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Chapter 3: Something new begins
Dante and Ciri were walking along the passages of the blue mountains. It was midnight and there were trees and rocks in their pathway. They could even hear owl's hoot. Thoughts were spinning in both of their heads.
Dante thought after using the portal in the limbo would take him home, but after learning that he had landed onto another world, he felt shit's really gone crazy. But what was more shocking is that this world also has humans but in different timeline. He don't fully understand what has really happened. Another fact was that half the population of this world knew sorcery. Dante is not repulsive to the concept of magic as he had his fair share of run with demon magic. But even then, only one in million, even billion knew sorcery on earth in his time.
To get clear answer he decided to trust this woman. After all, she proved her abilities, so he thought she could help him in this matter. If this world had lot of sorcerers and sorceresses, Dante could easily get help from them.
On the other hand, Ciri was thinking about this mystery man who haven't clearly explained anything about himself. From what he said, ciri was convinced that he was from another world. But that wasn't a surprise for the girl who had seen several different worlds in her life. The disturbing fact was that he was from the world filled with humans and also from a different timeline. This was way too much even for the child of elder blood. She won't fully trust him until she get a powerful sorcerer to see through him and tell that he's telling the truth. He never revealed anything about him to gain her trust. So until then, this animosity will prevail.
"If you need help, you need to gain the trust and for that you must tell everything about yourself" said ciri.
"I will, but not now. I had never been in a bat shit crazy situation like this and the same goes for you. So talking wont get us much. I'm the one who accidentally got here, so i need to know how neck deep i got myself into" replied dante. Ciri can understand the sense in his words.
"Right, but for the sorceress to help you, she must need all the information" said ciri.
"Like i said, I will. But i wanted to ask you something. You said you have the ability to travel between worlds. If my case is somehow related to your abilities, how would the other mages could actually help me?" asked dante.
"You are right. Other mages lack my abilities. But they possess more knowledge than even i do. That's where I'm gonna take you" replied ciri. Dante gave a short sigh and a nod. This is when ciri wanted to ask something to him.
"Actually...You sword!"
"Yeah!? What about it?"
"I've never seen any sword this big or even the design. The whole craftsmanship is strange. I can clearly see that you are a fighter or some warrior of sort...but!?"
"But?"
"But still strange. I get a feeling that you may look human but not one actually...ughugh...No offense...But your sword seems so heavy and it would take a lot of strength to swing it. That's just something in my mind" said ciri trying hard not to make him angry. Dante gave a smirk at that and a short brief look at ciri. But he didn't say anything.
"Yes, Actually I'm a fighter of a sort. This sword?...Was given to me as a momento a long time ago" replied dante.
"Huh! Who would present a sword as a gift?" thought ciri chuckling for what he said.
For Dante, Though the magic was not a surprise to him as he himself a half demon and possess quite a level of magic and even he got used to the fact that he's in another world, but couldn't accept that this world is again occupied by same humans. He's till now confused how humans can be in two different worlds and also two different timeline. But he knew he won't get the answers until he meets with the sorceress.
Dante, Ciri and kelpie were walking along the mountain passage ways. There are both trees and flat grounds on their way. The temperature was good and it was 2:00AM. Everything was peaceful, but suddenly dante felt something odd. He smelled the foulness in the atmosphere. He had this feelings before and he knew what it was. He then suddenly stopped which ciri didn't notice. Dante's face turned serious. He immediately ran towards ciri and spoke.
"Ciri, wait!"
"What is it?" asked ciri. She noticed his face. She could say that something was not right.
"Looks like we got trouble" said dante.
"Hm, What?, There's nothing here." said ciri casually.
"There is, be ready" said dante and rushed up to unsheathe his rebellion.
Ciri was confused, but suddenly both heard multiple noises of scream and growl. Ciri's nerves jerked at the sound and immediately drew her sword too. Kelpie was getting restless, so ciri clapped on its back to move away. The noises were getting intense.
Then dante and ciri saw lots of shadow like creatures leaping form one place to another. Their eyes were glowing in crimson red color. In this dark, only their eyes were brightly visible as their bodies were black as night. The problem is dante can see them clearly, but ciri can't see their bodies.
"What are those things!?" asked ciri in tense.
"Shadow demons" replied dante. Actually, he faced them first after entering the limbo.
"Wha-...How do you know?" asked ciri in suspicion.
"Listen, there is no time to explain. Go hide yourself, I can take care of this"
"I'm not a child, I can take care of myself" said ciri pressing her voice. Dante was slightly irritated but didn't have the time to argue.
"*Uhrr*...Fine, but they are fast as lightning, be caref-..." said dante and before he could finish, a demon leaped towards him and dante immediately drew his ivory and shot five quick rounds with demonic energy as they are shadow creatures, normal rounds don't affect them. The demon was incinerated.
Ciri was stunned when dante killed the demon with his gun easily. Moments ago, she thought him only as some sword fighter. But even then she had her doubts when she saw him coming out of a portal. Still she never expected this from him.
Soon the other demons ran at the two. Dante thrusted towards the demons at blinding speed and started swinging his sword, cutting and incinerating them down. Dante leaped at the demons and used their body for air hike and used his gunslinger style and rained down the bullets towards them. The demons died one by one. Then dante used the tree branches to do acrobatics and lunge towards the demons and fluidically connected his sword strikes one by one. The demons screamed in pain before dying. He then used his trickster 'Air trick' ability to teleport dash towards each demons and cut them down with his sword in brute force.
Ciri was flabbergasted with his fighting abilities. She looked at dante as if he himself was something else. Of course, she had seen a great many swordsmanship in her life but never anything like this. His fight was inhuman in nature. He was fast as well as strong. Doubts fill her head, because only someone very much associated with magics can indeed fight like this.
Dante managed to draw the attention of all the demons towards him and left ciri safe. Ciri was not attacked so far. But that's not true.
Suddenly 9 shadow demons emerged from the ground, surrounding her. Ciri enchanted her sword to target a specter as they looked more like specters. Suddenly a demon lunged towards her. She immediately teleported aside and appeared to its side and slashed its body with great force. The demon growled in pain and was incinerated. The other demons lunged towards her at light speed. Being shadow creatures, ciri couldn't track their body movements clearly as they seemed to move along with the air. Ciri used her powers to alternatively teleport and strike the demons and even then she only had half a luck in hitting them, as they were equally fast and slippery bastards.
Ciri was managing while dante was performing his acrobatic feats and killing the demons one by one effortlessly with his sword. 5 demons ran towards dante and he noticed that. He ran and used a tree's stem to do a vertical run and performed the 'The Rain Storm' that incinerated the 5 demons quickly. He then landed onto the ground. He saw around 10 demons in front making a growling sound. He holstered his guns and took his sword in his hands.
"Alright whims! Let's finish this" said dante
He again performed his 'Air trick' trickster move towards the demons and unleashed the 'Dance macabre' sword master style. 3 quick slashes with a round body trip, followed by a million stab and 3 power slashes that staggered the demons. The he held his swords in both of his hands and charged it with demonic energy and gave an earth shattering blow that sent all the demons torn from the space itself. Also the blow even took down few trees to the ground and the sound felt like an explosion and powerful enough to be heard throughout the mountains. That was the last for dante.
"*SIGH*...That's the last of em" said dante sheathing his sword.
"How the hell did shadow demons got here? Last time, I faced them on my world and recently in the limbo" said dante to himself in surprise and confusion. The demon's presence was not something he took lightly. But now he had something to tend to. He left ciri alone so he decided to tend to her and walked off.
On the other hand, ciri finished off the demons on her own and was already watching dante fighting them to the last bit. She saw him walking towards her casually knocking the dust of his palms. Ciri was indeed waiting for him to storm him with questions. She thought, someone who can fight entities like these with ease cannot simply be an ordinary human. Dante's dress, the emblems, his sword and his appearance after summing it up all, she assumed him that he wasn't some ordinary human who lost his way.
Dante on the other hand found ciri to be alright.
"You alright?" he asked
"Had to kill some on my own while you were...busy. Other than that, I'm fine" ciri replied with her hands in her hips.
"Huh! Looks like its not safe here, not anymore. We need to hurry and find this sorceress" said dante turning and started walking only to be stopped by her.
"I'm not finished!" said ciri keeping her face serious. He turned in surprise.
"Excuse me?"
"Stop fooling me and answer my question! Who ar-...tsk tsk tsk...WHAT are you?" asked ciri folding her hands demanding a reply. Dante raised his eyebrow, keeping his hands in the hips and gave a smirk.
"Listen charming young lady! I told you where i came from and that i need help to get back. Also i said that i will play you enough questions once you get me to the one who can solve my problem. Yet, you insist..."
"You didn't answer my question! Fine, Then i'm gonna take back my words. Not about to help you. Still you can walk your way in this continent, but you will find no one to help you without my interference" said ciri making sure he got it clear.
There was a moment of silence. Dante lifted his head, closed his eyes for 2 seconds and then opened it and looked at ciri.
"I shouldn't have used that fuckin portal!" thought dante, his face slightly turning irritated. But he didn't have much choice. He is a man of many talents, but he is no miracle worker or a magician. He need the help of the mages here to get back to his world.
"*SIGH*...Fine. I will tell you but no time to be brief, but just enough for you to trust me. Deal?" asked dante.
"Deal" replied ciri. Dante was relieved in hearing that.
"Then let's get this over with" said dante and ciri gave a posture as if listening to him.
"You know my name. But as for what i do, I'm a devil hunter in my world" replied dante. Ciri's eyes slightly widened at that and gave a confused look.
"Devil hunter?" asked ciri
"Yes. That's my job. You see, Demons or the darklings live in a dimension called 'Hell', i hope you know this. There are gateways in our world through which they get into our place. Thus the demons entering our domain starts tormenting and physically hurt our people. My job is to send them where ever they came from or send them with a bang forever. And i do it for a decent pay" said dante and gave a faint smile when he mentioned pay. Ciri was quite shocked to here this but not to the level of getting thrown back. But somehow he reminded her of the witchers as they too hunted down monsters for coin. She was surprised to see some similarities between them.
"So that's how you knew the creatures we faced as...shadow demons? You have faced them before?" asked ciri
"Exactly" replied dante but ciri knew he wasn't telling everything.
"But you have only given half the answer. I saw how you fought those creatures. Some of them are similar to human acrobatics, i get it. But i also saw you doing strange moves. Two for example, you teleported towards the enemy and the other? Stabbing your sword blindingly fast, that's inhuman, something which makes me doubt if you are even a human at all!" said ciri pressing her tone.
Dante was stunned with her that she noticed his each and every move during the fight. He felt like he was in a deadlock situation where there is no other way but to give up. After all this, he decided to tell her the truth, but again not everything.
"You are right lady. You win! Like you noticed, i can indeed perform those feats and yet you still have only seen a short glimpse of what i'm truly capable of, coz...*Sigh*...coz i'm only a half human" said dante hesitatingly, his face slightly frowned. Dante couldn't believe he was talking about it again. Ofcourse, long ago dante made peace with his demonic side but still he always considered himself more as human. When demons call him non-human, he doesn't give a shit. But always socialize with common people as a human and truly forget his other side.
Ciri was stunned to hear this. She was surprised but also noticed the hesitation and disgust in his face as if he didn't like to talk about that and still did only because she forced him. She was eager to learn what his other half was, but decided to let it go for then. Somehow she respected his privacy and not to prowl too much into his personal affairs until circumstances called for. As she herself being an half elf(The descendant of Lara Dorren), she knew how it would be embarassing for oneself to say that he/she is a freak.
"Fine. Think i have heard enough for now. Now let's get going" said ciri putting on her hood and whistled to her horse. Dante gave a nod and then both set themselves on the path.
...
It's been 2 and a half days and in the mean time yennefer after leaving geralt's estate in toussaint, made it to halfway between Reidbrune and Scala in the Angren border. It's going to take another 4 days to reach Ellander. She could have used a portal to get there, but she's got some unfinished business in the mid way. Actually, she agreed to meet with Philippa Ealhart in Rivia on her way and after all, she cannot carry all her luggage through a portal. From her position, she will reach Rivia in 4 hours.
...
Meanwhile Geralt, after spending his days in his estate already left Toussaint and it's already been 12 hrs. It's going to take 2 weeks for him to reach Velen. For that, he would have to take a route into Vizima at Temeria.
...
Meanwhile dante and ciri were walking along the pathway. Suddenly they heard rustling of leaves. It wasn't usual rustling through winds. Ciri was the one who got it's attention than dante. He heard the sound but felt it was normal, but ciri knew someone or something's watching them.
"Huh, looks like we are not alone. We're being watched" said ciri.
"Could be the animals" replied dante.
"No. This is unusual!" said ciri, now all the three walking very slowly and turning their heads all around to see if anyone was there.
Suddenly, Dante felt a piercing effect in the air heading towards him. He almost managed to see it.
"Whoa!" dante exclaimed in jerk immediately maneuvering his head to his left and catching an arrow with his left hand that was about to pass through the right side of his head.
Ciri was astonished with his reflex but also wondering where did it came from. She quickly drew her sword. Another arrow was about to hit ciri, but she striked it with her sword which made dante raise his eyebrow with a faint smirk. She shrugged her shoulders at his expression.
All of a sudden, more arrows started to charge and both jumped off from their position. Ciri managed to hit as many arrows as she can and used the woods for cover. Dante used his guns to break the arrows and managed to shoot in the dark side from where the arrows came.
But the arrows stopped and rustling of leaves became more intense. Suddenly, a lots of human soldiers jumped from the tree to the ground raising their bows and arrows towards him and ciri as dante was pointing his guns towards them. Ciri was also pointed her flintlocks towards them.
They had red tribal markings in their faces and had eyes like emerald although not bright like ciri. At first dante thought them to be forest human tribal clan, but he found their ears telling a different story.
"I don't recall humans having ears unusually long like that!?" said Dante in confusion.
"What? They are Elves! Never seen an elf before" asked ciri surprised, slightly turning her head to look at him. Dante was stunned to here that. His face expression turned stale. It's not something he expected. Indeed, this day was becoming more interesting for him.
"Actually, they are fairy tale creatures in our world. Does this place also have dwarves and giants?" asked Dante only as a jest. But the reply was again stunning.
"Ahye...Yes. We do!" said Ciri.
"Shit! I gonna need a lot of catching up to do. But what shall we do about them now?" asked Dante. Before Ciri could answer, One of the elf yelled at them who was seeing their conversation.
"Stop! Put your weapons down and keep your hands above your head" yelled the elf.
"That's not gonna happen!" said dante and ciri interrupted.
"Uh...Wait! It's me" said ciri removing her hood to reveal her face. The elves were shocked to see her. Ofcourse, they knew ciri with her acquaintance with Francesca and other mages.
"Ciri?" asked the elf in shock. He then immediately asked the others to lower their bows.
"How are you doing, Emlac?" asked ciri.
"Fine. Never expected to see you here!" said emlac, the leader of the current scoi'atel group. This is when dante interrupted as he was outright confused.
"Ahem! Excuse me? I'm lost in this little show of yours!" said dante. Emlac looked at him with a mix of disgust and confusion.
"Uhh...Who is this ciri? Never seen a human like him before. Is that a sword he's carrying on his back?" asked emlac staring at him.
"So how do humans looks like according to you? Long nose, busted lips and no ears?" asked dante plain and simple which earned some chuckle from emlac's soldiers and from ciri herself. Emlac turned and gave a cold stare which silenced everyone.
"Actually, heeeee...Is a lost...traveler from a far off place and he needs help to get back" replied ciri exchanging looks between dante and emlac. Dante gave a wry face expression and nodded his head as if selling the same story. But emlac felt real hard to believe it. The human looked so strange, milk white hair, deep blue-gray eyes and strange weapons, sword and dress.
"I'm helping him" finished ciri.
"Alright, that's your business. But we actually came here because we heard a loud explosive noise in forest a while ago. Never heard of the beast or anything that raise sound like that" said emlac. Dante and Ciri were exchanging a cunning look. But they cannot tell them about that.
"We don't know what it is. Even we heard that noise on our way. Was too scary, you know!" said Ciri sarcastically. But suddenly a thought struck her mind.
"Wait! Actually, we were about to meet the sorceress Yennefer in vengerberg. But seeing you, i think it's better to consider the option at hand" said Ciri with a smile.
"What do you mean?" asked dante.
"Is Francesca still in the Dol blathana castle?" asked ciri
"Yes. Where would else she would be?" said emlac.
"Dante? This sorceress Francesca? She's an elven mage and she's here in a place just outside the mountain passage called 'Dol blathana'. We can seek her help and the closest one we can get" said ciri.
"I don't really care where or who! Sooner we get this done, the better" replied dante.
"So, Emlac? lead the way. We need to meet her" said ciri. There was a pause.
"Uhh...Sure you want to bring this man?" emlac asked.
"At this point, she's the only one who can help him. So, lead the way" said ciri.
"Fine then...Okay brothers and sisters! we are leaving" said emlac and everyone holstered their bows.
Ciri, Dante, Kelpie and all the other elves left the place.
...
In Dol blathana castle, 2 hours later...
Ida emean, an Aen Saevherne and Francesca were having a conversation in the castle.
"Why are you moving to Ban ard?" asked Francesca.
"Well, The academy was started back years ago with the surviving mages" replied Ida.
"But, the academy grounds is really not a great idea" said francesca.
"Look, after radovid's death, mage hunters were disbanded. Nilfgaard is different in their opinion. They need the mages help, so they don't interfere in our business. Besides, i'm planning to join the academy as a rector, I'm bored of playing with politics and bureaucracies" replied Ida.
"Very well then, looks like you made up your mind. Good luck in Kaedwen" said francesca to which ida simply shrugged.
"I always wanted to ask you. Don't get me wrong, but ever thought about going back to Aen Elle. You are a sage, an Aen saevherne and after all, that's your home" said francesca. Ida was not offended by that as she was speaking the truth. Aen Elle is her home.
"Yes, you are right. But i've been here for a long time to ever think about going back. But sure one day, I may" replied Ida.
During their conversation, an elven scout came running towards them in a hurry.
"Your Highness!"
"What is it?" asked francesca keeping her face serious and irritated.
"Emlac and his units have returned and are waiting by the castle's gate. Looks like they have brought guests" said the scout.
"Guests!? Hm, I wonder who it is. Alright, let them in" said francesca. The scout gave a nod and went to bring them here.
"Looks like we got a work to do. Care to join me Ida?" asked francesca
"Sure. I have nothing to do now" replied Ida.
"Fine... *SIGH*...A hunting party went to the east of castle, but haven't yet arrived. Could they be in trouble" said francesca.
"Don't worry. I'll help you with that once we get this done" said Ida. Francesca nodded with a smile and went to the large room that leads straight to the outside gate. Ida and francesca managed to see the crowd outside.
...
Dante and Ciri with Emlac's unit reached the castle gate after 2 hours. Emlac was talking with the guard near the gate. Dante was glancing over castle and was quite intrigued with the fortifications and similar human architecture. This reminded him of his world's early days when people used similar things.
"Hah! Castle's pretty great. Lots of defense. Catapults, ballistics...What better tools for the medival warfare you could ask for!" dante said so calm and surprised.
"Were these in your world too?" asked ciri
"Yeah. These were used till the 15th century such as the ones here. Then came siege towers with mortars and cannons. It's also interesting to note that you people use flintlocks so early in 13th century"
"Why do you say that?" asked ciri
"Actually, the first flintlock was introduced in our world during the early 17th century and attained peak popularity during the golden age of piracy" said dante.
Ciri was stunned to here that there were piracy even in their world.
"Piracy?"
"Yes. Governments of different countries wage a private war with pirates almost everyday. In the mid 18th century, golden age sucked up!" said dante which made ciri to look at him giving a surprised smile.
"After all, we're humans. No matter the place, we think alike" finished dante giving a shrug.
"I still can't believe your world belongs in 21st century. Well, one day we'll sure find out" said ciri. This is when emlac finished talking and the guards opened the door.
Then everyone walked inside. Dante looked at the castle walls with quite an admiration. He kept his face calm and cool.
Then they reached the big main hall where Ciri and Dante saw two woman. Dante's eyes immediately locked on the two beautiful woman. One was a long red haired blonde with partially visible ears wearing a black and crimson red attire with coral and amber jewellery. Another was a golden haired with grey-green dress. With their ears, dante assumed them to be elves and one of them to be the francesca they mentioned.
Francesca clapped her hands twice which lit the bowls with fire placed above the pedestals arranged in the room's edges at definite intervals. The room became so bright. Dante raised his eyebrow, intrigued with the sight of the magic she used.
Francesca and Ida were surprised to see ciri after a long time, but was short lived after they saw a young man in red costume, having a mik white hair and bluish-gray eyes, with a giant sword on his back. Francesca and Ida shared a look of confusion. But even amidst the confusion, both found him intimidating and more attractive. Also strange as they had never seen a human looking like him before. They assumed him to be from far off land.
"All hail the queen!" the elves chanted in unison and bowed before francesca.
"Ciri! my dear swallow! it's been a long time" exclaimed francesca.
"Caedmil Francesca, Ida!" said ciri with a smile.
"And...Who is this?" asked Ida looking at him in confusion. Dante decided to talk and impress them but, he knew his luck with women.
"Well, my name is Dante and i come fr-..."
"Actually, i think we should talk alone!" interrupted ciri. Others were confused with what she said. But her stubborn look made francesca to send her guards away.
"Everyone leave" ordered francesca and the guards left the hall. Now the hall is left only with francesca, Ida, ciri and dante.
"Alright...Uhh...What did you say your name was?" asked francesca
"*SIGH*...Dante!"
"Hm...and where do you hail from?" asked Ida having her eyes fixed on him. This is when ciri decided to speak.
"Ahem!...Well, I'll tell you. Ofcourse, it won't be a much shock to you. But...He's not from our world" said ciri trying not to stun them with the reply.
The two elven women were quite surprised with the fact but not shocked as all the mages and sages in the world knew that there are so many worlds with different life forms in the universe apart from the one they live. After all, the monsters in the Aen seidhe hail from the other worlds brought upon by the conjunction of spheres several millennia ago.
"Well, that's quite interesting!" said francesca keeping her fingers in her chin, keeping her face still quite surprised.
"That's it! I thought you would be shocked to hear this" said dante who is truly surprised by their take.
"Do you think that there is only one world in this universe. Trust me, even i have seen quite a few worlds" replied Ida.
"This woman, ciri claimed that she has the ability to travel between worlds just as she wished" said dante and ciri turned towards him.
"Yes and only she has the ability to move without portals while we need to look for portals to go to another world" replied francesca.
Dante was finally relieved that whatever he heard so far were indeed true. Now a glimmer of hope sprouted in his mind to get back to his place.
"While that you are from another world is not quite surprising, but the fact you being a human from another world is totally confusing. How's that even possible?" asked Ida with doubt.
"You know? I'm wondering the same. That's one thing that i cannot figure it out" replied dante.
"Not only that, but also he belongs to another world and timeline" said ciri which shocked them both.
"WHAT? Another timeline!? You mean to say that he's time traveler?" asked francesca shocked.
"I don't know. The timeline in his world is currently the 21st century" said ciri
"But that's impossible! Ciri, even you can't do that" said Ida equally stunned.
"Actually, i met him on my way from zerrikania. Just near the mountains, i saw him blasting out of a portal. He said he came here by accident" explained ciri.
"A human from different world and different timeline!? This is something i never heard of!" said francesca.
"If you came through a portal, Then does your world possess magic?" asked Ida
"To a degree, yes" replied dante.
"Ok, then why are you here?" asked Ida getting to the point.
"Listen, i didn't come here for a tour. Like ciri said, I came here by an accident. Now i need to get back. Ciri told me that she can't help with her abilities and said that she would be jumping blind and who knows if it ends up in a volcano. I'm not about to loose my dress. It cost me a lot" said dante with a slight smirk. Other three raised their eyebrows at his jest.
"Actually, she tells the truth. She may be able to jump instantly, but even she won't know her destination if she hadn't visited that already"
"I have also never seen a sword that big in my life. Who are you actually? What do you do?" asked francesca.
Both the elves and ciri found something odd about this man. Something's not right about him or something's entirely new and different with him. Dante looked at ciri for a moment and she gave a nod. Then dante cleared up his mind and started to talk.
"Well, as for what i do, I'm a-..." started dante when everyone suddenly heard lots of men and women outside the castle screaming in terror. The four got serious about the situation.
"What's going on out there?" asked ciri
"Don't know, something's happened!" said francesca. Then they heard explosive sounds and heavy thuds and cracking sounds.
"What is that?" asked Ida.
Suddenly an elf came running with lots of wounds in his body,
"Ma-..Madame francesca!...huh...It's...it's the golem!...it's...huh...It's attacking the town"
Francesca and Ida's face frowned in worry.
"What's this golem?" asked dante.
"Imagine a rock monster statue coming to life with the help of magic" said Ciri.
"And this one's a brute!" said the wounded soldier.
"My god! I didn't know it was a brute. Now i see how it had the guts to enter the town and attack" said francesca shocked.
"How are our units holding?"
"Some of us have managed to evacuate the people. But our units could barely distract it. Even then, 10 soldiers died during evacuation" replied the elf which severely frowned her face.
"Wait, if you people have magic, can't you just blow it pieces just like that?" asked dante.
"A golem brute is a rarest of the monsters and with rarity lies its potential. It's incredibly resistant to sorcery. It's the highly evolved of the golems and is at least a thousand years old. Fighting a brute is highly dangerous even for the mightiest of the witchers and sorcerers. Only a physical death blow can kill truly kill it" said Ida.
"I can kill a golem. But even with my elder blood abilities, i can only evade a brute's attack" said ciri.
Dante gave a thought into this. From what they said, it appeared to him that this brute is something worse. But demons, monsters doesn't make a difference to him. So he decided to take care of this for them.
"Right, i can take care of this" said dante which stunned everyone and were staring at him in shock. It's truly a daring attempt or a fool's errand.
"You crazy! Fighting a brute is not like fighting a wild hog!" yelled ciri.
Dante gave a smirk to that,
"Listen, why don't you let me out there and see it for yourself? The more time we waste here, more innocents die out there!" said dante. Everyone became speechless.
"I appreciate your concern. But having a sword on your back doesn't mean you can do everything. Like I said, It's too dangerous" said Ida.
"Listen woman, I've seen worst things in my life. Do you think some rock's gonna scare me away? HELL NO!" said dante stubbornly which made francesca and Ida to feel astonished.
When dante said this, ciri was surprised by his determination. Something deep inside her told her to trust him. After all, she had seen him in action against the demons in the forest.
"No! Tha-..."
"Let him go" said ciri.
"What!? You want me trust this human with the situation whom we met just minutes ago?" asked francesca in frustrated tone.
"No, I'm asking you to trust me!" argued ciri. Francesca and Ida became speechless. Ciri wasted no time.
"Dante, are you ready to face this?" asked ciri. Dante cracked his fingers with a smirk
"I was born ready!" said dante. Francesca and Ida couldn't say anything but kept their fingers crossed for both the best and worst outcome.
The golem brute was already tearing the town apart. As ciri insisted, the 2 elven sorceress decided to trust him.
"Ok. Let him deal with this. And i pray not to regert this" said francesca.
"Fine then. If this brute is dangerous as you say, then better stay out of it" said dante to the 2 sorceress and ciri. "And you? Ask your soldiers to fall back and focus completely on evacuation. I don't want any casualties" said dante. The elven soldier looked at francesca in doubt.
"Just do what this man says" ordered francesca and the soldier immediately went away.
"Ciri, myself and Ida will help others to get away to a safe distance" said francesca.
"Okay then. Let's get going. There's no reason to waste time here" said dante and the three nodded. Then everyone left the palace to take control of the situation.
"Time for a rock 'n' roll!" thought dante giving a faint smile.
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A/N: Next chapter, dante vs the brute. The sorceress and ciri will get to see his true nature and powers. As for the brute, It is a fictional monster and don't think that ciri and the 2 elven sages are weak. In my fictional bestiary, The brutes are very very rare and dangerous and is at least a millennia old, powerful and intelligent. So only someone like dante with unique demonic abilities can defeat it.
