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ante had no intentions of letting such a nasty looking blunt weapon hit him with full force. Putting his weight to his right side of his body, he narrowly side-stepped the spiked ball letting it graze past his left side as he moved forward. Dante's arms would immediately raise high as he twisted his wrist to turn the blade to point downward. Using the aura around the blade, Dante would push against the staff in a parry-like manuever in order to try to keep the man from swinging it sideways as he moved within its full range. As the aura pushed against whatever the staff was made of Dante would continue moving forward. Upon reaching the lower section of the staff, Dante would push the blade from this parrying motion to quickly spring upwards to move beneath the man's right arm. With a flick of his wrist, he would aim to sever the entire are at the shoulder. His tail curled upwards as he grinned at the man, enjoying the change of pace the fight had gone through.

ante glared furiously as he watched his beloved katana easily blocked and caught. The Kenrou Jyuuken, Dante's very own chakra manipulation/Taijutsu technique, had been held back for the most part during this entire tournament. Now, with the demon seal released the Kenrou Jyuuken could show the pinnacle of chakra and bodily energy control. Dante's intentions immediately change to become more drastic instead of trying to drag this fight out to see who could endure longer.

he wolfish man's ears easily caught the motion of the spiked ball and the explosion of spikes that insued. Listening closely to the initial separation and movement of the spikes, Dante was able to paint a close enough picture in his mid as to where the general attacks would land. Though, there were so many of them he decided it would be best to just defend accordingly. Dante would concentrate most of his chakra to his back side. The raging confligration-like aura that engulfed his body had seemed to dim down. Was he loosing power ? From the looks of it, ever single spike had made contact with Dante's body, but in reality, coating his back side with a seemingly solid layer of chakra about two inches thick he would catch every single spike. The layer of chakra acting like a skin tight layer of extremely dense armor, the spikes would lodge into the chakra layer seeming as though they had lodged into his back. Had Azure won the battle ?

s though the fight were over, Dante's movements ceased. He slipped forward a bit, releaving his grasp of the katana as the force of the spikes pushed him forward. Just when it seemed he were going to drop to his knees, he would swiftly reach his arms out to grasp the man's shoulders. The confligration-like aura suddenly burst forth from the Tenketsu of his body buring as feirce as ever. As he grasped the man's shoulders, he would once again utilize the Kenrou Jyuuken. The 3rd phase would active as chakra surged through his side forming the shape of two more arms. These arms would stretch around the man to hold his arms at his sides so that he could not move. Though, this wasn't his attack. This was merely the precautions he took to ensure that his attack wouldn't fail. Dante's entire mid section would seem to explode with a series of redish-white flashes that seemed to last less than a second each. This was merely what could be seen with the human eye. Dante's chakra surged through his body in the Kenrou Jyuuken phase 2-3 to flow so swiftly and solidfy as what seemed to be a series simultaneous explosions of force to rip through the man's body. The close proximity easily made reaction out of the question. The swift explosions of force would be similar to taking several 120mm tank shells at point blank all at once. Because the force was so extreme the reaction force would do some severe damage to Dante. Dante grinned with blood seeping through his teeth; a clear sign of internal bleeding. The force would do some major damage to Dante's rib cage, but hopefully it would end the fight with the man who he held onto ever so tightly ripped to shreads. He gave his all; hopefully it would pay off because if it didn't..He'd be in deep s**t.

alice was the only word that could be used to describe the expression that sat on Dante's face. A wolfish grin sat taut on his face, his canine's spattered with fresh blood. His tongue slowly rolled upon his lip to lick up a bit of blood that seemed to escape the grasp of his mouth. This was clearly not the usual monotone Dante. The demon seal was begining to take over. Although that meant he would seem more powerful, the immense strain on his body would be evident as well through his slouched posture and heavy breathing. Dante had always seemed more human than he was demon, but now he seemed to be reverting back to his beastly roots. Slouched down, low to the ground with bloody fangs..Oh he was quite a beast! The arms of chakra seemed to receed only to be replaced by the firey ride aura that engulfed the man. The tendrils of chakra that stretched from his body began to move more erratically; violently whipping through the air and occasionally snagging against the many pillars of the temple. As the tendrils would collide with the solid matter of the pillars the chakra would seem to cause the material to corrode as if the tendrils were made of an acidic material. In reality, the chakra was merely feeding on the solid matter, tearing it down down till it was nothing. Dante would merely stand in his slouched position, his hair dangling deep in his face, catching his breath a bit before the onslaught would continue.

t was quite amazing that the man was able to weild such a massive blade with such force. The long octipus-like tendrils of chakra that extended from his body began to thrash about around him. The tendrils made purely of chakra, fortified through his Kenrou Jyuuken technique, would swing violently through the air to bat away the debris from the destruction of the blade. In order to save himself from the sheer force of the wave, the dried earth brought in previously in the battle would be manipulated to mold around his feet as though he were melding with the floor itself. Meanwhile, Dante would continue the earth onslaught from behind the man. Using the earth shaped limbs as a medium, Dante's chakra would begin to shape around the hands. The chakra would flow freely in the non-matter form like an aura around the earth-made hands. What was Dante up to ?