Part two guys, this turned out way longer than I thought it would be as to why I'm splitting it up into multiple parts, one more possibly two.

A young man flew through the air on a magic carpet, with his comrade next to him, and their army behind them. He had medium-length, blond hair and pale skin. His eyes had black scleras and red irises, but no visible pupils. He had three small, red mage stones in a horizontal line in the middle of his forehead, and a larger red stone on his sternum. His outfit was a custom Shining Generals uniform from the Diamond Kingdom, with a sleeveless black fur coat adorned with red gemstones.

“Man… and I had just gotten in an herbal soak when we got this order,” he mockingly wined, “Hey, Mars, tell me what exactly are we here to do again?”

“We’re to sneak into the Forest of Witches, while everyone is distracted. While the forest is in disarray from the assault from the Third Eye, we capture the Queen,” Mars said, without batting an eye, as he stood atop a chunk of floating crystal.

“Hmmm…” Ladros looked at his comrade and former fellow disciple. ‘He was always about getting the job done and surviving by being the strongest before, but ever since he and Lotus came back from that dungeon a while ago, he’s been acting more secretive about things. As long as I get to have some fun with these witches, I don’t really care,’ he shrugged as they sped on.

Throne Room…

“Oh, hell!” Asta swung his sword, “Back, and better than ever!”

“That’s great, Asta,” Noelle said as she pulled out his robe.“And here’s your stupid robe!” she yelled, as she threw it in his face.

“Hey! Thanks a lot, Noelle,” he said, as he pulled it off.

“YOU BETTER NOT MAKE US GO THROUGH SOMETHING LIKE THIS AGAIN!” Noele said as she decked him.

“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED WE WERE?!” Finral said, as he, too, started to punch his junior’s face.

“DON’T YOU EVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN, YOU IDIOT!” Vanessa added her own insults and blows.

“Wow. What doesn’t hurt at all,” Asta remarked, as he smirked while rubbing his chin. “She really did make me more robust,” he flexed.

“Ow… my hands…” Finral held up his red hands.

“Is that some sort of reinforcement magic?” Vanessa asked.

“Nope!” Asta took another pose, “Just pure muscle!”

“I have fulfilled my end of the bargain, but our deal remains imperfect until you uphold your part and rend my home of these imperfect nuisances,” the Witch Queen added.

“I understand,” Asta looked at the queen with a serious expression, “I don’t go back on my deals, especially ones where I owe someone something of this magnitude.”

“Hey, Asta,” Fanzell came up to his student, “Good to see you back in fighting shape. Look, we’ll take on the Diamond Kingdom, while you guys deal with the Third Eye freaks. We have a history with those guys that needs some tending to.”

“Thanks, Sensei,” Asta bowed and then shot back up. “And I understand, so I’ll leave them to you guys. I have my own private history and business with the one leading the Eye of Midnight anyways,” he said as they shook hands, “But first, you should probably get dressed.”

“Right,” Fanzelle smiled awkwardly.

“Look who’s talk,” Noelle said as she handed Asta his usual shirt, who quickly dawned it, and his robe, “Alright. Let’s go!”

“Let Asta handle the fight for now,” Finral said. “Noelle, you focus on putting out the fires and Vannesa,” he looked at the witch, “Me and you are on search and rescue.”

“RIGHT!” they all said and went to their tasks.

The Queen stood in silence as she watched, and her eyes gave a slight movement, as she knew everything was going exactly how she wanted.

Eye Of the Midnight Sun’s Forces…

The Eye of the Midnight Sun mages flew above the burning forest. One of them in particular, next to Fana/Sunset, was taking great joy in the sight, as he floated on a palm tree, with his green palm-themed three-leaf grimoire floating in front of him.

“Yehehehe… That’s right. Burn!” he chuckled, “Nehehehe… You can’t surrender after just one blast. Hehehe…. That wouldn’t be any fun at all, now would it?”

“Look, over there!” another mage pointed out, as an area of the forest came to life and took the form of a massive security golem.

“So, I’m guessing these are the enemies you were telling us about earlier?” a witch dressed in all black, with various white accents on her dress, called out as she flew in front of the giant golem.

“Who do they think they are?” the green witch called out beside the black witch. “Are you ready, Akimo?” she called to a witch next to her.

“Yeah,” Akimo replied, “Let’s protect the forest.”

“Aaaaa… I’ve never seen a creature like that,” one of the hooded Midnight cultists said, as the golem reeled back its arms and threw huge rocks into their forces, taking a few of them out.

The palm mage laughed, “Heha… It's no threat to us at all…”

Sunset/Fana was next to the palm-mage, on her Salamander’s back. The flame spirit then launched three fireballs at the gigantic golem. The flaming balls of death easily tore massive holes through the giant's body, causing the golem to explode.

The resulting explosion forced back several of the witches that had surrounded it.

“Her majesty’s golem!” one of the witches said.

“What do these people want?” the witch in black asked through the shock.

“Eyahahahaha!” the palm mage continued to laugh. “Our Lady of the Third is marvelous. Mind-boggling power and unparalleled beauty to match,” he simped for Fana, “Oh, how happy I’d be to have mistress Fana on my arm one day.” He shifted his sights elsewhere. “But for now,” he remarked as he stretched out his sleeves, and vines shot out of his robe, “I’ll just have to settle for these impudent little witches!”

“Seize them!” he ordered his followers in a gleefully rough tone.

“Sir!” the others followed the order and charged in.

“Any that appear valuable should be captured alive,” he gloated, “Those with exceptional magical abilities would make lovely slaves, I’d wager.”

The Eye of The Midnight Sun started to capture the witches with their magic

A serpent mage targeted a witch in a navy blue outfit with his snake arms. “Stop!” she yelled, “NO! LET GO!”

“Dark Magic, Shattering Lightless Shash!” Asta called out as he zoomed in and sent a wave of dark magic crescents out, which cut the spells and allowed the witches to flee. “Get out of here! Now!” he ordered them, as he caught the navy blue witch.

“Ah! I was saved by a man!” she cried out and went to scratch his eyes.

“You’ll just end up hurting yourself, lady,” he glared at her with his slitted eyes, causing her to freeze with fear, “Get the others and leave. You’ll only be in my way.”

“Uh… yeah…” she eeped before summoning her broom and flying off.

“What is with him and women?” Noelle grumbled as she used her water magic to put out the fires, “Even while saving their lives, he flirts.”

“Relax, Noelle. That didn’t seem like flirting as much as an order to keep them all safe and out of his way,” Vanessa said as she helped locate witches and used Finral’s portals to pull them from the flames. “Here, we consider the females the superior of the sexes. I can tell you he’d have a hard time trying to win over any of the ladies from this forest as it stands. Of course, it seems like he had a thing for powerful women,” she looked at Noelle, “As things stand right now though, I think he only has one thing on his mind…”

“Yeah,” Noelle worriedly looked up and saw Asta form through the smoke, “That’s what bothers me though. I’ve never known him to seek someone out of vengeance like that.”

“I’m worried, too,” Finral said as he came out of a portal, “Especially after hearing the name he spoke.”

“What do you know and aren’t telling us?” Noelle marred her gaze.

“I heard him say that name before, on that night he went berserk,” Finral held up his hands, “When he saw that woman from the Eye of the Midnight Sun’s inner circle, the look in his eyes was nearly identical to the one we saw just a few minutes ago.”

“If it's her, we need to stop him!” Noelle said, as started to run.

“Noelle, stop!” Vanessa ordered. “As much as I agree with you about that, I don’t think we’d stand a chance at stopping him now,” half of her face darkened in the light of the fires, “As things are now, Asta is the only one who even stands a chance of standing up to the Eye of the Midnight Sun and their inner circle. I’m pretty sure not even the Queen would have the power to totally suppress them right now.”

“So, we just shut up and stay out of the way?!” Noelle heavily disagreed with that statement.

“Yes,” Finral said with clenched fists, “We don’t stand a chance in that kind of fight. We’d only get in his way right now, but if he asks for it or we see he absolutely needs it, then we jump, not before. Until then, we help the witches.”

Noelle and Vanessa were stumped at Finral’s words.

“Wow, Finral,” Vanessa put her hands on her hips, “I never knew you could have the balls to say something like that. You and I are going out for a drink after this is over, on me.” She smiled, a little more than proud of her superior, “I won’t let Asta fight on his own. This is still my home country, after all, and I’ll be damned if I let those bastards spit on it. But first, we have to help the witches still caught in this fire.”

On the other side of the Forest…

“My, what a sight,” Ladros chuckled.

“All of the preparations are ready,” a buff guy with a red mohawk called out, “We can commence the attack right away.”

“Oooo… Looks like someone’s raring to go. Still, though, Nahahaaa…” Ladros joyfully mocked with a finger, “No. Just hold off. Let both sides tire themselves out, and we’ll swoop in and feast on the survivors, hehehe….”

“Right,” the mohawk guy was a little disturbed by the order, but followed it.

Meanwhile, Fanzell, Dominante, and Mariella all approached the Diamond Army.

“There they are,” Fanzell said as he rode on his wind magic, next to the girls.

“Look at all of them,” Mariella said, “Even with the witches' help, they still have them outclassed in terms of magic power, but what really matters is how we fight, doesn’t it, master?”

“Right,” Fanzell agreed, “We should still be careful though.”

“The three of us should split up,” Dominante said abruptly.

“What? But, we can’t,” Fanzell looked at his wife, “I promised you I’d keep you safe!”

“I know, sweetheart, and I love you all the more for it. But, now isn’t the time for chivalry,” Dominante said with a serious but concerned look. “I’m sure you know that, with how brilliant you are when it comes to military strategy,” she said as Fanzell gave a serious look, “It's our only chance of winning.”

“If you say so,” Fanzell begrudgingly agreed.

Asta’s Group…

“Nahahaha!” the palm mage laughed, with about three witches caught in his vines, “My, my… what a wonderful selection of beautiful slave girls! Ahaha!”

All three of the women were screaming “No!” and “Let us go!”

Finral and Vanessa watched from the ground with gritted teeth.

“That scumbag!” Finral glared, “He’s trying to kidnap those cute girls!”

“That’s a lot of defense mages,” Vanessa said, as she looked to the mages surrounding the plant mage holding the witches hostage.

Noelle, on the other hand, worried about what would happen to them once Asta intervened. He did utterly destroy a slave trade operation in one night in his crippled state only days ago, after all. One could only shiver at what he would do to this guy.

“Guys,” Noelle spoke up, “Just leave it to Asta. I really think this is one thing we should really stay away from…”

As soon as she said that, Asta had already started to tear the mages around the boss at a breakneck speed. He not only knocked them out with his swords, but also broke their brooms in the process, to bring them down.

“GET OUT OF MY WAY!” Asta roared as he cut through his enemies.

“This kid is too strong! TAKE THIS!” one of the mages made a stone from his magic and threw it at Asta only for him to cut it in half and take him down.

“WHERE IS SHE?!” Asta yelled out in rage.

“Sir, it's him!” one of the nearest mages to the plant guy called out, “He’s the magic swordsman that took down Master Vetto!”

“Strike him down!” the plant mage maniacally smiled.

All of the Eye of the Midnight Sun’s forces around the plant guy started to fire off their spells at Asta, only for him to easily cut through them all or redirect the magic with the Demon Dweller sword. He made his way to the plant guy and easily cut the witches free, then used his dark magic platforms to catch them and send them below, to the forest and his friends.

“They’re not even slowing him down a little,” Finral said with a smirk.
“I can’t stand sick fucks like you, who think of women as no more than property!” Asta roared, “How about I cut that head off your body?!”

“He’s so much stronger than before…” Vanessa said, as she watched in awe of her comrade’s displays of power.

“You stay away from me, boy!” the plant guy created a mass of plants, only for Asta to cut him clean in two right down the middle with the Demon Slayer.

“Stronger is one thing, but that was just…” Vanessa flinched.

“Ruthless,” Noelle said, as she looked up with worry.

“Noelle?” Vanessa looked over, “You knew he would kill him, didn’t you?”

“I knew, and I agree with his choice,” Noelle looked at the string witch, “He toppled an entire slave ring a few days ago. He didn’t kill anyone then, but after seeing how angry he got, I knew this would happen. He doesn’t have a good past with slavery.”

“Oh, no…” Finral flinched at the sight above, “This isn’t good at all…”

Sunset/Fana steadily flew up from behind Asta. “At last, it’s you,” she glared. “You’re the one, who killed Vetto,” she said, as her Salamander breathed a fireball at Asta.

“Sunset Shimmer,” Asta snarled as he used the Dweller to quickly slice the fire and absorb its magic into the sword, and then unleashed it as a slash, back at Fana.

Sunset/Fana’s eye widened for a moment, as her Salamander countered with another fireball. As soon as the two fire spells collided, they exploded, causing the Eye of the Midnight Sun’s mages to be flung around like rag dolls.

The smoke cleared to reveal Fana/Sunset covered in minor scuffs as she glared at Asta. “You have been getting in our way at every turn,” she said with an unwavering scowl, “I’ll make sure this is the last time!”

“I’ll keep getting in the way of your stupid cult, even after I drive my sword through your still-beating heart!” Asta called out while pointing his blade right at the source of his anger and rage. “YOU CAN KNOCK ME DOWN ALL YOU WANT, BUT UNTIL YOU DRAW YOUR LAST BREATH, I’LL KEEP COMING FOR YOU!!!” he roared as his magic power overflowed from his body.

“What did she do that would cause our normally cheery boy to become a revenge-obsessed maniac with such a vendetta?” Vanessa asked.

“I’m not sure, but I think I heard him say something to do with a twilight?” Finral asked.

Noelle’s eyes widened as she recalled the story of how he and Twilight ended up in this world. She looked right at the fire mage and realized she had to be the main cause for them to be here. She was now angry at Fana for what she had put Asta and Twilight through, but also a little grateful to her for bringing Asta here, so they could meet… still mostly angry though.

“Not a twilight. Just Twilight,” Noelle corrected him, “As in, Twilight of the Blue Rose Knights.”

“You mean, the Purple Rose?” Finral said. “As in, the one who is said to be one of the most versatile mages in the entirety of the Magic Knights due to her Copy Magic? That Twilight? Wait, how do…?” he started to ask, then looked at Asta, then to Noelle, and repeated the action several times, “Oooooohhhhhhhh, ccccccccoooooooommmmmmmeeeeee oooooonnnnnnnn!” he cried, with a waterfall of tears coming from his eyes.

“So, what exactly did she do?” Vanessa asked while Finral whined.

“In short, that girl,” Noelle narrowed her gaze, “is the reason why they’re both here in this country, to begin with, let alone she almost successfully killed Twilight.”

Meanwhile, the Witch Queen eagerly watched the battle.

“That boy is truly something else,” she said as she raised her finger and increased the size of the orb she was using to watch. “I did, in fact, make him stronger, but this kind of power was not something I expected from him at all. Not only is his physical strength increased, it has gone far beyond that of what should be possible. Then, there are his unique magics. The output was like a river before, but now, it's more akin to a raging flood. I’d say that anti-magic is actually much more refined, in terms of controlled output, but still, how could a brat like him be able to wield not only such vast amounts of magic power but also, its exact opposite at the same time? Such a thing should not be possible. Truly an imperfect being,” she held up her hand as if to clutch something just under Asta, “But a truly perfect weapon, that I shall wield, nonetheless.”

Elsewhere, Fragment also watched the outcome of the fight, using his Abyss Magic.

“It would seem the Witch Queen’s treatment has allowed him to regain a good bit of the power he’d lost since coming to this world,” Fragment stoked his chin, knowing this was actually quite a problem, “If I were to fight him in this state, he could even overpower me, if he used that mask, as he did in our first confrontation. Sunset has not caused him to activate the dark equestrian magic yet, either. This is quite a troublesome issue. Sunset was already magically weaker than him, due to the mental state I’ve had to keep her in. I need to boost her power, but how?”

He looked at the salamander spirit, trying to think of a way he could use it to boost her power, and briefly turned away, then snapped, after he remembered a few things

“That’s it,” he chuckled, “I can force her to use that spell, by forcing her to use the Element of Magic she tried to steal from the little princess. Luckily, Twilight is away from the Blue Rose Headquarters right now. It’s simple to pop over and borrow the stone. This actually worked out, as it’ll also provide me with even more equestrian magic than I’d initially thought of! AHAHAHAHAHA!”

He used his Abyss magic to open a portal to the Blue Rose Headquarters.

“Knock, knock,” Fragment licked his lips. “Fragment’s here, for a date with you lovely ladies… ehehe....” he cackled as he entered the portal.

Meanwhile, things were quite literally heating up on the battlefield of the Forest of Witches.

Sunset/Fana’s gaze was transfixed on Asta. “How vile,” she glared. “You shall die! Flame Spirit Magic,” she called out as the Salamander raised its arm. “Salamander’s Talon!” she said as the flame spirit launched flaming claw slashes.

“Magical Swordsmanship, Flame Breathing,” Asta said as he steadied himself and took hold of his Dweller with both hands, while he held the sword in front of him and channeled what little power he still had of the earlier flame attack into the sword. “Fire Slice!” he called out, as he tried to counter the attack, as best he could.

The Salamander’s attack still did massive amounts of damage to the surrounding forest.

“This is bad,” Vanessa said as looked up, “Salamander is said to be the strongest of the four Great Elemental Spirits, in terms of attack power. We might as well be facing an entire nation’s army at this point.” She looked over and saw Asta, as he’d take the opportunity from the attack to dual-wield his swords in anti-magic form.

“Let’s see how you handle being cut, lizard breath!” Asta called out, as he slashed Salamander across its chest.

“No, Salamander!” Fana/Sunset called out to her spirit as he writhed in pain, struggling to stay in flight, as magic flames spilled out from its wound. “Flame Magic, Phoenix Dress!” she said, as she activated her flame magic to heal the spirit. “How horrid! You evil beast!” she glared at Asta, who was smirking at the pain he’d caused his enemy.

“He actually hurt it,” Vanessa said in awe. “That’s right. Spirits are just masses of mana that have gained a form of consciousness. If he uses the swords in that form, then he can wound even spirits.”

“Even so,” Finral said as he looked at Asta’s face, “That look…”

“You will pay,” Fana seethed, as the gem on her forehead had steadily cracked over the course of the fight. “For hurting Salamander, for killing Vetto, for hurting Licht,” she cried, as the gem was now gone, and a third eye appeared on her forehead. The Salamander’s overall size and mana output drastically increased, along with Sunset/Fana’s rage. “And for stealing the ELEMENT OF MAGIC FROM ME!” crystals had also formed on either side of the Salamander’s wings.

“YOU WILL ALL PAY!” she cried, as fireballs and crystal spears rained down up the forest, leaving utter devastation in the girl's furious wake.

“I know that magic,” Noelle called out, as Asta rushed over and covered everyone he sensed through their Qi that was in the blast radius of the dark and light magic-reinforced spheres.

The dark and light magic cocoons steadily flaked away in the wind.

“You okay?” Finral asked Vanessa. “That was quite the blast,” he looked at the disappearing dark magic and looked around to see Asta now panting heavily, while Noelle was steadying him.

“He used his magic to shield not just us, but the witches, too,” Vanessa said in disbelief. “That last combo of spells must have taken just about the rest of his magic, in order to shield all of us…”

“She’s using a similar magic to that which the other guy used to boost her power,” Asta said.

“Asta, those crystals,” Noelle added.

“Yeah… they’re exactly the same as that Diamond Kingdom General’s, spell from when we fought in that dungeon,” he said as he now knelt down, “I don’t have any magic left, guys. If she does that again, I won’t be able to shield you, let alone the witches, again…”

“Idiot, think about yourself, for a change!” Noelle cried, “We can handle ourselves, and the witches know to get out of here now.”

“Good,” Asta looked at his enemy. “Cause I can’t worry about you anymore in this fight,” he said as a portal of vile magic appeared above them and next to Fana/Sunset.

This event shocked even the Witch Queen, who’d never stopped watching.

Fragment steadily appeared from the portal, using his red bat-like wings to keep him in the air, with his hands in his pockets and his golden yellow eye glowing under his mask.

The evil mage smiled wickedly down at the group. “Well done in shielding these lowly little witches, boy,” he snickered while giving a mock clap.

“You almost beat him last time,” Finral said with shaking legs.

“I only saw everyone as the thing I wanted to kill last time, while I was half frenzied,” Asta groggily remarked as he stepped away from Noelle, “In this state, I may stand a chance if the crazy fire bitch wasn’t in his corner. If you guys can distract her…”

“Oh, I’m not here to fight anyway, this time,” Fragment chuckled as he reached into his cloak and pulled out a purple six-pointed star-shaped crystal, “I’m just here to give my servant the item she so desperately tried to retrieve from your first girl that wasn’t rightfully hers!”

“DON’T DO IT, YOU BASTARD!” Asta roared in anger as he leapt up and slashed at the evil mage’s face with his Demon Slayer.

Fragment simply kept up his evil smirk, as he pulled his own sword from its sheath under his cloak, while he activated his own demonic magic. Everything that was happening was all too familiar to Noelle. This new individual’s actions shocked the Queen to her core though. Not only was he vastly more powerful than even her, in terms of magic power, but he was also physically on par, if not above it, with Asta.

“Demon Blood Magic, Cursed Blood Blade,” Fragment said, as his blood flowed from his hand to the sword’s blade and widened and flattened to form a new broadsword, roughly the size of the Demon Slayer, that he used to block Asta’s and sent him crashing down to the ground.

“S-s-stop… him…” Asta held out a hand.

Vanessa sent out her strings to pull Fragment away from the flame mage, while Finral used his spatial magic to counter the dark mage’s own portal, and Noelle blasted him with water.

“I’VE HAD ENOUGH! BLOODY CRESCENT!!!!” Fragment snarled as he sent a crimson wave at them all, knocking them down. “Now then,” he scoffed, thoroughly annoyed at the interruptions, as he moved back to his pawn, “Take it, my dear Sunset Shimmer, and become what you were supposed to.”

“Yes, Licht,” Sunset took the gem, causing her and her Salamander to become enveloped in a sphere of swirling flame magic.

Soon, the magic began to shrink, until it was in the form of a human with wings and a tail in the shape of the element of magic, until it started to fade. Her clothing was made of pure flames, instead of cloth. Her overall height had drastically increased, and she now had gained a flame-like tail and hair, along with tattered bat-like wings that flapped to keep her in the air, five-clawed fingers, pointed ears, and sharp teeth with elongated fangs. Her skin had taken on a reddish color, and she opened her eyes to reveal the sclera of her eyes had become green, while the color was now a glowing red rings with slitted pupils and purplish wisp coming from the outer corners of each eye, except for the middle one that was split by the horn forming a sort of omnibus crown of evil magic, while her hand and feet had become covered in crystal. The most prominent feature was the massive twisting singular horn in the middle of her forehead, just above her third eye. There was no more Fana/Sunset or Salamander, just the Demon Queen of Flames

There was neither Salamander nor Fana/Sunset it was only…

“Oh, my, so beautiful! I shall call you Furens Flamma!” Fragment laughed. “Destroy them to your heart's content, my dear pawn. Do try and make him use that forbidden magic, at least.”

“Yes, Fragment,” the demonic mage acknowledged.

“Until next time, Asta,” Fragment laughed, as he fled through a portal.