Carl immediately smiled.
"Then come take it yourself."
Asta's face turned extremely grave, filled with pain.
"Carl, watch out!!"
Yuno was tightly bound and surrounded by chains, unable to make a sound. But his expression was icy cold.
From that look alone, it was clear just how much he hated his own powerlessness.
Farther away.
The green thorns of the Blue Rose were endlessly entwined around a large tree, almost merging with it.
Charlotte stared intensely at the three boys nearby, as well as the thief named Revchi.
Her eyes were filled with cold killing intent.
"Just as I thought..."
"That guy has set his sights on these three newly awakened boys."
Magic power continuously gathered in Charlotte's hand. Long thorns grew wildly, gradually forming into a thorned longsword that shimmered with green light.
Just as she was about to pounce and kill the thief named Revchi on the spot, Carl's words made Charlotte pause slightly.
"Could it be... Carl still has another trump card?"
She had already noticed Carl's changes before.
But she truly had no idea what Carl was capable of.
At that moment, Charlotte felt a strong curiosity toward the boy who had once "held" her.
Endless thorny vines silently crept across the ground, gradually closing in on Revchi's battlefield.
Charlotte stared intently at everything.
Yet Carl merely sneered.
"Then let's see whether you have what it takes."
Around Revchi, countless silver chains whirled through the air, crashing toward Carl like a torrential downpour.
Steel Creation Magic, Chain Snake!
Yet Carl snorted coldly in his heart.
"Eight Gates Formation—First Gate, Gate of Opening, open!"
The power within his body instantly surged.
Carl's speed had nearly surpassed the limit of what the human eye could perceive.
Asta, lying on the ground, gaped.
His eyes were full of shock.
"C-Carl..."
"He trains his body too?!"
And his physical ability was actually even stronger than Asta's!
Asta looked as if he had found a true kindred spirit, his eyes shining with boundless excitement.
"If I could have a real fight with Carl, that'd be amazing..."
Unable to even stand at the moment, Asta could only cheer wildly from the side.
However, Revchi's face gradually turned livid.
"Brat, every one of you is so damn strange..."
"You and that little white-haired runt, what kind of monsters are you?"
In this magic-supreme world, encountering two monsters who trained their bodies in succession was simply too bizarre for words.
Revchi snorted.
"Your limit ends here, doesn't it?"
The chains trembled violently.
Two chains suddenly shot forward like silver arrows, aimed straight at Carl's body.
Asta immediately let out a strange cry. He had lost to that very sneak attack just moments ago.
Yet Carl shifted his position in an instant.
He abruptly reached out with both hands and grabbed both chains at once! The magical glow blooming from their arrowhead tips was sharp and threatening.
But Carl merely yanked hard.
Crack!
The chains were forcibly torn apart!
Before Asta and Yuno's stunned eyes, Carl flicked his hand.
The chain that had hooked Yuno's Magic Stone necklace was flung back. The Magic Stone necklace landed precisely in Carl's hand.
Carl sensed the aura within it, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
At the same time, a system notification suddenly sounded in his mind.
"Ding!"
"Congratulations, Host. Mission 3 has been activated. You have obtained a Magic Stone Fragment."
"The current skill cannot awaken the Eight Gates Formation's innate skill."
"A purple special skill has been awakened for the Host."
Boom!!
Carl's damaged four-leaf clover grimoire suddenly burst forth with an intense radiance in the next moment.
Revchi, meanwhile, was consumed by furious frustration.
"One after another, none of you can just make things easy!"
"Wouldn't it be fine if you just let me catch you and hand over your Grimoire?"
"Do you really have to force me to go all out?!"
At that moment, a trace of blood trickled from Revchi's mouth.
The next instant, the magic power within him seemed to burn completely.
Clatter—
Boundless light suddenly burst forth. The silver-white chains seemed utterly enraged, erupting with two or three times more power than before, perhaps even greater.
Asta's eyes revealed intense unwillingness.
"That damned thief..."
"He was actually hiding such powerful strength!"
A trace of despair also appeared in Yuno's eyes.
In the distance, Charlotte's heart nearly leaped into her throat. In the dark corner, countless thorns had condensed into incomparably hard spikes.
The slightest sign that Carl could not hold on, and she would immediately act to save his life.
Yet Carl merely showed a faintly disdainful smile.
Then he gave Yuno in the distance an apologetic look.
"I'll take this Magic Stone necklace as payment for saving your life."
"Sorry for the trouble, Yuno."
In Carl's hand, the Magic Stone slowly dissipated from the necklace.
In the end, only the necklace itself remained.
But the corner of Carl's mouth curled upward slightly.
The cover of his Grimoire slowly floated before him, continuously expanding.
The Four-leaf Clover's magical patterns seemed to be completely illuminated, like an indestructible shield.
Countless magical patterns frantically converged across its surface.
Revchi's eyes showed undisguised contempt.
"What kind of junk is that?"
"You really think you can use a grimoire as a shield?"
"Pierce through it!"
Countless silver chains twisted together wildly, eventually forming a massive rotating spear that stabbed forward, carrying terrifying magic power.
Steel Creation Magic—Chain Overlord Spear!
However, Carl threw a heavy punch at his own Grimoire.
With a smile at the corner of his lips, he shouted in a low voice:
"Fire Creation—Dragon Fist!"
In an instant.
The Grimoire seemed to receive some kind of stimulation, and the magic power in the air shook violently.
The instant Carl threw his fist, blazing flames erupted!
The flames surged along his fist, eventually condensing into a massive flaming dragon head three or four heads wide. Roaring, it charged straight at the silver spear!
Boom—!
A terrifying explosion erupted.
The powerful magical shockwave filled Revchi's eyes with disbelief.
"You..."
"Besides physical techniques, you can actually use Fire Creation Magic too?!"
"Ahhhh! So what if you can?!"
"I'm definitely going to kill you!"
But before his words had even faded.
Carl kicked his own Grimoire again with all his strength.
"Earth Creation Magic—Dragon Claw!"
Immediately afterward, Carl did not pause in the slightest. He struck again and roared:
"Water Creation—Divine Dragon Tail!"
Dragon Fist!
Dragon Claw!
Divine Dragon Tail!
Three massive attacks flew forth almost at the same instant.
What terrified everyone most was that the three attacks each contained a completely different magical attribute: fire, earth, and water!
The three Creation Magics erupted at once as though they had fused perfectly.
Amid the thunderous roar.
The silver spear twisting toward him instantly shattered!
Revchi's eyes were filled with disbelief.
"No... impossible!"
"How could this happen?!"
At that moment, all the chains scattered apart.
The magical aura around them seemed to have completely lost its source.
Charlotte, who had already been prepared to act, froze with her hand suspended in midair. Her expression was complicated.
Her gaze remained fixed on Carl in the distance. Bathed in magical radiance, Carl's figure seemed to become towering and imposing.
A full three magical attributes.
They had actually appeared simultaneously in Carl alone!
What else was so special about that damaged four-leaf clover grimoire?
And Carl's terrifying physical ability was even more shocking.
He was perhaps even slightly superior to Asta, whose "muscles had practically grown into his brain."
Charlotte stood in the darkness, her expression extraordinarily complicated.
After a long while.
She gently bit her lip.
"The Royal Capital's Magic Knight selection... might actually be quite interesting."
"Perhaps I can give him a chance to join the Blue Rose then."
The moment that thought appeared, Charlotte startled herself.
She violently shook her head.
"No, absolutely not!"
"What would the other sisters think if they found out?"
But once the thought had appeared, she could no longer drive it away.
Charlotte fiercely slapped her slightly burning cheeks.
"Calm down, Charlotte."
"Don't ever do that."
"It would be so humiliating!"
"My magic power is running dry again, damn curse!"
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