[Void Magic: Subset of Dark Magic. Capable of absorbing energy in any form. Kinetic, Thermal, Mana, etc. The strength of this absorption weakens with distance and is not effective against an enemy who has strong control over their Mana, allowing them to keep their energy inside of themselves.]

"Hmm..." As the class walked, Izuku was poring over his Apex Skill and the types of Magic that came with it.

Void Magic had initially seemed stronger than Gravity Magic, as directly sapping an enemy's body warmth sounded like it could quickly kill them. But Void Magic seemed more defensive or utilitarian than offensive. It could absorb any sort of Magic attack launched at it, and even increase the efficiency of Izuku's Mana usage, but it couldn't just outright absorb an entire person's energy at once. Maybe overtime it could drain a percentage of a target's energy, but it was definitely better served at nullifying attacks.

[Curse Magic: Subset of Dark Magic. Capable of inflicting many debuffs to enemies, such as: Chaotic Mana, Sensory Disorientation, Armor Break, Mana Break, and more. These debuffs can have minimal or no effect if the target is strong enough.]

"I wish I had tried some of these on Beru on Jeju..." Izuku hadn't exactly struggled with the ant. He had beat him handily with Gravity Magic, but he also expended a great deal of Magic in doing so. If he had used Void Magic and Curse Magic in addition to Gravity Magic, the fight would've been a complete stomp. Unfortunately, in his rush to eliminate the threat as soon as possible, he didn't have proper time to learn and utilize them. Gravity Magic was actually really intuitive, which made it even more powerful, and he already had experience teleporting and hiding within darkness.

[Soul Magic: Subset of Dark Magic. Gives the user the ability to see Spiritual Lifeforms, Souls, and any other incorporeal being with full clarity. Soul Magic can enhance attacks, physical or magical, with the ability to target the Soul, bypassing many physical defenses. However, if the target has a strong will and/or Soul, the attack will be less effective.]

"Couldn't I already see Souls?" Izuku wondered, thinking back to when he, Setsuna, and Yui had stumbled upon the Demolith home and Behemoth's Soul. But Demoliths were basically just energy without a body to take residence in, so he hadn't really seen his Soul, more like a visualization of his essence. And past that, the System had just been taking in and reading out Souls to him. He had never actually visualized Souls through his own eyes.

[Torture Magic: Subset of Dark Magic. Inflicts those without resistances with immense pain. This pain can be mental or physical. If the target is weak enough, this magic can compel the target to take their own life.]

Izuku balked at that, horrified at such a concept. He barely even looked at it, dismissing it without even considering the applications. The following Magics were no less creepy.

[Disease Magic: Subset of Dark Magic. Capable of inflicting the target with a variety of diseases, magical or otherwise.]

[Poison Magic: Subset of Dark Magic. Capable of inflicting the target with a variety of poisons, magical or otherwise.]

[Sin Magic: Subset of Dark Magic. Allows the user to manipulate the emotions of others based on the Seven Deadly Sins. Is less effective if the target is good at controlling their own emotions.]

"Does... does that include Lust?" Izuku wondered. It was almost a hysterical thought to invoke Lust in the middle of battle.

[Shadow Magic: Subset of Dark Magic. Allows control of shadows for observation, teleportation, stealth, and physical shadow constructs.]

[Gravity Magic: Most powerful aspect of Dark Magic. Allows for manipulation of the fundamental aspect of Gravity itself. The only limit being that of the user's Mana as Gravity Magic consumes a great deal of Mana. The effect of gravity on a target gets weaker depending on how much Mana they are outputting.]

The final two types of Dark Magic he could access without blending it with other Elements were the two he was most familiar with. Gravity Magic had virtually endless uses, and Shadow Magic was the evolved form of Dark Magic essentially, allowing for attacks made of shadows, as well as plenty of other useful stuff.

"It's just over this ridge." Jiro said, her hands occasionally brushing against the ground to gain a sense of the structure's location.

"Wait..." Kamikiri held up a hand, stopping the class. "Is that... a breeze?"

Izuku looked around and sure enough, some of the girls' hair was moving back and forth in what appeared to be the wind.

"Europa's atmosphere isn't thick enough to create winds like this," Bakugo responded, reaching up and taking off his oxygen mask. Without it he'd maybe get a small gasp of breath before starting to choke... or at least, that's what should've happened.

Instead, Bakugo took a deep breath, his chest puffing out.

"Put it back on," Aizawa commanded. "We don't know what's in the air."

But because most of the class was still young, they couldn't help but follow Bakugo's example.

"Woah... it's so fresh," Setsuna said, her nostrils flaring. "Like mountain air."

Izuku did the same, it was so cold and so pure that it practically burned. "Momo?" He asked, not needing to explain himself. They had gotten all too familiar with each other's concerns inside Gates.

Momo quickly produced a gadget to measure the atmosphere.

"It's... it's identical to Earth's atmosphere. About 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 1 percent other gasses."

"That's impossible," Bakugo spat. "Even if you could bring enough of those gasses to Europa, they'd diffuse through the atmosphere and it would be thin again due to lesser gravity, temperature, and solar radiation."

Izuku hated to admit it, but Bakugo was correct. The reason other planets didn't have atmospheres was due to temperature and gravity, along with radiation. If a planet was too hot and small, the atmosphere would burn away and float off into space, too cold and it would freeze and form a layer of ice on the planet. The fact that Earth had an atmosphere that was habitable was kind of insane. It was in the "Goldilocks zone" so to speak.

By that point, even Aizawa, hesitant to breathe a foreign atmosphere had taken off his mask. "How?" Was all he said.

"Theoretically some types of Air Magic could do this," Kamakiri answered, he apparently specialized in Air Magic himself.

"But you'd need to be constantly using that magic, it would take an unbelievable effort to maintain this." Jiro added. Sonic Magic was an off-shoot of Air Magic after all, so she knew it well.

"In that case, hold on to your masks in case it suddenly goes away."

The students agreed, many of them putting the masks back on since they didn't have any extra space to store the masks and communication with the radio system was important in the event of separation.

"By the way, if we're in a Gate, how is your technology working, Yaomomo?" Yui asked.

"It seems that the Mana isn't thick enough to interrupt the electronics... yet. But don't worry about the masks. They're operating on mechanical processes. So even if the radios fail, we'll still be able to breathe."

"Comforting..." Kaminari said dully.

"Hagakure, if you would," Iida gestured to the ridge of ice and rock. He knew that Izuku's power of stealth was likely superior, but so far, there was no need to expose his identity. And Hagakure's stealth was nothing to scoff at either. If anything it was better than Izuku's previous versions of stealth. It was only his evolved Skills that made him sneakier.

Hagakure nodded and proceeded over the hill, getting the first look at the structure.

"I don't see anyone," She said into the radio. "It kinda looks like... a bar..."

"A bar? As in the thing you drink at?"

"Yeah? There's neon lights and everything."

"The only mission to Europa so far was an unmanned satellite. It doesn't even have the ability to land. And why would the first thing built on Europa be a bar?" Momo asked. "Even if the government secretly launched a crew here... it makes no sense."

"So now what?" Kaminari asked. "Do we just go in and ask for a drink?"

Bakugo smirked, but the rest of the class shook their heads in exasperation.

"You never just knock on a door like that. Fiction 101, a structure where it's not supposed to be is bait for some supernatural killer." Setsuna's rather comical statement had Izuku and Momo nodding in agreement. In horror movies, that was exactly what got you killed.

"Well then what are we supposed to do? Wait for Japan to realize we're gone and send a rocket up here?"

"I can go look in the windows!" Hagakure suggested.

"No, come back down here, we need to think for a minute," Aizawa settled on. "How much air can you feasibly create Yaoyorozu?"

"As long as my Mana regenerates I can keep it up indefinitely. What's everyone's tanks at?" Everyone chimed in, giving about a 30 percent average. "Alright I'll make a new set, don't panic or anything."

No one was, because the atmosphere in this area of Europa was breathable and if things actually got desperate they'd just rush the bar. Compared to the Recursive Gate, everyone seemed in rather high spirits. Whether it was because they hadn't actually encountered much danger since the blue glow, or because the experience of being on another planet, with a view of Jupiter in the background, was just too awe-inspiring to let fear creep in. Not to mention, they had S and A-Ranks amongst them, not to mention that Iida, Setsuna, and Yui knew that Momo and Izuku were more than National-Ranks.

As Momo set to work on the new air tanks, Izuku gestured to her, tapping on the earpiece they both wore. She got the message, creating two new sets of earbuds and mics, setting their old ones to mute so that the rest of the class didn't hear them.

"It's been a week since you evolved Rasaka, right?"

"Just barely," She responded.

"Evolve Baruka."

"Because he has stealth?"

Izuku nodded. "Shadow Cloak is better than standard stealth. Evolving him might even evolve the Skill and sending him to the bar is better than risking one of us."

"Okay, but I'm not sure I can evolve him without him being summoned."

Izuku shrugged. "Just give it a shot. It's better than any other plan right now."

She acquiesced and they both swapped back to the standard frequencies. Since the class had been huddled together and Izuku had been next to Momo while she created the canisters, no one had noticed their brief exchange.

"...Setsuna could always send over a limb to knock, withdraw it, and we just see what happens," Iida suggested

"That's not a bad idea," Aizawa acknowledged. "With the benefit of time, let's observe for a little while longer, then, unless something else comes to us, we'll go with that."

As they settled in for observation, Izuku got a notification.

[Shadow: Baruka, is being augmented by the Shadow Empress.]

Izuku looked around, noting, thankfully, that there was no visual indications going on around them, meaning that the Shadows wouldn't be spotted.

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[Baruka Lvl. 1 - Captain Grade]

Species: Elf Baron of Frost

Skills: Shadow Storm, Kanidaru's Blessing

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[Skill: Shadow Storm]

Active Skill

Mana Cost: 10 Mana per second per individual hidden.

Description: Can hide any number of Shadows or other living beings in a form of stealth that prevents most physical and magical detections. More powerful than Shadow Cloak.

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"Get up close and give us a look." Izuku mentally commanded the Shadow to emerge from hiding, activating his upgraded stealth at the same time.

He could have just used Shadow Magic to look inside the bar, but this moon had already shown its capacity to threaten National-Ranks like himself. It was better to send in an immortal Shadow than to risk his own life. Not that he didn't care for the Shadows either, but they had a level of security he didn't. Even Shadow Magic wasn't guaranteed in this situation.

Against that blue glow, Izuku had felt like he was an E-Rank all over again. And when you were an E-Rank, every precaution mattered.

Baruka crept up to the bar, his own presence only distinguishable to Izuku because he was his Shadow. Otherwise, Izuku might not have sensed him at all. It measured up commendably well to Izuku's own stealth and far surpassed Hagakure's.

Mentally feeling that praise from his Liege, Baruka was overcome with emotion, but remained focused.

Izuku, looking through Baruka's eyes, was shocked by just how... normal, it looked. It really was as Hagakure said, just any old bar you'd find walking along Tokyo's streets.

Moving like a soldier, Baruka pressed his back up against the wall of the building, just barely peeking his head around the corner to look through one of the windows. Sitting at the bar were four figures, with one standing behind the counter, serving drinks.

One could be described as a short, plump, balding man. Goggles rested atop his head and he was dressed like a doctor. Another looked like a school girl with blonde hair, yellow eyes, and canine incisors that looked more like fangs than anything. The third was a large man with a hair color similar to the girl. His body was rippling with muscle. One of his eyes was missing, a scar running down that side of his face. The man behind the bar was closer to a cloud of darkness with glowing eyes than a human being.

The final person, sitting at the bar was a lanky young man with grayish-blue hair. Baruka couldn't see his face.

"The Gate closed behind them, just as you said, Master. And the Primordial's aura quickly consumed their position." The thin young man spoke to the air, Baruka's increased senses, as well as Izuku's, picking up his words.

"And you confirmed their deaths?" A voice not belonging to anyone in the bar barely grazed Baruka's ears. It was deep and guttural.

"Their Mana vanished seconds later," The doctor answered. "Considering what we know about this moon, it was likely a swift end, with no trace of their bodies." Izuku figured that his Void Magic had unintentionally fooled this group. In hiding them from the blue glow, he had also saved them from these people.

"Good."

The muscular man scowled. "Why are we just sitting around like fools? We should be fighting them ourselves. Not leaving them to some mindless beast."

"Our allies assure us that Class 1-A will provide a fair bit of strength in the coming wars. Between their elimination and subsequent absence from Catalina Island, our position is greatly improved." The voice paused, as if gathering his thoughts. "Our allies are beyond powerful, but this is a war. Measures must be taken to weaken our enemies at every turn. The smallest of probabilities can alter the will of the universe. Your brute strength will be needed soon. Just as the plans for Russia..."

"Master?" The lanky boy asked as the voice trailed off.

"I sense... HIM."

Without warning the wall Baruka was pressed against exploded outwards as a result of the muscular man punching through it. He grabbed Baruka by the head, throwing him against the ground like a ragdoll. To be able to manhandle a Captain-Grade, he was no joke.

"Shadows!" The man yelled.

"Well, our position is compromised," The doctor said matter-of-factly.

"Master?" The boy asked once more as Class 1-A peeked over the ridge at the sudden noise.

"It seems they live... You and the brute handle them. The rest of you, disappear to our remaining fortification." The school girl pouted as her and the doctor were consumed by the darkness of the misty figure. "Don't make me remind you, Europhid cannot yet awaken. It is too soon for a Primordial to assail this system."

The lanky boy turned around, showing off a blank face. Not in the sense that he was apathetic, but in the sense that he literally had no face. "Yes, Master." His voice seemed to come from nowhere.

"Guys...? What's the plan?" Kaminari asked as the class stood, readying themselves for a fight. The two they were facing were S-Ranks at least. And if they were humans, they possibly had Quirks, pushing their strength to XS. But even then, they were still weaker than Izuku and Momo, so they-

[Enemy is using Apex Skill: Firen, Lord of Wind.]

[Enemy is using Disintegration Magic.]

The lanky boy pressed his fingers against the ground, a rippling wave of decay spreading towards them, the very ground turning to dust. Whether it was ice, rock, or something else entirely, it became nothing.

Izuku and Momo almost called upon their Shadow personas, ready to reveal themselves and fight all out... almost.

[Skill: Blood-Red Blade]

Active Skill

Mana Cost: 1,000 per activation

Description: Any attack gains a blood-red energy of destruction, powerful enough to cut through nearly anything.

Igris spread his own wave of destruction, practically bisecting the moon and cutting off the spread of the disintegration.

"Kiek kiek kiek..."

"Our Liege told us there would be vermin on this moon," Igris spat, creating an alibi for the Shadow Monarch and for Izuku.

"And vermin they are," Kaisel said, rising up behind Beru and Igris in her massive Dragon Knight form. "Not even worth our Masters' time."

The three were all that appeared beside Baruka. Not just to keep up the appearance of the Shadow Monarchs being on Earth, but for another very simple reason. These fools had attempted a disgusting underhanded method to kill their enemies, the Shadows' Liege and Lady.

This was not an act, not a cover story, it was mere pride. Pride to defend those they loyally served, those they had dedicated their second lives to. It was a message to Izuku and Momo: "We alone are enough to carry out your wrath."