Yami gasped for air, staring intently at the man suspended in the air, bathed in light.
"I can't believe that you were able to defeat Vetto and Fana after they awakened the magic power of the elves," said Licht, the leader of the terrorist organization "Eye of the Midnight Sun". "You are worthy of being the strongest leader. After all, you were taught by the Magic Emperor himself."
Yami didn't speak, just looked into the distance; his situation was very bad. Although Ian taught him "Liquid Mana", "Crystalline Mana" and "Mana Zone", and also taught him many techniques to use Dark Magic, but what he faced was the siege of "Third Eye"--Vetto, Fana and Raya.
What's worse is that his opponent not only has greater magic than him, but also masters liquid and Crystalline Magic Technique. Yami doesn't know how this state-secret technology was leaked, and he has no time to think about it. In a one-on-three battle, he defeated Fana and Vetto, and slightly injured Raya. But then the leader of Eye of the Midnight Sun appeared, and he, who was already exhausted and slightly weaker, could only barely hold on.
Yami looked into the distance and saw that Royal Capital was in ruins. As far as he knew, all three realms were attacked, and Clover Kingdom suffered heavy losses. When he thought of how many people had died and how much the country had been destroyed, Yami became furious. But he knew that now was not the time to lose control of his emotions.
Not far away, Fuegoleon fell in a pool of blood with an arm broken. Yami sensed that the "qi" of many Magic Knights members had changed and began to attack his companions. Even two members of his own group were in the same situation.
"Damn, how could it be like this? It was an ordinary day, and the undead suddenly attacked, and then these terrorists came out to disrupt the situation," Yami cursed secretly, "Just because that bastard suddenly wanted to go on vacation on a whim! Damn it."
"Why are you doing this?" Yami asked.
"In order to retaliate for what you humans have done to us Elves," Licht looked at the scene of destruction in front of him and replied, "How you destroyed our home in the first place, we will destroy you now. Now, don't delay any longer. Everything must be completed before more changes occur."
"What you call variables is that you are worried about Ian coming back."
"Indeed. However, once our elves complete the reincarnation, even the Magic Emperor will not be our opponent. Especially our leader," Licht--or Patry thought to himself. He used the name Licht just to commemorate the deceased leader and best friend.
"In that case, why did you wait until he disappeared before taking action?"
"In order to avoid unnecessary trouble," Patry stopped talking nonsense and launched an attack directly. Thousands of Lightsaber appeared in the air, pouring down like a heavy rain. The ground around Yami shattered instantly, and he disappeared in the smoke.
Patry frowned and sensed the surroundings. "Escaped? It doesn't matter." He took Vetto and Fana with him, healed their injuries with Light Magic, and then flew in a specific direction.
Soon after, Yami crawled out of the ruins covered in blood. He used the skills taught by Ian and used magic to temporarily stop the bleeding from the wound. Although this was not considered treatment, it could delay death. He walked hard to the central area, where other surviving captains were surrounding Fuegoleon, who was being treated by Mimosa.
"Are you not dead yet?" Jack asked.
"Want to fight?" Yami replied.
"Now is not the time," Nozel·Hill Wa reprimanded, "The enemy has entered the palace, we must stop their core target."
"We don't even know what their goals are, how can we stop them?" Zora retorted, "Besides, we must prevent these traitors from continuing to Carnage civilians and destroy the kingdom."
Everyone fell into silence. These "traitors" were once members of their group, and they didn't know how to start.
"I say, just be ruthless and kill them all," Jack suggested.
"There's no need to do that."
Everyone looked at the speaker. They saw Asta, Yuno, and a strange girl with two short horns and heavy bags under her eyes walking over.
"Captain Yami!" Asta shouted, "It's Nero! I can't believe it, she is Nero!"
"You mean that strange bird that's been following you?"
"Yes, that's her!"
"I am Secre Swallowtel," the girl replied coldly, "First of all, these elves are here for the magic stone."
"They took away Yuno's necklace," Asta added.
"If I remember correctly, Fuegoleon also has a necklace. Is this why they attacked him?" Nozel analyzed.
"What is the use of magic stones?"
"Shadow Palace," Yami whispered, attracting everyone's attention, "Ian once mentioned that there is a place called Shadow Palace deep in the castle, which may be their destination."
"Speaking of which, where did the Magic Emperor go?" Nozel asked.
"I tried contacting him, but to no avail."
After a brief silence, Secre continued, "Anti-Magic of Asta can eliminate Reincarnation Magic in these people, and we can use his ability to solve the problem."
"If this is the case, we can divide our forces into two groups: one group will chase the elves, and the other group will stay here to deal with the possessed knights," Nozel suggested.
"That's a bad idea," Secre retorted, "To defeat those elves, we need to concentrate all our strength." She knew very well what was in the Shadow Palace. If the Magic Emperor was here, everything would be easy, but he is not. She originally planned to wake up First Wizard King Lemiel to solve the problem. Unfortunately, the magic stones needed to unblock them are now in the hands of the elves.
"Ian told me that he set a seal inside the castle," Yami said, "This should buy us time to deal with the remaining elves first, and treat and restore our strength at the same time."
Just as everyone was weighing the feasibility of the plan, the surrounding temperature suddenly rose sharply. A huge pillar of fire shot into the sky from Fuegoleon.
"Brother!" Leon shouted, "Mimosa, what's going on?"
"I... I don't know," Mimosa panicked.
Under the gaze of everyone, the fire pillar turned into a Salamander with wings. Fuegoleon's injuries healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even grew a left arm made entirely of flames. Then, he opened his eyes in confusion.
After understanding the situation, Fuegoleon dropped a bombshell.
"You mean, the leader of Eye of the Midnight Sun is Vangeance?" Nozel asked in shock.
"Impossible, leader Vangeance would never do such a thing," Yuno couldn't accept it.
"I saw it with my own eyes," Fuegoleon replied decisively.
Not only Yuno, Yami is also unbelievable. Vangeance is one of his closest friends. They grew up together in "Blue Ravenclaw Squad" and received training from Ian together. He cannot understand why Vangeance betrayed. And he firmly believes that if Vangeance had a problem, Ian would have discovered it long ago.
"Unless he knew it a long time ago and let it happen," Yami thought to himself. He knew that Ian would use Time Magic, maybe he had foreseen this future.
In the end, everyone decided to act as planned. After Mimosa's treatment and Charmy's use of food magic to help everyone recover their magic power, they quickly returned to fighting status and began to subdue the possessed magic knights. At the same time, Fuegoleon used Finral's Space Magic to contact reinforcements: his sister, Mereoleona.
In a strong demon zone not far away, Ian calmly watched all this. He realized that the plot was completely messed up. The elf invasion should have happened later, after experiencing the attack on Royal Capital, the Underwater Temple chapter, the Witch's Forest chapter and the Royal Selection Knights chapter.
"Is it because I went to Elysium that the 'destiny Corrective Force' of this timeline disappeared?" Ian thought to himself, "Or did Cosmic Will give up on this timeline? Or are there other reasons that I don't know?"
He waved his hand to switch the screen of the Crystal ball and saw Underwater Temple. It was a mess and there were heavy casualties. It was obviously an attack by Eye of the Midnight Sun to snatch the magic stone. Then he checked Witch's Forest. As expected, there was also an attack there, but the casualties seemed to be lighter than Underwater Temple.
"Zagred should appear soon, please wait a moment."