Book 3 - The Merchant from the Depths: Chapter 33; Reduced to Naught

The screen turns on as the chapter title plays "Chapter - 33; Reduced to Naught".

It opens to Octavinelle dorm, although everything is cloudy and murky with ink and the blot beginning to take over Azul.

Azul is still on a rampage as he shouts "You there – give me your lightning magic!" then to another different one "And you, give me your athletic ability!" He then just insanely shouts "Give it all to me! All of it!"

A Scarabia student is seen running away while screaming in fear. But Azul's magic hits him, and suddenly a light flies out of the student and over to Azul, but after the light left the student's body he just collapsed on the ground. Where a bunch of other students' bodies lay.

Ruggie shouts "What's Azul sucking outta these people?! They're all collapsing after he's done with 'em!" Leona crosses his arms and narrows his eyes as he states "Looks like his signature spell sucks EVERY power out of someone if it's not channeled through a contract. I'm betting the contract is like a filter that limits his magic's effects."

But this freaks Ruggie out more as he asks Leona "What?! Kinda terrifying, don'tcha think?"

Leona nods as he tells Ruggie "Yeah. The backlash from using taboo magic like that is gonna exceed his blot tolerance in no time."

Just then the Leech twins, back in their human forms, and the first-year group show up at Octavinelle.

Jade shouts "Azul! What are you doing?!" Floyd flinches back a little as well, as he asks "Whoa, yikes. What's gon' on here?"

Ace recognizes this scenario, alongside Deuce, Grim, and Yuu, as Ace shouts "Dude, this does NOT look good!" Deuce shouts "Is Azul going out of control?!" Jack gets into a more fighting stance as he states "Looks like he's sucking different students' powers outta them by force."

Grim is hiding behind Yuu before he bursts out and shouts at Leona "Leona! You were bullyin' him, weren't you?!"

Leona puts a hand to his head as he complains "Now you're blaming me? You're the ones who told me to turn the contracts into sand!"

Meanwhile Leech twins are still fully focused on Azul, as they slowly and cautiously walk closer to him.

Azul then spots and recognizes them as he exclaims "Jade! Floyd! Ahhh, you've finally come back to me. Would you believe that thanks to these FOOLS, I've lost all of my contracts?"

He then slowly adds "Which is why I'm going to need your powers now."

Before the insane look fully shows in his eyes again as he launches his unique magic at the tweels in his deranged state shouting "Come on, give them to me!"

The two avoid it, mainly due to Floyd's signature spell, as Jade tries to even just kinda bring Azul back as he warns him "Hold on. Your signature spell is so powerful, it's impossible to control without a contract scroll. You know better than anyone what will happen if you do this!"

Tears start to stream down Azul's face again as he tells them "But I lost it all, you see? Everything!"

Before breaking into insane laughter more tears streamed down his face and more inky stuff started to form around him, although this time it wasn't his octopus ink.

He shouts "I'm going to revert back to my old self if I don't act now!"

Floyd doesn't seem to understand what would make the situation better or worse as he tells Azul "Y'know, Azul, I never saw you as lame before. But now? The way you're actin' is pretty lame."

Azul grips his chest as he says "Ooohhh, is that a face? I'm just a silly little octo-twerp who can't do anything on his own! That's why I'm going to take everyone's powers. I will rise above your perceptions! A beautiful singing voice! Powerful magics! All of it, MINE! Hand it all over at once!"

He then lets out a massive wave of his unique magic taking the abilities of any poor unfortunate soul who happened to get touched by it, as all the other students ran away in fear, trying not to get touched by this magic, screaming.

At this point all of them are worried and a little scared as Floyd asks "What's all that black gunk drippin' outta Azul? That…ain't ink, is it?" Jade shouts "He's using his signature spell too much! The blot is exceeding his cumulative tolerance! If he doesn't stop… HE'S GOING TO OVERBOLT!"

But as the darkness of the blot consumes him, Azul only continues to laugh insanely as the student's abilities all float into him and add to his power.

Yuu then knew exactly what was coming, both from what was happening in front of her as well as her vision back to that dust gray-purple flat background. Ink droplets fell in quick succession as they covered her field of vision entirely.

But eventually fades away to a magical pen, this time with a clear or white gemstone being the main part. Ink droplets once again fall all around and over the pen, but leave the gemstone for last. The ink then wipes away showing the blacked out magical pen once again, as Yuu's returns back to the present and sees the overblot Azul.

Azul now has eight octopus tentacles for legs, the tops are black but his underside is periwinkle of sorts. His primary skin tone is now a dusty lilac, with black skin almost acting as clothing. The black goes from his tentacles to the top of his neck, with only his hands and a deep V of a chest window of sorts left showing his real skin tone. Around his waist are a whole bunch of spiky purple nautilus shells, with some other darker coral pieces also forming a kinda belt around his waist, although his front doesn't have any with the purple spiky nautilus shells working as a border almost. Some ink is also flowing gently around and slightly out of his waist. He has a golden nautilus shell necklace around his neck, similar to Ursula. There are also some black coral pieces poking out of his skin around his collar-bone and upper back with some blot or ink floating around as well. There appears to be a crown of sorts around the back of his head made of the ink/blot. He has black markings or magic tattoos covering around his eyes with a magic purple flame around his left eye.

Then the thing behind and attached to him. It looked like a female octo-mer, similar to Ursula but it also had that Frankenstein's monster vibe to it as it also had some very clear stitches although this one wasn't as extreme as previous Leona one. The blot monster had what looked like a black dress with a sweet-heart neckline and a matching pair of black gloves. The jar head was a nautilus shell with a crack going along the middle slowly dropping more blot out. The monster wielded a giant black trident, which Azul could control the monster to use on his enemies.

After a bit of talk between Grim and Jade about how Azul was an octopus they all then get ready to fight this overblot.

They still manage to eventually defeat the overblotted Azul, as his last words out were "You all just keep bullying me! Is it because I'm a slow, dimwitted octopus? All I wanted was the power to get back at my bullies… I... I just wanted to…" before falling unconscious.

The screen then fades to black as "To be continued" plays before fully turning off.