A Answer

'Those Dumb-asses have fallen so low to recruit morons like these? Well not like it doesn't benefit me.' Asta thought to himself as Yubin tranfers a live view of the spikes from the traitor families.

If this was the Jassen from the warring period then he would have grazed their houses to the ground but now he didn't have his strength neither did he have the support.

(Quill) "Oi Asta. Stop spacing out over there and help us get this to the cart."

(Asta) "Can't you do it yourself? I am grieving for mynpockets over here."

(Quill) "*Dripping Sarcasm* Very funny. Now get the Crap over here and help us."

(Asta) "Alright alright. Geez", *telepathically to Yubin* 'Yubin get back here. No value in trailing them further.'

(Yubin) 'But-'

(Asta) 'No buts, get back here.'

Through Yubin wanted to argue with Asta but it has no good comeback and has to relent as Asta secretly brought the Machina grimoire and stored Yubin's body back before it could have any chance of rebeling.

Asta then proceeds to help his teammates to store the corpses of the shadow mimics and afterwards left the scene with Mimosa and Sol while Gunther and Quill took the mimics away from the trade.

However. It looked like things were not so simple as during the whole time the trio were travelling back towards a nearby town, Mimosa had been staring at him with extreme caution for a reason that even he couldn't figure out why.

Trying to distract her, he tried to talk with Sol a little about whether she could remember any of her old squadmates from the blue rose for a sketch or something but the results were not very good.

However what Asta didn't know was that this Work only raised Mimosa's suspicions higher and raised her vigilance further.

'Those foot movements.. That was first phase of Carnage Footsteps, how did he do it?' Mimosa talked to herself internally as she remembers the wierd yet extremely familiar version of her beastmen village's famed style.

She instantly ruled out the fact Asta could have learned it from from someone because that is highest level of forbidden law in her community. Learning it from some glyph or legacy was also a no-go because their one was the only glyph set according to the creator's will.

(Mimosa) 'How did he do it? It can't be mere a coincidence can it? I have t-'

(Sol) "Oi *shakes mimosa violently* Get back to reality, we reached the inn."

(Mimosa) "*Shocked* CELES! How many times have I told you to not do that?"

(Sol) "But its fun."

Meanwhile Asta stood a little away from them,checking in for their rooms again with his privileges of a master runesmith which greatly annoyed him.

However watching Mimosa get back to normal was enough for him to finally relax a little.

"Can you stop teasing her sol?" Asta called resoundingly as went to them, "Take the keys. I will be going out for a few moments."

Asta then handed them a pair of keys for both the boys and girls room and left the inn for his new daily schedule but Mimosa wasn't convinced after what she saw today.

She stopped Sol in her tracks with a patient on the shoulder and quickly left for the room where she threw sol onto a chair.

(Sol) "The heck? Did you eat so-"

(Mimosa) " We need to talk. It's about Asta."

(Sol) "What about it? *Grabs a apple from her pouch* He seems okay to me. *Begins eating* "

Mimosa felt annoyed but arguing with Sol was something that will not help her so she came completely transparent about her findings, leaving Sol's mouth wide open in bafflement.

(Mimosa) "Don't you see it? He has changed a lot. First it was his personality then his magic and now he has techniques that can't be available to the masses. I feel something fishy."

(Sol) "Now that you say it.. I did see him sometimes talk to himself after bringing his finger ring closer to his mouuuttt-"

A sudden realisation hits them both as they were stunned right in their tracks.

" A ring.. on the ring finger.. *turns to mimosa with wide-eyes* There is n-", Sol's words were stopped right in her tracks as she looked at Mimosa who seemed have fainted standing as her eyes completely white.

Despite what she herself felt about this, Sol threw those things to back of her head and instantly slapped Mimosa across the face, waking her up from the terror filled imagination of her.

"Are you alright?" Sol asked mimosa, she turn towards her and stare directly into her eyes which now seemed be like a void ready to consume her whole.

Mimosa's lips trembled but no words come out, her face ashen with rage as she lifted Sol and threw her onto the bed before pulling herself up from the ground.

(Mimosa) "Celes.. I remember you having a mind reading rune scroll.. *slowly walks forward while tilting her head creepily* Give it to me."

(Sol) "No."

(Mimosa) " I am in no mood for sm-"

(Sol) "No.. we do this together."

Mimosa was confused because there was no way she could have predicted this and now they both look at each other, both determined to find out what they want.

*******

On the other side, Asta was now sitting in a makeshift hole in the cliff he made with telekinesis and could be seen looking at his grimoire.

" The magic storage.. it seems the limit is closing in." He mumbled to himself and Yubin sitting beside him as he looked down at the fading runes in his grimoire.

This was the peak of shining process that he has always wanted but.. the result was far from what he wanted.

The anti-magic was eating them, the other magics he had gained from different grimoires were becoming nothing more than food as Asta watched them fade away in plain sight.

(Yubin) " Anti-magic is like a hungry beast.. it will eventually eat away at every other magic if left unchecked,"

(Asta) "And we need to make up a solution or this will be the same that happens to my other grimoires.. any idea?"

(Yubin) "No. It seems all my predictions only lead to failures, we have limit knowledge about both the potential and the-"

(Asta) "The unstability. I can deal with losing the other grimoires but no way I will let my own grimoires go to waste."

Asta fell into deep thought, the gears in his brain turning like crazy as went through all his memories to find a idea.

Time passed and evening came as Asta kept thinking and thinking, his stress rising with each passing second as he failed to figure out any answer until he remembered something.

A certain old memory came to his mind as he recalled back the scene of his battle in the first dungeon he visited in clover kingdom, The memory of fighting mars.

" The crystals.. The crystal technology of the Diamond kingdom. *Turns to Yubin* Didn't we have a stone fanatic in our kingdom who sent us a whole book on Stones?" Asta asked Yubin who immediately went into searching mode and soon begins jumping up and down in joy.

The next second Yubin telepathically connected with Asta and showed a copy of the book from his database.

'The Elemental catalysts and multi element Gems' was the title and after skimmed through it Asta finally felt a weight off his heart as he collapsed onto the ground with a exhausted mind.

(Yubin) " We can use this to create Sub sections in a merged grimoire.. I can't believe this thing we once called rubbish actual what we needed."

(Asta) "Using Mana stones to turn Anti-magic from a untamed volcano to a controlled power core. This will take quite some money."

(Yubin) "Not just some but a lot. Do you have any idea of how much effort it takes to create elemental stones? They took over 70% of our costs for the eternal guardian.

Asta felt the burden on his chest return twofold as he felt like just collapsing on the floor but he knew it would not be a easy task to merge all his grimoires but those things could wait for now. Weakly he lifted himself from the floor and returned to the town , slowly making his way from within crowded uproar of the town market.

He soon reached the inn he had rented a room in and went in, opened his seperate room he rented only himself and instantly slumped onto the bed and faded to dreams or rather it would be more accurate to say he returned to his normal schedule of gulping down memories while Kaelum didn't give a horse's crap about trying anything like Jassen and just kept shoving only the important memories into Asta's head.

But as Asta was absorbing the memories, two figures silently came into his room with both of them together holding a scroll.

(Mimosa) "Are your sure about this? There is no turning back you know?"

(Sol) "If I want something then I will do whatever it takes. Something like this is child's play compared to getting into arranged marriage by my family."

They both look at each other, hardening their gaze as they turned to the scroll and together turned towards Asta who was too exhausted to notice them.