// Chapter 6; Perfect Being

When Dante flew into the his personal ikemen of a person, he was expecting to be greeted by his best friend since arriving in this world... otherwise known as the horrifying piercing pain.

However, he soon noticed that something was off with the current situation.

The reason behind this is that there were unexpectedly no issues?

Dante knew that there was no free lunch in any world, especially in this cultivation hellhole!

So he started to doubt his situation,

'Is nothing really going to happen right now? This process will be smooth? Ya fucking right!

If it was me a few months or even a few years ago I would have accepted those naive words from that celestial-babe Long Xue. With a body like my new one, there is NO chance those heavens and that fuckin' fate spell don't know! All the beauties in this world would be harmed if a personality like this Young Mas-! Its too cringe! I can't say it!'

'Whatever... lets think about that later. Seriously though, the surroundings are really weird right no-AHNNNNNN.'

Out of the blue, a euphoric moan rang out of Dante.

A heavenly sensation struck his entire soul. Causing his thought process to skew into disarray once again.

'I feel like millions of angel-beauties are lovingly nibbling on this Young Maa-Ahnnn. It's like I have returned to my mother's womb..... It's so nice and warm.... I want to take a nap again.... Ahhhhh....'

While Dante was beginning to fall into slumber with a huge grin on his face.

The changes happening to him on the outside continued.

***

When the feeling of euphoria washed over him, a spectator would be able to see that his Adonis body began to emit a golden glow as well.

It started with the head of this imposing figure. The Adonis became younger in seconds as if the body was reverted to its youth. It kept all of the same features, frame, and stature. But the imposing facial expression was now gone. Replaced by a face that was now filled with innocence and purity. A blank page to be written on.

***

When Dante woke up again, he realized that this situation was becoming more and more common.

'Huuuuh, I guess I've got to work my mental strength and stop passing out. That feeling was just too nice though, I want some more of whatever that was...'

He was just about to get ahead of himself again before the sounds coming from nearby woke him his reverie.

'Sounds of something falling.... birds chirping, leaves rustling, wind blowing. These are...? My senses!'

With a jolt the man-boy hurriedly sat up and realized the merging between his soul and body was complete.

Dante began to look down and inspect his new self... but before his vision could move beyond his fingertips. He broke into a fit of ear-bursting laughter,

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! IT'S ACTUALLY HERE BABY! MY BIG BANG! XUE GODDESS BEAUTY! COME OUT AND LET YOUR NEW BOYFRIEND THANK YOU! THE DANGOROPA HAS ARRIVED! KEKEKEKEKEKEKEK!"

In the nearby surroundings. The birds, insects, and some wild deer creatures all witnessed this scene. It may have been the sun glinting in their eyes, but it looked like they all came to a single conclusion...

'Get away from this physcopath weirdo as fast as possible...'

While the surrounding wildlife was fleeing. After around half an hour the laughter coming from the adonis finally settled down.

He turned to take in his surroundings, but before doing so he called out with a yell,

"Long Xue? Are you here? Where did you go?"

"Long Xue!!!! My Princess come out!!!"

"Bitch come here!?!!?"

After a multitude of different tries and curses, there was no response from her at all.

'Well I guess that would have some form of cost going by tropes. Well it seems I will by myself for a while once more....'

Looking around a vision of frost and forest was the only thing that filled his sight.

'Snow and Ice? Its a frozen wonderland here! These elven trees are still towering over me, so I must be inside of the Blue Marsh Forest still.... but this is crazy. Do these trees just adapt to any enviroment? The last ones I saw were like normal trees, but these ones look like ice sculptures!

Atleast I can rest easy knowing that I'm far away from those barbarian freaks... The cold should be unsuitable for their lifestyle. I also don't remember it snowing a single time when I was enslaved by those bastards'

After some deliberation a grin rose to his face as he thought,

'I should do the trusty trick right? It feels a bit weird doing this knowing that fate and luck is real now. But they saying goes something like, 'Old habits Die hard' I think?'

Dante was thinking these odd thoughts and he started his plan of action. Beginning to scavenge the surroundings for a perfectly even stick with charisma in his now golden eyes.

But before doing anything else, he took his first step after regaining conciousness.

He knew immediately.

He knew immediately after taking that first step the gift that Long Xue had given him was a not even close to a simple appearance and race change like what he assumed before.

Maybe it was because he didn't understand what a 'Creation Ranked' bloodline truly was at the time. Or maybe it was due to the fact his mental state never really accepted the idea of him being 'reincarnated' into this cultivation world. But Dante has never taken anything here seriously from the moment of him being brought here. The pain, the slavery, the torture. All did not 'break' him. His mind was already pretty twisted from witnessing the horrors of human society on Earth, however the barbarians just added to it.

However when his toes touched onto the icy forest floor with that first step. He understood the caliber of opportunity that he had currently placed before him. The feeling his body currently had could only be described as a godly presence.

At the same time, he subconciously realized that now since he had accepted this gift. The path ahead be extremely lonely.

But being Dante, he has never been afraid of the unknown.

When the man finally placed his foot down.

The world around Dante changed.

To make a small comparison, if his old body. The one he spent countless years sculpting in gyms, running, and watching his diet for on earth was a Ferrari. His beggar body could be described as a used-car bought for 300$ off the internet. But his new frame could now be compared to.... let's see... something similar to a Planet-Conquering Intergalatic-spaceship.

He could not believe what he was witnessing.

'This is the world around me....? It's like I was blind before in comparison....'

'It feels like the world has so much more color and life to it!

He knew nothing of what took place to while he was asleep but a primal urge rose from deep inside of him to explore his new body!

Letting out his pent up happiness with a beastial roar the tri-colored hair man began sprinting through the icy wonderland with tears spilling out of his eyes,

'When was the last time I felt a sense of freedom like this? Being released from the orphanage? No... not even close. This is much more amazing than that shit!'

A blurry figure was jumping through countless frozen shrubbery dodging trees and animals in the icy land.

Each of his senses were heightened hundreds if not thousands of times in comparison to old self.

His running started out clumisly leaving broken (smaller) elvish tree-trunks and a large amount of cracks in the icy-floor.

If one was to follow this path they would think that someone went on a rampage. There were massive foot-printed cracks and a pathway of destruction through nature in his long zig-zagged path.

But after around ten minutes of this. The comfort he had inside of his new body exponentially increased.

Whether it was his monstrous intelligence or bloodline. He got completely aligned to his new motor-skills within twenty minutes of running through the forest.

His movements within this enviroment drastically shifted from novice-level trash, into a ghost of the woods. The ice only made it more difficult to learn about this type of ecosystem but it did not affect him at all. He was adapting to the surroundings monstrously quick. His speed soon increased until only a blur hopping from tree to tree could be seen.

Dante finally stopped after climbing to the peak an elvish tree, he hadn't tired from the solid hour of sprinting and exercising. Instead he felt invigorated and refreshed.

'Ahhh this feeling, the sensation of learning again. This world is like an unopened basket of treasures! Every single thing in this forest fills me with a new and intense feeling of curiosity! I want and need to see even more of this land!'

Relaxing and watching the Twin Suns begin to set from the crown of this tree, it was a breathtaking sight.

The two suns illuminated just barely over the tips of the different sized trees. Causing orange-red fiery looking shadows to appear all over the horizon.

Dante had a thought during this moment,

'I don't even think that gods could even create the sight im looking at. This world is just too mystical.'

Taking in the view, he started to think about his new discoveries while running.

When Dante was running through the forest he realized that his body is now some sort of perfect being. All aspects of him are thousands of times superior.

Dodging trees and sharp shubbery he learned that the vision his golden eyes grant him can percieve anything inside as long as it is in his line of sight. Distance or moving objects were not an issue at all. He experimented with this before arriving to the crown of the tree and his eyes worked wonders.

He saw the wings of an insect flap from four miles out. A snowflake dissolve on a leaf from three.

It was like the world was unable to hide from his sight anymore.

The second apparent upgrade was that his sense of smell became something horrifying. From the most beautiful winter flowers that smelt like jasmine or the smell of blood and iron from the North. His sensitive nose could pick up just about everything and anything in the forest.

His hearing was just as monstrous as his smell. He could hear ant-like creatures clatter on the icy floor from his current position thousands of feet in the trees. He could hear the blood running through his body flowing inside of his veins and the beating of his three hearts. The wind and rustling of leaves could be pinpointed to exact locations.

As he came to those conclusions, he opened up a leaf next to him that contained a few small purple-fruits.

'It seems that my tastebuds are still normal though. This little fruit kind of reminds me of a frozen grape... It's really slushy and juicy. It's good to know my exquisite Gordon Shmanzy palate has not left me. Thank you lord Guy Fieri for blessing me..'

He patted his stomach and began to stretch out slowly watching the sun set.

As he was stretching both arms back overhead, a physcotic expression started to form over the beautiful face illuminated by the setting suns.

He still stretching but when the point that would usually be impossible for humans to stretch past unless they wanted to dislocate their joints and cause damage was reached....

Dante's arms kept going like it was no issue at all.

The odd stretch continued like this while a multitude of body parts that were not supposed to be in that positon, got there.

A massive smile was now on the handsome man's face.

'Hehehehe, This is the most exciting part of today.

My body seems as if it was created by nature to do battle. I felt no fatigue or stamina loss even though I was sprinting with my full force. My joints are all somehow 'free'. I can literally contort myself into any direction like a malleable material... even if someone tries to snap my arm it won't do anything to me.

My reaction speeds and thought process seems to be magnified to a ridiculous degree.. While hiding from those beasts earlier it seemed as if when I focused time was slowing down for me as well....

That should be from my nervous system, eyesight, and body reaction speed all coming into play as one!!! How superb!.'

He knew that this body was made for battle and conquering. From the moment he woke up, he felt like a deep primal urge inside of him was whispering sweet nothings of murder into his ears.

With these thoughts in mind Dante was finishing up his small break, his smile still on his face watching daytime turn into night.

'For the first time since being here. I am happy to be alive in this world.'

With the smile still plastered on his face the naked man started to descend from the four-thousand foot tall tree.

'Ah, it appears I also have night vision. Going into the darkness of the forest did not effect my visibility at all, confirming it.'

Jumping down branch to branch, somehow throughout all of this he did not realize he was still buck naked out in the cold. Probably because the cold was actually not effecting him at all.

On the contrary to what you would expect from this situation, he looked perfectly fine in -50F weather.

As reached the icy-ground once more the perfect idea came up once again.

Since his urge to run around was gone and his body was ready to rock-and-roll. This would be the ideal time to use his trusty stick method!!!

After a few moments of looking around..... he found the object of desire.

"Haha! Gotcha!"

With a skip in his step he squatted and grabbed a perfectly symmetrical two foot long stick.

Scanning the area for an ideal location, he spotted a small clearing around twenty one-hundred feet away. He headed towards the spot to let in order to let stick guide his path.

But as he was jogging over, Dante realized a *clap* *clap* sound was echoing through the forest.

What was odd about the noise however....was that the sound was originating from him?

Dante looked down curiously and saw his elephant trunk swinging left and right, slapping his thighs.

He was shocked for a moment because, just when he thought that this day couldn't get any better..... his dear partner was finally returned to him...

Frantic yelling could be heard from a beatiful man crumpled to his knees in the middle of a frozen forest, causing a sublime scene to take place.

"BABY JEZUS, ZUEZ, APHODITE, BUDDHA, MIDDLE-AGED JESUS, TEENAGER JESUS, KIND OF MIDDLE-AGED OLD MAN MID-LIFE CRISIS JEZUS....

I PROMISE, TO USE MY PRIDED PARTNER, MY BEAUTY CONQUERING HEAVENLY DEVOURING ROD, FOR ONLY JUSTICE AND THE GOOD OF ALL RACES!"

Wiping the fake-tears from his face, Dante began to get quite embarassed from how his junk was flopping out this entire time.

Sighing and brushing over the past. He quickly moved to grab a few icy-leaves to wrap around himself as makeshift underwear.

After all this the man-boy finally noticed how he did not get affected from any of the cold around him!

'It's absolutely freezing out here! I can tell from the feeling on feet and fingertips the estimated temperature... hoooo.

This must be another one of my body's perks! I guess only extreme weathers can affect me now. How convienient to have this in this cold area instance map! Heheh!.'

Now, with the leaf-underwear all preperations were made.

Dante walked over to the clearing and placed the stick down vertically.

As he waited for the stick to fall..... nothing happened.

After a few moments nothing happened....

After twenty minutes, he was thinking that the stick he chose must be too perfect. That must be the only answer!

After an hour of staring at this stick. Dante decided to just say fuck it and walk towards a random direction. But of course, as he was taking his first steps away, the stick fell over.

It was pointing North.

Different from his first western-facing stick that led him to slavery, so that was a positive sign.

'North it is! Welp this so called fate wanted to waste my time today! Taking so long to have my glorious stick fall! Now its already nightime....

Its said in these types of situations that walking in the forest during nightime is a death trap. But that feeling inside of me pretty much forcing me to follow me bodily instincts right now....Huh.. I guess...

I will go.'

When his decision was made, the now half naked-leaf man began to blend into the shadows once more. Starting his journey North.

Traveling through the frozen forest Dante saw a variety of things.

'Even though the types of trees are similar. This ice-forest is completely different compared to the nature-type forest from before. The species that make up this ecosystem are completely different from the nature-forest. Although it looks like some of these creatures were the same type of race but had a different derivation. I'm assuming these ones are the elemental creatures who take on specifc traits of their surroundings...'

He saw what looked to be fruits radiating energy, flowers with large amounts of remains near them, and many different small-cute animals. But oddly he had seen nothing that could be described as a predator yet.

After two hours of continous traversing through the icy land. The smell of blood entered his new high-powered nose once more.

But this time it caused him to become excited, similar to becoming horny before a beautiful woman.

As he looked down at his hand he realized it was shaking out of not fear. But the same excitement from before.

It was being extracted from the depths of his body and soul. He somehow understood that this was the excitement before engaging in a bloody battle.

With this feeling shooting through him, Dante's senses were heightened to the maximum.

The seconds turned into minutes as he was running towards the destination that his senses were leading him to.

When Dante started get closer to the source of the noise. Thunderous beastial roars and screeches started to become more clear in his ears.

A few minutes later, the noises of fighting were ear-bursting. From what he could tell... he finally found the predators.

They were coming behind a patch of trees around one-thousand feet ahead.

Dante saw this and had to hold himself back from running in headfirst. His body was telling him to go, but his mind realized that the strength of those beasts would crush him instantaneously.

Regaining his compusure, the boy used his newly found forest skills to approach the battle from the trees above.

When he looked down, the breath he was about to expel was caught in his lungs. For the first time since entering into this world, Dante witnessed a true death match between supernatural powers.