Third person P.O.V
--back at the battle ground--
'what is this… damn it, I've already made contact with the arm… that bastard made it seem like it was the armor, but at the end it was just the spear in his palm… hidden in plain sight.' Dante thought with a feeling of regret and anxiety, as he continued to stare out towards lance's direction. He stood there with his spear pulsing out condensed waves of black colored mana that seemed to be changing the environment of the terrain into rubble and cider… "hmp, natural predator huh… let's see then!"
Dante roared out and coated himself in a thick red mana laying all over his body, launching right at lance with the motive of launching a fist strike straight for his jaw with left hook, moving with speed that made him almost undetectable. But just before dante could land the hit successfully, lance saw this coming and plunged his spear into the ground, putting a pause on dante's motive. Dante tried to change his momentum and twist his body to try and land a kick instead, but then suddenly to his outmost shock, the ground started to rumble and shook with a vigorous mass effect. Before dante knew it, his instincts roared out for him to jump high in the air and try to avoid the upcoming danger, and to his surprise multitudes of spear protruded out of the ground, just beneath dante. They started to chase him around like a heat seeking missile, following up with all his quick turns and evasion, but then another round of a multitude of spears erupted out and started to pursue dante along with the previous one.
"what the, not this again. These damn spears won't just quit… or maybe." Dante called out in annoyance, but then turn his view to lance who stood there and proceeded to observe the pursuit on dante. "I just need to focus on the head… just maybe."
Dante did a quick turn and started to chase after lance, who remained there unfazed, but still glaring at dante. The spears followed him along and that's when dante finally started to increase his speed even more. "damn you! Aurora technique: drive"
"BOLT! SIX-FOLD!"
Dante launched off and impacted with lance, immediately departing from him, but just as the spears collided, dante soon saw that the spears just made a quick second turn, totally avoiding him entire and still heading on a crash course directly at dante.
"huh, damn it." dante cursed, while beginning his escape, but just before he could resume it, a sudden bunch of spears sprouted out of the ground and tried to impale me. dante managed to the dodge just some by twisting his body to avoid the tips of the spears. Though a visible mark could be seen on his cheek, as the incidence was so sudden, that dante couldn't dodge it all. Lance turned his view towards the now entangled dante within the staffs of the spear, securing him in place.
"well I have to admit… your proficiency in aurora technique is quite admirable… but right now… it's nothing against me… it's ov-." Lance was interrupted by dante clicking his tongue out loud.
"yeah… I get it, it's over." Dante called out with an annoyed expression on his face, as he started to coat himself in a similar red glow aura, instantly healing the injuries he had and also the one on his right cheek. "but let me tell you something lance, I don't give a crap about your fancy stick-."
A barrage of spears launched at dante, and hammered him down to the ground. As the shadows began to clear up, dante was seen to be in a bad shape, as though he managed to cast a protective cloak on his body, but clearly it wasn't enough to protect him from most of the spear, with some that had impaled his arms and legs. Dante held himself not to roar out in pain, but was releasing series of grunts of pain.
"shut up your trap and perish dog." Lance called out to dante and proceeded to bombard dante with series of spears, but this time dante managed to get himself out of there before the hit could land. "ha… don't fool yourself."
Dante landed on the ground some few feet away from lance, but something wasn't right, dante took a look around his surroundings, while covering himself in his mana cloak.
"aurora technique: will"
"fast recovery."
Dante's body started to revert to its normal state, removing all the injuries that was present on his body. After that was done, dante glared at lance and vanished from sight, already launching an offensive against lance… but as he flickered in front of lance, preparing to launch a jab to his face. A spear protruded out from the ground, inevitably blocking lance from the attack by letting dante's fist collide with the staff of the conjured-up spear. The force from the impact made sparks to fly out from the collision, considering that the staff of the spear is made out of pure steel. Lance grinned at this, as dante started to strike in other different areas, all being met with a newly conjured up spear that seems to know just where he would want to strike next.
"sigh… this arm really is limiting my options for attack; it's reading me out like an open book and apparently knows how to counter with every strike and evasion… in other words… its basically outclasses all my abilities to this very point… just like a predator its prey.' Dante thought, while still launching a barrage of different attacks that soon start to shake the battle ground due to the enormous force being applied in those hits. 'and it seems that these spears now are seamless unbreakable unlike before.'
Dante launched an attack that managed to dent on the staff of a certain spear that grew out of the ground to protect lance's face from his fist… lance noticed this and proceeded to strengthen his grip around his spear, increasing the amount of mana flowing through it. "you dare threaten my user… begone."
"huh, what's going on" 'was that from lance… or could it be… so it's now in control.' Dante tried to move back away from the insane number of spears that chased to impale him once more. Dante looked up at lance to notice that his two eyes now had a dark shadow outline around his two eyes, with a bright golden yellow iris right in the middle of the now black sclera.
"the arm is now fully conscious."
"insolence… sacred arm: collapsing
ground." Lance (the arm) spoke in very dark tone, as dante foot had finally touched the ground, the patch of land beneath his very fit started to glow a very bright yellow until, dante tried to remove his foot while trying to avoid some incoming seeking spear.
"mine!"
BOOM!
An eardrum shattering explosion shook the terrain as it consumed dante's figure and with the spear launches straight at him never losing their speed or momentum, making a large shockwave from the impact they made into dante.
The smoke cleared to see dante with burn marks around him, as the explosion had gotten to him, along with the spear, some of them already impaled into his limbs, shoulders and around his abdominal region.
"g..grm.. damn…it-." dante couldn't speak another word as he took another step backwards, triggering another series of explosion, while more multitude of spear slammed into his very body, as this continued creating series of explosions and shockwaves. 'm-my body… shit… It all burns.'
"pathetic… it's over sarutobi… my victory is already assured." Lance spoke out in the midst of the series of explosions and shockwaves from both the mines and seeking spears. He then proceeded to remove his spear from the ground, stopping the onslaught of spears but not removing then totally, as they are still impaled into dante's flesh. But though smoke covered the scene, lance could still see dante's figure, pinned and held down in place… in the mercy of lance. "you tried… but you were destined to fail against me… sarutobi… begone."
Lance pointed his spear outward towards dante with a grin, as the spear morphed and suddenly elongated to a massive size, making its way towards dante through the smoke. The moment the spear collided with the target; lance started to notice that something was wrong… and just before he could focus on what could have been the problem, a sudden projectile was launched at him, making a spear to protrude from the ground and try blocking the projectile… but the moment the object made contact with the staff of the spear, the force from the projectile shattered through the staff, resulting to lance dodging it at the very last second with a very shocked expression on his face. A cut mark appeared on his right cheek, as a sudden shockwave along with a massive crater had form on the wall behind him, caused by the project… which lance's eyes widen to see that it was a… robe gold colored button.
Lance took his gaze back at the cloud of smoke, as the smoke started to clear little by little to reveal dante with fierce red eyes along with a very chaotic mana presence… almost similar to the one he projected in the mana presence assessment room. This made the arm to become rest, as it returned back to it's original shape and size, as out of the shadow of the smoke and dust came dante with several burnt mark cut and tears all over… but apart from that, he seemed almost unfazed with a grim and raged expression on his face.
"yep, now you've done it… you've pushed me Lancelot." Dante said with a menacing aura of dark red mana overflowing out of his very being and coating the room in its ominous aura, as dante now took a stance and ignore the sudden darkening of the skull on his bracelet. Glaring at lance he finally called out.
"come at me you bastard with everything you got."