our protagonist finds himself between three beautifle goddesses in his room after he died. they grant him a few gifts and send him to his own universe which he has to visit the omni-verse to collect and imbue energy into. should he get a few ladies along the way, who would complain.
Sirzechs was in his office working on the usual never-ending paperwork when Grafya, his wife and queen, entered holding an envelope baring an all toö familiar crest.
"An echo just delivered this my lord" she explained. To them echoes are another mystery that they just accepted as Dante's weirdness
Sirzechs took the letter with a thank you and read it "Hexennacht are no more" he said casually. Hexennacht are a group of rogue magicians that were willing to go to any length for more knowledge. All three factions consider them an enemy and the letter sent by Dante was little more than a courtesy
Grafya simply nodded and continued on with her duties, knowing that if Dante wanted Hexennacht dead, they would be.
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*the day before*
"Why are you doing this?" asked Walburga, the leader of Hexennacht as she was on the floor bleeding
"I originally came here to take Incinerate Anthem from you" Dante explained as the building burns around him "but then I saw what you and the rest were doing, the 'experiments' you were conducting" his face contorted into a mix of Rage and disgust "innocent men, women and children all sacrificed for your twisted magic… idiotic"
The red echoes Dante sent returned to him and reported the completion of their mission. Dante turned and left taking all but Deidara's echo. The last thing he saw as he was teleporting was Deidara's echo body inflating. On that day Hexennacht was no more.
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Trihexa or 666 is the creature of the apocalypse. It's only function is to destroy all things living and his power is enough to match Ophis and the Apocalypse Dragon. It was so strong that it took the entire strength of the God of the bible to simply seal it which later caused his death as he was too week to continue fighting.
The seal for Trihexa is made of two components. The first is physical and can only be burnt by the Holy flame of the holy cross, that being Incinerate Anthem. The second is spiritual and require the merging of soul and body, thus the need for the Holy Grail AKA Sephiroth Graal.
As Dante has already collected both sacred gears, he was now looking for Trihexa which was noted to be sealed at the edge of the underworld. A little bit of mind reading of here and there while visiting khaos brigade and Dante was able to pin point the beast's location.
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When Dante arrived at the location he 'retrieved' from Khaos brigade, he saw a large sphere of chains with some chains coming out of the sphere and connecting to nothing. It is simply as if the whole thing is just held rigidly in the air by an invisible force.
Dante knew what it was instinctively and teleported it to a sub-dimension. He then used his incinerate anthem to burn the chains. After all the chains were turned to ashes, the sphere left looked white and somewhat transparent. Inside the sphere was a little boy sleeping.
If it was not for the aura Dante was feeling from the Sphere, he would've thought he had it wrong. Dante could also sense that the sphere was something akin of a soul, but not at the same time.
Dante used the Holy Grail to have the sphere infuse itself into the slumbering boy. It took a minute but the boy woke up and immediately six different wings sprouted from his back. After looking around the boy's eyes landed on Dante.
"Welcome back to the land of the living, Trihexa" Dante greeted cheerily
"I don't know who you are or why you have unsealed me, but I will reward you for it properly" Trihexa then without warning attacked Dante and pierced through his stomach with his bare hands "with a quick death"
"tsk tsk tsk" Trihexa heard behind him when he turned he saw Dante unhurt "if you truly wanted me to die quick then you would've aimed for the head or heart"
Trihexa looked at where his victim should've been nut nothing was there "I don't what you did Godling, but you are too weak to face me" It taunted
"let's change that shall we?" Dante countered as he began transforming. His hair turned white and six wings grew from his back. Three white and three black, all of flame and all radiating heat. Dante felt that his mere presence would be detrimental to many worlds that don't possess a fabric of reality strong enough to hold it together. In response to that he used the system to "level cap" himself, in order to protect said reality. In a sub-dimension of his creation though, there was no risk.
Trihexa is not weak in any measure of the word. He is capable of singlehandedly destroying the entire world and heaven and hell as well. Because of this, Trihexa believed itself to be the most powerful, the one who's only equal is the Apocalypse and the infinite dragons and now it was in front of another equal. If it was honest with itself, it would understand that this being is beyond it, but Trihexa was too proud.
"Are you ready?" Dante asked as he took a boxer stance "I came here to vent so… don't die too quick" Dante said in an unsure way
Trihexa feeling insulted grew to match Dante in size and then charged Dante intending to punch through him. Dante seeing this redirected the punch and countered with a right cross that halted Trihexa, he then followed it with a left uppercut and ended it with a straight drive. Dante thought he heard a crack there. Trihexa flew back from the force and fell to the ground. Dante stood there for a few seconds simply watching it lay there.
"I am surprised" it spoke "very few can match my strength in this form" it continued as it got up. A shiver ran up Dante's spine as the beast's head was dangling to the side as his punch broke its neck.
"ugh. Can you heal yourself already, and stop holding back. I know this is not your final form" Dante said with a 'I'm gonna be sick' look
Trihexa maintained its cold demeanour and with a *crack* it fixed its neck "you will live only long enough to regret that" when it finished speaking, shadow started to rise from its feet. The darkness enveloped it like a swirling cocoon and continued to do so for several seconds.
After a bit the cocoon of darkness seemed to be absorbed into itself and out of it comes the fully restored Trihexia "Rejoice for you are the first to witness my greatness in millenniums" it was larger than before. It had a black body and blood read heads. Trihexa had seven heads total, three of dragons and four collaring them looked to be of uni-horned humans. It had six black sharp wings on its back that looked as if made of leather and sported a long tail with six spikes at its end (smt apocalypse Satan)
"You ready yet cupcake?" Dante taunted
"I do not know what that is, but you will pay for your insolence" Trihexa retorted. Its dragon heads opened their mouths and sent a torrent of flame directly at Dante. Dante seeing the flame coming his way simply willed them to bend around him and fly back at Trihexa.
The flames didn't do much to it as it was almost immune to all types of flame or fire. It is the reason the underworld is associated with fire.
After bathing in the fire for a bit, Dante called to it "I'm here for some physical fun not to test my control over fire…" Dante's eyes then widened "I don't mean that kind of physical fun" he explained panicking as Trihexa tilted its head at this weird being in front of it
'It matters little though' it thought to itself then spoke out loud "all will die and all shall be destroyed" then charged at Dante
Tnuk tnuk tum dadada I finished another one lalala.
Song of the chapter
Dorothy - Raise Hell
Gotta raise a little hell
Peace