Asta, Magna Swing, and Noelle Silva vs. Heath Graice

Asta, Magna Swing and Noelle Silva vs. Heath is a fight that occurs at Sosshi.

Pre-Fight
Asta and Noelle are assigned to hunt a boar in the village of Sosshi as part of their first mission, as requested by the villager who won a bet to Yami. The two are at first reluctant to do so, as they consider it irrelevant, but they change their minds after the captain intimidates them. Magna Swing, irritated but concerned to help Noelle control her magic, joins them as their supervisor. Because of Asta's and Noelle's inability to ride a broom and Finral's inability to teleport them to unknown places, Magna decides to take them with his broom, the Crazy Cyclone.

Having arrived at the location, they find that the village is covered in mist, after which Magna asks Asta to cut a path for them by his sword. Upon reaching the center of the village, they find the villagers are about to be executed. Without any hesitation, Magna summons Exploding Buckshot, scattering the Cage of Infinite Hail, and discovers that the man who requested the mission has died.

Fight
Seething, Magna confronts the group of mages in the vicinity but the leader, Heath, swiftly launches his second attack. Magna is unable to retaliate because he has depleted his magic power, but he is saved by Asta, who slices the big hail in half, and is infuriated from the unfair surprise attack.

Afterward, Asta tries to find out Heath's reasoning for his actions, but Heath's cruel reply infuriates him even more, and Asta proclaims that he will protect the villagers from him. Heath, calm, launches with his group a combination spell at Asta and Magna. Asta reflects back the combined attack and repeats while Magna protects the villagers. Noelle joins the fight, but fails after she tried to target the unfazed Heath with her water ball spell. Heath's comment on her disability begins to discourage her, which is strengthened by Magna's request for her to retreat. However, when one of the young girls of the village begs for her protection, she regains her confidence, which causes her grimoire to reveal a new spell. She quickly casts the protection spell, which manages to protect all and foil Heath's plans. While Heath is distracted, Asta ambushes the latter.

Unfortunately, Heath is able to freeze the ground where Asta is standing, preventing a large blow to him, and swiftly launches a counter-attack, thus damaging Asta. Asta manages to get up once more but is attacked by the same spell, which has been used twice. With Asta's eager determination, Magna remembers a particular memory, regains his fighting spirit, and steps out of Noelle's spell, after which he asks Asta to redo their initiation ceremony and releases Prison Kill Buckshot. Although the placid Heath easily blocks it, he realizes that a second wave of attacks are coming from behind, as Asta deflects most of Magna's attacks back at them. Asta defeats the mages and deals a final blow at Heath, leaving him and his friends victorious.

Post-Fight
As soon as Asta defeats Heath, Magna quickly casts a restraining spell on their opponents, although one of them is able to escape by using water magic. Asta conspicuously shouts at the defeated Heath but faints. He is then awoken by an anti-bird that has been following him since the Magic Knights entrance exam. Seeing the anti-bird is carrying a stone that belongs to the village's chief, Asta tries to have it returned, but the villagers decides to give it to him. Unfortunately, Magna fails to fulfill his aim to bring Heath and his remaining subordinates to the headquarters for questioning, as Heath uses a magic item inside him to commit suicide with his subordinates, leaving the trio astonished.