Stupid Magic

Prologue - The Beginning

Disclaimer :

I didn't own Black Clover, the credits goes to Yuki Tabata as the author of Black Clover manga and also Pierrot as the one who make Black Clover anime adaptation

But before, I just wanna say one thing

I didn't abandon Afterlife, I just didn't have any inspiration & spare time to make it. I'm just a busy college student after all

Now, I hope you can enjoy this fanfic

Prologue : The Beginning

This story begins in a deserted forest near the border of Common Realm and Forsaken Realm, more precisely in the sky above said deserted forest. Five wizards involved in some sort of death race, or maybe... more precisely a death race on flying rod with a wizard get chased by 4 other wizards with some sort of red cape with a pair of yellow zigzag line at the chest part, which signifies that all four of them is a magic knight. That sole wizard maneuvered in the air to avoid their pursuit, in his hand lay a bundle of clothes with a reddish orange-haired boy crying within it.

Unfortunately for him, his broom got shoot at the rear of it which make him lose his balance and free-falling into the thick forest below it.

"YOU FOOL..." A wizard who flying slightly in front of the other berates his teammate who flying right next to him, the one who just shoots down his target, "Why did you shoot him down?"

"I'm sorry sir, I just take an easy way to capture him" the wizard trying to apologize to his senior while put a regretful expression on his face.

"Then what if the boy gets hurt, hah? You can get us killed if the boy is getting hurt." The senior wizard takes a grip on his junior robe collar while move his face closer to his junior's face, "Answer me?"

"I'm sorry sir, I'm truly sorry."

While the two of them were involved in some sort of fights, the other two finally flying closer to them.

"Umm, sir... I think we must go down and then confront him before he manages to escape and we lose his track. After all, our top priority is to return the baby to Lilica-sama and capture the culprit if possible"

The senior wizard then turned towards them, still with his right hand gripped his junior's robe collar, "You're right." He then releases his grip while pushing him a little bit, his head slightly turned towards his junior, "You're lucky today, just pray that the boy doesn't get hurt"

"Let's go"

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Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, some blood spots visible above the ground provides a different color to brownish soil around it. If we trace the blood spots, you can see that the blood spots came from a man's leg who walks through the trees to find some exit route from this forest. The man has a bundle of clothes that contains a baby boy sleeping within it in his right hand while his left-hand grips his left leg right on top of the wounds that keep bleeding. He keeps walking, dragging his limping leg along the riverbank in the middle of that forest while occasionally moaning in pain.

Unfortunately, his steps stopped right after he finally manages to get out of the forest. In front of him, there's a very high ravine with another forest right under said ravine. It seems that the river that he followed empties into a waterfall that is located on the border between two forests. He chuckled irritably, cursing his bad luck. He turned his body around and decided to take a detour. But only a few meters away he stepped, his instincts screamed to avoid anything that was launch at him. His grimoire floated in front of him, the page within the grimoire flipping furiously until it stopped at a certain page.