Lucius's past flashed before his eyes, it was the legendary revolving lantern of life.
Born into the Zohatide family of devil possessors of the Spade Kingdom, and possessing the family's strongest devil possession qualifications.
That wasn't all, he also had the special constitution of having two souls in one body, and had mastered the magic to purify the power of devils.
He had even made the time devil Astaroth, one of the strongest devils in the underworld, his familiar. How blessed by heaven was this.
He didn't think that he was arrogant, but he did look down on everything from a high position. Even the future could be predicted by him, and he had begun to think about the meaning of his existence.
Perhaps in order to prevent himself from being empty, he had found a meaning to his existence for himself. And it was still a quite positive energy meaning.
Peter Parker had adhered to the belief that with great power comes great responsibility all his life, and Lucius had the same feeling.
So he felt that making this world better was the responsibility of himself, the person who possessed the strongest power.
He didn't know if the other soul in his body had been influenced by this idea, but Julius's personality had become like that.
But although Lucius and Julius had the same goal, they had walked different paths. In the end, the direction that the two had set off in had been completely opposite from the start.
During the preparation phase of the plan, he had handed his body over to Julius. He wasn't afraid that anything unexpected would happen, because all of the future was within his predictions.
It was only the appearance of Asta and Drake that had caused the situation, where everything was under his control, to become chaotic.
At the start, he could still firmly believe that the future had only had some fluctuations, and would still reach the unchanging ending in the end, but the result was like this now.
The daze before Lucius's eyes had disappeared, and he had seen the people before him clearly again.
How could he have suddenly thought of these things? It turned out that he had weakened to this extent.
From the moment that the four great magics that had already been fused together had begun to collapse, he could predict his own ending even without using time magic.
As expected, Drake's final dragon slaying arcane had accelerated the collapse of his magic, and had also blasted out his revolving lantern of life.
And Drake also deeply understood the importance of adding another strike, how could he give Lucius the chance to erupt when he was on the verge of death, so he had directly called Asta over.
After Asta had swung down the Demon-Slayer Sword, Lucius's consciousness had also completely sunk into the abyss.
There was no regret, there was no resentment... Lucius had discovered that he was unexpectedly calm, and when he had turned his head, he had seen Julius, who looked exactly like him.
"It's you!"
Lucius seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief, and Julius had taken the initiative to walk over.
"Even you didn't expect how outstanding those Magic Knights would be, did you! I had originally thought that I would need to help from this side, but I hadn't expected that they would defeat you on their own.
So I've always said that the new era should be entrusted to the young people to create, and we only need to guide them!"
Lucius said with a cold smile, "You're still lecturing me even at this time? You should know that I haven't cared about those things from the start!"
Julius had laughed, saying, "That's indeed the case, but I just wanted to share my feelings! Seeing Asta and the others, I knew that I could leave at ease."
Lucius said coldly, "I thought that you would make me return your body to you, and then continue to be the Magic Emperor!"
Julius had shaken his head, saying, "The person who can serve as the Magic Emperor has already appeared, and there's no need for me to go back either.
After all, we're one, so let's leave together!"
"Is that so, then that sounds pretty good!"
Along with Lucius's last lament, the entire spiritual world had begun to collapse, and he and Julius had also turned into light motes together, dissipating.
In the real world, the clones who had been fighting Yami and the others had stopped their movements at the same time, and their bodies had also begun to collapse.
And it was the same for the Holy Knights and those monsters in the Land of the Rising Sun camp in the distance.
Because Lucius had been defeated, the twisted will of those Holy Knights had also returned to normal. Noelle could also truly say goodbye to her mother.
On the ruined aerial fortress, Drake and Asta were watching Lucius, who had closed his eyes, together.
Asta opened his mouth, saying, "Has it all ended?"
Drake nodded, saying, "That's right, it's all over!"
Asta's expression was somewhat sad, looking at Drake, saying, "I had thought that if we defeated Lucius, the Magic Emperor would be able to come back!"
Drake had comforted, "Everyone has their own mission, the Magic Emperor's mission has already been completed, so let him rest well.
Next, the era that belongs to you will begin."
Hearing Drake's tone, Asta had subconsciously felt that something was wrong, opening his mouth, saying, "Drake, are you going to leave again?"
Drake had smiled, saying, "Of course, you have your path to walk, and I also have to continue my journey that belongs to me.
But there's nothing worth being sad about about this. It's not like I'm never coming back, every separation is just for the sake of the next reunion.
But the next time I come back, I want to see you as the Magic Emperor!"
Asta had revealed a firm expression, saying, "Then it's a promise, I will definitely become the Magic Emperor!"
Actually, there were still many secrets in this world that hadn't been clarified, for example, just who was Asta's father? How had he given birth to Asta with Asta's mother while she had been constantly absorbing magic power and life force? And where had he gone later?
Had the consciousness of the time devil Astaroth been destroyed by Lucius in the end? And if it hadn't, where had he gone?
Just what was the deal with Lucius's two souls in one body? Where had the power to purify devils come from?
These mysteries even had the possibility of causing a new crisis.
But Drake believed that Asta could smoothly resolve any crisis now. After all, the greatest source of danger had already been resolved.
And Drake had also decided to begin his next journey. But before that, of course he couldn't miss the celebration banquet that the Land of the Rising Sun had specially held.
Yami and Ryudo Ryuya had raised their glasses together, and the alcohol of his hometown had made Yami especially nostalgic. Yami Ichika seemed to be atoning for the misunderstandings of so many years, and had been constantly pouring alcohol for Yami from the side.
And Asta, who had been drinking for the first time, had a completely red face, and had already begun to feel dizzy.
As one of the heroes of this battle, including the most lively Imari Kojiku, many of the pretty girls of the Land of the Rising Sun had surrounded him, making Noelle bite her handkerchief fiercely with anger.
Stella was sitting next to Drake, and with an imposing aura, she had scared away the Land of the Rising Sun girls who had also been coveting Drake. That cute appearance had made Drake take her in for a drink.
What was most interesting was Charmy, who had been constantly stuffing food into his mouth with his hands, while mass-producing dolls who looked exactly like him before him.
The dolls had been manufactured in imitation of the food god Oimotsumikemimi, who had saved the Land of the Rising Sun from famine in ancient times, and their appearance was exactly the same as Charmy's. Not only their appearance, but their personality was probably the same too.
Therefore, Charmy had actually become the most popular person from the Black Bulls in the Land of the Rising Sun, and had been offered a lot of food.
The main course of the banquet was the meat of the Five-Headed Dragon, and what was surprising was that the meat of this magical beast, which had polluted the oceans and skies of the Land of the Rising Sun, was actually a high-grade ingredient.
Not only the meat, but its scales and bones were also good materials. Drake had stuffed quite a bit into his ring.
The banquet had continued in the heated atmosphere like this, until everyone had passed out drunk beneath the silent moonlight.
Drake had also quietly taken Stella to a new world.
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