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Chapter 9 - victory with a price.

Asta: Nero?

Secre: eh? Who is nero?

Asta: you are nero, you just called by my name didn't you?

Secre: I just said a name i heard in my dream, I don't know you.

Asta: 'this is wierd, i found both nero and luck but they don't seem to remember me or atleast their memories are missing.' Who are you supposed to be then?

Secre: Secre se auguilus, daughter of vampire count auguilus.

Asta: *clutches his head in annoyance* This is some serious bull****... Can you fight?

Secre: as soon as this curse gets away, *points at red spider like mark going across her arm* I will have no- HEY WHAT ARE-

Asta comes closer and grabs her arm before releasing a small amount of anti-magic on the curse, the curse was devoured and secre could again feel her connection to her mana.

Secre: How did you do that?

Asta: It's anti-*grabs her head and pushes her to the side* Not on my watch.

Asta quickly grasps his katana and deflects a red coloured javelin before punching the assailant in the chest and cutting him in two as he falls back.

Asta: Regeneration. Should have known.

???: what pathetic body *the cut down corpse twitches before pulling itself back together* Can't even regenerate properly.

Asta: *uses ki sense and suddenly his fury sky-rocketed* A devil... You won't be getting what you want.

Lilith is controlling a transfigured corpse of asiris and the ogre which seems to be put together by a blood magic. The pendant has become the minister's sole eye.

Lilith: Devil? I am demon you fool. Those old foggies died centuries ago in the great war. Why am I even talking to a insect like you?

The next second hundred of javilins begin shooting towards asta at great speed, he quickly changes his katana with his greatsword(he made one).

Asta: *points the sword at Lilith in a inside left guard* enchant wind: pull, wide guard.

A barrier surrounds asta like a fog and any javelin in touch gets absorbed, the fog soon becomes swirling around the claymore, giving it higher reach.

Lilith: Interesting.

This time the abomination lunges at asta who quickly uses the giant claymore counter attack, with a heavy swing both arms are cut at the elbow before asta twists the sword and hits it with a rising slash.

Secre makes distance and opens her grimoire.

Secre: Sealing magic: chains of void.

Many magic circles appear in air around the abomination and chains him in mid-air. Asta takes the chance to impale the greatsword through the abominations chest.

Asta: Anti magic: nullification.

A current spreads throughout the abominations body and seeps deep into his skin, just as asta was moving in for another blow he sensed something and instantly retreated towards Secre.

Secre: Wah!!

Secre couldn't even respond when asta grabbed her and brought out the short sword demon-destroyer and parries the giant claw attack from the lycanthrope.

Yosin: How?

It was last word Yosin said before his head was chopped to pieces. just as his corpse begin falling, his blood stopped mid air before the entire body flew towards the abominations and was absorbed by it. The abomination repaired it's mana nerves and breaks out of the chains with sheer brute force.

Asta: Recall.

The demon-slayer sword rips out of the abomination's chest,comes back to asta and floats beside him. Meanwhile Secre is going through a bunch of mental emotions.

Secre: 'the hell is going on? He is too close but this scene seems familiar. I just wanna shout at him and jump away but.. why do I feel so nostalgic?' *a rare sight of redness on expressionless face* Put me down.

Asta: Ah! Sorry I just-

Secre: Focus on the fight.

Asta lets go of secre while leaving his demon-slayer behind to guard her from magic attacks, he puts the demon-destroyer back into the grimoire.

Asta: His magic is sealed but it doesn't need that anymore. demon-destroyer and dweller are no good against physical brutes. Spiker it is then.

Asta switches his posture and a spear emerges from the grimoire. Asta grabs the spear demon-spiker in a left guard stance. The spear looks as if it was made charred wood with long spear head at one corner and a smaller spear head at another with the metallic part looking like it has rusted in black.

Asta dashes forward, his body begins being covered by some sort of medium armor made of anti-magic with some sort of strap trailing behind him. The abomination crouches before attacking with a sideways chop while raising his fist behind it. Asta spins his spear and throws it straight at the giant's eye like a javelin(the eye is the pendant in a bunch of flesh).

Just as the chop came at him he vanished and appeared in place of the spear while the spear appeared in his place and was smacked aside by the chop, the abomination attacks with a punch which asta dodge by using the enchant to pull himself towards towards the chest.(The wind enchant works like suction, good for projectiles and holds.) Another spear forms in his hand and with a quick thrust the spear lodges itself through the giant while asta jumps away and another spear forms into his hand which he throws high up in air.

Asta: Spike rain.

The spear clones itself dozens of time before they all turn mid air and fell on the abomination like a shower of rain,pinning it to ground.

Lilith: Such pathetic attack will not make a difference to m-

Asta: *raises his arms in a block while planting his feet in the ground* magic conversion release: wind scatter

Every single spear explodes into a burst of wind magic, creating a massive shockwave that ripped the abomination to shreds. Before it could recover again, secre cast sealing magic.

Secre: sealing magic: curtain of darkness.

The abomination loses it's senses for a brief moment which asta used to switch with the spear above and quickly activates his wings while bringing out the demon-slayer claymore.

Asta: Giant slayer.

The blade expends to five times it's size and with the power of the enchant cuts the pendant into two alongside a massive part of the house.

Secre: Sealing magic: Soul rip.

The portion of Litith's soul that was in the pendant was ripped out of it and sealed into Secre's grimoire.

Both asta and secre release their tension and close their grimoire while falling down.

Secre: Finally ended. Phew now t-

Asta: WATCH OUT.

A sudden burst of pain was all secre experienced before she fell unconscious, a knife had pierced her in the abdomen. Asta rushes and uses every last bit of ki he could gather and punches the cloaked assassin behind secre. The assassin coughs blood before asta grabs his head and slams him through the roof straight onto the ground, making him into meat paste. He swiftly grabs Secre who was falling beside him and lands on his own feet.

Asta: NERO!! ****...

Asta puts her beside the other duo who was laying in the room and tries to think of a way to help her. He slowly brings out the knife enchanted to specialize in killing vampires.

Asta: Solar and lightning runes. This was made to target vampires.*grabs his forehead* Think asta think. 'healing magic is no good, anti-magic will also not help stop the wounds, what can I even do?'

???: Blood.

From behind luck comes with his arm covered in green blood and his arm bleeding.

Luck: Give her blood.

Asta understood luck's words and quickly grabbed a broken arrow bolt from the side and makes a cut on his arm before brings it above Secre's mouth and dripping blood in it.

Her complexion begin to heal a little and the bleeding stopped. Just for assurance asta dripped blood for another minute before bandaging it up.

Luck has also bandaged up himself and his friends and fallen unconscious to the side.

Asta: I will have to take them with me.

Through badly exhausted for constant use of anti-magic, Asta grits his teeth and picks up everyone. He strapped Lajis and Lawock on his back while carrying luck and secre in his arms by their stomachs and begins moving towards his house.

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