Arc 11

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This is the 11th and final arc of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover.

Synopsis

On the seventh level of the underworld, Lucius Zogratis defeats the other half of Lucifero and consumes the devil's heart.

A year and three months after the raid on the Spade Kingdom, a special awards ceremony is held for Asta. The Captains, Asta's foster family, and some fellow Magic Knights attend the ceremony, in which Asta is raised to 1st Class Senior Magic Knight. Fuegoleon Vermillion explains that Damnatio Kira's disappearance postponed the trial and ceremony, but now that Asta's and Secre Swallowtail's innocence has been declared, they are able to reward him, even if they weren't able to promote him to a Grand Magic Knight like Yuno was. At the following banquet, Asta mentions a rumor that Nozel Silva, Fuegoleon, and Mereoleona Vermillion are candidates to be the next Wizard King after Julius Novachrono's disappearance, but Nozel and Fuegoleon explains that they declined after fighting against devils showed them how much stronger they needed to become. Fuegoleon also reveals that they can't be careless despite the continent's progress towards peace, with the Golden Dawn and the others Black Bulls investigating devil activity on the outskirts of the Clover Kingdom. When Yami Sukehiro thanks the captains for coming to the ceremony, Charlotte Roselei runs off the moment he talks to her, and Yami wonders why she's been acting so strange around him ever since the Spade Kingdom Raid. Finral Roulacase reveals to Yami that Charlotte confessed her love to him when he was on the verge of death and a surprised Yami goes to the toilet to contemplate

After the ceremony, Asta takes Sister Lily aside, with Mimosa Vermillion, Noelle Silva (both flustered over their own feeling for Asta), and Secre eavesdropping, and proposes to her for the final time. She once again refuses, which he accepts, and voices her support in his dream to become Wizard King. They are interrupted by the arrival of Lucius. The others initially mistake Lucius as Julius, but Asta quickly senses that they are different. Lucius then freezes time for everyone in the tower, but before he can touch Asta's forehead, Asta activates his black form and negates the Time Magic's effect on himself. Lucius reveals he's absorbed Lucifero, formally introduces himself as the savoir of the world, and claims that Julius is dead. He explains his plan to destroy humanity and then re-create them equal in every respect using his siblings' magics to create true peace. To maintain his peace, Lucius declares he rule over humanity as the final Wizard King. However, there was one thing he did not foresee: Asta, a person with no magic. Since a magicless person should not exist, Lucius considers him a flaw in the world that must be eliminated. Intent on stopping Lucius and saving Julius, Asta unites with Liebe, negates the Time Magic, and challenges Lucius. Concentrating Unite on only his arm, Asta is able to extend Unite's duration to tend minutes, and his Anti Magic is able to nullify Lucius' normally invincible Time Magic, but Lucius is able to teleport behind him and touch his head. When nothing happens, Lucius concludes only physical attacks work on Asta and switches to powerful punches using the Gravity Magic he stole from Lucifero. However, Asta has grown stronger since his battle against Lucifero and holds his own against Lucius. Recognizing Asta as a threat to his vision of world peace, Lucius draws on his own devil power and reveals he's developed a method for purifying devil magic into a sacred power that be used by humans. Transforming into an angelic being, Lucius proclaims himself the new form of humanity and teleports Lily into his grasp. He then reveals his original magic is Soul Magic, which allows him to alter a person's soul and with it, their life, spirit, and magic. Using his Soul Magic on Lily, Lucius transforms her into an angelic being like him. The newly transformed Lily then tells Asta to die for world peace and Lucius slashes Asta across the chest while he is stunned in horror.

Asta lands on a rooftop fatally injured and when Noelle, Secre, and Mimosa tries to come to his aid, Lily traps them with Sacred Mana Domination. Lucius reveals he's used his soul magic to purify and incarnate the magic of Beelzebub into Lily and that he's taken control of all the remaining devils in the underworld, including the Supreme Devils. He continues that humans who receive this purified power gain wisdom and nearly immortal bodies. He dubs this new race, Paladins, who will serve his cause and declares he will rule the world as the Wizard Emperor. Noelle, Mimosa, and Secre can only watch helplessly as Lily seemingly Asta erases with Spatial Magic. With Asta gone, Lucius announces that Judgment Day, the final Holy Way which will bring about his new world, will come in seven days. The magic knight captains arrive, but Lily teleports herself Lucius away.

News that the wizard king has become an enemy spreads through the Clover Kingdom and the captains and Yuno hold a meeting where Noelle, Mimosa, and Secre report what happened. Rill can't believe Asta is actually dead and Yami summons Nacht Faust who reveals he can't access Asta's shadow, which means Asta is either another dimension, somewhere far away like another continent, or dead. The captains discuss the threat of Lucius, who has both the power of Julius and Lucifero, an army devils at his command, the ability to give their power to other and turn them into his followers. Yuno reports that his investigating discovered Adramelech and a group of higher-ranked devils which were a decoy to lure him away from the capital. He then states that if Asta is really dead, then he will defeat Lucius in his place and become the wizard king. Meanwhile, Adramelech meets with Lucius in his base and reveals that Yuno single-handed destroyed the higher ranked devils he had with him. Lucius reveals that out of the tens of thousands of futures he's foreseen, there is one where Yuno gives the magic knights the advantage and resolves to crush him to create his new world. On a faraway beach, Asta washes up on the shore and is found by someone.

The Land of the Sun

Nacht reports Asta's apparent death to the rest of the Black Bulls, but despite all appearances, can't believe Asta is dead without seeing his body. The rest of the squad agrees with him and sets out to find Asta. Meanwhile, Asta wakes up in an empty room and soon meets the man who found him on the beach. The man reveals he knows who Asta is and the circumstances that sent him to the beach where he found him and had a friend heal the injury Lucius inflicted, who is currently healing Liebe, before introducing himself as a childhood friend of Yami's. Asta thinks that he has to get back to the Clover Kingdom and save Lily, but the man advises against it considering Asta hasn't fully recovered physically and emotionally. The man also reveals he has the ability to "see" things and warns Asta that he sees he can't currently win against Lucius. He then introduces himself as Ryuya Ryudo, the Shogun of the Hino Country, the country they are in right now, and offers to help Asta train.

Asta is amazed he is Yami's homeland and Ryuya reveals they have some time before Lucius makes his move. He shows Asta around the town with his gruff associate, Ichika, during which Asta laments his failure to save Lily. Suddenly, a group of bandits attack and Ryuya helps civilians evacuate despite being revealed to have no magic. Ichika defeats the bandits and is revealed to be one of the Ryuzen Seven, the seven strongest mages in the country, and Yami's younger sister, Ichika Yami. Ryuya then brings Asta to a healer named Humito Mikuriya where he reunites with a treated Liebe. Later at dinner, Asta desperately asks Ryuya if there is a way back home, believing training won't help him get any stronger. Ichika then slaps and scolds him for ignoring Ryuya warnings and taking their kindness for granted. After Asta apologizes, Ryuya takes everyone to a bamboo field where he has Ichika demonstrate a technique called Zetten where magic is concentrated in a part and explosively released in an extremely powerful and precise attack. Ryuya suggest Asta try to replicate it with Anti Magic and the latter is able to perform a Zetten which erodes a magic bamboo stalk in half. Seeing he can still get stronger, Asta's hope is renewed.

Asta quickly learns the basics of Zetten, but Ryuya explains that applying it in battle will be the hardest part and has him train with Ichika as an opponent. Ichika proves to be a ruthless sparring partner and defeats Asta even while's using Unite. Asta gets back up, eager to keep learning about the new power, and an irritated Ichika knocks him out, though Ryuya notes Asta was able to endure Ichikia's strongest attack and comments on his potential. Asta continues to train to master Zetten with more members of the Ryuzen Seven, Komari Imari, Daizaemon Ōoka, and Jozou Hanegatsuji, but loses to all three without them even using magic. After training all day, Asta reflects by himself on how Zetten can be used differently with every user having their own style and how he still has to master finding openings and using Zetten at the same time. He is then found by Ichika, tasked by Ryuya to watch over him, who reveals Ryuya is currently working to stabilize the country's government with his the Tengentsu, a special power in his right eye which can see everything that is happening in the present. She then enthusiastically explains Ryuya's deeds of uniting the fragmented country without magic and reveals that he is also her benefactor who saved her life. Asta relates this to Yami being the first one to acknowledge him, but Ichika doesn't want to hear anything about her brother and despises him, claiming he killed her entire clan. Ichika explains her clan was descended from a group of assassins called the Kijin who were accomplished during a warring era and were later assigned to protect the Goshu region, which was ruled by the Ryuya Clan. The territory had a black sea which, according to legend, was the result of a five-headed dragon being sealed there by a heavenly maiden and its corruptive magic power bled into the water. Ichika's father was dissatisfied with their distant post and was abusive, especially with Ichika because she as was girl and bared a resemblance to her mother, who died giving birth to her. Yami would protect Ichikia from their father's abuse and supported a young Ryuya's goal to become shogun and make the country a better place. However, when Yami was 13, he killed everyone in the clan except Ichika and fled to a foreign land. Asta refuses to believe Ichika and believes Yami is innocent, leading to Ichika to decide to settle the matter with a serious fight. During their battle, the two charge at each other for a Zetten clash, during which Asta realizes the ideal form of his Zetten, but Ryuya interrupts them before they can collide. afterward, Asta realizes he failed to perform Zetten, but he is getting close to mastering it. Suddenly, Ryuya senses that Lily, a revived Heath Graice, and a third paladin Yrul arrive in the country.

Earlier, Lucius speaks with Moris Libardirt, who he rescued after he was crippled by Lucifero to progress the Qliphoth Advent Ritual. Lucius is revealed to have retrieved his siblings remains and magically connected them to his throne to channel their magics. With his siblings' magics, Lucius is able to recreate Moris' body, restoring his lost limbs and even grant him eyesight. Immediately after his success, Lucius uses his Soul Magic on Morris to alter his soul and make him serve his cause. He then summons Lily and tasks her and the Paladins to stop bad future he has foreseen in the Land of the Sun that could disrupt his plans. When the Paladins arrive in the Goshu, they discover that the town is empty. They then head to the black sea where Yrul revives the five-headed dragon under his control and purifies its magic to have it destroy the country. On the rooftop of the regional lord's palace, five of the Ryuzen Seven—Ichika, Komari, Daizaemon, Jozou, and Ginnojomorifuyu Kezoukaku —have gathered to fight the invaders. Before the Paladins arrived, Ryuya tells Asta to stay behind and train since his they would need his completed power for the upcoming battle. Asta trains with Yosuga Musyogatake, the strongest member of the Ryuzen Seven, with another member, Fujio Tenmanyashik, providing him support. During the training, Yosuga figures out Asta can't master Zetten because he is full of self-doubt after his defeat against Lucius. Back in Goshu, the Ryuzen Seven battle the paladins with Ginnojomorifuyu landing the first blow on Lily.

Thanks to Ryuya's Tengentsu allowing them evacuate Goshu before the battle, the Ryuzen Seven are able to let loose without worrying about casualties and each destroy one of the five-headed dragon's heads. Despite defeating the dragon, the Ryuzen Seven are struck with a brutal counterattack from the Lily and Heath who use an inescapable combined spell. Only Ichika and Ginnojomorifuyu remain standing after the spell and Yrul follows up by creating Boogeyman, a spell the manifest its targets worst fears. The Boogeyman terrifies Ginnojomorifuyu into submission with her fear of frogs then manifests Ichika's fear of her abusive father. Ichika does not let the illusion rattle her, but it instead triggers a repressed memory. Her father believed peace had weakened his clan, so he conspired to start a war. He attempted to force-feed Yami the clan's secret drug which hightens bloodlust and draws out latent magic, but he fed it to Ichika instead when she tried to stop him. Under the influence of the pill, Ichikia slaughtered her entire clan except for Yami, who agreed with Ryuya to take the blame and leave the country to avoid burdening her with guilt. Ichika is stunned by the revelation and the illusion of her father attacks her. The other members of the Ryuzen Seven recover and try to rejoin the fight, only to discover the five-headed dragon regenerating. Before the illusion of Ichika's father can kill her in her defenseless state, Asta arrives and blocks the illusion's sword.

Lily is surprised to see Asta alive while the latter faces Yrul's Boogeyman. The spell transforms itself into a copy Asta, who voices all of Asta's fears and insecurities of his own weakness compared to Yuno. However, Asta slashes through the illusion, having faced and overcome his fears in his training with Yosuga and regained his determination. Recognizing Asta as a threat, Yrul ricochets around him with incredible speed and ferocity waiting for a chance to kill him instantly. When Yrul goes in to kill Asta, the latter counters with Zetten and instantly defeats the Paladin. Asta's Anti Magic reverts Yrul back into a human and severs the power he received from Lucius. Yosuga realizes that Asta only attacked Yrul's magic and explains to Ichika that since Anti Magic negates all magic no matter how powerful, all Asta has to do is wait until the opponent uses their spell and use Zetten as the ultimate counterstrike that always wins. Asta then faces Lily and promises to save her, while Yosuga battles against Heath to keep him from interfering. Lily asks Asta why he is alive, and the latter answers he was saved by the people of the Land of the Sun and asks if she teleported him there on purpose to save his life. When Lily denies saving his life and claims she tried to kill him, Asta refuses to believe she would kill him even under someone else's control, provoking Lily into attacking with Water Magic. Asta easily slices through the spell and Lily tries to think of another way to attack knowing that spatial transfers won't work unless the target is immobilized and Sacred Mana control is useless against Anti Magic. She combines Water and Spatial Magic into a new spell, Sachiel's Flash, and yells for Asta to die. When Asta refuses to let Lily kill him, the latter breaks down crying and admits she doesn't want to kill him, causing the former to realize that Paladins are given the overriding belief that Lucius is right and must do what he commands, even if it against what their real self believes. Furious at what Lucius has forced Lily to do, Asta decries Lucius' goal as anything but just, dodges Lily's attacks, and slashes her with Anti Magic.

As Lily starts reverting back to being human, she apologies for the things she was made to say and do under Lucius' power. She reveals that left the noble realm for the church to escape the rampant discrimination, only to discover the same discrimination there and went to the Forsaken Realm where she joined the church in Hage. Ryuya assures Lily she ended up saving Asta and this calms her down enough to reveal Lucius' plan. Lucius is combining his siblings magic into himself and with their Body Magic, Bone Magic and Blood Magic combined with his own Soul Magic, he will be able to control people's minds and bodies any way he pleases, even being able to create humans from nothing. Lily reveals that when Judgment Day starts in three days, Lucius will seize control of all the magic in the world, including the Land of the Sun, before falling comatose. Ryuya reveals defeating Lucius is the only way to wake Lily and leaves her in Humito's care while Asta focuses on slaying the five-headed dragon. Asta manages to slice some of the dragon's heads, but even his Anti-Magic can't stop it from regenerating. Meanwhile, Yosuga defeats Heath and Ryuya rallies the Ryuzen Seven to help Asta slay the dragon. Using his Tengentsu, Ryuya sees that the only way to permanently kill the five-headed dragon is for Asta to decapitate all five heads at once with Anti Magic. Fujio empowers the Ryuzen Seven while Ryuya instructs them each to get a head into position for Asta to attack. Jozou is unable to move the final head when his injuries kick in, but Ichika is able to take his place and knock the head into place. Asta then slashes through all five heads and slays the beast, purging the dragon's magic that kept Goshu permanently cloudy.

Afterward, Asta finds Heath's body and recognizes that he died from their previous encounter. Ryuya explains that this is proof the Lucius is now capable of reviving people around the strength of Grand Magic Knights. He also reveals that the Black Bulls will come in three days to bring Asta back to the Clover Kingdom so he should recover and prepare until then. That night, a massive party is thrown to celebrate the victory during which Ichika reveals to Ryuya that she remembers she was the one who killed her clan instead of Yami. Asta gets drunk on sake with the Ryuzen Seven and goes to the hot springs with Daizaemon, only to find Ichika already bathing in there since Daizaemon forgot that the bath was reserved for woman at the time. Fearing Ichika's wrath, Asta runs away after apologizing. The next day, he finds Ichika and makes a formal apology to her, who simply says he will have to take responsibility. Asta then begins training with the Ryuzen Seven with three days left until Judgment Day.

Judgment Day

When Judgment Day arrives, the entire populace of the Clover Kingdom is moved to the capital where every magic knight has been stationed to protect them. The neighboring kingdoms are also on alert and brace for attack since no one has been able to track Lucius down. While waiting for Lucius, Charlotte approaches Yami and the two agree to discuss their relationship after the battle. Lucius then arrives in a beam of light, with Nacht seemingly have joined him. Yami realizes too late that it isn't Nacht, but his late twin brother Morgen Faust, who transforms into a Paladin and mortally wounds Jack the Ripper. Across the capital, the Crimson Lions are confronted by Moris, transformed into a Paladin with many tentacle arms, and a revived Acier Silva, also turned into a Paladin, faces the Silver Eagles. In the sky above the capital, dozens of angelic beings surround the capital as Lucius' plan for world peace begins.

William Vangeance tries to attack Lucius, only to have his arm rapidly aged by the former's Time Magic. The angelic beings in the sky then begin firing down hundreds of magic lasers to destroy the capital in fell swoop, but a massive barrier made from Star Magic deflects them. Yuno then arrives to confront Lucius and William acknowledges that he has surpassed him and appoints him captain of the Golden Dawn. Furious at the grief Lucius put his adopted family through by turning Lily into a Paladin, Yuno vows to defeat him and become the Wizard King. The magic knights try to battle the angelic beings, but they are overwhelmed by their incredible magic and multiple attributes and Moris reveals that Lucius remade "rebels" unsuited for his new world into Guardian Angels which will enforce his order. The Magic Knights refuse to give up and Yuno combines his magic to create a massive Mana Zone spell encompassing the entire capital: Never-Never Land, which boosts his allies' magic while weakening that of his enemies. With the support of Yuno's spell, the Magic Knights are able to put up a fight against the Guardian Angels and the spell also stops the flow of time inside its range, negating Lucius' offensive time spells. Lucius acknowledges that Yuno is a big enough threat to be his rival, but Yuno refuses to accept Lucius as a rival, already having one in Asta, and attacks Lucius.

Lucius stops Yuno's attack with the strength he absorbed from Lucifero and deduces that Yuno won't be able to maintain Never-Never Land for long. Meanwhile, a dying Jack reflects on his history and rivalry with Yami before using the last moments of his life to unleash a giant slash that cuts through the land and destroys several Guardian Angels. Morgen dodges the attack and faces Yami while Mereoleona fights Moris and quickly loses an arm to his Modification Magic. Mereoleona enters Hellfire Incarnate and begins destroying Moris's arms, but Moris reveals that his new body can dismantle anything it touches instantly and regenerates faster than Mereoleona can destroy it. With Fuegoleon unable to come to his sister's aid while fighting several Guardian Angels by himself, the other Crimson Lions resort to sacrificing themselves as human shields to protect Mereoleona from Moris's lethal touch. Fuegoleon realizes that Moris's regeneration and dismantling speed have limits, and that his sister has realized the same thing so she's challenging them with a life risking gambit. With the sacrifice of the Crimson Lions prolonging the fight, Hellfire Incarnate is able to build more power, and Mereoleona vows to defeat Moris in tribute for her fallen comrades. Acier defeats Nozel and Silver Eagles, but Noelle, arrives to their rescue before she can kill them. Noelle is revealed to have obtain made a contract with a legendary dragon, Leviathan, with help from Kiato and Kahono, who have also joined the fight, and faces her mother with a new Valkyrie Dress.

Yuno continues to fight Lucius and is able to keep up with his speed and predictions. When Yuno blocks Lucius' attempt to neutralize him with Soul Magic and counterattack, the latter realizes the former has grown stronger than any of his predictions foresaw. He also discovers that other magic knights have defied his predictions and are continuing to fight long after the point they were supposed to be wiped out. Lucius wonders what could have caused such a change and realizes that he cannot read the future because it one that has been influenced by Asta. While Lucius is distracted by this revelation, Yuno lands a decisive slash through him and defeats him. However, a second Lucius attacks and reveals that with the combined power of his family's magics, he is now able to clone himself. Multiple Lucius clones appear and used their combined Gravity Magic to raise the entire capital in the sky while the real Lucius watches from a floating palace. As the Lucius clones scatter across the battlfield, Noelle refuses to lose hope, knowing that the rest of the Black Bulls are working to bring back Asta. Before Judgment Day, the Black Bulls visited the Witches' Forest to seek help from the Witch Queen, who revealed Asta was alive and trapped in a foreign land. Dorothy Unsworth proposed combining her, Vanessa, and the Queen's power to create the spell Door of Fate, to reach Asta. While the arrival of the Lucius clones turns the battle in their favor, Marx Francois and Mimosa make a public announcement, revealing that the magic knights have prevented any civilian causalities and that there still is hope. They urge the citizens to protect themselves, while the magic knights, including Sekke Bronzazza keep fighting. In the Land of the Sun, Asta prepares to be brought back, but when Ryuya checks on the status of the Black Bulls with his Tengentsu, he sees Damnatio, now a Paladin, and several Guardian Angels invading the Witches' Forest.

Lucius is revealed to have Damnatio to stop the Black Bulls from retrieving Asta in case he somehow survived. Damnatio easily overwhelms the witches' defenses, but several of the Black Bulls stand in his way before he can interrupt the ritual. The Black Bulls work together to fight Damnatio using mirror copies of Grey to keep them healed until Damnatio figures out their strategy and mortally wounds Grey and Gauche Adlai. Even without Grey, Secre is able to seal her squad's injuries and allow them to keep fighting. The squad launches renewed attacks that destroy the Guardian Angels, but they are no match for Damnatio when he unveils his second magic attribute. They are defeated one after another and Damnatio finally breaks into the ritual chamber. However, their efforts succeed in stalling him long enough for Finral Roulacase, to reach Asta and bring him back through the Door of Fate, along with Ichika at Ryuya's suggestion. With his improved control of his Anti Magic, Asta is able to counter all of Damnatio's spells and defeat him with Zetten. Damnatio is turned back to human while the Witch Queen fully heals the injured Black Bulls at the cost of most of her power. The Queen asks Vanessa to succeed her as the next ruler of the forest, but Dorothy offers to take the position instead. Asta then reveals that during his training, Ryuya theorized he could impart Anti Magic into people like he can with objects using the Demon-Dweller Sword and uses this new ability to grant Anti Magic to his squad.

Back in the capital, Morgen reveals his second attribute, Dark Magic, and defeats Yami while Yuno is overwhelmed by fighting two Lucius clones at once. Fortunately, the Black Bulls and Ichika arrive and spread across the battlefields to fight Lucius' forces. Asta and Yuno reunite and team up to fight the Lucius clones. More Lucius clones come to fight Asta and Yuno and boast that even with Asta back, they still have the advantage with several dozen Guardian Angel, three Paladins, and eleven clones. Before the Black Bulls went to the capital, Asta formally introduce them to Ichika, who reveals that the Anti-Magic they were given is limited and will likely only last for two big attacks. Using their new Anti Magic and teamwork, Luck Voltia and Magna Swing defeat several Guardian Angels and a Lucius clone.

Fights

• Lucius Zogratis vs. Lucifero
• Asta and Liebe vs. Lucius Zogratis and Lily Aquaria
• Asta and Liebe vs. Ichika Yami
• Ryuzen Seven, Asta, and Liebe vs. Paladins
• Yuno Grinberryall vs. Lucius Zogratis
• Black Bulls vs. Damnatio Kira
• Magna Swing and Luck Voltia vs. Lucius Clone
• Crimson Lions vs. Moris Libardirt
• Silva Siblings vs. Acier Silva
• Yami Sukehiro, Ichika Yami, and Nacht Faust vs. Morgen Faust
• Asta, Liebe, and Yuno vs. Lucius Zogratis

Events

• Judgment Day

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