His first fight!

Inside of his Mind space, Dante finally noticed cracks on his Bronze Core, which was engulfed in mana. Slowly, the cracks spread throughout the entire sphere before it happened.

*shatter*

Hearing this shattering noise scared Dante at first but he soon realized what it was. He broke through to the (Mid) Bronze Core realm! Learning this he was ecstatic, even he knew that breaking through to the (Mid) Bronze Core realm in this short amount of time was unprecedented.

After spending a little bit more time filling his Core with mana in case he has to fight, he returned to his outside body.

Upon returning, he was met with a brown haired brown eyed girl looking at him intently. Noticing that he was out of meditation the girl spoke.

"It seems you're awake now," said Eva in a slightly irritated voice.

"I could say the same to you," Dante replied.

Eva couldn't come up with something to say back so she just looked away with an irritated expression.

'What's her problem?' Dante was confused by her actions. He saved her, shouldn't she be at least a little grateful?

But what he didn't know was that he was in his meditative state for 3 hours! While this usually isn't very long for someone to meditate, for Eva it was forever. She couldn't walk, so she had to wait for him to wake up before she could do anything.

"Who are you? Why did you help me?"

Hearing her voice snapped Dante out of his thoughts. And he began trying to come up with a good reply. Who was he? He was someone trying to save you for money! But he couldn't just say that, so he decided to try to respond normally.

"Me? I'm no one special. As for why I helped you… Is there any problem with helping someone in need?" He responded by putting on a 'wronged' face.

Seeing his 'wronged' expression, she felt slightly guilty. From her point of view it really did look like he was just some passerby who stumbled across an injured girl and helped her. But she couldn't help it, she was a noble, she was raised in an environment where people used eachother!

She then remembered something, she was wearing a disguise, the boy in front of her couldn't even know that she was a noble! Of course, Dante did know who she was, that was the reason he came to her in the first place but she didn't know that.

Realizing that his intentions were "pure", her guilt grew again and she spoke.

"I apologize, I thought you were someone out to get me." She replied vaguely.

"It's no problem." He said with a 'kind' smile. What his smile actually was, was him just happy that his act worked.

"So, where am I?" asked Eva.

"Logan Alley, on the south side of the capital…!"

Just as he spoke those words he felt a presence directing ill intent in his direction.

"Watch out!

He quickly stood up and dove towards Eva, pinning her underneath him. Just as he pushed Eva to the ground, a blow dart struck right where she was sitting. Following this, three masked men walked out of the darkness.

"It seems you have pretty good senses, kid." said one of the masked men in a condescending tone.

Guiding Eva behind him, he started to circulate his attribute throughout his body.

"Boy, leave the girl, there is no reason for you to waste your life for her." Spoke a different masked man. It seemed like he didn't want to get innocents involved.

"No, I'm fine, thank you." Dante spoke in an indifferent tone, but all of the surrounding people could tell he was getting excited.

This was Dante's first fight, he would finally be able to see what his body was capable of. At this point, he thirsted for knowledge. Knowledge about his body, about his attribute, about his destiny. He wanted to learn more but there was another thing that made Dante shake with excitement, a fight. He learned many martial arts in his previous… world? Life? Anyway, with him being a quick learner and someone whose life goal was to find something interesting, he picked up many martial arts and spent a great amount of time mastering them, only to find out they could never be used.

In that world, fighting was looked down upon, you couldn't have a real life or death fight. But here! Here was different, strength was respected and strong people were admired!

'What is wrong with this boy?' This thought was in the minds of every person present.

"Fine brat, then you can die!"

The man who spoke with a condescending tone lunged at Dante with shortsword in hand, but what surprised him was that Dante lunged at him as well.

Meeting in the middle, the masked man swung his sword in a short arc towards Dantes neck. Seeing this Dante quickly pushed his attribute through his legs, giving him a huge burst of speed. He then grabbed the man by his arm and broke it at the joint.

"Guh! Damn you, brat!" Being embarrassed by a kid that looked to be 20 years younger than him, enraged him. This worked to Dante's favor as the man wasn't thinking straight any more and forgot his sword.

Quickly picking up the man's sword, he dashed around the man and jumped on his back, stabbing the sword into his neck.

Pulling out the sword, blood splattered on Dante's face, as he retreated back to Eva.

The man who had just been stabbed, turned towards Dante, shock evident on his face.

"What…the hell?" These were the last words spoken by the masked man before he fell to the ground into an eternal slumber.

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"..."

"..."

Silence. But it wasn't empty silence.

The girl was silent looking at the young boy in awe. While the other two masked men were silent looking at the young boy with fear. But both parties were silent at the decisiveness that he showed. A boy no older than 10 didn't even hesitate to take another's life, for this they were looking at the boy in silent shock.

As a matter of fact, even Dante was surprised at this. He knew as soon as he came to this world, that he would most likely have to take another's life at some point. But this was his first time killing someone and he did it without apprehension, in fact he felt proud.

He was proud that he could defend himself, proud that he could do what had to be done, and proud that he didn't let this man trapple on his pride.

Ever since he gained his strange attribute, Dante has felt an abnormal amount of pride. And when this man lunged at him, Dante took it as a challenge to his pride. Him and his attribute both looked at the man with disdain, like he wasn't qualified to challenge him.

Unknowingly, while Dante was trying to sort his inner feelings, his attribute engulfed his body, giving him an aura of supremacy. After he sorted his feelings he looked at the other two masked men as he spoke.

"Would you like to have a go?" He said, arrogance seeping out of every word he spoke unintentionally.

The two men looking at the 'boy' in front of them, felt a primal fear course through their bodies, like prey looking at their natural predator.

"N-n-n-no, w-w-w-we will leave." spoke both of the men at the same. They then proceeded to run away as if their lives depended on it.

"HuuHaa" After taking an audible breath to calm his raging emotions, he turned towards Eva.

"You okay?"

Eva then tried to speak before only being able to nod her head. The aura he gave off seemed to have stripped her from her right to speak in his presence.

Noticing her strange actions he asked the system.

'What's wrong with her?' he asked inside his head.

[The host's attribute is engulfing you, causing you to have a naturally supreme aura. With this aura, lower life forms don't have the right to speak to you unless they are at least a full realm above you or responding in fear.]

'Oh…Hehe, that could be helpful.' Dante thought of all the situations where this could be used to shut up any unwanted conversation, before finally asking his flame to recede, but not before he thanked it. The flame seemed abashed at his thanks.

After his flame receded, he returned his gaze to Eva and asked the same question as before.

"Are you okay?" This time he spoke without his attribute surrounding him, giving him a more welcoming feeling.

"Y-Yeah." she spoke, still slightly shaken up.

"That's good, would you like me to escort you home?" When Dante said this, he was saying it like her house was just around the corner, knowing full well that it wasn't.

"Yes, please, I would appreciate it but I don't live here…." Eva, seeing Dantes strength, decided to rely on him to help her home. She then started to explain her "circumstances" to him.

What she said was that she was meeting a childhood friend who lived in the capital but she actually lived in the Astaril Dukedom. Expecting Dante to refuse, she then offered him a 'reward' though she didn't say what that 'reward' was.

Of course, Dante knew that this was complete bullshit but he wouldn't want to ruin his chances of getting the 'reward' by saying that. So, he said that he was planning on going to the Astaril Dukedom anyway to try to find some work. This was believable because the Astaril Dukedom was a major merchant territory.

With everything set up they decided to head to an inn for the night, which Eva paid for, and leave in the morning.