Taking the man’s words as reasonable, the crowd silently watched as Dante summoned a miniature sun, its bright golden rays dispelling the gloomy fog that had surrounded him, the fog giving an audible hisssss, as the sun’s rays touched them...
They watched in fascination as his already massive fra grew even taller, bulkier and more imposing..
His growth not stopping until he was of a similar height to the hulking knight...
The golden tint his skin took, the golden highlights in his hair and the liquid magma flowing within his eyes gave him the disposition of a fla god...
"It really is their ability!!" Soone exclaid...
"How does he have the Calder family’s trademark ability? Is he sohow related to them?" Another man asked, confusion coloring his features..
They couldn’t understand how soone was using the bloodline abilities of another family despite having not shown any characteristics linking them to such.
They could only surmise that he was an illegitimate child, it wasn’t so far fetched after all...
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"Ahh, so he was of the bloodline of the eastern domain’s overlord family after all" a supervisor sighed audibly, almost relieved that he’d finally solved the mystery behind the strength Dante has been displaying...
"If you believe so, then why hasn’t that young man, Thaddeus, was it? Why hasn’t he made it that far yet?" Valen’s voice cut the man’s relief short..
He was right.
Thaddeus Calder, a true bonafide bloodline wielder was still being waylaid on the 30th floors, yet Dante had already cleared the 69th floor, now facing sothing incomprehensible..
"This... but why does he now have their signature ability?" The supervisor asked once more.
It didn’t make any sense no matter from which angle one looked at it..
Valen didn’t bother answering, he himself was still actively trying to understand how any of this could be possible..
Yet before their shock could subside, Dante’s voice resounded within the area once again...
"Storm’s Descent!!"...
This ti around, their wasn’t a star, there was only fury. Fury akin to that of the gods..
The entirety of those watching went slack jawed when the skies above the floor tore open and then rain, lightning and wind beca a storm of catastrophic proportions..
They watched as lightning, thicker than pillars thundered down, threatening to unmake everything, winds sharper than the finest blades tearing through whatever was unlucky enough to stand in their paths and rain heavy enough to create craters wherever it felt..
It looked like the end of the world and it had all been summoned by one person..
"Damn... he’s been playing around all this while?????" Soone yelled from the crowd, voice hard..
"How is this even possible? How can there be a sun and a storm existing in the sa sky? What ungodly amount of energy does this young man have?" And expert analyzed in shock..
He could tell that these two phenona weren’t coming cheap.
They probably cost an arm and a leg, yet Dante seed fine pulling it off..
Next ca the scales, thick golden scales with vein like patterns looking like living circuits within...
The mont his transformations ended, the crowed stood awed at the being before them..
Golden storm forged scales coating the majority of his body, a thick flaming aura surrounding his massive fra and the very storm ahead churning and swirling as if awaiting his commands..
He looked less like a man and more like a god...
The clash between Dante and the knight shook the entire floor, the viewing orb rocking violently as if on the verge of collapse..
"Damn... that thing just won’t go down huh?" A man comnted from his couch as he watched Dante and the knight clash, over and over again, neither willing to give the other an edge...
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"Go down..go down..go down.." the crowd muttered anxiously as they watched with bated breaths Dante clashing with the hulking death tal..
This was probably the only ti they’d ever felt anxious about one of his encounters..
It was nerve wracking yet exciting..
Don’t get it wrong, watching Dante one punch everything was fun, but watching him actually fight? Showcase his true prowess? That was pure gold, even if most of them only saw blurring flashes of light, whilst only the true experts could make out the figures....
Boooooommmm!!!!!!
Another deafening clash ensued as the figures of Dante and the knight reappeared, storm blade in Dante’s hands clashing fiercely with the dark sword the knight wielded..
It seed to be another deadlock until..
"Rraaaaaghhhhhhhh" Dante overpowered the knight with a manic roar, his blade finding purchase..
Boooooommmm!!!!!
The knight got blasted backwards as the crowd scread..
YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
"Hahahaha... take that you dumb looking brute, how’s that taste."
"I knew it... my idol wouldn’t be held down for long.."
"Hahaha... in the end, it’s still the white haired wonder that cos out on top"..
They were already rejoicing..
Their moods being lifted after seeing Dante gain the upper hand, all that seed to be left was for him to press the advantage and take that win..
That was the thought until a disbelieving yell shattered that illusion..
"IMPOSSIBLE!!!!"..
The crowd turned to the screar, but his attention wasn’t on them, it was fixed on the display, looking at the sa thing Dante was currently looking at with a grim expression..
Slowly, the crowd turned their sights to the display,
"How..how can that be?"
"Impossible... that can’t be possible"
What greeted them was the image of Mormon Du Mont, uninjured and fully stable...
"Hahaha... that was a close one, you seem to still be getting stronger" he cranked his tallic neck..
"I guess I’ll have to get a bit serious too"
"Alright little one, ti for round two"..
The mont the audience heard that, their vision went black again, the screen seed to have been devoured by an unearthly darkness..
"What is happening..."
"I can’t see anything.."
The confusion was maddening, first they thought the hulking knight was done for, now they were back to seeing nothing but darkness..
Luckily, it didn’t last long this ti around, yet the mont their sight resud, they were greeted with the sight of a Dante that was as pale as a ghost, his breathing hectic, his body trembling...
The death knight ahead of him seed to have been stunned by sothing..
"He’s back!!!"
Their focus shifted instantly, nobody willing to miss any mont of the intense action, this was the highlight of the entire trials for them, and they’d be damned if they didn’t see it through...
"Storm’s Descent" Dante’s voice resounded once more, calling out a technique they’d seen him use before.
Yet this ti, he didn’t utilize it the way he’d done last ti, as imdiately the furious storm appeared, a darkened sky hung above it, consuming it entirely..
They watched as the color finally returned to Dante’s face..
The knight after getting over his shock, attacked furiously, only for Dante’s voice to freeze him, "Void pressure"...
The space surrounding the death knight collapsed inward, an explosion rocking the entire floor once more as the collapsed space exploded outward..
The mont the damage cleared, the sight of the knight that greeted the viewers sent a surge of relief through them..
Its battered form with both arms and a leg gone ant the creature was surely out of commission..
"Oh no you don’t..SNAPP!!" The snapping of his fingers seed to have had so effect as the knight suddenly froze...
Yet their joy seed half lived as the dullahan that had been silent till now suddenly moved..
Their hearts lurching into their throats..
"No..not now... just stay put.."
"Co on.. this isn’t fair.. it’s one man vs two monsters... boooooo!!!!"
"Booooooo.....boooooo"
Resounding boos echoed as the audience finally couldn’t stand the tower bullying their favorite participant..
The matter only seed to worsen as the death fog that’d been cleared earlier suddenly returned..
Dante seed surrounded on all sides, the crowd’s mind finally registering that maybe, just maybe they were going to lose such a bright talent to an ancient landmark’s pettiness...
Yet before despair could fully settle in..
CRAAAACKKKKK!!!!!!!
A thunderous crack shut it down...
Their gazes snapped toward the display as they watched, incredulously as the sky seed on the verge of collapsing..
Not in a taphorical sense..
No, the sky was literally collapsing, they could see it falling with a righteous indignation...
It’s devastating collapse consuming everything beneath it..
The knights, the fog, even Dante himself..
Everything vanished, the display going blank...
They stood breathless, none willing to move, their eyes turning toward the leaderboards..
The only thing to let them know if a bright spark had just been snuffed out early...
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Dante Draven- 6,900 points
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Dante Draven- 7,000 points...
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"He...did it.." a whisper...
"He did it..." the voices were louder this ti..
"HE FUCKING DID ITTTTTTT!!!"
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A/N: now, a Chapter like this soothes my mind. I actually enjoyed this one, like all the others, yesterday’s own was sothing else..
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