aura; there were several Pitch-black Apostles here, making it not so easy to get what he wanted.
"Haha, my great masterpiece."
Morris kept poking around Vanica's side, completely ignoring Zenon.
He had no interest in researching someone who had lost their devil power.
Vanica and Zenon were both in nutrient tanks, but Zenon, having lost beelzebub, clearly received much worse treatment.
Without his devil power, he could be considered an expendable pawn.
beelzebub was somewhat unable to protect himself. After returning to the underworld, its body's power returned to its peak, but having lost its origin, it felt uncomfortable all over.
"I must kill you."
beelzebub searched everywhere in the underworld for Latin. It had to devour this human alive to quell its hatred.
Latin, on the first layer of the underworld, had already feasted to his satisfaction. His body had mostly recovered now, but having devoured too many devils, his magic and abilities were a bit muddled, making it difficult for him to digest them all at once.
Latin was pitch-black all over, with two horns on his head, a third eye growing on his forehead, and beautiful four-winged devil wings, truly majestic.
While the higher-ranking devils were sleeping, Latin prepared to go to the second layer to devour some mid-ranking devils.
The abilities of lower-ranking devils were still too weak. For self-preservation, Latin could only venture to explore the second layer first.
He learned from the devils' memories that higher-ranking devils were either sleeping or possessing humans to play games, and generally rarely roamed the underworld.
After all, having lived for so long, who would care to stay in such a dark place?
The structure of the underworld was an inverted pyramid; the further down, the stronger the devils.
Latin explored downwards, beelzebub searched upwards; they would meet sooner or later... Hage Village.
"Prince Yuno, you are the prince of the Spade Kingdom."
"What?!" The people of the church were astonished, and Yuno himself was stunned.
At this moment, the magic stone in his chest guided Yuno into a memory. Understanding the general situation, he said with firm eyes: "I am from the Clover Kingdom, Vice-Captain of the Golden Dawn Squad—Yuno!"
The royal bloodline, extinguished by Lucius and others twenty years ago, had ultimately been passed down.
"Prince..." The injured bodyguard stared blankly at Yuno. That little child from before had, after all, grown up.
Standing tall and proud!
"Vice-Captain, please come back and see!"
The Golden Dawn Squad members returning from a mission immediately contacted Yuno using their communication device.
"I'm leaving first."
Yuno didn't have time to say goodbye to his family at the church. He jumped on his broom and flew towards the headquarters: "What exactly happened?"
"The headquarters were destroyed, the Captain is gone, everyone else... died!"
"What!?"
Yuno sped up, pushing his wind magic to the limit... Sea Temple.
Noelle was indeed a favorite of the water element, easily communicating with the Sea God.
The world was about to end, and the Sea God was awakening.
The reason for the Sea God's anger had been found: the world was about to perish.
"You are the one I have been waiting for."
The Sea God's words made Noelle's heart tighten. She quickly shouted to Leviathan: "Then what should I do?"
"Sign a contract with me."
Ah!
Noelle was a little incredulous that she would become such a lucky person.
It seemed that ever since she joined the Black Bulls, her luck had improved significantly in the past two years.
"Okay."
Noelle nodded with firm eyes.
Because the Sea God contract ritual was relatively slow, Finral, after reporting to Yami, temporarily stayed in the Sea Temple with Vanessa. Asta and the others returned to headquarters on the black bull ship.
They had been out for several days; it would be too much if they didn't go back soon... Adam, far away in Eleusia, was even more out of line. Having been unconscious for a long time, he finally woke up.
"twelve zodiac signs, don't leave!"
Adam sat up in a fright. He had a long nightmare in which he lost his zodiac abilities and began to be judged by the entire world.
Those he had offended wanted to tear him to pieces.
"Are you alright?" Doriati asked, grasping Adam's hand.
Adam composed himself and looked at the elves in the room one by one: "Thank you all, you've worked hard."
Fortunately, these guys were here, otherwise, he would have bled to death.
"It's what we should do."
Licht said.
He explained to Adam about the destruction of the altar.
Adam nodded: "You did very well. If those two Magic Emperors had followed the altar here, you would have been in trouble."
"Magic Emperors?"
Adam glanced at Princia, who was standing by the window. It seemed this woman hadn't told the elves what happened in the secret realm.
Adam roughly explained the situation, and Licht and the others were all shocked.
This seemed like a fantasy; the Magic Emperors had been resurrected, and this man in front of them had even defeated one Magic Emperor.
No wonder the two of them were covered in injuries; if it were them, they would have died there.
"What about that sword?" Adam asked.
"You mean this, right?"
Licht took out the repaired sword. The Elf Clan's master smith had reshaped the broadsword into a rapier, adding a new hilt and special materials, remaking this emperor sword from scratch.
"The master repaired it. See if this works."
The shattered emperor sword had transformed. Adam touched it with affection, saying happily: "Very good, I like it very much."
"I'll call you the human emperor sword!"
So fantastical and chuunibyou!
Adam had already decided how to use it. Although most of its functions had been lost, its core part was not missing. Relying on this power, Adam might gain a powerful boost.