Apart from Charles, no one had expected the Magic Knight squads' Spade expedition to develop so legendarily.
When the Devil King descended and devastatingly defeated all the squad captains, almost everyone felt despair.
But precisely because of this, the mont Lucifero was slain felt so shocking.
But Charles didn't experience that atmosphere - he lost consciousness after the battle ended.
The Nibelungen Ring was indeed a very powerful skill, but its cost wasn't small either. Charles didn't have Ottar's convenient "Beastification" skill, so it truly consud considerable stamina and magic power.
Especially entering the natural realm for those brief ten-plus minutes had almost exhausted Charles's ntal strength. Though Charles would rather experience more of that realm's power.
So Charles fainted as soon as the battle ended. When he woke up, he was already back in the Clover Kingdom.
The awakened Charles had completely recovered his magic power, stamina, and ntal strength, then imdiately threw himself into new operations.
That's right - although Lucifero had been defeated, that didn't an everything was over.
Because the mastermind behind everything - Lucius Zogratis - had disappeared again.
Not just Lucius, but the Dark Triad's corpses and all devils not absorbed by Lucifero had vanished without a trace.
Even those two Demon Gods who had appeared in the original plot were nowhere to be found.
Three gates of the underworld had opened in succession, with the twin devils Lilith and Nahamah from the first level being slain by Asta.
The atmospheric devil Baal had also been defeated by Charles, then had his heart extracted by Lucius.
But Adramlech from the second level had never appeared.
Charles rembered that Adramlech seed to have connections with Lucius early on, their relationship similar to collaborators.
Lucius not being defeated ant everything was far from over.
But the expedition did have results - the Diamond Kingdom and Spade Kingdom successfully restored their nations. The Clover Kingdom and Heart Kingdom also returned to peace.
Charles actually wasn't very optimistic about this world's future.
The Heart Kingdom's system and environnt determined they could coexist peacefully with the Clover Kingdom, but the other two countries were different.
The Diamond Kingdom was barren throughout, and the Spade Kingdom had harsh cold climate, destined to be unable to develop through normal ans.
This generation had restored their nations through the Clover Kingdom's assistance, but such gratitude absolutely couldn't withstand ti's erosion.
It was foreseeable that the countries would definitely erupt in new wars over resources in the future.
To solve this problem, now was the most suitable opportunity.
While the four countries' relations were in a honeymoon period, strengthening exchanges and communication between the four countries and achieving resource circulation and sharing would allow all countries to develop well.
Unfortunately, not one of the royalty ruling the Clover Kingdom had such vision, nor were they willing to pay the initial costs.
If Julius were still around, perhaps there would be hope for change. But unfortunately, there were no clever people who could change this country now.
Charles could only sigh at this. As for other matters, they weren't his to worry about.
Finding Yami, who was still recovering from injuries, Charles also learned about recent events.
After Lucifero's descent and all the previous events, the four kingdoms had deeply realized Lucius's danger.
So whether Magic Knights, Magic Defense Forces, Spirit Guardians, or Magic Defense squads all began searching for traces of Lucius within their borders.
For the ard forces of four kingdoms to act for the sa goal, Lucius could be considered unprecedented.
Charles had seen the Clover Kingdom's plan - even the strong magic regions weren't spared, quite thorough indeed.
This search lasted a full month, with the Clover Kingdom even being completely turned over... yet the result was nothing.
Forget Lucius's strongholds - not even a trace he left behind was discovered, making one wonder where exactly he was hiding.
Not just the Clover Kingdom - the other three kingdoms also found nothing. It was as if Lucius had already left this continent.
This was sothing Rill had casually ntioned at the summary eting. The speaker was unintentional, but the listener took it to heart. After returning, Yami gathered all Black Bulls mbers.
In the hall, Yami sat boldly on the sofa, head resting on the backrest, cigarette in mouth as he stared at the ceiling in thought.
The others didn't dare speak, but Nacht wouldn't be polite.
"Everyone's already here. Since you gathered everyone, don't waste everyone's ti."
Yami ca back to his senses, removed the cigarette from his mouth, looked at everyone and said, "You should all know that our search for Lucius has yielded no results.
So I was thinking he might no longer be within the four kingdoms."
Charles spoke, "I rember Captain Yami's hotown is an overseas foreign country, so you suspect Lucius has fled there."
Yami sighed, "It's not impossible, so whether for my hotown or to settle the grudge with Lucius, it seems I need to make a trip back."
Saying this, Yami suddenly reached up to scratch his head. He had always acted carefree about everything - it was rare to see him this troubled.
"Damn! I'm not ntally prepared to go back yet."
Charles looked at Yami and couldn't help thinking. It seed Yami's departure from his hotown wasn't because of what he told others about encountering a shipwreck while fishing and drifting to the Clover Kingdom.
A certain Chinatown detective had said, "What person who's doing well at ho would be willing to leave? Those who stay have reasons to stay, those who leave have reasons to leave!"
But Captain Yami had co to the Clover Kingdom as a youth, so he shouldn't have such vicissitudes of experience.
Not everyone in the Black Bulls was good at reading expressions, especially Asta, who directly approached, "Captain Yami, what kind of place is your hotown?"
Perhaps considering they would act soon, Yami wanted everyone to understand the target's situation, so he said, "My old ho is called the Land of the Sun. There, magic and magic power are called sorcery and demonic power. The grimoire styles are also different from here.
Not just different nas - magic users and sorcerers have different training and combat thods."
Charles nodded, "So sorcerers in the Land of the Sun are all like Captain Yami, more focused on physical techniques and swordsmanship, with sorcery only for support, unlike magic users here who focus mainly on magic."
Yami gave a thumbs up, "Worthy of the junior I favor - you understood imdiately!
The situation is just like Charles said. Sorcerers and warriors in the Land of the Sun all master that ki technique I taught Asta, and even excellent ones master higher techniques.
But we're going to find that Lucius bastard, so unexpectedly we probably won't fight such people."
When saying this, Yami seed to think of sothing, shook his head to pull his thoughts back and continued, "The Land of the Sun isn't so peaceful good place either. At least when I left it was chaotic.
But so much ti has passed, there should be so changes!"
Charles smiled, "Whether there are changes, we'll naturally know by going to see this ti."
Yami put the cigarette back in his mouth, "You're right. I'll be counting on you again this ti, Charles. Use your big guy to get to the Land of the Sun at maximum speed."
Asta suddenly raised his hand, "Captain Yami, I want to go too!"
Yami said, "I was planning to bring you even if you didn't say so. The final battle can't do without your anti-magic."
Seeing this scene, how could the others sit still? They all crowded around.
"Captain Yami, too!"
"I want to go too!"
"Are there any new ingredients in the Land of the Sun?"
"Please take along too, Mr. Yami!"
"Sorcerers... sound strong. Are there fights to be had?"
"In that case, I'll magnanimously go with you all!"
...
Yami clapped his hands, "Are you all that interested in my hotown?"
Everyone looked at Yami with glowing eyes, nodding obediently together.
Yami smiled, "I really can't do anything about you guys. Charles, no problems on your end?"
Charles nodded, "Small problem. This number won't affect speed."
Yami stood up, "Then the Black Bulls' next mission is a full squad investigation in the Land of the Sun. Go prepare - we're leaving imdiately!"
"Yeah!"
Everyone moved quickly, soon packing and assembling before the base.
Charles took out a talisman and threw it out. Chongming with gorgeous tail feathers appeared before everyone.
This was everyone's first ti seeing Chongming, and they all exclaid in amazent.
Yami had thought Charles would use the fire spirit to transport everyone to the Land of the Sun, not expecting this surprise.
Charles jumped onto Chongming first, and the others curiously boarded as well.
After everyone was seated, Chongming spread his broad wings and soared into the sky with just one flap.
Yami shaded his eyes with his hand, watching the rapidly retreating clouds in his vision, "This speed really is amazing. But I can't even feel the wind - thought I'd suffer a bit."
Charles took Yami's words as praise, directing Chongming toward the direction Yami indicated at full speed.
Going to sea in this world was quite dangerous because the ocean was a strong magic region even vaster than the Spade Kingdom's borders.
Not only were conditions harsh, but sea monsters posed enormous threats. Even the Clover Kingdom's most advanced magic ships couldn't guarantee safe ocean crossing.
So exactly how had young Yami crossed the ocean before even obtaining his grimoire?
Of course, flying was different. At full speed, Chongming quickly crossed the vast ocean, with the Land of the Sun ahead.
The first sight that t their eyes was that stretch of polluted seawater.
For so reason, the seas within a certain range of the Land of the Sun were completely different - the seawater appeared ink-black, and Charles could feel the turbid magic power surging within.
The sky was the sa, covered with patches of dark clouds. That too wasn't a natural phenonon, but polluted magic power.
Honestly, the Land of the Sun wasn't as wonderful as everyone had imagined before departure. Perhaps because it was Captain Yami's hotown, everyone had good first impressions, but seeing this scene, they couldn't help but feel disappointed.
But Yami took a deep breath and said, "Long ti no see, Land of the Sun!"
Indeed, even Yami would have feelings of being timid about approaching ho.
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