Judgment Day

Judgment Day
Event Information
Chapter(s)	354-TBD
Location	Clover Kingdom
Characters involved
Lucius Zogratis Morgen Faust Moris Libardirt Acier Silva Guardian Angels Yuno Grinberryall Mereoleona Vermillion Jack the Ripper Noelle Silva Crimson Lions Silver Eagles Sol Marron Kaiser Granvorka Kahono Kiato Black Bulls Witch Queen Damnatio Kira Asta Eight Shining Generals Eye of the Midnight Sun Elves
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Judgment Day 「審判の日 Shinpan no Hi」 is a Wizard King rebellion that predominantly occurred inside the Clover Kingdom. Lucius Zogratis describes it as a "Holy War" against the world in order to establish himself as the "Magic Great Emperor" by recreating the human race and taking control of the world's magic.

Background

Lucius Zogratis planned the attack with his younger siblings—Dante, Vanica, and Zenon—and turned them into fellow devil hosts. He intended to use their combined magic attributes and devil power to kill everyone and regenerate them with undying bodies. To accomplish this, however, Lucius absorbs his siblings' magic into himself, along with consuming the power of Lucifero, turning him into a god-like being that can purify devils from the underworld and impart them into humans, transforming them into Paladins, which are powerful, intelligent and undying angelic mages who unconditionally serve him. He would then proceed to reform the world by leading an army of Paladins to destroy the world and resurrect the causalities into undying beings. Once the initial preparations were all complete, Lucius infiltrated the Clover Kingdom using his split personality, Julius Novachrono, who worked all the way into becoming a Wizard King.

Decades later, after the Dark Triad's Qliphoth Advent Ritual is thwarted, Damnatio Kira, who has been researching devils, questions Julius about the possibility that he is the host of the devil Astaroth, at which point Lucius emerges from Julius and brainwashes Damnatio. Adramelech then arrives with Lucifero's heart. Afterwards, Julius is reported missing. At some point, Lucius enters the underworld in order to retrieve and consume the rest of Lucifero's heart, as well as to take control of the remaining devils in the underworld, including the highest-ranking devils.

A year and three months later, Lucius ambushes Asta in the Royal Capital in an attempt to eliminate him and his Anti Magic as obstacles for the holy war. Failing to affect Asta with Soul Magic, Lucius instead converts Sister Lily into a Paladin. Lucius then grievously injures Asta and has Lily teleport Asta's body away from his allies. Once the incident is over, word spread across the Clover Kingdom that the Wizard King has rebelled and is now the enemy and Asta was presumed dead, sending it into a momentary disarray. Lucius returns to his base and sits in his throne, beginning the 7-day process of combining his siblings' magic attributes into his own. He also recreates the bodies of various humans and converts more humans into Paladins, including Moris Libardirt, who helps turn additional humans into Guardian Angels.

When he is teleported away, Asta washes ashore in the Hino Country and is saved by Ryuya Ryudo. In order to better fight Lucius and the Paladins, Asta undergoes training to master Zetten. When Lucius senses that the future of the Hino Country is destabilizing, he is unaware of the cause but sends three Paladins—Sister Lily, Yrul, and a resurrected Heath Graice—there to prevent it from disrupting his plans. Despite displaying incredible strength and skill more than enough to overwhelm the Ryuzen Seven both physically and psychologically, the tables are turned with Asta's timely intervention and the three are all either killed or exorcised with Anti-Magic. However, Asta is still stranded and cannot return to the Clover Kingdom as of yet.

Meanwhile, the Clover Kingdom evacuates all of its citizens into the Noble Realm and bolsters the defenses, with the Magic Knight squads stationed at various points within the Realm. The Heart and Spade Kingdoms are also warned about the impending attack and make their own preparations.

Judgment Day

As the attack begins, Lucius Zogratis and the resurrected Morgen Faust appear in the city and confront Yuno Grinberryall, William Vangeance, Jack the Ripper, Yami Sukehiro, and Charlotte Roselei. Morgen then blows a hole through Jack's abdomen. Meanwhile, Moris Libardirt and Acier Silva confront the Crimson Lions and Silver Eagles, respectively, and a host of Guardian Angels circle in the air above the Noble Realm ready to bombard and devastate it with their magic. However, before they can obliterate the Kingdom, Yuno unleashes a barrier and prevents the beams from reaching Clover Kingdom and fights Lucius. Yuno counters Lucius's Time Magic with Never-Never Land and helps even the odds across the battlefields.

Within his dying breath, Jack the Ripper unleashes one final strike that splits across the Clover Kingdom and the mountains, creating a massive fissure on the ground and killing several Guardian Angels. Unfortunately, this was all for naught, as Morgen remained completely unharmed because he evaded the attack by flash-stepping. He informs Yami that the attack would have killed him if he hadn't not dodged it, and laments that more people are going to die, but assures Yami that they will all be reborn and be happy together.

Mereoleona Vermillion struggles against Paladin Moris as her men sacrifice themselves to Moris's magical arms, which instantly disintegrate anything it touches, including magic, rendering him nearly impossible to land a hit on. On top of this, Moris's arms regenerate every time they are destroyed. Mereoleona's spell, Hellfire Incarnate, renders her immune to the disintegration effects and allows her to fight properly, but she can only remain in her mana form for a limited amount of time, making Moris think that he could outlast her. Regardless, many of the Crimson Lions throw themselves onto Moris's hands to by time for Mereoeleona to build power, which he dismisses as being pointless. Mereoleona rebukes him that the sacrifices are not worthless, and she will burn him with her new spell Calidus Brachium Purgatory: Flame Burial in tribute for her fallen comrades.

Acier easily crushes Nozel Silva and his fellow sibling-comrades Nebra Silva and Solid Silva and pities them for being weak and warped by pride and hatred, offering her children to be killed and resurrected by Lucius so they could be reborn under Lucius's new world. However, Noelle Silva intervenes in time to save her elder siblings. Upon meeting her daughter, Acier congratulates her for being the most like her and tells her that they will all be together once she defeats her. Noelle is unfazed, and tells the Paladin that she is no longer the mother she once knew, and is merely a person she must surpass and defeat. She unleashes her new Dragon Form Valkyrie Dress, Dragon Form, and throws a Sea Dragon's Roar at her mother, who evades with ease.

As the battle continues, Lucius expresses disbelief in the situation has changed so drastically from his predictions, which showed him that all resistance would have already been conquered by that point. He then realizes the reason his predictions have been defied were because of Asta's influence just before he is apparently slain by Yuno In actuality, the "Lucius" Yuno slain was a clone made by Lucius' after absorbing his siblings' magics and even more Lucius clones join the attack alongside the already-present Guardian Angels. It was apparent that the clones were there to waste Yuno's mana so he cannot approach the real Lucius. Using their combined magic, the clones lift the entire capital into the sky where the real Lucius watches from a floating palace.

Witches' Forest Commotion

Meanwhile, the Black Bulls went to the Witches' Forest seeking the Witch Queen for Asta's whereabouts. The Witch Queen tells them that Asta is alive and far away in a foreign land, but is too far away to be summoned by ordinary means. Dorothy Unsworth, however, arrives and proposes Finral Roulacase, Vanessa Enoteca, and many of the Witches living in the forest cast the Compound Gargantuan Magic Door of Fate. Lucius noticed this and dispatched Damnatio Kira and a host of Guardian Angels to stop the Black Bulls from releasing Asta. With the power of his Scale Magic limit his enemy's capabilities and new Atmosphere Magic granted by the power of the Supreme Devil Baal, Damnatio effortlessly crushes the Black Bulls and comes close to killing Secre Swallowtail, only for the spell to be complete in time for Asta and Ichika Yami to be pulled through it. Asta promptly exorcises Damnatio in one Zetten-enhanced strike.

Although the Black Bulls were severely wounded in the fight against Damnatio, they managed to survive, allowing the Witch Queen to most of her magic to heal all of them, before she offers Vanessa to become the new Witch Queen in her place. However, Dorothy Unsworth proposes that she takes the position instead. Afterwards, Asta imparts Anti Magic to the other Black Bulls, intertwining it with their own magic. Finral then teleports the Black Bull base to the Noble Realm, where the group splits up and spreads across the battlefields: Nacht and Ichika assist Yami against Morgen and Lucius's clone; Luck and Magna assist Kaiser against a Lucius clone and Guardian Angels and quickly destroy them; Finral, Zora, Secre, and Charmy assist Asta and Yuno against Lucius's clones; Gauche assists Rill against Lucius's clone; Vanessa and Grey taken on Lucius's clone while Noelle fights Acier; and Gordon assists Charlotte and William.

Moris vs. the Crimson Lions

However, before she can land a hit on Moris, Moris taunts her that she has run out of meat shields and unleashes a new spell; the Earth Magic spell March of Holy Fools. The decoys almost stall enough time to push Mereoleona to a physical limit, which would allow him to disintegrate her with his arms as well, but Fuegoleon Vermillion arrives in time to assist Mereoleona and burns out all of Moris's decoys with his Salamander. Mereoleona then casts one final spell; Exercitus Leonum, fully transforming her entire body into mana and temporarily resurrects her fallen comrades into bodies of fiery mana. To Moris's shock, his arms do not work on Mereoleona and the revived Crimson Lions, as their bodies are now full mana. Mereoleona then promptly slays Moris in one punch, causing his body to completely disintegrate.

Acier Silva vs. the Silva Family

Noelle then clashes lances with Acier. Regaining distance, Acier uses Silver Feather Shower to scatter silver feather bullets onto Noelle, only for them to be blocked by her Sea Dragon God's Vortex and herself knocked onto a building by Sea Dragon God's Tail. Acier regains stance quickly and uses her second magic attribute; Water Magic to create a giant eagle made of water, while Noelle launches a water dragon to counter the strike. The bursts of water collide and cancel out with each other, but Acier successfully lands a strike onto Noelle this time and lands multiple, successful follow up strikes onto her. Despite this, Noelle refuses to give up, and touched by her sheer determination, Nebra and Solid, who have once mocked their youngest sibling, stepped in alongside Nozel to assist in her fight against her mother. Solid used his body to block a strike from Acier and the four agreed to use their combined strength to launch one final attack to defeat their mother once and for all.

Nozel uses Silver Guardian to distract Acier Silver, buying his younger siblings enough time to charge one final beam of water that pierces through Acier's water eagle and her body, defeating her and causing her body to disintegrate. Before she gets shattered out of existence, her final words are congratulating her children that they are now all grown up and strong, and they have finally became a family after a long way round.

Morgen vs. Yami

Morgen overwhelms Yami by using Light Magic and Dark Magic to create a pair of swords that cut into his chest. Thankfully for the Black Bulls captain, Nacht Faust and Ichika Yami arrived in time to save him.

Nacht Faust then battles Morgen. The paladin is now joined by a Lucius copy who comments that the anti-magic cloaked on him might be troublesome to deal with, and team up to take down the Black Bulls vice captain. Nacht casts Dark Prison Hunting Ground to buy time for Ichika to save Yami, while he deals with both Morgen and the Lucius clone. Much to her shock, Ryuya gave Ichika a Kikongan, the same type of drug her father fed to her which drove her into a mindless rampage that slayed the rest of her clan. Yami however, reassures her that he can now control the power of the drug and consumes it. His predictions were correct, as Yami is able to gain the power boost from the drug and keep his sanity entirely intact. The Lucius copy then goes in front of the Yami siblings and sends them flying by punching the ground, then attempts to use Soul Magic to turn Ichika into a Paladin. However, when a palm struck her forehead, it was not those of Lucius', but Yami's, who effortlessly slices the Lucius clone in half. After being defeated, the Lucius copy congratulates Yami that he is able to survive and endure all of this. Yami simply tells the copy to shut up, but fake Lucius tells him that Morgen is now stronger as he overwhelms his younger brother.

A few minutes before, Nacht faces both Morgen and the Lucius copy, and senses that the supreme demon Lucifugus is controlling Morgen and the person in front of him is no longer his elder brother. He promises to defeat him and uses his Unite Mode: Gallus × Felis × Canis transformation to confront the paladin. The two clash in light speed as the Lucius clone swoops down to deal with the Yami siblings. Back to the present, Nacht, unable to be bring himself to ends his brother's life a second time despite knowing that was decidedly not him, gets distracted and is sent crashing into the ground. Just as Morgen is about to finish him with a giant beam of light, Yami saves Nacht and encourages him to strengthen his heart and put Morgen down, and the two make a resolve to team up and finish the paladin off.

Yami and Morgen lock blades, the captain announcing to his former comrade that Lucius is the one that makes him sick for desecrating the dead while wearing Julius' face and calling the heretical wizard king a "scumbag," concluding that the only favor he could do to him right now is to put him down. As the two regain distance, Morgen rebukes Yami that Lucius is not a "scumbag" but a savior that will grant true peace to the world. Yami unleashes a Dark Cloaked Dimension Slash on Morgen, but the paladin unleashes Dark Magic to absorb the blade projectile and retaliates with his strongest attack; combining Light and Dark magic to fire a flurry of nearly-unavoidable meteors as he swoops down on the Black Bull captain. However, seeing that she cannot sit there and watch, Ichika joins the battle, using Black Star to disrupt the trajectory of the flying meteors and protect Yami from getting harmed. The siblings then unleashed a combo dark spell known as Black Heavens, nullifying the meteor swarm. At the meantime, Nacht has made the resolve to join the fight. He fuses all four of his demons into himself and combines forces with the Yami siblings to cast the compound magic Walpurgis Night, overwhelming Morgen and allowing Nacht to slay him by impaling him with one sword to the chest in a surprise attack.

Final Confrontation

Adramelech watches the defeats of all three paladins and implies the remaining battles against the Guardian Angels and Lucius's clones will have end similarly. With the remaining enemies occupied, Asta and Yuno head toward the real Lucius. They confront Lucius inside his palace's throne where he full absorbs his siblings and final clash begins. Lucius repels the pair's attacks with gravity strengthened punches and bone whips and combines Body Compression, Jets of Blood, and Bone Bullets to fire high pressure bone projectiles. Despite the multiple magic's Lucius has accumulated, the pair push forward with perfect teamwork created by constantly surpassing each other. Asta lands a Zetten that dismembers Lucius' arms, but Lucius fires his combination spell from his torso. Before Lucius can attack Asta at point black, Yuno teleports above him and seemingly annihilates him using Saint Spirit of Boreas.

In actuality, the Lucius they just fought was yet another clone, and the real Lucius appears in front of them, having been completely transformed himself into an angelic being. He reveals to Asta and Yuno that he has prepared the clones to buy him time to absorb the magic from the Grimoire towers of the Clover Kingdom, allowing him to use all of the magic stored within it. He demonstrates this ability by teleporting towards Revchi Salik, Gueldre Poizot and Marx Francois, killing them and absorbing their magic. He then uses Revchi's Chain Magic to seal off Yuno's magic prowess, then uses Marx's Communication Magic throughout the kingdom to broadcast its demise. Lucius uses a barrage of spells against the Yuno and Asta duo while evading the latter's attacks, knowing fully that he can be only damaged by his Anti-Magic. In the middle of the battle however, Lucius exploits Asta's emotional weakness once again, this time resurrecting his mother Richita right before he could deal a decisive blow against the rogue Wizard King. Using this window of hesistation, Lucius uses a sword to gravely injure Asta and Liebe and drops him onto a floating rock.

With Asta being out of the picture, Lucius summons more Guardian Angels and resurrects the trio of Paladins attacking the Clover Kingdom in stronger, monstrous forms. Yuno fights Lucius on his own as a barely conscious Asta grants him Anti Magic to help defeat Lucius. Lucius now sees Yuno as a proper threat as his attacks are now able of actually causing harm against his body, and the two attempt to stall out each other as Yuno stalls for Asta's return while while Lucius attempts to stall out his Anti Magic buffs by evading his attacks. As Yuno and Lucius were throwing magic spells on each other, the rock where Asta and Liebe was lying on top of is destroyed, sending Asta crashing into the ground where he was spotted by Mimosa. At the meantime, new reinforcements arrived to combat the near-endless swarms of Guardian Angels and the three monstrous Paladins; Mereoleona returns to deal with Paladin Acier, Morris was confronted by the Eight Shining Generals of the Diamond Kingdom, and eventually the former executives of the Eye of the Midnight Sun and the Elves Patolli, Rhya and Fana joined the battle as well. While several Guardian Angels attempted to attack Mimosa to prevent her from healing Asta, they were thwarted by Kirsch, Langris and Leopold. With assistance from Charmy Pappitson's Food Magic, Mimosa was able to completely revitalize Asta, who proceeds to kill several Guardian Angels in one hit and make his way back to Lucius.