The first round of the Royal Knights Selection Exam... Asta's team is first up to fight. Asta ends up on a team with Mimosa and a mage named Xerx Lügner. The way to win the battle is to destroy the other team's crystal. However, before the match even starts, Xerx upsets the enemy team by being rude to the Wizard King and they heavily damage Asta's team's crystal. Asta and Mimosa panic. Meanwhile, Xerx doesn't seem like he wants to do this at all and takes a break. Asta and Mimosa must now fight alone... What will they do?

The exam to determine the Royal Knights that will fight against the Eye of the Midnight Sun. Asta and Yuno participate along with the Black Bulls, Noelle, Magna, Luck, and Finral, as well as Mimosa and Klaus from the Golden Dawn. Other Magic Knights include Leopold from the Crimson Lion Kings as well as many other notable Magic Knights. The Wizard King then announces the teams that will be participating in the Royal Knights Selection Exam.

Asta and some others get dragged on a training camp at a volcano by Mereoleona. Yami and Charlotte use an ability called Mana Skin and quickly get through. The other Magic Knights try to follow. However, Asta has no magic, so he's unable to use Mana Skin. Asta gets a hint from something Mereoleona said on how he can get through this and he remembers what happened to him back at the Witches' Forest.

Asta and Yuno end up seeing Mereoleona scolding the members of the Crimson Lion Kings after the Star Festival. Mereoleona is the older sister of their former captain, Fuegoleon, and was unhappy with their performance at the Star Festival. She calls her brother a fool and Leopold and the other squad members defend him. She then says they're going to a volcano for a training camp and also ends up taking Asta, Yuno, Yami, Charlotte and Noelle with them as well...

The Star Festival finally reaches its climax. The ranking of each Magic Knight squad is about to be announced. As the crowd watches in anticipation, the Golden Dawn is announced as taking first place, but then the Black Bulls get announced as taking second place?! On top of that, Asta and Yuno both get called up to the stage for the excellent work they had done. Both of them had worked hard to achieve everything they could for their respective squads and now, they'll get a chance to achieve something even more!

As a new member of the Black Bulls, Asta is thrilled to receive his very first private room, even though it's tiny. Everything Asta sees as Magna shows him around the squad's base is new and exciting to him.

Asta ends up passing a group of guys at the Star Festival who all seem to be looking in the direction of a beautiful woman. This beautiful woman happened to be the captain of the Blue Rose Knights, Charlotte, who was forced to wear a dress by one of her squad members, Sol Marron. Charlotte isn't very fond of men, so she was getting frustrated by all the staring, but then she happens to see Yami. Yami teases Charlotte for wearing a dress and she tries to keep her cool. Vanessa then shows up and starts to feel a fierce rivalry against Charlotte...

A huge crowd of people are enjoying the Star Festival. Asta coincidentally stumbles upon Captain Yami and Captain Jack staring each other down. The two are well-established rivals and decide to hold a competition at the festival, and Asta gets dragged into helping Yami out.

The Star Festival, the biggest festival of the year in the Clover Kingdom was about to take place. Every year the festival, the number of stars each Magic Knight squad had acquired would be announced. Captain Yami and the other Black Bulls prepare to go all out for this festival. Noelle tries to use this chance to enjoy the festival with Asta, but Asta ends up inviting some guests to the festival. The guests happened to be Kahono and Kiato...

Asta and the others safely return to the Black Bulls' base after defeating the Eye of the Midnight Sun and the Diamond Kingdom in the Witches' Forest. Now that Asta's arms have healed, the Black Bulls as well as Yuno, Klaus, and Mimosa are relieved. However, there's no telling when the Eye of the Midnight Sun or the Diamond Kingdom will try to attack the Clover Kingdom again. Klaus then brings up a proposal to Yuno and Mimosa.

The Queen of Witches had been waiting patiently for Vanessa to awaken to her true powers, but ironically, it was those powers that helped them defeat the queen. The Queen of Witches realizes that she was wrong and heals Asta and the rest of the party, and tells Vanessa that she may do as she pleases now. They ask the queen if she knows why the Eye of the Midnight Sun is after the magic stones and she explains that both the swords Asta has as well as the magic stones all belonged to the legendary elf tribe that no longer exists...

As promised, Asta and the others get rid of the invaders who attacked the Witches' Forest. However, the Queen of Witches was after Asta and his swords to begin with. She uses a spell to make Asta her puppet and tries to get him to kill his own friends. Vanessa begs the queen to stop, but she refuses. But in her helplessness, Vanessa ends up awakening to a new spell...

Asta loses consciousness after Ladros's attack and the Queen of Witches tries to use this opportunity to awaken Asta's true powers. Meanwhile, Asta ends up waking up in a strange space, and he realizes there's a giant being in front of him. The being offers to lend him strength in exchange for Asta's body, but Asta declines. Asta finally regains consciousness and seems to have powers that Noelle and the others had never seen before...

Working alongside Mars, Asta is able to stop Fana from self-destructing. Fana regains her senses and they ask her what happened. However, Fana doesn't remember the events that happened after she had lost consciousness, other than she felt the strong need to take back the magic stones and that she was being controlled by someone's extreme hatred. Meanwhile, Ladros, who they thought they'd defeated, comes back even stronger and attacks them. The attack was so sudden that everyone didn't have time to react. Asta tries to face Ladros alone, and...

Fanzell ends up bring Mars and Ladros to where Asta was fighting. In order to defeat Ladros who absorbs the magic of his enemies, Fanzell thinks of a plan to have Asta's anti-magic counter that. Asta doesn't really understand what's going on but does what Fanzell asks him to do. He bats away Fana's spirit magic with his sword. Meanwhile, Mars sees Fana, and...

While Asta and the other Black Bulls were fighting with Fana, Fanzell was facing off with the forces of the Diamond Kingdom, which he used to be a part of. The forces happen to be led by two of Fanzell's former students, Ladros and Mars. Fanzell left the Diamond Kingdom because he didn't agree with the kingdom's methods, but before, he would train children on how to use their powers for the Diamond Kingdom. Fanzell tries to reason with his former students, but Ladros attacks regardlessly, forcing Fanzell to fight with them.

Asta has arrived at the home of the Black Bulls, which Yami himself called the absolute worst Magic Knights Squad. He is greeted by the squad's unique members.

Noelle uses her water magic to try to put out the fires that have sprouted up around the forest while Asta, Finral, and Vanessa confront another member of the Third Eye, Fana. Asta tries to reason with Fana by talking to her, but that quickly gets shut down when Fana attacks with her fire spirit, salamander. They soon find out that Fana not only has fire magic, but other magic using different attributes...

While Asta and the others were meeting with the Queen of Witches, the forces of the Diamond Kingdom and the Eye of the Midnight Sun were getting closer to the Witches' Forest. The party asks the Queen of Witches to cure Asta's arms so he can help protect the witches from the incoming forces. The Queen of Witches takes interest in Asta's anti-magic sword and cures Asta's arms. The party splits up into two different teams to go face off with both of the incoming forces.

Noelle and Finral go to visit Asta's sword instructor, Fanzell, in hopes that he'd know a way to fix Asta's arms. Fanzell's fiancee, Domina, tells them that the Queen of Witches in the Witches' Forest should be able to dispel ancient curses, so they go to visit her. They eventually get Asta as well as Mariella to tag along and Domina leads them to the forest. However an incident occurs and their infiltration soon gets found out. They manage to bust into the Queen of Witches's mansion, but she already had a prior guest. It was Vanessa, who also came from the Witches' Forest just like Domina...