#12 FIGHTING CAPTAIN YAMI

Right now I'm standing in front of Yami fully focused with my Haki, Suddenly I use Soru and instantly reach in front of him with my sword drawn ready to strike him down, He surprised seeing my speed but he still manages to intercept it with his katana and push me back with the sheer force of his body.

After our first strike, we manage to find each other's weakness, He can overpower me with the sheer force of his muscles and his more battle experience while I have more speed with better swordsmanship after all Yami maybe be swordsman but his real path is toward magic and sword, unlike me.

So I started using Soru at full power constantly switching place while treading blow after blows with some occasional flying slash. Impressively he manages to counter most of my strike with some dodging here and there.

Neither of us went for the kill because we were enjoying it. After some time I exclaimed " be careful " and started using hardening on my sword seeing this he raised an eyebrow and stared coating his katana with mana for more durability.

After coating Haki to my sword my attacks become more fierce and strong but he somehow always manages to counter me. with some occasional cuts and bruises which neither of us care. It went on for a whole hour before we stopped. I was panting really hard, it seems one hour is my limit if I fought with Haki and continues use of Soru and sword strikes. on the other side Yami still had normal breathing but with sweaty clothes. judging from his experience you can say how surprised he was.

Afterward he started smoking and took a puff from his cigarette and spoke with still surprised voice: " You're strong, kid. I don't know how you manage to dodge my attacks or how you become strong and fast, but I won't ask you anything. just remember you are a member of Black Bull from here onward for wasting my precious time." releasing scary aura around his face " and I don't take no as an answer. "

I replied with a smirk: " make me do it, captain "

And we both started laughing really hard " hahaha haha... "

Yami: " Kid, with your personality and circumstances do you thing any noble captain would accept you, maybe only Fuegoleon and Jack that's all, tell me what's your name " {he never saw Dorothy, Rill or kaiser as captains And like he is any better}

Ghost: " It's Asta, captain Yami . and I don't mind joining Black Bull, But I want to tack magic knight entrance test "

Yami looks deeply into my eyes and seeing my confidence: " very well, maybe I'll attend it as well. "

saying so he turns around going who knows where but I heard his voice from afar " Don't Forget to complete this shitty mission, this is my first task for you as captain "

Hearing this I dumbfounded ' lazy ass, he just wanted to ditch this mission' I just shake my head and look around with a wary smile on my face.

During our spar we were constantly moving around. creating a huge ruckus. It's good that we are far from town. Many trees were uprooted or slashed. On the ground you can see many deep sword scars everywhere.

Asta: 'umm, forget it. let's just leave this place before someone notice.'

Right now Asta is inside the dark forest finding clues for wind wolf. It's called dark forest because sunlight hardly reaches inside this forest here trees are very long and densely packed. Asta is moving forward lazily to bait wolfs while concentrating fully on observation Haki.

According to report this pack of wolfs had never attacked anyone before but from last month they are attacking anyone they see around this place. Suddenly Asta feels many presence 100 meters around him rushing towards him. seeing this his right hand reached on the hilt of his sword ready for their annihilation.

From his back 5 wolfs attack on him at the same time 3 wolfs also came from right side, And *screech* there was a sound of sword returning to its scabbard. and all wolfs fell down with *thud* *thud*. seeing this Asta shake his head . those wolfs are not that strong [a/n: seriously] it's just with their great number they can be problematic for most people. but Asta is not one of them.

Afterward Asta use hit and run tactics to kill them all. During this hunt he notices something weird that there was coordination among them. then its click him they were missing their pack leader that's explain all their behaviour. But according to mission he has to kill pack leader as well, so he started searching for him. After one hour he finally found a hidden cave with the help of Haki.

Inside that cave he saw very surprising seen. It looks like their leader was injured during failed evolution. He looks pretty old around 100 years. So maybe he tried forced evolution to increase his life. Anyway after finishing him Asta started to look around his cave. he found many human as well as animal bones. The best stuff he found was a lot of gold coins.

I have enough money for the time being, even after sending some to church . with all this reward money and gold coins it would be fine for a long time. I think it's about time I return back to Hage village. I don't want to miss my Grimoire. He started the journey back to Hage after receiving a reward from the last mission.

From that leader of the wolf (Alpha) Asta had got nice fang. so During his return journey he started to work on that fang according to Rayleigh's instruction to create a necklace for himself.

After one month of a journey with a little bit of training here and there he finally reaches Hage. Looking at the atmosphere around the village and people around grimoire Tower it seems today is the day of Grimoire Acceptance Ceremony.

As he returns to church seeing him everyone had sighed in relief.

Father " Asta why are you so late, you should know that in March everyone will receive their Grimoire."

Asta scratching back of his head " sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life. "

Father " Forget it, let's go to grimoire tower."