The devil's salvation

The 5 leaf

2 years later...

The now 15-year-old Asta walked into the grimoire tower. He stood 6 foot 1 inch and wore still the same boots and black pants along with no shirt that showed off Asta's toned body and the many scars on his body.  Asta noticed that he was getting weird stares from some of the noble families that were waiting outside for their kids to get their grimoire from inside the tower. Asta felt himself sadden as he wished that his mother and family from the church could be here with him to get his grimoire. Asta entered the tower and walked to the middle of the large inside of the grimoire tower

The tower's walls were surrounded by the grimoires that rested on the shelves. Asta looked around and noticed that many people were staring at him. Some of them gave him disgusted looks because of the scars on his body but he also got a different look from some. Some looked at him like a gem, Asta noticed that a lot of the girls there were looking at him giving him an  'oo la la' look. He also heard some girls talking about him

" Wow he's so handsome, and look at his body," one girl said to her friend. Her friend giggled and said, " I know,  but those scars all over his body kind of freak me out". They both nodded at each other but he also heard some guys talking about him. 

" He looks hideous, look at those scars, he can't be nobility. Commoner trash" one boy said with a smirk on his face.

Asta hated nobility and royalty. he despised them with all his heart. Always acting like they're better than everyone, Asta couldn't stand it. They had everything in the entire world but did nothing to help others, always focused on themselves. Asta started to notice the inequality from a young age. 

Asta spent many years traveling around the kingdom seeing many things but each place that he went to always had one thing in common. Nobility and royalty always would push around commoners even when they did nothing wrong. they would just be trampled by the people with higher social standing. Asta hated them, everything about nobility and royalty. Asta viewed them all as monsters.

As Asta was lost in thought he heard an old man that yelled from a podium in the tower. " Today is the day that all of your lives are going to change. With the grimoires you all receive I hope you all will grow to live happy lives". He smiled and then said " For those who want to strive for something more, The magic knight's entrance exam is going to be held in 6 months. I have never had anyone from this area ever become a part of the magic knights but I hope that there will be one among you all to become a magic knight". The people in the tower turned toward each other and nodded their heads. he heard someone say " Once I become a magic knight I'll be able to impress so many ladies".

'douchebag' Asta said under his breath. The old man laughed and said," With that out of the way let the grimoire ceremony begin". Grimoires began to fly down to their owners.

" I'll be able to take over the family business with this"

"There are so many things that I can do with this"

Asta heard many things coming from the people around him but one thing stood out to him. one blond boy, who was obviously nobility, announced to everyone " in 6 months I'm going to take the magic knights entrance exam". Everyone began cheering for him. As the last grimoire landed at the last owner. People began to turn to Asta and noticed that he had not gotten his grimoire. They all began to laugh at him

" Seriously, This guy can't be serious" 

" How is that even possible" 

" HAHA dirty commoner"

Everyone along with Asta felt a sudden chill go down their back and everyone looked up to the top of the tower and noticed a bright flashing purple light. Purple light explodes from the grimoire so brat that people had to look away. The light faded and revealed a grimoire with a purple and black aura floating at the top of the tower. As soon as the grimoire started to descend from the top of the tower purple lightning began to shoot off the grimoire. The lightning also stopped when it started to get close to the ground. People began to have a good view of it. 

They noticed something odd about the grimoire. it had a 5-leaf clover on its cover. Everyone could feel the power that the grimoire was producing, it had a terrifying aura to it and people began to feel like they were about to go insane. 

it floated in front of Asta. He grabbed it and open the book hoping to find out what his magical attribute is. The answer he got caused his eyes to widen. 'Chaos magic?' Asta said in his head. Asta then had a flashback to what Lucifero said to him" I am your one and only father". Asta for all his life never believed what he was told. he always told himself that there was no way. After he got his grimoire he believed what Lucifero had once told him. This made Asta start to wonder

What secrets were being kept from him by his mother?

What was her past?

Asta felt pain in his chest. 

"What the hell are you" he heard a boy say to him. The old man was in a state of panic as he thought 'A five-leaf clover? How can this be? Does the legend say that Five leaf clover grimoires are for the devil? So how does the boy in front of him have one?'. Asta looked around at all the people staring at him. They looked at Asta as if he was crazy. Asta then started to run out of the tower pushing past people. Once he made it to his house he took off towards his camp. 

Through all this Asta had the same emotionless face. he arrived at the camp an hour later. he had run for the entire hour so tired from running all that way he lay in his tent and thought 'This is the first step of for-filling the vows I've made".  Asta stayed awake for only around 15 minutes until he eventually fell asleep and began his war with his nightmares.

Asta woke up at the crack of dawn. Sweat covered his body, and Asta walked out of his tent and began to cook up some boar meet that he has been saving. '6 months and then I'm off to the magic knight's entrance exam' Asta thought as started to eat the boar meat. After Asta finished his food he got up and started to train his body. He started to do pushups, after that he did squats, after that he did sit-ups. When he was done with these things he realized the sun had already started to set.

' I still have some time before it gets dark' Asta thought to himself. ' Let's see what you can do, grimoire' Asta grabbed his grimoire from his tent and walked around 60 feet away from his campsite, facing an open area.

he opened the grimoire and it flew out in front of him and then flipped to a spell. Asta lifted his right hand and chanted" chaos magic: hells flame" Purple and black fire then exploded from his hands and shot forward. Asta immediately stopped the spell and all the fire disappeared. Even the fire on the ground disappeared. Asta looked at the floor and noticed that he was able to even burn through the ground, the earth had been carved like a half-circle. 

The carving in the ground extended for around 100 feet. Asta from where he was still standing began to notice the sides of the carving. They were burnt yes but Asta noticed something different, the grass that wasn't burnt started to wither away, this went on for a few seconds and then stopped. On every side of the carving, Asta noticed that there had been some withering away of the grass. 

' Maybe I should just work on working on a different way to use magic for now' Asta then turned back into the forest and walk to a semi-opening in the trees. he then started training to be able to boost his physical abilities and speed. He also wants to get a better understanding of mana. After around an hour, he had made some great progress. he was able to start to be able to boost himself with mana. Asta looked up to the sky, it had gotten dark outside he must have lost track of time.

Asta walked back to his tent and cut himself a piece of the meat from the dead boar. After he was done eating he got up and lay in his tent. ' this is it, I'm gonna start my journey of recreating this world' Asta said while looking up at the ceiling. Asta closed his eyes and began to fall asleep. Asta was only able to muster one last thought.

' Everyone please, look after me on this journey. '