Fuegoleon walked out of the portal and came to a forest.
He closed his eyes and felt for a moment, and the little Salamander on his shoulder instantly turned into a giant dragon. He grabbed Finral, jumped on the dragon's back, and galloped away in a certain direction.
A few minutes later, he landed in front of a giant rhino that was 15 meters tall.
A woman with long fiery red hair and a tiger tooth is sitting on the back of a monster, eating meat calmly. She is surrounded by a ferocious aura, like a lion always searching for prey.
"Sister," Fuegoleon shouted.
Mereoleona was eating with relish. After sensing the powerful magic coming from the distance, she raised her head. When she saw her brother's newly grown flame arm, she immediately frowned.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Clover Kingdom is under attack, we need your help."
"What are you talking about? With Ian here, how could anything happen to the kingdom?"
"Not long ago, the Magic Emperor lifted the curse and then went on vacation. Now I can't contact him at all."
Upon hearing this, Mereoleona suddenly had veins on his forehead. "Are you serious?"
Fuegoleon said nothing. Mereoleona took out a small mirror from his pocket and injected it with magic power.
After a few seconds, she roared, "Damn it, why can't you contact him!"
Her anger turned into a pillar of fire that shot into the sky, instantly roasting the rhinoceros beneath her into charcoal.
Ignoring the burnt meat under her body, she stood up and finally noticed that there was a third person present.
"Who is this again?"
"This is Black Bulls's space mage: Finral."
Normally, Finral would definitely strike up a conversation when he saw a beautiful woman. But in front of the terrifying aura exuded by Mereoleona, he was trembling with fear. In his eyes, this was simply Beast wearing human skin.
"Let's go."
Finral opened the portal and brought everyone back to the Clover Kingdom. Due to the distance, this trip almost exhausted his magic power.
However, with the return of Mereoleona, the speed of cleaning up the rampaging elves has been greatly accelerated. The only ones causing trouble to the group leaders are the possessed Charlotte and Aqua Deer's group leader Lill.
Later, with the help of Liebe, Asta successfully removed Reincarnation Magic from these people and stripped the souls of the elves from their bodies.
After the cleaning work was completed, everyone went straight to the Shadow Palace. Ten elves known as "Sefirah Apostles" had already entered it.
Using Sealing Magic of Secre (Nero), the door was opened. Mimosa used plant magic to draw a map of the interior of the palace and found that all the elves were gathered on the top floor.
However, when they reached the top floor, the sight before them shocked everyone.
Except for two Apostle, all the other elves fell to the ground, either injured or unconscious.
Patry, the leader of "Eye of the Midnight Sun", has become Dark Elves and is fighting with another standing member - Licht, the real leader of Elves five hundred years ago.
More importantly, a Demons with two horns is floating above, with a playful smile on its face, as if it is watching a good show.
"What's going on?" Mereoleona asked.
"Everything is a lie," Raya said while lying on the ground crying.
He explained that the betrayal of humans five hundred years ago, their reincarnation and the plan to attack the kingdom were all the conspiracy of Demons. Demons did all this just to obtain Grimoire and summon his body to come.
Now that he recognized the enemy clearly, Mereoleona stopped talking nonsense and launched an attack directly.
"Balrog method: Calidus Brachium."
Her punches were so fast that it seemed like she had a thousand hands, and each punch was accompanied by blazing flames and struck Zagred.
However, Zagred just said lightly, "Put it out."
Mereoleona's flame disappeared instantly. She frowned, but her offensive did not decrease.
"Crystalline Mana·Mana Zone: Calidus Brachium·Purgatory."
Purple flames enveloped her fists. Her physical abilities were greatly enhanced by the magic power, making her fists faster and more powerful.
Zagred still wore that creepy smile and said the same words, extinguishing her flame again.
"You actually know how to use the Mana Crystallization technique," he commented.
"Indeed. I have to say that the Magic Emperor is a genius that this world has never seen before. His skills contain potential that you can't imagine."
The reason why Zagred said this was because he was convinced that with this skill, even if he was only ranked Demons, he would still have a chance to defeat the highest-level Demons. This was an iron law that Underworld could never break.
Mereoleona glanced at Yami and prepared to attack again. However, Zagred said, "Suck dry and restrain."
She instantly felt a loss of energy and her body became weak. The ground turned into chains and tied her tightly.
At the same time, Yami suddenly appeared behind Demons, and struck hard with the sword wrapped around Dark Magic.
"Bounce away," Zagred said. A huge repulsive force blew Yami away and hit the wall heavily.
Fuegoleon, Nozel and Jack also launched attacks at the same time.
Zagred looked at them with disdain. These three people only mastered Liquid Mana skills and posed no threat to him.
"Infinite Blades."
Thousands of sharp swords appeared out of thin air and hit the three people like a torrential rain. Nozel created countless mercury tentacles to try to deflect the swords, and Fuegoleon ordered Salamander to spit fire and burn them.
Unfortunately, there are simply too many.
While Yami and Mereoleona were fighting hard against Zagred, Licht was also fighting fiercely against the fallen Patry.
Members of Black Bulls, Asta, Yuno, Mimosa, Secre and Noelle watched the battle in shock.
Although I knew the group leaders were very strong, I didn't expect them to be this strong, let alone that Demons was so terrifying.
Unfortunately, in a battle of this level, they have no way to intervene.
Although Asta owns Anti-Magic, he has only been a Magic Knight for a few months. Even if he learned how to sense "qi", he could not keep up with the movements of the group leaders. Yuno's situation is similar.
The only one who can help is Vanessa. Whenever a friend faces a death threat, her Destiny Magic will activate and rewrite reality.
But her magic power was limited, and after saving Yami several times, her magic power was exhausted.
A few minutes later, Zagred looked at the scarred group leaders and laughed, "Great. I have tested my strength, and now it's time to leave before that monster comes back. Before that, I give you a parting gift."
He summoned a group of purple monsters composed of tentacles. As soon as these monsters appeared, they began to devour the surrounding magic, proliferated like a plague, and pounced on the injured elves, Asta and others.
"Double Doppelganger," Zagred created a clone to continue entangled with the group leaders, while the main body rushed towards the exit.
However, before he flew very far, the entire Shadow Palace suddenly stopped for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, a portal appeared out of thin air.
Ian, wearing a platinum robe, walked out. He looked around, smiled and said, "Did you miss me?"
Seeing him, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Ian looked at the embarrassed group leaders and said, "You still need more training."
"End this quickly," Yami said angrily.
Ian shrugged and slowly flew to Asta and others.
"I need to see your Grimoire," he said, pointing to Asta and Secre.
Asta handed it over immediately, and Secre hesitated before handing it over.
Ian took out a light ball from Asta's Grimoire and absorbed the information inside. He raised his hand and created a black Anti-Magic ball.
But he quickly shook his head. He could only convert a small part of the magic power into Anti-Magic energy, which was not enough.
After putting the light ball back, he read Grimoire from Secre.
Her Sealing Magic has become extraordinary under the transformation of the forbidden technique, and can even seal concepts.
After reading, a new page appears on Grimoire of Ian.
At this time, Zagred used a strange trident that could disintegrate all things, and lifted the Silencing Curse that Ian had imposed on him when they first met.
After his mouth was free again, he could use Word Soul Magic again.
"What magic is this?" Zagred asked, trying to delay time, but at the same time he was really curious. He could feel that this kind of magic did not belong to this world, because it was the only kind of magic that his trident could not easily disintegrate.
Unfortunately, Ian is not in the mood to chat.
He waved his hand, and countless magic circles formed a sphere to wrap Zagred, and then quickly shrank until he was compressed into the size of a tennis ball.
This Demons has no resistance.
Then, Ian waved his hand and shed a golden light, instantly healing everyone's injuries, including the elves.
Patry's Dark Elves form was also reversed and returned to its original appearance, with only one eye remaining black.
"Follow me," Ian said to everyone, and then flew outside. A soft wind lifted up those who could not fly.
Arriving outside the palace, Ian awakened the magic knights possessed by elves and cured them. He implanted the battle memory about Zagred into their minds and asked them to follow him.
As a result, a spectacular scene appeared in the sky above Royal Capital: the Magic Emperor led all the group leaders and magic knights to float in the air.
Looking at the devastated kingdom, Ian asked, "Do you blame me for not showing up earlier?"
No one answered, including Yami and the arrogant Mereoleona.
"To tell you the truth, I knew there was going to be an attack, but I did nothing."
Everyone was silent, some lowered their heads, and some were trembling because of Wrath or fear.
"I do this to teach you three things. First, never rely too much on others. In this world, only family and loved ones will protect you at all costs, and even this is not absolute."
Ian paused and glanced at the ruins.
"Second, I want you to understand how weak you are. Your achievements as a magic knight or leader are not worth showing off at all. Because in the end, with your current strength, you cannot protect this country and its people."
Many people - mainly the group leaders - clenched their fists tightly, and some even had tears in their eyes. But still no one spoke.
"Finally, I will show you the pinnacle of power in this world. I do this not to show off, but to inspire you. I want you to know that one day, you can also reach this height, or even surpass it."
"Of course, you may not believe it or understand it now, but you will understand it in the future."
After saying that, his Grimoire floated in front of him.
"Time Reversal Magic: Kyronos Anastasius."
A huge clock dial instantly covered the entire Clover Kingdom - including all three realms.
The hour hand begins to turn backwards, and time flows backwards.
All the destroyed buildings in the kingdom and all the people who died in the attack have been restored to the state they were in a few hours ago.
"Huh," Ian wiped the sweat from his forehead.
In the original work, Julius used this magic to only cover Noble District, and only went back a few seconds.
Ian covered three realms and held Time Rewind for a full two hours.
This consumed a lot of his magic power and most of the "time" he had reserved.
Finally, he turned around to face the stunned people, whose faces were full of awe, envy and even fear.
"Go and appease the people. Although I Resurrection them, their memories of death are still there."
The knights nodded dully and then dispersed.
Ian turned around and flew back to his castle.