Black Clover
Black Clover timeline
Black Clover events in chronological order, with where they happen and the story arc they belong to.
500 years earlier · Elf Reincarnation
The massacre of the elves
In a single night the elves' village is wiped out. The elves believe the humans betrayed them; in truth it is the devil Zagred who has been playing both peoples.
500 years earlier · Elf Reincarnation
Lumiere versus Licht
The first Wizard King fights his friend Licht, by now transformed by grief. Secre seals Lumiere to save him, and for that she will be condemned for forbidden magic.
500 years earlier · Grimoire Acceptance Ceremony
The demon of Hage
A demon crosses the boundary between worlds and is brought down by the first Wizard King. Its skeleton stays at Hage, and five centuries later the village children play on it.
15 years earlier · Heart Kingdom
Acier Silva's death
Shortly after giving birth to Noelle, Acier Silva dies of Megicula's curse. The family hides the truth, and Noelle grows up believing she killed her mother by being born.
Before the story · Lucius Zogratis and the Paladins
Morgen Faust's death
Nacht's twin brother dies protecting him. It is the wound that drives Nacht to hate himself and to live for years as a traitor in everyone's eyes.
Before the story · Royal Knights Selection Exam
Zara Ideale's death
The first Magic Knight of common birth is killed by his own noble colleagues, in front of his son. It is the wound from which all of Zora's contempt for the order grows.
Before the story · Training on three fronts
Licita and Liebe
A woman who drains the mana of anyone near her takes in a devil with no magic: they are the only two creatures in the world who can live together. Lucifero kills her using Liebe's body.
15 years earlier · Grimoire Acceptance Ceremony
Two newborns at the Hage church
Asta and Yuno are left at the door of the Hage church on the same day. Yuno wears a royal pendant round his neck: for fifteen years nobody understands what it means.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Grimoire Acceptance Ceremony
The Grimoire Acceptance Ceremony
At the Grimoire Tower Yuno receives an extremely rare four-leaf clover. Nothing comes to Asta, in front of the whole village.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Grimoire Acceptance Ceremony
The five-leaf grimoire
The thief Revchi Salik attacks Yuno to steal his four-leaf grimoire. Asta steps in with nothing to defend himself with, and a dust-covered black grimoire comes to him on its own: five leaves, and a sword inside.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Magic Knights Entrance Exam
The Magic Knights Entrance Exam
In the Royal Capital the nine captains assess the recruits. Every squad wants Yuno; for Asta a single hand goes up.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Magic Knights Entrance Exam
Asta versus Sekke
At the entrance exam Sekke Bronzazza picks Asta as his opponent, thinking him the only one weaker than himself. The duel lasts seconds, and all nine captains notice.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Magic Knights Entrance Exam
Yami picks Asta for the Black Bulls
No captain wants a mage with no mana. Yami Sukehiro raises his hand because Asta is the only person in the room who never looked away.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Magic Knights Entrance Exam
The first mission at Saussy
Asta, Noelle and Magna are sent to a Forsaken Realm village on what looks like a trivial job: it is the first time Asta fights as a Magic Knight.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Dungeon Exploration
The dungeon is discovered
A dungeon appears on the Diamond border. The Black Bulls and the Golden Dawn are sent to explore it before the neighbouring kingdom gets there.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Dungeon Exploration
Asta and Yuno versus Mars
In the dungeon the two Hage orphans fight side by side for the first time, against the Diamond Kingdom's living weapon. In the treasure room Asta finds his second sword, the Demon-Slayer.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Dungeon Exploration
Yuno makes his pact with Sylph
In the dungeon Yuno meets the wind spirit and earns her favour: from that moment his magic stops being mere talent and becomes spirit magic.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Eye of the Midnight Sun
The Eye of the Midnight Sun attacks Nean
Heath Grice freezes the village of Nean to steal its magic stone. It is the fight in which Noelle first aims her magic where it is needed, instead of fearing it.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Eye of the Midnight Sun
The Eye of the Midnight Sun reveals itself
After Nean the kingdom puts a name to the enemy: an organisation striking villages to steal the magic stones, led by a man calling himself Licht.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Star Awards Festival
The Star Awards Festival
The annual ceremony where the Wizard King rewards the squads by merit stars. The Black Bulls, perennially last, turn up with an unexpected haul.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Star Awards Festival
Fuegoleon struck down by Rhya
In the middle of the festival the Eye of the Midnight Sun strikes the capital. Rhya the Disloyal takes down Fuegoleon Vermillion, the kingdom's strongest captain, who is left comatose.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Star Awards Festival
Gueldre Poizot exposed
Julius exposes the Purple Orca captain: he was selling information and covering trafficking with his Permeation Magic. Kaiser Granvorka takes his place.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Diamond Kingdom invasion of Kiten
The invasion of Kiten
The Diamond Kingdom attacks the border city with its Mage Warriors. Defending it is the Golden Dawn, with Yuno, Klaus and Mimosa in the front line.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Diamond Kingdom invasion of Kiten
Yuno versus Ladros
Against the mage who absorbs other people's magic, Yuno pushes his wind past its limit with the Towering Tornado. Mars picks a side.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Undersea Temple
The Undersea Temple mission
The Black Bulls descend to the seabed for a magic stone. High Priest Gifso tests them with a tournament before handing it over.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Undersea Temple
The monster of the Undersea Temple
Sally turns the criminal Baro into a mass of flesh that devours everything it touches. The Black Bulls have to stop him before the Third Eye arrives.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Undersea Temple
Asta, Noelle and Yami versus Vetto
Vetto the Despair breaks into the temple and destroys Kahono's voice and Kiato's leg. What stops him is Yami's Dimension Slash combined with Asta's anti-magic.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Undersea Temple
Noelle awakens the Valkyrie Dress
With her comrades down in front of Vetto, Noelle stops asking whether her magic is enough and puts it on: the Valkyrie Dress is born.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Witches' Forest
The battle in the Witches' Forest
The Black Bulls enter the forest to heal Asta and find the Eye of the Midnight Sun, Diamond's Mage Warriors and a queen with no intention of letting them leave.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Witches' Forest
Asta and Mars versus Ladros
In the Witches' Forest the weapon that absorbs other people's magic meets the one opponent it can absorb nothing from: a boy with no mana at all.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Witches' Forest
Mars and Fana find each other again
The two survivors of the Diamond academy meet again after years, on opposite sides of a fight: their promise to see the world together comes back into force.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Witches' Forest
The Witch Queen takes Asta's blood
With Blood Magic the queen seizes control of Asta's body and turns the anti-magic into a weapon against his own comrades.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Witches' Forest
Vanessa awakens the Red Thread of Fate
In the forest that caged her as a child, Vanessa awakens Rouge: a spell that does not foresee her comrades' fate but changes it.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Royal Knights Selection Exam
Mereoleona's hellish training
At the Yultim volcanic hot springs, Mereoleona Vermillion teaches the Mana Zone through sheer survival: sensing and bending the environment's mana instead of merely emitting it.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Royal Knights Selection Exam
The Royal Knights Selection Exam
Julius opens a tournament to every squad to form the unit that will strike the Eye of the Midnight Sun: teams of three, a crystal to defend, and no regard for surnames.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Royal Knights Selection Exam
Langris versus Finral
The two Vaude brothers face each other in front of the whole kingdom: the same Spatial Magic, two opposite ideas of what strength is for.
Clover Kingdom Saga · Royal Knights Selection Exam
The Royal Knights selection final
Asta, Mimosa and Zora reach the final match against Langris Vaude's team. Julius picks the Royal Knights by looking at who fought, not at who won.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Royal Capital Assault
The assault on the Royal Capital
The Eye of the Midnight Sun descends on the capital with every magic stone it has gathered. The Magic Knights barely hold; Julius Novachrono takes the field himself.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Royal Capital Assault
Yami versus Licht
During the assault on the capital, the Black Bulls' captain faces the leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun: Darkness against Light, the slowest attribute against the fastest.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Royal Capital Assault
Julius Novachrono's death
Julius beats Patry, but is run through from behind and drained of his mana. He spends the last time he has left to save the capital: what remains is a child with almost no power.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Elf Reincarnation
The Elf Reincarnation
The ritual completes: the elves' souls return to life in the bodies of the Magic Knights. Half the order wakes up with someone else inside, and the kingdom collapses overnight.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Elf Reincarnation
Mereoleona versus Rufel
While the kingdom collapses, the hellish lioness holds an entire front against the reincarnated elves on her own: no Mana Zone withstands hers.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Elf Reincarnation
The assault on the Shadow Palace
Asta, Yuno, Noelle and the surviving Magic Knights descend into the palace buried beneath the capital, clearing the trial rooms guarded by the elves.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Elf Reincarnation
The trial rooms of the Shadow Palace
To reach the throne room the Magic Knights must clear the rooms guarded by the elves: every door is a duel, and nobody gets through alone.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Elf Reincarnation
Asta awakens his devil form
With his comrades down, the anti-magic erupts and clads Asta's body: the first time Liebe's power shows itself openly. Nobody, Asta included, yet understands what he is using.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Elf Reincarnation
Zagred, the true culprit
In the throne room the truth comes out: it was not humans who wiped out the elves but the devil Zagred, who played both peoples for five hundred years to obtain a body.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Elf Reincarnation
Asta and Licht versus Zagred
Against a devil who makes real everything he says, a stronger magic is useless: what is needed is a blade that erases magic. Licht's swords, now Asta's, close five hundred years of lies.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Elf Reincarnation
Secre frees the elves’ souls
The little bird that had followed Asta since the dungeon takes human form again: Secre Swallowtail, the first Wizard King's sealing mage. With her Sealing Magic she separates the elf souls from the Magic Knights' bodies.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Reincarnation aftermath
The Magic Parliament trial
With the crisis over, the kingdom looks for someone to blame. Damnatio Kira brings the Black Bulls before the Parliament and points the finger at Asta and the power he carries.
Elf Reincarnation Saga · Reincarnation aftermath
The founding of Elysia
With new bodies and no war left to fight, the elves brought back to life build a village far from the human kingdoms. Licht, Patry and Ratri name it Elysia.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Heart Kingdom
The alliance with the Heart Kingdom
Princess Lolopechka proposes a pact: her kingdom trains the Magic Knights in the Grand Magic Zone, and Clover helps her break Megicula's curse.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Heart Kingdom
Training in the Grand Magic Zone
The Spirit Guardians take the Magic Knights in hand one by one: Noelle with Undine, Leopold with Floga, Luck with Gaja, Mimosa with Potrof.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom invasion
Zenon wipes out the Golden Dawn
In a single night Zenon Zogratis destroys the kingdom's strongest squad and abducts William Vangeance. Yuno and Langris survive; the others do not.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom invasion
Dante devastates the Black Bulls' hideout
Dante Zogratis arrives alone and takes the entire squad out of the fight. Asta faces him and is beaten without ever coming close.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom invasion
Yami and William abducted
The Dark Triad carries off the two captains whose mana best suits the ritual: they will be fuel for the Tree of Qliphoth. It is why the entire kingdom will march on Spade.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom invasion
Vanica assaults the Heart Kingdom
While Clover is hit, Vanica Zogratis and her Dark Disciples devastate the Heart Kingdom and carry off Princess Lolopechka.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom invasion
Gaja versus Vanica
The strongest of the Spirit Guardians puts himself between Vanica Zogratis and his princess. It is not enough: Lolopechka is taken anyway.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Training on three fronts
Asta in the Land of the Sun
Defeated and half-dead, Asta is carried to the other side of the world, to the country Yami comes from. Shogun Ryuya Ryudo takes him in; Ichika, Yami's sister, will not even look at him.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Training on three fronts
Asta learns Zetten
Ichika Yami teaches him to focus his ki into a single point: Zetten needs no mana, it needs control of the body. It is the key that will let Asta cut magic even without a sword.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Training on three fronts
Magna trains in Elysia
The Black Bulls' most 'ordinary' member goes to the elves and builds a spell of his own from nothing: the Soul Chain, which binds his life to his opponent's.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Training on three fronts
Nacht and Asta descend into the Underworld
Nacht Faust takes Asta across the threshold with Shadow Magic: if he wants to beat the Dark Triad he has to learn Devil Union, and to do that he has to come to terms with the devil inside him.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Training on three fronts
The pact between Asta and Liebe
Not a master and a servant: two outcasts who recognise each other. The Devil Union pact between Asta and Liebe is the series' only one made between equals, and that is why it holds longer than any other.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
The Spade Kingdom Raid
Clover and Heart invade the northern kingdom together to stop the Tree of Qliphoth. The attack splits into three parallel battles against the three Zogratis.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Jack and Charlotte versus Dante
Two Magic Knight captains together against a single Zogratis: Severing Magic and Briar Magic cannot keep pace with a body that reassembles from any wound.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Asta and Yami versus Dante
The rematch. With Zetten and Devil Union, Asta faces the man who humiliated him — and this time Body Magic is not enough to put him back together.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Yuno is the prince of the Spade Kingdom
The pendant Yuno has worn since birth is the Grinberryall seal: the Hage orphan is the last heir to the throne the Zogratis usurped.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Yuno and Langris versus Zenon
With Star Magic and the Spirit of Boreas, Yuno faces the man who wiped out his squad and exterminated his family. Langris fights at his side.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Noelle versus Vanica
In the Saint Valkyrie Dress, Noelle faces the woman serving the devil that killed her mother — and finds that Vanica does not even remember it.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Magna's Soul Chain
In the Spade Kingdom Magna Swing brings out the spell he built from nothing in Elysia: a duel of alternating blows in which whoever breaks first dies.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
The Tree of Qliphoth opens
The ritual reaches the seventh level: the gate to the Underworld swings open and devils begin crossing into the human world.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Lucifero in the human world
The Underworld's highest-ranking devil crosses the gate using Dante's body: his Gravity Magic crushes everything within range.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
The captains versus Lucifero
Mereoleona, Nozel, Yuno and the surviving Magic Knights hold the line under the highest-ranking devil's gravity, to buy Asta the time to get there.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Asta and Liebe: full Devil Union
In front of Lucifero, Asta and Liebe take Devil Union to the point where there is no longer a distinction between them: anti-magic becomes able to wound the Underworld's strongest devil.
Spade Kingdom Saga · Spade Kingdom Raid
Lucifero is defeated
Magic Knights, elves, the Heart Kingdom and the Land of the Sun hold the line while Asta lands the blow. The Spade war ends — and the next problem starts immediately.
Final Saga · Lucius Zogratis and the Paladins
Lucius Zogratis takes Julius's body
The second personality that has lived alongside Julius all his life takes over. The new enemy does not come from another kingdom: he sits on the Wizard King's throne.
Final Saga · Lucius Zogratis and the Paladins
The Paladins are created
With Soul Magic Lucius rewrites human beings into Paladins: enormous power, erased will. His perfect world is a world without difference.
Final Saga · Lucius Zogratis and the Paladins
Sister Lily turned into a Paladin
Lucius hits Asta where it hurts most: he turns the nun who raised him into a Paladin, and sends her to fight him.
Final Saga · Lucius Zogratis and the Paladins
Asta versus Sister Lily
Lucius sends the nun who raised Asta against him, turned into a Paladin. The final arc's worst blow is not one of power but of choice.
Final Saga · Lucius Zogratis and the Paladins
Asta declared a danger to the kingdom
The Magic Parliament uses the devil Asta carries to get rid of him, and the Devil Banishers hunt him. The boy who saved the kingdom is disowned by it.
Final Saga · Judgement Day and the final arc
Asta's return
After his training in the Land of the Sun, Asta returns to the Clover Kingdom for Judgement Day: the promise made at Hage stops being a childish dream.
Final Saga · Judgement Day and the final arc
Yuno versus Lucius
With Star Magic and Wind Magic, Yuno faces the man sitting on the Wizard King's throne: the title he has been fighting for since he was fifteen.
Final Saga · Judgement Day and the final arc
Judgement Day
Lucius sets a date for the end and lines his Paladins up over the Clover Kingdom. Magic Knights, elves, the Heart Kingdom and the warriors of the Land of the Sun stand on the same side for the first time.
Original material · Film · Sword of the Wizard King
Film · Sword of the Wizard King
Four former Wizard Kings return to life, and their leader Conrad Leto sets out to destroy the Clover Kingdom in order to refound it. An original story from the 2023 film, outside the manga's continuity.