"Okay" Naruto nodded and they resumed their journey. And just like Dante had said they found a passageway with another door on the other side of courtyard.
They decided to first head to the covered passageway because Dante sensed something there. They found two glowing doors with shield motifs on either side of the main doorway which Dante can use the Emblem Shield on. He placed it on one of the doors to unlock the door. From there on their journey involved a series of twists and turns throughout.
Down this path they found an item, Luminite which Dante claims to only grow in the underworld near a pile of Fetish parts at the start. Walking down a flight and through the door at the bottom of the stairs in this room.
They ran through a long corridor with spikes poking out of the way every few minutes and a rotating floor while fighting a few sin scythes that popped up.
After getting pass all the spikes, the corridor doubles back on itself, with a pool of strange purple fluid visible below a small platform jutting out of the wall.
"Watch your steps" Dante said before jumping onto the platform. He didn't stau on it for too long before jumping onto the next on since he could feel that the platform was unstable.
Naruto quickly followed after him without missing a step. Reaching the small pltform that Dante was on Naruto could see a small pedestal with an item on it which happens to be a Pair of Lances, which they had to jump across the platforms to reach.
"Looks powerful" Naruto speculated as he approach Dante who stood before the pedestal observing the lances. As soon ashe reached th pedestal a powerful aura washed over him.
'Amazing' Naruto stared in awe at the lances that were generating such powerful aura. He was about to reach out a hand to them when they suddenly disappeared from the pedestal signifying that dante had placed them in his spatial storage.
Dante turned to look at Naruto who had a dumbfounded look on his face and with a small smile said. "No time for gawking, let's hurry back"
Dante didn't wait for Naruto to reply before heading back the way they came.
Naruto cursed a lot of colourful words at dante as he realized that Dante had intentionally done that to spite him.
The return trip back was more faster since there was no one to slow them down. When they got out the door to the room, rather than lead them to the main doorway, Dante led them towards the other door to the right with the shield motif also on it. By now Naruto was already used to how the demon castle works, so he didn't question Dante's decision.
The second path was like the first path but with everything in the opposite direction. The first room is largely the same but this time there are no enemies in the area with the rotating floor and only two sets of spikes, and the both of them are instead tasked with activating a pair of wheel devices to drop two platforms down in the area with the pedestal, in order to make a path to it.
Due to the moving floor, they had to repeatedly hit the devices as fast as they can to activate it and lower the platform. Naruto noted that it would have been pure torture if they were any ordinary human being, and he wasn't wrong. Considering that no human being could swing a great sword so fast in order to activate the machine.
However, once activated, they remain so: they are not timed. On this path there was no damage floor.
Making their way to the pedestal they found an the Nightmare-β lying on it, which happens to be a weapon with a unique shape. Taking it off the pedestal forced the platforms to lift back up. so they had to take a short detour around before retracing their steps back to the main room where they were ambushed by two sin scythes. The battle was more of a one sided beat down than a fight.
"Ahhhhh" Naruto exhaled after killing the last sin scythe.
"Damn. All that work just for a stupid piece of metal" He sighed as he slide off the wall and unto his butt, wiping the sweat off his brows. They had been running non-stop for a few hours, if it wasn't for his monstrous stamina he would have collapsed by now. It was one of the advantages of having the nine tails sealed inside of him, if not his legs would have given out by now. Come to think of it, when was the last time he had a proper meal. He turned to look at Dante sitting against the wall adjacent him with a bored expression like he wouldn't care if someone were to fall over and die right in front of him.
'Come to think of it. Dante has been in this demon Hunter job for a long time. Is this what he goes through?' Unbeknownst to him his admiration and respect for Dante just went up a few more levels.