Anti

First Pov

I don´t know how much time passed but the circle of dying and crating a new body to possess continued. I spend most of the time devouring souls and reading books while looking for any sign of Liebe leaving the underworld. Now I knew that I either missed him already or that he will arrive very soon, because Julius has already become the Wizard King, so I decided it was time for me to leave after at least a hundred years.

After exiting the World Tree, I took a moment to enjoy the fresh air and endless sea in front of me I didn´t know I missed. I really should go out more, maybe make a small island in the middle of the ocean and envelope it in darkness to dim the annoying light. A few minutes later, I was already on my way to the Clover Kingdom, I could just have opened a portal but decided to enjoy the view a bit more, the sun set was beautiful even to someone like me.

I was now flying near the capital when it struck me that I had no clue where Liebe would land, I only knew that Asta´s mother met him but not where. The only location I know where he will appear is Hage when asta gets his grimoire. If I haven´t already missed him and couldn´t feel him entering this world, I would have no choice but to wait in Hage for him. I guess it´s time to play villager again.

Getting accepted into the village wasn´t that hard. I chose to alter my appearance to that of an old man, that if anyone from earth was here would immediately recognize as Gandalf, and told them a story of how I was a retired merchant from the capital and have come to the countryside to spend my last few years away from that hectic life there. After just a few days of staying in the village, I passed by the church and saw some kids playing but it was the two infants in the sisters arms that caught my eye. One had black hair, a lot of mana and what I identified as a dual wind and star attribute, the other kid was the exact opposite of him and probably the strangest lifeform I have encountered in this universe, he had grey hair, no mana and no attribute. I could instantly see why he would be called the Flaw of the World in the future, it was like he didn´t belong to this universe at all, his soul went against several laws of this reality. It was intriguing but not really important, I could feel that he wasn´t like me, an outsider, but just an anomaly, a flaw, a mutation and even a mistake of the universe. It was the first time I encountered something like this but I will certainly not be the last. Regardless, I was now unsure what to do, I knew that his mother left him here before meeting Liebe but not how old he was when she did meet him. I guess I have no choice but to wait a few more years until Asta becomes 15, I had time, a few years weren´t anything to me and everyone was going to die and be devoured by me eventually.

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It´s been 13 years now, Asta was now 15 and it was time for me to get anti-magic. I didn´t have to wait long before a depressed Asta left the Grimoire Tower without a Grimoire and went to the forest. I stayed near Yuno waiting for that chain dude, I didn´t wait for long before Yuno humbled the noble brats but got ambushed and sealed by chains coming from the walls and ground. I ignored their dialog as my thoughts wandered off, I already had the chain attribute but never considered that chains could be like the thread attribute and evolve into something bigger like chains of destiny or Enkidu. As is was thinking of the possibilities, Asta crashed into a wall. I paid attention very closely as I waited for the grimoire to connect itself with Asta´s soul, I didn´t wait long till felt something appear that I have never felt before. It was similar to Asta, a mutation and anomaly but not a mistake or flaw, I could feel that this anti-magic represented the end of everything, the antithesis to anything. It wasn´t a magic at all but an energy that opposes any other but since there was only mana in this universe it was considered anti-magic. I had the theory that if I where to throw Asta in other energy-based realities like Naruto or Bleach, his anti-magic would still work.

All that made it all the more attractive, so I didn´t hesitate after Asta one shot the thief and cast a large-scale time bubble that froze everyone inside. This anti-magic was seriously tricky even for me, it didn´t matter how many attributes or how much mana I have as long as he hit me, so I just cast a large-scale sealing spell just to be safe.

After pondering for a while on how to go about this, I decided to just devour Liebe´s soul, he wasn´t the first devil I devoured and they were amongst the best thing I ever tasted so this might have played a role in this hasty decision as well. As I ripped the devil out of the seal I immediately noticed that I didn´t think that through, Liebe´s anti-mana was protecting him from the time seal and he could move freely.

''Who are you?'' he asked, visibly annoyed. Well damn, I didn´t plan for a fight at all but what can I do, so I just replied ''I don´t have a name nor is that important, but if you really want to call me by something just call me an outsider or blank''. He didn´t seem to like that answer for some reason and started to growl angrily ''And what do you want?'', here it comes, ''You''. He looked confused before looking at me like I was something disgusting, what´s happening? He didn´t speak another word as he just attacked me with a black-red bullet which I teleported out of the way from. I wasn´t foolish enough to try and block any of his attacks so I will have to dodge them all.

And so, our cat and mouse game started, he threw several different attacks at me, I would teleport around and occasionally throw different attribute at him, which got erased the moment they touched his mana skin enveloped body. After almost an hour of this back and forth I came to understand that, not only I could only defeat him with physical attacks that I didn´t have as I never cared for my physical body, and an untrained human body could never compete with an untrained devil body, as well as that I was seriously lacking combat experience, luckily, he did too. So, I had no choice but to make a very risky gamble, a gamble I could very well be my true end but I had to get that anti-energy no matter what and refused to leave without it. After witnessing it in person I realized that it might actually be the only of its kind in all realities, just like me, and I was willing to make sacrifices to get it, all my attributes couldn´t compare to that one.

I gathered my resolve for what might be my final moment before I teleported in front of him. This time I didn´t dodge the anti-sword he swung at me and created a barrier out of any attribute I had but to no one's surprise it went right through it like it was never even there. I watched as the blade met my body and went through me in slow motion. For the first time I felt a strong pain from my soul as my void energy and the invading anti mana clashed together but it didn´t take long before the anti-energy was snuffed out by my soul. My perception went back from my eyes to my soul, I saw how Liebe looked confused as to why I didn´t dodge this time but lowered his guard as he felt relieved that I was finally dead, I used that exact moment to shoot out of my body and enter his. With his guard down, he didn´t have time to dodge from this distance, as I entered his body I felt his energy reject me and try to expel me but fail. I was busy moving forward to his soul, the closer I came to it the harder it became to move forward, after what felt like half an eternity I finally arrived before his soul. It was unlike any I have ever seen, even for a devil it was strange, it was pitch black with red veins but what really stunned me was how similar it felt to my own.

Unlike mine that was Nothingness, his was the negative of everything. It was very similar to mine and that might also explain the sudden hunger I felt the moment I laid eyes on it. I didn´t hesitate or better said I lost all reason and just jumped on it. When I was so close that you wouldn´t even fit an atom between, the soul made one last struggle, like it felt that if we were to touch it would become Nothingness, and it was near impossible to advance but then it finally happened. The moment our souls touched I felt a pain unlike anything, knowing that I was very likely to pass out and didn´t have time left to go to a save location, I decided to seek refuge in the nearest thing.

Asta´s Grimoire

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A/N- When I started writing this chapter I didn´t expect I would be so long but I did it. Also, what did you guys think of his first real fight? He will make up for his two weaknesses soon, not in this world but one in the next and the other in another.