The Son Of Dante

Immediately after crossing the bridge and stepping into the new area, the bridge rise back up rise back up but neither of them found it surprising.

The new area has a number of tall pillars standing parallel to each other. Two of them had diamond-shaped tops while the other three do not, and there is also a Divinity Statuein this area. Standing in the middle of the pillars is a huge stone tablet and behind it is a stairway.

'Extravagant' That was what Naruto thought when he saw the pillars.

Making their way down the stairs, they reached a wooden double door at the end of the stairs.

Rumble Rumble...

On walking out of the doors they were confronted with a new enemy, theBlade. Three reptilian like demons popped out of the ground wielding Shields and swords with a helmet on their head. Their body was a green color with scales growing all over their body except for the belly area.

Naruto looked at the new demons with a raised eyebrow. "So now we are fighting overgrown lizards in gears?."

Dante sneered. "I think they took it a little too far this time. They should have just stick to the walls"

Naruto grabbed onto purgatory, his eyes filled with killing intent as he said. "How about we cut them down to size?"

"Agreed"

The reptilian demons were very aggressive, lunging at the two of them with fast claw slashes. Sometimes burrowing underground and shooting their claws at them from long range. They also have a mid-air recovery move that prevents them from being juggled to death. Their armor protects them from weaker firearms, so they can only resort to using the grenadegun and shotgun.

Out in the main area, double-rows of cold blue flames burning on the ground show the way to an ominous dark archway with a raised portcullis.

Naruto looked at the flames on the floor and smiled. "Looks like they really plan on giving us a warm welcome"

"Then let's not keep them waiting any longer" Dante said with a smug look before they make their way through the arc.

They walked out into a new area which appears to be the barbican of the castle: a collapsed entrance stood opposite them preventing them from moving any further. On the walls to their left an right respectively is a ladder leading to the up to the second level into a hallway that connects the two walls.

Naruto frowned when he saw the collapsed entrance. "Did we already outlive our welcome?"

Dante shook his head. "It doesn't feel like it." He turned to Naruto and said. "let's take a look around".

Naruto nodded. "Okay"

They wall climbed into the second layer, making their way to the hallway. The main thing in this hallway is another wheel device: activating this cause a stack of platforms on the far wall to arrange themselves into a spiral formation hovering high in the air leading up to a higher platform in the sky.

Naruto and Dante exchanged looks when they saw the hovering platforms.

Naruto pointed at the platforms and said. "First one to the top. The loser has to perform one request for the winner."

Dante smirked and nodded. "Agreed". Then he raised three fingers and said. "On three"

Naruto nodded. He prepared to move across the platforms and reach the top immediately after the countdown. But nothing could prepare him for what happened next.

"Three!" Dante moved before Naruto could react jumping across the platforms, and quickly using air hike to reach the higher ones.

"Wait..what?" Naruto stood stunned for a few seconds before it dawned on him that Dante had just pulled a fast one on him.

"Hey! That's cheating!" Naruto hurried after him but unfortunately it was already too late.

Naruto arrived at the top which was a floating gazebo to see Dante's arms covered with flaming gauntlets. Naruto had noticed this flaming gauntlets run laps in a circle in the sky when he was making his way up.

'What is that?' He could feel the demonic power coming off of the gaunlets. The head it gave off made the oxygen in the air grow thin.

He didn't dare move closer to it in fear of suffocating or being burned.

Dante marvelled at Ifrit In his arms. The heats the flames gave off didn't bother him in the least. These powerful fire-element gauntlets will allow Dante to perform punches and kicks that will deal extra damages to whoever or whatever they come in touch with.

Dante looked up at Naruto cheekily and said. "Looks like I won kid"

Dante's word snapped Naruto out of his initial shock of seeing the new devil arm. Naruto's anger resurfaced when he remembered how Dante had played him.

"Hey, Dante! You cheated!" Naruto fumed.

Dante shrugged with a small smile on his face, saying. "Sorry kid. But I won fair and square, so now you owe me a favor. Don't forget it"

Naruto grit his teeth trying his best not to jump Dante right there and then. After a kittle struggle he finally managed to calm himself down, though the frown on his face still remained, he asked through gritted teeth.

"What would you have me do?"

Dante adopted a thinking pose, looking likr he was contemplating something. Then after a few seconds he shrugged an said. "I can't decide for now. I'll let you know whrn he finally come up with something. First, let's get out of here"

"Fine" Naruto sighed in defeat but inwardly he was already thinking of ways to get back at Dante.

He had originally suggested the challenge in order to get Dante to owe him a favor which he would keep as a secret weapon to use against him in the future, but it turned around and bite him in the ass.

Naruto watched Dante's back and frowned. He was already plotting his revenge.

'I'm going to get back at him one of this days'

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