"What are you thinking about, Asta? Finral has already opened the Spatial Magic!" Noelle gave the distracted Asta a gentle nudge.
"If you don't go in soon, I'm going to surpass my limits right here!" Finral said with a miserable expression.
"You've been to quite a few places, Finral." Asta walked through the Spatial Magic with Noelle, and in an instant, they arrived in front of a hillside filled with singing birds and fragrant flowers.
"Not at all, not at all. I've just been to almost all the beautiful places in the kingdom. It's worth mentioning that the sunset here is beautiful; it's a sacred place for dating!" Finral gave a look that every man understood before closing the Spatial Magic.
"Birds of a feather!" Noelle rolled her eyes at this purely male interaction between Finral and Asta, then calmed down to look at the environment, which was indeed very beautiful.
"Let's head this way." Although Luck looked unreliable, he wasn't actually as unreliable as everyone imagined. His lightning magic had strong detection capabilities, and as long as it didn't involve combat, his mind would be very calm. But if he got flustered in a fight, his IQ would immediately drop to zero...
"We should be the first ones to arrive here, right?" Noelle stepped on the soft soil, feeling much better.
"Finral isn't the only one who knows Spatial Magic, you know. So other Magic Knight Squads might have arrived here already, maybe even earlier than us," Luck said.
"Is that the Magic Palace?" Asta leaped over a fallen tree trunk, and a massive complex of buildings appeared before his eyes.
"So breathtaking..." Noelle's pink eyes showed an expression of surprise. This was her first time seeing ancient ruins!
"Let's go in!" Luck became excited. Not to mention the high probability of encountering enemy Mages, the super powerful trap magic inside was enough to make his adrenaline surge. The three quickly broke into the corridor of the Magic Palace, which was a pitch-black, cold path. Noelle involuntarily leaned her body against Asta.
"It's so dark..." Noelle felt a constant chill on her back as if something was there, so she kept looking back, but the corridor behind them was even darker without any light!
"Remember what I said? If you're scared, you can come into my arms anytime!" Asta teased.
"Who's scared? I'm just a little nervous. Who told this damn corridor to be so long!" Noelle stubbornly retorted.
"It should be here, right?" Luck kept his eyes squinted as he walked in the front, searching for something. When he saw a stone emitting fluorescence, he immediately beamed with joy.
"What is this?" Noelle asked.
"It's the switch to light up the Magic Palace!" After Luck finished speaking, he pressed the stone, and the entire Magic Palace instantly brightened. When everyone adapted to the light, a magnificent ancient ruin appeared before them. A stream of water like a celestial river flowed wantonly in mid-air without any laws of physics, forming a labyrinth-like architectural complex with the disordered yet orderly passages!
"Did magic distort space? The wisdom of the ancient humans really exceeds imagination!" Luck couldn't help but exclaim.
"The magic power floating here is so dense!" Noelle looked around. After it became bright, she wasn't as scared anymore.
"Noelle, watch out, the stone slab on the left." Asta said, looking at the magic stone slab carved beside Noelle.
"Are there bugs?" Noelle resisted the urge to jump onto Asta. She turned her head slightly and found nothing, but upon closer inspection, she could see the magic circle carved on the slab. "Is this trap magic?"
"That should be correct." Asta nodded. His red Sharingan could clearly see the patterns of every magic circle. However, at that moment, the somewhat neurotic Luck suddenly stepped on the magic stone slab to Noelle's left.
"Bang!" The trap magic on the magic stone slab was triggered immediately, and a huge rock protruded rapidly. Asta exerted force with his left foot, and the demon-slayer sword was drawn with a 'clang', shattering the trap magic before the rock could touch Noelle.
"Amazing, amazing!" Luck clapped happily, not feeling at all that his previous behavior was dangerous.
"What are you doing? Was the captain serious about letting you protect us?" Noelle, still shaken, complained. But before she could finish, she saw Luck trigger another fire-attribute trap magic, playing around with a big heart...
"Forget it, let's just go first." Asta speechlessly grabbed Noelle's hand and walked forward. Was this really a case of 'problem children have more fun'?
"Hey, hey, without my magic to lead the way, you'll get lost." Seeing that he had played enough, Luck jumped in front of Asta and said.
"Then hurry up and lead the way!" Asta felt his scalp tingling. He felt that it would have been better to bring Magna on this mission. Although his strength was a bit lower, he was at least reliable.
"Alright, alright, let's get down to business!" Luck said, closing his eyes. At the same time, his magic power spread rapidly in all directions. His original goal was to sense the deepest layer of the Magic Palace, but he unexpectedly discovered a third-party force!
"Sure enough, besides us, there are others who have arrived here!" Luck opened his eyes suddenly, his verdant eyes filled with excitement. "Lightning Creation Magic: Thunder God's Boots!"
"Where are you going?" Noelle looked in surprise at Luck, who had suddenly leaped up. This didn't look like he was going to lead the way!
"Sorry, I suddenly have some urgent business, so I'll have to trouble you two to raid the Magic Palace first!" Luck said with an apologetic tone, but with no apology on his face, he rushed towards the third-party force.
"Just, just abandoned us like that?" Noelle said in disbelief.
"You'll get used to it. Some people, as they walk, just disappear..." Asta shrugged.
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