Asta vs. Rades Spirito

Asta vs. Rades is a fight that occurs during an invasion at the Clover Kingdom's Royal Capital.

Pre-fight
After all the preparations are ready, Rades begins to unleash an army of corpses on the Clover Kingdom's Royal Capital. While the guards are unable to defend the city against the attack, someone immediately informs the Knights that were gathered at the capital, regarding the invasion. Asta who is unwilling to wait for his superiors to formulate a counterattack strategy, leaves as he plans to find the perpetrator by following the biggest noise.

On the other side, Rades encounters a little girl who is being left by herself. He then begins to pour his hatred of the Kingdom on her as a method of intimidation. Luckily, Asta manages to reach their location as he vows to protect everything that Rades wishes to destroy.

Fight
The fight begins with Rades is ordering the corpses that Asta had defeated to rise and attack the latter. Unfortunately, none of them are showing any signs of movements. During the confusion, the little girl manages to get away from Rades as she quickly hides behind Asta. After realizing Asta's identity as the Black Bull member whom is able to use anti magic, Rades immediately summons new corpses to attack him. Asta then begins to swiftly take every corpses down by hitting them with his sword in which Rades infers that the former's anti magic is nullifying the mana that he inserted to the corpses in order to control them.

After defeating all of Rades' corpses, Asta quickly charges towards the former but he is quickly being stopped when Rades summons another corpse, which shot a magic bullet towards him. To Asta's surprise, a scratch that he got from the attack begins to bleed extensively. Rades then reveals that this particular corpse, "Jimmy", is able to shoot magic bullets consist of curse power. Subsequently, he orders "Jimmy" to shoot a barrage of those bullets towards Asta. Luckily, the latter is able to parry all of them in which prompts Rades to shift the attacks towards the little girl whom Asta is protecting.

As he is trying to protect the said girl, his wound begins to get worse. At that moment, Asta is starting to lose his concentration and several attacks manage to bypass him. Fortunately, the little girl comes out unharmed as Noelle Silva manages to activate a defensive spell around her.

Seeing that he no longer needs to worry about the little girl, Asta quickly charges towards "Jimmy". Rades tries to prevent him from advancing even further by summoning several other corpses, but Leopold Vermilion swiftly clears a path for Asta by incinerating those corpses. As nothing else is blocking his path, Asta quickly delivers the finishing attack and takes "Jimmy" down. He then subsequently challenges Rades to fight him face-to-face.

Unfortunately, Rades ignores Asta's challenge as he summons another corpse that could control lightning, "Alfred". As he is already weakened due to the wounds he got from "Jimmy", Asta is struggling to fight "Alfred" as he reaches a point where he is no longer able to evade its attacks. Suddenly, to both Rades and Asta's surprise, "Alfred" was instantly incinerated as Fuego Leon Vermilion interfered the fight before commending Asta for his good combat performance and taking over the fight from him.

Post-fight
After he learns that a captain of a Magic Knights' squad is acknowledging him, Asta is quickly reinvigorated as he tries to continue fighting. Fortunately, Fuego Leon swiftly stops him on his track as he reminds him to be aware of his own condition and avoid overexertion. Subsequently, Fuego Leon confronts Rades and begins to question his motive for the invasion. The latter then reveals his identity and his connection to the Kingdom in which is one of the reasons for his assault on the Royal Capital.