Victory

As soon as Patriarch Gavin finished speaking the crowd burst into cheer

"Haha I always knew Dante would win, after all, he's dual spirit awakener just like the Sword Saint !"

"You only knew he was special after he awakens you Martial Spirits? I knew he was amazing talent after he awakened his first Martial Spirit, didn't you see the heavenly phenomena caused, this could only mean he was an unimaginable talent."

While the rest of the clan was still arguing over Who had supported Dante first, one person was not happy at all. That person was of course Grand Elder Harrison.

'Damn this kid always getting in my way anytime I try something. First, it was his grandfather then it was his father and his uncle and now even this little shit is becoming a hindrance! That family is always obstructing my plans, whatever happens next just know you forced me to do this!' Thought Grand Elder Harrison as he quietly left the scene.

But Grand Elder Harrison wasn't the only one feeling conflicted about Dante's victory another person who was feeling conflicted was Klent.

But instead of feeling anger at Dante, Klent was feeling angry at himself.

He used to consider himself and Dante as rivals but now with just a few days he already reached a completely different level where he could crush him with ease. But what had he done in this time? He was already spent 3 years stuck at a minor bottleneck so he had 3 years of training on Dante and was already being left behind.

Klent refused to accept it. He refused to be left behind by his peers again, he refused to be insulted and seen as trash ever again.

This time he will not be left behind! not now, not ever!

And just like that, a burning desire for strength was born inside Klent, one stronger than he had ever felt before.

With a newfound conviction, Klent left the crowd eager to go and practice and perfect his strength. But due to his focus and eagerness What Klent missed was during this rusty old Sword briefly let out a soft buzz while glowing in white light…

…

After the crowd of challengers and spectators had fully left the scene Dante returned back to his room and thought about the fight he had.

Whilst there were many excellent things he did in the fight, he also made many mistakes and let himself fall into big traps set by the enemy. This flaw was obviously due to his lack of combat experience and training which led to him having a rather low battle IQ. After all, in Dante's previous life he was only a regular citizen so he didn't really have much experience in fighting so there would always be situations where he would instinctively make a bad decision.

But fortunately, this could easily be fixed by sparing with sparring with other fighters to fix his lack of fighting reflex.

But another major weakness he discovered was his lack of mobility. In a 1 on 1 fight, it wasn't always obvious but in fights where multiple people were at king him at once, he found himself Boeing controlled by the crowd. If he wanted to get past the crowd to reach someone he would have had to fight his way through them, but with a strong movement technique, he would be able to slip past most, if not all of the challengers preventing himself from being controlled and restricted like that.

This was a problem that was easy to fix, just by getting a decent movement technique he would be to greatly increase his mobility and with the status of the strongest among the younger generation, almost no techniques will be off-limits to him.

After assessing the strengths and weaknesses shown in his last fight Dante brought out his Moonlight sword and started cultivating. All though he felt confident in his abilities he knew that if anything went wrong in the inter-clan competition he would just be too weak to do anything worthwhile..

…

The next day, morning came and Dante had already got up and was ready for the day ahead.

After some time Dante left his room early, today he wanted to eat breakfast with his father as there were quite a few questions he wanted to ask him.

After some walking, Dante managed to leave his courtyard and enter his father's one. Soon he came before the dining Hall and after greeting some maids and butlers along the way Dante entered.

But to his surprise when he entered he wasn't greeted by the usual sight of his father quietly eating, instead there seemed to be two other people there with him. Those two people were Patriarch Gavin and his daughter Rebecca.

Seeing Dante's surprised look Patriarch Gavin spoke

"What? Are you surprised we popped in to join you? I'm your uncle I can come to join you anytime for a meal, quit acting so surprised."

Dante was just a bit surprised by the sudden addition of two people he was used to it just being him and his father but soon he quickly adjusted.

As he got to the dining table he chose a seat next to Rebecca.

"Good morning Dante."

"Good Morning Rebecca "

"I forgot to congratulate you on winning the challenge yesterday and officially becoming the strongest among the younger generation!" Said Rebecca

"There's no need to worry, it's just a superficial title anyway," replied Dante

"We all know if you were in the competition yesterday you could have easily beat everyone there, me included!" he continued