Lucius: I seems i underestimated your cockroach like tenacity... Looks like you won.
Lucius lay on the ground after his final battle with asta and yuno at clover kingdom castle. Asta has lost his right arm and yuno is battered up like a punching bag with blood coming out of his mouth.
Asta: WE WON!!!
Yuno: *smacks him in the back of head with a sad expression* We didn't.. look around us you idiot.
About 90% of the clover kingdom and it's population has been killed in the culling by lucius. black bulls, golden dawn and very other surviving squads have lost most of their members. Asta looks in the direction of Noelle and the others to see henry, Vanessa,luck and charmy laying on the ground alongside yami without a single breath.
Noelle,nero,magna and zora are on the ground crying while the other members's condition is unknown.
Asta: I wish I could have come back sooner. I-*clutches his fist with tears running down his eyes*
Yuno: We can't change it now*try to comfort asta* the best w-
???: My My quite a emotional scene this is. Almost got tears in my eyes.
Asta and Yuno quickly turns around and stare at the dark figure who seems to be standing beside the half-dead lucius.
Liebe: Asta!!! That's a supreme devil. Astaroth.
Astaroth: So you lost in the end didn't you lucius?
Lucius: *cough* I would have won if you had helped.
Astaroth: I guess this is another failure then. *Sighs* just when i thought we could succeed a variable had to ruin it all.*coldly stares at Asta* But such a variable is not constant across the timelines.
Lucius: *slowly and barely stands up* That's true.. we will just try again like we always do... And you asta*coughs* will your anti-magic help you survive it?
Asta and yuno instinctively shrudder and lunges at lucius, lucius laughs crazily and throws his grimoire to astaroth. Asta and Yuno impale astaroth with their quick reactions.
Astaroth: No wonder lucifero lost, my defence is non-existent in front of that blade.*coughs blood and then smiles like a madman* But... You lost.
Asta and Yuno turn their eyes to lucius in terror who seems to have a jumbled up ball of grimoire paper in his hand.
Lucius: Ultimate soul magic: Void vessel... And ultimate time magic:
Asta quickly uses his ki to sever lucius's head but.
Lucius: End of time.
The paper turns into mana and shoots towards the sky, Yuno tries to block it but it just passed through his body. Asta brings out Demon slasher(the katana) and attacks with dimensional slash but astaroth gathers his remaining power to shift the sword's trajectory, making it barely miss the spell page. Yuno teleports to astaroth and rips him into shreds while asta again charges dimensional slash... But the paper vanishes into the void.
The rolling head of lucius laughs as his eyes loss their light.
A blinding flash and a world shaking shockwave was the last thing Asta saw as everything begin to slow down in front of him and next second the world vanished from existence.
Asta: How many years have it been liebe?
Liebe: who knows? There is no sun,no stars,no time and no nothing here.
A unknown amount of time has passed since that day, Asta and liebe have been floating in endless void surviving only due to the barrier of anti-magic that seems to devour the near endless mana from the surroundings and not dying because the ki constantly keeps the unmoving barely sustained, he looks like a old man with wrinkled and starving body.
Asta: At this point I can say for sure I have decoded and memorized every single rune in the grimoire... But is there even a point in this anymore? Everyone has been long gone... With all this time I have spent reflecting on my past, I can say for sure I was a dense idiot.
Liebe: *sarcastically* atleast you will die knowing your past mistakes... I am not gonna lie Asta, the grimoire is reaching it's limit, I have spent most of my life force sustaining it for who knows how many centuries in this void.. I want to be honest now, you are the best brother i could have and I wish we will together in the next life.. if there is one.
Asta: I wish so too liebe and thanks for holding it out all this time.
Liebe's soul broke down into mana and drifted into the endless void, finding It's source of power gone the grimoire shifts to asta who has stockpiled years of worth of ki inside him.
Asta: Now I am alone.. in this endless world with nothing except this crippling and maddening darkness.
Years again passed with Asta floating around in solitude, finding no purpose he begins imagining scenarios and sword techniques he could have used in his life. He mocks himself for his immature younger self and how he could have ended it all if he had trained his swordmanship to a better level.
A figure floats into the void through a portal and wanders around.
???: He escaped again, that darn son of volatia... Hum, what is that?
Slowly floating towards a old man with no thoughts in his eyes floating in the void within a barrier.
???: Just how? The time has been erased for centuries now, just how did this guy survive? *Tries touching the barrier* Sh*t
The barrier rips away a portion of the magical being and absorbs it.
???: This guy can control something like this? If he was born into the highlands then maybe he could have been one of the guardians.. *makes a praying posture* Whoever you are, you are worthy of my respect for such a feat... *Turns back* Let's repair the flow of time shall we?
The being spent decades trying to reconstruct the broken loop of time flow.
???: The world shall reset and all the souls who were killed by that bastard will be reborn, i am sure reaper has them all in the limbo for now. Such a shame the world with potential to connect to the highlands was destroyed for some pathetic greed.
He turns to asta who has begun faded into the void, his life force is at it's end.
???: I hope you have a better next life after the reset.
The being again created a portal and left like he came.
Asta: 'I see.. rebirth eh? I also hope I have a better life with them all.'
In a village high up in the mountains, a bunch of children are playing with wooden weapons while a bunch of people oversee them.
Labilos: The children are energetic and strong.
Gamiro: they might make good hunters after they grow up, maybe a few might even have talent for aura or ki.
Calinop: what about that child? *Points towards a child swinging his sword in a daze at the edge of playground.* He seems to frantic.
Labilos: He is son of that mage that came here and begins living in the cave near the river. His mother died at child birth and his father is his only caretaker. That kid is wierd if you ask me.
Calinop: Wierd?
Labilos: the mage helps us with our crops and construction but that kid.. he knows the day the mage dies will be the day he is kicked out. His body is the strongest I have seen on a kid and his movements smooth but the tribe has it's rules and we must follow them.
From somewhere to the side, a cloaked middle aged person with grey hair and beard comes. It is the village mage- govus Staria.
Govus: Asta.. let's go home.
Asta: okay dad.