Chapter 425: Backdooring
In the Qliphoth, Dante was still running forward.
He could vaguely feel Nero’s aura and knew that Nero was heading toward where Urizen was. He seemed to have placed all his hopes of finding Dante and Demon Sword Sparda on V, while he desperately wanted to challenge Urizen.
You’re too impulsive, Nero… Dante thought as his feet kept moving. That’s your father. You can’t kill him…
Dante urgently wanted to rush over, but a powerful elite high-rank demon blocked his path.
This elite high-rank demon was Black Knight Angelo. He stood in Dante’s way and wanted to kill Dante, a descendant of Sparda. But when Dante, holding the Sword of Sparda, fought against Angelo, he found that this guy was actually using lightning power, so he secretly paid attention.
Sure enough, after defeating Angelo, Dante found Trish naked in his stomach.
“Are you okay?” Dante smiled while holding Trish. “This guy used the same lightning power as you, so I guessed that he might be using you…”
“Dante…” Trish had just been released and was extremely weak. She forced her eyes open and smiled at Dante. “It’s so good to see you again…”
“Relax and rest up! I still have to rush to save that idiot Nero!” Dante put Trish down. V happened to follow staggeringly from behind, so Dante entrusted Trish to him.
V hurriedly accepted this task, but he ordered the demon crow Griffon to follow Dante, hoping to be of help to him.
Dante embarked on the journey again. Along the way, he encountered some demons and killed them mercilessly.
But not long after, Dante encountered something unexpected.
He saw his home, his former home!
Red Grave City was where Dante and Vergil had lived when they were young, and the ruins of their former home had always been preserved here. But Dante never expected that the Qliphoth would include their home as it grew.
In the ruins, Dante found an old photo. In the photo, the faces of his father and mother had been burned away, leaving only the two little white-haired boys intact.
Dante stroked the photo nostalgically and fell into his memories.
After a while, he suddenly took out the hilt of Rebellion from under his trench coat.
Urizen had broken Rebellion during Dante’s first battle with him. But after being sent flying, Dante still held the remaining hilt tightly. He was unwilling to give up this sword that had accompanied him for decades.
“When my dear brother Vergil pierced my body with Rebellion, the demon power in my body activated once…” Dante sized up Rebellion while muttering to himself. “I’ve been wondering why Father gave me Rebellion…”
Griffon, who had been flying near Dante, asked in confusion, “What are you mumbling about?”
Dante looked at him and laughed self-deprecatingly. “Over the years, I’ve been poked by many things, but who would have expected…”
With that, Dante suddenly turned the sword hilt and stabbed the remaining blade end into his abdomen!
This action shocked Griffon. He screamed, “Are you crazy?! What are you doing?! There are demons waiting for us to defeat in front. If you’re so anxious to commit suicide, I can help you!”
However, Dante ignored him and stabbed the blade of Rebellion deeper into his stomach while gasping heavily. “Since Yamato can separate humans and demons, what use does Rebellion have…”
Before he finished speaking, the hilt of Rebellion in his abdomen turned into a red light and merged into his body!
Moreover, the Sword of Sparda on Dante’s back gradually turned into a red light at this moment and then drilled into Dante’s body. Griffon was so shocked that he could not help but shout, “Wow—! You… you’re absorbing Sparda’s power?!”
Red light lingered around Dante’s body and turned into red lightning. Dante let out a painful and satisfied roar before his body started shaking violently!
A magic formation light formed by red lightning flashed in Dante’s body. With the disappearance of the magic formation light, an incomparably powerful magic power erupted from Dante! A red shock wave instantly spread out and swept everything around it, blowing countless rocks away.
The red light gradually disappeared, but Dante’s appearance had changed drastically. His original human form completely disappeared, replaced by a tall red demon with a sinister face!
This red demon exuded an intense high temperature all over his body, and fiery flames even seeped out from under his skin from various parts of his body. He had sharp claws that were as sharp as blades, and there were protruding bone spikes all over his body. He floated in the air, and the four enormous demon wings on his back flapped slowly. The two pairs of demon horns on his head were long and thick. One pair pierced straight into the sky while the other curved to cover his cheeks.
The original human pupils had long disappeared, leaving only a pair of red eyes emitting dazzling light.
“Strength… Such powerful strength…” Dante lowered his head and looked at his curved demon claws and then suddenly squatted.
The next second, the sound of air exploding came. Dante flew into the sky at high speed, breaking through the sound barrier, and then disappeared.
“W-what’s going on?” Griffon stared at Dante’s departing figure, dumbfounded. He could not come back to his senses for a long time. When he finally realized what had happened, he immediately flapped his wings and rushed back to V’s side while screaming, “It’s starting! The battle is about to begin!”
When Dante, who had completely transformed into a demon, flew to where Urizen was, he happened to see the scene of Urizen’s tentacles capturing Nero. Thus, he fell like a meteor with tremendous force, and the powerful shock wave directly broke the root tentacles wrapping around Nero.
Nero immediately recognized Dante when he saw this demon.
“Dante, you b.a.s.t.a.r.d. I knew you wouldn’t die so easily…” Nero was panting, but he could already laugh.
Although he was unwilling, he knew that he was indeed not Urizen’s match. It was the same even though he had increased his magic power through devouring souls. Looking at Dante’s powerful demon form, Nero felt that perhaps only Dante could defeat Urizen.
“Dante…” Urizen recognized Dante and was shocked by the change in his appearance. At the same time, he felt the immense magic power in Dante, so he finally stood up from his throne.
The root tentacles wrapped around Urizen were still thick with blood and red. Feeling Urizen’s boiling fighting spirit, these root tentacles waved crazily.
Urizen’s body was very tall and big, and Dante looked a little small, floating in front of him. But at this moment, Dante’s heart was br.i.m.m.i.n.g with unparalleled confidence. Although he only had four wings, he was actually in the Sin Devil Trigger state after fusing his demon power with the demon power in the Sword of Sparda. In this state, Dante also had the power of a demon lord!
Dante stretched out his hand, and a slender and long demon sword with strange patterns appeared in his hand. This was Demon Sword Dante, a powerful demon sword named after Dante!
It’s time to fight. Sareth, I’ll buy you time. I hope you can destroy that fruit as soon as possible… Dante thought as he held the demon sword and rushed at Urizen…
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On another side, on the crown of the Qliphoth, Sareth had arrived.
He specially experimented and found that it was really the Demon Bible stele on his back that allowed him to break through the barrier. He did not know why, but he did not intend to investigate further. After breaking through the barrier, he came to the location of the h.e.l.l apple.
The magic formation engraved on the ground was still there. Sareth calmed his mind, walked into the magic formation, and came under the fruit.
If some religious people were here and saw this apple that was beating like a heart, they might not be able to help but think of the ‘forbidden fruit’ in the Garden of Eden. This was indeed the case. This h.e.l.l apple had a power that could cause people to degenerate. It was an evil fruit nurtured with blood and souls, and it was full of endless negative power.
This fruit had grown much bigger since the last time Sareth came, but it was still not fully ripe, and it was still dripping with a sticky black unknown substance.
Wait, wait… Sareth knew that he could not be anxious. But as he walked around the fruit, he looked around from time to time, afraid that Urizen would tear through s.p.a.ce and suddenly appear if he was not careful. That would be terrible…
Sareth did not know if Dante, Nero, and the others had managed to delay Urizen, so he could only choose to believe them.
After waiting for a long time, the beating of the h.e.l.l apple suddenly slowed down. At the same time, an enchanting fragrance emitted from the fruit!
It was hard to imagine that such an ugly apple could emit such a salivating aroma. It was the first time that Sareth had smelled this kind of fragrance, and he almost could not help but want to pluck the fruit and stuff it into his mouth.
Fortunately, he managed to resist it. The appearance of this aroma meant that the h.e.l.l apple had finally ripened, so he did not dare to delay. He swung Executioner above the h.e.l.l apple, cutting the branch connected to the apple.
The h.e.l.l apple fell and happened to land right at the center of the formation. Sareth could not be bothered to pick it up. He immediately ran to the edge of the magic formation and pressed his hand on it…
At the same time, Urizen, who was battling Dante in his demon form, suddenly stopped.
He was currently connected to the Qliphoth, so when the h.e.l.l apple matured, he immediately knew. But what surprised him was that as soon as he sensed the apple ripen, he found that it had disappeared from the branch!
“Who is it?!” Urizen roared angrily, his anger reaching its peak in an instant. With a wave of his hand, the spiked sword beside him immediately removed the crystals on the surface and returned to the form of Yamato.
Urizen held Yamato, cut a cross in the air, instantly opening a spatial rift, and entered.
It was too late for Dante to stop him. He knew something had happened and rushed into the rift as well.
This spatial rift naturally connected to the top of the Qliphoth. When Urizen emerged from the spatial rift, he saw the h.e.l.l apple lying quietly on the ground. However, surrounding the h.e.l.l apple was a magic formation that was already radiating light.
A human-looking child was squatting at the edge of the magic formation with his hand pressed on it. He turned his head and saw Urizen. The two pairs of big eyes and small eyes stared at each other.
The atmosphere was extremely awkward…