The other half

Seeing Licht get hit by that spell and fall, the black bulls sighed in relief and walked toward the now-fallen leader of the midnight sun.

"...He is still alive, huh?" muttered Sekke as he looked at Licht.

"Probably resistance towards the same magic affinity," said Yami.

Saying that Yami's grimoire started flipping as he soon found the restraining spell that he was looking for.

[Dark restraining magic: Dark bind]

Restraining the two members of the eye of the midnight sun the black bulls took a seat on a nearby rock.

They waited for Finral's mana reserves to get up to a point so that he could open a portal while Sekke just waited cautiously.

'I can give him some mana but knowing what is about to happen soon. I don't think that it is a good idea to take this fight in some crowded area.' thought Sekke.

While Sekke was lost in his thoughts the duo of Yami and Gauche made sure to rile Finral up. Asta just remained silent making Sekke look at him.

"Asta...anything wrong?" asked Sekke as he thought that it was weird that the grey-haired shorty was this quiet.

"Sekke...Just what is it that I am lacking? In the last battle...I barely did any of the work. It was mostly you and captain Yami who took care of the enemy."

Hearing him the rest of the black bulls turned silent and looked toward Asta.

Sekke stared at the grey-haired muscle twerp for a while before he smacked his head.

"Wha!! What the hell was that for!!!"

"That was for thinking this much shit!!! You think that you can surpass the likes of the dark lord or that captain of ours only after a year of getting your hands on your power then you stop dreaming. I have trained my power and body for more than 10 years. Yami-san and the others have even more experience under their belt. So if you are thinking that just because you trained your body from quite a young age and just a year of training with your anti-magic will make you stand at my or other strong mages' level then just give yourself a damn hard slap and wake up to reality. Train harder and learn new skills and then try again. You got that!!" yelled Sekke.

Asta looked straight into Sekke's eyes for a while before a determined expression appeared on his face. He then stood up took a deep breath and without holding back slapped his cheek with full force.

"Ouch! That hurt like hell," said Asta as he winced a bit from the pain.

"I will train like hell and surpass all of you. And after that, I will become the wizard king!!! Oh! And marry sister Lily!!! Just wait and watch Sekke!!! Hahaha!!!" declared Asta as he started laughing.

"Huh, what the hell are you talking about, like hell you can surpass me. Maybe you are still dreaming. Slap yourself once again." said Sekke.

"Like hell, a short dumbass like you can surpass me. I knew that you had some screws loose but I didn't know that you were such a gone cause," said Yami as he looked at Asta with pity.

"My screws are not loose!! I will show you the results of my training and surpass you two!!" yelled Asta as he pointed his finger at Yami and Sekke.

"Meh, while you work hard or something I will just surpass one or two of my limits and become super ultra-crazy strong," said Yami as he just shrugged his shoulders.

"Well I am the dark lord, I have no limits. I am already super ultra-crazy strong. I am just not accustomed to controlling all that strength." said Sekke as he shrugged as well.

Seeing the two people whom he wanted to surpass just casually saying that they were stronger than him, made Asta pissed at them and started arguing.

But as soon as their argument started all of them felt the mana/ki around and turned towards the location where they felt the disturbance.

"Spatial...Magic?" muttered Asta as all the black bulls turned towards Valtos, the zombie-faced dude.

"Nope not that one," said Sekke.

"Reinforcements probably," said Yami as he looked back toward the spatial magic portal.

And soon three figures appeared out of the black portal.

"*Yawn* Well, this definitely doesn't look good." said the guy with black hair as he started looking around. His eyes then fell on Licht and Valtos.

"Looks like Licht-Kun and Val-chan are in trouble."

"I'm usually pretty lazy, but...I gotta save my friends." saying that the guy with black hair turned emitted a bright light and moved just like how Licht was doing in their previous fight.

Already expecting that move a bronze sword appeared in Sekke's hand as he slashed down at the spot where he felt the ki of the guy.

And just as Sekke predicted the guy appeared in front of Yami and immediately widened his eyes in shock as he saw the income incoming sword.

Not wasting a moment the guy moved back with the same spell, but still was not able to dodge the attack completely.

"Yami-san, don't drop your guard in front of enemies," said Sekke as he saw blood spill out of the guy's torso which he was able to hit.

"Ow! Man, you are annoying." said the guy as he winced from the pain and landed beside the other two.

"But this should be easy to fix, so whatever." said the black-haired dude.

[Light Magic: Healing Light Particles]

And the same healing spell that was USD by Licht appeared in the guy's hand as he started healing his wound.

"That magic...It's the same as Round Eyebrows's!" said Asta with a surprised expression on his face.

Ignoring Asta Licht started talking to his teammates.

Sekke noticed that and was about to interfere but Yami moved his hand in front of him, stopping him from taking action.

"...Is it alright to let them do that?" asked Sekke.

"It's not, but unlike before, we are outnumbered by them...not to mention their ki and mana...you can feel that as well right?" asked Yami as he continued to look towards the eye of the midnight sun.

Sekke nodded and then looked in the same direction as well as he noticed Licht floating in the air covered in flames.

"...These flames...they are similar to that of a phoenix." said a deep voice as Sekke's eyes widened in shock as he started looking around only to notice that no one was there, not to mention no one other than him seemed to have heard that voice.

"They can't hear me, it's only you that can hear me, at least for now. My other half."

Hearing the voice once again Sekke narrowed his eyes and thought, 'Only I can hear? And what is this other half?'

"It is precisely what I say, there is no deeper meaning to it. I am part of your soul and reside within you in what you call sacred gear. I am the prison dragon king Vritra." said the voice who now identified himself as Vritra.

Widening his eyes in surprise Sekke stopped focusing on the eye of the midnight sun and shifted it towards the important matter.

'Vritra huh, I guess introductions are in order. I am Sekke Bronzaza, the dark lord.' thought Sekke.

"I already know, although I got the ability to talk to my host quite recently, I have been conscious for a while. I keep a track of the world through your senses and I would have to say much like you....this world is also quite different from the world that I know of," said Vritra with a slightly colder tone.