"Bravo"
"Bravo"
Dante turned sharply towards the direction of the sound; there he saw a stranger, walking towards him. His steps are slow and casual, as the destruction around him was not any of his concern-– a mere scenery in his eye.
"Who are you? Identify yourself.", Dante demanded still in the edge from the fight earlier.
The stranger offered nothing, only stepped forward in the direction Dante. His both hands clasped behind his back, his shoulders relaxed.
There is not a single trace of concern in his face and backed by his calm demeanour, he continued his steps effortlessly.
Dante still tensed from the previous battle, didn't wait. He immediately grasped his naginata again, and his blade slicing as he lunged towards the stranger.
As Dante approached the stranger, he made a cut with the blade of his naginata covered with his battle intent, but the man didn't even flinch. The stranger only moved his two fingers lazily, responding to the cut of Dante. He caught the incoming blade even before it completes its full swing.
ting....
A sound of metal meeting metal echoed. The expression of stranger didn't change much, instead he just smiled faintly.
"Ho... Ho..HoHo... what a vigour."
The stranger spoke finally and before Dante could ask anything, he found himself in space with nothing around him. As he stared below, he saw the same planet covered with cloud, that he had seen from the spaceship.
Dante a Terra Dominion Resonant, was thrown from the surface of planet to the space outside in a span of few second, without his knowledge. Suddenly Dante felt a powerful downward tug from the below planet and in the next second his scenery changed once again.
This time he found himself at the same position he stood, before attacking the stranger.
"Did the journey calmed you, boy?", the stranger asked Dante.
As Dante heard this, he stood there for a second before taking a large breath to calm down his nerves. Many things had happened with him today, that shifted his world view. His family is now dead; he has ascended to Terra Dominion Realm and now this stranger that can send him to orbit also bring him to the surface with as easy as breathing at any point.
Dante then focused on the stranger and asked calmly, "Who are you? And what relationship do you have with Crooks?"
"Crooks hmmm…. Well, you will soon know about it, so have patience. But before that..."
"The fight was phenomenal and that last move of yours even surprised me. What was that?", the stranger asked gleefully.
Dante offered no reply at first, but something clicked in his mind. He knew that the stranger in front him is overwhelmingly powerful than him, he instinctively knew that even if he uses his last earlier attack, it will not effective on him. So, he decided to answer the question of the stranger.
"It is a technique of mine that I made instantly, using my improved special attribute. It is called Zero-point ignition."
As Dante explaining it, the stranger interrupted him, "If you don't mind, could you explain about the special attribute of yours."
Dante nodded and told the stranger about him.
"The Special Attribute that I awakened first is called Selective Compression. It allows me to form a dense layer of air. It helped me in my defence as well as in my movement by creating nodes and then bursting it by high pressurized air."
"It mutated when I reached Stage 10 allowing me to manipulate pressure and compression of the air inside it. These all things then improved drastically when I reached the Terra realm."
Dante hid the entirety of his special attribute, because how could he trust a stranger who enjoyed his whole fight but didn't help him in the entirety.
That S.A was the name of his previous Special Attribute, before Kaios came into his life, the previous one was even lesser than that. The new one he gained was Tempest Veil. It allowed him to manipulate micro-spatial layers using dense winds.
"Hmm that is a very good special attribute, now continue.", the stranger spoke.
Dante nodded and start his explanation again.
"The improved layer could contain the tremendous level of pressure unlike before that is limited only to the Carbon nanotube composites. Through this I covered myself with the coating of it. Then gather hydrogen atom by separating the water molecule with high pressure. After it I started to collide the hydrogen atoms with each other in a controlled manner. As the energy gathered from this fission process, I then unleashed that by bursting the outer layer, through which the pressured increased and it started the chain reaction."
Dante explained the process to the stranger, as the stranger heard it, his expression changed to that of pleased. As a teacher was impressed by the answer of a student of his.
"Brilliant, marvellous…", the stranger praised Dante, with jolly expression.
Dante simply nodded to it, as deep down he knew, all he said was nothing but bullshit. There is some truth to it, but that's not what he did. Instead, he manipulated the micro-spatial turbulence inside air current, folding the dimensional layer created pressures and fictions that could mimic the fission conditions. Then he simply split the hydrogen and oxygen atoms from the water vapour, made vortex of both of them to collide them with each other. After it he introduced the fission condition to that vortex, starting the fission process.
"You are truly talented as the report said.", the stranger said to Dante.
As Dante heard it, a confused expression appeared on his face.
"Who gave you report about me? Is it Mikhail Crook? Are you related to the Crook family?", Dante asked to the stranger again with same question from before.
"Indeed, it was Mikhail Crook that provided me the report about you.", The stranger replied impassively.
The moment Dante heard it a look of rage appeared on his face, he knew he couldn't do any thing to the stranger. So he started to think about the ways he can escape from this stranger. Then take his revenge from that Crook bastard in Vaeltris.
"Calm down boy, think about your escape plan later, after you heard everything from me.", the stranger said while releasing some of his pressure on Dante.
When Dante heard this and experienced the pressure focussed on him, he calmed down slightly.
"Please continue.", Dante replied back.
The stranger nodded and continued, "Where was I before? Ahh, yes I got the report about you from Mikhail Crook."
"But it is not anything filled with hostility, instead it was about your promotion."
A look of realization appeared on the face of Dante.
"Yy..you mean…?", he stuttered.
"Yes, as you are thinking. And I am the Enforcer of the group of star systems, from which yours is one of them."
"And all the things you experienced till now is a merely a test from me.", the Enforcer dropped the bombshell.
A/n: Read the Author's thought