Disclaimer: I don't own DMC or Witcher.
Character Attributes: This is for the one who asked me about the power comparison between Dante, Geralt and Ciri. Before reading the contents below, keep in mind that game play is not entirely same as a story.
Geralt: After the additional witcher mutations he gained from Moreau's lab in toussaint, His physical strength and reflex, stamina and endurance has increased several times such that now he can block a rushing fiend or even a powerful punch from a giant or elementals. This also granted him additional abilities such as piercing cold, magic sensabilities, euphoria, toxic blood, conductors of magic, cat eyes. Other abilities are suitable for gameplay but not a real time practicality. Unlike gameplay, geralt can use all the 16 different sign abilities to fullest potential. Geralt also now possess some abilities of sorcery. In the 28 years, geralt learned spells that will be helpful in his line of work. One such example is, he no longer uses blade oils, instead enchant a sword with spell to target the particular being. He uses 'IRIS' steel sword and 'Aerondight' silver sword and wears grandmaster ursine armor set. His reflexes are now fast enough to even counter an insanely fast alp or a powerful higher vampire easily. Also Geralt is now a psychic. He can concentrate his mind in accessing paranormal memories. In this story, geralt fights even powerful higher demons.
Ciri: As you all know that ciri is the child of the elder blood, possess greater control over space-time itself. But physically, she's no match for geralt who is now the strongest of the witchers. But geralt trained ciri hard in heavy to very heavy weapons like maces and axes with greater speed. She now possess also better physical abilities unlike before. She can fight an enraged chort, fiend, draconids or even higher demons with both speed and strength. As for her true abilities. She can warp around enemies and hit them at their blind spot. Though not on his league, Ciri is the witcher world's version of 'Vergil'. Her elder blood allows her to age very slowly, but her appearance has matured in the 28 years. Her costume is based on the black and red 'alternative' one.
Dante: What can i say? No matter how powerful geralt and ciri are, They are overpowered by Dante in powers, skills and abilities. Sorry, but fact is fact. As for his appearance, equipments, powers and abilities, Everything i mentioned in the 1st chapter holds through out, but also add Agni & Rudra to his arsenal. His appearance even though from DMC4, his physical strength is greater than that. He's still flippant, foul mouthed and possess a laid back demeanor and does witty taunt, but 49 years of experience alone has granted him lots of worldly knowledge. He's well verse in hell lore and demonology and possess a great vigilant mind.
Apart from everything in my story, the knights, soldiers and witchers use a hybrid flintlock revolver pistols which can shoot 7 metal projectiles just like a normal modern revolver which are newly invented in Aen seidhe in the 28 years gap. Witchers like ciri and geralt use dual pistols. You will certainly understand why i included this in my story.
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Chapter 2: Welcome party
"I will find a way to get you out of here...That's a promise" said dante before entering the portal in front of him. Vergil stood reactionless as if he didn't hear what dante said.
Then dante enters the portal and gets vanished.
Aen Seidhe...
Geralt went to see captain guillaume who now serves as the leader of the knights errant in duchess's court after damien de la tour retired from his military life. Guillaume married Vivienne de tabris, the lady in waiting to duchess Henrietta who now serves as the ducal lady advisor. Guillaume after becoming the leader, has successfully repelled many raids, invasions and even planned lots of ambush for the enemy those who would enter the beauclair lands. For his service, he is one of the most respected individuals in the continent.
Currently, he's in discussion with his knights about a siege they were about to lay in an abandoned castle seized by redanian bandits few years back outside the duchy borders. Geralt entered the camp that was located east of vermentino vineyard.
"Those bandits guard the castle heavily at night than they do at the day time, which means we have to attack them at night so that we can make sure almost everyone's dead and no one escaped. We need -..." Guillaume was interrupted by geralt's presence.
"Ah! Geralt!...Uh gentlemen? Let's have this discussion in an hour. Now disband" finished guillaume. Then geralt walked towards him giving a big arm shake.
"Ha ha...Long time no see, friend" greeted guillaume.
"You been busy. Sieges, war, capture the flag...what not?" replied geralt with a jest.
"You can say that again. After the wars been over for a long time, common thugs had started to show up. Now they had grown more dangerous...Where have you been?" asked guillaume.
"Travelling the world!...Ofier, Vengerberg, flotsam...Name every place in the map. I've been here for past 2 weeks" replied geralt.
"Why didn't you come see me earlier?"
"Said so...You are a busy man. And in 2 days, i'm planning to move to velen"
"I dunno what that swamp has to offer you...Huh...Fine that's your choice. But what about your estate?"
"My majordomo Basil will take care of that in the mean time"
"Ah! your butler. You know geralt? You always manage to get the best for yourself. Duchess's offer is no different"
"Speaking of which, how are Annarietta and Syanna?" asked geralt.
"They are doing fine, the same charisma despite their age"
"Yeah...Sometimes i forget people around me stays the same" replied geralt keeping his head slightly down. Sure, it's was a long since geralt been to toussaint. By then, duchess and syanna were middle aged, but 28 years is a long time for an ordinary human.
"You wish see them?" asked guilluame
"No. Just asked, That's all...*SIGH*...Fine, see you then"
"Take care friend" Geralt and guillaume shaked hands one last time and then geralt left the camp.
Geralt's still got one more day to stay here before moving north. Also he's got no contract to tend to, so he could stay and spend the rest of the time at carvo bianco. The estate is well flourished with floras and buildings with rich colors. It covers a greater portion of the land.
"Geralt rode his horse to his vineyard. His majordomo was standing outside overseeing the routine cleanup.
"Greetings B.B. How's the cleaning coming up?" asked geralt.
"Splendid sir. The workers here are doing a great job in maintaining this place"
"Day after tomorrow, i'm moving north and it'll be quite sometime before i get here"
"And i'll make sure your estate is clean as it is today"
"You know B.B. You been serving me for decades. Why dont you take rest? You look old and tired" said geralt with a smile.
"It is my duty to serve you no matter my age. It's something i sworn when her grace handed over you this vineyard" replied basil.
"Ptha!...Never expected this. Anyway, thank you B.B. I'm gonna take rest" said geralt to which basil nodded.
Then geralt went inside unsheathed his swords, pistols and removed his armor set and placed it in the stand and went to bed. No beasts, no monsters, so no work for quite sometime. But who knows, maybe he would find it somewhere else.
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In Zerrikania...
It was night time around 8:00 pm. Ciri accepted a contract to hunt down a strange monster that's attacking people who enters the desert forest. The attacks have become more aggressive only recently. People need to go to the forest for fruits for their meals everyday.
She always covers herself with a hood and brown cloth to cloak herself when amongst the crowd. It was lucky for the zerrikanians that ciri was in the place. She originally came here only to pass time. But one day she overheard folks talking about loud screaming and growl in the forest also that people mysteriously vanish when they enter the woods.
She decided to look into this for a price. The people accepted and she set off to venture. Ciri tracked the prints. torn bodies and blood trails deep in the woods. There she found a blood stain mixed with with a poison. She identified the poison belonged to an arachas. But the search wasn't over. The poison had extreme levels of mandrake essence. She found this odd and realized that the arachas was in fact a queen trying to protect it's lair. She also found that the queen has laid eggs which was the reason for its increased attacks.
She knew she cannot fight the queen in it's lair with several workers and soldiers protecting her, even with her powers. So she needed a bait. She went back into the village and mentioned of the arachas queen.
"The monster trouble you have..."
"So, find anything?" asked an elder.
"Yes. it's an arachas queen" replied Ciri.
"By the dragons of the sky! A queen? Then its highly dangerous...Can you still help?" asked the elder frightened.
"Yes, but...You should know that i'll be fighting a dangerous thing. Sooo..."
"Don't worry about the reward my lady. You risk your hide for us. You will be rewarded generously" replied the elder with some relief. He doesn't knew the woman, but was blindly confident in her.
"Then it's high time i set off. I cannot fight it in it's lair. So i've to lure it out. I'll see you after getting the job done" said ciri to which the elder nodded. Then she went back into the forest.
She prepared a mandrake extract form the roots and then mixed it with the human blood from the victims and spread it in the woods. She knew it's scent would draw the queen out even from 5 miles.
After doing her thing, she patiently waited for it to come. Ciri was surprised as the queen answered the call just in 10 minutes. She watched the queen turning here and there confused with the scent. Ciri calculated how to engage the queen. The arachas was bigger than a venomous arachas and looked more ugly. It had lots of external poison pouches to release it as a cloud surrounding her as a shield. Ciri realized that prolonged close encounter was out of the question. But she saw a weak spot in the side abdomen and above the mandibles near it's sternum. She had to move quick and hit the weak spots repeatedly and after weakening it, finally pierce the sternum region.
The queen constantly made growling noise. Ciri enchanted her sword to target the insectoid and readied her dual pistols. She immediately threw herself in front of the queen.
The queen immediately turned and roared at ciri and leaped towards her. Ciri warped around the queen and tried to hit the sides, but she was only 50% lucky. The body was hard and it would take both timed and strong blow to pierce the body. She waited for another attack. When the queen ran towards her, she dodged and swiftly tore the queen's side abdomen with strong blow. The queen roared in pain and struggled to move fast. Ciri used this opportunity to warp around the queen blindingly and repeatedly slashed the side to permanently weaken it. But suddenly the queen bowed down and when ciri attacked, the sword ricocheted back that caused her to stun. She infact hit the hard region. She used her reflex to slowly observe what the queen was about to do. It stood back to normal posture, but the poison pouches started to glow. She understood that the queen is about to spit venom gas around it. Ciri immediately teleported to a safe distance and in split second the gases spread. But the gas level was only half the height of the queen. Ciri wasted no time and teleported above the queen itself. The queen started to tremble to force her down. Ciri used her sword and impaled it in the sternum for grip. The queen roared in pain and was trembling violently. Ciri barely had the grip, and was grunting in response. Finally, she used her strength to force the sword deep inside and green boiling blood started to ooze out. The queen slowed down knowing it couldn't take more. Ciri used this opportunity and removed the sword and gave one fatal death blow to its head. The head flew and queen ultimately fell down with blood flowing out of where it's head previously was. Ciri jumped off the arachas and walked towards the head and collected it for bounty. Then she cast a fire spell from her hand that burned the queen to prevent the unwanted attention of other beasts.
Ciri came out of the forest with the arachas trophy and met with the elder. They were stunned to see the young girl with a big ugly head in her hand.
"Hooh!...This ugly thing was the one that's been on a killing spree in the forest for quite some time" said ciri after letting out a sigh. The elder and another man beside him were still staring at it.
"S..So...Did you find what happened to those who previously wen-..." the elder stumbled with words.
"They were all dead. Became a feast to the arachas...Sorry" said ciri.
"You don't have be...Do you know how much of a relief it is to us!?" said the other man.
"Here girl, Your reward. And thanks for tending to our problem" said the elder and gave a pouch of 600 crowns. It was worth the trouble because the monster was a deadly one and if there's someone who could kill it, then they must be well rewarded.
"Thanks. Ugh...Time i was on my way. It gonna take sometime to cross the mountains"
"Before you go, Why don't you come to my house and have dinner? Consider it as a vote of thanks." asked the elder. Ciri thought for a second and then she accepted, she was indeed tired and hungry.
"Sure. I'm tired and hungry"
"Then come and lets have a feast" said the elder.
He and ciri walked the road towards his house.
"You took on a witcher's job, but you don't look like one. Did you train some where?" asked the elder.
"Yes. I was trained to be a witcher at kaer morhen though i didn't undergo their mutation"
"The school of the wolf?" asked the elder
"Yes. You know?" asked ciri with her eyebrow raised.
"I know this 2 witchers who came together years before. One was very old, named...Vesemir and the other one younger that him but he was unusually white..."
"Hah! That's Geralt of Rivia. You met two of those who made me the one i am today" said ciri with a smile.
"I clearly saw that today...I should have asked you before, what's your name?" asked the elder. Ciri wished to maintain discretion for the time being, so instead of her full name, she only gave her short name.
"You can call me Ciri" replied ciri and by the time they reached the house.
"Then young Ciri? Welcome to my home" said the elder and the two entered his house. It was good inside with furniture, a hearth, an oven and lanterns.
"Nice house!" said ciri.
"Indeed, my son Larkin is in the southern continent. I live here alone" said the elder bringing a bowl of dried fruits, sandwiches, and chicken legs.
Ciri and the elder had a good dinner. Mean while they talked about the village, people and other places. After finishing, Ciri took her things and bid him goodbye one last time.
"Thank you very much for the lunch. I'll never forget this day. Its time i set off on my path"
"Fare thee well young lady" said the elder to which she nodded with a smile. Then she whistled for her horse, Kelpie- a black mare. The horse came running towards her.
She mounted on its back and waved her hand to the elder and then rode her horse towards the blue mountains. She was riding her horse along a single road way and there were barren lands on both sides of the road.
"I think its time went back to the continent, kelpie. Where should we go now? Hm...Why dont we go to vengerberg to see yennefer, that is if she's there" said ciri. The horse gave a nickering sound.
"Right, to vengerberg then." said ciri and galloped the horse to full speed. Kelpie is ciri's special horse that runs like a demon.
In 2 and a half days, she would have reached the blue mountains through the korath desert and the Aidern continent border, Dol blathanna on the other side, taking periodic rests into account during the journey. She has to move between the fiery mountains and tir tochair.
For two whole days she traveled on a horse back. On the way she found lot of palm type trees. She ate its dried fruits for hunger as there were nothing, no inn, no tavern not even a soul other than predatory birds. Luckily, she had a good reserve of apple juice she bought from zerrikania. She drank it for thirst. It was worst in the day. The temperature is high in the korath desert. It brought her memories of her magic training and it was this same place where she accidentally teleported and suffered a lot. She also managed to find little water in the god forsaken desert for her horse.
2 days has passed on. It's the 2nd night 8:30 pm. Ciri reached the blue mountains. She was delighted to see the mountain trees and water stream lines. She unmounted from the horse and the two walked instead towards the mountain passage just a 500mts in front. It was night and the temperature near the mountain was low, hence it was pleasant and they didn't feel tired or dehydrated.
Ciri and kelpie walked along the pathway and suddenly she started to feel uneasy. Her horse started to lift its front body in to air in response to fear rising a frightening scream.
"Whoa!...WHOA!...Easy girl! What is it?" Ciri suddenly started to feel more uneasy, as if the air around her has gone heavy.
"**BOOOMMM**! a loud explosive sound about 20mts in front to her left and the next thing she saw shocked her.
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In Samael's realm, the black stone...
"Hahaha...Dante's running straight into a trap. Looks like my plan has succeeded. Now to move on to the next one" said samael with a laugh.
A huge winged muscular demon belonging to the fallen class came in front of samael and spoke in a deep grunted voice. He was the 'fallen' general that leads the pack of 'traumas'. His name is 'Waiboch'.
"My lord, The tome you asked me for, your humble servant has brought this forth" The fallen said bowing. Samael walked up front taking the tome in his hand giving a faint grin.
"Waiboch, were is so difficult or problematic?" asked samael.
"Keeping up the lesser form was slightly troublesome but nothing i couldn't manage. The thing is, I had to fight the eternal guardian to retrieve the tome in the end"
"Ah! The guardian, yes...During the war, Sparda asked the guardian to protect the tome at all cost in the human world. When humans on earth were threatened with extinction, sparda managed to bring some humans to the world of Aen Elle and Aen seidhe. But fate was cruel to both. The elves in Aen elle slaughtered the humans and they slaughtered the migrated elves in Aen seidhe...What a pity! hmhmhmhm..." explained samael.
"But my lord, forgive me if i said anything wrong. The spells in this tome are dangerous enough to threaten the very fabric of reality and what if the king and other hell lords learn your plan"
Samael kept a patient facial expression and talked.
"I am well aware of the risks. That is why i'm gonna recite the required spell by swapping some words to cause the desired effect. As for my plans, no one will be able to know. And when they know...they wont be living to tell the tale just like dante's brother" said samael with a grin.
"Is Dante a part of your plan?" asked Waiboch
"He is, but he doesn't know that. Without his knowledge, he will be doing me a favor"
"But why Aen Seidhe? He could have landed on earth"
"He needed distraction. He might have proven himself against mundus, abigail or argosax. But with my power, i could crush him. But, He can easily become a significant annoyance, one that could even put an end to my plans"
"My lord, i dont understand. The other hell lords are your brethren. This would become an act of treason"
"So what? You are gonna turn your back on me?" asked samael with a slight anger in his face. Waiboch swore his utmost loyalty to samael than even the devil king. Samael never talk much, but waiboch is an exception. No one would dare to aid him in his plan of madness. But he did, thus samael considers him close to a friend.
"Never my lord. I swore that-..."
"Dont panic waiboch. I know you. I'm about to teach a lesson. A lesson about what happens when someone wrong me. When sparda turned against us, i respected his motives. This is a quest for revenge and revenge i'll have" said the blood prince with eyes burning with fire in anger.
"Now time to pay the king a visit" said samael and took a deep yellow paper cloth and inscribed a modified spell after reading from the tome. Then he left his realm to see Mundus.
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In Lucifer's realm...
A Phantom general walked towards lucifer and bowed
"Hail, Lucifer!" said the general.
"What is it?" asked Lucifer.
"I have a troubling information that may need your attention my lord"
"Really, What's it about?"
"I saw samael's general leave hell a few days back. He paid a visit to the human world in their disguise"
Lucifer was infuriated and stood for a while. Then he walked slowly towards the phantom and talked
"Are you sure what you saw?" asked lucifer with a slight frustration.
"Yes my lord. I'm never wrong" replied the general.
Lucifer grunted loud, turned back and walked towards his throne. He kept his fingers on his chin and gave a thought.
"What is he scheming this time?" murmured lucifer.
"What about mephisto, seth, belial? Do they know of this?"
"I don't know my lord. But they must have" replied the phantom.
"What of that son of sparda?"
"He was in argosax's realm, but then everyone lost his track"
"We need to see this through " said lucifer soaking in his thoughts.
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Aen Seidhe, near the blue mountains...
Ciri and kelpie walked along the pathway with the mountains just 500 mts in front. But suddenly they saw a bright flash with an explosive noise 20mts in front to her left. Ciri recognized the flash to be a portal. She was shocked to see a portal here.
"What the-..." stunned ciri immediately drew her sword.
But what see saw coming out of the portal was even more shocking. She saw a man in a red suit flew out of the portal yelling out of balance. She also saw a big object that flew besides him and to ciri it resembled a giant sword of unknown craftsmanship.
"Woooohhhh!...Ugh!...Ugh!" yelled the man in the red suit and bumped the ground twice that made him grunt each time. Then he fianlly stopped moving after some distance and was lying on the ground. Ciri watched everything and was concerned with this mysterious person.
"Uh-Oh!..." Ciri dismayed at the sight and ran towards the red costumed man to check on him though she was cautious at the same time. She sheathed her sword and ran towards the mystery man.
Ciri saw the man lying on the ground gritting his teeth in pain. Ciri saw his face clealy, milk white hair and a face of a man in his thirties. Ciri slightly raised her eyebrows at the sight of his face for he was attractive and handsome and also muscular. But she kept aside those thoughts and knelt down to help him.
"Uh...Excuse me! Wake up!" said ciri shaking the man to wake him up.
The man slowly opened his eyes and
"Woh!..." exclaimed the man and immediately got to his feet with a back roll. Ciri stood immediately trying to calm him down.
"Wait, I'm just trying to help" Said ciri. She got to see him full. His costume was different to her. It looked both strange and familiar but stylish. She got see a demonic skull emblem in his belt. She was outright confused with him. She had never seen a man like him before.
The red suited man didn't notice her completely. He checked for his guns and they were where it should be. Then he took the left arm to his right shoulder to check for his sword, but it wasn't there. He turned his face here and there looking for his sword in tense and finally noticed it a metre distance behind him.
"Hah! here it is" He immediately walked towards it and lifted the sword and sheathed it on his back.
Ciri got to see his sword and even she had her jaws slightly dropped at the sight. It was a behemoth and was almost the same height of the man himself. Ciri can never forget this day.
Then the man finally got to his sense, turned and saw the woman standing before him.
"Oh!..Hello!" said the man looking at ciri.
"Uh..Hi!..Who are you?" asked ciri. The man noticed her british accent, so he assumed he was somewhere in Europe. But he was confused with the woman's attire and a sword on her back.
"Huh! I never thought people still use to wear old school dress with a sword on their back. I thought that culture was dead centuries ago" said the man. But he noticed a revolver type gun on her thigh holsters. He was confused as to where he was.
"What are you talking about. Who are you?" Ciri pressed him with questions.
"First i need to know where am i. Which continent is this? Europe? Africa? Asia?..."
Ciri kept her face confused and disgusted as she couldn't figure out what the man was talking about.
"There are no such places here" replied ciri.
"What!?" asked the man in shock.
"You are in the continent but no place goes by those names" replied ciri.
"What do you mean no place-..." The man struggled to speak as he was shocked to hear what the woman said. The man's face turned serious. He was tensed as to what mess he had got himself into. He got that feeling when saw the strange woman herself.
"Listen, so far you haven't even told your name and how the hell did you come out of a portal? Are you a sorcerer?" asked Ciri.
The man looked at her with doubts, confusion, frustration. Above all, annoyance. Slowly he's getting the doubt if he's truly in his world, but he didn't want to take on that possibility because the woman in front of him was a human. But he decided to talk to that woman to get some sensible answers.
"My name's...Dante. I came through that portal from li-...from a far off place" said dante finally telling about himself.
"Listen, i need to know what place is this. If you could help me"
"Ssh...Sure...But not here. We'll set up a campfire nearby the mountain and then we'll talk"
"*SIGH*...Fine". Dante, Ciri and kelpie walked towards the mountain passage. It was night time.
"Never seen anyone like you before" said ciri
"Even i can say that to you" replied dante.
"Are you a sorcerer?" curiously asked ciri.
"What? No...Do i look like one?" asked dante.
"I dont know for sure. But only sorcerers can use a portal" said ciri
"Ha!...Sorcerers!? Who else lives here? Tooth fairies and pixies?" asked dante with a jest. Ciri gave a shrug in confusion.
"Here. We'll set up a fire here, sit and talk. Maybe you could get some answers" said ciri. Kelpie walked herself to a nearby tree for shelter. The two set up a campfire near the passage way.
Ciri collected some sticks and then cast the fire spell that raised the fire in the sticks. Dante raised his eyebrows at that.
"Hah! No human i know so far can actually do that" said dante in astonishment. The two sat down positioned themselves with the campfire like a triangle. Then they started talking.
"Now allow me introduce myself. My name's Cirilla, but call me ciri for short"
"Ciri, fine" dante nodded.
"Now about the continent, it is split into several kingdoms" started ciri which threw dante back.
"Wait! What? Kingdoms? You mean to say this place is ruled by kings!?" asked dante in shock.
"Yeesss! What's so odd about that?" asked ciri in confusion. Dante was silent for a moment to gather his thoughts.
"Just tell me what year is this" said dante in a rush
"Why?...it's the year 1300" replied ciri that stunned dante. He nodded his head in disappointment for he never expected this.
"Fucking Shit! looks like i just traveled back in time" said dante loud.
"What? You mean to say that...you are from future?" asked ciri in tense.
"Looks like it. Because i belong to 21st century". This turned ciri's face pale. Though she's not shocked for she herself is the lady of space and time. But even she never traveled through time and no mages had ever accomplished that. She only had two things in her mind. Either this man is telling the truth or lying, just that.
"That's impossible. No mage ever achieved time travel" said ciri to which dante couldn't answer.
"Listen, even if it's 1300, there were no sorcerers or mages or witches. There were only different human kings and queens and jackasses in all the continents and you say that this world has people using magic. No...No...Something's entirely wrong" said dante with seriousness in his voice.
"Then how did you manage to get a portal, if you dont have magics?" asked ciri hitting the logic. Dante got stuck with ciri's logic. The fact is, dante was confused whether to tell her the truth or not.
"Aaah!...You got the point. But i dont know if you would believe me if i told you the truth"
"Huh! There are things i have seen in my life that even this world's mages wouldn't believe. So i don't think nothing would surprise me" said ciri.
"Maybe...But i cannot tell you everything. i came from a far off place beyond anyone's grasp" said dante to which ciri stared and raised her eyebrows. Dante wasn't amused.
"I knew you wouldn't believe me".
"Listen Ciri, What i tell you is the truth. Does this world have a name?" asked dante
"Yes. It's called Aen Seidhe"
"An what!?" asked dante in confusion.
"A-E-N S-E-I-D-H-E" said ciri slowly for him catch up.
"I don't remember humans calling our world 'Earth' with that kinda name" said dante. Ciri now started to get some doubts after he said 'Earth'. She finally got to the right question this time.
"Earth? you mean that's your world...So... Are you from another world?" asked ciri on a hunch
"What!? Where did you pull that kinda crap?" asked dante with jest.
"That's not crap!...*SIGH*...fine. Every mage in this world have unique abilities. My ability is the most powerful of them. I can travel through space and time. On the other words, i can travel between different worlds. Years ago, i have been to several worlds. Some destroyed, some with primitive life and some with civilization"
"And how can i believe that?" asked dante. Ciri immediately teleported herself near her horse and again near the camp fire.
"Is that enough? Imagine this with traveling between worlds" asked ciri. Dante was stunned for a moment.
"Hah! That's cool!" exclaimed dante. Now he started to show some signs of trust after seeing what ciri could do. Now there's only one thing in his mind.
"Could it be true?" thought dante. He may excited as he found a new world but not exactly thrilled as he sees it as a new kind of problem.
"Right. So i can now clearly understand that i am on a different planet. But that brings me my next question. How can there be humans on two different worlds?"
"I'm sorry, but-..." talked ciri but cut off by dante.
"It's clear that this is another world from the fact that our pasts and present doesn't converge. But humans live in this world. They are originally from my world which we call it as 'EARTH'. Then how can you explain this bullshit. I won't say humans from my world traveled here coz even our timelines are not same" said dante.
Ciri couldn't help but simply to keep quiet. She don't know how to answer his question.
"In that case, i had never been to any other world full of humans as you claim"
"And i'm telling you the truth. But if are asking me for a proof, Sorry lady. I don't have one. Maybe you gotta bring someone to read my mind to confirm" said dante plainly.
"Exactly!" exclaimed ciri.
"Listen, i know a sorceress who's now within our reach. She know spells to see through a person's memories. if you are willing to-..." said ciri
"What the hell are we waiting for then? If our assumptions are true, then i need to find a way to get back to my world as soon as possible. But still...I'm intrigued with this discovery" said dante with a faint smile.
"Wait! You said you have the abilities to-..." dante tried to ask ciri for help
"I know what you are getting to dante and it's not easy. I may be able to travel between worlds but still i'll be running blind. I won't be able to know where i'll land. And in the past, I had never been to your world 'Earth'. This means, i haven't simply seen it yet or..."
"Or?"
"Or your world is out of my reach. That is, very far far away. Either way, First we'll meet the sorceress and then let's figure things out" said ciri.
"Yeah. Sooner i get off this mess, the better. On the way, you tell everything about this world. Who inhabits here, those sort of things" said dante to which ciri nodded. Then they packed up and went into the mountain passage.
Dante expected a good welcome party on earth. Now it seems he's simply stuck here and it's gonna be a long time to reach his home.
...
In Mundus's lair...
The prince of darkness was sitting in his throne irritated by the fact that dante killed the 2nd hell lord.
"I'll soon have his blood on my hands!" said mundus gritting his teeth in anger.
"For that, you will need power, master" came a voice which grabbed mundus's attention. It was samael. But mundus was not pleased to see him.
"What do you want samael?"
"To help you master. I know you wanted to kill the son of sparda. I can help you with that"
Mundus started to find this conversation interesting.
"Alright. let me hear it"
"Thank you. I have managed to recover the tome- 'Warped Ledger' from the human world"
Mundus was intrigued as to how samael managed to get the tome. The spells in the tome can allow one to manipulate reality itself. But Mundus started to lose interest because he himself was powerful enough to manipulate reality and create pocket universes at will.
"Samael, You are wasting my time. I don't need those spells to control reality. I can do it even without that. Now begone!" said Mundus with frustration.
"Yes master, but still you need to open the hell gates to have absolute control over the 3 planes of existence" said samael. Now mundus got hit by the curiosity. He could see where samael is trying to get to.
"I can see where this is going. But the tome doesn't have spells that can open the gates. You will need the blood of sparda"
"That's not entirely true master. There are certain pathways by which you can cross the dimensional barriers with out the help of gates. Of course, there are no such spell to do that in this tome. But...It can be done by swaping words from the other spells to achieve the effects"
Mundus himself was shocked to hear this. He never thought samael would attempt such foolishness.
"WHAT! Samael, what you propose is madness! One wrong word and you will destroy the whole universe! NO! I cannot do that!" yelled Mundus.
"Master, I'm fully aware of what i'm doing and i do know the consequences. I've done thorough research in to the spells and even managed to write it down" replied samael showing him the paper cloth.
Mundus took the paper cloth from samael's hand. The he unwrapped the paper to see the spell inscribed in it.
"What effect with this spell bring?"
"The son of sparda is currently trapped in the world of Aen Seidhe. This spell will take you to that place directly with out the gates" replied samael.
Mundus kept his fingers on his chin thinking about what samael said. But one thing that doesn't make sense is that his resolve to help him. Even mundus doesn't trust samael considers him a threat and to be kept in short leash.
"Samael, Why are helping me?" asked mundus.
"Sooner or later, Dante will become a significant threat to everyone. You saw what he did to Argosax and Abigail...To you. Two of the seven hellords are dead and it will be decades before they could regenerate back. Don't get me wrong, But he'll come for us next and we...tsk tsk..I will not allow him to do that"
Mundus was convinced with samael's explanation. Those words were true. Even he, the supreme ruler of the entire dimension of hell failed to kill dante. If this spell could help him achieve that, He was ready to take up this fool's errand.
"Alright samael. Then we dont have to waste the time. I'll cast the spell right now" said mundus. Samael gave a faint grin which mundus didn't notice.
He got up from his throne and stood in the plain ground and had the paper cloth float in front of him. Samael secretly used his powers to conceal the events that will happen here from everywhere in the hell, so that no one would know what heappened here.
Mundus summoned the ancient glyphs in a circle around his position. It started to glow. Then he recited the spell. The fact is mundus could have easlily understood the original spell, even it's meaning. But as the words are swaped, he knows to read but cannot know the meaning, the reason being no one has ever tried it before.
Mundus used his growling voice to say the words. The words were in Enochian, the celestial speech.
Something started to happen after finishing the spell and he didn't feel right. Suddenly a rift started to appear above him and the glyphic seal bound him to that place. Mundus started to feel something breaking inside of him.
"SAMAEL! What is happening? I...I..cc...can't move!" yelled mundus struggling to speak.
"Hmhmhm! Sometimes to get things done right, you'll have to take risks. Risks that could cost you even your life. I just did that" said samael his face and voice becoming sinistrical.
"You BASTARD!" yelled mundus
"Tsk tsk tsk...No...You are not in the position to threaten me. It is time to say good bye, master" said samael, calm and cool with a smile.
"EAAAAHHHH!" shouted Mundus as the life force and powers left his body like a glowing ball and entered the rift that was opened above his head.
Immediately after that, Mundus's physical body was turned to stone by the glyphic seal around him. The rift was closed and the seal vanished with just the lifeless statue of mundus standing on the ground.
"HAH! Mundus's powers and lifeforce are now trapped in the inter-dimensional rift and only the reverse incitation of the spell can bring him back...But who knows that except me...ha ha ha!" said samael and he slowly walked around mundus's statue.
"3 down...4 to go" said samael keeping his fingers in the chin giving a grin.
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A/N: In the future chapters, We'll see how dante gets accustomed to the new world until he gets back to earth. Dante will fight a war with hordes of hellish legions and the hell lords in the new world with his new friends in Aen Seidhe which makes others to see dante as a force to be reckoned with. Also samael will continue with his plans before his final show off with the legendary devil hunter. It will be revealed that the fate of every world and every plane of existence are intertwined.
And also vergil's mystery about getting trapped in limbo will be solved. Gaunter O' dimm will have minor roles in the future chapters. All in all, these incidents were never an accident.
