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chapter 98: part-2
He failed differently.He adjusted again.About an hour in, Vorak's head came up from his forepaws."He's doing it," Vorak said.Pride unfolded his arms.Azark opened his eyes.Dante was floating. One meter off the floor, both feet clear, his body holding a reasonable approximation of vertical with the skin-flow running in the continuous circuit Pride had described. The distribution wasn't perfect, a slight excess at the left shoulder, a thin spot at the right hip, but the overall system was holding and he wasn't falling.He stayed up.He moved.Not far, not fast, not with any confidence about what he was doing or where he was going, but he crossed three meters of the training room floor without touching it, and then another two, and then he tried to turn left and the turn destroyed the hip distribution and he came down again.Clean landing this time. He'd learned what was coming.He went back up.An hour after that he could move in a straight line at walking pace, hold altitude withi
Chapter 98: Marco part-1
Dante stood in the center of the training room and looked at the ceiling and understood immediately that understanding the theory of flight and being able to execute flight were two entirely separate problems with no overlap.He summoned three of the Fallen.Vorak materialized first, sitting on his haunches with his yellow eyes doing a slow sweep of the room. Azark arrived second, the broken armor settling into stillness with the patience of something that had been waiting in a spiritual sea and didn't mind either way. Pride came last, spear at rest, and looked around the training room with the expression of someone arriving somewhere that met their standards."You flew in the Colosseum Dungeon," Dante said to Pride. "Against Argaron.""I did.""Explain how."Pride looked at him with the particular attention he gave things he found genuinely interesting."Mana essence," he said. "Synced with the body to detach weight from natural law. The essence creates a repelling relationship with
chapter 97: part-2
close the physical gap. The Black Swamp was supposed to be the answer, the brutal efficient shortcut that rebuilt the body from the inside in ways that normal training couldn't reach. He'd planned around it. He'd accepted that the ratio of people who came back with their minds intact was uncomfortable and decided the upside was worth the risk.None of that mattered. The ceiling wasn't about the method. The Black Swamp, the River of Dragon's Tears, mana essence absorbed through the skin in a spy-proof room underground, all of it hit the same wall.Rank. The system's fundamental structure, which didn't care about workarounds.He sat with the frustration for thirty seconds and then set it aside in the specific way he had learned to set things aside, not suppressing it, just putting it in the correct location where it could wait without taking up working space.Options.The Tower's second floor required two keys. He had one. The first floor's boss had dropped a single key and his subseque
Chapter 97: Ceiling part -1
Augusto's footsteps faded up the stairs and the door sealed behind him and Dante was alone.He stood in the center of the room and turned slowly, taking the full measure of it. A thousand meters across in every direction, the walls cushioned in dense material that absorbed rather than reflected, the ceiling high enough that looking up produced the mild vertigo of outdoor spaces. No cameras. No recording equipment of any kind, which the Association had apparently learned the hard way was pointless in a space where the energy output during serious training destroyed anything with a sensor.He sat cross-legged on the floor.Pulled up his panel.He hadn't looked at the numbers properly since before the Celestial Domain, and the numbers had a way of being more honest than everything else combined.Spiritual Power: 8,999.He looked at that for a moment. A typical Rank B Awakened sat somewhere between six and nine thousand. He was at the top of that range, above most B-ranks in spiritual ter
chapter 96: part-2
showed his card to the desk, and took the stairs to Augusto's floor.The office door was open.A young man was just walking out of it.Dante clocked him before they made eye contact, the automatic read he'd been doing since the Colosseum and couldn't fully turn off anymore. Tall, composed, the kind of composed that came from being around authority long enough to learn how not to show things. The face was familiar in the specific way of a face that shared structural features with another face he knew.Aron's face. Older, more controlled, but the same jaw line, the same set of the eyes.Dante kept his breathing even and moved to the side of the corridor to let him pass. The young man's eyes moved across him briefly and registered nothing, no recognition, and he walked past and took the stairs down.Dante stood still for two seconds after he'd gone.Then he exhaled and walked into Augusto's office.Augusto was at his desk with a pen in his hand and the expression of someone who had been
Chapter 96: Underground part-1
His own bed.Dante lay in it for thirty seconds before sleep took him completely, no transition, no winding down, just the particular darkness of a body that had run out of argument.Morning came through the curtains the way it always came, gray at first and then deciding. He reached for his phone before he opened his eyes properly, the old habit, and found two messages waiting in the stack.Augusto, four days ago. Training room is ready when you are.Marco, yesterday. Back in Senticchio in two days. Come find me.Two days meant tomorrow.He put the phone down and looked at the ceiling and felt the particular satisfaction of being exactly where he was supposed to be, in his own room, in his own bed, with his mother making sounds in the kitchen below and nothing in the immediate vicinity trying to kill him.He changed out of the Celestial Domain clothes, which had absorbed enough of the last week to earn retirement, and slept for another four hours.Lucia was already at the table when
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