"Beast Magic: Super Beast Claws!"
"Beast Magic: Roar!" After getting back up from the ground, Vetto frantically attacked the air wall, but it was completely useless because the air wall of Shu, one of the Nine Pillars, had super-strong defensive power against magic!
"The Pharaoh King's magic is actually quite useful!" Asta chuckled. He hadn't expected that a magic randomly copied with the Sharingan would have such strong defensive power. The key was that the Sharingan given by the system could copy all the magic he had seen, which was really awesome!
"If you have the guts, don't hide inside and fight me fair and square!" Vetto seemed to have temporary amnesia, forgetting how Asta had been pummeling him just a moment ago.
Meanwhile, Asta had already closed his eyes and focused on cultivating. He recalled the wind of Konoha, the earnest teachings of Might Guy, that passionate youth, and the sweat shed over countless days and nights.
At this moment, Asta had a flash of inspiration. As he assumed a starting stance, the aura around him shifted once again. The green energy waves turned into a deep, profound blue once more!
Immediately after, a massive amount of air was frantically compressed into Asta's starting stance. That extreme compression filled the air in Asta's hands with violent power!
"Daytime Tiger!" Asta roared, and a Daytime Tiger, no smaller in size than Noelle's Sea Dragon, surged out. Shu's air wall was shattered into pieces in an instant.
"Ah!!!" Deep fear appeared in Vetto's eyes. He sensed destructive power from this fierce tiger. He tried desperately to dodge, but the speed of the Daytime Tiger was even faster than his, and he had nowhere to escape!
"Beast Magic: Ultimate Defense!" Vetto deployed his strongest defense. A massive amount of Beast Magic, resembling a volcanic eruption, condensed onto his body. This move could help him withstand ninety-nine percent of magic damage, but it was useless against the Daytime Tiger because the Daytime Tiger was not magic, but an air cannon formed by compressed air!
"Bang!" With a violent explosion, Vetto's eyes rolled back. He was then sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string. Sharp teeth could be seen falling out as he flew, and this time, Vetto never got back up.
Seeing this, Asta canceled the pharaohs secret chamber. After the dimension disappeared, the crowd outside the barrier saw Asta land gracefully as he returned to his normal state, while the once arrogant and indomitable Vetto fell down like a corpse.
"Is it over?" Noelle stared at this scene with shocked pink eyes.
"Not yet, but he only has one breath left," Yami said, shaking his head.
"Little Asta, you're getting better and better!" It was unclear what was going through Vanessa's beautiful eyes, but judging by the mischievous grin on her face, she definitely had some ideas!
"At this rate, Asta really might become the Wizard King!" Magna couldn't help but click his tongue. He remembered how laughable he thought Asta's goal was when he first heard it—after all, how could a brat from a remote mountain village become the noble Wizard King? But now, Magna felt it was increasingly possible!
"We can have a victory banquet soon!" Charmy excitedly grabbed Grey's hand, and the two of them spun around happily, shouting about the victory banquet.
Yami's head suddenly throbbed. "You two, cut it out! I saw it all on the live broadcast. Everyone was surpassing their limits, but you two were just slacking off—one sleeping and the other just nowhere to be found! You're both getting grounded when we get back!"
"Ah! The Captain is so fierce!" Grey was so scared that she immediately turned back into her large, chubby form. Charmy also shrank her little head, looking like a little quail. However, from her unyielding gaze, it was clear that her fearful appearance was completely faked!
"And you, Finral! Run, run, run! All you know how to do is use Spatial Magic to run away. You've lost all the face of our squad!" Yami looked at Finral, who seemed to be acting as if it had nothing to do with him and was staying out of it, his residual anger still lingering.
"Captain, I was wrong!" Finral hurriedly bowed ninety degrees to apologize.
"Magna! And Luck!" Yami suddenly called out again.
"Yes, Captain Yami!" Magna habitually puffed out his chest and saluted.
"Well done, keep it up!" Yami gently patted Magna and Luck on the shoulder, then looked at Vanessa and said, "You did well too."
"Thank you, Captain!" Vanessa smiled gently, then turned her gaze back to Asta.
"What about me? What about me?" Noelle looked at Yami with expectant, coy hesitation. Although she was screaming inside, desperately wanting the Captain to praise her, she just wouldn't say it!
"Little Princess, you did well too. Even I was moved by that move." Although Yami was blunt, he wasn't ignorant of what girls were thinking, so he immediately added a few more words of praise.
"Hmph!" Noelle immediately raised her little head proudly. She looked as if she didn't care at all, but inside, she was already blooming with joy, wishing he would praise her a couple more times!
"What... is that move... called?" Vetto lay on the cold rock, his eyes listless.
"This move is called the Daytime Tiger, a reappearance of the Blue Beast of Konoha." Asta said calmly. He could feel Vetto's life force fading rapidly; the functions of this body had reached their end. As the saying goes, 'When a man is dying, his words are good.' Asta now understood why those experts would always say some concluding remarks when they had beaten someone to the brink of death.
Perhaps this is the demeanor of an expert: to send off an enemy with dignity.
"Have you ever experienced the feeling of despair?" Vetto spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Never." Asta said honestly, because his strength didn't allow him to experience despair!
"I have experienced it. I know deep down that after losing all hope, the deepest despair will descend. That kind of despair goes bone-deep. I had wanted to make you experience this deepest despair: watching the companions around you fall and die one after another. Now, it seems that is impossible..."
"However..."
"I curse you with my life, curse you! Curse you!! Curse you!!!" As Vetto spoke, he suddenly opened his toothless, bloody maw. Endless hatred appeared in his eyes. This was his final retaliatory measure: at the moment of dying, at the cost of his life, he automatically unleashed an ancient curse magic!
"Beast Magic: Curse of Despair!"
"Despair for me!"
"From now on, your hands will never be able to hold a sword again. Let's see how you use a sword then!" Vetto's three eyes bulged. An invisible force seemed to strip away his last bit of life and then surged toward Asta. No matter how Asta dodged, this curse force rushed toward his arms. For a moment, Asta only felt his arms stinging as if they had been stung by countless wasps, and the demon-slayer sword fell to the ground just like that!
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