The unliving sage

good but not yet perfect, the emperor vs the sage!

Time skip 40 years in limbo:

Dante p.o.v:

AAAAAHHHH!

i heard a loud roar coming from my back direction, as I sensed a large beast coming my way trying to swing his giant maze at me.

: " you damn ogres don't just know when to give up huh." I said in annoyance but then had a smug smile on my face as I had dodged it in a blink of an eye as the maze was swung down to the ground and was now stuck which had surprised the ogre.

: "W-WHAT, H-HOW?" The ogre was in awe by the inhuman speed I had displayed as it was all over for him.

: "isn't it obvious. I'm just stronger than before.... Now be extinct." I said as it was frozen in pure fear as I just placed my right hand in front of him.

: "MAGIC TECHNIQUE: SHATTERING LIGHT." I said in a cold tone as the ogre got covered by a blinding light like dome which then vanished with the ogre with, as the ogre was no more.

Then suddenly I had clapping from behind me as it was death. Who as usual had a chilling aura that always gets under my skin.

: "BRAVO, BRAVO..... SO YOU MANAGED TO PASS THE 10000 DEMON ONSLAUGHTS TRIAL AND CAME OUT UNSCARRED VERY IMPRESSIVE." He said as he notice a large crated that still had holy essence flowing out of it like stem as that was where I destroyed the ogre.

: "I SEE..... NEW SPELL HUH AND FROM THE LOOK OF IT YOU MUST HAVE USED A HOLY LIGHT MAGIC TECHNIQUE.... QUITE WISE OF YOU." He said as I'm not sure if it is a compliment but then he glared at me with an intrigued look though not sure because of his mask.

: "BUT HOW YOU WERE ABLE TO CREATE SUCH DESTRUCTION WITH A SIMPLE HOLY LIGHT SPELL...... IS QUITE CONFUSING" He said to me with a serious tone in his voice.

: "well it was quite hard to do, but what I did was that I had concentrated all the light energy from the spell into a dome I had trapped the ogre in and I had made it that the light will be trapped by it as the more I used more energy the more the concentration had increased to the point the very futon had started to break down the molecules of the ogre. Therefore instantly obliterating the ogre into nothing and such principle is the same as the one of the sun solar flare, quite an efficient skill." I said as death had an impressed look on his face though can't still tell with the mask.

: "WELL DONE BRAT YOU ACUTALLY STARTED USING YOUR BRAIN HUH, AND I THOUGHT YOU NEVER HAD ONE HAHAHAHAHA." He said as I was seriously offender by it.

: "what's that meant to be huh! And again for the 100000th time stop calling me a brat am 40yrs old for god sake!" I shouted in annoyance.

: "AND AM OLDER THAN TIME BRAT." He said as I already had enough of.

: "fine okay sheesh." I said with a face palm

: "WELL THEN I GUESS IT'S TIME FOR YOUR 1ST EXAMINATION." He said as I started to panic.

: "w-what but am not ready yet. I-I still need more train damn it." I said in panicked voice as the limbo started to get altered as all the crates from before had all vanished.

: "YOU PROVED THAT YOU ARE, BY FINISHING THE DEMON ONSLAUGHT." He said.

: "I know but I can't start now it's not possible." I said as I started hearing a metal dragging on the floor from a distance as I could see the sparks from it.

: "WELL THEN YOU BETTER PREPARED FOR YOUR FIRST OPPONENT...... HAHAHAHA! " He started to laugh as he then vanished and appeared outside the area the fight was about to take place WHICH WAS TOO WIDE FOR A SIMPLE EXAMINATION!

: "h-huh what is- ." I was caught off guard by a wind slice from my opponent as I knew that this move was not a magical technique, as it was raw strength as I dodged it just in time as it passed me and headed straight towards a mountain which was now divided into two, as I couldn't believe such power could be produced from just a single swing of his sword.

: "hahahahahaahahahahahha quite wonderful you were able to dodge my attack just in a nick of time............ very interesting, very interesting indeed hahahaha." He said as he started to laugh like a maniac but then stopped.

: "forgive me young one but before we start the battle I will like for us to trade names." He said as I was confused by this sudden act but i then thought and observed that he must be a knight due to the coat of heavy amour and that must be why he requested for it but that is if am right. But still the amount of energy am reading from this guy is off the chart, man I really need to use everything I got.

: "okay I guess. My name is dante sarutobi and I'm going to win this trial and get stronger." I said to him as he just started to laugh. Does he doubt my strength?

: "well then young dante I see you're very confident in your power okay then. My name is Asterix the dark emperor knight and I shall make you bow!" he said as in a flash he was already in front of me ready to cut me with his sword as I swiftly got under him and placed my hand on the ground putting a seal on it and then jumped out of the place with speed, as I thought so...... the sword takes time to maneuverer due to its weight just as I expected.

: "GRAVITY FALLS!" I casted the spell as the whole area has been put under my gravity spell even the dust had settled quick to the ground due to the spell but then I knew I needed another strategy quick as the spell is have no effect on him as he was just walking towards me with ease.

: "Is that all you got boy, some silly weights hahhahahahah." He said mocking me but then I had a plan.

: "don't get to cocking dark knight. SPACE INVERSE: GRAVITY BURST 1000000 METRIC TONNE!" I shouted as the knight had stopped and was confused by this but was then forced to the ground on his knees, as the floor began to crack under pressure even his suit had started to crack but then I noticed that I was losing energy fast so I need to end this fast.

: "v-very good boy, you managed to force me to my knees but that won't be enough!" he said as he started to get up.

: "I know... HOLY INVERSE: HEAVENS COLLASPE!" I shouted but nothing happened.

: "b-bunch of words can't stop m- ." he stopped talking as a huge shadow had covered the battle field.

: "I know but that might." I pointed up as a gigantic meteor like object came down on the dark knight as the very shockwave shook the very limbo.

'Man that was close I couldn't hold the gravity spell but did it wor-.' I was caught off by a large shaking from the ground as I turned my gaze to the mountain sized rock which then divided in half by what seems to be a juggernaut knight that had a large flow of aura flowing from its very amour.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHH it unleashed an almighty roar that shook limbo as it turned it gaze at me.

: "YoU ArE TuREly a GrEat WaRriOr BoY. And BeCaUSe Of ThAt I wIlL gO aLl Out!" he said as he started to grow a monstrous aura with pure rage.

: "w-what-ackkk." I was hit in the stomach as I rocket towards a plateau as the impact had left a crater on the side of it as I coughed out blood.

[Number of strategy decreased from 1000 to 200]

'S-shit he just reduced my chances of success at a drastic rate..... Gotta do something quick' I thought, as I had a plan now.

[Number of strategy increased from 200 to 250]

I decide to leave myself open so that he falls for my trap, as he came in blinding speed to my front. He toweled over me like a tank as he was about to strike then that is when I saw an opening for a counter at that fraction of a second until impact.

: "SAGE INVERSE: BUDDHA'S PALM!"I shouted as I placed my palm on his amour which was very hot but the spell worked with success as I managed to send him back with the force of the Buddha's palm which pushed him to the crater of my former attack.

[Number of strategy increased from 250 to 500]

: "now is my chance." I said as I got close to him while trying to keep a wide range as I have noticed that he haven't done any spells yet and most rely on brute strength and close combat. So what I just need to do is to keep a wide distance from him as I need to finish him quick.

'I got to use my most powerful move yet'

: "SPACE INVERSE: STAR BURST!" I shouted as I unleashed a powerful burst of energy towards him as it obliterated most of the surrounding areas of the limbo.

: "YOU'RE FINISHED...... H-HUH." I was shocked to see that he was not even effected by this as his sword started to glow in a bright red color.

[Number of strategies decreasing from 500 to 5]

'Oh no his getting stronger am running out of plans. But what's up with that sword, why am I sensing more energy from it than from him...... o-oh no.'

"T-hat's unless he-e is a worldly w-weapon being." I said in shock as he started to block my attack with ease.

: "foolish boy.... You think you can beat me Hahaha....... Well then what is the point of HOLDING BACK!!!!!" he shouted as his power level started to increase and the power from the weapon is multiplying higher than that of his as he then swatted my blast like it was not, then the sword started to change and shined more brighter than before.

: "AXE INVERSE: AXE OF AMMAGEDEN!" he shouted as the before sword had turned into a gigantic axe as he then vanished in blinding speed as he appeared it front of me and sliced me in the abdomen and was then thrown away like rag doll and had landed on the ground as I look down to my chest and saw that I was already bleeding.

: "I-I c-can't w-win this." I said with no sign of hope.

[Number of strategies decreased from 5 to 4]

THUMP!

THUMP!

He appeared close to me again with blinding speed.

: "YOU'RE JUST WEAK. CHAINS OF HELL!" he said as once again it had changed to a long chain with fire on it as he wrapped it on me and threw me up to the sky with so much force that I had broken the sound barrier as I was now airborne.

'A-am too w-weak'

THUMP!

THUMP!

[Number of strategies decreased from 4 to 3]

THUMP!

: "YOU'RE PATHETIC. GAUNTLETS OF WAR!" he said as once again, his weapon had changed into two huge gauntlets that were radiating massive amount of mana as he jumped towards me with even greater speed that it had seemed that he had teleported then he started punching me with even greater speed.

'H-his right'

: "DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" he shouted as we started to rocket down at full speed towards the ground.

'A-am just a-a f-failure'

[Number of strategies decreased from 3 to 2]

: "DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" he said as I reached the ground with so much force that I had bounced back up.

[Number of strategies decreased from 2 to 1]

: "YOU'RE JUST TOO WEAK, SO JUST STAY DOWN!" he shouted as he gave me a final blow to the face as the shockwave was too powerful that it was able to ionize the air around us making it to compress into plasma then it caused an explosion as everything went black.

[Err0r e-err0r number of strategies unknown].