A god…?
A sharp glint flickered in Yuuki's eyes. The anime had never mentioned it outright, but in the manga, he clearly remembered the Wizard King Julius once speaking of Judgment Day.
"Judgment Day"—also known as the Last Judgment.
Yuuki suddenly recalled the descriptions of Judgment Day from the christian myths of his previous life.
On that day, the true god Jesus would descend from the heavens once more. The dead would be resurrected; those who believed in God and Jesus and had done good would ascend to heaven, while those beyond salvation would be cast into a lake of fire and brimstone, doomed to eternal annihilation.
And if one translated the premise of "the resurrection of the dead" into this world—
In Yuuki's view, it meant first wiping out all of humanity, and then reviving them afterward.
More than that, the judgment in legend was not limited to humanity alone. Fallen angels were also subject to judgment.
Whether angels existed in the world of Black Clover, Yuuki couldn't say for certain. But demons definitely existed—and demons were also known by another name:
Fallen angels.
In the underworld, the king of all demons was Lucifero.
That, in turn, reminded Yuuki of the Bible's account from his previous life—before his fall, the Devil King Satan had once been the angel Lucifer.
If the Wizard King Julius truly intended to judge all humans and demons alike, then his ultimate goal might genuinely be—
—to become a god.
"I saw a great white throne, and Him who was seated on it. From His presence, earth and heaven fled, and no place was found for them."
Yuuki's gaze grew solemn as he murmured softly.
This was from Revelation, chapter 20, verse 11.
"Lord… what are you talking about?"
Mariella looked at Yuuki, who had suddenly begun muttering to himself, surprise evident on her face as she asked in confusion.
"It's nothing. I just figured something out all of a sudden."
Hearing her question, Yuuki came back to his senses. A gentle smile returned to his face as he spoke lightly.
Even if he had guessed Julius's true objective, it meant little to Yuuki at present. After all, that was a matter for the future.
If he truly wanted to interfere, then at the very least, he would need power capable of rivaling the current Wizard King—power sufficient to contend with demons themselves.
As things stood, the fact that Yuuki didn't immediately turn and run whenever he saw the Wizard King already meant he had nerves of steel. Picking a fight with him? That was a whole different matter.
Yuuki remembered clearly—just a single high-ranking Word Soul Devil had once beaten the Magic Knights and the elves so badly they couldn't even lift their heads. And that was with the resurrected First Wizard King joining the battle.
Even then, they had nearly been wiped out.
If it hadn't been for Asta's Anti-Magic in the end, combined with Yami's Dimension Slash that cleaved space itself, the entire Clover Kingdom might have already been annihilated by that one Word Soul Devil.
And as for the Demon King Lucifero—his power was even more terrifying. According to records uncovered by the Queen of the Heart Kingdom, once Lucifero descended upon the world, ninety percent of humanity on the continent would perish.
"Mariella."
Yuuki withdrew his gaze from the full moon hanging in the sky and turned to look at Mariella, who stood respectfully at his side, smiling faintly.
"Yes, my lord. Please give your orders."
Mariella responded at once.
Now that her vengeance had been fulfilled, she no longer harbored even the slightest doubt toward Yuuki.
"No need to be so serious. Tell me—what kind of magic do you like?"
Yuuki asked with a smile.
"Eh?"
Mariella instinctively looked up at him. She suddenly felt that Lord Yuuki's personality was rather difficult to grasp. From time to time, he would ask strange, seemingly random questions—far too unpredictable.
"I use Ice Magic, so… naturally, I like Ice Magic more."
She still answered promptly.
"Forget it. With your personality, you probably don't have a clear answer to that anyway."
Yuuki spoke half-jokingly, then paused to think for a moment.
"You come from the Assassination Division, and your methods are fairly direct. Plus, there are some things I'll need your help with. Spatial Magic would suit you well."
With a thought, a silver grimoire floated before Yuuki, emitting a faint silver glow.
Rustle—
He brushed his hand across the pages, and the sound of paper rapidly flipping echoed in the air.
From eliminating the Assassination Division alone, Yuuki had gained more than sixty pages at once. With the increase in pages, his grimoire now looked noticeably thicker.
Among those sixty-plus spells, most were derivative elemental magics. To Yuuki, they were little more than marginal gains. The truly valuable spells—the ones that genuinely caught his eye—were only a handful.
This outcome was exactly as he had expected.
The acquisition of grimoires didn't depend on luck, but on aptitude.
Although the grimoire selection ceremony appeared random, in truth, only those with exceptional talent were chosen by special, rare grimoires.
For ordinary people, obtaining a rare or unique grimoire was exceedingly uncommon.
Even when wielding similar elemental magic, the overwhelming mana reserves of royalty and nobles made them impossible for commoners to contend with.
Mages like Rades with Corpse Magic, or Revchi Salik with Chain Magic—commoners who obtained rare magic—were far too few. Worse still, they were easily targeted and persecuted out of nobles' jealousy, leaving them unable to change the overall balance.
As the pages of the grimoire flipped to the very last one—
Yuuki reached out and grasped it.
Under Mariella's stunned gaze, he tore the page free.
"What… what is this…?"
For the first time, even Mariella—who could remain calm and composed in the face of almost any danger—lost control of her expression. Her eyes widened in disbelief.
She had never seen, nor even heard of, a mage tearing pages out of their own grimoire.
It completely shattered her understanding of the world.
"Replication Magic — Reverse Replication."
Holding the page, Yuuki didn't wait for Mariella to recover from her shock. He pressed it directly onto her grimoire.
In the next instant—
The page dissolved, merging seamlessly into Mariella's grimoire.
A vast, surging wave of mana erupted within her body. A kind of power she had never experienced before flooded her senses, rapidly becoming clear and tangible.
At the same time, her grimoire began to change.
The front cover remained sky-blue as before—but the back cover turned black and crimson.
At present, Yuuki possessed three types of Spatial Magic. Two of the mana origins came from others: one from Finral of the Black Bulls, and the other from Galeo, the Assassination Division captain he had slain.
The replicated mana origin he bestowed upon Mariella—
—was Galeo's.
"This power… it's Spatial Magic. Captain Galeo's magic?"
Feeling the turbulent mana surging within her, Mariella instinctively slashed at the empty air ahead of her.
A red spatial gate instantly opened before her.
Seeing this—
Mariella swallowed hard. Then she slowly looked back up, her face filled with shock, staring at Lord Yuuki, who was watching her with a gentle smile.
"T-this… this is your power, my lord?"
Her voice trembled as she spoke, words stumbling over themselves.
At this moment, she finally understood why Lord Yuuki could wield multiple kinds of magic.
And if that were all, it might have been manageable—
—but he could even grant someone else's magic to another person, and dramatically increase their mana in the process.
In a world that revered strength above all else—
Such an ability… such an ability…
Mariella's throat moved unconsciously a few more times. Then she suddenly recalled the words she herself had spoken earlier.
A god…?
(End of Chapter)
T/N: Sorry it seems 'Chapter 124: Noelle's Mark Is Removed, and the Tavern Opens for Business' was missing. You can go back to read it.
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