Zenon's corpse was finally left with only a broken skeleton. Perhaps because his magic was bone magic, even Charles's flames hadn't completely turned it to ash.
After the battle ended, Charles immediately set off for the other battlefields.
And the facts proved that Charles's previous preparations were very effective.
Dante had indeed attacked the Black Bulls base and engaged in fierce battle with the Black Bulls squad.
This time Yami had received Charles's hint and was waiting for him in advance, so the situation of squad members being defeated before returning didn't occur.
So during the battle, Yami and Asta received support from everyone.
Although the Black Bulls squad members' magic power levels didn't seem as excellent as the Golden Dawn, each of them had special qualities. There were more than one person possessing Underworld magic alone.
Not only was direct combat difficult to deal with, but the support effects they could provide were astonishing.
With support from Vanessa and others, Asta and Yami actually gained the advantage working together for a time.
But when Dante liberated his maximum devil power, relying on pure magic power difference and gravity magic, he forced everyone else to exit the stage.
But at this time, Green Mantis squad captain Jack arrived just in time.
Although it was only others' retelling without details, Charles could imagine the two captains taunting each other and then exploding with stronger power because they refused to lose.
Under the two captains' fierce battle, Asta, who had sacrificed one arm and temporarily truly mastered anti-magic power, successfully delivered the finishing blow, slaying Dante on the spot.
The Heart Kingdom side had some ups and downs.
At first Vanica suffered a righteous group beating and was quite disheveled for a time. The one with the greatest contribution was Blue Rose squad captain Charlotte.
Charlotte had been cursed as a child, and those rampaging thorns and blue roses had brought her countless troubles.
But by learning the Heart Kingdom's True Word techniques, she had already transformed the curse into her own power.
Her "True Thorn Magic" could even absorb the power of curses as nourishment to enhance her own strength.
Even the power of Megicula, the devil contracted with Vanica who was the source of all curses in this world, was suppressed by Charlotte's magic.
With Charlotte's assistance, the others gained the optimal output environment.
Among them, Silver Eagle squad captain Nozel was the most active.
After all, he had watched his mother die from being curse-killed by the opponent to protect him, and had to maintain a cold attitude toward his sister because of this.
With blood vengeance before his eyes, this usually calm captain also exploded, joining his sister Noelle in launching revenge against the murderer of their mother.
Gadjah felt the same way - Vanica was the culprit who had cursed the person he protected and loved, so he also burst out with stronger combat power.
Plus with the powerful healing and enhancement provided by Lolopechka who was contracted with water spirit Undine, Vanica had almost no ability to fight back.
But Vanica insanely detonated the curse power she had placed on several Dark Disciples.
To protect the citizens as well as the Magic Knights and Spirit Guardians fighting the Dark Disciples, Lolopechka exhausted her magic power and was also given an opportunity for a sneak attack by Vanica.
Just as Vanica was about to place a curse on Lolopechka again, Mereoleona and Stella arrived.
The lioness's karmic fire dried up Vanica's blood magic, while Stella tore apart the ugly curse energy.
But Vanica being beaten to near death by the two also satisfied the second condition for Megicula's descent. Megicula's true body descended ahead of schedule.
But even the highest-level devil couldn't gain any advantage facing Mereoleona and Stella. The flames of both could burn even curses to nothing.
But their side also lacked the means to completely slay devils.
Megicula didn't expect to defeat the two - as long as it delayed until Lolopechka was curse-killed, it could fully manifest in the present world.
This stimulated Noelle on the side, so she formed a contract with Undine, who had the same strong desire to save Lolopechka, and surprisingly reached Saint Stage on her first spirit assimilation.
So Megicula was pierced through the heart by Noelle's Water Saint Sword.
All three battlefields were victorious, and for a time it seemed like the crisis of devil-possessed individuals would be completely resolved soon.
After all, the strongest Dark Triad had all been defeated. They only needed to clear out the Spade Kingdom's remaining forces to settle everything.
But Charles knew things wouldn't end so easily. Sure enough, an accident occurred.
Two days after the battle ended, when Charles returned to the Black Bulls base, he found that Yami still hadn't come back.
The day before, a message had come from Magic Knight headquarters asking all squad captains to come to headquarters to discuss the counterattack on the Spade Kingdom.
Although Yami was usually somewhat unreliable, he wouldn't delay such serious matters. He should have returned long ago to discuss specific action plans with everyone.
Sensing the abnormality, Charles hurried to the Magic Knight headquarters, but the feedback he received was that the meeting had ended yesterday and all squad captains had returned.
So Charles made rounds to all the Magic Knight squads. Sure enough, all other captains had returned, except for... Black Bulls' Yami and Golden Dawn's Vangeance.
Charles immediately realized what was happening and directly broke into the Magic Knight headquarters.
With a hand chop to knock down the guard, Charles forcefully pushed open the door to Julius's office.
Marx hurried over, saying dissatisfiedly, "Although you have made great contributions to the kingdom, you can't be presumptuous to this extent!"
But Marx soon couldn't speak, because he also saw the messy state of the office.
That huge desk was half-shattered, with the remaining half overturned to one side, and broken documents scattered all over the floor. A battle had obviously occurred here, though the scale probably wasn't very large.
At this time, captains from other Magic Knight squads had also sensed the abnormality because of Charles's visit and rushed over together.
"What happened here? Where did the Magic Emperor go?" Fuegoleon asked with a frown.
Marx frowned tightly and shook his head, "I don't know. I haven't seen the Magic Emperor today either."
So the captains looked toward Charles, since the abnormality had been discovered because of him.
Charles said, "Captain Yami never returned. I thought it was strange so I came to check. And Golden Dawn's Captain Vangeance is also missing!"
Nozel said, "After the meeting ended yesterday, the Magic Emperor kept the two of them behind. There should have been a special mission to give them.
But all three are missing? Could it be that someone attacked here yesterday and captured them all?"
Having said this, even Nozel himself couldn't help but shake his head.
Setting aside Julius who had lost his power, Yami and Vangeance weren't so easy to deal with. At least Nozel didn't know anyone who could defeat both simultaneously.
And even if someone could do such a thing, Yami and Vangeance couldn't possibly sit there and wait for death. In that case, how could the commotion be so small that no one noticed, and it would be impossible to leave only these few traces.
Everyone was equally puzzled and couldn't imagine what had happened.
Charles knew that only reasonable guess which should be the truth, but the others probably couldn't think of it no matter what.
Yes, who could imagine that the trusted Magic Emperor would be the mastermind behind everything... he probably didn't even know it himself!
Charles suddenly turned and asked, "Where are the Dark Triad's corpses? Quickly go ask if there were any accidents!"
Marx answered, "They've been recovered and sent to Research Institute Zero. They should be properly sealed already."
Saying this, Marx activated a communication magic tool, on which appeared the figure of a person in a white coat.
"Please report on the condition of the three corpses sent over previously!"
The white coat said confusedly, "Those three corpses? Didn't the Magic Emperor personally take them away yesterday?"
Marx's hand shook and the communication magic tool fell directly to the ground.
No one spoke. This news was really too much to accept for a moment.
There were no fools present. After hearing this abnormal action of the Magic Emperor personally taking away the Dark Triad's corpses, they thought of many things!
For example, what kind of person could silently capture Yami and Vangeance...
Of course Yami and Vangeance wouldn't sit there waiting for death, but if the opponent was the person they trusted most and they had no guard up, that would be different.
And only one person could do this!
Aqua Deer squad captain Rill said with a crying smile, "Someone used disguise magic to impersonate the Magic Emperor, right? It must be like that, right?"
Marx looked as if he were in mourning, "Research Institute Zero is one of the kingdom's best secrets. Detection techniques for disguise magic are installed inside. Disguise magic is useless there."
The atmosphere suddenly became heavy. Nozel said coldly, "Impossible. There must be some accident. The Magic Emperor... impossible!"
Nozel was already somewhat confused, showing his current shaken state.
"Don't doubt it. The mastermind behind everything is indeed that Magic Emperor you revere!"
At this time, an unfamiliar voice sounded.
Everyone showed angry expressions, looking toward where the voice came from.
But strangely, there was clearly no one there. Charles seemed to guess something and looked toward the shadows on the ground.
Sure enough, the shadows writhed and a figure rose from them.
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