Black Clover Introduces Mysterious New Type of Magic
Black Clover is now starting out its final arc of the series overall, and the newest chapter of the manga has introduced a divine new magic type of power! Asta's fights throughout the series thus far have been exploring a wide range of elements and magic types the more villains he comes across. It's been unique for each fighter seen in the series, and as the manga reached its climax we have even seen entire new realms tapped into. Asta has fought against Elves and Devils in the series so far, but a new type of magic seems to imply a higher tier of opponent coming next.
The final arc of the series has really gotten off to an intense start as Lucius Zogratis quickly made his move against Asta and the Clover Kingdom. As their first fight really got going, it was soon revealed that no matter how strong Asta has been able to become since the fight with Lucifero, Lucius is that much stronger. In fact, he's got access to a mysterious new type of divine looking magic that he calls "Soul Magic." This mysterious power allows him to control the human soul itself, and thus Asta is going to need some other way to defeat it.
Chapter 334 of Black Clover sees Lucius trying to figure out how to best deal with Asta's Anti-Magic abilities as he's the only one who could feasibly stand in the way of his plans. He's trying to bring about a type of "world peace" that would involve destroying the world as is and recreating it in a way that he has direct control over. Now we have gotten to see just how he will be able to do just that with the reveal of his "Soul Magic." Stemmed from the two souls within his body, Lucius explains that he discovered how magic was able to purify the Devils' magic.
With this new purified version of that devil power, Lucius explains that it could grant a "sacred power" to humans. Unleashing an angelic like form, Lucius explains that the root of his magic lies in the soul itself. Souls are connected to human life, spirit, and magic, and thus his ability allows him to transform a soul itself. We see this in action when he captures Sister Lily and transforms her into a terrifying angelic form, and now it remains to be seen whether or not this new divine tier of magic is something Asta can actually fight straight forward.
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