--back at the observation room—
General's P.O.V
"sir we need to stop this match already, clearly the causalities are getting too much." One of the general's escort called out to the general with a very worried tone, as the general just kept on grinning at the screen with an excited expression on his face. He continued to observe the fight between them. "sir, please, we need to put an end to this battle-."
"leave them, right now all that matters now is the glimpse of the untapped potential that both of them have… it's quite a nice piece of battle… a predator with an out matched power… vs a prey with a undying will to win, ha ha ha, this has to be the best fight yet." The general exclaimed with a smug, but then his face turned serious and he turned his gaze at the escort. "I'm in charge of this assessment… so whatever I say goes, Thomas… I want to see this through, if there is any need to stop the match, i… will give the go ahead."
"affirmative sir, crystal clear." Thomas bowed and faced the screen to join the general in observing the battle.
"Thomas… has he arrived yet..." the general asked, still keeping a very cold look on his face, and now glaring his eyes at the screen before them.
"not yet sir… but very soon." Thomas answered, earning a nod from the general.
"good… not back to the battle." The general commented and gave a sinister grin at the screen.
--back at the 12th representatives waiting room—
Third person's P.O.V
"d-dante… come on you can do this." Rin thought out loud with a very worried expression on her face, keeping her gaze locked on the screen and her right hand on her chest. "please keep on going."
"those bastards are just gonna let them continue the match, come on." Luca called out with a very angered expression, as he continued to witness the onslaught of spear chasing dante. Mark just continued to remain silent for now, hoping for dante to overcome this obstacle, but then his attention went over to trinity, who couldn't help but just stare at the screen with an over worried look painted al over her features, while she increase her grip on her chair, feeling uneased by the current situation.
"d-dante… please be alright." Trinity tried to whisper out, as her eyes were filled with so much worry… for dante's wellbeing.
--back at the battle grounds—
Dante and lance clashed at each other, landing and evading hit from each other, but then dante dodge a swift swing from lance's spear and proceeded to deliver a forward jab to his face, which was immediately blocked by a sudden spear that had a thicker staff, though the collision of dante's fist with the staff created a shockwave the shook the terrain, raising dust and rumble into the air.
Immediately dante launched a kick towards lance's face, far faster than he could perceive before, as the force launched lance far towards the walls of the arena. But before lance could slam on the wall, he stabbed the spear into ground suddenly creating an onslaught of spears that protruded out of the ground in hundreds, all aimed at dante; who just stood there with glaring look, as he suddenly started to concentrate the amount of mana around his two hands, generating a torrent wild reddish mana flaring around it.
"aurora technique: will"
Dante chanted while assuming a wide legged stance with his elbows shot backwards, and the wind around him started to pick up very violently, as even the ground started to shake from the amount of mana being focus within his hands.
His eyes suddenly sparked with a red glow, as he breath out a long fog of steam. He then turned his gaze back at the incoming wave of spears heading his way.
"rippling earth"
Dante slammed his palms together to generate a sudden blast of mana that started to ravaged the terrain leading toward towards lance, as the shockwave infused mana proceeded to decimate the spear and continue to make it's way towards lance with force, rippling through the ground like a transverse wave, rippling throughout a calm water body. The wave reached lance, who was in shock due to the feat of managing to overcome the torrent of spears with just on move, but he then proceeded to swirl his spear in a circular motion, and then striking it in a vertical motion that seemed to tear through the attack. The rippling effect of the attack was neutralized in an instant by the sudden counter attack by lance, but the moment it all occurred, lance was met with a massive knee to the jaw, successfully connecting and dealing great damage to him by dante. The move stunned him and dante then proceeded with a quick series of jabs that started to dent most of his armor in the process of impact, as the reddish glow of the concentrated mana still lingered around his fists.
Dante was about to land a right hook to the side of lance's face, but was met with a sudden dodge by lance, followed by a swing of his spear towards dante's abdominal region, but the following swing aimed to his head by lance was dodged. Dante landed a quick fist shot to lance's chest, connecting in an instant, but just as he was about to land a leg swipe, lance evaded it and tried to stab dante with the tip of his spear, but he was immediately countered by dante; launching a kick upwards to get rid of lance grip on the spear, which flew into the air… but lance reached forward and grabbed it again, instantaneously driving the spear straight in the ground, causing a sudden magic circle to appear below dante.
"MINE!" lance roared out, triggering the mine and making it to glow even bright, preparing to explode. But dante noticed this on time and proceeded to act and this motion was followed by a draw back heel to the ground in a sharp battle axe move.
"aurora technique: will"
"QUAKE!"
The attack broke through the ground an caused a turmoil that shook the terrain, pushing back the incoming explosion from the sudden mine and also putting lance off balanced. Lance worn a shocked expression at this, but immediately brought up his spear to counter the fist drove at his chest but dante, driving him straight into the wall.
"damn you dog!" lance roared out from the crater form on the wall due to the incredibly fast attack that shot him straight into the wall at great force, but this time lance responded with a large spear shot out towards dante, who held his ground and received the huge force of the attack, but he didn't dare to move an inch at all, instead dante held on to it and started to… lift the spear, and then proceeded to slam it back into the ground at full force, cause a great turmoil from lance side, as a large cloud of dust had covered the whole terrain blocking dante's view. But then the spear shrunken back to it normal size and flew back to where it protruded from.
But just as the dust cleared to reveal lance with his armor almost totally damaged by dante's move, though lance glared at him and plunged the spear into the ground… but this time, he placed the tip facing upwards to the sky and implanting the bottom into the ground.
'what is he doing… hmp?' dante wondered with a curious look on his face, but then suddenly the whole arena started to shake, as the two walls opposite each other busted open to reveal two very large spears bottom, at each of dante sides, the two staff bottom each slammed at dante's two side, though dante already had his arms out wide opened, stopping the two staffs from squashing him. 'damn it!'
"aaahhhh!" dante roared out, trying to push back the two very large staffs… but before dante could think of a way of escaping, he looked up at lance, whose eyes was now glowing white. A white magical circle erupted beneath dante, alerting him of a possible mine appearing. 'another mine? I don't have time for this'
Dante thought in frustration, as he managed to coat himself in his usual red mana aura "if I can't stop them all at once… then I might as well just tank one!"
A roar erupted from dante's mouth, as he proceeded to push back the two huge staffs of the spear and at that very moment they we about to return back to crush him, he breath in and then out, encasing his hands in the previous concentrated red mana coating… everything become slower and slower… until dante pointed out his index fingers, now concentrating most of his mana in those particular areas. As the fingers made contact with the gigantic base of the spear… dante calmed his voice and whispered.
"aurora technique: will"
"soft impact."
The bases of the staffs exploded and shattered in millions of shads of metal, as he then managed to focus at lance who now launched at him, with his spear out to deliver a frontal stab to dante's mid chest, but to lance surprise, dante had turned in the last second to not just evade the strike but also grabbed the staff of his spear. Lance saw this and smug as dante also gave a light smug as well.
"remarkable… truly you're not someone of weak skills… as expected… but I'm not going to lose no matter what… dante." Lance spoke out with the words reaching the ears of dante, who just glared at lance with grin and simply responded.
"bring it on… lance"
"so be it, sacred arm: …."
--back at the observation room—
"sir we need to stop this match, something is wrong with the weather-." The escort try to warn but the general said with a nod.
"clear them out of there befor-." The general was caught off but the sudden turmoil and the sound of lightning storming ahead of the base. "damn it, is that brat trying to kill them both, stop the match."
--back at the 12th representatives waiting room—
"that bastard!" luca roared out and headed towards the door, as this confused the rest. Rin held onto him to stop him, confused at his sudden outburst. "let go rin, I need to save dante."
"what do you mean luca, we're not allowed to interfer-."
"that bastard is trying to kill himself and wants to take dante down with him, we need to stop him." The moment luca had pointed out what was happening, trinity got angered at this I rushed out, followed by the rest at her back, as they made their way towards the arena.
--back at the battle ground—
"the match has now been called out, please don't proceed any further." The general called out, but apparently the light began to light up even more.
"DANTE!" dante turned his head to see his teammates calling out to him, running to reach him, as he just stood there with a very confused expression, then he returned his gaze back at lance, who just grinned like a maniac.
"huh? Guy-."
"…Odin's judgment" lance casted finish, as the sky above the base started to glow pure white. A bright lightening struck out and broke through the layers of the base to finally reach the battle arena, with everything fading out in a very bright light.
BOOM!