Black Clover Reveals What Happened to the Final Devils
Black Clover is now setting the stage for the final war for the series overall, and the newest chapter of the series revealed what happened to any of the devils still lingering in the Underworld after the fight with the Dark Triad in the Spade Kingdom. The final arc of Yuki Tabata's original manga series leapt forward in time 15 months following the end of the Spade Kingdom Raid arc, and it had raised some questions about how the Clover Kingdom began their path to recovery after such a tough string of fights. Unfortunately, the explanation with this latest update is not good for the Magic Knights at all.
The fifteen month time skip had revealed that Asta had gotten much stronger since his fight with Lucifero, but there was a question as to what the leftover devils in the Underworld would get into following the failed Advent of Qliphoth. While it was revealed that Lucius Zogratis had successfully absorbed Lucifero into his own power, the newest chapter explains that Lucius has since used his power to purify the remaining devils in the underworld in order to fuse them with humans and create a powerful new set of warriors for the final holy war.
Chapter 335 of Black Clover picks up right after Asta takes a deadly blow from Lucius at the end of the previous chapter, and Noelle and Mimosa rush to the scene and try to help. They are soon intercepted by the brainwashed Sister Lily, and it's revealed that she now has access to Beelzebub's spatial magic power that Zenon Zogratis once had access to before his defeat. Lucius then explains that his soul magic had incarnated and purified this high ranking devil within Sister Lily's body. And in fact, he did that for the remaining Supreme Devils and the other devils scattered throughout the underworld floors.
As Lucius explains, humans who uses devils become immortal beings in and of themselves. Together with his purified power granting them divine new levels, these new warriors will be dubbed "Paladins" as they use his soul magic abilities together with the supreme devils' powers to become the toughest opponents in the series yet. Now it's just a matter of seeing whether or not Asta and the others will be able to survive the final holy war to come.
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