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"since he was the one who started the challenge in the first place, he can choose who he fights and what he wants to do

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nHearing this Gawain's face contorted even more

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"Fine since you want to underestimate us so much. We will all fight you at once, just don't blame me when you have been brutally beaten

" scowled Gawain

nHearing his words the rest of the challengers started to surround Dante from all angles forming a circle around him.

nThe crowd started to go silent as they watched the battle start to play out.

nLooking around him Dante couldn't help but smile.

nDante's blood seemed to boil in anticipation at the incoming fight

nOnce again he felt a mystical unknowns force flowing through him but different from his Dragon souls, this power felt more intrinsic and connected to him, it was the power of his own blood!

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"Badum! Badum! Badum!

"

nDeafening heartbeats echoed throughout the whole training ground as giant burst silver exploded coating the training ground in silver.

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"Be careful everyone, he's about to use his artistic conception-

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nBut before the warning could go off

nDante spoke

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"Lunar Sword technique, Rising New Moon!

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nInstantly an illusion of the moon formed in the sky above the training ground

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"Strike!

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nWith his command, a fierce rain of endless silver beams poured from the sky towards the crowd of challengers surrounding him

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"Boom! Boom! Boom!

"

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"Argh!

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"Help!

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nScreams sounded around Dante as the victims of his attacks were sent flying through the smoke of his attacks.

nBut before Dante could relax a giant figure broke through the smoke around him.

nIt was one of the top four, Algar!

nAppearing in front of him almost instantaneously Algar sent out a horrific fist directly towards him.

nBut Dante wouldn't be beaten so easily, instinctively Dante raised the moonlight sword above him to block his attack

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"Bang!

"

nAs fist and sword collided a loud bang sounded, leaving Dante shocked at the toughness of his opponent's fist that allowed him to fearlessly clash with his sword.

nSwiftly, Dante raised his sword coating it in a silvery membrane of spirit energy before sending out an attack towards Algar.

nIn response, Algar also coated his fists in the red fire element before meeting Dante's own attack with his fist.

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"Bang!

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nAgain their attacks met releasing a shockwave.

nTo Algar's surprise unlike last time was pushed back showing Dante's strength over him despite him being born with Divine strength himself.

nUnfortunately for Algar Fante didn't seem to let up sensing attack after attack forcing him to retreat more and more with every attack.

nJust as Dante was about to send another attack at Algar, an alarm seemed to go off in his head alerting him of possible danger.

nTurning his head Dante saw a giant figure covered in a coat of flames hurtling toward him at a terrifying speed. looking at the gigantic size of the person it could only be Algar's brother who also has Divine strength, Albert!

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"Blazing impact!

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nIn the blink of an eye, the burning figure had appeared in front of Dante but its speed was just too fast for Dante to react.

nUsing the terrifying speed and force from his charge, Albert collided with Dante using the full weight of his body while bathed in a dangerous concentration of fire elemental energy causing a large blast.

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"Boom!

"

nAlthough the fire element blast didn't do much damage to Dante due to his '

nHeart of Flames passive ability reducing the damage he took from fire element attacks. But that didn't mean he brushed off the attack, Dante had no abilities to resist physical damage and was still sent flying high up into the air by the combined power of the explosion and the charge.

nStill in the air, Dante took a moment to collect himself and recover before looking down on the crowd of challengers beneath him.

nBut while in the air Dante seemed to notice something strange about the formation of the challengers underneath.

nLooking down he seemed to make eye contact with Gawain on the ground, as he did he saw a terrifying smirk form on Gawain's face.

nSeeing such a smug smile on his enemy set off alarm bells in Dante's head.

nAs he tried to reach cover Dante realised falling through the air the control over his mobility was terrifyingly low.

nThen it all made sense to Dante, the goal of Gawain and his crew was to get him into the air for an easy attack from the very start!

nBack on the ground Gawain and his fellow challengers seemed to have finished charging up their attacks.

nLooking up at Dante, Gawain felt it was the perfect opportunity.

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"Attack!

" Screamed Gawain

nAs he said those words the training ground seemed to burst into a colourful display of fireworks as the remaining challengers released various attacks towards Dante.

nAttacks of all sorts of attributes ranging from fire to wind and sometimes even lightning poured towards Dante in a cluster of blinding colours

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"BOOM!

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nA deafening, apocalyptic explosion formed at the centre of impact where Dante was leaving the onlooker speechless.

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"It… it's over! How is anyone meant to survive that!

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"Damn, those challengers were too vicious. Dante will be lucky to even survive such an attack

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"Well it's his own fault, he shouldn't have let his arrogance control him know he has to pay for the consequences of his actions!

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nBut to the shock of all the spectators when the smoke cleared the sight they saw wasn't one they had expected

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