"Oh... You're back," Nagasawa said as she saw Dante suddenly appear in the middle of the Palace of Aldria.
But her face... was far from happy... at least, not as usual. She felt a dark aura surrounding him... She didn't know where he had been, didn't know what he had done, but it was clear he wasn't in the mood to talk about it... Still, she asked.
"Did something happen?" she inquired, and Dante gave a crooked smile as he approached and gently stroked her white hair. "Maybe I need to tame a certain White-Winged Dove," he said, almost in a moment of anger. But was everything okay? Who knows, this man seemed to be nothing but trouble...
"Ahhh!!" A scream of rage... Well, on the other hand, it seemed like something was happening near where Dante was, so he looked in that direction and sensed familiar auras. "Is she still stuck in that stupid mindset of wanting to be stronger and feeling inferior?" Dante asked, looking at Nagasawa, who, well... This time it was her turn to give a crooked smile.
"Ahh... Seriously, sometimes I think I need to learn to be more communicative... Because it's impossible that what I say is so contrary to what you all understand," Dante said, frustrated... Why? Because that idiot woman didn't understand what he meant!
"Well... It's not just Aaralyn..." Nagasawa murmured, and Dante's eyes widened as he quickly expanded his aura throughout the imperial capital.
"Shit..." he muttered. When he had gathered with them a few hours ago, he hadn't noticed, but... all of them... "How did you all get so strong?!" Dante asked, not understanding what was going on.
In truth... it wasn't just Aaralyn who was training... no, far from it... When Dante ordered them to train, it was something extremely serious for all of them... Dante didn't need to train, but they did? They were at a point where if they didn't train, they'd be useless...
It wasn't just Aaralyn who was overdoing it... all of them... Each one of them was in an internal struggle to become even stronger versions of themselves...
"No... Something's wrong..." Dante murmured, sensing the monstrous auras of every woman in that place...
Aaralyn was one... She was much stronger than any of the Demon Kings Dante had dealt with in Hell, and she had been one of the weakest until recently... But the problem wasn't her growth... Dante already knew about Aaralyn's Shadow Technique, so it was obvious she would evolve quickly... But...
The aura coming from Vex... felt like a nuclear bomb of power... She was at least twice as strong as when he had turned her into a full-fledged Succubus, and the same thing was happening with Velryna, Sara, Lyrianna, and Aldria.
"What the hell happened here?" he questioned, but suddenly... A massive aura emerged from a nearby training field... For a moment, Dante confused it with Morgana's aura, but Morgana wasn't here, was she? Of course not!
"Sorry, dear, I'll be right back," Dante said, disappearing into the flames. "He must have felt the old dragon..." Nagasawa murmured, then shrugged and headed towards where they were...
Dante appeared in a training field that looked more like a war zone, and there were two dragons who seemed to be holding back their transformations into beasts just two meters tall... Voralith had awakened Angelic Feathered Wings in her Dragon transformation, while the other one...
To the Dragon Progenitor, who in all these thousands of years had never seen anything like this!
But he didn't even have time to think...
"Just call me your wife already and love me, I'm tired, okay? I worked hard to learn everything!" she shouted, making Dante's face contort a bit from the force of the wind she generated...
"Hey! I'm not deaf!" Dante shouted back at her, almost sending her flying back just like him...
"They look like two children," Voralith commented, "Just take her as your wife so we can finish this, I can't stand her talking about wanting to possess you and those perverted things anymore. You should punish Vex later, okay? She's the one to blame here," Voralith said impatiently while looking at Dante and Eldrax, who stared back at her with completely neutral expressions...
"Dante! It looks like it's time!" Dante heard a shout coming from inside the palace, it was Velryna who was waving at him, "There's a portal here!" she called out, and Dante smiled, "It seems we have to go, my lovely wives." Dante said, turning to Voralith and Eldrax, who gave a shy but victorious smile.
He walked with the two dragonesses by his side as they headed towards the palace when...
"So, it seems the time has come..." Aldria murmured; she seemed a little nervous and anxious to participate in this meeting of rulers... Well, it was her first time, so it made sense that she felt nervous and anxious.
"Just try to behave, don't say anything until you're asked, withhold any information until Dante speaks," Lyrianna said, now truly looking like the Ruler of the Eastern Continent...
"Let's just follow the initial plan. It's time to pay back what was done," Nagasawa said, clearly thinking about her personal revenge against the two who were still missing...
Appearing, Dante just smiled, seeing that they were genuinely excited. "Those who aren't going, stay alert to what's going to happen; I believe this issue will be broadcast worldwide... so stay alert, Simon will open a portal straight to Kryoris if things get out of control," Dante said, and then he looked at a tree by the window.
"My love, will you come here?" Dante said, and a branch extended, forming a woman, "Can you come with me to another world? Or do the trees of the world have these restrictions?"
Fey looked at him and nodded, transforming her body into a kind of leaf bracelet that wrapped around his wrist. "This way I can go... but my power is limited to 10%," she commented.
Before they could continue, a Light Elf appeared...
"Is everything ready?" Dante questioned, and the Elf nodded... "Then, it's time to begin," Dante said, smiling.