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If you lose your sense of sight, your other sense will get stronger because your brain will start to rewire itself to rely on them more

For this same reason, we can make the assumption that Asta's Ki sensing is stronger since he cannot sense mana. And this seems to be the case as Yami says asta is a freak for learning Ki mid battle. He also learns zetten just by having it explained to him, apparently master's it within a week, and has such strong ki sensing that he is articulating charlotte's emotions to Yami

Not a stretch by any means to say Asta is at least one of the strongest ki users if not the strongest in the series

Like wise, Asta is pretty much invisible to anyone except Ki users

I firmly believe that no magic, no anti magic asta would still be captain tier as is speed, power, ki, zetten, and invisibility make him an absolute threat

OVERVIEW

Each Saga has 4 distinct roles; the twin soul, the dark triad, the lancer, and the raid boss, and this pattern first takes place in chapters 1-80, this means the elf saga is only 130 chapters (81-212)which makes it very comparable to the 120 chapters of the Spade saga, and makes the final saga very comparable in size to the first (if we count the increased chapter size on 20 or so chapters, its closer to 70 chapters) Recontextualizing the series this way also changes the series from ‘Rushing’ into ‘Accelerating’ covering much more ground in the same amount of time

TWIN SOUL

Mars, William, Yuno, Julius

Twin souls 1 and 3 activate their 2nd attribute after suffering a defeat and use it to rebound into round 2

Twin souls 2 and 4 are introduced as Leaders and Heroic characters but reveal themselves to be villains

Twins 1 and 3 are a single Identity welding 2 types of magic, while Twins 2 and 4 are a split identity where the darker takes over and uses their own magic

DARK TRIAD

Rades/Valtos/Sally, Patri/Rhya/Fana, Dante/Zenon/Vanica, Morris/Morgen/Acier

Each part has a Male/Male/Female dark triad representative of the themes of their part

Part 1 is about discrimination and therefore the dark triad are examples of it. Rades (spiritual) Valdosta (physical) and Sally (mental) are all discriminated against because of traits they cannot change leading them down a dark path to the Midnight Sun

Part 2 is about the sins of the past and how old blood can bar the way of progress

Patri represents despair (evident by his grimoire turning black) Rhya represents betrayal, and Fana represents hatred

Part 3 is about the darkness that is present in all humans, thus it has a large focus on devils supplementing human weakness with absolute power. As long as there are humans capable of evil, there will be humans willing to make deals with devils.

The Dark triad here represents the actual dark triad in philosophy, Narcissism (Dante) Psychopathy (Zenon) and Machiavellianism (Vanica)

Part 4 represents the tragic human nature of wanting perfection and the willingness to sacrifice everything for it. Humans will optimize the joy out of anything if given the chance, and the dark triad here represents how sterile perfection would make people

Morris is a perfect leader, Morgen a perfect brother/friend/comrade, and Acier a perfect parent.  Each is so twisted that they disgust and frighten the people they should relate to

LANCER

Patri, Licht, Morris, Adramalech

The lancer is a character that exists below the raid boss in power and above the dark triad in narrative impact

The lancers in parts 1 and 3 become members of the parts 2 and 4 dark triad with patri becoming despair, and Morris becoming an archangel

The lancers of parts 2 and 4 are introduced as antagonists and later reveal themselves as heroes (a contrast to the twin souls in these parts that start as heroes and become villains) with licht helping against zagred and Adramalech helping against Morgen

RAID BOSS

Vetto, Zagred, Lucifero, Lucius

Each raid boss introduces a shift in the narrative of the story

Vetto changes the context of the Midnight sun from a terrorist organization into a full blown cult with access to extreme and evil magic. Zagred shows us devils and explains a lot of lore and world building. Lucifero shifts from “raid boss is far stronger than everyone else” and into “the final boss has meticulously planned and calculated” meaning the classic anime tropes won't cut it anymore as this is no longer a power struggle. Lucius lives up to this shift by being defeated from the inside by his own stolen power rather than losing to the outside by new power ups, friendships and transformations as is the standard

Raid bosses 1 and 3 are both melee brawlers where bosses 2 and 4 are both grab-bag super mages with endless possibilities 

Just told her the villains were called the Dark triad and she asked "Oh cool, so which one is she?" while watching vanica fight

"Thats vanica, she has blood magic and her devil has curse magic"

"No, is she psychopathy, narcissism, or Machiavellianism?"

"what do you mean?

"The dark triad is a group of the worst human traits, that and a god complex, but people with a god complex are usually more delusional that dangerous. So is she pyschopath, narcissist, or Machiavellian?"

"I guess Machiavellian, she is big on using curses to manipulate people. Dante is definitely narcissism, and zenon is pretty good for psychopath."

"What are their devils names?"

"Lucifer/Gravity, Beelzebub/Space, Megicula/Curses"

"Isn't that the one from the other one?"

"No thats melascula (I watched 7deadly sins the week before)"

"Why use 2 real devils and a fake devil, then not include time in the trio? Are there other devil mages?"

"Yeah, the main character has a devil"

"Are there any time mages?"

".....yeah"

At this point lolopechka was talking about the qliphoth

"Is that guy japanese 'Yami Sukehiro' is a japanese name"

"Yea he's from like, magic japan"

"isn't it a big coincidence that he is in magic europe right when the bad guys need him to be? Does he know the other guy, or is he also from a different country that got brought here?"

"They have the same adoptive dad"

"Does he have time magic?"